Market research: E-Commerce and M-Commerce in China
China has the highest number of internet users in the world with 454 million, just over one-third of the population. This has had a significant impact on internet retailing. Consumers spent RMB160 billion on online retail in 2011, a growth of 90% from 2010. This made China one of the biggest markets for internet retailing […]
Panda ads and movies
Never say no to panda——Panda Cheese Never Say No to Panda is a 2010 series of television commercials produced in Egypt by Advance Marketing for Arab Dairy, manufacturers of Panda Cheese. The commercials, which feature a giant panda who terrorizes people for not wanting to try the cheese, have become viral Internet hit. The ads […]
Market report: 3G in China
The 3G market in China has been growing steadily 3G or third generation mobile telecommunications is increasingly becoming the standard for mobile phones and global mobile telecommunication services. Services offered through 3G access include wide-area wireless voice telephone, mobile internet access, video calls and mobile TV, all in a mobile environment. On December 31, 2008, the […]
Market research: Professional SNS in China
Professional social networking sites primarily help users build business connections and provide employment information. This concept became popular in 2003 after the launch of LinkedIn, which has become the world’s No. 1 professional social networking brand within 10 years and attracts more than 150 million registered users worldwide as at February 2012. LinkedIn’s successful IPO made […]
Shopping from China Online
Foreigners buy Chinese Products Online As online shopping became rather popular in China, many Chinese online shoppers also reached out to the international market. Thus, the term foreign purchasing agency appeared on major online shopping sites like Taobao.com and many online luxury shops. But recently another kind of website which helps overseas customers reach the […]
Weixin 3
PART 5 Market competition IM market is composed by Weixin and other competitors. In the point of view of the whole China market, seen from Figure 2, Mobile QQ, Mobile Fetion, and Mobile MSN were first three IM software, the market share were 57.8%, 27% and 8.1% respectively. But for weixin, even though its accumulated […]
Weixin 2
PART 3 Development Weixin has gone through 4 versions in less than 2 years since it was put out, and every time it change always company addition of distinctive function, which precisely meet users’ demand and scrab large market share: Weixin 1.0 age – platformization At the beginning, weixin was devoted to connect different qq […]
Weixin 1
PART 1 Introduction Weixin, developed by Tencent, is one of the recently hottest application on smart phone. Based on availability for IOS, Android, Windows Phone, Symbian platforms, it provides text messaging, hold-to-talk voice messaging, video and photo sharing, location sharing, and receipt of off-line qq message and QQmaile. Besides, Weixin is added with some unique […]
Wine on the Internet in China
The Culture of Liquor in China The history of liquor in China could date back to 3000 years ago, in the dynasties of Xia and Shang. In the Chinese culture, liquor has long become an indispensable part of people’s life. In the past, liquor was associated with artistic creation, disease curing, health maintenance and etiquette. […]
Group-buying Websites in China
Group-buying , a New Hot Business in China A consumer revolution caused by the internet called B2T (Business to Team) internationally spread to China two years ago. In November 2008, the American Website Groupon was founded, creating a sales model of “one deal a day” and “team purchasing”. In 2010, many websites using the model […]