Alibaba's record-breaking Singles Day and its impact on global ecommerce

Ecommerce & Sales Alibaba's record-breaking Singles Day and its impact on global ecommerce

5y Mike O'Brien

Alibaba's record-breaking Singles Day and its impa...

How did Singles Day, essentially a made-up holiday, become the world’s largest online shopping day? And how does it influence the rest of the world? R...

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Google, Yandex and Baidu: Strategies for expanding your search marketing

Search Marketing Google, Yandex and Baidu: Strategies for expanding your search marketing

6y Mike O'Brien

Google, Yandex and Baidu: Strategies for expanding...

Most marketers plan to expand their global footprints very soon... but they also have a difficult time getting insight into how their content performs...

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An introduction to WeChat: The evolution and future of China's most popular app

An introduction to WeChat: The evolution and future of China's most popular app

7y Clark Boyd

An introduction to WeChat: The evolution and futur...

Chinese messaging app WeChat has become a truly ubiquitous app experience, with over 900 million monthly active users. What is behind its phenomenal s...

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Tencent's Emily Ma on the challenges for marketers in China

Tencent's Emily Ma on the challenges for marketers in China

8y Sophie Loras

Tencent's Emily Ma on the challenges for marketers...

Emily Ma, product director of Tencent’s advertising platform products department, was a keynote speaker at ClickZ Live Shanghai where she discus...

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Beyond Facebook: social media marketing opportunities in China and Japan

Beyond Facebook: social media marketing opportunities in China and Japan

8y Motoko Hunt

Beyond Facebook: social media marketing opportunit...

Twitter and Facebook are becoming more popular in Asia, but marketers operating in the region need to be aware of the many other made-for-Asia social ...

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How SK-II blends ecommerce and social for improved brand perception

How SK-II blends ecommerce and social for improved brand perception

8y Sophie Loras

How SK-II blends ecommerce and social for improved...

China is a world leader when it comes to social commerce. Here, JD.com's Joey Bian outlines how cosmetic giant SK-II blended data from two of China's ...

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How brands are using VR to improve customer experience in China

How brands are using VR to improve customer experience in China

8y Elisa Harca

How brands are using VR to improve customer experi...

Tech-enhanced customer experiences have always had a very receptive audience in China, and as a result, VR technologies are being widely embraced by b...

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A beginners guide to mobile payments, bitcoin, blockchain and robo-banking

Blockchain A beginners guide to mobile payments, bitcoin, blockchain and robo-banking

8y Sophie Loras

A beginners guide to mobile payments, bitcoin, blo...

How are mobile payments, bitcoin, blockchain and other financial services technologies enhancing the consumer purchase journey? Read More...

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Report: Facebook dominates social ad spend and this is just the beginning

Report: Facebook dominates social ad spend and this is just the beginning

8y Sophie Loras

Report: Facebook dominates social ad spend and thi...

Facebook will take the lion's share – more than two thirds – of global ad revenues for social sites this year, according to a report from eMarketer. R...

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Five reasons why China is a role model for digital innovation

Five reasons why China is a role model for digital innovation

8y Sophie Loras

Five reasons why China is a role model for digital...

In addition to being the world's largest ecommerce market, China is rapidly establishing itself as a hub for technological innovation around mobile so...

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Why Tencent's deals with Publicis and WPP are good for global advertisers

Why Tencent's deals with Publicis and WPP are good for global advertisers

8y Sophie Loras

Why Tencent's deals with Publicis and WPP are good...

The recent partnerships between Publicis, WPP and Tencent shows the Chinese internet giant is serious about moving into the global spotlight and maint...

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How the NBA engages China's 200M millennials with mobile video

How the NBA engages China's 200M millennials with mobile video

8y Steven Chang

How the NBA engages China's 200M millennials with ...

China's younger generations are making greater use of mobile Internet services, consuming more content especially around mobile and video, creating bi...

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Google beats Apple to become world's most valuable brand [Study]

Google beats Apple to become world's most valuable brand [Study]

8y Mike O'Brien

Google beats Apple to become world's most valuable...

