Establishing Your Digital & Social Online Presence in China - Zaheer Nooruddin
1. Establishing a Digital
Presence in China
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Zaheer Nooruddin
Lead Digital Strategist
Twitter @zooruddin
Twitter @DBM_China
www.DBMChina.com
February 6 2012
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Digital China at a Glance
3. China’s 1.4 billion
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50% 50%
Rural Urban
Source: World Bank
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4. China Digital Behavior
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Source: China Internet Watch
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5. China Digital Reach
• 1.4 billion Population are nearly 1.4
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billion in China
• 500 million Number of Internet users
with growth rate 19% annually, ranks No.1 in
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the world
• 1 million new Internet users every month
• 303 million Mobile Internet users reach
303 million, accounting for 66% computer Internet
users
• 18 hours Average time online 18 hours
per week and 2.6 hours every day
Source: World Bank,InternetWorldStats, China Internet Watch,2011
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6. Digital broadband usage
460 million
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98% broadband penetration Source: China Internet Watch
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7. China on the GO
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Mobile web usage
303 million
66% of PC Internet Users
Source: China Internet Watch
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8. An Evolved Webscape
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Social
Personal
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• e.g. Social
networks
• e.g. Blogs
Transactional
• e.g. e-
Commerce
Interactive
• e.g. Forums
Informational
• e.g. Corporate websites
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9. Share
41% of time online
spent on Weibo
and SNS
32 hours per month
Discuss Connect
spent online, more
than with any other
media, including TV
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Weibo
Play BBS SNS
Entertain
23% of time online
Gaming Video spent watching video
Trade
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Check In China’s
Mobile E-Shop
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Web access by mobile is
dominated by Gaming, Email
and Video. 910M mobile users,
500M 10% of time online spent on e-
commerce; Taobao leads with
310M mobile internet users, 88% of C2C and 48% of B2C
expected to grow exponentially market share
Learn News
Dating Meet
385M users of IM in China, 2nd in
application popularity, only to Search
Wiki IM
Search
Educate Chat
Search is the most dominant means of
Locate finding information about people, products
and brands
Source: GroupM Sept 2011 Digital Media
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Top 5 Web Reach in China
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11. Social media vs. Mainstream
media reach in China
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12. China Real-Time Tweeting
300 Million+ users Qt: which microblogging
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service is the most famous
in China?
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Source: DCCI 2010 Microblog Survey
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13. Top social platforms in China
1.
Qzone - China’s largest social network is back of the 637 million active accounts for
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Tencent’s QQ Messenger. The question for Qzone is not quantity, but rather the quality of its nickname-
based social graph.
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46.0% Reach
Monthly Page View
8,600M
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14. Top social platforms in China
2.
Pengyou – Tencent’s latest entry into the real-name social networking space
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with many student and white-collar users. Still not very aggressively going into the business partnership.
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17.8% Reach
Monthly Page View
2,100M
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15. Top social platforms in China
3.
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Renren – China’s leading real-name social network. Founded in 2005 and previously
called Xiaonei with a lot of student users. With its re-branding to Renren (Chinese pinyin, means
“everyone”), it has been expanding its target audience groups.
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16.0% Reach
Monthly Page View
3,300M
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16. Top social platforms in China
4.
Sina Weibo – The red-hot microblogging service that threatens China’s social
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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.
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9.0% Reach
Monthly Page View
1,300M
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17. Top social platforms in China
5.
Kaixin001 – Popular amongst white-collar workers via its social games and
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post-forwarding features. But as the social games mania has died down and the appeal of its post-
forwarding has been usurped by Sina Weibo, Kaixin001 is now struggling.
