Digital Intelligence

Chinese internet giant Tencent hosted "China Day" at Cannes Lions and won its first Gold Lions Award, the Cyber Lions, for its QQ Alert.

22/06/2017  |  Full story...

China’s urban middle class have moved from price to premium in the 2017 BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Chinese Brands.

21/03/2017  |  Full story...

Tencent, the owner of popular social messaging app WeChat, overtook e-commerce giant Alibaba to become China's most valuable technology company on Thursday.

19/08/2016  |  Full story...

Popular chat app Kik has secured $50m funding boost from Chinese web giant Tencent, owner of rival social media apps WeChat and QQ.

19/08/2015  |  Full story...

Unilever has struck a deal with JD Worldwide, a cross-border e-commerce platform linked with Chinese web giant Tencent, as the FMCG conglomerate looks to expand its online presence in the Asia Pacific region.

19/06/2015  |  Full story...

A Chinese fashion brand Me&City is using Tencent Street View to show off its latest clothing lines, as part of a new social media campaign using the hashtag #FashionStreetView. See why it's our video viral of the week below...

15/05/2015  |  Full story...

Tencent has reached $200 billion market capitalisation in Hong Kong-based trading last night, meaning that the Chinese social networking firm has overtaken Amazon in size.

15/04/2015  |  Full story...

Chinese entertainment firm Dalian Wanda (owner of the AMC cinema chain) is reportedly set to make a massive move into ecommerce via a partnership with Tencent and Baidu.

28/08/2014  |  Full story...

Tencent has announced that its mobile messaging app WeChat ended the first quarter of 2014 with 396 million monthly active users, as its expansion beyond China continues.

19/05/2014  |  Full story...

This chart shows the top 24 social networks by global monthly active users. Facebook leads with almost 1.2 billion monthly users. Interestingly, the list features many region specific social networks such as Qzone, a China-based social networking site, which ranked third with half a billion monthly active users.

21/11/2013  |  Full story...

Facebook and YouTube are the most popular social networks in the world, followed by China’s Qzone and Sina Weibo, according to a new report.

31/10/2013  |  Full story...

Chat app WhatsApp is now attracting more than 250 million active monthly users, making it one of the largest communications platforms in the world, according to a news report.

26/06/2013  |  Full story...

Internet analyst Mary Meeker’s slideshow presentations on global internet trends have become something of a major industry event, with this year’s data showing huge mobile growth.

View the slideshare presentation below:

31/05/2013  |  Full story...

Social media continued its rise in 2012, pervading more and more aspects of modern life, from Twitter’s live news reporting to Pinterest’s digital scrapbooks. Despite being labelled a ‘ghost town’, Google+ has become a major player in the sector, beginning to rival Twitter in terms of global active users. For marketers, social media ROI remains rather elusive, but some inroads have been made this year with new analytics tools looking beyond clicks to measure the power of online recommendations. As part of a 2012 review, we look back at the 10 most popular social media news stories and trends of the year.

12/12/2012  |  Full story...

For the international marketer, China represents one of the largest digital audiences in the world. With over 550m now online, 400m connecting via mobile, and over 300m on social media in China, the digital audience is growing fast. This article looks at six key social networks in China.

28/11/2012  |  Full story...

China's e-commerce sector grew a massive 45% year-on-year in the second quarter, accounting for 12.5% of the country's GDP, according to new research. The study, from Analysys International indicates that total sales in China was 278.84 billion yuan ($44.5bn/ £36bn), with Alibaba Group's Taobao capturing a huge 76% of the market.

17/10/2012  |  Full story...

Zynga is to create a Chinese version of its CityVille game, despite its platform of choice, Facebook, being blocked in the territory. The game will be played via internet portal Tencent instead of Facebook, where most of its games are played, but which is blocked in China.

Zynga recently filed for a much anticipated IPO but has been criticized for being too dependent on Facebook, its primary distribution platform, which accounts for the overwhelming majority of the company’s users and revenues.

05/08/2011

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Total unique visitors (000) and % share

Age 15+ - Home & Work Locations, December 2008
* Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs

Source: comScore
comScore: http://www.comscore.com

17/01/2009