Baidu Reported 1.932B Revenue & 488K Active Online Marketing Customers for Q2...
Baidu personalized homepage for log-in users Baidu reported total revenues of RMB11.986 billion ($1.932 billion) for the second quarter of 2014, representing a 58.5% increase from the corresponding...
View ArticleChina’s Third-party Internet Payment Exceeded $302B in Q1 2014
China’s third party internet payment totalled RMB1873.15 billion (USD 302.71 billion) in Q1 2014, with a YoY growth rate of 84% according to iResearch. With over 300 million users, Alipay remains the...
View ArticleChina Online Shopping Total Transactions Reached $101B in Q2 2014, Exceeding...
Total transactions of China’s online shopping market, a combination of B2C and C2C markets, reached RMB6,28.76 billion (US$101.58 billion), 10.1% of total retail transactions in China, according to...
View ArticleBuild Thought Leadership with Baidu Zhidao Verified Experts Program
Baidu refer about one third of the search traffic to its own web properties, among which a top one is Baidu Zhidao, a Q&A style site with social features. Baidu Zhidao is a good channel for driving...
View ArticleTaobao & Yu’E Bao Offers Money-making “Tour Packages”
Alipay Yu’e Bao and Taobao Trip launched Lvyou Bao, or “travel treasure”, a travel product with investment benefit. How it works: Consumers pay for travel service on Taobao with Yu’e Bao after which...
View ArticleCHARTS China Online Dating Market Update for Q1 2014
China online dating market in 2013 totalled RMB1.59 billion (US$260 million) according to Analysis International, who expects China’s online dating market to grow by 30% to RMB2 billion (US$320...
View ArticleChina to Surpass the US in Business Travel Spending by 2016
Business travel in Asia Pacific, led by a dominant China, outpaces the rest of the world, according to a newly released travel forecast by the GBTA Foundation. Driven by infrastructure investments,...
View ArticleSamsung and Xiaomi Ahead of Apple, Leading China Smartphone Market
Samsung leads China’s smartphone market (23%) by total sales volume, followed by Xiaomi (21%) and iPhone (16%) during a five-month period ended in May 2014, reported by Kantar Worldpanel. The report...
View ArticleCHART: China B2C Online Retailer Market Share in Q2 2014
Transactions generated from Chinese B2C online retailers reached RMB284.5 billion, 40.4% of China’s total online shopping transactions in Q2 2014; and it is expected to continue to grow and bypass C2C...
View ArticleChinese Users Displayed Highest Level of Engagement with Brands on Social Media
Chinese users displayed the highest level of engagement and interactions with brands on social media, according to PwC research. In the pre-purchase phase, 87% of Chinese users would use social media...
View ArticleChina Search Engine Market Update for Q2 2014
Total revenue in Chinese search engine market reached RMB14.73 billion with a QoQ increase of 26.8% and YoY growth of 58.5%, 39.5% of which were contributed by mobile. Chinese Search Engine Market...
View ArticleChina Social Media Seen Stronger Growth on Mobile in Q2 2014
China online social services on mobile reached total number of 190 million unique visitors in May 2014, according to iResearch, an increase of 32% compared with last May. In contract, social services...
View ArticleWechat Monthly Active Users Closer to 400M with 5.8M Public Accounts
Tencent’s Wechat team shared its latest achievement in a Wechat forum in Guangzhou. Its total number of active monthly users is closer to 400 million by the end of July 2014. Other highlights...
View ArticleWeibo Launched Paid Content & Buy-Me-A-Coffee Features for Premium Publishers
Weibo.com has been encouraging high quality user generated content with We Media Project which it can offer to the users to be a more valuable platform and it can monetize as well. Qihoo 360?s Wemedia...
View ArticleChina Online Video Market Exceeded RMB 5B in Q2 2014, 21.3% from Mobile
China online video market reached RMB5.43 billion (USD 880 million), an QoQ increase of 38.9% and YoY growth rate of 73.6%. Advertising is the primary force driving online video market development....
View ArticleChina OTA Market Transactions Close to $10 Billion in Q2 2014
China online travel OTA market transactions reached RMB61.41 billion (US$9.94 billion) with a YoY growth rate of 17.1%; total revenue reached RMB 3.24 billion (US$520 million), a YoY increase of 19%....
View ArticleChina E-commerce Total Transactions Reached $460B in Q2 2014
China e-commerce total transactions reached RMB2.83 trillion (US$460 billion) in the second quarter this year, a QoQ growth rate of 7.1% and YoY growth rate of 19.9%. China e-commerce market last...
View ArticleWhy Wechat Marketing Metrics Could All Be Lies
Wechat recently started displaying the total number of views and likes for Wechat public account articles; the transparency from Wechat seems to be helpful identifying the true value of a Wechat...
View ArticleChina Online Shopper Spent $12.5 Billion Buying from Oversea E-tailers
Some Chinese shoppers buy products on oversea online retailers, which will be delivered directly to their Chinese address. These group of users are commonly known as Haitao in China. According to...
View ArticleChina Mobile Shopping Market Exceeded $27B in Q2 2014, 26.8% of Total Online...
China mobile shopping market total transactions reached RMB168.39 billion (US$27.3 billion) in the second quarter of 2014, representing 26.8% of total online shopping transactions in the same period...
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