Is WeChat getting into live streaming?

Tingyi Chen New WeChat features

WeChat launched a live streaming feature for Official Accounts. How does it work and is it the next big thing to sell your products? How does WeChat Official Account live streaming work?  How to create an Official Account Live Stream? Tencent Live Streaming team is still testing this new feature, and only a few selected KOL (key opinion leaders) were …

How to prepare for Double 11 on WeChat

Tingyi Chen New WeChat features

The Double 11 promotion starts from October 20th, 10 days earlier than last year. We expect a good fight between Pinduoduo and Alibaba. Other than getting ready on Tmall, Pinduoduo, and JD, here are a few WeChat marketing tips for your Double 11 preparation. Launch a new product 1 month before Double 11 1 month before Double 11 can be …

WeChat upgrades advertising in order to fight Tik Tok

Thomas Graziani New WeChat features

WeChat has been trying hard to sell ads lately, not very successfully. Although Tencent announced it would increase the number of ads sold on the platform, the advertising growth rate went down from 25% YOY to 16% from Q1 to Q2 2019. The reasons for this drop? A challenging macro-economic context, but also the intense competition from Douyin, Toutiao, and …

WeChat improves analytics back-end with “heat map” function (& 2 other news)

Thomas Graziani New WeChat features

WeChat improves analytics back-end with “heat map” function Heat map WeChat added a “heat map” function to the analytics back-end which indicates how far users have read WeChat articles. For instance, in the graph below, only 10% of readers read more than 90% of the article, while 50% of them read the article halfway. This feature enables marketers to go …

Pinduoduo expands to Tier 1 cities

Thomas Graziani New WeChat features

When Pinduoduo went IPO in July 2018, there were concerns about whether the platform could maintain its meteoric growth. One year later, Pinduoduo has shown significant signs of strength and is expanding to new markets. The explosive growth of GMV The Gross Merchandise Volume (GMV) of Pinduoduo has been growing at an impressive 178% YOY rate. It is remarkable to …

Is WeChat’s growth over?

Thomas Graziani New WeChat features

Once upon a time, there were very few social networks in China. Renren was dying out, Weibo was getting kicked in the gut by WeChat which was growing double or triple digits. Fast-forward to 2019, these days are long gone. There is now a plethora of social Apps to choose from. Is WeChat still growing in this new Chinese Internet? …

China Social Media Content Report 2019

Thomas Graziani New WeChat features

Newrank, one of the largest social data analytics company in China, recently released a report regarding online content. Let’s dig into some of its central insights. Spending on WeChat Official Account Key Opinion Leaders One of the main trends pointed out by the Newrank report is the increasing amounts of large WeChat KOL campaigns. Between 2017 and 2018, the amount …

How Chinese gyms use WeChat to make sure you workout

Thomas Graziani New WeChat features

It’s an old joke that people tend to buy gym memberships at the beginning of the year, and end up barely using them at all. These times may be over, though. Chinese companies are finding innovative ways to leverage tech and keep users coming back to the gym without enforcing memberships. Keepland: leveraging social competition Keepland is the offline workout …

WeChat gets even closer to becoming an operating system… and 2 other news

Thomas Graziani New WeChat features

WeChat releases 7.0.5 version Ability to minimize Mini-programs and other assets WeChat released a new version… and it is becoming even more like an operating system. The main update was the ability to minimize content into several floating windows so that users can easily add temporary tags and switch between contents. This ability existed previously limited to just one article, …