One China’s top search engine company, Sogou’s Total revenues were $908.4 million in 2017, a 38% increase from 2016.
Tencent quietly launched WeChat Boutique Stores
WeChat boutique stores don’t have a direct entry path from the main menu and are triggered to display after the brand terms are searched.
China search engine Sogou revenues up 55% in Q3 2017
Sogou, one of the top Chinese search engines, revenues reached US$257 million in Q3 2017, up 55% year-over-year and 22% quarter-over-quarter.
China search users exceeded 600M in H1 2017
In the first half of 2017, financial management software and mobile apps continued to develop, while offline providers of such services have shifted from opposition into a more productive mindset seeking partnerships and cooperation even as interest rates in online loan and savings applications fall.
China search engine market overview Q2 2017
China’s search engine market totaled 23.57 billion yuan (US$3.47 billion) in Q2 2017 with an increase of 25.6% QoQ or 12.2% YoY according to Analysis. Baidu has 77.2% market share in China’s search engines market by total revenues, followed by Google China (9.66%) and Sogou (8.69%).
Mobile accounted for 72% of Baidu total revenues in Q2 2017
Baidu’s total revenues in the second quarter of 2017 were 20.874 billion yuan ($3.079 billion), a 14.3% increase YoY. Mobile revenue represented 72% of total revenues for Q2 2017, compared to 62% in Q2 2016.
WeChat enhanced in-app search results with mini-programs data
Tencent has enhanced WeChat search features this week and feed the search results with data from WeChat Mini-Programs.
China mobile search market overview for Q1 2017
Baidu has 78.2% share of China’s mobile search market by the total number of mobile search queries in the first quarter of 2017.
China search engine market share in Apr 2017
StatCounter data shows Baidu’s market share was 76.05% in China search engines market in April 2017, followed by Shenma (8.78%), 360 Search (7.87%), Sogou (3.31%), and Google (1.84%). Baidu is more dominant in China’s mobile search market with over 82% market share, followed by Shenma (13.79%) according to StatCounter. China search engine market overview Q1 2017 […]
China search engine market overview Q1 2017 (Updated)
China search engines market totaled 18.76 billion yuan (US$2.72 bn) in Q1 2017, with a decrease of 8.6% compared to Q4 2016 and an increase of 5.3% YoY.
Baidu active online marketing customers down 23% in Q1 2017
Baidu reported total revenues of RMB16.891 billion ($2.454 billion) for the first quarter of 2017, representing a 6.8% increase from the corresponding period in 2016.
WeChat becoming a threat to Baidu in mobile search?
WeChat has included external sources in in-app search results pages (SERP) while it previously only searches chats, WeChat Moments, and Official Accounts. Some users start to see a “news” section in the WeChat SERP which includes external news sources.
China online advertising market overview 2011-2019e
China online advertising market is expected to grow by 28% to 354.6 billion yuan (US$51.5 bn) in 2017 and reach 543.3 billion yuan (US$78.9 bn) in 2019 according to iResearch. Check out the breakdown, in-stream ads, search ads, online video, and social ads trend.
Baidu cultivating quality content with Webmasters VIP Club
Baidu announced the drop of its separate news source database due to “technology upgrade on timeliness content identification”.
Baidu Wallet reached 100m users; mobile search 665m in Q4 2016
Mobile search monthly active users on Baidu were 665 million for December 2016, an increase of 2% year-over-year.