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ASIA PACIFIC
Digital Marketing Yearbook 2009
The imperative for marketers now is to join networks and
interact directly with their communities of customers online.
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Adma Digital Marketing Yearbook 2009
asia pacific digital marketing yearbook 
The ears, eyes
and voice of digital
marketing in Asia
The Asia Digital Marketing Association (ADMA)
is the voice of, and advocate for, the digital
marketing industry in Asia (excluding Japan).
The ADMA is guided by senior executives in the
industry and is charged with gaining consensus
and providing leadership on key industry issues.
The ADMA actively promotes the benefits of
using mobile and the Internet as channels to
communicate with consumers as well as lobbying
and public relations assistance for member
companies.
The ADMA is a non-profit organisation with a
membership base representing online publishers/
portals, agencies, research companies, technology/
service companies and marketers/advertisers.
Why join the ADMA?
Being a member gives you access:
•	 Unified voice for the industry to promote the use of
digital and the Internet (in the media and with potential
customers)
•	 Forum for standards and best practice sharing
•	 Spokespeople to represent members and respond to
criticism
•	 Industry contacts and networking opportunities
•	 Sponsorship opportunities to raise awareness of your
brand
•	 Discounted rates for regional events
•	 Notification of relevant speaking opportunities
•	 Professional digital marketing qualifications – discounted
enrolment fees for members
•	 Entry in the online Membership Directory and annual
Asia Pacific Digital Marketing Yearbook
•	 Job matching service to help you find staff
How to join the ADMA
Membership fees are set low enough to encourage
universal membership among industry players, and taken
together provide sufficient revenues to underwrite regular
activities. Other activities are funded by sponsorship (cash
and in kind) and by charging admission fees for some
events.
Visit www.asiadma.com/membership/join and
complete the online registration form.
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ABOUT THE ASIA DIGITAL MARKETING ASSOCIATION
Visit www.asiadma.com for more details.
The ADMA gives heartfelt thanks all our members for their support and contributions:
ADMA Patrons:
ADMA Corporate members:
ad:tech, Admax Network, Adobe Systems Hong Kong, AGENDA Group Asia, BBC.com, Coremetrics, draftFCB China,
Dow Jones Publishing Company (Asia), Edipresse, eyeblaster, G2 Hong Kong, Grif.inter@ctive, Google Hong Kong,
The Hyperfactory, ICLP, Johnson  Johnson Vision Care Asia Pacific, MRM Worldwide, NDS Asia Pacific, Nielsen Online,
OgilvyOne Worldwide, Omnicom Group, Omniture, Premiere Global Services, Profero, Responsys, SCMP.com,
SingTel Digital Media, Sohnar Software, TIME  Fortune, Travelzoo, Universal McCann, The Upper Storey, Wunderman,
wwwins Consulting, ZUJI.
And all our Individual members.
One way to
reach millions
BBC.com is one of the worlds largest news websites, reaching a
passionate and engaged audience of 29 million unique users* outside
the UK. In Asia, BBC.com reaches 8.7 million unique users* per month
excluding UK – more than twice the number of our closest competitor.
BBC.com users are affluent, professional, educated and international.They
are influentual opinion formers with a global mindset who lead active and
cultured lives.
Join the list of over 800 great brands that have successfully advertised on
BBC.com since the introduction of advertising on the site in November 2007.
To find out more about how you can reach your target audience on
BBC.com, please contact:
Sunita Rajan | VP – Sales, Asia  Australasia
Work | +(65) 6296 0864
Mobile | + (65) 9836 4153
Email | sunita.rajan@bbc.com
Inez Albert, Digital Sales Director, Asia
Work | +(852) 2248 0060
Mobile | + (852) 9469 9540
Email | inez.albert@bbc.com
CindyTan, Regional Director, Asia
Work | +(65) 6296 7903
Mobile | +(65) 9836 4151 / +(65) 8100 0858
Email | cindy.tan2@bbc.com
Seema Mohapatra Regional Director, South Asia
Work | +(91) 22 3065 2121
Mobile | +(91) 98 2116 8167
Email | seema.mohapatra@bbc.com
John Williams Account Director, Australasia  Korea
Work | +612 8923 4203
Mobile | +61406 420 582
Email | john.williams@bbc.com
* comScore, Jan-March 2009 monthly average. comScore competitive set includes
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Asia Pacific	 6
Australia	10
China	16
Hong Kong	 24
India	30
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Indonesia	36
Japan	38
Malaysia	 42
NEW ZEALAND	 46
THE PHILIPPINES	 50
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Singapore	 54
South Korea	 58
Taiwan	 62
Thailand	 66
Vietnam	 70
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Contents
asia pacific digital marketing yearbook	
I
n the past year, the development of digital marketing
took some exciting new turns, reaching not only
new levels of growth and penetration, but also
new levels of sophistication. Marketers who started
with websites, banner ads and email now have an
increasingly wide choice of platforms on which to engage
their target customers. Search, social media, blogs,
sponsored content, mobile, email, and gaming all offer
opportunities for innovation and differentiation online.
Online media is increasingly gaining the trust of Asian
consumers. A recent TNS survey revealed that of the top
25 most trusted forms of media, 14 were online. And
increasingly, trusted online media includes user-generated
content. The third most trusted overall are expert product
reviews from websites, with consumer product reviews
from websites at #5 and consumer opinions on blogs and
message boards at #7 and #12 respectively.
In the early days of digital marketing, offline advertising
was used as the model: interruptive messages were placed
in front of (or disrupted) the content in ways that grabbed
the user's attention. Now we're seeing a truly interactive
model arise, in which brands engage their consumers
online, either by joining the conversation, or creating a
platform for a community to gather around the brand.
Some of this new online communication looks more like PR
than advertising, and clearly the lines are blurring between
sales promotion, CRM and brand-building. Whatever it will
eventually develop into, it's exciting.
It's clear that Internet users have adopted new
media faster than most advertisers trying to reach them.
Advertisers need to do some catching up. Although there
are some definitive case studies that demonstrate the
power of using social media, the ADMA 2009 Survey of the
region's advertisers, marketers and agencies uncovered
that most marketers and advertisers still predominantly
use websites, online ads and email. Why these relatively
conservative approaches when the Internet changes
continuously and offers so many opportunities for
innovation? In some cases, advertisers may be concerned
about the relative lack of control over their messaging
and positioning on social media platforms, and in other
cases they may not yet have discovered a credible way to
connect with their target customers online.
In any event, there is no doubt that 2009 is the year of
social media. Social media platforms have not figured out a
way to make money from the huge communities they have
created online, but even brands with no clear social media
strategy know that they must engage by joining networks
and conversations. Facebook, Twitter, Friendster, Bebo,
MySpace and LinkedIn have built large-scale user bases
in Asia Pacific but these global players don't dominate in
every market. New patterns of usage and local behaviour
are emerging across the region, with clear distinctions from
country to country where consumers spend time online,
and how they behave. For example, 48% of all South
Koreans have a Cyworld account, and the site has nearly
18 million users, of whom 30% are in their 20s. China's
51.com has 14 million average weekly unique browsers,
and 150 million Qzone users actively update their accounts
at least once a month. In the Philippines more than 74%
of the online population participates in social networking;
Friendster has 10.7 million subscribers and Facebook has
more than one million.
The imperative for marketers now is to join these
networks and interact directly with their communities of
customers online. Rich media, banner ads, pop-up ads,
sponsored content and search may continue to command
the lion's share of online ad dollars, but brands must now
It's here!The third Asia Digital Marketing Association (ADMA) Yearbook has more pages
and more data and more insights than ever. It's also available without charge
online at www.asiadigitalmarketingyearbook.com.
We've had fantastic feedback on the usefulness of past editions from marketers, advertisers,
media buyers and people throughout the digital industry. Just about every marketing director, agency
executive or business executive has to develop digital strategies or give a presentation on what's
happening online in the Asia Pacific region. That's where the ADMA Yearbook comes in. We've
gathered a wealth of the most relevant information and insight available, some of which cannot
readily be found anywhere else, along with case studies that showcase some of the most innovative
and effective digital work being done now. The Yearbook covers demographics, user behaviour, online
advertising, mobile, online gaming, e-commerce, and much more. Many thanks are due to all the
companies that contributed data, to our editor Rachel Oliver, and to ADMA Director Kay Bayliss.
2009: Connections
Triumph Over
Interruption
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master the art of connecting with consumers, as well as
-- or in many cases instead of -- interrupting their online
experience with advertising messages. Two years ago,
the big news in digital marketing was the scale of the
opportunity, as the number of users in Asia surpassed all
other regions for the first time. Last year the dominant
theme was putting the consumer back at the centre of
the equation, as marketers and advertisers refocused on
customers' profiles and needs, rather than the tools and
technologies available to reach them. In 2009, the focus is
on connecting brands and consumers, and deeply engaging
with target audiences across a wide variety of platforms.
Gaming too can be considered part of the social media
phenomenon: in a survey more than 50% of respondents
said meeting other gamers online was important for
their overall experience, and more than 60% of users said
they also kept in touch with these friends on other social
networking platforms. The numbers for online gaming
are big and growing. Games.com attracts nearly 200,000
unique visitors a month in Asia Pacific, each of whom
spends an average 86.8 minutes on the site, and QQ.com
in China draws more than 44,000 visitors monthly, each
spending an average of 46.5 minutes there.
Looking beyond social media, online advertising
continues to become more mainstream and sophisticated,
despite the recession. Yahoo! predicts Asia's annual online
ad spend will eclipse western Europe's by 2010 to reach
US$122 billion. According to the TNS survey, dedicated
websites (53%), sponsored content (50%), pop-up ads
(46%), banner ads (39%) and email (19%) are the most
common types of digital media seen being used in Asia.
Online branding efforts appear to be paying off, with nearly
a third of users saying that the brand advertising they have
seen significantly increased their interest in using the brand
in question.
China is number one in search, with 12.8 million
searches performed in a month by nearly 150,000 searchers
- that's 85 searches per searcher. Japan is the second
largest search market, with 5.9 million searchers. However,
Korea's searchers are most prolific, with 109 searches per
searcher, Singapore not far behind with 106.
Mobile continues to gain, both as a text messaging and
voice call channel, but also for Internet access. Asia Pacific
(ex Japan) has 97.6 million mobile online gamers, and
50% of them are in in China. There is 60% mobile phone
penetration in the Philippines. Filipinos send the highest
number of SMS messages per subscriber in the world.
Mobile site page views grew 1120% YOY. 2008 Asia Pacific-
wide mobile data revenues topped US$65 billion, and an
estimated 473 million handsets were sold.
With usage of all elements of the online marketing
mix growing and becoming more sophisticated, all the
stakeholders in the digital marketing industry -- from
marketers and advertisers to publishers, agencies,
hardware and technology solutions providers -- have a
unique opportunity in 2009 to pioneer new ways to engage
consumers and build their brands and sales online.
David Ketchum is Chairman, Asia Digital Marketing
Association and CEO Upstream Asia
l	Asia Pacific is home to the majority of the world's
Internet users, with 41% of the total
l	32% of Asian users say the online advertising they saw
significantly increased their interest in using the brand
l	Online advertising is expected to have compound
annual growth rates of 25% from 2007 to 2011
l	82% of Asia's online ad spending in 2008 was in
Japan, South Korea and China
l	More than 450 million consumers across the region
participate in social media and Facebook's Asia Pacific
visitors to the site jumped 458% between mid-2007
and mid-2008
l	44% of Asia Pacific Internet users have shopped
online in the last three years, and 76% intend to shop
online again in the next six months
l	More than half of the region's entire Internet traffic is
from users making repeat visits to gaming sites, and
online gaming is expected to account for 75% of the
US$9.2 billion premium and paid content market by
2013
l	17 trillion SMS messages originated in Asia Pacific in
2008 (74% of the world total)
The Yearbook is packed with relevant and sometimes surprising data.
Here's a sample of what you'll find inside:
asia pacific digital marketing yearbook	
DEMOGRAPHICS
The majority of the world's Internet users live in Asia,
which is now home to 41% of the world's online
population, as at the beginning of 2009. Out of the one
billion online visitors globally, more than 431 million of
them come from the Asia Pacific region.
(SOURCE: COMSCORE)
Other sources put Asia's online population at a much
higher number - as many as 530 million Asians could now
be actively online.
(SOURCE: DIGITAL ECONOMY FACTBOOK 2008/9)
Despite rapid increases in broadband connectivity and
the number of users coming online across the region,
Asia Pacific's Internet penetration rates still average out at
around 15% in comparison to 30% in the rest of the world.
(SOURCE: btrax )
Asia Pacific's online penetration rate is the second lowest in
the world on a regional basis, Africa being the lowest.
(SOURCE: DIGITAL ECONOMY FACTBOOK 2008/9)
Asian markets possess the highest percentage of
households with broadband fibre connections, led by
South Korea with 31.4% of its households linked up to the
Internet via fibre-optic connections.
(SOURCE: DIGITAL ECONOMY FACTBOOK 2008/9)
❚ Asia Pacific Internet Population and Usage
	 Internet Users	 Penetration 	 User Growth 	 Users (% of)
	 Latest Data	 (% Population)	 (2000-2008) 	 in Asia
China 	 298,000,000	 22.4%	 1,224.4%	 45.8%
Hong Kong 	 4,878,713	 69.5%	 113.7%	 0.8%
India	 81,000,000	 7.1%	 1,520.0%	 12.5%
Indonesia	 25,000,000	 10.5%	 1,150.0%	 3.8%
Japan	 94,000,000	 73.8%	 99.7%	 14.5%
South Korea	 36,794,800	 76.1%	 93.3%	 5.7%
Malaysia	 15,868,000	 62.8%	 328.9%	 2.4%
Philippines	 14,000,000	 14.6%	 600.0%	 2.2%
Singapore	 3,104,900	 67.4%	 158.7%	 0.5%
Taiwan	 15,140,000	 66.1%	 141.9%	 2.3%
Thailand	 13,416,000	 20.5%	 483.3%	 2.1%
Vietnam	 20,834,401	 24.2%	 10,317.2%	 3.2%
TOTAL ASIA	 650,361,843	 17.2%	 469.0%	 100.0%
(Source: InternetWorldStats December 2008)
How Long Asia Pacific Spends Online
	 Total Unique	Total Minutes	 Average Minutes	 Average Visits 	
	 Visitors (000) 	 (m) 	per Visitor 	per Visitor
WorldWide	 1,078,911	 1,442,534	 1,337.0	 44.3
Asia Pacific	 431,091	 412,611	 957.1	 34.1
China	 187,822	 155,039	 825.5	 34.2
Japan	 62,052	 60,777	 979.5	 36.1
India	 32,930	 18,988	 576.6	 19.8
South Korea	 27,685	 43,923	 1,586.5	 49.8
Australia	 11,921	 13,561	 1,137.5	 35.3
Taiwan	 11,192	 10,906	 974.4	 32.1
Malaysia	 9,033	 7,441	 823.7	 25.9
Hong Kong	 3,814	 4,234	 1,110.1	 35.9
Singapore	 2,523	 3,144	 1,245.9	 35.5
New Zealand	 2,414	 2,004	 830.2	 29.2
Source: comScore Media Metrix; February 2009; Audience: All Persons 15+ at Home/Work
Locations)
ASIA PACIFIC
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USER BEHAVIOUR
Social networking is big in Asia. More than 450 million
consumers across the region participate in social media.
(SOURCE: OGILVYONE)
Asia Pacific is the biggest region in the world for social
networking with 169 million unique visitors - and it's
growing the fastest too at a rate of 29%.
(SOURCE: DIGITAL ECONOMY FACTBOOK 2008/9)
Such is the pull of social media in Asia that seven
out of the world's 10 top markets that rely most on
recommendations from consumers are in this region.
(SOURCE: OGILVYONE)
Social networking site Friendster has Asia to thank for its
popularity - out of its 30 million monthly visitors globally,
nearly 28 million of them are in the Asia Pacific region.
(SOURCE: TECHCRUNCH/FRIENDSTER)
Facebook's 153% visitor growth which it recorded between
mid-2007 and mid-2008 was higher than any other social
network in the world - and it had Asia Pacific to thank for
it, the number of the region's visitors to the site jumping
by 458% in that period.
(SOURCE: BRANDREPUBLIC)
More than half of the region's Internet traffic is down to
users making repeat visits to gaming sites: 51% of Asia
Pacific's online population visited gaming sites in August
2008 on average 11.5 times, each spending on average 87
minutes there. The keenest players of the lot? The South
Koreans, who spent around three hours per visit.
(SOURCE: COMSCORE)
A key motivating factor for Asian online gamers is
socialising. In a survey, more than 50% of respondents
said meeting other gamers online was important for their
overall experience. And these friendships can last - more
than 60% of users said they also kept in touch with these
friends on other online social networking platforms.
(SOURCE: IDC)
Asia Pacific's Online Gaming Usage
	 % Reach	Total Unique	 Average Minutes	 Average Visits 	
		 Visitors (000) 	per Visitor 	per Visitor
Asia Pacific**	 51.1	 199,081	 86.8	 11.5
China	 54.9	 90,292	 69.8	 13.0
Singapore	 49.6	 1,172	 140.0	 13.0
Australia	 44.7	 5,032	 125.2	 11.3
Taiwan	 42.4	 4,465	 151.0	 15.5
New Zealand	 41.1	 926	 134.5	 9.9
South Korea	 40.5	 10,715	 189.6	 13.0
Malaysia	 40.2	 3,463	 130.8	 11.9
Japan	 39.8	 22,830	 76.1	 10.0
Hong Kong	 36.9	 1,388	 142.9	 13.1
India	 27.4	 8,295	 45.4	 4.3
(Source: comScore World Metrix; August 2008; Total Asia-Pacific Internet Audience*,  *Excludes
searches from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs.
Age 15+ - Home  Work Locations)
Asia-Pacific's Search Usage Patterns
Country		 Searches (m)	 Unique	 Searches Per
			 Searchers (000)	 Searcher
Asia Pacific		 28,967	 341,850	 84.7
China		 12,758	 149,219	 85.5
Japan		 5,879	 61,130	 96.2
Korea		 2,303	 21,072	 109.3
India		 1,169	 22,931	 51.0
Australia		 977	 8,523	 114.6
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Taiwan		 618	 9,735	 63.5
Malaysia		 405	 6,207	 65.2
Hong Kong		 199	 2,773	 71.8
Singapore		 171	 1,617	 105.6
New Zealand		 135	 1,500	 90.1
(Source: comScore qSearch; Total Asia-Pacific Internet Audience*, *Excludes searches from
public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs; Age 15+ - Home 
Work Locations; September 2008)
Asia's Social Media Market
Country	 Population 	Forecast Internet	Internet	Estimated 	
	 2008	 Users 2008	penetration	 2008 Social
				 Media Users
China	 1,330,044,605 	 253,000,000 	 19.0% 	 202,400,000
Hong Kong 	 7,018,636 	 4,878,713 	 69.5% 	 3,902,970
India 	 1,147,995,898 	 60,000,000 	 5.2% 	 48,000,000
Indonesia 	 237,512,355 	 25,000,000 	 10.5% 	 20,000,000
Japan 	 127,288,419 	 94,000,000 	 73.8% 	 75,200,000
South Korea 	 49,232,844 	 34,820,000 	 70.7% 	 27,856,000
Malaysia 	 25,274,133 	 14,904,000 	 59.0% 	 11,923,200
Pakistan 	 167,762,040 	 17,500,000 	 10.4% 	 14,000,000
Philippines 	 92,681,453 	 14,000,000 	 15.1% 	 11,200,000
Singapore 	 4,608,167 	 4,026,400 	 87.4% 	 3,221,120
Taiwan 	 22,920,946 	 15,400,000 	 67.2% 	 12,320,000
Thailand 	 65,493,298 	 13,416,000 	 20.5% 	 10,732,800
Vietnam 	 86,116,559 	 20,159,615 	 23.4% 	 16,127,692
Asia	 3,363,949,353 	 571,625,328 	 -	 456,883,782
(SOURCE: OgilvyOne)
Bloggers in Asia vs USA
% of respondents	 Asia	 USA
Male	 73%	 57%
Ages 18-34	 73%	 42%
Ages 35+	 27%	 58%
Single	 57%	 26%
Employed full-time	 45%	 56%
Household income US$75,000	 9%	 51%
College graduate	 69%	 74%
Average blogging tenure (months)	 30	 35
Median annual investment	 $30	 $80
Median annual revenues	 $120	 $200
% of blogs with advertising	 60%	 52%
Average monthly unique visitors		 26,000	 18,000
(SOURCE: EMarketer; july/august 2008)
ONLINE ADVERTISING
Online advertising spending in Asia (ex-Japan) will
experience dramatic growth going forward, with compound
annual growth rates of 25.4% over the 2007-2011 period.
