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Mary Meeker’s Internet Report has just been released. What does it say about WeChat this year? WeChat Tencent is the clear winner in the mobile market in China, representing more than 50% of mobil usage. WeChat alone represents 35% of time spent on mobile, which is more than Baidu and Alibaba combined. This is a 7% increase from last year …
Chinese tourists spend a lot of money when they travel. According to WSJ, Chinese tourists spent more than $229 billion in 2015, a 53% increase from the previous year. Many shopping malls and tourist centers hire Chinese speaking staff. But when it comes to payment, most of places still haven’t caught up with the more popular mobile payment method in China. Today …
There has been much fuss about WeChat trying to export itself outside mainland China. And so far it has failed to do so. Top-performing regions for WeChat outside mainland China So, where is WeChat doing well outside mainland China? You might not have expected it: the #1 country is… Buthan. If you know a bit about geography, you know there is …
WeChat changes. And it changes fast. Here are 5 modifications to the platform which happened just over the last couple of weeks. 1. “Stick on top” for WeChat Public Accounts Among all the new features published lately, this might be the game-changing one. Much fuss has been made about WeChat public accounts replacing APPs on your phone. There is still …
Early this week, WeChat team made an eye-catching move. They rolled out a stringent new set of rules to evaluate any shared content on WeChat, especially regulating links taking users outside of Tencent servers (self-hosted H5). Breaking those rules could result in punishments ranging from an IP block on the illicit content to a permanent ban of your account. As …
Online sales of imported goods have grown at a compounded rate of 63 percent in the five years to 2015, reaching 638 billion RMB ($98 billion) and accounting for 17 per cent of China’s total online retail sales, according to data from Mintel Group Ltd. Last week, the government released a new Tax rule for cross-border commerce that will tighten the control …
When we meet our readers in real life, one question keeps coming back: where do you get all the data you are publishing? Today, WalktheChat opens the kimono: discover our sources, and start following them first hand. But don’t worry! We’ll still be around to give you an extra layer of insights! Newsrank.cn Newsrank.cn is the “barometer of WeChat accounts”. …
2016 is, no doubt, the year of Virtual Reality (VR). Last November, Tencent unveiled its plan to develop Virtual Reality. It had previously invested in Epic Games and Altspace VR. But what will VR look like for WeChat and messaging in general? What’s the difference between VR and AR? Virtual reality means (VR) you put on a headset and then …
WeChat Enterprise APP… What is it, and why it will fail. Tencent has announced yesterday the release of a new separate APP for companies internal communication. Or in another words: a surprising cross-breeding of WeChat and Slack. What will the APP look like? Unsurprisingly the APP will look… very much like WeChat The “Enterprise WeChat” APP is basically WeChat with: …
On Feb 24th, WeChat made an upgrade to its analytics backend. The newly available information includes: Source of traffic (where does the reading come from): Official Account push messages, account posting history page, WeChat Moments, Directly shared by a friend, and Other source. Transparency about the number of reads and the number of unique users Number of users who shared the article (used …
