Taobao releases VR-shopping for Single’s day

Thomas GrazianiNew WeChat features

Early this year on April Fools Day, Alibaba released the concept video of the VR product called “Buy+”.  In the video, consumers can have a real shopping experience in a virtual environment.  Here are a few clips from the concept video: The video instantly went viral and got millions of views. Well, it turns out Buy+ was not just an …

Which day and at what time should you post your WeChat articles?

Thomas GrazianiNew WeChat features

This week, we bring you a WalktheChat “mashup” of two great reports published by Henkuai.com and TrustData about WeChat and e-commerce in China. Highlights are: The optimal posting time and days for WeChat are finally revealed! Read on to learn more. WeChat makes up for 20% of the time users spend daily on mobile APP’s Taobao still dominates the mobile …

WeChat launches two-way-pick banner ads, aiming to triple advertising revenue by 2018

Tingyi ChenNew WeChat features, WeChat news

According to eMarketer, Tencent’s digital advertising revenue will reach $11.0 billion by 2018, almost triple from this year. How is Tencent going to do that? Starting in late 2014, Tencent embarked on a slow but steady journey to open up its advertising platform for brands August 2014 –  Introducing banner advertising at the end of articles January 2015 – First WeChat Moment …

How to Crack China’s Food and Beverage market: Getting Started

Thomas GrazianiWeChat guides & tips

The Chinese market for imported food Why should you care about exporting your F&B business to China? Well, first of all, China is the largest Food And Beverage market in the world. It surpassed the U.S in 2011, reaching 560 billion USD in 2014. The Chinese F&B market is also increasingly looking at foreign brands as a source of quality …

Singles Day promotion guide: graphic design, promotion method and live streaming

Tingyi ChenWeChat guides & tips, WeChat news

We are only a month away from the biggest online shopping festival of the world, November 11th, AKA Singles Day. Forget about the Chinese National Holiday, it’s time to plan for Single’s Day. This day was redefined as the “Chinese Black Friday” by Alibaba in 2012, and it evolved into a massive shopping festival growing year after year.  Last year on Tmall …

What are WeChat mini-APP’s and what do they look like?

Thomas GrazianiNew WeChat features

WeChat min-APP’s are here. By now, you know it already. So let’s try to tell apart the awesomeness from the bullshit and figure out what it is all really about. What do WeChat APP’s look like? Before we start exposing grandiose theories about the future of WeChat (we’ll get there) you might want to know what the thing actually looks …

3 WeChat store case studies: how can you earn ¥30 million monthly revenue on WeChat?

Tingyi ChenWeChat guides & tips

Selling on WeChat is not easy, yet we keep hearing stories about brands that sold millions in a day through WeChat store. How did they do it?  Today, we will dive into 3 case studies to see how brands make money on WeChat. Xiaoxiaobao Mama WeChat ID: xxbmm123 Content: review articles of baby products WeChat Followers: 2,000,000 Followers demographic: 90% …

Strong trend of WeChat social commerce [Data]

Tingyi ChenWeChat guides & tips, WeChat news

Rise of WeChat Social Commerce E-commerce experience on WeChat is nothing like shopping on Taobao or Jingdong. It starts with content and ends up with an impulse purchase. This is WeChat social commerce.  Different from customers on a shopping platform, traffic directed by the social commerce is extremely targeted and largely influenced by the endorser, making purchase action the natural continuation …

Mobile content report 2016 – Strong growth of video for mobile users

Tingyi ChenWeChat news

Toutiao (头条) is maybe the second biggest news/article mobile platform, besides WeChat.  Toutiao has 260 million monthly active users and 50 million daily active users. The average user spends 70 minutes on the app. This week, Taotiao released a Mobile Content Report Half- year 2016. Here are some highlights of this report. Mobile content consumption across all mobile platforms has been rapidly …