(SOURCE: IDC)
Online ads may be informing customers in Asia Pacific
about their choices - but it doesn't means they are
persuading them to buy anything. More than 60% of users
in one survey said they saw online ads as informative yet
TV ads were more likely to make them want to buy the
product that was being advertised.
(SOURCE: IDC)
If advertisers do want to increase their persuasive abilities
online, the best thing to do is make them laugh. According
to one survey, nearly 70% of Asian online users watch
online video ads, with 60% of users saying they would be
highly interested if that ad was funny.
(SOURCE: IDC)
Together, Japan, South Korea and China took up nearly
82% of Asia's online ad spending in 2008.
(SOURCE: SOZON)
Asia's online ad spend should eclipse western Europe's by
2010 to reach US$122 billion.
(SOURCE: YAHOO!)
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Online ad spend in south east Asia alone will net almost
US$200 million by 2010, led mostly by increases in display
advertising activities. And three markets - Vietnam,
Indonesia and the Philippines - will be responsible for
as much as 90% of the south east Asia region's market
growth over the next five years.
(SOURCE: MARKETING-INTERACTIVE/NIELSEN/YAHOO!)
Online branding efforts appear to be paying off in the
region, with nearly one third (32%) of users around Asia -
from Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia and
Thailand - saying the brand advertising they have seen
across all forms of digital media significantly increased
their interest in using the brand in question.
(SOURCE: TNS/MEDIA)
Nearly half - 45% - of Asia Pacific's advertisers and
marketers surveyed said they used online games as part of
their digital marketing strategies in 2008.
(SOURCE: adma digital marketing survey 2008)
So much for the financial crisis - 59% of Asia Pacific
advertisers surveyed actually increased their digital
marketing budgets in 2008 while only 10% made cutbacks.
(SOURCE: adma digital marketing survey 2008)
Internet Advertising Revenues Forecast by Region
Region	 2007 ($m)	 2008 *($m)	 2010 *($m)
North America 	 188,415	 194,990 	 207,570
Western Europe 	 119,976 	 124,420 	 135,781
Asia Pacific 	 102,807 	 111,534 	 127,916
Central  Eastern Europe 	 31,563 	 37,041 	 48,424
Latin America 	 26,329 	 30,924 	 38,920
Rest of World 	 16,490 	 18,606 	 25,938
Worldwide 	 485,580 	 517,515 	 584,550
(Source: ZenithOptimedia *Projections)
Types of Digital Media Seen Being Used in Asia
Media			 % of users
Dedicated websites		 53%
Sponsored content		 50%
Pop-up ads		 46%
Banner ads		 39%
Email		 29%
Mobile phones		 19%
Ads in video games		 6%
Ads in virtual worlds		 4%
Other		 11%
(Source: TNS/Media; represents China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand)
Trust in Media Channels in Asia
Media channel	 % who trust the channel completely
Recommendations from friends and family	 54%
Independent reviews in publications	 25%
Expert product review from websites	 28%
Product labels on packaging	 27%
Consumer product review from websites	 22%
Manufacturers/brands websites	 22%
Consumer opinion in blogs	 18%
TV ads	 18%
Products/brands that appear in movies or within TV programmes	 19%
Magazine ads	 16%
Newspaper ads	 16%
Consumer opinion on message boards	 15%
Email newsletters	 15%
Consumer opinion in chat rooms	 15%
Ads on posters, buses/bus shelters	 13%
Ads at the cinema before the movie starts	 14%
Radio ads	 12%
Recommendations from other consumers who you do not personally know	 11%
Ads that appear on search engines	 12%
Banner ads on websites	 11%
Ads that have been sent to you by email	 9%
Pop-up or pop-under web ads	 7%
Ads in virtual worlds	 7%
Ads via mobile SMS	 6%
Ads in video games	 6%
(SOURCE: TNS/Media; represents China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand)
MOBILE
An estimated 472.5 million mobile phones were sold in Asia
in 2008, a 17.9% increase on 2007.
(SOURCE: MARKETINGVOX)
By 2013 more than 50% of the world's projected 5.63
billion mobile connections will come from the Asia Pacific
region. Not surprisingly the two markets leading the charge
will be China and India.
(SOURCE: TRENDSNIFF/OVUM)
Excluding Japan, Asia now has around 97.6 million mobile
online gamers. More than half of them are in China.
(SOURCE: IDC)
Mobile data revenues in Asia Pacific in 2008 came to
US$65.1 billion - in 2003 they stood at just US$21.9 billion.
(SOURCE: FROST  SULLIVAN/ZDNETASIA)
On a regional basis, Asia Pacific is the largest mobile
gaming market on earth, generating an estimated US$2.3
billion in end-user spending in 2008, which is estimated to
rise to US$3.4 billion in 2011.
(SOURCE: GARTNER)
In 2008, 1.7 trillion out of an estimated 2.3 trillion mobile
SMS messages sent around the world came from Asia.
(SOURCE: DIGITAL ECONOMY FACTBOOK 2008/9)
By 2012 more than US$880 million of Asia Pacific's mobile
music revenues will come from ad-supported business
models.
(SOURCE: EMARKETER)
By the end of 2008 there were an estimated 91.4 million
mobile social networking users in the world - 50% of them
living in the Asia Pacific region.
(SOURCE: INFORMA TELECOMS  MEDIA)
Asia Pacific's 3G population is set to explode. The region
was home to an estimated 158.4 million 3G subscribers in
2008. By 2013 that figure could mushroom to 564 million.
(SOURCE: INTELLASIA/FROST  SULLIVAN)
Mobile TV revenues in Asia Pacific (ex Japan) are
anticipated to reach US$1.88 billion by 2013, a dramatic
increase from the US$440 million earned in 2007.
(SOURCE: EMARKETER/FROST  SULLIVAN)
Mobile Data Revenues by Region
Region		 Mobile data	 % of total mobile	 Monthly mobile
		revenues (m)	revenues	data ARPU
Asia Pacific		 $20,272.57	 24.57%	 $4.74
Western Europe		 $13,065.12	 21.13%	 $7.92
North America		 $8,636.30	 19.76%	 $10.48
Eastern Europe 		 $2,866.93	 15.70%	 $2.45
Latin America		 $2,384.20	 13.02%	 $1.84
Middle East		 $927.63	 8.21%	 $1.73
Africa		 $881.74	 6.62%	 $0.93
Total		 $49,034.48	 19.68%	 $5.07
(SOURCE: Emarketer; Q1 2008)
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Mobile Advertising Spending in Asia Pacific
2007-2012
	 2007	 2008	 2009	 2010	 2011	 2012
	 ($m)	 ($m)	 ($m)	 ($m)	 ($m)	 ($m)
Mobile message ads	 700	 1,229	 1,827	 3,100	 4,309	 5,320
Mobile display ads	 12	 36	 91	 182	 293	 397
Mobile search ads	 26	 72	 190	 373	 732	 1,160
Total	 738	 1,336	 2,108	 3,655	 5,344	 6,877
(SOURCE: EMarketer)
Mobile Music Spending in Asia Pacific, by Format,
2007-2012
	 2007 	 2008 	 2009 	 2010 	 2011 	 2012
	 (m)	 (m)	 (m)	 (m)	 (m)	 (m)
Mastertones, ringback tones and other*	 $654 	 $843 	 $1,110 	 $1,579 	 $2,311 	 $3,450
Full-track downloads	 $535 	 $747 	 $1,067 	 $1,644 	 $2,606 	 $4,216
Total mobile music spending	 $1,189 	$1,590 	 $2,177 	 $3,223 	 $4,918 	 $7,666
of which: ad-supported mobile music	 $42 	 $80 	 $142 	 $258 	 $566 	 $882
(SOURCE: EMarketer; excludes monophonic and polyphonic ringtones; includes China,
India, Japan, South Korea; *other includes music videos and streams)
E-COMMERCE
Online shopping throughout Asia is a growing trend, with
44% of users having shopped online for the past three
years; and 63% of respondents saying they now shop
online at least occasionally. Over a three month period,
regional shoppers bought an average of 3.1 purchases
online, spending on average $612.40 on their purchases
over that period. More than three-quarters of them (76%)
intend to shop online again in the next 6 months.
(SOURCE: MASTERCARD WORLDWIDE INSIGHTS)
In general, online shopping seems to be a pleasurable
experience for Asia's consumers, with 71% finding it
convenient; 66% finding it easy; and 62% of users finding
it simpler than catalogue or telephone shopping.
(SOURCE: MASTERCARD WORLDWIDE INSIGHTS)
Price and security matter to online shoppers across Asia.
A sizeable 87% of shoppers cite secure payment facilities
as an important factor affecting their online purchasing
decisions, with 87% also citing price and 85% noting
convenient payment methods. Equally, for those who are
less keen to shop online, the key reason is security again,
with 65% of online shoppers across the region fearing
online transactions are unsafe. And when asked how
online shopping can be improved, almost three quarters of
the region's online consumers - 74% - said they wanted
to see enhanced payment security.
(SOURCE: MASTERCARD WORLDWIDE INSIGHTS)
Asia Pacific's (ex Japan) paid online content market was
expected to grow by 21% in 2008 from 2007 to reach
a market size of US$4.67 billion. By the end of 2013
that number is expected to grow to US$9.2 billion. The
key driver behind this growth is online gaming, which
is expected to represent 75.1% of all premium or paid
content revenues in 2013, representing US$6.9 billion.
(SOURCE: FROST  SULLIVAN)
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Asia Pacific Online Shopping Revenues
Country	 2007 (US$bn)	 2010 (US$bn)
Australia	 27.2	 37.3
China	 297.8	 1415.7
Hong Kong	 5.5	 10
India	 70.8	 734.3
Japan	 168.9	 185.3
South Korea	 82	 114.7
Singapore	 4.5	 6.6
Thailand	 5.9	 20.8
(SOURCE: MasterCard Worldwide)
Asia Pacific Online Shopping Market Outlook
Country	 Online Shopping	 Online Shopping
	 Penetration Rate	 	 Population
	 2007 (%)	 2010 (%)	 2007 (m)	 2010 (m)
Australia	 67	 72.1	 10.4	 12
China	 70	 74.8	 147.1	 480.4
Hong Kong	 50	 62.5	 2.4	 3.5
India	 47	 59.2	 28.1	 203.1
Japan	 83	 83.1	 72.7	 75.1
South Korea	 83	 88.9	 29	 33
Singapore	 60	 67.7	 1.5	 1.8
Thailand	 43	 57.5	 3.6	 10.5
(SOURCE: MasterCard Worldwide)
CASE STUDY
Client: AirAsia
Agency: Yahoo! Mobile
Campaign: AirAsia brand building campaign
Objective: AirAsia wanted to increase awareness of the
company and its promotions throughout the region.
Strategy: Encourage interaction and allow users to
immerse themselves with the AirAsia brand. Evoke interest
in AirAsia's Sleepless in 3 cities and Beautiful island
getaways campaigns.
Details: Partner with Yahoo! Mobile to help drive traffic to
the AirAsia mobile website by placing ad banners on the
Yahoo! Mobile homepage, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger
and Yahoo! oneSearch. Engage users with a rich mobile
experience on the AirAsia mobile website.
Results: • AirAsia became the first-ever company on
Yahoo! mobile in Malaysia.
• In just 28 days AirAsia garnered 6,091,490 impressions
on mobile phones across Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand,
Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
• 108,405 clicks were obtained (CTR of 1.78%) from
mobile users.
• Average CPC on market value was $0.56.
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DEMOGRAPHICS
Nearly three quarters (73%) of Australian homes are now
connected to the Internet. At the end of June 2008 there
were 6.21 million active Internet households in the country.
(SOURCE: ABS/ACMA)
Broadband's popularity surged in Australia in 2008, with
household penetration rates rising to 97% last year, up
from 84% in 2007.
(NIELSEN ONLINE)
You can tell a lot about a person by their Internet
connection it appears - Australians with post-graduate
degrees are 83% more likely to have broadband access
than those without tertiary qualifications.
(SOURCE: ABS/ACMA)
The Internet also appears to be the domain of the wealthy
- households with an income of more than AU$2,000 or
more a week are three times more likely to have broadband
than those with less than AU$600 per week. Indigenous
households are around half as likely to have broadband.
(SOURCE: ABS/ACMA)
How Australians Connect
Connection	 '000
Dial-up 	
Analog	 1,298
ISDN/other	 13
All dial-up connections	 1,311
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Non dial-up (b)
ISDN/other	 19
DSL	 4,208
Fixed wireless	 164
Mobile wireless	 1,298
Satellite	 80
Cable	 916
All non dial-up connections	 6,685
Total access connections	 7,996
Download Speeds
Speed	 '000
Less than 256kbps	 1,319
Broadband
256kbps to less than 512kbps	 1,458
512kbps to less than 1.5Mbps	 1,181
1.5Mbps to less than 8Mbps	 2,012
8Mbps to less than 24Mbps	 1,653
24Mbps or greater	 373
Total broadband (256kbps+)	 6,678
Total download speeds	 7,996
(SOURCE: abs; q4 2008)
USER BEHAVIOUR
Australians now spend more time consuming media and
this is largely thanks to the Internet: Australians were
spending 16.1 hours a week online in 2008, up from 13.7
hours in 2007.
(SOURCE: NIELSEN ONLINE)
The average Australian spends one and a half hours of
their leisure time online every day.
(SOURCE: TNS)
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AUSTRALIA
Uluru (Ayer's Rock) in the Australian Outback
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Australian men in general spend more time online than
their female counterparts - amongst heavy Internet users
62% are male and 48% are female.
(SOURCE: ABS/ACMA)
More media consumption means more multi-tasking: 61%
of online users watch TV while they are online and 50%
use the Internet while they listen to the radio. For all users
who do multi-task, the Internet is most commonly cited as
the primary focus.
(SOURCE: NIELSEN ONLINE)
More Australians are using the Internet to make voice calls,
with traffic for Skype and other types of voice over Internet
protocol (VoIP) services increasing by 27% in the year
ending April 2008.
(SOURCE: AUSTRALIAN COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA AUTHORITY)
VoIP's growth potential in Australia is such that now nearly
half (47%) of all ISPs offer VoIP as part of their bundled
broadband packages.
(SOURCE: AUSTRALIAN COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA AUTHORITY)
Australians are high adopters of social networking sites -
65% of online users in the country use them.
(SOURCE: IBM INSTITUTE FOR BUSINESS VALUE)
The Internet is now the preferred medium for
entertainment and leisure in Australian homes. In a survey
of media habits of Australian gamers, 87% of them ranked
using the Internet first as their preferred media activity
ahead of watching TV, watching DVDs, reading books,
newspapers or magazines and listening to music.
(SOURCE: IEAA)
	
Perhaps because of their preference for the Internet as a
leisure activity, gamers are more likely than non-gamers to
use newer online services: 23% of gamers blog compared
to 11% of non-gamers; 51% of gamers engage in social
networking against 37% of non-gamers; and 35% of
gamers download TV shows/movies compared to 18% of
non-gamers.
(SOURCE: IEAA)
Awareness of blogging in Australia is high, with 93% of
Australians aware of them, yet only 40% access them and
only 13% contribute to them.
(SOURCE: TNS)
Australian online users rate the Internet as their most
trusted source of information (27%), above newspapers
(20%) or the television (17%).
(SOURCE: NIELSEN ONLINE)
Australian Online Activities by Internet Connection
Activity	 Broadband	 Dial up
Banking 	 75% 	 53%
Maps/directions 	 64%	 47%
News, sports or weather updates 	 73% 	 58%
Auctions 	 39% 	 25%
Making payments for government services 	 21% 	 8%
Subscribe/sign up to email newsletters 	 37% 	 25%
Online radio 	 13%	 2%
Streaming video 	 11% 	 0%
Streaming audio 	 10% 	 0%
Reading blogs 	 17% 	 7%
Downloading video 	 22% 	 12%
Airline ticket purchase 	 45%	 35%
Bill payment 	 68%	 58%
Online social networking (e.g. Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn) 	 27% 	 18%
Directories (Yellow/WhitePages) 	 60%	 52%
Submitting forms or information to government websites 	 29%	 22%
Voice over IP/Internet telephony 	 9% 	 2%
Accommodation bookings 	 39% 	 32%
Adult services/websites 	 10% 	 3%
Local/community information 	 25% 	 18%
Gambling 	 10% 	 3%
Instant Messaging 	 39% 	 33%
Health and medicine sites 	 31% 	 25%
Education/study sites 	 29% 	 35%
(SOURCE: ACMA/Nielsen Online)
Australian Online Activities by Gender
Activity	Female	 Male
Adult services/websites	 3%	 20%
Downloading Audio	 21%	 35%
Downloading Video	 15%	 28%
News, sports or weather updates	 67%	 79%
Streaming Video	 6%	 15%
Gambling	 6%	 14%
Making payments for government services	 17%	 24%
Streaming Audio	 6%	 13%
Auctions	 34%	 41%
Maps/directions	 60%	 65%
Health  medicine sites	 32%	 27%
Education/study sites	 31%	 25%
(SOURCE: ACMA/Nielsen Online)
Activities of Australian Gamers vs Non-Gamers
online Activity	 % of Non-Gamers 	 % of Gamers
Self-publishing/Blogging	 11%	 23%
Downloading Computer or Video Games	 8%	 43%
Downloading TV Shows or Movies	 18%	 35%
Other	 32%	 32%
Voice Over Internet Telephone	 33%	 33%
Playing Computer or Video Games	 0%	 64%
Social Networking	 37%	 51%
Watching Streaming Media	 39%	 60%
Chatting	 44%	 57%
Downloading Music	 41%	 63%
Study	 56%	 62%
Work	 66%	 70%
Booking Travel/Holidays	 86%	 81%
Shopping/Banking/Paying Bills	 90%	 91%
Reading the News	 90%	 90%
Product Information	 93%	 95%
Browsing/Surfing	 94%	 97%
Email	 99%	 100%
(SOURCE: IEAA)
ONLINE ADVERTISING
Expenditure on online advertising in Australia in 2008 came
to a sizeable $1.7 billion, representing a 27.1% increase on
2007, or an additional AU$364.25 million.
(SOURCE: IAB/PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS)
Of the AU$1.7 billion of Australia's online ad expenditure,
AU$465 million was spent on display advertising; $439
million on classified advertising; and $807 million on search
and directories.
(SOURCE: IAB/PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS)
Behind the increase in online ad spending in Australian
has been strong annual increases across all categories: a
30% increase in search and directories; a 27% increase
in general display advertising; and a 23% increase in
classified ads.
(SOURCE: IAB/PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS)
Most online Australians seem happy with ad-supported
online video content, with 75% of them saying they would
watch ads either before or after quality, free content. The
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remaining 25% of them however dislike ads so much that
they would actually pay to avoid advertising messages.
(SOURCE: IBM INSTITUTE FOR BUSINESS VALUE)
Australians are split straight down the middle when it
comes to how they feel about sharing information about
themselves with advertisers in exchange for something of
value - 50% of that said they were willing to do this.
(SOURCE: IBM INSTITUTE FOR BUSINESS VALUE)
Australians are becoming less tolerant of advertising
across social media, with 38% of users saying they
considered advertising an intrusion, compared to 29%
who said the same in 2007. Equally while 51% said they
didn't mind advertising in 2007, a lower number - 47% -
now say that is the case.
(SOURCE: NIELSEN ONLINE)
Member community sites - including blogs and social
networking sites - now reach 59% of Australian online
users, compared to 55% in 2007.
