Sogou started to provide the WeChat search service. It supports the account name search and the keyword search.

The third largest search engine provider in China 'Sogou' started to provide WeChat search service.

This search service supports the account name search and the keyword search.

  

About the account name search, it can search by the account name (displayed name on WeChat) and the account code. And if you click the displayed account name, then it will be displayed the posting history.

Last time, I explained that WeChat has not prepared the method of spreading information in the platform to the official accounts. But this search service will be useful for the official account on WeChat, because it will be able to be found by users more easily than now. It will be useful for users too, because it can help users to find the information easily what users want.

Sogou have provided the search engine since 2004 as a subsidiary of Sohu. But Tencent invested 448 million USD last September, and Tencent now has 36.5% stock of Sogou. They started to grope for the collaboration from that time, and this search service is surely the one of their result.

As I mentioned above, Sogou is the third largest search engine provider in China. And according to the recent report by CNZZ, their market share is 12.44% as of May 2014.

The difference with the two largest companies(Baidu and 360) is still big, but I think that this service can help to reduce that difference. Because WeChat will not provide such search result to that two largest companies.

Let's keep watching the future situation of this.

Source => WeChat search service by Sogou

Each Chinese internet service visit duration ranking in 2012. Sina Weibo was ranked 3rd place.

For each internet services, the number of users is naturally important, but the visit duration is also very important. Meanwhile HTWISE just published the visit duration ranking of each internet services in China.

                        all visit duration in 2012       Share               Type of Service

                            (Unit : billion hours) 

#1 Baidu                           5.61                          7.0%                 Search Engine

#2 Taobao                        4.12                          5.1%                 EC

#3 Sina Weibo                 1.81                          2.3%                 Weibo

#4 Youku                          1.59                          2.0%                 Video Sharing

#5 Baidu Tieba                1.37                          1.7%                 Community

#6 Qzone                          1.32                          1.6%                 SNS

#7 Tudou                          1.06                          1.3%                 Video Sharing

#8 QQ Mail                       0.96                          1.2%                 Mail

#9 Baidu Knows              0.85                          1.1%                 Collective intelligence

#10 Renren                      0.74                           0.9%                 SNS

In 2012, Chinese search engine giants Baidu was the 1st place of this ranking, and their 2 other services were also ranked in top 10. So it can be said that they are just the internet giants in China.  

Chinese EC giants Taobao was the 2nd place. They have the top share of BtoC EC market in China, and its market is still rapidly growing, so it may be a natural consequence.

Sina Weibo was ranked 3rd place, but there are little bit difference with top 2. Video sharing service "Youku" and "Tudou" merged last year, both were ranked in top 10.

Next is the graph of focusing to Weibo services.

The left graph is the number of visiting to each Weibo in annual of 2012.

Sina Weibo was totally visited about 1 billion times in 2012. Tencent Weibo was visited about 0.5 billion times, and Sohu Weibo was visited about 0.4 billion times, and NetEase was visited 0.1 billion times in 2012.

The right graph is the ratio of visit duration on each Weibo. Sina Weibo had 71% share in this, and it was a landslide victory.

In 2012, Sina Weibo showed the overwhelming presence in Weibo market. But as I said, there are little bit difference with top two. Furthermore Weixin also exist their backward. 2013 is still challenging year for them.

Source => Yangtse

MIIT published "2012 The Top 100 of Chinese Internet Company".

MIIT(Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China) published "2012 The Top 100 of Chinese Internet Company".

According to the report, this ranking is based their sales revenue in 2011, and their total revenue exceed 70 billion RMB(= 11.07 billion USD).


Well, I will introduce the companies that was ranking in the top 10 in its English name.

#1 Tencent
#2 NetEase
#3 Baidu
#4 Sohu
#5 SNDA  *Online game company
#6 Alibaba
#7 Wanmei  *Online game company
#8 GIANT  *Online game company
#9 BestTone  *China Telecom group
#10 Sina


The full version of top 100 ranking is as follows.

Source => Takung.cn

DCCI : Weibo user already reached 327 million people, and 88.81% of over 19 years old user use a Weibo in China.

According to the report from DCCI, Weibo user already reached 327 million people, and 88.81% of over 19 years old user use a Weibo in China.

And the usage of each Weibo services is as follows:
Sina Weibo  87.87% ; Tencent Weibo  84.69% ; Netease Weibo  56.12% ; Sohu Weibo  35.63% ; ifeng Weibo  13.51% ; other  18.37%


Next is a graph that is the component ratio of Weibo users by age.

      age                 ratio
 19 - 25             19.40%
 26 - 30             28.57%
 31 - 35             21.03%
 36 - 40             12.14%
 41 - 45                8.72%
 46 - 55                5.98%
 56 - 65                3.16%                                    






The age of 19 to 35 occupied 70%, the age of 36 was only 30% in total.


Next graph is the frequency of use each Weibo.

Around 80% users of Sina Weibo and Tencent Weibo use their service more than once in a day, and the others are used by around 60% user more than once in a day.


The last graph is the accessing ratio by each devices.

    














PC  97.66% ; Smartphone  89.35% ; Tablet  85.43% ; Non-smartphone  60.24%



The above is the summary of this report, but if you interested in more information, you can download the full version of this report from here (Though it's written in Chinese...).


