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WeChat just released its most rigorous policy to date regulating incentived sharing and external links. The policy banned some of the most common campaign tactics. Here are some of the highlights of some of the new bans: Group buy campaign are highly regulated Incentivized App downloads Editing or re-use of user’s profile pictures or user information Sharing a link that contains …
The founder of Xiaoxiaobao Mama, Sun Jing, managed an impressive feat even by Chinese live streaming standards. Last August, she sold 3.22 million RMB worth of products during a 2-hours long WeChat live stream. And these results were not due to chance. In May, during her first WeChat live stream, she managed to sell 15,360 products worth a total of …
WeChat launched a live streaming feature for Official Accounts. How does it work and is it the next big thing to sell your products? How does WeChat Official Account live streaming work? How to create an Official Account Live Stream? Tencent Live Streaming team is still testing this new feature, and only a few selected KOL (key opinion leaders) were …
The Double 11 promotion starts from October 20th, 10 days earlier than last year. We expect a good fight between Pinduoduo and Alibaba. Other than getting ready on Tmall, Pinduoduo, and JD, here are a few WeChat marketing tips for your Double 11 preparation. Launch a new product 1 month before Double 11 1 month before Double 11 can be …
WeChat has been trying hard to sell ads lately, not very successfully. Although Tencent announced it would increase the number of ads sold on the platform, the advertising growth rate went down from 25% YOY to 16% from Q1 to Q2 2019. The reasons for this drop? A challenging macro-economic context, but also the intense competition from Douyin, Toutiao, and …
WeChat improves analytics back-end with “heat map” function Heat map WeChat added a “heat map” function to the analytics back-end which indicates how far users have read WeChat articles. For instance, in the graph below, only 10% of readers read more than 90% of the article, while 50% of them read the article halfway. This feature enables marketers to go …
When Pinduoduo went IPO in July 2018, there were concerns about whether the platform could maintain its meteoric growth. One year later, Pinduoduo has shown significant signs of strength and is expanding to new markets. The explosive growth of GMV The Gross Merchandise Volume (GMV) of Pinduoduo has been growing at an impressive 178% YOY rate. It is remarkable to …
Once upon a time, there were very few social networks in China. Renren was dying out, Weibo was getting kicked in the gut by WeChat which was growing double or triple digits. Fast-forward to 2019, these days are long gone. There is now a plethora of social Apps to choose from. Is WeChat still growing in this new Chinese Internet? …
Perfect Diary is a Chinese budget cosmetics brand that was founded in 2015. It has quickly become the No. 1 Chinese cosmetics brand on Tmall. Its success has a lot to do with Xiaohongshu. We will look into how exactly Perfect Diary markets on Xiaohongshu. How big has Perfect Diary become in 4 years? Sales records On September 9th, 2018, …
Newrank, one of the largest social data analytics company in China, recently released a report regarding online content. Let’s dig into some of its central insights. Spending on WeChat Official Account Key Opinion Leaders One of the main trends pointed out by the Newrank report is the increasing amounts of large WeChat KOL campaigns. Between 2017 and 2018, the amount …