(SOURCE: NIELSEN ONLINE)
Australia's Top Online Ad Spend Categories in 2008
Category	 Online Display 	 All Media
	 AU$m 	 Share %	 AU$m
Finance 	 85.6	 14.1 	 606.3
Communications 	 65.2	 18.0 	 362.2
Motor Vehicles 	 56.9	 5.1 	 1,118.5
Travel/Accommodation 	 35.4	 6.7 	 525.3
Media 	 25.8	 8.1 	 319.8
Retail 	 21.9	 1.1 	 2,084.3
Entertainment  Leisure 	 19.7	 2.6 	 771.0
Services 	 19.3	 7.6 	 254.6
Insurance 	 18.4	 6.6 	 278.8
Computers 	 17.7	 20.9 	 84.6
Total for all Others
not in Top 10 	 84.1	 11.2 	 112.5
Total Ad Spend
estimates for 2008	 450	 4.5 	 10,063
(SOURCE: Nielsen AIS Australia)
Australia's Top 10 Sites
	Total Unique	 % Reach	Total Minutes (MM)
	 Visitors (000)
Google Sites	 9,708	 81.4%	 1,220
Microsoft Sites	 9,071	 76.1%	 3,931
FACEBOOK.COM	 5,331	 44.7%	 758
Yahoo! Sites	 5,254	 44.1%	 370
eBay	 4,810	 40.3%	 340
Fox Interactive Media	 4,218	 35.4%	 565
News Interactive Pty Limited	 3,992	 33.5%	 186
Telstra Corporation Limited	 3,877	 32.5%	 101
Wikimedia Foundation Sites	 3,731	 31.3%	 53
Apple Inc.	 3,624	 30.4%	 24
(SOURCE: ComScore Media Metrix; February 2009; Audience: All Persons 15+ at Australia Home/
Work Locations)
Australia's Top Online Retail Sites
	 % Reach
Amazon Sites 	 38.9%
Apple.com Worldwide Sites	 26.2%
Shopping.com Sites	 17.0%
Coles Group	 16.0%
Woolworths	 12.6%
AmericanGreetings Property	 7.7%
ninemsn Shopping	 7.3%
Ticketek	 7.2%
DEALSDIRECT.COM.AU	 7.0%
GETPRICE.COM.AU	 6.9%
(SOURCE: ComScore Media Metrix; February 2009; Audience: All Persons 15+ at Australia Home/
Work Locations; heavy Internet users)
Australia's Top Online Gaming Sites
Site 	 % Reach
WildTangent Network	 6.9%
MINICLIP.COM	 6.3%
MSN Games	 4.6%
ADDICTINGGAMES.COM	 3.3%
Disney Games	 3.0%
(SOURCE: ComScore Media Metrix; February 2009; Audience: All Persons 15+ at Australia Home/
Work Locations)
Australia's Top Technology News Sites
	 % Reach
NetShelter Technology Media	 26.8%
CNET	 22.9%
About.com Technology Network	 5.8%
ZDNet	 3.3%
Bestofmedia Group	 2.9%
GRAYSONLINE.COM.AU	 2.5%
Comment Ca Marche	 2.4%
WIRED.COM	 2.4%
Scientific American Network	 2.2%
SLASHDOT.ORG	 2.2%
(SOURCE: ComScore Media Metrix; February 2009; Audience: All Persons 15+ at Australia Home/
Work Locations; heavy Internet users)
Australia's Top Entertainment Sites
	 % Reach
YOUTUBE.COM	 74.1%
iTunes Software (App)	 45.1%
CBS Interactive	 44.1%
Viacom Digital	 27.4%
Gorilla Nation	 23.9%
MSN Video	 23.3%
IMDB.COM	 23.2%
ARTISTdirect Network	 20.1%
MySpace Music	 19.4%
Break Media	 17.6%
(SOURCE: COMSCORE SEGMENT METRIX; feb 2009; Audience: All Persons 15+ at Australia Home/Work
Locations; heavy Internet users)
Online Advertising Expenditure - Total Spend by
Category by Period (AU$M)
12 months	 General 	 Classifieds	 Search and		 % Year/ Year
ended 	 Display		 Directories 	Total	 Growth
December 2008 	 $464.5	 $439.2 	 $806.2 	 $1,710.2	 27%
December 2007 	 $367.0	 $356.7 	 $622.2 	 $1,346.0 	 34%
December 2006 	 $303.0 	 $299.0 	 $399.0 	 $1,001.0 	 61%
December 2005 	 $194.0	 $206.0 	 $220.0 	 $620.0 	 60%
(SOURCE: IAB/PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS)
Online Advertising Expenditure by Industry
Advertiser Industry Category	 2008 	 2007 	 2006
Finance 	 20.82% 	 21.31% 	 23.15%
Computers  Communications	 15.13% 	 16.58% 	 16.96%
Motor Vehicles 	 14.94%	 14.47% 	 14.73%
Travel/Accommodation	 6.30% 	 6.93% 	 6.72%
Entertainment  Leisure 	 7.18% 	 6.15% 	 6.13%
Media 	 4.00% 	 4.33% 	 5.09%
FMCG 	 4.20% 	 4.66%	 3.33%
Real Estate 	 2.91% 	 2.37%	 2.53%
Retail 	 3.31% 	 3.10% 	 3.47%
Insurance 	 3.41% 	 3.70% 	 2.00%
Health/Beauty/Pharmaceuticals	 4.04%	 3.18% 	 2.65%
Government 	 2.93% 	 3.47% 	 2.78%
Other 	 4.04% 	 4.01% 	 2.90%
Recruitment 	 1.84% 	 1.81% 	 3.69%
Alcoholic Beverages 	 1.28% 	 1.15% 	 0.74%
Education  Learning 	 1.60% 	 1.17% 	 1.03%
Home Products  Services 	 0.76% 	 0.72% 	 0.87%
Community/Public Service 	 0.88% 	 0.62% 	 0.85%
Office  Business Equipment 	 0.43% 	 0.27% 	 0.38%
(SOURCE: IAB/PwC)
MOBILE
Mobile phone revenues in Australia increased by 6.9% in
the 2007-08 period generating AU$11 billion in revenues.
(SOURCE: AUSTRALIAN COMMUNICA TIONS AND MEDIA AUTHORITY)
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Mobile phone penetration rates remain high in Australia
with 83% of adults using a mobile phone service. Other
sources place it much higher, as high as 108%.
(SOURCE: AUSTRALIAN COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA AUTHORITY/BUSINESS MONITOR)
By 2013 it is estimated there will be more than 25.8 million
subscribers in Australia, representing a penetration rate of
117.4%.
(SOURCE: BUSINESS MONITOR)
Nearly all Australian mobile phone user (97% of them)
use their mobile for more than just making phone calls. Of
those, 61% use their phones for information services; 57%
for entertainment purposes; 99% for communication type
services; while 31% used their phone to make purchases.
(SOURCE: MNET/TELECOMPAPER)
Nearly a third of Australians (31%) have now gone online
via their mobiles, on average doing this 1.9 times a week.
(SOURCE: MYSPACE.COM/SWEENEY RESEARCH)
The cost of using mobile data services is proving a
deterrent for Australian mobile phone users. A sizeable
69% of mobile users take photos with their phone, costing
them nothing, while only 39% forward them on to friends,
a service which they need to pay for. Equally, while 39% of
mobile users have gone down the 3G route, only 27% of
those people have used their phones to go online.
(SOURCE: AUSTRALIAN COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA AUTHORITY)
Mobile Internet activity is on the increase in Australia -
between September and December 2008, the number
of page views across mobile Internet sites increased by
17.3%, representing a compound annual growth rate of
89.3%.
(SOURCE: AiMiA)
For Australian mobile users, SMS is now as much of a key
expenditure each month as voice services with 84% of
users in each category saying this was the case, followed
by MMS (22%), buying content (9%) and email (7%).
(SOURCE: AiMiA)
More than a third (36%) of Australian mobile phone users
have purchased and/or subscribed to information services
via their mobiles in the past 12 months, while 33% had
purchased mobile content. More than 50% of them became
aware of new mobile content via the Internet.
(SOURCE: AiMiA)
Nearly half (48%) of mobile users bought content online via
their PC; 17% bought it from their mobile carrier's portal;
while 12% bought it from their mobile phone menu.
(SOURCE: AiMiA)
The most popular types of content purchased by Australian
mobile users are games (43%), true tones (42%) and
wallpapers (33%), the first two items having grown
significantly in popularity in the past two years - the
popularity of true tones growing by 173% and games by
171%. The number of mobile users purchasing digital music
downloads has jumped by 113% over the past two years.
(SOURCE: AiMiA)
Looking ahead, Australians want more of the same, with
the most popular requests for future mobile content
being digital music downloads (30%), games (27%) and
wallpapers (25%).
(SOURCE: AiMiA)
The key types of information Australian mobile Internet
users access are news (53%), weather (50%) and sport
(34%). Compared to last year's data the greatest growth
in the type of information accessed has been maps (347%
increase), restaurant/cafe guides (174%) and TV listings
(93%).
(SOURCE: AiMiA)
For mobile users who don't use their phones for anything
other than voice or SMS, 10% of them say they do this
because they don't know what it does; 26% meanwhile
say they don't get any value out of it; 10% don't know
how to connect to the Internet; 7% don't know how to
access content when connected; and a sizeable 60% of
users just don't care.
(SOURCE: AiMiA)
For mobile users that share their mobile content, by far
and away the most popular type of content is photos with
96% of users saying they share this, compared to 41%
who share videos; 32% who share music; and just 3% that
share blog posts.
(SOURCE: AiMiA)
Half of those who share their content tend to do it once a
month or more. And users aged under 25 are more likely to
create content to share with other users.
(SOURCE: AiMiA)
The two main methods Australians use to share content are
MMS (63% of users) and Bluetooth (61%).
(SOURCE: AiMiA)
Community Services Used by Australian Mobile Users
	 % oF Respondents
Service	 Via PC	 Via Mobile
MSN Messenger	 57%	 8%
YouTube	 46%	 2%
Facebook	 45%	 5%
MySpace	 28%	 3%
Yahoo! Messenger	 23%	 2%
Skype	 22%	 2%
Google Talk	 12%	 2%
FlickR	 10%	 1%
Linked In	 7%	 1%
Chat Rooms	 7%	 1%
RSS Feed Reader	 7%	 2%
Apple iChat	 2%	n/a
AOL Messenger	 2%	 1%
CyWorld	 1%	 1%
(SOURCE: AiMiA)
Australians' Usage of Mobile Devices
Technology	 % of device 	 % of device 	
	 enabled	used
Camera	 82%	 69%
MMS	 66%	 39%
Mobile Internet	 60%	 27%
Bluetooth	 57%	 36%
Video Recorder	 47%	 25%
MP3 Player	 40%	 23%
Video Calls	 37%	 10%
Document Reader	 16%	 5%
GPS	 10%	 4%
(SOURCE: Nielsen Online/ACMA)
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Content Australian Mobile Users Purchase
Content	 % of Respondents*
Games	 43%
True Tones	 42%
Wallpapers	 33%
Poly Tones 	 30%
SMS alerts	 19%
Screensavers	 15%
Digital Music Download	 14%
Video	 7%
Sound FX	 5%
Greeting Cards	 3%
Mono Tones	 3%
Logos	 2%
(SOURCE: AIMiA; * as % of those that purchased content)
E-COMMERCE
E-commerce has now become a prevalent activity amongst
Australian online users - 80% of them now shop online.
(SOURCE: THE NIELSEN COMPANY)
When Australians shop online 37% of them choose online
payment system PayPal rather than Visa (22%) as their
preferred payment method.
(SOURCE: THE NIELSEN COMPANY)
Carrying on a trend from previous years, when Australians
shop online, it is mainly to book their travel arrangements,
with 37% of users booking airline tickets and 31% booking
accommodation. The next popular shopping item is book
purchases, with 29% of users typically making these
purchases.
(SOURCE: THE NIELSEN COMPANY)
When it comes to the online retailer who attracts the
most Australian shoppers, there is one clear market
leader - eBay, with 56% of online shoppers having bought
something from the site.
(SOURCE: THE NIELSEN COMPANY)
Australians spend on average half that of the Americans
online, spending on average US$37.86 per order against
US$77.94 in the U.S.
(SOURCE: EMARKETER)
Australia's B2C E-Commerce Sales: 2007-2011
Year 	 Sales (AU$ billion)	 % change from previous year
2007	 $18.1 (US$13.6)	 45%
2008	 $24.5 (US$20.4)	 35%
2009	 $30.6 (US$26.4)	 25%
2010	 $37.3 (US$28.7)	 22%
2011	 $44.8 (US$31.1)	 20%
(SOURCE: EMarketer)
What Australians Buy Online
Items bought online	 % who bought a product in this
	category within last 3 months
Travel (tickets/accommodation)	 28%
Other	 17%
DVDs/videos 	 16%
Books/magazines/newspapers	 16%
Gifts	 15%
None in the last three months	 15%
Toys or games	 13%
Computer software	 13%
Other clothing/shoes	 13%
Other entertainment (e.g. shows, events) 	 13%
Music to download	 12%
Sports equipment/clothing	 10%
CDs/tapes	 9%
Computer hardware	 9%
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Communications equipment
(e.g. mobile phone, fax, pager) 	 4%
Shares or financial information	 4%
Supermarket shopping	 3%
Alcohol (e.g. wine, beer, spirits)	 2%
Adult entertainment	 2%
Cannot say	 1%
(SOURCE: ACMA/Roy Morgan; Items directly bought online in the previous three months, January
to March 2008)
Where Australians Shop Online
Online retailer	 % of users
eBay	 56%
Dealsdirect.com.au	 23%
Virgin Blue	 15%
Ticketek	 12%
Amazon	 11%
QANTAS	 12%
Jetstar	 12%
iTunes (Music)	 6%
Ticketmaster7	 6%
Flight Centre	 6%
Wotif	 7%
Dstore	 5%
Doubleday Books	 4%
OO.com.au	 7%
ezyDVD	 5%
(SOURCE: The Nielsen Company; 1H 2008)
CASE STUDY
Client: Hasbro Transformers
(Australia)
Agency: OMD
Campaign: Create the
Transformer Hero of your
Dreams
Objective: To establish a
wholly unique integrated
campaign enabling children
to have direct interaction
with the Transformers brand
and products.
Strategy: Capitalise on
Cartoon Network's popularity
among boys aged five to 12
by driving brand awareness
and interaction through an integrated on-air, online and on
the ground promotion.
Details: Cartoon Network developed a promotional micro-
site which included a drag and drop interaction that
allowed children to design their very own Transformer.
The campaign ran across three weeks on the Cartoon
Network Australia site, and was supported by additional
advertising banners linking to the micro-site and on-air
advertising. A panel of Cartoon Network and Hasbro judges
chose five of the best submissions, and the winners were
given the opportunity to meet Hasbro Transformer artist
Eric Seibenhaler in person at participating Kmart Stores.
Seibenhaler presented each of the winners a personalised
Transformer illustration based on their designs.
Results: • More than 4,000 children participated in the
promotion.
• The promotion generated over 45,000 page views over
the three-week campaign period.
• Over a half million impressions were booked.
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CHINA
DEMOGRAPHICS
In terms of unique visitors, China is the largest Internet
market on earth, representing 18% of the world's online
population.
(SOURCE: COMSCORE)
China currently is home to around 253 million Internet
users overall, an online population growth of 1,024.4%
from 2000.
(SOURCE: BTRAX)
That number could be higher however - as high as 298
million users, representing an annual growth rate of 41.9%.
(SOURCE: CNNIC)
And that number could mushroom to 389 million Internet
users in 2009.
(SOURCE: BDA)
More than two thirds (68.6%) of Chinese online users are
below the age of 30.
(SOURCE: TRENDSSPOTTING)
Despite the large numbers of Internet users in China,
Internet penetration rates are still proportionately low
ranging anywhere from 15.9% to 22.6% depending on
what source you believe. That being said, on the higher
side, that figure of 22.6% is above the world average level
of 21.9%.
(SOURCE: MASTERCARD WORLDWIDE INSIGHTS/CNNIC)
❚ China is home to the highest number of broadband users
in the world - 270 million people, representing 90.6% of all
Chinese online users, and an increase of 100 million new
broadband users from 2007.
(SOURCE: CNNIC)
There were 84.76 million households with Internet
connections in China in 2008.
(SOURCE: BTRAX)
In terms of gender, China's online population is pretty
evenly balanced with 52.5% of users being male, 47.5%
female. The number of Chinese women going online has
increased from last year when only 42.8% of online users
were female.
(SOURCE: CHINAInternetWATCH.COM/CNNIC)
The most prolific Internet users in China are teenagers -
35.2% of the online population are aged between 11 and
19 years old.
(SOURCE: CHINAInternetWATCH.COM/CNNIC)
One third of all Chinese Internet users (33.2%) are
students.
(SOURCE: CNNIC)
Time Spent Online Per Week
Overall time spent online	Time spent per week (hours)
Less than a year	 12.7
1-2 years	 12.4
2-4 years	 13.8
4-6 years	 16.2
6-8 years	 19.9
More than 8 years	 26.4
(SOURCE: CNNIC)	
The Great Wall of China
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China's Internet Users 2008
Age	 % of users
Under 10	 0.4%
Age 10-19	 35.2%
Age 20-29	 31.5%
Age 30-39	 17.6%
Age 40-49	 9.6%
Age 50-59	 4.2%
Age 60 and above	 1.5%
Education
Primary school/below	 5.4%
Junior middle	 28%
Senior middle/technical school	 39.4%
College	 12.2%
Master's degree/above	 1%
Profession
Others	 0.5%
Unemployed	 5.5%
Retirees	 2%
Agricultural, forestry, husbandry, fishery labourers	 2.3%
Freelancers	 6.4%
Self-employed	 7.3%
Industry/service industry workers	 2%
Rural migrant workers	 2.6%
Technical professionals	 8.7%
Enterprise staff	 15%
Managers	 4.5%
Party/government/institute employees	 10.3%
Students	 33.2%
Income (Yuan) per month
Above 8,000	 1.9%
5,001-8,000	 2.9%
3,001-5,000	 8%
2,001-3,000	 13.7%
1,501-2,000	 13.8%
1,001-1,500	 16%
501-1,000	 16.2%
Under 500	 26%
No income	 1.5%
Places of access
Home	 78.4%
Internet cafe	 42.4%
Office	 20.7%
Campus	 11.3%
Public area	 2.7%
Others	 1.3%
	
Access equipment
Desktops	 89.4%
Laptops	 27.8%
Mobile phones	 39.5%
PDA	 1.4%
(SOURCE: CNNIC Jan 2009)
USER BEHAVIOUR
Chinese online users are spending more of their time
online, which is on average 16.6 hours per week.
(SOURCE: BDA)
China has the largest Internet audience in the world with
180 million regular viewers of online video content.
(SOURCE: CASBAA)
Chinese online users like to watch video content online
frequently too. When asked how often do you use the
Internet to watch video clips, 33% of them said they do
pretty much every time they go online.
(SOURCE: CASBAA/SINA/CHINA YOUTH DAILY)
Social networking has formed a stronghold on the Chinese
online community, particularly so when it comes to video
content. Because of the country's strong grassroots
culture nearly two thirds of video content in China (63.7%)
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is discovered through social connections. And 94.1% of this
content is shared via instant messaging tools like QQ and
MSN.
(SOURCE: CASBAA)
Chinese online users prioritise the Internet over TV as
their main source of entertainment, with more than 80%
of young Chinese saying they placed the Web as their
primary source of entertainment.
(SOURCE: CASBAA/SINA/CHINA YOUTH DAILY)
Blogging is picking up in China - 107 million Chinese online
users say they use blogs, representing 42.3% of the
overall Internet user population.
(SOURCE: OGILVYONE)
More Chinese actually have become bonafide bloggers
themselves however - as much as 162 million now consider
themselves bloggers.
(SOURCE: CHINAInternetWATCH.COM/CNNIC)
Chinese broadband users love to express themselves online,
with more than nine out of 10 'broadbanders' contributing
at least one kind of content online every month.
(SOURCE: NETPOP)
Perhaps for this reason eight out of 10 'broadbanders'
see the Internet as liberating, efficient, fulfilling, fun and
creative.
(SOURCE: NETPOP)
Of all China's Internet users, almost all of them read news
online - 234 million of them are online news users.
(SOURCE: CHINAInternetWATCH.COM/CNNIC)
There might be a lot of news out there that the vast
majority of Chinese Internet users are reading but a lot of
them appear to feel wary of it: 70% of them think that at
best only half the information retrieved on the Internet is
reliable.
(SOURCE: BDA/WORLD Internet PROJECT)
China was home to an estimated 202.4 million social media
users in 2008.
(SOURCE: OGILVYONE)
Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) are at the heart of China's
social media attracting 10 million posts every day, with
80% of all Chinese websites hosting their own BBS.