Source => DCCI

Chinese listed internet company analysis report

Recently, iResearch consulting group published "Chinese listed internet company analysis report".


First, this is a distribution map of those company headquarters location.

Beijing      : 22 companies (52.3%)
Shanghai   : 11 companies (27.3%)
Hangzhou  : 2 companies (4.5%)
Guangzhou : 2 companies (4.5%)
Shenzhen   : 2 companies (4.5%)
Hongkong  : 2 companies (4.5%)
Fuzhou     : 1 company (2.3%)





Next is the establishment year of each companies.

These are summary of it.

1988  Kingsoft(*1)

1997  NetEase

1998  Sina, Tencent, Sohu

1999  Alibaba, SNDA

2001  Baidu(*2)

2004  Giant

2005  Renren, Tudou, 360

2006  Youku





*1 According to their homepage, establishment year was 1989.
*2 According to their homepage, establishment year was 2000.


Next graph is their listed market.

Nasdaq  52.3%
NYSE     22.7%
HKEx     18.4%
SSE         2.3%
SZSE       4.5%




Next graph is the listed year of each companies.

These are summary of it.

2000  Sina, Sohu, NetEase

2004  Tencent, SNDA

2005  Baidu

2007  Giant, Kingsoft, Alibaba

2010  Youku

2011  Tudou, 360, Renren




Last is a graph of their market cap and sales growth rate.

Tencent : 51.75 billion RMB (sales growth rate 45.0%)
Baidu    : 40.07 billion RMB (sales growth rate 83.1%)
NetEase :  7.69 billion RMB (sales growth rate 131.9%)
Sina      :  3.34 billion RMB (sales growth rate  19.9%)
Youku   :  2.38 billion RMB (sales growth rate 131.9%)

* Alibaba, SNDA, TOM, CRIC and china.com were already delisting.


Source => 91.com

88.81% of over 19 years old internet user are using Weibo in China.

According to the report by DCCI, 88.81% of over 19 years old internet users are using Weibo in China.

The usage rate of each Weibo is as follows(multiple answers allowed):

Using Sina Weibo       87.67%
Using Tencent Weibo  84.69%
Using NetEase Weibo  56.12%
Using Sohu Weibo      35.63%
Using ifeng Weibo      13.61%
Using other Weibo      18.37%


This report also said as follows:

- About 70% of Sina Weibo or Tencent Weibo user have a only one account on each services, and 18.54% of Sina Weibo user and 14.89% of Tencent Weibo user have more than two accounts on each services.

- The sex ratio of Weibo user is 57.4% of men and 42.6% of women.

- 43.28% of Weibo users follow one to five corporate official accounts, and 20.83% of Weibo users follow six to ten corporate official accounts.


As I reported before, the number of Weibo users was 273,645,000 people in the end of June, and it is estimated the user will exceed 300,000,000 in the end of 2012. Weibo became already one of the biggest platform for marketing in China. Have you already started Weibo? :)


Source => Eguan

Netease Weibo user reached 120 million people, and became third major Weibo in China.

Netease published their first quarter financial report, and they said Netease Weibo user reached 120 million people, and became third major Weibo in China.

The number of Netease Weibo user was 97.6 million people at the end of 2011, so it user was increasing 10.3% compared to previous period.

At the same period, Tencent Weibo have 425 million users and Sina Weibo have 324 million users, and Sohu Weibo haven't published the number of their users, so it can be said Netease Weibo became third major Weibo in China.


But at the present, the diffrence of Sohu Weibo and big two company is too large. So we have to keep attention their action as ever.



Original article => Tech Web

Sohu, Tencent and iQiyi(Baidu) will cooperate with buying video contents to against the allied forces of Youku and Tudou.

According to the news, Sohu video, Tencent video and iQiyi(subsidiary of Baidu) will cooperate with buying video contents to against the allied forces of Youku and Tudou.

We have to wait its detail for tomorrow's co-event, but its co-event will be held on 3 pm(UTC+8) tomorrow, and all of three company's CEO will attend this event.


As I reported before, Youku and Tudou are top 2 in recent Chinese video sharing market, and they occupied around 40% share in this market.

We have to pay attentions for tomorrow's official announcement, and have to analyze these 3 company can beat the allied forces of Youku and Tudou :-)



Original article => Tech Web

Chinese social media information sharing ranking report.

Jiathis published "Chinese social media information sharing ranking report in March, 2012".

                    　    Share        Click Rate
 #1 QQ Zone         12.95%         47.31%
 #2 Sina Weibo        8.35%         16.88%
 #3 Tencent Weibo   6.98%         13.49%
 #4 Renren             3.95%          3.17%
 #5 Kaixin              3.08%          3.15%
 #6 JianHu             2.16%          0.02%
    (Taobao SNS)
 #7 Sohu Weibo       2.07%          0.21%
 #8 Wangyi Weibo    1.76%          0.69%
 #9 Douban            1.67%          3.49%
 #10 Pengyou          1.60%         0.77%
    (Tencent SNS)
 ...

 #12 MSN               1.25%          0.16%

 ...

 #18 Facebook         0.66%          0.74%





Original text => Jiathis