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4.7% Reach
Monthly Page View
1,200M
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3 China Digital Insights
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1. In China we believe
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20. 2. In China we believe
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All business functions converge online. Digital
presence must be addressed with holistic
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strategy that provides
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21. 3. In China we believe
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People trust other
people the most.*
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*McKinsey Quarterly, October 2011
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Think Different
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China Digital Planning
23. Think Holistically to Succeed
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Social
Website Influencers Search Analytics
Media
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24. China digital user experience
Unique characteristics
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25. Social media channels
Fragmented and home-grown
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26. Search Optimization
Hm, what’s
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SEO and SEM are powerful
strategies, but in China both Your brand
require local insight, planning
and implementation to succeed
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27. Analytics
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… drives crisis preparedness, web strategy planning,
content creation, insight, reputation management
and real-time fact-based decision-making
BUT international monitoring platforms do
NOT work in China
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28. Track Your Online Presence in China
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Your brand
Your marketing
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Your competitors
Your reputation Your influencers
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30. Influencer Mapping
Local tracking & outreach
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31. Optimize Your Effectiveness
Your brand
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Your marketing
Your Your content
company
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Your
Your issue competitors Your
Your competitors product
Your influencers
Your reputation
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China Digital
Strategic Consultants
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33. Digital Burson-Marsteller
China Evidenced-Based
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Using the right tools to track
issues that are critical to a
company, gauging buzz and
sentiment online is key.
Audits &
Benchmarking
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Regular reporting
on Measurement
Reporting & Planning &
and ROI to business
Optimization Programming
benefit.
Developing a strategic
Once planning Activation & framework of Online
Mobilizing Engagement, based on
framework is in place,
set up and begin experience, research and insights.
engagement.
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34. 4 Steps to Establishing Your
Presence in China
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Define objectives, audiences, channels, and
1. benchmark content, conversations,
Audit sentiment, competitors
Optimize through KPI analytics-driven
reporting for effectiveness in
reputation management and
marketing
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4. China Web 2.
Report Presence Strategy
Build a corporate and brand
website, social media
Nurture Influencers, community extension
awareness, leads framework and process
generation, sales 3.
campaigns Program
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35. Introducing D/BM
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D/BM is Burson-Marsteller China's integrated digital and social media influencer practice.
D/BM monitors corporate and
brand reputation and issues,
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identifies influencers and fosters Listen
advocates, by developing Influencers
Identify Leads
communities and content that
enable superior Mobilize Communities
communications and marketing
in the digital age.
PR
Issues Reputation
Crises Marketing
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36. Our Thinking & Process
D/BM offers fully-managed integrated social media solutions – from audits and intelligence,
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to strategy, to engagement, to measurement and optimization
Listening Planning Mobilization Optimization
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D/BM Strategy
Programming Report
Practice
Search Measure
Alerts
Plan Mobilize
Insight
Design Develop KPI
ROI
Influence
Listen Content
Analyze
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37. Our China services
We identify emerging digital influencers, plan digital communications, mobilize
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corporate and consumer-driven content to promote reputation and amplify marketing
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Audits Strategy
Reporting
Crisis Content Influence Trainings
Planning
Digital Crisis Digital Content Influencer Digital Crisis
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Digital Digital Comms Management Development Identification Simulation
Reputation
Assessment
Digital Crisis Influencer Social
Social Media Social Media
Preparedness Management Media
Competitor Comms Content Policies
Digital Management
Benchmarking Talent
Digital Crisis Preparedness & Response Recruitment Social
Digital Content Media for
Digital & Mobile Seeding & B2B
Digital Distribution Social Media Lead
Auditing
Integration Digital Issues & Generation
Crisis Analysis
SEO Digital Issues & Social Media Community Management
Crisis Counsel
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38. We develop
Integrated Digital Strategy
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Decentralized Hub and spoke Dandelion Twins
Description • No clear coordination • A central account and • Message originally comes • One official account, one
between accounts several sub-accounts, the from one account, other (or more) influential
• Message travels between sub-accounts are equal accounts retweet that individual accounts and
accounts randomly. • Message originally comes • No strict and distinct several sub-accounts
Retweet and comment on from the central account, hierarchy between accounts • If the individual accounts
each other to increase then sub-accounts retweet • Accounts interact with each are more influential,
influence that other when necessary message is spread out
• Looks authentic • No much connection or more broadly through
interaction between sub- them
accounts
Example • Wanda studios • Adidas China • Jet Li personal weibo +
“One Foundation” official
weibo
Source: Altimeter Group, 新浪微博商务部, SocialBeta
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Our China Digital Reports
40. Thank you
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For more on our China consultancy, email
Zaheer Nooruddin
zaheer.nooruddin@bm.com
Burson-Marsteller China
Leon Zhang
leon.zhang@bm.com
Visit Digitalbursonmarsteller.com
Bmchina.com.cn
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