It has been 6 years since the first advertising for luxury products appeared on WeChat Moments in 2015 and the luxury sector first tested out WeChat Advertising. WeChat as a social platform has redefined luxury product marketing, allowing luxury brands to use social and digital ways to tell Chinese customers their own brand stories. Over […]
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Mini Programs usage insights for Feb 2020; DAU exceeded 450 million
The Daily Active Users (DAU) of mini programs in China has already surpassed 450 million, according to Aladdin’s report released in March 2020, a 3rd party mini program data platform. The number of available mini programs on the market reached 3.9 million, 600,000 more compared to 2 months earlier. As a comparison, Apple Store has only […]
Acquire, convert, and retain customers through WeChat Ads + WeChat Work
WeChat Advertising provides advertisers with a customer acquisition solution integrating WeChat Advertising with WeChat Work.
How is WeChat Work 3.0 valuable to businesses
Tencent launched a critical update to WeChat Work (version 3.0), an enterprise version of WeChat. The updated WeChat Work helps businesses connect deeply with consumers and retain customer resources. New features include productivity tools and WeChat Moments integration. WeChat Work 1.0 only supported simple functions including Business Contacts, paid phone calls, attendance, announcement, etc while […]
Tencent Live adds Product Window to WeChat live broadcasting
Tencent Live launched a new feature Product Window that merchants can use to display added products to the live broadcasting sessions. Merchants can also associate live broadcasting with products from Weidian or JD.
Tencent launched Nearby Ads for SME retailers on WeChat Moments
WeChat recently launched the “Nearby Ads” marketing solution to solve marketing problems of small and medium-sized merchants. Nearby Ads can accurately display the advertisements in WeChat Moments to reach customers within the 3km distance.
Top Mini-Programs in Oct 2019; China’s mini-apps war led by online shopping
In addition to Tencent’s WeChat, Baidu, and Ant Financial’s Alipay, many other large Chinese Internet companies have been taking actions in building their mini-program ecosystems. QQ (Tencent) introduced the “One-click Comment” function and managed to explored new sources of traffic. Alipay introduced the “Comment after Payment” function. WeChat (Tencent) introduced the Notification Subscription and Industry […]
Business essentials for WeChat in Oct 2019
WeChat banned external links. Mini-programs in the travel and entertainment categories enjoyed high popularity. Tencent Cloud empowers WeChat mini programs. Increasingly refined WeChat Mini Program operation and service systems help mini-app operators improve their operational management. Mini-program operators now can check and learn many important and useful information like operation status evaluation, KPI dashboard, operation […]
Tencent Live integrates live streaming with e-commerce mini programs
Though still in testing phase Tencent Live integrates live streaming with its mini program. Brands can embed HTML5 based product on its mini program as an entry to its live streaming. Followers and fans can click to open Tencent Live to watch live streaming.
WeChat MAU up 7% to 1.13 billion in Q2 2019; QQ MAU 808 mn
The monthly active users of WeChat (Weixin) reached 1,133 million during the second quarter of 2019, up 7% year-on-year according to Tencent’s announced financial results. Smart device MAU of QQ was 707 million.
How Becky built its e-commerce success on WeChat
In Becky’s initial WeChat e-commerce mini-program launch in December 2017, the transactions exceeded one million yuan in 7 minutes and nearly 3 million yuan sales in 113 minutes according to WeChat Advertising. Since then, it has been able to maintain a million transactions in the first minute of new product launches. For a direct e-commerce […]
ByteDance’s mini-program ecosystem on TikTok and Toutiao
Earlier this month, ByteDance announced that as of July 2019, the company’s total DAU has exceeded 700 million, with a total MAU of more than 1.5 billion. TikTok contributed 320 million DAU to the overall success. With a huge user base in a market like China, it’s not surprising to see ByteDance’s ambition and efforts […]
1-week WeChat ad campaign saw 94% lower customer acquisition cost
Shenzhen-based Muse Marry, one of the largest luxury wedding dresses agencies in China, received 350 thousand ad impressions on WeChat Moments through Tencent Social Ads. It has already served over 30 thousand brides since 2012. Some wonder how it gets the customer acquisition cost reduced by 94% and acquires 30 new customers every day during one […]
Tencent testing a new social shopping feature on WeChat
During the night of May 11, WeChat “quietly” made a major update to the “Goodies Circle”, which was praised by the industry as the “shopping version of Moments”. Within the “Search” entrance of Wechat appeared a new first-tier entrance of “Goodies Circle”. In addition, a new function of “New Circle & Group” has been added […]
Tencent performance in Q1 2019; WeChat MAU exceeds 1.1 billion
Tencent’s total revenues in Q1 2019 were RMB85,465 million (USD12,693 million), an increase of 16% over the first quarter of 2018 according to Tencent’s announced financial results.