(SOURCE: OGILVYONE)
Such is the stronghold social media has on China's online
population that more than 50% of Chinese Internet users
are making new friends online.
(SOURCE: OGILVYONE)
When the Chinese want to connect with these friends, they
overwhelmingly choose instant messaging - 90% of them
use IM to do this.
(SOURCE: OGILVYONE)
The Chinese love listening to music online, with Internet
music usage rates of 84.5%, representing 214 million
people. The next favourite form of online entertainment
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is online video with 71% usage rates; followed by online
gaming (58.3% usage rates).
(SOURCE: OGILVYONE)
The longer Chinese Internet users spend online, the longer
they spend online - those Internet users who have only
been online for less than a year spend on average 12.7
hours per week on the Internet, while those who have
been online for more than eight years spend on average
26.4 hours online a week.
(SOURCE: CNNIC)
China is renowned for its tight controls over Internet
content. The country's online users don't seem to mind
however - 85% of them approve of Internet censorship.
Perhaps the reason being is that 93% of them feel that
much of Internet content to be unsuitable for children.
(SOURCE: TRENDSSPOTTING)
China's Web 2.0 market is expected to be worth US$645.8
million by 2011.
(S OURCE: IDC/TRENDSSPOTTING)
China MMORPG Market Forecast
	 2007 	 2008E 	 2009E 	 2010E 	 2011E
MMORPG gamers (m) 	 34.4 	 44.7 	 55.9 	 66.0 	 75.9
Game users penetration	 19.7% 	 22.3% 	 25.3% 	 27.6% 	 29.4%
Average ARPU per month (RMB) 	 20.7 	 21.7 	 22.4 	 22.8 	 23.3
Market size (RMB million) 	 8,544 	 11,663 	 15,016 	 18,073 	 21,200
MMORPG Market size (US$M) 	 1,124 	 1,535 	 1,976 	 2,378 	 2,789
Growth Rate 	 54% 	 37% 	 29% 	 20% 	 17%
(SOURCE: JP MORGAN)
China Casual Game Market Forecast
	 2007 	 2008E 	 2009E 	 2010E 	 2011E
Casual game players (million) 	 42.4 	 50.9 	 59.0 	 66.1 	 71.4
Casual players penetration 	 24.2% 	 25.4% 	 26.7% 	 27.7% 	 27.6%
Assumed Ratio of paying users	 25% 	 27% 	 29% 	 30%	 31%
APRU per month (Rmb) 	 12.2 	 13.5 	 14.5 	 15.6	 16.7
Market size (RMB million) 	 1,563 	 2,227 	 2,996 	 3,714 	 4,435
Casual Market size (US$M) 	 206 	 293 	 394 	 489 	 584
Growth Rate 	 56% 	 43% 	 35% 	 24%	 19%
What Chinese Internet Users do online
(% of groups)
	 Middle/primary	 College	Office 	 Rural 	Total
	school students	students	 employees	migrant 	
	 			workers
Network news 	 68.1% 	 89.9% 	 83.1% 	 73.4% 	 78.5%
Search engines 	 63.5% 	 84.4% 	 71.9% 	 56.6% 	 68.0%
Online recruitment 	 8.9% 	 29.5% 	 23.0% 	 23.7% 	 18.6%
Email 	 52.2% 	 81.4% 	 60.4% 	 38.9% 	 56.8%
Instant messaging 	 77.5% 	 91.1% 	 75.0% 	 66.5%	 75.3%
Having blogs 	 64.0% 	 81.4% 	 50.9% 	 43.1% 	 54.3%
Forum/BBS 	 24.1% 	 55.5% 	 34.6% 	 17.2% 	 30.7%
Friend-making Websites	 16.8% 	 26.0% 	 20.2% 	 18.2% 	 19.3%
Network music 	 86.9% 	 94.0% 	 83.4% 	 78.2% 	 83.7%
Network video 	 67.4% 	 84.4% 	 68.1% 	 57.3%	 67.7%
Network games 	 69.7% 	 64.2% 	 60.6% 	 55.5% 	 62.8%
Online shopping 	 16.2% 	 38.8% 	 29.4% 	 11.7% 	 24.8%
Online selling 	 2.1% 	 5.2% 	 4.4% 	 0.8% 	 3.7%
Online payment 	 9.6% 	 30.5% 	 22.4% 	 7.9%	 17.6%
Travel reservation 	 2.0% 	 6.8% 	 6.8% 	 2.5% 	 5.6%
Online banking 	 7.7% 	 29.9% 	 25.5% 	 7.4%	 19.3%
Online stock speculation	 4.7% 	 4.7% 	 15.5% 	 4.1%	 11.4%
Online education 	 16.2% 	 25.6% 	 17.3% 	 7.8% 	 16.5%
(SOURCE: CNNIC)
Use of Online Apps by Chinese users: 2007 vs 2008
	 End of 2007 		End of 2008 		 Change	 Growth 	
	 Use rate	 Size of 	 Use rate	 Size of 	Increase	rate
		users 		users
		 (10,000)		 (10,000)		 	
Network news 	 73.6% 	 15,500 	 78.5% 	 23,400 	 7,900 	 51.0%
Search engine 	 72.4% 	 15,200 	 68.0% 	 20,300 	 5,100 	 33.6%
Network job seeking	10.4% 	 2,200 	 18.6% 	 5,500 	 3,300 	 150.0%
Email 	 56.5% 	 11,900 	 56.8% 	 16,900 	 5,000 	 42.0%
Instant messaging	 81.4% 	 17,100 	 75.3% 	 22,400 	 5,300 	 31.0%
Having blogs 	 - 	 - 	 54.3% 	 16,200 	 - 	 -
Updating blogs	 23.5% 	 4,900 	 35.2% 	 10,500 	 5,600 	 114.3%
Forum/BBS 	 - 	 - 	 30.7% 	 9,100 	 - 	 -
Friend-making websites	 - 	 - 	 19.3% 	 5,800 	 - 	 -
Network games	 59.3% 	 12,500 	 62.8% 	 18,700 	 6,200 	 49.6%
Network music	 86.6% 	 18,200 	 83.7% 	 24,900 	 6,700 	 36.8%
Network video	 76.9% 	 16,100 	 67.7% 	 20,200 	 4,100 	 25.5%
Online shopping	 22.1% 	 4,600 	 24.8% 	 7,400 	 2,800 	 60.9%
Online selling 	 - 	 - 	 3.7% 	 1,100 	 - 	 -
Online payment	 15.8% 	 3,300 	 17.6% 	 5,200 	 1,900 	 57.6%
Travel reservation	 - 	 - 	 5.6% 	 1,700 	 - 	 -
Online banking	 19.2% 	 4,000 	 19.3% 	 5,800 	 1,800 	 45.0%
Online stock
Speculation	 18.2% 	 3,800 	 11.4% 	 3,400 	 -400 	 -10.5%
Online education	 16.6% 	 3,500 	 16.5% 	 4,900 	 1,400 	 40.0%
(SOURCE: CNNIC, Jan 2009)
How spending time online makes Chinese users feel
Sentiment	
Level of Acceptance Without the Internet, I cannot work or study	 39.0%
Without the Internet, my entertainment life will be very monotonous	 59.1%
Handling business online saves me a lot of trouble from visiting a place
in person	 69.3%
Generally I read major news first on the Internet	 61.8%
When encountering a problem, I will first go to the Internet to seek answers	 64.6%
I make many new friends on the Internet 	 65.4%
The Internet strengthens my contact with friends	 82.5%
In the age of the Internet, I feel more lonely	 19.9%
The Internet reduces my time spent with my family	 29.0%
The registration information I fill in on the Internet is true	 47.5%
It is safe to have transactions online 	 27.6%
The Internet is my primary channel for airing my views	 41.9%
After having access to the Internet, I am more concerned with social
events than before	 76.9%
(SOURCE: CNNIC)
ONLINE ADVERTISING
China's online advertising market was valued at RMB17
billion, or US$2.4 billion in 2008, representing year on
year growth of 53%. Online advertising is now the fastest
growing advertising sector in China.
(SOURCE: BDA)
Online advertising represented 5% of China's advertising
market in 2008.
(SOURCE: BDA)
China's online advertising market is expected to grow by
20% in 2009.
(SOURCE: BDA)
Online display advertising in China was expected to grow
by 41% year on year in 2008, generating RMB6.4 billion
in revenues. Growth is anticipated to slow down in 2009
however to around 18% year on year growth, representing
RMB7.58 billion in earnings.
(SOURCE: JP MORGAN)
By 2012 online ad revenues in China are expected to reach
US$3.4 billion.
(SOURCE: EMARKETER)
This growth has something to do with the increase in
number of online advertisers in the country, numbering
600,000 in 2008. In 2009 this number could reach 900,000.
(SOURCE: BDA)
The advertisers that will spur this growth are likely to come
from the top three industries for online advertising - IT,
automotives and real estate. Other sectors to watch out for
in 2009 are telecoms, online services and FMCG.
(SOURCE: BDA)
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Economic hardships could actually prove a boon for the
online advertising market in China, with expectations of
28% year on year growth in 2009 for the online ad market,
and 37% year on year growth in 2010, representing
US$2.9 billion.
(SOURCE: JP MORGAN)
China currently has 2.87 million websites registered within
its territory, an increase of 91.4% from 2007. The total
number of web pages passed the 16 billion mark at the
end of 2008.
(SOURCE: CNNIC)
Half of the top 20 sites in Asia Pacific by traffic are based in
China, led by Baidu.com, Tencent, SINA.com and NetEase.
(SOURCE: TRENDSSPOTTING)
Of all advertisers in China using search engine marketing,
86% use Baidu and 60.2% use Google.
(SOURCE: CHINA Internet WATCH)
Baidu is the clear market leader in China's search market
with 64.4% market share, followed by Google with 25%
and Yahoo! with 8% share.
(SOURCE: COMSCORE/TRENDSSPOTTING)
Search advertising will experience strong growth in China's
online advertising market in 2009, generating an estimated
RMB6.61 billion, up from RMB4.66 billion in 2008.
(SOURCE: JP MORGAN)
User-generated content is very powerful in China, with
58% of all purchasing decisions being influenced by online
consumer reviews, rating sites, blogs, forums and bulletin
boards.
(SOURCE: NETPOP)
The most influential source for online Chinese when
making purchasing decisions is the search engine - 46%
of 'broadbanders' consult a search engine to make their
shopping decisions, compared to just 25% of American
'broadbanders'.
(SOURCE: NETPOP)
The Chinese online gaming market grew by 63% in 2008
making it worth US$2.8 billion - by 2012 it will be worth $5.5
billion.
(SOURCE: PEARL RESEARCH/BUSINESS Internet CHINA)
Forget Facebook, China's Qzone could be the largest
social network in the world. Ranked number one in China
(Facebook doesn't even make it into the top 15), Qzone
claims to have more than 200 million users, compared to
Facebook's 150 million.
(SOURCE: WEB2ASIA)
Not only is Qzone the biggest social networking site in the
world, it could also be the most active - 150 million of its
users actively update their accounts every month at least;
4 million users upload photos daily totalling on average
60 million photos a day; and 9.5 million new blog entries
appear on it each day.
(SOURCE: WEB2ASIA)
In China, the biggest search engine marketing advertisers
are in manufacturing (49.3% of advertisers); the next
biggest group being IT (12.5%); then Trade (10.3%);
Service Industries (6%); Pharmaceuticals (5%) and
Chemical Industry (5%).
(SOURCE: CHINA Internet WATCH)
Chinese online users respond well to viral messages,
particularly the 25-29 age group, 85% of which have
received viral messages containing an ad or a link to an ad
at one time, with 71% of them saying they had passed it
on.
(SOURCE: TNS/MEDIA)
Most Popular Chinese Sites
Rank	 Site Name	 Unique Visitors (000)	 Major Business
1	 QQ.Com	 62,248	 IM
2	 Baidu.Com	 60,174	 Online Ad
3	 Sina.Com.Cn	 48,373	 Portal (Online Ad)
4	 163.Com	 40,805	 Portal (Online Game)
5	 Yahoo.Com.Cn	 38,852	 PaidSearch
6	 Google.Cn	 34,882	 Paid Search
7	 Sohu.Com	 31,184	 Online Games MVAS
8	 Soso.Com	 30,602	 Paid Search
9	 Microsoft.Com	 27,999	 Online Ad, SNS
10	 Taobao.Com	 25,778	 Online Auction
(SOURCE: ComScore/Trendsspotting)
China Online Advertising Market Forecast
Type of Advertising (RMB m)	 2007 	 2008E 	 2009E 	 2010E
Brand Advertising 	 4,559 	 6,428 	 7,585 	 10,013
Search Advertising	 2,851 	 4,663 	 6,614 	 9,438
Other Online Format	 122 	 135 	 148 	 163
Total Online ad market (RMB M)	 7,533 	 11,226 	 14,347 	 19,614
Total Online ad market (US$ M)	 999 	 1,627	 2,092 	 2,860
Growth Rate	 53% 	 49% 	 28% 	 37%
Total China ad market	 116,422 	 155,074 	 178,336 	 203,303
Growth Rate	 10% 	 11.0%	 15.0% 	 14%
Ad market as % of GDP	 0.47% 	 0.49% 	 0.49%	 0.50%
Online ad as % of total ad market 	 6.5% 	 8.0% 	 9.3% 	 11.0%
(SOURCE: JP Morgan)
China Branded Ad Segment Forecast
	 2007 	 2008E 	 2009E 	 2010E
Branded Advertising (RMB m) 	 4,559 	 6,428 	 7,585 	 10,013
Branded Advertising (US$ m) 	 605 	 932 	 1,106 	 1,460
Growth rate (RMB, %) 	 35% 	 41% 	 18% 	 32%
Branded ad as % of total ad market 	 3.9% 	 4.6% 	 4.9%	 5.6%
(SOURCE: JP Morgan)
China Search Market Forecast
	 2007 	 2008E 	 2009E 	 2010E
Avg. Internet users (m) 	 174 	 239 	 295	 348
Number of search (bn) 	 123 	 161 	 209 	 254
Coverage 	 21% 	 24% 	 26% 	 29%
Click through rate 	 24.3% 	 25.5% 	 25.5% 	 26.2%
Price per click (RMB) 	 0.40 	 0.44 	 0.45 	 0.47
PPC Market (RMB m) 	 2,472 	 4,299 	 6,234 	 9,039
PPC Market (US$m) 	 328 	 623 	 909 	 1318
Growth rate (RMB, %) 	 133% 	 74% 	 45% 	 45%
Total Search Market (RMB m) 	 2,851 	 4,663 	 6,614 	 9,438
Total Search Market (US$ m) 	 378 	 676 	 964 	 1,376
Growth rate (RMB, %) 	 98% 	 64% 	 42% 	 43%
Search ad as % of total ad market 	 2.4% 	 3.3% 	 4.3% 	 5.3%
(SOURCE: JP Morgan)
China's Most Popular Social Networks
Rank	 Social Network	 Average Weekly Unique Browsers in
		 December 2008 (million)
1 	 51.com 			 14.0
2 	 xiaonei.com 			 9.5
3 	chinaren.com 			 7.0
4 	kaixin001.com 			 3.5
5 	myspace.cn 			 2.0
6 	 5460.net 			 1.0
7 	wangyou.com 			 1.0
8 	ipart.cn 			 1.0
9 	 360quan.com 			 0.9
10 	cyworld.com.cn 			 0.8
(SOURCE: CR-Nielsen)
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Top 20 Advertisers Using Digital Media in China
Advertiser	 % of users
KFC	 80%
Coca Cola	 77%
Nike	 76%
Nokia	 75%
Li Ning 	 69%
China Mobile Telecom	 69%
Lenovo	 68%
Sony	 67%
McDonald's 	 67%
Adidas	 66%
VISA	 65%
Pizza Hut	 64%
Motorola	 64%
Haier	 62%
Smartone-Vodafone	 62%
Pepsi-Cola	 62%
Olay	 62%
Tsingtao Beer	 60%
Philips	 60%
Samsung Electronic Group	 59%
(SOURCE: TNS/MEDIA; Q: Which of the following brands have you seen advertised via digital
media?)
Trust in Media Channels in China
Media channel	 % who trust the channel completely
Recommendations from friends and family	 66%
Consumer product review from websites	 29%
Product labels on packaging	 24%
Expert product review from websites	 22%
Consumer opinion in blogs	 21%
Independent reviews in publications	 21%
Consumer opinion on message boards	 18%
Consumer opinion in chat rooms	 18%
Manufacturers/brands websites	 15%
Email newsletters	 14%
Magazine ads	 13%
TV ads	 12%
Products/brands that appear in movies or within TV programmes	 12%
Ads that appear on search engines	 10%
Newspaper ads	 10%
Radio ads	 9%
Recommendations from other consumers who you do not personally know	 9%
Ads at the cinema before the movie starts	 9%
Ads on posters, buses/bus shelters	 9%
Ads that have been sent to you by e-mail	 8%
Banner ads on websites	 8%
Ads in virtual worlds	 7%
Ads in video games	 6%
Ads via mobile SMS	 6%
Pop-up or pop-under web ads	 5%
(Source: TNS/Digital Media)
MOBILE
In mid-2008, China had 595 million mobile phone
subscribers, representing mobile penetration rates of
44.7%.
(SOURCE: EMARKETER)
By the end of 2008 China was estimated to have had 640
million mobile users.
(SOURCE: ROA)
China currently has 85 million mobile Internet subscribers -
approximately 14.3% of all mobile phone subscribers in the
country.
(SOURCE: EMARKETER)
Other sources put China's mobile Internet population as
high as 117.6 million, marking a 133% jump from 2007.
(SOURCE: CHINAInternetWATCH.COM/CNNIC)
There were 106.1 million 3G subscribers in China in 2008.
(SOURCE: BTRAX)
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The most prolific mobile Internet users are students,
43.5% of them using their mobile devices to read the
news, download music and check their email.
(SOURCE: BBC/CNNIC)
Chinese Internet users have embraced their mobiles as
music devices, with nearly three quarters (73%) of all
digital music revenues being mobile generated.
(SOURCE: EMARKETER)
Chinese Internet users are more likely to access the
Internet via their mobile devices than their American
counterparts, with 58% of them using their phones for this
purpose.
(SOURCE: NETPOP)
Top 10 Mobile Sites
Rank	 Site
1	 Kong
2	 Baidu
3	 Google
4	 Sina
5	 QQ
6	 Hao123
7	Xiaonei
8	 Paojiao
9	 Ruanj
10	 3g
(SOURCE: Friendster/Opera)
Top Mobile Internet Website Categories
Category	 % Mobile Internet Users
Entertainment	 55%
Games	 36%
Music	 31%
News/Politics	 26%
Business/Finance	 18%
(Source: Nielsen)
Chinese Users' Preferred Mobile Content/
Applications
Content/App	 % of users
News	 69%
Downloads	 62.4%
IM 	 51.1%
Search	 44.5%
Email	 38.9%
Games	 21%
SNS	 20.5%
Others	 1.7%
(SOURCE: InStat)
E-COMMERCE
One third of China's Internet population engage in
e-commerce.
(SOURCE: JP MORGAN)
One brand rules China's e-commerce market - Taobao, with
a market share of 76%.
(SOURCE: JP MORGAN)
China generated US$297.8 billion in online shopping
revenues in 2007 - 44.9% of the region's total online
shopping revenue turnover. By 2010 it is expected to bring
in US$1,415.7 billion.
(SOURCE: MASTERCARD WORLDWIDE INSIGHTS)
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China is home to the largest potential online shopping
market in Asia/Pacific representing 147.1 million people,
or 49.9% of the region's e-commerce population. By 2010
the country will be home to 480.4 million online shoppers,
representing 58.6% of the region's online shopping
community.
(SOURCE: MASTERCARD WORLDWIDE INSIGHTS)
China may have low penetration rates but this small group
of people likes to spend - the country's online shopping
penetration rates are proportionately very high at 70%.
(SOURCE: MASTERCARD WORLDWIDE INSIGHTS)
Chinese online users are no stranger to shopping online,
with 87% of them intending to make a purchase online in
the next 6 months.
(SOURCE: MASTERCARD WORLDWIDE INSIGHTS)
Chinese online users may like shopping over the Internet
but that does not mean they like spending a lot of money,
averaging out at US$506.10 spent over a period of three
months.
