Rising dragons, rising prosperity (龙行龘龘): Chinese New Year marketing campaigns in 2024
Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival, holds profound cultural significance across China and among people of Chinese descent globally. This Lunar New Year celebration is steeped in tradition, featuring family reunions, feasts, and well-wishing for prosperity and happiness. Each year is associated with a specific animal sign, and in 2024, the Year of the Dragon […]
Tiger brings splendor (虎虎生风): Our favorite Chinese New Year marketing campaigns in 2022
Chinese New Year, also called the Spring Festival, is the most important and beloved festival in China. On this special holiday, millions of Chinese people travel, sometimes thousands of miles, to reunite and celebrate with their extended family members, with whom they feast on big banquets, shoot firecrackers, exchange red envelopes (红包), and decorate their […]
Walking down the memory lane: Nostalgia marketing with Ant Forest this Chinese New Year
On January 21st, 2022, in the countdown to the Chinese New Year, Ant Forest (Alipay’s tree planting initiative) released a campaign video – Celebrating a Green CNY (绿色过大年), in collaboration with Shanghai Animation Film Studio (上海美术电影制片厂, SAFS, one of the Chinese original animator producers and has produced 80% of Chinese cartoons), celebrating Spring Festival in […]
Chinese consumption during the 2021 Spring Festival reached 821 billion Yuan
The Chinese lunar New Year is traditionally the greatest human migration in modern times. However, in 2021, the traditional custom of returning home during 2021 Spring Festival was not encouraged due to a few local outbreaks of COVID-19. These inconveniences did not stop Chinese consumption during the 2021 Spring Festival. The total volume of Chinese […]
Nike’s lunar New Year commercial: Why Nike’s first Chinese New Year ad is a big success
According to the Chinese zodiac, the coming new year is the year of the rat. Alert, nimble and intelligent, the rat is the first of the 12-animal-cycle. Along with a special Chinese New Year collection, which draws inspiration from traditional Chinese themes such as paper-cut folklore, Nike celebrates the Chinese New Year with its first […]