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Skip to content. Alipay is a Chinese mobile and online payment platform created in by entrepreneur Jack Ma as the payment arm of Taobao, a major Chinese eCommerce site. Alipay, therefore, is the B2C component of Alibaba Group. Alipay makes money via escrows transaction fees, a range of value -added ancillary services, and through its Credit Pay Instalment fees.
Related Resources. Telegram Business…. Next Next post: Chinese Tech Companies. I don't feel lucky. No prize. Next time. No Prize. No luck today. Unlucky :. Tmall is for bigger brands. A lot of that has to do with the Chinese consumer lifestyle upgrade, which had only just started back in At that time, it didn't make sense to charge consumers who were new to e-commerce and more importantly, new to shopping, an additional fee.
Alibaba didn't go public until , eleven years after the birth of Taobao. I'd be curious to see how long it took for a fee-free platform to become profitable. Surely, nobody was paying for advertising in the beginning. Unlike Google, its business model sibling, Taobao had to incentivize competition, and it did that by encouraging vendors to join its platform and creating more touchpoints for advertising in various forms.
To its credit, when Taobao e-commerce started becoming increasingly mainstream in China, it still didn't implement transaction fees, and spun off Tmall instead.
Taobao is like the Chinese consumer of fifteen years ago, with a dislike of fees and prioritizing the ability to choose from a sea of products for the best value.
Its generic products and minimal branding are features, not bugs. Tmall is the more sophisticated Chinese consumer of the present day, seeking out quality products that are strongly branded, even if that means fewer choices and higher prices. To sum up, Taobao wants to be hyper-competitive. Tmall wants to support sales. Amazon just wants to see the world burn I mean, sell things online. Share Content Commerce Insider. While most brands rely on the star power of actors and idols whose passionate fans are willing to make purchases in order to support their favorite celebrities, new opportunities are arising with more down-to-earth comedians to represent brands with humor.
Following her appearances on the show, she has signed deals with major brands such as Yili dairy and was invited to appear on other shows and to engage in e-commerce livestreaming for platforms such as Taobao Live and Xiaohongshu.
Stand-up comedy is still a relatively new format in China, and comedians lack anything akin to the established bar and club scene of the United States and other Western countries. This creates numerous opportunities for brands to partner with comedians on various platforms including Douyin and Kuaishou to entertain audiences while introducing products and encouraging purchases. Click here for more comedy cases link in Chinese. While not a consumer-facing event in the U.
Click to Register Now. AliExpress — Launched in is a global retail marketplace. It offers products at wholesale prices and targets consumers worldwide, many of which live in Russia, Brazil and the the United States. Hema Supermarkets — Alibaba owns and operates 25 supermarkets with plans to open several more. Cloud computing — Alibaba provides a number of services including networking, security, analytics and big data.
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