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WeChat blasts past 700 million monthly active users, tops China’s most popular apps

WeChat blasts past 700 million monthly active users, tops China’s most popular apps

WeChat breaks yet another barrier, and demonstrates just how dominant Tencent is at the top of China’s app charts.
C. Custer · · 2 min read
Digital in 2016: data, trends & insights

Digital in 2016: data, trends & insights

This is the 2016 edition of We Are Social’s huge annual study into the global digital landscape.
Simon Kemp · · 4 min read
Who are China’s mobile web users?

Who are China’s mobile web users?

A peek into the demographics of China’s mobile web.
C. Custer · · 2 min read
6 things I learned working in Southeast Asia’s digital scene

6 things I learned working in Southeast Asia’s digital scene

Here are my 6 key takeaways from my 6 years of working and living in Southeast Asia.
Pierre-Yves Tournier · · 4 min read
Sample size does not always matter

Sample size does not always matter

If you have ever taken a statistics class, you know that in order to use a subset of a population to infer conclusions about the entire population, your subset needs
Eli Schwartz · · 4 min read

China has more mobile gamers than America has people

China has a ton of mobile gamers, but its much smaller PC crowd are still mostly the ones forking out the dough.
C. Custer · · 2 min read

Chinese P2P web lending breaks new record in April

China’s online P2P lending market continues to grow, and it broke a new record for total deal volume in April. Guess how many billion the monthly P2P lending market is worth now!
C. Custer · · 2 min read

China’s mobile gaming growth continues to slow in Q3

For the second quarter in a row, year-on-year revenue growth in China’s mobile gaming has slowed. Could the industry’s breakneck-speed development finally have passed its plateau?
C. Custer · · 1 min read

Has Renren finally found the bottom?

The company’s Q3 financial results certainly look grim, but there is one bright spot in amongst all that red ink.
C. Custer · · 2 min read

Black Desert's final closed beta attracts 230,000 signups

Black Desert’s final closed beta attracted a massive number of signups during the limited window it was available. This game is going to be big.
C. Custer · · 1 min read