Today we are releasing a new report “Understanding TikTok & ByteDance.” A deep dive taking you behind the scenes at TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance. Direct download links for the whitepaper PDF [47 slides, 6 MB] (China) Weiyun(International) Dropbox Alternative access: Slideshare Over 47 slides we cover all you need to know about the company behind TikTok and it’s rapid ... Read More The post TikTok & ByteDance Report appeared first on China Channel ..read more

As a follow-up to the recently released whitepaper “Defining Interactive E-commerce”, this webinar will delve deeper into the topic of making ecommerce more accessible. What can we learn from the interactive ecommerce model to help onboard the next billion mobile e-commerce users across developing markets? The paper’s authors along with a special guest will be elaborating upon their findings and ... Read More The post Mobile-first e-commerce for the next billion [webinar] appeared first on China Channel ..read more

Today we are releasing a whitepaper “Defining interactive e-commerce”. “Interactive e-commerce” describes a new model of mobile-first ecommerce arising from China over the past few years where “social” is but one element. Direct download links for the whitepaper PDF [53 slides, 5.81 MB] (China) Weiyun(International) Dropbox Alternative access: Slideshare The case study used throughout the paper is Pinduoduo. The inspiration ... Read More The post Defining interactive e-commerce appeared first on China Channel ..read more

How would you describe (Bytedance CEO Zhang) Yiming’s hiring process? “He’s very persistent, aggressive and persistent!” Was the reply (source) of Liu Zhen, former head of Uber China and current Bytedance VP reflecting on how Zhang Yiming convinced her to join Bytedance in 2015. As the big news broke yesterday of Bytedance’s hire of Disney executive Kevin Mayer (official press ... Read More The post ByteDance Hires Disney’s Kevin Mayer: Analysis appeared first on China Channel ..read more

“To date, Tencent has invested in more than 800 companies, of which more than 70 have been listed, and more than 160 have become unicorns (market or private valuation of US $1 billion+).” Tencent Investment held its annual IF (Insight & Forecast) conference in Beijing earlier this month. Tencent President Martin Lau shared his thoughts with the more than 500 ... Read More The post “We’ve Invested in 160 Unicorns” Tencent President Talks Investment 2020 appeared first on China Channel ..read more

Below is my abridged translation of a short speech given by Tencent president Martin Lau at the Tencent Investment’s ‘Insight & Forecast Conference’ held in Beijing. The speech not only reveals some very impressive statistics on Tencent’s investment track record it also gives some insight into the organization’s overall investment philosophy. Finally, it provides some color regarding the wider market ... Read More The post 122 Unicorns: Tencent President Talks Investment appeared first on China Channel ..read more

As you might have heard by now, the founder of WeChat Allen Zhang delivered an epic 4-hour late night monologue at the WeChat annual conference in Guangzhou a few days back. I was lucky enough to witness the entire 4 hours live (standing at the side of the stage until midnight, sore feet, I tell you).  Chinese media has been ... Read More The post WeChat Founder’s 4 Hour Talk: Full Notes appeared first on China Channel ..read more

Full-screen short video Snapchat/Instagram style stories have finally made it to WeChat. In this article, I’m going to cover the update in two separate parts: A breakdown of how the new feature actually works An analysis of the implications for Tencent You may wish to skip either part depending on what you are interested in. You can see from the update ... Read More The post WeChat Stories: Everything you need to know appeared first on China Channel ..read more

Tencent’s annual internal staff meeting was held in Shenzhen on Thursday, Dec 13th. Below are my translated notes of the key points covered in the speeches given by the C level executive team including CEO Pony Ma, President Martin Lau, COO Mark Ren and a rare presentation from the “Father of WeChat” Allen Zhang. SVP: Allen Zhang Allen only does two speeches ... Read More The post Notes From Tencent’s Annual Staff Meeting appeared first on China Channel ..read more

This article is essentially a how-to guide for requesting Tencent to send you a copy of your personal WeChat data. This set of data includes your account information, moments posts, favorites files, contacts data, geo-location and login records. For most users this won’t be so easy, but it is possible, we’ve tested it. Background What makes this possible is that Tencent must meet GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) requirements ... Read More The post How To Get A Copy Of Your Personal WeChat Data appeared first on China Channel ..read more