This achievement signifies DingTalk’s dominance in the communication platform sector and reflects China’s accelerating digital transformation.

The platform’s president, Ye Jun, announced this milestone, emphasizing DingTalk’s commitment to enhancing workplace productivity through cutting-edge technological integration.

The recent introduction of an AI agent, powered by Alibaba Cloud’s Tongyi Qianwen, into the platform, is a testament to this commitment. This AI agent, designed to serve as a versatile workplace assistant, can perform various tasks ranging from drafting documents to facilitating business trip bookings on external platforms.

DingTalk’s customer demographics reveal a diverse clientele, with small and micro enterprises forming 58%, medium-sized businesses at 30%, and large corporations at 12%.

As of March 2023, DingTalk had already garnered over 100,000 businesses subscribing to its paid software services, highlighting its expansive reach across various business sizes and sectors.

Integrating AI into DingTalk marks a significant shift in the platform’s capabilities.

Users, both individuals and enterprises, can now customize their AI assistants to perform tasks tailored to their specific workplace needs. This level of customization allows for a more efficient and personalized user experience.

For instance, corporations can leverage AI agents for intricate tasks like recruitment and financial analysis, whereas individual users can utilize them for routine tasks.

Furthermore, DingTalk’s expansion of its corporate user base to 25 million, with 28 million daily active paid users and 120,000 paying enterprises, indicates its growing influence in the digital workspace sector.

The platform’s strategic focus on generative AI and the planned launch of a marketplace for AI agents, expected to grow to over 10 million in the next three years, positions DingTalk at the forefront of AI integration in business communications.

DingTalk also boasts a low-code platform, enabling the rapid development of custom applications for various industries. This feature has proven especially beneficial for sectors like education and large-scale event management.

For instance, schools and universities have adopted DingTalk for online assignment distribution and grading tasks. The platform has also been customized for major events like the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, streamlining communication and task management for the organizing committee and participants.

DingTalk’s recent achievements and ongoing innovations firmly establish it as a pivotal player in China’s digital landscape, setting new standards for workplace communication platforms worldwide.

Alibaba’s DingTalk user profile

WeChat added a photo annotation feature in the latest version of WeChat 6.5.5 for iOS or WeChat 6.5.4 for Android.

The photo annotation feature is added to chats conversations and WeChat Moments posting. Tencent also recently confirmed a paid subscription feature in the development for WeChat Official Accounts. Also checkout this guide on WeChat Mini-program.

Related: WeChat Statistics in 2016

Monthly active users (“MAUs”) of WeChat, including Chinese version Weixin, reached 762 million in Q1 2016 according to the latest Tencent financial results.

QQ MAUs reached 877 million in Q1 2016, an increase of 5% YoY; mobile QQ MAUs 658 million, an increase of 9% YoY. Peak concurrent user accounts of QQ in Q1 2016 was 260 million, an increase of 14%
YoY.

MAUs of Qzone reached 648 million in Q1 2016, a decrease of 3% YoY, while MAUs of Mobile Qzone was 588 million, an increase of 4% YoY.

Total revenues were RMB31,995 million (USD4,952 million) in Q1 2016, an increase of 43% over the first quarter of 2015. Operating profit was RMB13,398 million (USD2,074 million), an increase of 43% YoY.

Operating margin was 42%, the same as the first quarter of 2015. Profit for the period was RMB9,268 million (USD1,434 million), an increase of 34% YoY. Net margin decreased to 29% from 31% last year.

In April 2016, Tencent launched Enterprise WeChat, a stand-alone application which is tailored to communication scenarios at work and incorporates mobile office solutions such as calendar and company notice management.

Also read: WeChat launched Moments Coupon Ads for retailers

Tencent officially launched Enterprise WeChat/Weixin this morning, positions as a tool for office communications and collaborations.

Enterprise WeChat, still under internal testing last month, currently supports iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows PCs.

Tencent developed communications software for enterprises back in 2003 called RTX, and Enterprise WeChat is being developed based on RTX and mainly for companies’ internal communications. The main features of Enterprise WeChat include:

• Enterprise contacts import and management
• Enterprise communications with phone and email integrated
• Encryptions

Enterprise WeChat is considered a competing product with Alibaba’s enterprise messaging app DingTalk which is a more mature office tool. Users of Tencent’s Enterprise Mail and WeChat Enterprise Accounts can import their contacts directly to Enterprise WeChat.

