The biggest Chinese SNS "Renren" have 280 million registered users. And they started to provide own chat tool "Tongxueshuo".

Renren is the one of biggest SNS provider in China, and they got the high popularity in the recent research as I introduced before. And according to a report, Renren have 280 million registered users as of the end of March.

User distribution map of area in China

East China : 31%

(Shanghai, Jiangsi, Zhejiang...)

South China : 17%

(Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi...)

North China : 15%

(Beijing, Hebei, Tianjin...)

Middle China : 12%

(Henan, Hubei, Hunan...)

Southwest China : 9%

(Sichuan, Chongqing, Guizhou...)

Northwest China : 7%

(Shaanxi, Qinghai, Gansu...)

And they have 110 million PC active users and 26 million mobile active users.

The ratio of male to female - 56% : 44%

User distribution by age:

90's or later     45%

80's                    35%

70's or earlier  20%

Next is the utilization rate by each mobile devices.

Android have 55.6% share, and they won the first place. But it seems that this share does not include access by feature phone, and it's not counted access to WAP page.

The next picture is the list of corporate accounts in Renren.

According to this report, there are 150,000 corporate accounts in Renren, and the user checks the 3 corporate pages daily on average.

The next picture is the summary of posting in a day.

The summary of daily post:

[Tweet]

From PC - 15.8 million times

From Mobile - 13.2 million times

[Picture]

From PC - 12.3 million times

From Mobile - 5.2 million times

[Diary]

From PC - 0.78 million times

From Mobile - 0.47 million times

The last picture is the data of tweet with location information.

According to this report, there are 1.7 million posts that include the location information daily in Renren, and its cumulative number is over 700 million posts.

Well, they recently started to provide the their own chat tools "Tongxueshuo".

 

It seems that this chat tool focuses to have the communication in the same university, and this user has to register their college before they start to use this.

* And they didn't support that users register the foreign college yet.

I would like to keep the attentions about the trend of Chinese SNS as same as WeChat or Weibo as ever.

Source => Sina Weibo, CNII

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Renren published that their active users are 172 million people in the third quarter.

Chinese biggest SNS company "Renren" published the statement of accounts in the third quarter, and they disclosed that their active users are 172 million people in the third quarter.

Their active users were 137 million people in the previous year, hence it follows that their active users increased 25.5%.


And according to their statement, their net sales was 50.4 million USD, and its income was loss of 15.4 million USD. Their net sales increased 47.2% compared to the previous year, but their loss of net income also drastically increased (The loss in the previous year was 1.2 million USD).

There are two reasons of increasing loss. First, their ads revenue decrease 17% compared to the previous year. Second, the loss of their group company "Nuomi" accounts for a large percentage. The loss of Nuomi was 6.3 million USD, so it means that its rate was almost 41%.


Nuomi is a company that provide joint buying service, but its market is proceeding the selection, and its whole market size is also decreasing.


For their v-shaped turnaround, they have to seek a new revenue source, and additionally they have to consider direction of Numoi's dealing.


Source => TechWeb, Tencent IT

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Chinese listed internet company analysis report

Recently, iResearch consulting group published "Chinese listed internet company analysis report".


First, this is a distribution map of those company headquarters location.

Beijing      : 22 companies (52.3%)
Shanghai   : 11 companies (27.3%)
Hangzhou  : 2 companies (4.5%)
Guangzhou : 2 companies (4.5%)
Shenzhen   : 2 companies (4.5%)
Hongkong  : 2 companies (4.5%)
Fuzhou     : 1 company (2.3%)





Next is the establishment year of each companies.

These are summary of it.

1988  Kingsoft(*1)

1997  NetEase

1998  Sina, Tencent, Sohu

1999  Alibaba, SNDA

2001  Baidu(*2)

2004  Giant

2005  Renren, Tudou, 360

2006  Youku





*1 According to their homepage, establishment year was 1989.
*2 According to their homepage, establishment year was 2000.


Next graph is their listed market.

Nasdaq  52.3%
NYSE     22.7%
HKEx     18.4%
SSE         2.3%
SZSE       4.5%




Next graph is the listed year of each companies.

These are summary of it.

2000  Sina, Sohu, NetEase

2004  Tencent, SNDA

2005  Baidu

2007  Giant, Kingsoft, Alibaba

2010  Youku

2011  Tudou, 360, Renren




Last is a graph of their market cap and sales growth rate.

Tencent : 51.75 billion RMB (sales growth rate 45.0%)
Baidu    : 40.07 billion RMB (sales growth rate 83.1%)
NetEase :  7.69 billion RMB (sales growth rate 131.9%)
Sina      :  3.34 billion RMB (sales growth rate  19.9%)
Youku   :  2.38 billion RMB (sales growth rate 131.9%)

* Alibaba, SNDA, TOM, CRIC and china.com were already delisting.


Source => 91.com

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Chinese social media information sharing ranking report.

Jiathis published "Chinese social media information sharing ranking report in March, 2012".

                    　    Share        Click Rate
 #1 QQ Zone         12.95%         47.31%
 #2 Sina Weibo        8.35%         16.88%
 #3 Tencent Weibo   6.98%         13.49%
 #4 Renren             3.95%          3.17%
 #5 Kaixin              3.08%          3.15%
 #6 JianHu             2.16%          0.02%
    (Taobao SNS)
 #7 Sohu Weibo       2.07%          0.21%
 #8 Wangyi Weibo    1.76%          0.69%
 #9 Douban            1.67%          3.49%
 #10 Pengyou          1.60%         0.77%
    (Tencent SNS)
 ...

 #12 MSN               1.25%          0.16%

 ...

 #18 Facebook         0.66%          0.74%





Original text => Jiathis

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