Consumer products giant Procter & Gamble (P&G) has become one of the most well-known international brands in China since it entered the market 31 years ago. In the fiscal year of 2018, P&G saw China’s organic sales growth by 7% from a decline of 5% in 2016 and an increase of 1% in 2017. That promoted […]
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60% brands using celebrities in China did not achieve continuous growth in brand power
60% of brands continuously using celebrity endorsement strategy have failed to grow their brand power in the past three years. China is one of the markets that are most keen on using celebrities in advertising. Looking at the percentage of ads featuring celebrities, China ranks third, next only to Japan and South Korea, and the […]
China social e-commerce Xiaohongshu testing a new product on WeChat 2019
China’s social e-commerce platform Xiaohongshu, or RED, is testing a new social e-commerce product Xiaohongdian, based on two key components of WeChat’s ecosystem: Moments for sharing and Mini-Programs as the infrastructure. For now, users can only get access from sharing within WeChat. Xiaohongdian’s priority is to attract new users for the community and improve the […]
How can marketers get gender right in China?
Advertising industry’s failure to portray and target women well impacts the effectiveness of individual adverts and campaigns. Male-skewed brands are missing out on an average of US$9 billion in brand valuation in the US, UK, and China. The vast majority (88%) of APAC marketers think they are doing a good job of portraying women as positive role […]
China’s payment and online banking mobile app market overview in 2018
China’s top 3 online banking players accounted for 36.7% of the total monthly active users of the online banking industry in December 2018. UnionPay QuickPass saw a high growth of 289.9% in monthly active users. Alipay’s daily active users grew by 20.2% to 320 million thanks to its Wufu campaign. Both online banking and payment & […]
China family travel market insights 2019
In China, the young parents represented by post-90s are growing to be an influencing force of parent-child trips. This market stimulates the consumption of maternal & child caring products. On average, the second-child families spent US$3,758.45 on each trip, US$716.48 more than that of the one-child families. The former group on average takes 3.77 trips […]
WeChat smart supermarket is coming
Following the adoption and popularity of mobile payment, China supermarkets are growingly more intelligent with technologies such as face recognition, IA, AR, O2O, etc. WeChat recently shared a vision of its technology integrations with supermarkets in the future. Face recognition for custom recommendations and promotions (Credit: WeChat Moments) Supermarket customers’ face will become a “Membership Card”. By […]
Chinese travel bookings to the EU for the first four months of 2019 grew by 16.7%
Chinese tourists to the European Union (EU) grew slightly by 5.1% year-on-year for the whole year of 2018, greatly promoted by the EU-China Tourism Year, according to a report from ETC and ForwardKeys. There were 17 million daily flight bookings to Europe. The top 3 most popular EU destinations by the volume of Chinese arrivals were […]
McDonald’s ads strategy utilizing WeChat Moments & Mini-Games
At a time when consumers have gradually looked through the routines of social media marketing, brands need to be creative enough to attract their attention. Let’s see how McDonald’s managed to get unexpected 190 million brand impressions through its Spring Festival story of the first pot of gold. Interactive WeChat Moments Ads Taking advantage of […]
China’s video cloud market to grow by 37.5% in 2019
The cloud computing for video market in China reached US$46.5 million in 2018, with Alibaba Cloud being the biggest vendor (42.5%). 80% of China’s leading live streaming sites or apps are using Alibaba Cloud to power their operations. The cloud computing for video market totaled 3.12 billion yuan (US$466.13 million) market in 2018, an increase […]
China smartphone brand loyalty compared for Q4 2018: iPhone, Huawei, Oppo, Vivo, Xiaomi
Every two out of five smartphone users in China were using Huawei or iPhone during the fourth quarter of 2018. Smartphones under the price of 3,000 yuan represented 81.3% of the total sales volume. Brand loyalty was the highest on iPhone with 64.5% of users upgrade to a new iPhone. Huawei scored 40.3% in brand loyalty. Retention rates […]
China online food delivery market grew by 108% in Q4 2018
China’s local lifestyle service market grew by 37.5% to US$232.81bn in 2018. The online food delivery market reached US$20.78 billion market in the fourth quarter of 2018, an increase of 108% year-on-year. The local lifestyle service market totaled 1,575.57 billion yuan (US$232.81 bn) in 2018, up by 37.5% year-on-year. It was forecasted to getting as […]