[Podcast] China paradigm #23: How tech companies can engage consumers in China
China Paradigm interviews Dmitry Shklyar, founder and CEO of Eastidea, a company that represents tech companies in the Chinese market. This episode explores how Eastidea assists tech companies with delivering their products to their targeted audience. Dmitry Shklyar explains how important it is to have relevant content that engages Chinese consumers and how to successfully […]
Open Innovation: Transforming your Business in China
Open innovation (OI) is the process of integrating external expertise into the innovation processes of a company or organization. The overall purpose of implementing an open innovation strategy is for companies to take advantage of external ideas, resources, and market channels in order to advance their own technology and products. It essentially enhances a firm’s […]
[Podcast] China paradigm #20: How to get the most out of XiaoHongShu
China Paradigm interviews Miro Li, Co-founder of Double V. Consulting, a consulting firm helping foreign enterprises master China’s ecommerce scene. This episode zeros in on XiaoHongShu, a growing ecommerce-social media app in China. Miro Li explains who uses XiaoHongShu and why they use it, how foreign brands can set up a XiaoHongShu account, and how […]
How can international brands successfully use Live-Stream Shopping to advertise in China?
Live-stream shopping is currently the biggest craze in China’s e-commerce industry, but what is it? Live-stream shopping has been compared to TV shopping on American QVC channels, but it is live, spontaneous, interactive, and sometimes gamified. Hosts broadcast in real time, videoing themselves modeling clothes or other goods, and viewers can then immediately purchase that […]
China Fashion Trends 2019 | Daxue Consulting
Taobao Official Report English Translation On 18th March 2019, China’s biggest e-commerce platform Taobao released a video report on Weibo: China Fashion Trend Report 2019. The headline of this 40-second short video report claims: Chinese women will be manlier than men in 10 years. The hashtag on Weibo – #Chinese women more masculine than men […]
New retail in China: Redesigning the consumer journey
Retail is now at a crossroad. Driven by digitalization, the development of the omnichannel and new customer requirements, trade, and retail have undergone profound changes in recent years. In China, Alibaba has taken the leadership of this revolution by unveiling its new retail project in a 2017 letter to shareholders: New Retail. In this article, […]
International brands should enter the Chinese perfume market before it is too late | Daxue Consulting
Chinese perfume market shows fast growth, the market size reached RMB 15.2 billion (USD 2.2 thousand million) in 2017. Yet the Chinese perfume market is far from mature and therefore holds great potential. The history of perfume in China Many people believe that perfume is a new thing in China, however, this is far from […]
International brands are in demand on China’s prenatal care market | Daxue Consulting
Two factors responsible for the high-speed-growth of the prenatal care market in China Babies from the baby-boom back in the 1980s have become parents themselves in the last decade. They have caused another, bigger baby boom, because of the cancellation of the one-child-policy. In 2016, the universal two-child policy came out, meaning that every couple […]
The programmatic advertising landscape in China: how personal data and user portrait come into play
Programmatic advertising: started late yet is finding its way to thrive in China Programmatic advertising has paved its way in China’s advertising market, with rapidly growing market size and revenue. This article will be focusing more on real-time bidding (RTB), which is one of the methods to achieve programmatic ad buying, in order to provide […]
[Podcast] China paradigm #13: How to grow a web agency in China from 0 to 3 million USD
In this episode of China paradigm, Matthieu David, CEO of Daxue Consulting, interviews Aurélien Rigart, Co-founder of IT Consultis a Shanghai-based digital Agency. Rigart shares with us practical-based tips for starting a web agency in China. IT Consultis has done 450 projects with clients ranging from startups to large companies like Budweiser and Decathlon and […]
[Podcast] China paradigm #12: From WeChat to Douyin, how to master China’s e-commerce landscape
Matthieu David, founder of China Paradigm, interviews Jenny (Tingyi) Chen, Co-founder and COO of WalkTheChat, a WeChat marketing agency and software platform specialized in China’s e-commerce landscape. Chen describes how strong shared values allowed solidified the cross-cultural partnership with WalkTheChat’s other co-founder Thomas Graziani. Though neither of the co-founders are developers, they were able to […]
How the Chinese brand “Three squirrels” uses Meng Culture to become No. 1
China went “nuts” again over the Chinese nut brand “Three Squirrels”. During the passing double 11 shopping festival (双十一) in China, a shopping festival launched by Alibaba as a Chinese version of Black Friday, Three Squirrels, again, achieved huge success: It only took them 9 minutes and 26 seconds to reach a GMV (gross merchandise […]