Weibo's "Fan Connect" advertising platform is one of our favourite promotional channels nowadays. It's quite powerful, but only when used properly.
The reason Weibo advertising is so powerful is that you can target users based on a variety of factors, and then spread your message via their social connections. When a Weibo user's friend likes, shares or comments on a Weibo Fan Connect ad, they'll see the ad too. Chinese Internet users respond very strongly to brands that their friends like.
As a consumer in both Canada & China, sometimes I come across Canadian brands that seem like they could be very successful in China. But why aren't the trying harder?
Perhaps the most iconic Canadian-style brand to Canadians, Tim Horton's seems like an easy match for China.
We’ve been involved in over 200 Chinese-language marketing projects for foreign companies. There’s definitely a pattern behind the successful campaigns, and that pattern has shifted a bit in the 8 years I’ve been specializing in Chinese-language marketing.
For our updated 2016 model, we break it down into 5 “keys” to implementing a successful marketing campaign in China. I’ll start with the 3 keys that most of the Western marketers that contact us tend to agree with, then move on to the less obvious, but still very important, final 2.
Sogou is the third most popular search engine in China. When it comes to ad formats, it tends to follow the lead of Baidu.
Sogou’s default format includes a title and 2 description lines.
The length of the title is limited up to 50 characters. Each description line is limited to 80 characters.
Last week we posted a guide to Baidu search ad formats, this week we have the same for 360.
For the most part, 360 follows whatever Baidu does, but there are a few differences.
We get questions about this often, so here it is!
This is the full list of ad types you’ll find on China’s most popular search engine, Baidu. And, we’re going to follow up with similar posts for 360 and Sogou soon.
Sina Weibo is one of the biggest and most popular social media platforms in China. It’soften called the “Chinese Twitter”, but it’s actually more versatile.
With more than 600 million users and 200 million monthly active users, Weibo is one of our top recommended platforms for clients.
So I watched this speech that Neil Gaiman gave. I loved this one part in particular:
After Baidu’s recent troubles, they’ve updated their ad format in a pretty major way.
There used to be many more ad spots, and now there’s only 4. All 4 spots are up top, and no ads are shown in the right-side bar.
The old ones used to look like this:
Baidu's Education platform Baidu Jiaoyu is an education platform where users can find both online education options and physical courses in Universities. Results from Baidu Jiaoyu are also shown in Baidu's regular search results pages.
From an advertiser’s perspective, Baidu Jiaoyu is a chance to show educational ads in a structured format.
When users search on Baidu for educational topics, they might see a section of results from jiaoyu.baidu.com
