Story of Li Ziqi: Top YouTube influencer from China with 8.7M subscribers

CIW Team — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 02:00:07 +0000

The 29-year-old Li Ziqi was seated, wearing a pink cheongsam (a.k.a. qipao) and a white outfit, in the cover of the latest China Newsweek’s Dec. 30 2019 issue. Besides her are Gree Electric Chairman Dong Mingzhu, Executive Vice President of Renmin University of China Wang Liming, President of Mengniu Group Lu Minfang, Actor Yang and other 14 "Influential People of the Year".

A month earlier, an article titled "Is Li Ziqi exporting culture?" directly triggered a heated discussion with a total number of views of over 500 million.

Li Ziqi has over 8.7 million YouTube followers as of 3 February 2020. Most of her videos on YouTube generated over millions of views each and some have received has many as 45 million views.

Early in the morning of December 6 last year, online celebrity Li Ziqi was listed on the trending searches of Weibo.

As a food video blogger with 22 million Weibo followers, it is not unusual for Li Ziqi to get listed on the trending search. But obviously...

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Facebook Has 95 Million Users in China

CIW Team — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 03:11:37 +0000

An astonishing info found out by BI Intelligence that Facebook had 95 million users in China (under 100 million in America), although Facebook was and still is blocked by China Great Firewall. Besides, Google+ had 100 million users in China, Twitter had 80 million and Youtube had 60 million users in China. Linkedin is the only unblocked big social network in China, which had 20 million users.

Other interesting findings by BI Intelligence was Qzone owned by Tencent had 712 million users, ranking the third in the world. It was twice of WhatsApp and three times of Twitter’s users.

The top three chat app were: WhatsApp, Line, and Wechat.