March 2011
50% / 50%
700M Urban / 700M Rural
Source: World Bank
450
million
per month
10
million
460
million
100 kb/sec
Lower than world average of 230 kb/ sec
Mobile web
usage
303
66%
million
Source: China Internet Watch
of PC Internet Users
18 2.6
per week
per day
Source: China Internet Watch
30
Kaixin 40M
20 Age
Douban 20M
Tencent Weibo
QZone 190M
Source: Techrice
No.
Platform
Type
User Demographic
Alexa Ranking
Source: Techrice
19
of Chinas
provinces have
less
than
10
million netizens
Source: China Internet Watch
< 28%
Huang Jianxiang
Yao Chen
Liu Xiang
80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% Desktop Laptop 2010 Source: China Internet Watch Mobile
46% 46% 45% 45% 44% 44% 43% Male Female Source: China Internet Watch 2010
250
200 150 100 50 2010
0
Search Music News IM Gaming Blogging Video Email Source: China Internet Watch
2010
40%
2010 30% 20% 10% 0% IM News Search Music Reading SNS BBS Source: China Internet Watch
China Microblogging
By mid 2010, the number of microblog users in China has surpassed 60 million. To exceed
Microblogging Socio-graphics
Active posters, commentators, connectors 19%
9%
20% Sina
14%
Netease
Tencent
Sohu 19% 16% 18% iFeng 139 (China Mobile)
1.
Qzone - Chinas largest social network is backed by the 637 million active
accounts for Tencents QQ Messenger. The question for Qzone is not quantity, but rather the quality of its nickname-based social graph.
190M
2.
Renren Chinas leading real-name social network that intends to IPO soon.
It is setting the standard for SNS in China but still faces challenges from other social networks, notably Tencents Pengyou and Kaixin001.
95M
3.
80M
4.
Sina Weibo The red-hot microblogging service that threatens Chinas social
networks with a new model. Can microblogging surpass social networking in terms of popularity in China? Its features now far surpass those of Twitter, including threaded comments, pictures, videos, IM, and LBS.
70M
5.
40M
6.
40M
7.
Douban The strongest community of any social network in China. Its never had
explosive growth or a massive user base (in China terms), but it attracts young urban Chinese who together over movies, books, music, and events. A good network for hipsters and creatives.
20M
8.
Taomee A social network and gaming site (similar to the Disney-owned Club
Penguin) thats massively popular with Chinese children (and their mothers). Taomee is in fact the parent company that runs a number of different childrens sites, including: Moer (mole-themed), Saier (sci-fi themed), and XiaoHua (princess-themed).
20M
9.
20M
10.
11M
11.
10M
12.
Bai Shehui The white-collar society network by Sohu, one of Chinas largest
internet portals. Sohu also develops its own social games for this platform.
10M
13.
5M
14.
2M
15.
1M
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