(SOURCE: MASTERCARD WORLDWIDE INSIGHTS)
That being said, a significant and extraordinarily
large amount of what the Chinese spend on personal
consumption (32.8%) goes on online purchases.
(SOURCE: MASTERCARD WORLDWIDE INSIGHTS)
Security concerns are a major issue for Chinese online
shoppers, with 87% of them saying they are reluctant
to make online purchases because they believe online
transactions are unsafe.
(SOURCE: MASTERCARD WORLDWIDE INSIGHTS)
For those Chinese who do make purchases online, only
25% of them prefer using credit cards as their online
payment method, compared to 35% who prefer debit cards
and 32% who prefer electronic transfers.
(SOURCE: MASTERCARD WORLDWIDE INSIGHTS)
Online banking experienced very minor growth levels in
2008, rising to 19.3% penetration rates from 19.2% in
2007. And fewer Chinese online users are speculating on
stocks online, down to 11.4% of users compared to 18.2%
in 2007.
(SOURCE: CNNIC)
There may be a lot of people online in China, but that
doesn't mean they have a lot of money to spend online.
The biggest group of users by income happen to be the
lowest earners - 30.5% of Chinese Internet users earn less
than 500 Yuan (US$68.50) per month.
(SOURCE: TRENDSSPOTTING)
The majority of China's online gaming revenues come from
massively multiplayer online role playing games (MMORPG)
representing around 84% of the total online gaming
market.
(SOURCE: JP MORGAN)
CASE STUDY
Client: eLong.com
Agency: Netconcepts Web Technologies
Campaign: Sales-building
Objective: Increasing natural search traffic and sales by
increasing rankings of targeted keywords.
Strategy: Carry out overall optimisation site-wide,
including website structure, contents, and backlinks.
Increase natural search traffic and sales by increasing both
head keywords traffic, and long tail keywords traffic.
Reduce eLong's PPC cost. Increase natural search sales
through gaining more visibility generated from effective
keywords that are able to bring relevant clicks and sales.
Details: Netconcepts researched approximately 100,000
keywords, which can be differentiated into grades including
primary keywords, secondary keywords and long tail
keywords. Netconcepts carried out an overall audit and
provided improvement solutions including programming
and content related changes according to the keyword
research. Focus on the optimisation for homepage and
channel pages, integrating with the optimisation of hotel
and flight section pages. In the second stage, the plan
was to increase the amount of static pages by generating
approximately 100,000 HTML hotel pages. In the mean
time, keyword optimisation was continued and integrated
with the overall optimisation strategy. Regular updates
of page content were carried out periodically. The next
stage was to maximise the use of Google map data by
categorising the hotels further and generating more hotel
pages according to attractions, hospitals and businesses
etc. It also improved the presentation of integration
between Google Maps and tourism products. The fifth stage
was to release approximately 200,000 flights related static
pages. The last stage in the plan was to create strategies
for eLong around travel blogging, which would enhance the
link building strategy and brand image.
Results: • Natural search traffic increased by 100%.
• Hotel bookings from natural search increased by 88%;
• PageRank increased from 5 to 8.
• Almost 1 million pages have been indexed on Google
network.
• Number of backlinks increased to approximate 8.5 million.
• The keyword rankings for eLong.com have been
significantly improved. For example, among the top 100
hotel terms, over 50% of the keywords are gaining the
Page 1 Ranking on both Baidu and Google. Terms such as
酒店预定 (hotel booking), 宾馆(hotels), 酒店查询
(hotel search), 北京酒店(Beijing hotels) and 上海酒
店预定(Shanghai hotel booking) are all ranked in the top
three position.
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DEMOGRAPHICS
Hong Kong has one of the highest Internet penetration
rates in the region at more than 72%.
(SOURCE: OGILVYONE)
Hong Kong currently is home to 3.8 million unique Internet
users.
(SOURCE: COMSCORE)
Hong Kong is a highly networked city with 83% of its
homes linked up to the Internet.
(SOURCE: HK Internet PROJECT 2000-2008)
Broadband is widespread in Hong Kong - at the end of
2008, 195 million homes had broadband Internet access,
representing penetration rates of 77.7%.
(SOURCE: OFTA HK)
More women were online in 2008, now representing 50%
of all Internet users compared to 48% in 2007.
(SOURCE: HK Internet PROJECT 2000-2008)
More than half (53%) of Hong Kong Internet users are
aged between 31 and 50 years old.
(SOURCE: HK Internet PROJECT 2000-2008)
The higher their education level the more likely Hong
Kongers are to be connected to the Internet - 97% of
degree holders or above are online compared to 29% with
middle school education.
(SOURCE: HK Internet PROJECT 2000-2008)
❚ Furthermore the money you have the more likely you are
to be an online user - 94% of Hong Kongers in the top
income bracket (HK$40,000 or more per month) have
Internet access compared with 53% of those in the lowest
(less than HK$20,000).
(SOURCE: HK Internet PROJECT 2000-2008)
Hong Kong's Internet Users 2008
	 Composition of 	 Penetration in
	 the Users 	population
Sex	
Male	 50%	 73%
Female	 50%	 65%
Age
18-24	 15%	 99%
25-30	 14%	 96%
31-35	 13%	 89%
36-40	 14%	 87%
41-50	 27%	 75%
51-60	 14%	 48%
61-74	 4%	 17%
Status
Married	 59%	 61%
Unmarried	 41%	 85%
Education
Middle School or below	 14%	 29%
High/Technical School	 42%	 79%
Associate Degree	 13%	 97%
University Degree	 27%	 97%
Postgraduate Degree	 6%	 95%
Profession
Civil Servant	 4%	 86%
Managerial/Professional	 17%	 95%
Worker/Shop Assistant	 45%	 77%
Self Employed	 4%	 91%
Student	 10%	 100%
Retired/Unemployed	 21%	 41%
(SOURCE: HK Internet PROJECT 2000-2008)
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How Hong Kongers go Online
Access point		 % of users
Home		 94%
Office		 54%
School		 71%
Internet Cafe/Library/public places		 9%
Telephone dialup		 6%
Broadband		 82%
Cable Modem		 14%
Wireless		 22%
Desktop PC		 92%
Notebook PC		 37%
Mobile Phone		 10%
PDA		 5%
TV/other appliances		 0.2%
Other devices		 0.4%
(SOURCE: HK Internet PROJECT 2000-2008)
Internet Use in Hong Kong
Total Homes (000) 	Online Home PCs	 Dial-up Homes	 Broadband Homes
	 (000) 	 (000)	 (000)
2,298	 1,910	 40	 1,870
% of Total Homes	 83%	 2%	 81%
% of Internet Homes	 100%	 2%	 98%
(SOURCE: HK Internet PROJECT 2000-2008)
Hong Kong Online Users, by Income
	 (000) 	 (% OF USERS)
Household Income Less than HK$8000 Per Month	 317	 8.6%
HK$8,000-9,999 Per Month	 187	 5.1%
HK$10,000-12,999 Per Month	 349	 9.4%
HK$13,000 - 14,999 Per Month	 108	 2.9%
HK$15,000 - 19,999 Per Month	 401	 10.8%
HK$20,000 - 29,999 Per Month	 732	 19.8%
HK$30,000 - 39,999 Per Month	 453	 12.2%
HK$40,000 - 49,999 Per Month	 302	 8.2%
HK$50,000 - 69,999 Per Month	 327	 8.8%
HK$70,000+ Per Month	 492	 13.3%
HK$0 Per Month 	 30	 0.8%
(Source : Nielsen Media Index Hong Kong; Base population: Individuals aged 12 - 64; Recency Of
Using Internet [Past Week (Cum)])
Hong Kong Key 2009 Digital Indicators
Services	No.
Mobile subscribers	 11.4 million
2.5G and 3G mobile subscribers	 3.3 million
Mobile subscriber penetration rate	 163.1%
Public Wi-Fi access points	 7,987
Household fixed line penetration rate 	 99.2%
Registered customer accounts with dial-up access	 959,703
Registered customer accounts with broadband access	 1.9 million
Household broadband penetration rate 	 77.8%
Internet service providers 	 167
Mobile network operators 	 5
(SOURCE: OFTA HK)
USER BEHAVIOUR
Online users in Hong Kong overwhelmingly favour word
of mouth when making purchasing decisions, with 93%
of them saying they rely most on recommendations from
consumers.
(SOURCE: OGILVYONE)
Nearly two thirds (65.8%) of Hong Kong's active Internet
population claim to have read a blog.
(SOURCE: OGILVYONE)
Hong Kong is home to some of the biggest media junkies
in the region with local youth aged up to 24 spending on
average 12.7 hours a day online, watching TV or DVD/VCD/
videos, reading newspapers/magazines and listening to the
radio.
(SOURCE: SYNOVATE)
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Hong Kong's online youth is pretty familiar with social
networking, with 53.2% of active users having their own
social network profile.
(SOURCE: OGILVYONE)
Many Hong Konger's have also embraced blogging, with
57% of them saying they are into blogging; 43% of
them spending some of their time reading blogs but not
commenting; just over one third (34%) actively comment
on the blogs they read.
(SOURCE: SYNOVATE)
When it comes to online forums and discussion groups,
Hong Kong's online youth are the most active in the region
with 45% of them reading as well as contributing to them.
(SOURCE: SYNOVATE)
Hong Kong's online youth are amongst the most prolific
bloggers in the region, with 35% of them creating and
updating their blogs in the past 30 days.
(SOURCE: SYNOVATE)
Hong Kong's online youth like seeing what their friends are
up to online: 43% of the read others' social network pages
on a variety of different social networking sites.
(SOURCE: SYNOVATE)
As many as 3.9 million Hong Kongers are estimated to be
social media users, out of an overall population of 7 million
people.
(SOURCE: OGILVYONE)
Two social networking sites pretty much own the market in
Hong Kong - Xanga with 1.8 million users, and Facebook
with 1 milion.
(SOURCE: OGILVYONE)
Hong Kongers are number three in the region, behind
Taiwan and South Korea when it comes to the length of
time online user spend on gaming sites, averaging 143
minutes per visitor over a month, visiting sites on average
13 times.
(SOURCE: COMSCORE)
What Hong Kongers do Online
Features Used	 (000)	 % OF USERS
EMail	 2724	 51%
Search Goods/Services Information	 2001	 37.5%
Read Newspapers/Magazines	 1773	 33.2%
Instant messenger	 1643	 30.8%
Play Online Games	 1262	 23.6%
Search Financial Information	 1117	 20.9%
Search/Download Information	 1065	 19.9%
Listen To Songs/Radio Programs	 1036	 19.4%
Use Online Banking Services	 983	 18.4%
Settle Payment	 936	 17.5%
Download Songs/Music	 843	 15.8%
Watch Video Programs	 842	 15.8%
Browse Blog	 670	 12.5%
Write Blog	 635	 11.9%
Download Software	 619 	 11.6%
Trade Stock	 534	 10%
Search Job Vacancies	 471	 8.8%
Download Movies	 449	 8.4%
Make Reservation/Book Tickets	 444	 8.3%
Use Auction Services	 341	 6.4%
Purchase/Order Goods/Services	 309	 5.8%
Internet Phone	 238	 4.5%
Download Mobile Phone Ringtone 	 234	 4.4%
Download Novel/Comic	 200	 3.7%
Request Customer Services	 192	 3.6%
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Download Mobile Phone Game/Wallpaper 	 123	 2.3%
Netmeeting	 81	 1.5%
Others	 783	 14.7%
(Source : Nielsen Media Index Hong Kong; Base population: Individuals aged 12 - 64)
Why Hong Kongers go Online
Primary purpose	 % of users
Information acquisition (e.g. search and web browsing)	 85%
Leisure and entertainment	 36%
Communication (e.g. email, IM, SMS, chat, etc.)	 31%
Study	 9%
Online banking, trading, payment, etc.	 10%
Getting free resources (e.g. free email accounts, storage, downloads)	 6%
Making friends (e.g. alumni sites)	 1%
Online shopping	 5%
Other	 3%
(SOURCE: HK Internet PROJECT 2000-2008)
How Long Hong Kongers Spend Online
Average Time Spent Using Internet 	 (000)	 % OF USERS
Less Than 30 Minutes	 385	 7.2%
30 Minutes-Less Than 1 Hour	 697	 13%
1 Hour-Less Than 2 Hours	 905	 16.9%
2 Hours-Less Than 3 Hours	 699	 13.1%
3 Hours-Less Than 4 Hours	 436	 8.2%
4 Hours-Less Than 5 Hours	 269	 5%
5 Hours-Less Than 6 Hours	 121	 2.3%
6 Hours Or More	 435	 8.1%
(Source : Nielsen Media Index Hong Kong; Base population: Individuals aged 12 - 64)
ONLINE ADVERTISING
Online advertising spend came to HK$702 million in 2008.
(SOURCE: MARKETING-INTERACTIVE/NIELSEN)
The most prolific online sector in Hong Kong is finance,
which spent HK$36.6 million online in Q4 2008 - 17% of
overall online ad spend.
(SOURCE: MARKETING-INTERACTIVE/NIELSEN)
Hong Kong's spam rate - 87% for September 2008 - is both
higher than the global rate of 78%, and that of China's
which was just 70% in September.
(SOURCE: COMPUTERWORLD/MESSAGELABS)
Hong Kong's online ad revenues in Q4 2008 marked an
increase of 33% on Q3, representing more than HK$208
million.
(SOURCE: NIELSEN ONLINE)
During the October-December period, 1,060 advertisers ran
3,062 online ad campaigns in Hong Kong, attracting more
than 6.7 billion ad impressions.
(SOURCE: NIELSEN ONLINE)
Consumption of the Internet increased in 2008 - while it
still ranks third behind TV and newspapers as engaging
Hong Kongers the most, more of them - 60%, compared to
53% in 2007 - had logged on in the previous day.
(SOURCE: NIELSEN ONLINE)
Dedicated brand websites seem to still be the best media
channel to reach Hong Kong consumers in 2008 - as it was
in 2007 - with 50% of Hong Kongers recalling their use by
online advertisers. Sponsored content was the next most
recognised form of advertising with 43% of Hong Kong
online users recalling its use; followed closely by pop-up
ads (42%).
(SOURCE: TNS/MEDIA)
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Digital marketing methods are proving themselves to be
persuasive in Hong Kong, but only to a degree, with 25%
of Hong Kong online users feeling digital media as a whole
significantly increased their interest in using the brand in
question, while 53% were somewhat interested.
(SOURCE: TNS/MEDIA)
If you really want to get an advertising message across in
Hong Kong, go viral. Nearly three-quarters (73%) of Hong
Kong online user have received a viral message at some
point and more than half (54%) of them have passed it on.
(SOURCE: TNS/MEDIA)
The most active in the viral message community in Hong
Kong are aged between 30 and 34 - 84% of people in this
age group have received a viral message at some point,
and 69% of them have passed it on.
(SOURCE: TNS/MEDIA)
Top 10 Hong Kong Online Advertisers: Q4 2008
Ranking	 Advertiser	 By Ad impressions (in 000's)
1	 Citicorp	 441,133
2	 Global Beauty	 283,440
3	 PCCW	 262,585
4	 Sony	 189,858
5	 Dell	 177,758
6	eBay	 172,658
7	 Wall Street Institute	 166,714
8	 The Hong Kong Jockey Club	 147,070
9	 Hong Kong Government	 128,553
10	 HSBC	 127,140
(SOURCE: NIELSEN ONLINE)
Top 20 Advertisers Using Digital Media in Hong Kong
Advertiser	 % of users
Nike	 69%
HSBC	 69%
Cathay Pacific	 67%
Nokia	 67%
McDonald's	 67%
Coca Cola	 66%
Pizza hut	 65%
Sony Ericsson	 60%
PCCW	 57%
Adidas	 57%
Sony	 56%
KFC	 54%
Hang Seng Bank	 52%
Samsung	 52%
Canon	 51%
Citigroup	 51%
VISA	 48%
SK-II	 45%
Wellcome	 45%
Carlsberg	 44%
(SOURCE: TNS/MEDIA; Q: Which of the following brands have you seen advertised via digital
media?)
Top 20 Motivating Online Advertisers in Hong Kong
Advertiser	 Advertising significantly	 Advertising somewhat
	 increased interest in 	 increased interest in
	using brand (% of users)	using brand (% of users)	
Apple	 40%	 82%
Pizza hut	 36%	 92%
Wellcome	 35%	 93%
KFC	 33%	 89%
Sony Ericsson	 33%	 87%
Nike	 31%	 81%
Nokia	 30%	 91%
Sony	 30%	 85%
Canon	 30%	 86%
Coca Cola	 30%	 81%
McDonald's	 29%	 86%
Cathay Pacific	 27%	 85%
Adidas	 25%	 82%
SK-II	 25%	 73%
Johnson's Baby	 24%	 78%
Samsung	 22%	 83%
VISA	 20%	 64%
HSBC	 18%	 83%
Carlsberg	 18%	 58%
Dragonair	 17%	 93%
(SOURCE: TNS/MEDIA)
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Trust in Media Channels in Hong Kong
Media channel	 % who trust the channel completely
Recommendations from friends and family	 56%
Product labels on packaging	 25%
Expert product review from websites	 24%
Independent reviews in publications	 24%
Consumer product review from websites	 20%
Products/brands that appear in movies or within TV programmes	 18%
Manufacturers/brands websites	 18%
TV ads	 17%
Consumer opinion in blogs	 17%
Consumer opinion in chat rooms	 16%
Ads on posters, buses/bus shelters	 16%
Newspaper ads	 15%
Email newsletters	 15%
Ads at the cinema before the movie starts	 15%
Magazine ads	 14%
Radio ads	 13%
Consumer opinion on message boards	 13%
Banner ads on websites	 12%
Ads that appear on search engines	 11%
Recommendations from other consumers who you do not personally know	 11%
Ads that have been sent to you by e-mail	 11%
Ads via mobile SMS	 8%
Pop-up or pop-under web ads	 8%
Ads in virtual worlds	 7%
Ads in video games	 7%
(Source: TNS/Digital Media)
Media Channels Seen as Untrustworthy
in Hong Kong
Media channel	 % who do not trust the channel
Ads in virtual worlds	 53%
Ads in video games	 48%
Ads via mobile SMS	 42%
Pop-up or pop-under web ads	 32%
Ads that have been sent to you by email	 28%
Ads that appear on search engines	 27%
Banner ads on websites	 24%
Recommendations from other consumers 	 24%
who you do not personally know	 20%
Ads at the cinema before the movie starts	 18%
Magazine ads	 18%
Radio ads	 18%
Products/brands that appear in movies or within TV programmes	 18%
TV ads	 17%
Ads on posters, buses/bus shelters	 16%
Email newsletters	 16%
Newspaper ads	 16%
Consumer opinion in chat rooms	 15%
Manufacturers/brands websites	 14%
Consumer opinion on message boards	 14%
Expert product review from websites	 12%
Consumer product review from websites	 11%
Product labels on packaging	 10%
Consumer opinion in blogs	 10%
Independent reviews in publications	 8%
Recommendations from friends and family	 2%
(SOURCE: TNS/MEDIA)
Types of Digital Media Seen Being Used
Media	 % of users
Dedicated websites	 50%
Sponsored content	 43%
Pop-up ads	 42%
Banner ads	 40%
Email	 31%
Mobile phones	 15%
Ads in video games	 5%
Ads in virtual worlds	 2%
Other	 7%
(Source: TNS/Media)
Hong Kong's Top 10 Sites
 	Total Unique Visitors (000)	 % Reach	Total Minutes (MM)
Yahoo! Sites	 3,077	 80.7%	 618
Microsoft Sites	 2,487	 65.2%	 854
Google Sites	 2,363	 62.0%	 255
FACEBOOK.COM	 1,655	 43.4%	 195
DISCUSS.COM.HK	 1,046	 27.4%	 16
Uwants Sites	 985	 25.8%	 19
SINA Corporation	 928	 24.3%	 26
Wikimedia Foundation Sites	 836	 21.9%	 11
HSBC	 760	 19.9%	 31
PCCW	 736	 19.3%	 18
(SOURCE: COMSCORE MEDIA METRIX; February 2009; Audience: All Persons at Hong Kong Home/Work/
College-University Locations)
Hong Kong's Top Online Gaming Sites
 	 % Reach
Yahoo! Games	 6.2%
Travian Games	 5.5%
TALESRUNNER.COM.HK	 2.7%
MSN Games	 2.1%
WildTangent Network	 1.9%
(SOURCE: ComsCore Media Metrix; February 2009; Audience: All Persons at Hong Kong Home/Work/
College-University Locations)
Hong Kong's Top Online Retail Sites
	 % Reach
Amazon Sites	 19.0%
Alibaba.com Corporation	 18.3%
Apple.com Worldwide Sites	 13.5%
Dell	 9.9%
THREE.COM.HK	 9.5%
CITYLINE.COM	 8.5%
DCFEVER.COM	 8.2%
BOOKS.COM.TW	 8.2%
Sony Electronics	 7.4%
PRICE.COM.HK	 6.7%
(SOURCE: ComsCore Media Metrix; February 2009; Audience: All Persons at Hong Kong Home/Work/
College-University Locations; heavy Internet users)
Hong Kong's Top Technology News Sites
 	 % Reach
CNET	 12.9%
HKEPC.COM	 9.2%
NetShelter Technology Media	 8.9%
HACKEN.CC	 7.2%
PHONEHK.COM	 5.2%
AOL Tech	 3.1%
REVIEW33.COM	 2.4%
About.com Technology Network	 1.7%
NEWHUA.COM	 1.6%
ZDNet	 1.5%
(SOURCE: ComsCore Media Metrix; February 2009; Audience: All Persons at Hong Kong Home/Work/
College-University Locations; heavy Internet users)
Hong Kong's Top Entertainment Sites 		
 	 % Reach
YOUTUBE.COM	 68.8%
Yahoo! Music	 43.7%
TVB.COM	 32.9%
Yahoo! Movies	 30.0%
CBS Interactive	 25.2%
Youku	 20.7%
iTunes Software (App)	 19.9%
Tudou Sites	 19.6%
Sony Online	 18.5%
RTHK.ORG.HK	 17.7%
(SOURCE: ComsCore Media Metrix; February 2009; Audience: All Persons at Hong Kong Home/Work/
College-University Locations; heavy Internet users)
MOBILE
Hong Kong has the highest mobile penetration rate in the
world at 163.1%.
