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65% Chinese companies to see gains in customer acquisition from social networks.
From China Internet Watch: According to a survey by office services firm Regus, 47% of businesses successfully used social networks for customer acquisition in 2011, a 7 percentage point increase over 2010. China saw the greatest gains in customer acquisition from social networks among all countries studied, increasing from 44% in 2010 to 65% in [...]
2011: China has 254 million active micro-blog users.
From: Eguan; By the end of 2011, China has 254 million active micro-blog user accounts, up by 150.7% over last year. The stability of user activity proves the commercial value of microblogging. From the content point of view, microblogging user activity is mainly reflected in the following four aspects: (1) the number of user-generated content, (2) number of retweets/comments, (3) content sharing among social platforms, (4) content sharing outside social platforms. [...]
Which China social media platforms do prestige brands choose?
From L2: Checking the graph we will see 57% of prestige 100 brands presenting on Sina Weibo whose traffic skyrocketed 490% in the past 3 months. Though the traffic of Kaixin001 has declined 29% in last season, it still gained a 9% brands adoption increase due to its considerable user base which is listed as [...]
China Top 11 online display advertising channels.
Data from DCCI: Based on the data from DCCI’s Social Network Marketing Report, the ad type with most impression turns out to be pre-roll ad in video sites. The traditional effective banners, anyway, have fallen into the 2nd place. It’s a sign that with the rapid development of Internet, netizens are changing from text readers to [...]
2011 Global map of social networking.
From Penn Olson: A splendid infographic which demonstrates well of the world’s social networking situation. All the social networkers have been divided into 3 kinds: messagers & mailers, content sharers, joiners & creators of groups. Compare China SNSers with the US SNSers, we can see the former are more foucus on content sharing while the latter are communicating [...]
China’s “Linkedin” clones: Ushi vs. Tianji.
Data from Baidu Index: Ushi, being thought as the one of the most qualified business social network sites (BSNS) in China, has gained a 103% increas on its user attention index during the last 3 months. However, Ushi still falls behind Tianji— another BSNS which has surpassed Ushi twice since Feb, 28 and now is with twice [...]
China’s 4 Microblog Personality Types.
From Incitez‘s Microblogging in China: According to the report, here we got 4 kinds of microbloggers, or maybe to all the SNS users, this way of identification also works. As the microblog is getting more and more influential in China, so it becomes pretty important to understand how the microblog users are behaving and how [...]
China Social Media: Tencent Microblog (+36%) vs. Kaixin001 (-54%).
Data from Baidu Index: Orange line stands for Tencent microblog and green one for Kaixin001. Though being launched in April 2010, pretty new when compared with Kaixin001, Tencent microblog is neck and neck with Kaixin001 on user attention index in February, 2011. Tencent microblog has just claimed that its registered users had reached 100 million [...]
China Social Media Popularity: Kaixin001 (-54%) Sina Weibo (+85%)
Data from Baidu Index: Orange line stands for Sina Weibo and green one for Kaixin001. China top social network— kaixin001, seems to be fading away gradually. Since July, 2010, netizens seem to transfer their attention to the new favorite— microblog, then Kaixin001 starts to suffer its continuous decline. To the contrary, Sina Weibo (China’s Twitter), [...]
China Digital Behavior: Microblogs vs. Social Networks
Data from DCCI: The mighty social media, microblog and social network sites account for a large chunk of netizens’ spare time. According to what’s being presented in the graph, we find obvious differences among the following aspects: mood recording/ updating, friend communicating, and interesting topic discussing. It seems the micro blog just turns out to [...]
Renren Introduces Social Ad Revenue Value Model.
From Tech Rice: In November, RenRen held a series of promotional events, called the The RenRen Effect, in Shanghai and Beijing to introduce its Social Ads Value Model in China. With its “RenRen Effect,” RenRen is trying to introduce this concept of ‘derivative value’ (comes from Facebook) to Chinese brands and advertisers. RenRen’s statement also [...]
China Social Media Infographic: China Cyberworld Map
Its’ an interesting work from Sina Weibo(China’s Twitter). In this map you can find most of the major sites in China’s cyberworld. Now let’s go through it from the Desktop Software Empire(DSE) where you can find Tencent QQ & 360 antivirus, the two who have been fighting with each other a month ago. Thunder also has a [...]
