You can now make a profit with your WeChat Wallet Last week, WeChat Pay started testing a new feature called Lingqiantong (零钱通), a flexible money-market mutual fund. There is no minimal investment amount, and users can spend their deposit at any time without fees. To give you a better idea of the yield, I made 17.64 yuan in August with 5,000 …
Case study: how to build million-dollar consumer brands via WeChat & Weibo?
According to 2016 China Investment Ecosystem Report, the number of consumer product startups increased by 58% in 2016. Many of these brands were created by young Chinese founders who are born into the digital era, and are competing against international giants. They sure know how to leverage the Chinese social media ecosystem, mainly WeChat and Weibo, to pick up a …
Selling 100 cars within 5 minutes- the power of WeChat influencers
100 limited edition MINI Cooper, in value of 30 million RMB, sold on a WeChat influencer account in just 4 minutes. How did this happen? And what can brands learn from this? The WeChat Influencer Account This impressive sale was performed by a fashion focused WeChat Official Account operated by Becky Li (黎贝卡的异想世界). The account has 1.6 million WeChat followers, 90% …
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50% of WeChat Accounts are losing followers and 3 other news
WeChat Official Account Reading rate/followers growth rate are dropping According to a New Rank survey of 131 Official Account operators, there is a clear decrease in reading rates and growth rates on WeChat in 2017. As shown in the graph below, 39% of the accounts are experiencing a decrease in their article reading rate; while only 28% are seeing an …
China Mobile Payment Report 2017
iResearch released a report about the Chinese mobile payment market this month. Highlights: Alipay and TenPay(WeChat Payment) together make up for 92% of the mobile payment market Alipay makes up for the majority (61.5%) of business-related transactions Mobile payment transaction increased 381% to RMB58.8 trillion in 2016 and are expected to grow at a 68% growth rate in the next 2 …
Trend report of the top 500 WeChat Official Account
The Fortune 500 list is relatively stable. Every time a new company makes it to the top 500, the media celebrates. But in the extremely competitive Chinese social media environment, making it to the top 500 could just be temporary glory. Newcomers could take your place anytime. Newranks tracks the performance of the 500 top-performing WeChat Official Accounts every month. …
WeChat blocks a viral Mini Program, Apple starts to reinforce 30% “Apple tax”, and a viral Mother’s Day campaign
Mini Program updates in May Tencent may be slow to update any WeChat features, but they are definitely pushing the evolution of Mini Program. Here is a list of new Mini Program features released in May Brands can now display different content depending on specific WeChat group ID or group name where their Mini Program is shared. Mini Program “near …
2017 Alipay Report shows growing credit spending among Chinese youth
DT Caijing and Huabei, a personal line of credit product within Alipay app (450 million users), recently released the 2017 Chinese young consumers spending report. The report shows an increase of credit spending by the young Chinese consumers. This line of credit product was released in April 2015, and grew to over 100 million register user within 2 years. 37.4% …
How to change WeChat Official Account without losing followers
A problem has been plaguing companies on WeChat for years: the inability to change WeChat Official Account from one business entity to another. If you wanted to sell your account, or somehow change legal entity, you would have to create a new WeChat Official Account and start follower acquisition from scratch. Businesses could face a huge risk, especially if they relied on third …