Since 2011, Google and Apple have been competing to be the most valuable, according to Millward Brown Digital's annual report. This year, Google is ba...

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Mary Meeker report puts China (and WeChat) on the global stage

Mary Meeker report puts China (and WeChat) on the global stage

8y Sophie Loras

Mary Meeker report puts China (and WeChat) on the ...

This week, venture capitalist Mary Meeker released her annual Internet Trends report, and China was a key focus. Read More...

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Report: Alphabet leads Zenith Global Media Owners list but Asia makes waves

Report: Alphabet leads Zenith Global Media Owners list but Asia makes waves

8y Sophie Loras

Report: Alphabet leads Zenith Global Media Owners ...

Google's Alphabet is the world's largest media owner by media revenue, according to Zenith's Top 30 Global Media Owners list, but China's Baidu is rai...

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How Coach and Moleskine use WeChat for ecommerce

How Coach and Moleskine use WeChat for ecommerce

8y Sophie Loras

How Coach and Moleskine use WeChat for ecommerce

WeChat started out as a social messaging app but has become an essential part of an integrated online and offline (O2O) ecommerce strategy for brands ...

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What the West can learn from China about chatbot marketing

What the West can learn from China about chatbot marketing

8y Elisa Harca

What the West can learn from China about chatbot m...

Microsoft's Tay generated a lot of buzz when the robot debuted earlier this year. But brands like Ikea and Uber, Baidu and Microsoft and Tencent have ...

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Stats of the week: consumers say no to online advertising

Stats of the week: consumers say no to online advertising

8y Sophie Loras

Stats of the week: consumers say no to online adve...

Marketers have their work cut out for them as consumers globally continue to employ ad blockers in their defence against online advertising, a report ...

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Economic slowdown in China means a booming ecommerce sector

Economic slowdown in China means a booming ecommerce sector

8y Sophie Loras

Economic slowdown in China means a booming ecommer...

As Asia overtakes the U.S. and Europe as the world's largest ecommerce market, key trends across the region are emerging. Read More...

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What is x-commerce and why should marketers care?

What is x-commerce and why should marketers care?

8y Sophie Loras

What is x-commerce and why should marketers care?

Mobile and the rise of on-demand services is fuelling a new form of commerce the IDC is calling xcommerce. Read More...

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What makes China ripe for virtual reality?

Asia What makes China ripe for virtual reality?

8y Sophie Loras

What makes China ripe for virtual reality?

China has the potential to be at the epicenter of VR innovation and adoption. In fact, it already is. Read More...

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Wearable technology takes center stage in stats of the week

Wearable technology takes center stage in stats of the week

8y Sophie Loras

Wearable technology takes center stage in stats of...

The week in numbers starts with wearable technologies and the Internet of Things, but ultimately, it's mobile technologies that make the world go roun...

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Apple Pay launches in China

Apple Pay launches in China

8y Sophie Loras

Apple Pay launches in China

Apple faces domestic competition from Alibaba and Tencent as it launches Apple Pay in China. Read More...

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How China's WeChat Wallet is going global

How China's WeChat Wallet is going global

8y Sophie Loras

How China's WeChat Wallet is going global

China's WeChat Wallet is expanding into global markets, but key to its success will depend on both user and vendor uptake. Read More...

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Social and mobile payments boom for Chinese Lunar New Year

Social and mobile payments boom for Chinese Lunar New Year

8y Yuyu Chen

Social and mobile payments boom for Chinese Lunar ...

A new research from AdMaster shows that three in four mobile users in China planned to celebrate Lunar New Year on social. Read More...

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How WeChat Wallet has kept QR codes alive in China

How WeChat Wallet has kept QR codes alive in China

8y Sophie Loras

How WeChat Wallet has kept QR codes alive in China

QR codes might seem old school in the fast-paced world of digital marketing, but in China, they have transformed communications app WeChat into a worl...

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How brands are celebrating the Chinese New Year in China

How brands are celebrating the Chinese New Year in China

8y Sophie Loras

How brands are celebrating the Chinese New Year in...

On February 8, China’s 1.3 billion people will see in the Chinese New Year of the Monkey. Here’s how brands like PepsiCo, McDonald’s...

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