Pinduoduo has been challenging e-commerce giants Alibaba and JD during the corona crisis. E-commerce analyst Ashley Dudarenok looks if Pinduoduo can keep up in the e-commerce wars in China might develop, for Bloomberg.Read More →
China’s e-commerce players JD, Alibaba and Pinduoduo tried to build leverage during the coronavirus crisis, explains marketing guru Ashley Dudarenok at Bloomberg. And how are they profiting now the demand for Chinese products in the rest of the world is down?Read More →
Marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok looks at her weblog the biggest online buzzwords in China’s retail over the past three years and her dynamic overview. And what will happen in 2020?Read More →
Tencent might still dominate social media in China with WeChat and QQ, but competition is heating up, and the internet giant is preparing for more competition, says Tencent watcher Matthew Brennan in Asia One. Asia One: “WeChat and QQ are like huge ships … too big to change course toRead More →
Getting into hot water with China’s consumers, its government or both happens regularly to foreign brands. Business analyst Shaun Rein uses the latest NBA-upheaval to explain how those boycotts work, and how foreign brands can deal with them, according to the Marketplace.Read More →
Marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok has been chosen by the Holmes Report as one of the top 25 Asia innovators for 2019. “Innovation starts with asking questions.”Read More →
China’s Single’s Day broke several records, but that is deceptive. Consumers waited for bargains and delayed purchases till Single’s Day, says retail analyst Ben Cavender to Reuters. Reuters: “What’s happened is that you’ve had a lot of consumers this year being a little bit more careful about their purchasing becauseRead More →
New retail is changing the mindset of both the Chinese consumers and the retailers, writes marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok. Some brands are finally getting the idea, but for traditional retailers, there is still a lot of work to be done, she says in the China Economic Review.Read More →
Sequoia, Tencent and IDG are the top investors in Chinese unicorns, says last weeks Hurun report on 202 unicorns, start-ups valued at more than US$1 billion, in China as of the first quarter of 2019. Shanghai’s new tech board would be an attractive listing option for Chinese unicorns, said Rupert Hoogewerf, founder and chief researcher of Hurun at the South China Morning Post.Read More →
China’s retailers, with Alibaba’s Hema at the helm, are leading the AI revolution in online and offline space. Consumer expert Ashley Dudarenok explains how AI, online and offline retail combine at a dazzling pace, at CFOinnovation.Read More →
The battle of selling China internally in your larger company is still a struggle, says marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok, at her daily vlog. Heads of China operation feel lonely as they have to explain their headquarters how China works. Outdated views on China, and a global marketing department unwilling to adapt their material to China are just some of their problems.Read More →
The stagnation of China’s growth caused a massive drop of rich out of the Hurun China Rich List, says Hurun chief researcher Rupert Hoogewerf. But that drop has been more than compensated by the record growth of new unicorns in the country, he tells the South China Morning Post. China fostered almost 100 new unicorns in 2018.Read More →