Alibaba’s OTA platform Fliggy (Feizhu) just made Fliggy Miles transferrable for Marriott Rewards points. Last week, the Marriott International Group’s Fliggy Flagship Store officially opened the access for Points conversion from Miles. The current program page shows that the points conversion between Fliggy and Marriott is only in the “trial period”, specifically stating that the […]
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The emerging Gen-Y for China’s travel market
China’s emerging Gen-Y’s complete travel experience journey has five stages: dream, plan, book, experience, and share. Let’s see an overview of emerging Gen-Ys’ power, how they re-shape China’s travel market, stages of their travel journey, and how to get ready. Overview of Emerging Generation Y’s power There is no strict demographic definition for Generation Y […]
1-week WeChat ad campaign saw 94% lower customer acquisition cost
Shenzhen-based Muse Marry, one of the largest luxury wedding dresses agencies in China, received 350 thousand ad impressions on WeChat Moments through Tencent Social Ads. It has already served over 30 thousand brides since 2012. Some wonder how it gets the customer acquisition cost reduced by 94% and acquires 30 new customers every day during one […]
How did TikTok help a milk tea rise to popularity
After Haidilao’s tomato beef soup, CoCo’s sugar-free milk tea and Answer Tea’s fortune-telling tea, TikTok, the best-seller maker, helped another food product gain enormous Internet popularity – the “TikTok” half-baked cake bubble milk tea. This milk tea was designed by TikTok and Happy Lemon together. Oreo, half-baked cheese and chocolate crumbs are blended in the […]
Luxury brand marketing trends in China 2019
Data-driven, social media and omnichannel are the focuses of digital marketing growth for luxury brands, while “young”, “geographic concentration” and “social” are the keywords that best describe the trend of luxury brand marketing in China. A recent report, jointly published by Tencent Advertising and Boston Consulting Group, revealed three major pain points for luxury brand […]
7 Lessons for marketers on top short-video platforms: Tik Tok vs. Kwai
In Part 1, we saw the platform comparison; this article will show a comparison of social relationship, user behavior, KOL content categories and their marketing value, and top 10 sectors of advertisers. 1. Comparison of social relationship intensity KOLs on Tik Tok connect to users through contents rather than as individuals. Tik Tok’s main feature […]
Sales & insights of China’s mid-year shopping festival (618) 2019
Taobao 618 Livestream 618, usually from mid-May to 18 June, is China’s largest mid-year shopping festival. This year’s Tmall 618, there were hundreds of domestic and foreign brands whose sales exceeded last year’s Double 11, with the highest growth rate exceeding 40 times. Taobao/Tmall 618 Performance With over 200,000 brands taking part. Innovative marketing campaigns […]
31% of China’s FMCG to be sold online by 2025
By 2025, 31% of fast-moving consumer goods on China’s mainland will be sold through online channels, more than double that in 2018, according to Kantar Worldpanel. Online sales of fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) grew by 20.3% globally in 2018 and now represent 5.1% of grocery sales worldwide, according to new Kantar Worldpanel data. Growth was […]
How is Pinduoduo a valuable e-commerce platform for top tier cities in China?
Many Chinese consumers have the impression that most users of Pinduoduo are housewives, middle-aged, or elderly people who live in third-tier or fourth-tier cities. They are highly consistent with users of Kuaishou and have extraordinary sensitivity to low price. They are more willing to ask people for help bargaining in WeChat group in order to […]
Chinese travel bloggers earns by playing
Women in China accounted for more than 63% of the total number of travel bloggers. And travel bloggers traveled more than twice a month on average; 89% of travel bloggers have excellent travel guide writing skills and 79.1% of them are familiar with photography, according to a Fliggy report. The majority of travel bloggers are […]
Top short video apps compared: Tik Tok vs. Kwai – Part 1 Platforms
As two representative platforms of the short video market in China, Kwai (Kuaishou) and Tik Tok have always been the focus of attention and discussion in the industry. In people’s established view, Kwai and Tik Tok are different as Kwai is more bound with the mass while Tik Tok maintains more taste; while Kwai focuses […]
Introduction to Xiaomi’s e-commerce platform Youpin
Youpin is where Xiaomi’s aspirations for extending the boundaries of its core business lies. Its product categories have been extended from core products smartphone and TV to ecological chain companies – air purifier and self-balancing scooters kind of products. Now, it has become an independent quality e-commerce platform selling a variety of products including mattress […]
China overtook the U.S. as the largest smart speaker market in Q1 2019
China smart speaker market reached 10.6 million units with 51% market share by growing nearly 500% year-on-year in Q1 2019, becoming the largest smart speaker market according to data from Canalys. China overtakes the U.S. where 5.0 million smart speaker units were shipped during Q1 2019. The global smart speaker market has reached 20.7 million […]
Mid-year shopping war is on; Tmall half day GMV broke last year full-day record
Tmall 618 Campaign On 1st of June, Tmall 618 mid-year shopping festival reached its first peak. Within less than one hour, from midnight to 1:00 a.m., the gross merchandise volume (GMV) exceeded that of the first 10 hours of the previous year. 618 is the largest mid-year online (and now also offline) shopping campaign in […]
China tourism & online travel booking market overview 2019
China residents took 149.72 million outbound trips in 2018. The per-capita expenditure on the consumption of education, cultural, and entertainment products accounted for 11% of per-capita consumption expenditure. Tourism market overview 2018 China recorded a total of 5.54 billion domestic person-trips in 2018, up 10.8% from 2017, according to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. […]