3 Chinese brands made it to top 5 global smart speakers by shipments. A brief introduction to WeChat's new ad format for SME retailers.

In the recent “Double 11 2019” shopping festival in China, Apple’s official flagship store on Tmall “Singles Day” transaction exceeded 7 times of last year’s full day sales in just 10 minutes.

There were 299 brands who reached RMB 100 million in GMV on Tmall, including Apple, Nike, Estee Lauder and Giorgio Armani.

In China, users can also access services such as paying for taxis, hotel room bookings, and movie tickets, directly within the app. However, because access typically requires a local phone number and Chinese bank account, short-term international visitors previously could not use mobile payments in China

Top 10 mobile apps in China led by WeChat and QQ

A quick review of WeChat Pay's new feature and an update on Tencent.

Over 200,000 brands are participating, one million new products are on offer and more than 500 million users are expected to participate in this year’s festival – about 100 million more than last year.

PayPal becomes the only foreign company in China to hold licences to provide domestic and cross-border online and mobile payment services in China. A quick overview of China mobile payments market is included.

In 2018, Taobao’s live broadcasting platform Taobao Live delivered more than 100 billion yuan sales of products, a year-on-year growth rate of nearly 400% according to Alibaba.

A quick overview of China's search engine market and where users conduct searches in addition to Baidu.