(SOURCE: OFTA HK)
Mobile phones are ubiquitous in Hong Kong - the number
of mobile subscribers now totals 11.37 million.
(SOURCE: OFTA HK)
Of the 11.37 million subscribers in Hong Kong, 2.81 million
are 3G or 3.5G users.
(SOURCE: OFTA HK)
Hong Kong youth love their mobile phones - 80% of them
own one, and typically are spending on average one hour
and 48 minutes every day chatting on them.
(SOURCE: SYNOVATE)
Hong Kongers up to the age of 24 do more than just chat
on their phones: 64% use them to listen to music; 63%
use them to take photos; and 50% play games on them.
(SOURCE: SYNOVATE)
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Hong Kongers have increased their love of texting, sending
almost 100 million additional SMS messages in the month
of December 2008 than in December 2007 - 436.6 million
compared to 334.7 million the previous year.
(SOURCE: OFTA HK)
Hong Kong leads the world in the take up of mobile instant
messaging (MIM) by its mobile phone users, with 23% of
its mobile Internet population using MIM.
(SOURCE: MARKETINGVOX.COM/TNS)
E-COMMERCE
Hong Kongers may not buy as much online as those in
other parts of the world but they tend to spend more.
Hong Kong visitors to online shopping sites on average
place 12.9 orders per 1,000 sessions, lower than the
global average of 29.6 orders - but they spend on average
US$191.76 on each order, much higher than the global
average of US$78.69.
(SOURCE: COREMETRICS)	
Hong Kongers have traditionally spent less time making
their online purchases too, implying they are much more
targeted consumers. They typically spend nearly a minute
less (59 seconds) than the global average to browse, make
a purchase decision and then order. But in the period
October-December 2008 Hong Kongers spend more time
online than the global average, by 44 seconds.
(SOURCE: COREMETRICS)	
As one of the world's leading financial centres it stands to
reason online banking would take off in Hong Kong. Here
the online banking market is among the most advanced in
the world with around 3.5 million banking customers, or
around 50% of the city's population.
(SOURCE: RESEARCHANDMARKETS.COM)
CASE STUDY
Client: Hong Kong Arts Festival Society Limited
Agency: wwwins Consulting Hong Kong
Campaign:The 37th Hong Kong Arts Festival Search
Engine Marketing Campaign
Objective: To increase traffic to Hong Kong Arts Festival
website among the major search engines in Hong Kong in
order to increase the online ticket reservations.
Strategy: As the leader of the performing arts industry,
Hong Kong Arts Festival was poised to become one of
the pioneers in the industry to leverage paid search
campaigns to generate public awareness and maximise
ticket reservations during the advanced booking and
counter booking periods. It was carried out by running an
integrated media campaign using traditional offline media,
as well as online search engines. To help the client achieve
their goals, wwwins/iProspect designed a search engine
marketing campaign to drive targeted visitors to the HKAF
website.
Details: Before the start of the paid search campaign,
the client provided wwwins/iProspect with detailed offline
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marketing materials, as well as a media schedule in order
to help develop an integrated SEM strategy. Keyword lists
and ad copies were developed based on the early bird
discounts and promotional materials provided by HKAF.
They were centred around four key themes: performing
arts, events, musical, and family choice. The campaign
budget was allocated according to the booking period and
synchronised with the offline marketing strategies. The
paid search campaign was launched on both Google Hong
Kong and Yahoo! Hong Kong to help generate awareness
and momentum prior to the advanced booking period.
After the conclusion of the pre-booking period, targeted
keywords and ad copies were written to individually
highlight the eight selected programmes. The second
phase of the paid search campaign aimed to generate
online ticket sales during the advanced booking period
and ticket office sales during the counter booking period.
Throughout the entire campaign, wwwins/iProspect
provided day-to-day bid management for each keyword to
ensure maximum return-on-investment.
Results: • Over 36,000 visits to the website in five
months.
• Over 1,400 bookings were confirmed within one month
and achieved a stunning 4,000% return on investment.
• As a result of keywords and ad copies optimisation, the
click-through-rate (CTR) increased by 380%, compared to
the initial campaign launch period.
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  • 1. www.asiadma.com Edited by Rachel Oliver ASIA PACIFIC Digital Marketing Yearbook 2009 The imperative for marketers now is to join networks and interact directly with their communities of customers online. “ “
  • 3. asia pacific digital marketing yearbook The ears, eyes and voice of digital marketing in Asia The Asia Digital Marketing Association (ADMA) is the voice of, and advocate for, the digital marketing industry in Asia (excluding Japan). The ADMA is guided by senior executives in the industry and is charged with gaining consensus and providing leadership on key industry issues. The ADMA actively promotes the benefits of using mobile and the Internet as channels to communicate with consumers as well as lobbying and public relations assistance for member companies. The ADMA is a non-profit organisation with a membership base representing online publishers/ portals, agencies, research companies, technology/ service companies and marketers/advertisers. Why join the ADMA? Being a member gives you access: • Unified voice for the industry to promote the use of digital and the Internet (in the media and with potential customers) • Forum for standards and best practice sharing • Spokespeople to represent members and respond to criticism • Industry contacts and networking opportunities • Sponsorship opportunities to raise awareness of your brand • Discounted rates for regional events • Notification of relevant speaking opportunities • Professional digital marketing qualifications – discounted enrolment fees for members • Entry in the online Membership Directory and annual Asia Pacific Digital Marketing Yearbook • Job matching service to help you find staff How to join the ADMA Membership fees are set low enough to encourage universal membership among industry players, and taken together provide sufficient revenues to underwrite regular activities. Other activities are funded by sponsorship (cash and in kind) and by charging admission fees for some events. Visit www.asiadma.com/membership/join and complete the online registration form. ❚ ❚ ABOUT THE ASIA DIGITAL MARKETING ASSOCIATION Visit www.asiadma.com for more details. The ADMA gives heartfelt thanks all our members for their support and contributions: ADMA Patrons: ADMA Corporate members: ad:tech, Admax Network, Adobe Systems Hong Kong, AGENDA Group Asia, BBC.com, Coremetrics, draftFCB China, Dow Jones Publishing Company (Asia), Edipresse, eyeblaster, G2 Hong Kong, Grif.inter@ctive, Google Hong Kong, The Hyperfactory, ICLP, Johnson Johnson Vision Care Asia Pacific, MRM Worldwide, NDS Asia Pacific, Nielsen Online, OgilvyOne Worldwide, Omnicom Group, Omniture, Premiere Global Services, Profero, Responsys, SCMP.com, SingTel Digital Media, Sohnar Software, TIME Fortune, Travelzoo, Universal McCann, The Upper Storey, Wunderman, wwwins Consulting, ZUJI. And all our Individual members.
  • 4. One way to reach millions BBC.com is one of the worlds largest news websites, reaching a passionate and engaged audience of 29 million unique users* outside the UK. In Asia, BBC.com reaches 8.7 million unique users* per month excluding UK – more than twice the number of our closest competitor. BBC.com users are affluent, professional, educated and international.They are influentual opinion formers with a global mindset who lead active and cultured lives. Join the list of over 800 great brands that have successfully advertised on BBC.com since the introduction of advertising on the site in November 2007. To find out more about how you can reach your target audience on BBC.com, please contact: Sunita Rajan | VP – Sales, Asia Australasia Work | +(65) 6296 0864 Mobile | + (65) 9836 4153 Email | sunita.rajan@bbc.com Inez Albert, Digital Sales Director, Asia Work | +(852) 2248 0060 Mobile | + (852) 9469 9540 Email | inez.albert@bbc.com CindyTan, Regional Director, Asia Work | +(65) 6296 7903 Mobile | +(65) 9836 4151 / +(65) 8100 0858 Email | cindy.tan2@bbc.com Seema Mohapatra Regional Director, South Asia Work | +(91) 22 3065 2121 Mobile | +(91) 98 2116 8167 Email | seema.mohapatra@bbc.com John Williams Account Director, Australasia Korea Work | +612 8923 4203 Mobile | +61406 420 582 Email | john.williams@bbc.com * comScore, Jan-March 2009 monthly average. comScore competitive set includes
  • 5. asia pacific digital marketing yearbook Asia Pacific 6 Australia 10 China 16 Hong Kong 24 India 30 ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ Indonesia 36 Japan 38 Malaysia 42 NEW ZEALAND 46 THE PHILIPPINES 50 ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ Singapore 54 South Korea 58 Taiwan 62 Thailand 66 Vietnam 70 ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ Contents
  • 6. asia pacific digital marketing yearbook I n the past year, the development of digital marketing took some exciting new turns, reaching not only new levels of growth and penetration, but also new levels of sophistication. Marketers who started with websites, banner ads and email now have an increasingly wide choice of platforms on which to engage their target customers. Search, social media, blogs, sponsored content, mobile, email, and gaming all offer opportunities for innovation and differentiation online. Online media is increasingly gaining the trust of Asian consumers. A recent TNS survey revealed that of the top 25 most trusted forms of media, 14 were online. And increasingly, trusted online media includes user-generated content. The third most trusted overall are expert product reviews from websites, with consumer product reviews from websites at #5 and consumer opinions on blogs and message boards at #7 and #12 respectively. In the early days of digital marketing, offline advertising was used as the model: interruptive messages were placed in front of (or disrupted) the content in ways that grabbed the user's attention. Now we're seeing a truly interactive model arise, in which brands engage their consumers online, either by joining the conversation, or creating a platform for a community to gather around the brand. Some of this new online communication looks more like PR than advertising, and clearly the lines are blurring between sales promotion, CRM and brand-building. Whatever it will eventually develop into, it's exciting. It's clear that Internet users have adopted new media faster than most advertisers trying to reach them. Advertisers need to do some catching up. Although there are some definitive case studies that demonstrate the power of using social media, the ADMA 2009 Survey of the region's advertisers, marketers and agencies uncovered that most marketers and advertisers still predominantly use websites, online ads and email. Why these relatively conservative approaches when the Internet changes continuously and offers so many opportunities for innovation? In some cases, advertisers may be concerned about the relative lack of control over their messaging and positioning on social media platforms, and in other cases they may not yet have discovered a credible way to connect with their target customers online. In any event, there is no doubt that 2009 is the year of social media. Social media platforms have not figured out a way to make money from the huge communities they have created online, but even brands with no clear social media strategy know that they must engage by joining networks and conversations. Facebook, Twitter, Friendster, Bebo, MySpace and LinkedIn have built large-scale user bases in Asia Pacific but these global players don't dominate in every market. New patterns of usage and local behaviour are emerging across the region, with clear distinctions from country to country where consumers spend time online, and how they behave. For example, 48% of all South Koreans have a Cyworld account, and the site has nearly 18 million users, of whom 30% are in their 20s. China's 51.com has 14 million average weekly unique browsers, and 150 million Qzone users actively update their accounts at least once a month. In the Philippines more than 74% of the online population participates in social networking; Friendster has 10.7 million subscribers and Facebook has more than one million. The imperative for marketers now is to join these networks and interact directly with their communities of customers online. Rich media, banner ads, pop-up ads, sponsored content and search may continue to command the lion's share of online ad dollars, but brands must now It's here!The third Asia Digital Marketing Association (ADMA) Yearbook has more pages and more data and more insights than ever. It's also available without charge online at www.asiadigitalmarketingyearbook.com. We've had fantastic feedback on the usefulness of past editions from marketers, advertisers, media buyers and people throughout the digital industry. Just about every marketing director, agency executive or business executive has to develop digital strategies or give a presentation on what's happening online in the Asia Pacific region. That's where the ADMA Yearbook comes in. We've gathered a wealth of the most relevant information and insight available, some of which cannot readily be found anywhere else, along with case studies that showcase some of the most innovative and effective digital work being done now. The Yearbook covers demographics, user behaviour, online advertising, mobile, online gaming, e-commerce, and much more. Many thanks are due to all the companies that contributed data, to our editor Rachel Oliver, and to ADMA Director Kay Bayliss. 2009: Connections Triumph Over Interruption
  • 7. asia pacific digital marketing yearbook master the art of connecting with consumers, as well as -- or in many cases instead of -- interrupting their online experience with advertising messages. Two years ago, the big news in digital marketing was the scale of the opportunity, as the number of users in Asia surpassed all other regions for the first time. Last year the dominant theme was putting the consumer back at the centre of the equation, as marketers and advertisers refocused on customers' profiles and needs, rather than the tools and technologies available to reach them. In 2009, the focus is on connecting brands and consumers, and deeply engaging with target audiences across a wide variety of platforms. Gaming too can be considered part of the social media phenomenon: in a survey more than 50% of respondents said meeting other gamers online was important for their overall experience, and more than 60% of users said they also kept in touch with these friends on other social networking platforms. The numbers for online gaming are big and growing. Games.com attracts nearly 200,000 unique visitors a month in Asia Pacific, each of whom spends an average 86.8 minutes on the site, and QQ.com in China draws more than 44,000 visitors monthly, each spending an average of 46.5 minutes there. Looking beyond social media, online advertising continues to become more mainstream and sophisticated, despite the recession. Yahoo! predicts Asia's annual online ad spend will eclipse western Europe's by 2010 to reach US$122 billion. According to the TNS survey, dedicated websites (53%), sponsored content (50%), pop-up ads (46%), banner ads (39%) and email (19%) are the most common types of digital media seen being used in Asia. Online branding efforts appear to be paying off, with nearly a third of users saying that the brand advertising they have seen significantly increased their interest in using the brand in question. China is number one in search, with 12.8 million searches performed in a month by nearly 150,000 searchers - that's 85 searches per searcher. Japan is the second largest search market, with 5.9 million searchers. However, Korea's searchers are most prolific, with 109 searches per searcher, Singapore not far behind with 106. Mobile continues to gain, both as a text messaging and voice call channel, but also for Internet access. Asia Pacific (ex Japan) has 97.6 million mobile online gamers, and 50% of them are in in China. There is 60% mobile phone penetration in the Philippines. Filipinos send the highest number of SMS messages per subscriber in the world. Mobile site page views grew 1120% YOY. 2008 Asia Pacific- wide mobile data revenues topped US$65 billion, and an estimated 473 million handsets were sold. With usage of all elements of the online marketing mix growing and becoming more sophisticated, all the stakeholders in the digital marketing industry -- from marketers and advertisers to publishers, agencies, hardware and technology solutions providers -- have a unique opportunity in 2009 to pioneer new ways to engage consumers and build their brands and sales online. David Ketchum is Chairman, Asia Digital Marketing Association and CEO Upstream Asia l Asia Pacific is home to the majority of the world's Internet users, with 41% of the total l 32% of Asian users say the online advertising they saw significantly increased their interest in using the brand l Online advertising is expected to have compound annual growth rates of 25% from 2007 to 2011 l 82% of Asia's online ad spending in 2008 was in Japan, South Korea and China l More than 450 million consumers across the region participate in social media and Facebook's Asia Pacific visitors to the site jumped 458% between mid-2007 and mid-2008 l 44% of Asia Pacific Internet users have shopped online in the last three years, and 76% intend to shop online again in the next six months l More than half of the region's entire Internet traffic is from users making repeat visits to gaming sites, and online gaming is expected to account for 75% of the US$9.2 billion premium and paid content market by 2013 l 17 trillion SMS messages originated in Asia Pacific in 2008 (74% of the world total) The Yearbook is packed with relevant and sometimes surprising data. Here's a sample of what you'll find inside:
  • 8. asia pacific digital marketing yearbook DEMOGRAPHICS The majority of the world's Internet users live in Asia, which is now home to 41% of the world's online population, as at the beginning of 2009. Out of the one billion online visitors globally, more than 431 million of them come from the Asia Pacific region. (SOURCE: COMSCORE) Other sources put Asia's online population at a much higher number - as many as 530 million Asians could now be actively online. (SOURCE: DIGITAL ECONOMY FACTBOOK 2008/9) Despite rapid increases in broadband connectivity and the number of users coming online across the region, Asia Pacific's Internet penetration rates still average out at around 15% in comparison to 30% in the rest of the world. (SOURCE: btrax ) Asia Pacific's online penetration rate is the second lowest in the world on a regional basis, Africa being the lowest. (SOURCE: DIGITAL ECONOMY FACTBOOK 2008/9) Asian markets possess the highest percentage of households with broadband fibre connections, led by South Korea with 31.4% of its households linked up to the Internet via fibre-optic connections. (SOURCE: DIGITAL ECONOMY FACTBOOK 2008/9) ❚ Asia Pacific Internet Population and Usage Internet Users Penetration User Growth Users (% of) Latest Data (% Population) (2000-2008) in Asia China 298,000,000 22.4% 1,224.4% 45.8% Hong Kong 4,878,713 69.5% 113.7% 0.8% India 81,000,000 7.1% 1,520.0% 12.5% Indonesia 25,000,000 10.5% 1,150.0% 3.8% Japan 94,000,000 73.8% 99.7% 14.5% South Korea 36,794,800 76.1% 93.3% 5.7% Malaysia 15,868,000 62.8% 328.9% 2.4% Philippines 14,000,000 14.6% 600.0% 2.2% Singapore 3,104,900 67.4% 158.7% 0.5% Taiwan 15,140,000 66.1% 141.9% 2.3% Thailand 13,416,000 20.5% 483.3% 2.1% Vietnam 20,834,401 24.2% 10,317.2% 3.2% TOTAL ASIA 650,361,843 17.2% 469.0% 100.0% (Source: InternetWorldStats December 2008) How Long Asia Pacific Spends Online Total Unique Total Minutes Average Minutes Average Visits Visitors (000) (m) per Visitor per Visitor WorldWide 1,078,911 1,442,534 1,337.0 44.3 Asia Pacific 431,091 412,611 957.1 34.1 China 187,822 155,039 825.5 34.2 Japan 62,052 60,777 979.5 36.1 India 32,930 18,988 576.6 19.8 South Korea 27,685 43,923 1,586.5 49.8 Australia 11,921 13,561 1,137.5 35.3 Taiwan 11,192 10,906 974.4 32.1 Malaysia 9,033 7,441 823.7 25.9 Hong Kong 3,814 4,234 1,110.1 35.9 Singapore 2,523 3,144 1,245.9 35.5 New Zealand 2,414 2,004 830.2 29.2 Source: comScore Media Metrix; February 2009; Audience: All Persons 15+ at Home/Work Locations) ASIA PACIFIC
