Livestreaming in China is undergoing a transformation from ‘fast and loud’ to ‘slow and elegant’. After dominating the streaming style for years, the consumers now start to get tired of this raucous hard-selling style, and show preference for the opposite way, which is perceived as...
618 is China’s second-largest online shopping festival running from late May until mid-June. As the first edition after the lifting of the pandemic, this year’s 618 has stirred fierce competition among the Chinese E-giants like T-MALL and Douyin, and the market tried to find the...
Recently, a ‘Farming Themed’ reality TV show produced by IQIYI launched in February 2023, has taken the internet by surprise: it sends 10 Gen Z male idols to farm in Hangzhou for 190 days. Their life at farmland was also streamed online four times a...
On February 26th, Starbucks’s new limited edition “Cat Paw Cup” rapidly grabbed the headlines of China’s major social medias and created a huge buzz. What is so special about it: it is a double-layer glass cup with an interior shaped like a cat's paw! Indeed,...