After 2 years wild growth, recently “merging”, “acquisition” and “strategic cooperation” have become the keywords in the discussions related to the Group-buying websites in China. According to the Dataotuan （www.dataotuan.com）statistics, the total revenue of the Chinese group-buying market in 2012 Q1 is around 4.5 Billion...
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The Pricing strategy of Chinese Groupbuying Websites. As Winner ends, the lines in front of our neighbourhood Mongolian Hotpot place have evaporated. And those were seriously long lines with people braving the outside cold for a warm meal of anything cookable in boiling water. No...
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Movies are a recurring event in the Chinese daily deal universe. From the moment Dataotuan started tracking deals they have always been one of the 3 biggest subcategories in the top deals overview. In January 2012 alone, movie deals accounted for 13.4% of the total...
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The first month of 2012 hasn’t brought many changes in the deal rankings. Last year’s number 1 Meituan started well with keeping its no. 1 position. Hereunder a short summary of the January 2012 findings can be found General Rankings Looking back further, for...
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Dataotuan.com has published its December 2011 report on the Chinese Group-buying Industry including the year 2011 overview. For the first time data from other Asian countries are included as well, See also our Asian Group-Buying Market infographic. 2011 is the year that the Chinese Group-buying...
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November 2011 brings a new leader in terms of revenue. Meituan has been a constant in the top 5 and has taken the no. 1 position in Total revenue and Total number sold. Our report as usual will give you an overview of what’s going...
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While last weekend the 23 degrees Celsius made it seem like Spring was back for a second time this year, hot selling deals have been bedding, warm underwear and warm plasters. That last one I had to google as I had no idea it existed.
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We’re happy to announce the Oct. winner of our ongoing Bookmark/Buy deals game. The winner is “天使眼泪” and he has won a free deal valued at 150 rmb. Like the previous winner, he chose an Online-shopping deal as well. Interestingly, Online-shopping deals seem popular among...
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We would be foolish if we didn’t try to jump on the “Groupon goes IPO” mixed with the “Bash Groupon/Gaopeng because they’re not no.1 in China” bandwagon.
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There are no earthshaking changes on the Daily Deal market in China in our data. The earthshaking part was/is in the press. They’re about firing lots of staff after hiring a lot. They’re about the money invested and the same money spent in advertising (...
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