  • 9. asia pacific digital marketing yearbook USER BEHAVIOUR Social networking is big in Asia. More than 450 million consumers across the region participate in social media. (SOURCE: OGILVYONE) Asia Pacific is the biggest region in the world for social networking with 169 million unique visitors - and it's growing the fastest too at a rate of 29%. (SOURCE: DIGITAL ECONOMY FACTBOOK 2008/9) Such is the pull of social media in Asia that seven out of the world's 10 top markets that rely most on recommendations from consumers are in this region. (SOURCE: OGILVYONE) Social networking site Friendster has Asia to thank for its popularity - out of its 30 million monthly visitors globally, nearly 28 million of them are in the Asia Pacific region. (SOURCE: TECHCRUNCH/FRIENDSTER) Facebook's 153% visitor growth which it recorded between mid-2007 and mid-2008 was higher than any other social network in the world - and it had Asia Pacific to thank for it, the number of the region's visitors to the site jumping by 458% in that period. (SOURCE: BRANDREPUBLIC) More than half of the region's Internet traffic is down to users making repeat visits to gaming sites: 51% of Asia Pacific's online population visited gaming sites in August 2008 on average 11.5 times, each spending on average 87 minutes there. The keenest players of the lot? The South Koreans, who spent around three hours per visit. (SOURCE: COMSCORE) A key motivating factor for Asian online gamers is socialising. In a survey, more than 50% of respondents said meeting other gamers online was important for their overall experience. And these friendships can last - more than 60% of users said they also kept in touch with these friends on other online social networking platforms. (SOURCE: IDC) Asia Pacific's Online Gaming Usage % Reach Total Unique Average Minutes Average Visits Visitors (000) per Visitor per Visitor Asia Pacific** 51.1 199,081 86.8 11.5 China 54.9 90,292 69.8 13.0 Singapore 49.6 1,172 140.0 13.0 Australia 44.7 5,032 125.2 11.3 Taiwan 42.4 4,465 151.0 15.5 New Zealand 41.1 926 134.5 9.9 South Korea 40.5 10,715 189.6 13.0 Malaysia 40.2 3,463 130.8 11.9 Japan 39.8 22,830 76.1 10.0 Hong Kong 36.9 1,388 142.9 13.1 India 27.4 8,295 45.4 4.3 (Source: comScore World Metrix; August 2008; Total Asia-Pacific Internet Audience*,  *Excludes searches from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs. Age 15+ - Home Work Locations) Asia-Pacific's Search Usage Patterns Country Searches (m) Unique Searches Per Searchers (000) Searcher Asia Pacific 28,967 341,850 84.7 China 12,758 149,219 85.5 Japan 5,879 61,130 96.2 Korea 2,303 21,072 109.3 India 1,169 22,931 51.0 Australia 977 8,523 114.6 ❚ Taiwan 618 9,735 63.5 Malaysia 405 6,207 65.2 Hong Kong 199 2,773 71.8 Singapore 171 1,617 105.6 New Zealand 135 1,500 90.1 (Source: comScore qSearch; Total Asia-Pacific Internet Audience*, *Excludes searches from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs; Age 15+ - Home Work Locations; September 2008) Asia's Social Media Market Country Population Forecast Internet Internet Estimated 2008 Users 2008 penetration 2008 Social Media Users China 1,330,044,605 253,000,000 19.0% 202,400,000 Hong Kong 7,018,636 4,878,713 69.5% 3,902,970 India 1,147,995,898 60,000,000 5.2% 48,000,000 Indonesia 237,512,355 25,000,000 10.5% 20,000,000 Japan 127,288,419 94,000,000 73.8% 75,200,000 South Korea 49,232,844 34,820,000 70.7% 27,856,000 Malaysia 25,274,133 14,904,000 59.0% 11,923,200 Pakistan 167,762,040 17,500,000 10.4% 14,000,000 Philippines 92,681,453 14,000,000 15.1% 11,200,000 Singapore 4,608,167 4,026,400 87.4% 3,221,120 Taiwan 22,920,946 15,400,000 67.2% 12,320,000 Thailand 65,493,298 13,416,000 20.5% 10,732,800 Vietnam 86,116,559 20,159,615 23.4% 16,127,692 Asia 3,363,949,353 571,625,328 - 456,883,782 (SOURCE: OgilvyOne) Bloggers in Asia vs USA % of respondents Asia USA Male 73% 57% Ages 18-34 73% 42% Ages 35+ 27% 58% Single 57% 26% Employed full-time 45% 56% Household income US$75,000 9% 51% College graduate 69% 74% Average blogging tenure (months) 30 35 Median annual investment $30 $80 Median annual revenues $120 $200 % of blogs with advertising 60% 52% Average monthly unique visitors 26,000 18,000 (SOURCE: EMarketer; july/august 2008) ONLINE ADVERTISING Online advertising spending in Asia (ex-Japan) will experience dramatic growth going forward, with compound annual growth rates of 25.4% over the 2007-2011 period. (SOURCE: IDC) Online ads may be informing customers in Asia Pacific about their choices - but it doesn't means they are persuading them to buy anything. More than 60% of users in one survey said they saw online ads as informative yet TV ads were more likely to make them want to buy the product that was being advertised. (SOURCE: IDC) If advertisers do want to increase their persuasive abilities online, the best thing to do is make them laugh. According to one survey, nearly 70% of Asian online users watch online video ads, with 60% of users saying they would be highly interested if that ad was funny. (SOURCE: IDC) Together, Japan, South Korea and China took up nearly 82% of Asia's online ad spending in 2008. (SOURCE: SOZON) Asia's online ad spend should eclipse western Europe's by 2010 to reach US$122 billion. (SOURCE: YAHOO!) ❚
  • 10. asia pacific digital marketing yearbook Online ad spend in south east Asia alone will net almost US$200 million by 2010, led mostly by increases in display advertising activities. And three markets - Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines - will be responsible for as much as 90% of the south east Asia region's market growth over the next five years. (SOURCE: MARKETING-INTERACTIVE/NIELSEN/YAHOO!) Online branding efforts appear to be paying off in the region, with nearly one third (32%) of users around Asia - from Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand - saying the brand advertising they have seen across all forms of digital media significantly increased their interest in using the brand in question. (SOURCE: TNS/MEDIA) Nearly half - 45% - of Asia Pacific's advertisers and marketers surveyed said they used online games as part of their digital marketing strategies in 2008. (SOURCE: adma digital marketing survey 2008) So much for the financial crisis - 59% of Asia Pacific advertisers surveyed actually increased their digital marketing budgets in 2008 while only 10% made cutbacks. (SOURCE: adma digital marketing survey 2008) Internet Advertising Revenues Forecast by Region Region 2007 ($m) 2008 *($m) 2010 *($m) North America 188,415 194,990 207,570 Western Europe 119,976 124,420 135,781 Asia Pacific 102,807 111,534 127,916 Central Eastern Europe 31,563 37,041 48,424 Latin America 26,329 30,924 38,920 Rest of World 16,490 18,606 25,938 Worldwide 485,580 517,515 584,550 (Source: ZenithOptimedia *Projections) Types of Digital Media Seen Being Used in Asia Media % of users Dedicated websites 53% Sponsored content 50% Pop-up ads 46% Banner ads 39% Email 29% Mobile phones 19% Ads in video games 6% Ads in virtual worlds 4% Other 11% (Source: TNS/Media; represents China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand) Trust in Media Channels in Asia Media channel % who trust the channel completely Recommendations from friends and family 54% Independent reviews in publications 25% Expert product review from websites 28% Product labels on packaging 27% Consumer product review from websites 22% Manufacturers/brands websites 22% Consumer opinion in blogs 18% TV ads 18% Products/brands that appear in movies or within TV programmes 19% Magazine ads 16% Newspaper ads 16% Consumer opinion on message boards 15% Email newsletters 15% Consumer opinion in chat rooms 15% Ads on posters, buses/bus shelters 13% Ads at the cinema before the movie starts 14% Radio ads 12% Recommendations from other consumers who you do not personally know 11% Ads that appear on search engines 12% Banner ads on websites 11% Ads that have been sent to you by email 9% Pop-up or pop-under web ads 7% Ads in virtual worlds 7% Ads via mobile SMS 6% Ads in video games 6% (SOURCE: TNS/Media; represents China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand) MOBILE An estimated 472.5 million mobile phones were sold in Asia in 2008, a 17.9% increase on 2007. (SOURCE: MARKETINGVOX) By 2013 more than 50% of the world's projected 5.63 billion mobile connections will come from the Asia Pacific region. Not surprisingly the two markets leading the charge will be China and India. (SOURCE: TRENDSNIFF/OVUM) Excluding Japan, Asia now has around 97.6 million mobile online gamers. More than half of them are in China. (SOURCE: IDC) Mobile data revenues in Asia Pacific in 2008 came to US$65.1 billion - in 2003 they stood at just US$21.9 billion. (SOURCE: FROST SULLIVAN/ZDNETASIA) On a regional basis, Asia Pacific is the largest mobile gaming market on earth, generating an estimated US$2.3 billion in end-user spending in 2008, which is estimated to rise to US$3.4 billion in 2011. (SOURCE: GARTNER) In 2008, 1.7 trillion out of an estimated 2.3 trillion mobile SMS messages sent around the world came from Asia. (SOURCE: DIGITAL ECONOMY FACTBOOK 2008/9) By 2012 more than US$880 million of Asia Pacific's mobile music revenues will come from ad-supported business models. (SOURCE: EMARKETER) By the end of 2008 there were an estimated 91.4 million mobile social networking users in the world - 50% of them living in the Asia Pacific region. (SOURCE: INFORMA TELECOMS MEDIA) Asia Pacific's 3G population is set to explode. The region was home to an estimated 158.4 million 3G subscribers in 2008. By 2013 that figure could mushroom to 564 million. (SOURCE: INTELLASIA/FROST SULLIVAN) Mobile TV revenues in Asia Pacific (ex Japan) are anticipated to reach US$1.88 billion by 2013, a dramatic increase from the US$440 million earned in 2007. (SOURCE: EMARKETER/FROST SULLIVAN) Mobile Data Revenues by Region Region Mobile data % of total mobile Monthly mobile revenues (m) revenues data ARPU Asia Pacific $20,272.57 24.57% $4.74 Western Europe $13,065.12 21.13% $7.92 North America $8,636.30 19.76% $10.48 Eastern Europe $2,866.93 15.70% $2.45 Latin America $2,384.20 13.02% $1.84 Middle East $927.63 8.21% $1.73 Africa $881.74 6.62% $0.93 Total $49,034.48 19.68% $5.07 (SOURCE: Emarketer; Q1 2008) ❚
  • 11. asia pacific digital marketing yearbook Mobile Advertising Spending in Asia Pacific 2007-2012 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 ($m) ($m) ($m) ($m) ($m) ($m) Mobile message ads 700 1,229 1,827 3,100 4,309 5,320 Mobile display ads 12 36 91 182 293 397 Mobile search ads 26 72 190 373 732 1,160 Total 738 1,336 2,108 3,655 5,344 6,877 (SOURCE: EMarketer) Mobile Music Spending in Asia Pacific, by Format, 2007-2012 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 (m) (m) (m) (m) (m) (m) Mastertones, ringback tones and other* $654 $843 $1,110 $1,579 $2,311 $3,450 Full-track downloads $535 $747 $1,067 $1,644 $2,606 $4,216 Total mobile music spending $1,189 $1,590 $2,177 $3,223 $4,918 $7,666 of which: ad-supported mobile music $42 $80 $142 $258 $566 $882 (SOURCE: EMarketer; excludes monophonic and polyphonic ringtones; includes China, India, Japan, South Korea; *other includes music videos and streams) E-COMMERCE Online shopping throughout Asia is a growing trend, with 44% of users having shopped online for the past three years; and 63% of respondents saying they now shop online at least occasionally. Over a three month period, regional shoppers bought an average of 3.1 purchases online, spending on average $612.40 on their purchases over that period. More than three-quarters of them (76%) intend to shop online again in the next 6 months. (SOURCE: MASTERCARD WORLDWIDE INSIGHTS) In general, online shopping seems to be a pleasurable experience for Asia's consumers, with 71% finding it convenient; 66% finding it easy; and 62% of users finding it simpler than catalogue or telephone shopping. (SOURCE: MASTERCARD WORLDWIDE INSIGHTS) Price and security matter to online shoppers across Asia. A sizeable 87% of shoppers cite secure payment facilities as an important factor affecting their online purchasing decisions, with 87% also citing price and 85% noting convenient payment methods. Equally, for those who are less keen to shop online, the key reason is security again, with 65% of online shoppers across the region fearing online transactions are unsafe. And when asked how online shopping can be improved, almost three quarters of the region's online consumers - 74% - said they wanted to see enhanced payment security. (SOURCE: MASTERCARD WORLDWIDE INSIGHTS) Asia Pacific's (ex Japan) paid online content market was expected to grow by 21% in 2008 from 2007 to reach a market size of US$4.67 billion. By the end of 2013 that number is expected to grow to US$9.2 billion. The key driver behind this growth is online gaming, which is expected to represent 75.1% of all premium or paid content revenues in 2013, representing US$6.9 billion. (SOURCE: FROST SULLIVAN) ❚ Asia Pacific Online Shopping Revenues Country 2007 (US$bn) 2010 (US$bn) Australia 27.2 37.3 China 297.8 1415.7 Hong Kong 5.5 10 India 70.8 734.3 Japan 168.9 185.3 South Korea 82 114.7 Singapore 4.5 6.6 Thailand 5.9 20.8 (SOURCE: MasterCard Worldwide) Asia Pacific Online Shopping Market Outlook Country Online Shopping Online Shopping Penetration Rate Population 2007 (%) 2010 (%) 2007 (m) 2010 (m) Australia 67 72.1 10.4 12 China 70 74.8 147.1 480.4 Hong Kong 50 62.5 2.4 3.5 India 47 59.2 28.1 203.1 Japan 83 83.1 72.7 75.1 South Korea 83 88.9 29 33 Singapore 60 67.7 1.5 1.8 Thailand 43 57.5 3.6 10.5 (SOURCE: MasterCard Worldwide) CASE STUDY Client: AirAsia Agency: Yahoo! Mobile Campaign: AirAsia brand building campaign Objective: AirAsia wanted to increase awareness of the company and its promotions throughout the region. Strategy: Encourage interaction and allow users to immerse themselves with the AirAsia brand. Evoke interest in AirAsia's Sleepless in 3 cities and Beautiful island getaways campaigns. Details: Partner with Yahoo! Mobile to help drive traffic to the AirAsia mobile website by placing ad banners on the Yahoo! Mobile homepage, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger and Yahoo! oneSearch. Engage users with a rich mobile experience on the AirAsia mobile website. Results: • AirAsia became the first-ever company on Yahoo! mobile in Malaysia. • In just 28 days AirAsia garnered 6,091,490 impressions on mobile phones across Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan and Hong Kong. • 108,405 clicks were obtained (CTR of 1.78%) from mobile users. • Average CPC on market value was $0.56. ❚
  • 12. 10 asia pacific digital marketing yearbook DEMOGRAPHICS Nearly three quarters (73%) of Australian homes are now connected to the Internet. At the end of June 2008 there were 6.21 million active Internet households in the country. (SOURCE: ABS/ACMA) Broadband's popularity surged in Australia in 2008, with household penetration rates rising to 97% last year, up from 84% in 2007. (NIELSEN ONLINE) You can tell a lot about a person by their Internet connection it appears - Australians with post-graduate degrees are 83% more likely to have broadband access than those without tertiary qualifications. (SOURCE: ABS/ACMA) The Internet also appears to be the domain of the wealthy - households with an income of more than AU$2,000 or more a week are three times more likely to have broadband than those with less than AU$600 per week. Indigenous households are around half as likely to have broadband. (SOURCE: ABS/ACMA) How Australians Connect Connection '000 Dial-up Analog 1,298 ISDN/other 13 All dial-up connections 1,311 ❚ Non dial-up (b) ISDN/other 19 DSL 4,208 Fixed wireless 164 Mobile wireless 1,298 Satellite 80 Cable 916 All non dial-up connections 6,685 Total access connections 7,996 Download Speeds Speed '000 Less than 256kbps 1,319 Broadband 256kbps to less than 512kbps 1,458 512kbps to less than 1.5Mbps 1,181 1.5Mbps to less than 8Mbps 2,012 8Mbps to less than 24Mbps 1,653 24Mbps or greater 373 Total broadband (256kbps+) 6,678 Total download speeds 7,996 (SOURCE: abs; q4 2008) USER BEHAVIOUR Australians now spend more time consuming media and this is largely thanks to the Internet: Australians were spending 16.1 hours a week online in 2008, up from 13.7 hours in 2007. (SOURCE: NIELSEN ONLINE) The average Australian spends one and a half hours of their leisure time online every day. (SOURCE: TNS) ❚ AUSTRALIA Uluru (Ayer's Rock) in the Australian Outback
  • 13. asia pacific digital marketing yearbook 11 Australian men in general spend more time online than their female counterparts - amongst heavy Internet users 62% are male and 48% are female. (SOURCE: ABS/ACMA) More media consumption means more multi-tasking: 61% of online users watch TV while they are online and 50% use the Internet while they listen to the radio. For all users who do multi-task, the Internet is most commonly cited as the primary focus. (SOURCE: NIELSEN ONLINE) More Australians are using the Internet to make voice calls, with traffic for Skype and other types of voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) services increasing by 27% in the year ending April 2008. (SOURCE: AUSTRALIAN COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA AUTHORITY) VoIP's growth potential in Australia is such that now nearly half (47%) of all ISPs offer VoIP as part of their bundled broadband packages. (SOURCE: AUSTRALIAN COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA AUTHORITY) Australians are high adopters of social networking sites - 65% of online users in the country use them. (SOURCE: IBM INSTITUTE FOR BUSINESS VALUE) The Internet is now the preferred medium for entertainment and leisure in Australian homes. In a survey of media habits of Australian gamers, 87% of them ranked using the Internet first as their preferred media activity ahead of watching TV, watching DVDs, reading books, newspapers or magazines and listening to music. (SOURCE: IEAA) Perhaps because of their preference for the Internet as a leisure activity, gamers are more likely than non-gamers to use newer online services: 23% of gamers blog compared to 11% of non-gamers; 51% of gamers engage in social networking against 37% of non-gamers; and 35% of gamers download TV shows/movies compared to 18% of non-gamers. (SOURCE: IEAA) Awareness of blogging in Australia is high, with 93% of Australians aware of them, yet only 40% access them and only 13% contribute to them. (SOURCE: TNS) Australian online users rate the Internet as their most trusted source of information (27%), above newspapers (20%) or the television (17%). (SOURCE: NIELSEN ONLINE) Australian Online Activities by Internet Connection Activity Broadband Dial up Banking 75% 53% Maps/directions 64% 47% News, sports or weather updates 73% 58% Auctions 39% 25% Making payments for government services 21% 8% Subscribe/sign up to email newsletters 37% 25% Online radio 13% 2% Streaming video 11% 0% Streaming audio 10% 0% Reading blogs 17% 7% Downloading video 22% 12% Airline ticket purchase 45% 35% Bill payment 68% 58% Online social networking (e.g. Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn) 27% 18% Directories (Yellow/WhitePages) 60% 52% Submitting forms or information to government websites 29% 22% Voice over IP/Internet telephony 9% 2% Accommodation bookings 39% 32% Adult services/websites 10% 3% Local/community information 25% 18% Gambling 10% 3% Instant Messaging 39% 33% Health and medicine sites 31% 25% Education/study sites 29% 35% (SOURCE: ACMA/Nielsen Online) Australian Online Activities by Gender Activity Female Male Adult services/websites 3% 20% Downloading Audio 21% 35% Downloading Video 15% 28% News, sports or weather updates 67% 79% Streaming Video 6% 15% Gambling 6% 14% Making payments for government services 17% 24% Streaming Audio 6% 13% Auctions 34% 41% Maps/directions 60% 65% Health medicine sites 32% 27% Education/study sites 31% 25% (SOURCE: ACMA/Nielsen Online) Activities of Australian Gamers vs Non-Gamers online Activity % of Non-Gamers % of Gamers Self-publishing/Blogging 11% 23% Downloading Computer or Video Games 8% 43% Downloading TV Shows or Movies 18% 35% Other 32% 32% Voice Over Internet Telephone 33% 33% Playing Computer or Video Games 0% 64% Social Networking 37% 51% Watching Streaming Media 39% 60% Chatting 44% 57% Downloading Music 41% 63% Study 56% 62% Work 66% 70% Booking Travel/Holidays 86% 81% Shopping/Banking/Paying Bills 90% 91% Reading the News 90% 90% Product Information 93% 95% Browsing/Surfing 94% 97% Email 99% 100% (SOURCE: IEAA) ONLINE ADVERTISING Expenditure on online advertising in Australia in 2008 came to a sizeable $1.7 billion, representing a 27.1% increase on 2007, or an additional AU$364.25 million. (SOURCE: IAB/PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS) Of the AU$1.7 billion of Australia's online ad expenditure, AU$465 million was spent on display advertising; $439 million on classified advertising; and $807 million on search and directories. (SOURCE: IAB/PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS) Behind the increase in online ad spending in Australian has been strong annual increases across all categories: a 30% increase in search and directories; a 27% increase in general display advertising; and a 23% increase in classified ads. (SOURCE: IAB/PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS) Most online Australians seem happy with ad-supported online video content, with 75% of them saying they would watch ads either before or after quality, free content. The ❚
