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The history of WeChat

Tencent launched an instant Messaging App, Weixin, from its Guangzhou research center in early 2011. the project took off quickly, with over 100 million registered users by 2012. the App soon started to encompass more features.

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FB Plus Whatsapp Is Wechat

Wechat is a major player in the social space, so in that sense it is a bit like Facebook. This brings it into direct competition with Weibo in China. It contains instant Messaging, so it is like Whatsapp.

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What can the WeChat app be used for in China?

Essentially, WeChat can be used for just about anything you want to do online. Although it does not own all of the products that reside within its walls, it does facilitate easy integration between most of China’s most popular apps.

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Mobike

This bike-sharing program allows cyclists to pay for rides using their WeChat wallet. It is similar to bike-sharing schemes in cities worldwide aside from one difference: it does not require docking stations.

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Donate Your Step

This mini app allows users to make small donations to charity for each 10,000 steps they take on a daily basis. For each 10,000 steps, a user can donate 1 Yuan, which is equivalent to roughly 15 cents.

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Who uses the WeChat app?

60% of users open the App more than 10 times a day. 21% of users open Wechat more than 50 times per day. 17% of users spend 4 hours or more per day on Wechat.

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WeChat Pay: WeChat’s killer app

Wechat pay, also known as Wechat wallet, is a user’s ‘ Digital wallet’and it is used to pay for everything, either via a tap of the phone or a snap of a camera. It boasts over 600 million active users, compared with 450 million for its main rival Alipay, owned by Alibaba.

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Mini programs: WeChat’s ‘app killer’

Mini programs are WeChat’s attempt to resolve a seemingly insoluble paradox on mobile devices: people spend a lot of time in apps, but they only use a very small selection of apps in total.

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Mini Programs: Apps In The App

Consumers are expected to use a much wider variety of mini Apps within Wechat in future. It is somewhat like Google’s accelerated mobile pages initiative, or Android instant Apps.

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Does WeChat contain a search engine?

'search' will compete directly with Baidu and provide something new altogether. Tencent, Wechat’s parent company, also owns Sogou (a minor competitor to Baidu) this will at least lend this new venture some engineering expertise. Wechat is uniquely positioned to do what Google and Facebook so far have not achieved.

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How can brands advertise on WeChat?

There are options to market brands on Wechat, either organically or via paid promotions. Paid promotion has only been available since 2015 and ads make up only 15–20% of Tencent’s revenues. By comparison, ads make up more than 70% of Facebook’s revenue. But that number is predicted to more than triple by 2018 rising to $11 billion in annual advertising revenues.

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Could WeChat expand beyond China?

Most of those international accounts are held by Chinese people who have moved abroad. But Wechat has started to gain some ground in South America and Africa. There are now over 5 million Wechat users based in South Africa alone. It has been reported that foreigners based in China have become even more addicted to the App than locals. This could help to expand Wechat’s reach to Western markets. A wide range of studies has highlighted how differently Chinese and American consumers perceive their respective environments.

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In summary

Wechat has built its success on integrating its way into its users’daily lives and integrating all of their most popular brands and services. By first building an engaged (in some cases, addicted) user base, it is now in a Supreme position to provide them with useful advertising.

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