Enterprise WeChat currently supports registrations from enteprises, government agencies, and registered organizations. Tencent launched WeChat Enterprise Account in 2014 which is built on WeChat/Weixin. Enterprise WeChat is a new application/product targeting enterprises.

Read more: The Value of WeChat Official Accounts and check out Top 6 China Mobile Social Networking Apps

WeChat is launching a separate app for enterprises according to Weixin Team. It’s currently under internal testing with selected enterprises.

WeChat Enterprise will be available in one to two months supporting iOS, Android, Mac and Windows.

Tencent developed communications software for enterprises back in 2003 called RTX, and WeChat Enterprise is being developed based on RTX and mainly for companies’ internal communications.

Tencent launched WeChat Enterprise Account in 2014 which might be confusing to some users now with the launch of WeChat Enterprise version. The two are different; Enterprise Account, similar to Official Account, is based on the current WeChat app while the enterprise version is a separate app. But, Enterprise Account users can migrate to WeChat Enterprise version easily.

Read more: The Value of WeChat Official Accounts

Chinese post-90s are the most active QQ users, accounting for 39% of total users, followed by post-80s and post-00s according to Tencent on Tencent’s Open Day in October 2014.

During period from 4 August to 10 August, Tencent QQ’s daily user coverage exceeded 220.75 million, accounting for 63.5%, ranking the top among China online instant messengers, and effective time on Tencent QQ went up to 759.33 million hours, accounting for 90.7% of total effective time in China instant messengers market.

Tencent QQ got into guinness world record for having the most number of simultaneous online users on an instant messaging platform on 3rd July, 2014.

QQ is making efforts to be featured with young design, colorful characters and social diversity. Tencent is establishing online community based on common interest on mobile QQ. According to research of Tencent and EnfoDesk, 40.89% of Chinese post-90s would like to make friends with ones who have common interest through online social media.

Smart device MAU of QQ was 542 million, more than WeChat which was 468 million in Q3 2014. This is a bit surprising considering the growth rate of QQ has been slowed down.

Also read: The Latest Stats on QQ and Wechat in Q3 2014

During period from 4 August to 10 August, Tencent QQ’s daily user coverage exceeded 220.75 million, accounting for 63.5%, ranking the top among China online instant messengers, followed by Aliwangwang (11.6%) and Fetion (2.7%) according to data from iResearch.

The latest data shows that during the same period, effective time on Tencent QQ went up to 759.33 million hours, accounting for 90.7% of total effective time in China instant messengers market while Aliwangwang accounted for 5.7% and Tencent’s IM for enterprises Real Time eXpert accounted for 0.9%.

Also read: Analysis on China’s Top Mobile Messenger Apps

• PC: Time spent on video watching, instant massaging and game playing occupies the majority of the online users’ time
• Smart phone: Instant messaging tools are used by almost all the smart phone users
• iPad: iPad has already become a perfect choice for entertainment such as watching videos and playing games.

Reviewing the performance of China’s IM products from Q3 2010 to Q3 2012, key players are Tencent QQ, Ali Wangwang, Fetion and others.

As the leader for a long time, Tencent QQ keeps improving its products, user experience as well as the observation for the end user integration. And, it has realized its strategic pushes in PC and mobile internet. Use of QQ has been an inevitable online habit for most Chinese netizens.

As the major communication tool between sellers and buyers, Ali Wangwang has its deep base of users. Meanwhile, Fetion sticking to its regional model maintains its position in this market. With convenient services, low charges and good user experience, Fetion still has great potential in second and third-tier cities.

Tencent QQ, Alibaba’s Wangwang, and China Mobile’s Fetion (Feixin) were the top three most popular instant messengers in China last year.

Weixin, launched by Tencent on January 21 2011 as a iPhone App, is a free mobile communication tool. You can send voice, video, photo and text messages on Weixin, do group chatting, and find people nearby according to location data.

If you are familiar with Talkbox or Whatsapp, you roughly know how Weixin works; it now works on iOS, Android? Windows Mobile and Symbian devices.

Users can login to Weixin with their QQ ID or sign up with phone number or email address.

Tencent CEO Pony Ma announced on Tencent Weibo that total number of Weixin users has reached 100 million milestone. Tencent is also internally testing a related product called Weiyun, which works in a similar way as iCloud.

Weixin had about 50 million users in 2011 which doubled in less than three months’ time. If this trend continues, it might reach 200 million users by the end of this year. And, the growth of Weixin is very important for Tencent as many of its products find it hard to reach high end users.