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| Apr 1, 2022
As new COVID-19 outbreaks continue to cause factory shutdowns in China, major US retailers that depend on Chinese imports are feeling the pinch. Limited inventory on store shelves trickles down in the form of reductions in ad network inventory. Another effect of supply chain disruptions on ad spending is that marketers have paused or pulled campaigns in response.
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| Aug 8, 2022
For example, both adidas and Puma pledged to stop using Xinjiang cotton due to the alleged use of forced labor in its production—but a recent report from German researchers found traces of the material in products from both brands, despite the former saying it no longer sourced cotton from China.
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| May 6, 2022
So I think Western super-apps are going to look a little bit different just because of the way that we use mobile technology than those in China. But I think our best contenders are probably either PayPal or perhaps Meta. Although Trust might be an inhibitor there. Sara Lebow:. Sky, what are your thoughts? Sky Canaves:.
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| May 16, 2023
Chinese super apps—a digital ecosystem of products and services housed under a single app and user experience—evolved to fix a dearth of options. Western super apps will need to address the opposite problem. Titans of commerce, finance, and transportation are all angling to become consumers’ one-stop shop. China’s example suggests only one or two players will succeed.
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| Dec 10, 2021
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| May 11, 2023
Source: Euromonitor; Ocean Engine
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| May 11, 2023
Source: KPMG; China Chain Store and Franchise Association (CCFA)
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| May 11, 2023
Source: KPMG; China Chain Store and Franchise Association (CCFA)
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Source: KPMG; China Chain Store and Franchise Association (CCFA)
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Source: GfK
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Source: GfK
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Source: GfK
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Source: Euromonitor; Ocean Engine
In the four months leading up to December 2022, Chinese online marketplace Temu experienced “virtually unprecedented growth in traffic,” said our analyst Andrew Lipsman. The company’s heavy investment in search advertising may be a driving force behind its growth.
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| Feb 14, 2023
Amazon and Meta contractor Edge Cable Holdings USA applied to operate a submarine cable linking the Philippines to California, after China Mobile (CMI) bowed out of the project.
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| Dec 20, 2021
Hunter: Some books just got pushed, especially those that were printed in China because they are not going to be ready for the holidays. If we had preorders, we would have to tell all our customers. We don't like having to do it, but we try to stay on top of it and communicate to our customers as soon as possible what's going on.
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| Nov 24, 2021
The Chinese tech giant produced $1 billion in player expenditures across its mobile games, a 16% increase from the year prior, per Sensor Tower. It could easily create a library of games exclusive to TikTok users. Search: TikTok is already nipping at the heels of YouTube in user time spent, and the service beat Google as the most visited website in 2021.
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| Dec 21, 2022
Chinese ecommerce giant JD.com said it would release its own version of ChatGPT—ChatJD—specifically for enterprise use by the retail and finance industries. Companies will be able to use ChatJD to generate content including marketing copy and product summaries, power chatbots, and understand user intent, among other applications.
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| Feb 16, 2023
Only China currently bests the UK as a retail ecommerce leader. In 2022, 35.9% of total retail sales in the UK will be ecommerce sales, while that figure will be 45.3% in China. In terms of digital buyers, though, the UK actually tops the pile, with 83.8% of the population having made at least one digital purchase in the calendar year.
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| Jul 25, 2022
So the first one is the return of e-commerce advertisers, especially from China. So these are companies based in China that are trying to reach people outside of China with their advertising. So those were called out as being a very strong category for Meta. So that's the first reason.
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| May 8, 2023
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Western fintechs like US-based PayPal and UK-based Revolut are rebundling services to emulate the successes of early super apps, such as China-based WeChat and AliPay. Lydia’s new trading feature is part of its own super app strategy and will likely draw on its $131 million Series B funding from December to continue expanding its product suite. However, our matrix covered 57 features per super app.
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| Nov 23, 2021
And then if people knew TikTok's parent company ByteDance was based in China, if they knew that it was in China, then they were for the ban. If they didn't know it was in China, then they were against the ban. Two out of three people knew that ByteDance was a Chinese-based company. And finally, really interesting, didn't matter based on political party.
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| Apr 26, 2023
For example, the percentage of physicians who rated digital tools such as video chats and scheduled webinars and webcasts as preferred engagement options more than doubled from pre-pandemic to May–June 2021, according to survey data gathered from physicians in the US, Germany, and China and published by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in September 2021.
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| Sep 2, 2022