Tik Tok’s daily active users in China top 250 million

Tik Tok’s daily active users in China top 250 million

Tik Tok’s daily active users have exceeded 250 million as short video viewing continues to explode in China. Figures from China Internet Watch revealed the Bytedance owned short-video app outperformed rival app Kwai, which attracted 160 million daily active users. The figures reveal the huge appetite for short video apps among Chinese consumers and the […]

BBH China creates virtual restaurant in mobile-led campaign for Martell cognac

BBH China creates virtual restaurant in mobile-led campaign for Martell cognac

BBH China has created a mobile-led campaign for cognac brand Martell owned by Pernod Ricard. Titled ‘Martell Curious Restaurant’, the campaign involves scanning a QR code to gain entry into a virtual restaurant. Mobile users can then participate in one of the three storylines. The stories involve tense situations among diners in the restaurant that […]

Facebook suspends app pre-installs on Huawei phones

Facebook suspends app pre-installs on Huawei phones

Facebook is no longer allowing pre-installation of its apps on Huawei phones, the latest blow for the Chinese tech giant as it struggles to keep its business afloat in the face of a U.S. ban on its purchase of American parts and software. Customers who already have Huawei phones will still be able to use […]

Cheetah Mobile previews international edition of top-selling CM Translator at Microsoft Build 2019

Cheetah Mobile previews international edition of top-selling CM Translator at Microsoft Build 2019

Cheetah Mobile, a leading mobile internet company with global market coverage, announced the upcoming release of the international version of CM Translator, a top-selling handheld AI translation device in China. Set to release later in May, CM Translator features an easy-to-use “One Click · One World” one-button design, ultra-long battery life with 180 days of […]

WeChat: Harnessing the power of China’s ‘super app’

WeChat: Harnessing the power of China’s ‘super app’

China currently has a population of 1.37 billion people, who spent 91.8% of all time spent online on social media. This significant number is largely due to a social networking app in China, sometimes called ‘the app of everything’ – WeChat. Over the last few years, WeChat has completely transformed how people communicate, find information, […]

Imagination China builds vivo’s industry-first concept store experience

Imagination China builds vivo’s industry-first concept store experience

Global experience agency Imagination, announces the opening of a new concept store experience – vivo Lab – in Shenzhen, China for Chinese smartphone brand vivo. The immersive experience, which is the first photography-oriented concept launched by a phone manufacturer, officially opened over the weekend. vivo, one of the world’s largest smartphone brands with over 200 […]

Chinese tourists use of mobile payments abroad overtakes cash, according to new study

Chinese tourists use of mobile payments abroad overtakes cash, according to new study

Chinese travellers use of mobile payments abroad has overtaken cash for the first time with 32% of transactions paid for digitally, according to new research. A joint report by Nielsen and Alipay, the Alibaba affiliated financial services company, found Chinese tourists were spending more money when travelling with more tourists using mobile payment while overseas. […]

ByteDance launches video chat app to challenge Tencent’s WeChat

ByteDance launches video chat app to challenge Tencent’s WeChat

ByteDance, the Chinese company behind popular short video app TikTok, has decided it is time to take on Tencent in China’s messaging app game. The world’s most valuable startup has launched a video messaging app in a space dominated by WeChat. The app, named ‘Duoshan’, works in a similar way to Snapchat, enabling users to send videos […]

Tourism New Zealand uses WeChat to drive China’s high-spending travellers to middle earth

Tourism New Zealand uses WeChat to drive China’s high-spending travellers to middle earth

For a small island nation, tucked away in the South Pacific, New Zealand has an interesting challenge: to attract tourists to its picturesque shores, but not too many. With limited space and beds, Tourism New Zealand, the country’s marketing body, must balance the country’s booming tourism industry with practical sustainability. In China, this translates to […]