China’s Twitter; Sina Weibo reveals usage statistics.
On Nov, 16, 2010, Sina held a China Weibo developer conference. As the biggest blog platform in China, Sina Weibo has released data regarding platform performance since inception in 2010. Sina Weibo demonstrates how it influences Chinese netizen’s daily life; with 400 million netizens and only 50 million Sina Weiboers, Sina’s got a good first step [...]
Understanding Kaixin001′s Audience.
From Holaba SNS Overview: A detailed analysis of how the Chinese people in different parts of China handle Kaixin001. From the graph we can find that Kainxin001 really dominates in east & central part of China mainland. HS means Holaba Score, it is a reliable indication of the recommendation power of the SNS, or a brand.
Personalities of China’s Top 5 SNS.
From Ogilvy PR‘s social media team: Including Kaixin001, Facebook, Renren, Douban and QQ, each of these SNS has been demonstrated by a typical user. Though Facebook is being blocked in China, people have their own approaches to access. Following are the detailed info (via Chris Tou) of the 5 users, enjoy! The Kaixiner (kaixin001.com) 32 years [...]
China’s Tencent; Dominating Global Internet Giants Google and Amazon.
From GWC‘s Report Chinnovations on The New Media: Due to large number of users, in 5 years time Tencent has already become the 3rd internet company, after Google & Amazon onChina’ market cap. The ferocious increasing speed just leaves Google & Amazon far behind.
China’s Tencent beats Facebook Across the Board.
From GWC‘s Chinnovations on The New Media: Though Facebook is pretty hot all over the world, this statistical picture has just revealed a fact: Tencent is overtaking it on subscribers, revenue, net profit and market cap. With the generalization of internet in China, the local superiority of Tencent will become more obvious.
China’s Most Preferred Social Media Sharing Sites.
Form OgilivyOne Worldwide’s Frands: Taking the lion’s share of IM users, QQ occupies the 1st rank with no doubt. While chatting with friends, netizens share their reviews or opinions spontaneously affecting both personal and commercial actions.
China Viral Ripple Effect.
From Sinotech Group’s Buzz Generation: The report indicates that in every single day, or even every single hour, a new conversation will take place and it may engage millions of netizens in a ferocious speed if the topic is luring.
Major vs Minor China Social Media Networks.
This illustration is chosen from Nielsen‘s APAC Social Media Report (June, 2010): The 4 dominators are colored brown and they are: BBS section, including mop.com, bbs.sina.com.cn, tianya.cn, bbs.qq.com, club.sohu.com; Social Network section, including kaixin001.com, renren.com; Blog section, including blog.sina.com.cn, blog.sohu.com, hi.baidu.com, blog.hexun.com; Microblog section, including t.sina.com.cn, digu.com, t.sohu.com, t.qq.com.
Prestige Brands Most Buzzed on RenRen & Qzone.
Complied by L2, the below graph shows brand buzz on one of China’s most popular SNS sites RenRen.com (a Facebook clone) and Qzone. From this we get a pretty good idea of buzz in English and Chinese, but further, we get a sense of populations across these social network sites. You could almost see these [...]
China’s 500% Blogger Growth; 2002-2009.
The numbers of bloggers have been increasing for many years, but saw a huge jump in 2008. This is likely due to China’s internet hitting a critical point, combining social networks, with blog networks with portals, and politically charged events; allowing the great spread of knowledge and tools allowing blogging to propagate. 2009 sees a continued [...]
Digital social influence pyramid.
Tipping point labs recently published their model of social media influence. It begins with the brand message, and then filters down to tiered levels of advocates with varying levels of influence. It’s great as a model to understand how Brand messages effect and recruit engaged customers. Related articles from around the web. 5 Tips To [...]
Social Networking Importance in China.
McKinsey quarterly reports that in China, web services, blogs, social netowrking are teh most important web 2.0 technologies; with blogs and social networking coming in second and third respectively. The least important? Podcasts, interesting enough. This may be due to low bandwidth in China compared to other parts of the world. Related articles from around [...]
