Xiaomi Beat Apple as Top Smartphone Vendor in Q2 2015
In Q2 2015, Xiaomi was the top smartphone vendor in China by shipments volume of 15.9%, followed by Huawei (15.7%). Apple ranked third, followed by Samsung and Vivo. Xiaomi and Huawei are now...
View ArticleAlibaba Investing 1 Bln Yuan in Tmall Supermarket
Recently, Alibaba announced that it would launch Tmall Supermarket across China in several stages. It would invest 1 billion yuan (US$160.78 million) targeting consumers in Beijing in the first phase....
View Article12% of Cross-border Online Shopping in China from Shanghai
On August 6th, the Chinese largest shopping website taobao.com’s unit g.taobao.com published a report on its website, revealing the history of Chinese online shopping and preference of Chinese online...
View ArticleChina Travel Market Reached 127 Million in H1 2015
In H1 2015, the total number of outbound and inbound tourists in China reached 127 million, with an increase of 9.8% year over year according to China Tourism Academy. The number of inbound tourists...
View ArticleWeChat MAUs Reached 600 Million in Q2 2015
The combined MAU of Weixin and WeChat were 600 million, an increase of 37% YoY according to Tencent’s unaudited consolidated results for the second quarter. Tencent’s total revenues in Q2 2015 were...
View ArticleChina Annual Cross-border Consumption in 2015
Under the great efforts of the government, China’s cross-border consumption would enter a period of rapid development. The cross-border e-commerce would double the growth targets in the next three...
View ArticleChina Online Gaming Market to Exceed $22 Billion in 2015
In 2015, Chinese online gaming market is expected to reach $22.2 billion (about 142 billion yuan), and officially surpass the U.S. as the world’s largest online gaming market according to data of...
View ArticleWill Xiaomi Continue Rapid Growth?
In Q2 2015, Xiaomi was the top smartphone vendor in China by shipments volume of 15.9%, followed by Huawei (15.7%). Apple ranked third, followed by Samsung and Vivo. The rapid development of Xiaomi...
View ArticleWeibo MAUs Reached 212 Million in Q2 2015
Weibo reported net revenues of US$107.8 million in Q2 2015, compared to US$77.3 million for the same period last year. Advertising and marketing revenues for the second quarter of 2015 totalled...
View Article55% of Alibaba MAUs from Mobile Q2 2015
Alibaba reported revenues of 20,245 million yuan (US$3,265 million), an increase of 28% compared to 15,771 million yuan (US$2,464 million) in the same quarter of 2014 and net income of 30,816 million...
View ArticleChina Top 100 Mobile Apps in July 2015
With rapid development of mobile internet, mobile and social features will play more and more important role. Among all the mobile apps in China in July 2015, social platforms like WeChat and QQ...
View Article70% of China Internet Users to Shop Online by 2020
China has become the world’s largest e-commerce market with US$458 billion in sales in 2014 according to Kantar Retail. The United States ranked second with US$297 billion sales. In 2014, Chinese...
View ArticleChina Social Media Marketing Trends in 2015
In 2015, when the total usage of digital media users outpaced that of traditional media, the social media also showed their own unique development properties and characteristics in China. Businesses...
View ArticleWeChat & Weibo Users Most Active Social Shoppers in the World
Encouraged by the success of some social networking apps as WeChat, many leading social networks across the world start integrating online commerce capabilities for new areas of revenues. Combined MAU...
View ArticleChina Auto Buyer Insight in Q2 2015
Since the start of 2015, the growth rate of Chinese automobile transaction volume had slowed down its growth. In June 2015, the growth rate of the automobile market was merely 1.4%, 7 percentage...
View ArticleWindows 10 Exeeded 67 Million Installs in 3 Days in China
On July 29 2015, Windows 10 operating system was launched in China, which caused a stir among Chinese users. On the first day of the release, Microsoft had announced the adoption within 24 hours was...
View ArticleChina Travel Market to Reach $617.4B in 2015
The total number of China’s tourists is estimated to exceed 4.1 billion per trips in 2015, and reach a total revenue of 3840 trillion yuan (US$617.40 billion), according to China Tourism Academy. In...
View ArticleTop 10 China’s Fashion Websites in July 2015
In June 2015, the average daily user reach of fashion websites was 12.63 million, according to iResearch data. The average daily reach of Rayli.com.cn was 1.45 million, and ranked in the first place,...
View ArticleChina Consumer Electronics Advertising Spend in June 2015
In June 2015, the consumer electronics brands spent 71.78 million yuan (US$11.21 million) on online advertising . Nikon spent 7.4 million yuan ranking first, followed by Haier (US$1.04 million) and...
View ArticleModa, Tmall Virtual Dressing Room Debuted
Tmall recently launched its virtual fitting room Mota (magic dressing), to provide users with virtual simulation sceneries as they shop on Tmall. It has attracted more than 130 brands on Mota...
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