  • 14. 12 asia pacific digital marketing yearbook remaining 25% of them however dislike ads so much that they would actually pay to avoid advertising messages. (SOURCE: IBM INSTITUTE FOR BUSINESS VALUE) Australians are split straight down the middle when it comes to how they feel about sharing information about themselves with advertisers in exchange for something of value - 50% of that said they were willing to do this. (SOURCE: IBM INSTITUTE FOR BUSINESS VALUE) Australians are becoming less tolerant of advertising across social media, with 38% of users saying they considered advertising an intrusion, compared to 29% who said the same in 2007. Equally while 51% said they didn't mind advertising in 2007, a lower number - 47% - now say that is the case. (SOURCE: NIELSEN ONLINE) Member community sites - including blogs and social networking sites - now reach 59% of Australian online users, compared to 55% in 2007. (SOURCE: NIELSEN ONLINE) Australia's Top Online Ad Spend Categories in 2008 Category Online Display All Media AU$m Share % AU$m Finance 85.6 14.1 606.3 Communications 65.2 18.0 362.2 Motor Vehicles 56.9 5.1 1,118.5 Travel/Accommodation 35.4 6.7 525.3 Media 25.8 8.1 319.8 Retail 21.9 1.1 2,084.3 Entertainment Leisure 19.7 2.6 771.0 Services 19.3 7.6 254.6 Insurance 18.4 6.6 278.8 Computers 17.7 20.9 84.6 Total for all Others not in Top 10 84.1 11.2 112.5 Total Ad Spend estimates for 2008 450 4.5 10,063 (SOURCE: Nielsen AIS Australia) Australia's Top 10 Sites Total Unique % Reach Total Minutes (MM) Visitors (000) Google Sites 9,708 81.4% 1,220 Microsoft Sites 9,071 76.1% 3,931 FACEBOOK.COM 5,331 44.7% 758 Yahoo! Sites 5,254 44.1% 370 eBay 4,810 40.3% 340 Fox Interactive Media 4,218 35.4% 565 News Interactive Pty Limited 3,992 33.5% 186 Telstra Corporation Limited 3,877 32.5% 101 Wikimedia Foundation Sites 3,731 31.3% 53 Apple Inc. 3,624 30.4% 24 (SOURCE: ComScore Media Metrix; February 2009; Audience: All Persons 15+ at Australia Home/ Work Locations) Australia's Top Online Retail Sites % Reach Amazon Sites 38.9% Apple.com Worldwide Sites 26.2% Shopping.com Sites 17.0% Coles Group 16.0% Woolworths 12.6% AmericanGreetings Property 7.7% ninemsn Shopping 7.3% Ticketek 7.2% DEALSDIRECT.COM.AU 7.0% GETPRICE.COM.AU 6.9% (SOURCE: ComScore Media Metrix; February 2009; Audience: All Persons 15+ at Australia Home/ Work Locations; heavy Internet users) Australia's Top Online Gaming Sites Site % Reach WildTangent Network 6.9% MINICLIP.COM 6.3% MSN Games 4.6% ADDICTINGGAMES.COM 3.3% Disney Games 3.0% (SOURCE: ComScore Media Metrix; February 2009; Audience: All Persons 15+ at Australia Home/ Work Locations) Australia's Top Technology News Sites % Reach NetShelter Technology Media 26.8% CNET 22.9% About.com Technology Network 5.8% ZDNet 3.3% Bestofmedia Group 2.9% GRAYSONLINE.COM.AU 2.5% Comment Ca Marche 2.4% WIRED.COM 2.4% Scientific American Network 2.2% SLASHDOT.ORG 2.2% (SOURCE: ComScore Media Metrix; February 2009; Audience: All Persons 15+ at Australia Home/ Work Locations; heavy Internet users) Australia's Top Entertainment Sites % Reach YOUTUBE.COM 74.1% iTunes Software (App) 45.1% CBS Interactive 44.1% Viacom Digital 27.4% Gorilla Nation 23.9% MSN Video 23.3% IMDB.COM 23.2% ARTISTdirect Network 20.1% MySpace Music 19.4% Break Media 17.6% (SOURCE: COMSCORE SEGMENT METRIX; feb 2009; Audience: All Persons 15+ at Australia Home/Work Locations; heavy Internet users) Online Advertising Expenditure - Total Spend by Category by Period (AU$M) 12 months General Classifieds Search and % Year/ Year ended Display Directories Total Growth December 2008 $464.5 $439.2 $806.2 $1,710.2 27% December 2007 $367.0 $356.7 $622.2 $1,346.0 34% December 2006 $303.0 $299.0 $399.0 $1,001.0 61% December 2005 $194.0 $206.0 $220.0 $620.0 60% (SOURCE: IAB/PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS) Online Advertising Expenditure by Industry Advertiser Industry Category 2008 2007 2006 Finance 20.82% 21.31% 23.15% Computers Communications 15.13% 16.58% 16.96% Motor Vehicles 14.94% 14.47% 14.73% Travel/Accommodation 6.30% 6.93% 6.72% Entertainment Leisure 7.18% 6.15% 6.13% Media 4.00% 4.33% 5.09% FMCG 4.20% 4.66% 3.33% Real Estate 2.91% 2.37% 2.53% Retail 3.31% 3.10% 3.47% Insurance 3.41% 3.70% 2.00% Health/Beauty/Pharmaceuticals 4.04% 3.18% 2.65% Government 2.93% 3.47% 2.78% Other 4.04% 4.01% 2.90% Recruitment 1.84% 1.81% 3.69% Alcoholic Beverages 1.28% 1.15% 0.74% Education Learning 1.60% 1.17% 1.03% Home Products Services 0.76% 0.72% 0.87% Community/Public Service 0.88% 0.62% 0.85% Office Business Equipment 0.43% 0.27% 0.38% (SOURCE: IAB/PwC) MOBILE Mobile phone revenues in Australia increased by 6.9% in the 2007-08 period generating AU$11 billion in revenues. (SOURCE: AUSTRALIAN COMMUNICA TIONS AND MEDIA AUTHORITY) ❚
  • 15. asia pacific digital marketing yearbook 13 Mobile phone penetration rates remain high in Australia with 83% of adults using a mobile phone service. Other sources place it much higher, as high as 108%. (SOURCE: AUSTRALIAN COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA AUTHORITY/BUSINESS MONITOR) By 2013 it is estimated there will be more than 25.8 million subscribers in Australia, representing a penetration rate of 117.4%. (SOURCE: BUSINESS MONITOR) Nearly all Australian mobile phone user (97% of them) use their mobile for more than just making phone calls. Of those, 61% use their phones for information services; 57% for entertainment purposes; 99% for communication type services; while 31% used their phone to make purchases. (SOURCE: MNET/TELECOMPAPER) Nearly a third of Australians (31%) have now gone online via their mobiles, on average doing this 1.9 times a week. (SOURCE: MYSPACE.COM/SWEENEY RESEARCH) The cost of using mobile data services is proving a deterrent for Australian mobile phone users. A sizeable 69% of mobile users take photos with their phone, costing them nothing, while only 39% forward them on to friends, a service which they need to pay for. Equally, while 39% of mobile users have gone down the 3G route, only 27% of those people have used their phones to go online. (SOURCE: AUSTRALIAN COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA AUTHORITY) Mobile Internet activity is on the increase in Australia - between September and December 2008, the number of page views across mobile Internet sites increased by 17.3%, representing a compound annual growth rate of 89.3%. (SOURCE: AiMiA) For Australian mobile users, SMS is now as much of a key expenditure each month as voice services with 84% of users in each category saying this was the case, followed by MMS (22%), buying content (9%) and email (7%). (SOURCE: AiMiA) More than a third (36%) of Australian mobile phone users have purchased and/or subscribed to information services via their mobiles in the past 12 months, while 33% had purchased mobile content. More than 50% of them became aware of new mobile content via the Internet. (SOURCE: AiMiA) Nearly half (48%) of mobile users bought content online via their PC; 17% bought it from their mobile carrier's portal; while 12% bought it from their mobile phone menu. (SOURCE: AiMiA) The most popular types of content purchased by Australian mobile users are games (43%), true tones (42%) and wallpapers (33%), the first two items having grown significantly in popularity in the past two years - the popularity of true tones growing by 173% and games by 171%. The number of mobile users purchasing digital music downloads has jumped by 113% over the past two years. (SOURCE: AiMiA) Looking ahead, Australians want more of the same, with the most popular requests for future mobile content being digital music downloads (30%), games (27%) and wallpapers (25%). (SOURCE: AiMiA) The key types of information Australian mobile Internet users access are news (53%), weather (50%) and sport (34%). Compared to last year's data the greatest growth in the type of information accessed has been maps (347% increase), restaurant/cafe guides (174%) and TV listings (93%). (SOURCE: AiMiA) For mobile users who don't use their phones for anything other than voice or SMS, 10% of them say they do this because they don't know what it does; 26% meanwhile say they don't get any value out of it; 10% don't know how to connect to the Internet; 7% don't know how to access content when connected; and a sizeable 60% of users just don't care. (SOURCE: AiMiA) For mobile users that share their mobile content, by far and away the most popular type of content is photos with 96% of users saying they share this, compared to 41% who share videos; 32% who share music; and just 3% that share blog posts. (SOURCE: AiMiA) Half of those who share their content tend to do it once a month or more. And users aged under 25 are more likely to create content to share with other users. (SOURCE: AiMiA) The two main methods Australians use to share content are MMS (63% of users) and Bluetooth (61%). (SOURCE: AiMiA) Community Services Used by Australian Mobile Users % oF Respondents Service Via PC Via Mobile MSN Messenger 57% 8% YouTube 46% 2% Facebook 45% 5% MySpace 28% 3% Yahoo! Messenger 23% 2% Skype 22% 2% Google Talk 12% 2% FlickR 10% 1% Linked In 7% 1% Chat Rooms 7% 1% RSS Feed Reader 7% 2% Apple iChat 2% n/a AOL Messenger 2% 1% CyWorld 1% 1% (SOURCE: AiMiA) Australians' Usage of Mobile Devices Technology % of device % of device enabled used Camera 82% 69% MMS 66% 39% Mobile Internet 60% 27% Bluetooth 57% 36% Video Recorder 47% 25% MP3 Player 40% 23% Video Calls 37% 10% Document Reader 16% 5% GPS 10% 4% (SOURCE: Nielsen Online/ACMA)
  • 16. 14 asia pacific digital marketing yearbook and when? Relevant, timely email communications help your customers feel recognised, connected and valued. Epsilon International offers the industry’s most robust and powerful email platform and combines it with comprehensive agency services to help assure every interaction builds your relationship, results and marketing ROI.
  • 17. asia pacific digital marketing yearbook 15 Content Australian Mobile Users Purchase Content % of Respondents* Games 43% True Tones 42% Wallpapers 33% Poly Tones 30% SMS alerts 19% Screensavers 15% Digital Music Download 14% Video 7% Sound FX 5% Greeting Cards 3% Mono Tones 3% Logos 2% (SOURCE: AIMiA; * as % of those that purchased content) E-COMMERCE E-commerce has now become a prevalent activity amongst Australian online users - 80% of them now shop online. (SOURCE: THE NIELSEN COMPANY) When Australians shop online 37% of them choose online payment system PayPal rather than Visa (22%) as their preferred payment method. (SOURCE: THE NIELSEN COMPANY) Carrying on a trend from previous years, when Australians shop online, it is mainly to book their travel arrangements, with 37% of users booking airline tickets and 31% booking accommodation. The next popular shopping item is book purchases, with 29% of users typically making these purchases. (SOURCE: THE NIELSEN COMPANY) When it comes to the online retailer who attracts the most Australian shoppers, there is one clear market leader - eBay, with 56% of online shoppers having bought something from the site. (SOURCE: THE NIELSEN COMPANY) Australians spend on average half that of the Americans online, spending on average US$37.86 per order against US$77.94 in the U.S. (SOURCE: EMARKETER) Australia's B2C E-Commerce Sales: 2007-2011 Year Sales (AU$ billion) % change from previous year 2007 $18.1 (US$13.6) 45% 2008 $24.5 (US$20.4) 35% 2009 $30.6 (US$26.4) 25% 2010 $37.3 (US$28.7) 22% 2011 $44.8 (US$31.1) 20% (SOURCE: EMarketer) What Australians Buy Online Items bought online % who bought a product in this category within last 3 months Travel (tickets/accommodation) 28% Other 17% DVDs/videos 16% Books/magazines/newspapers 16% Gifts 15% None in the last three months 15% Toys or games 13% Computer software 13% Other clothing/shoes 13% Other entertainment (e.g. shows, events) 13% Music to download 12% Sports equipment/clothing 10% CDs/tapes 9% Computer hardware 9% ❚ Communications equipment (e.g. mobile phone, fax, pager) 4% Shares or financial information 4% Supermarket shopping 3% Alcohol (e.g. wine, beer, spirits) 2% Adult entertainment 2% Cannot say 1% (SOURCE: ACMA/Roy Morgan; Items directly bought online in the previous three months, January to March 2008) Where Australians Shop Online Online retailer % of users eBay 56% Dealsdirect.com.au 23% Virgin Blue 15% Ticketek 12% Amazon 11% QANTAS 12% Jetstar 12% iTunes (Music) 6% Ticketmaster7 6% Flight Centre 6% Wotif 7% Dstore 5% Doubleday Books 4% OO.com.au 7% ezyDVD 5% (SOURCE: The Nielsen Company; 1H 2008) CASE STUDY Client: Hasbro Transformers (Australia) Agency: OMD Campaign: Create the Transformer Hero of your Dreams Objective: To establish a wholly unique integrated campaign enabling children to have direct interaction with the Transformers brand and products. Strategy: Capitalise on Cartoon Network's popularity among boys aged five to 12 by driving brand awareness and interaction through an integrated on-air, online and on the ground promotion. Details: Cartoon Network developed a promotional micro- site which included a drag and drop interaction that allowed children to design their very own Transformer. The campaign ran across three weeks on the Cartoon Network Australia site, and was supported by additional advertising banners linking to the micro-site and on-air advertising. A panel of Cartoon Network and Hasbro judges chose five of the best submissions, and the winners were given the opportunity to meet Hasbro Transformer artist Eric Seibenhaler in person at participating Kmart Stores. Seibenhaler presented each of the winners a personalised Transformer illustration based on their designs. Results: • More than 4,000 children participated in the promotion. • The promotion generated over 45,000 page views over the three-week campaign period. • Over a half million impressions were booked. ❚
  • 18. 16 asia pacific digital marketing yearbook CHINA DEMOGRAPHICS In terms of unique visitors, China is the largest Internet market on earth, representing 18% of the world's online population. (SOURCE: COMSCORE) China currently is home to around 253 million Internet users overall, an online population growth of 1,024.4% from 2000. (SOURCE: BTRAX) That number could be higher however - as high as 298 million users, representing an annual growth rate of 41.9%. (SOURCE: CNNIC) And that number could mushroom to 389 million Internet users in 2009. (SOURCE: BDA) More than two thirds (68.6%) of Chinese online users are below the age of 30. (SOURCE: TRENDSSPOTTING) Despite the large numbers of Internet users in China, Internet penetration rates are still proportionately low ranging anywhere from 15.9% to 22.6% depending on what source you believe. That being said, on the higher side, that figure of 22.6% is above the world average level of 21.9%. (SOURCE: MASTERCARD WORLDWIDE INSIGHTS/CNNIC) ❚ China is home to the highest number of broadband users in the world - 270 million people, representing 90.6% of all Chinese online users, and an increase of 100 million new broadband users from 2007. (SOURCE: CNNIC) There were 84.76 million households with Internet connections in China in 2008. (SOURCE: BTRAX) In terms of gender, China's online population is pretty evenly balanced with 52.5% of users being male, 47.5% female. The number of Chinese women going online has increased from last year when only 42.8% of online users were female. (SOURCE: CHINAInternetWATCH.COM/CNNIC) The most prolific Internet users in China are teenagers - 35.2% of the online population are aged between 11 and 19 years old. (SOURCE: CHINAInternetWATCH.COM/CNNIC) One third of all Chinese Internet users (33.2%) are students. (SOURCE: CNNIC) Time Spent Online Per Week Overall time spent online Time spent per week (hours) Less than a year 12.7 1-2 years 12.4 2-4 years 13.8 4-6 years 16.2 6-8 years 19.9 More than 8 years 26.4 (SOURCE: CNNIC) The Great Wall of China
  • 19. asia pacific digital marketing yearbook 17 China's Internet Users 2008 Age % of users Under 10 0.4% Age 10-19 35.2% Age 20-29 31.5% Age 30-39 17.6% Age 40-49 9.6% Age 50-59 4.2% Age 60 and above 1.5% Education Primary school/below 5.4% Junior middle 28% Senior middle/technical school 39.4% College 12.2% Master's degree/above 1% Profession Others 0.5% Unemployed 5.5% Retirees 2% Agricultural, forestry, husbandry, fishery labourers 2.3% Freelancers 6.4% Self-employed 7.3% Industry/service industry workers 2% Rural migrant workers 2.6% Technical professionals 8.7% Enterprise staff 15% Managers 4.5% Party/government/institute employees 10.3% Students 33.2% Income (Yuan) per month Above 8,000 1.9% 5,001-8,000 2.9% 3,001-5,000 8% 2,001-3,000 13.7% 1,501-2,000 13.8% 1,001-1,500 16% 501-1,000 16.2% Under 500 26% No income 1.5% Places of access Home 78.4% Internet cafe 42.4% Office 20.7% Campus 11.3% Public area 2.7% Others 1.3% Access equipment Desktops 89.4% Laptops 27.8% Mobile phones 39.5% PDA 1.4% (SOURCE: CNNIC Jan 2009) USER BEHAVIOUR Chinese online users are spending more of their time online, which is on average 16.6 hours per week. (SOURCE: BDA) China has the largest Internet audience in the world with 180 million regular viewers of online video content. (SOURCE: CASBAA) Chinese online users like to watch video content online frequently too. When asked how often do you use the Internet to watch video clips, 33% of them said they do pretty much every time they go online. (SOURCE: CASBAA/SINA/CHINA YOUTH DAILY) Social networking has formed a stronghold on the Chinese online community, particularly so when it comes to video content. Because of the country's strong grassroots culture nearly two thirds of video content in China (63.7%) ❚ is discovered through social connections. And 94.1% of this content is shared via instant messaging tools like QQ and MSN. (SOURCE: CASBAA) Chinese online users prioritise the Internet over TV as their main source of entertainment, with more than 80% of young Chinese saying they placed the Web as their primary source of entertainment. (SOURCE: CASBAA/SINA/CHINA YOUTH DAILY) Blogging is picking up in China - 107 million Chinese online users say they use blogs, representing 42.3% of the overall Internet user population. (SOURCE: OGILVYONE) More Chinese actually have become bonafide bloggers themselves however - as much as 162 million now consider themselves bloggers. (SOURCE: CHINAInternetWATCH.COM/CNNIC) Chinese broadband users love to express themselves online, with more than nine out of 10 'broadbanders' contributing at least one kind of content online every month. (SOURCE: NETPOP) Perhaps for this reason eight out of 10 'broadbanders' see the Internet as liberating, efficient, fulfilling, fun and creative. (SOURCE: NETPOP) Of all China's Internet users, almost all of them read news online - 234 million of them are online news users. (SOURCE: CHINAInternetWATCH.COM/CNNIC) There might be a lot of news out there that the vast majority of Chinese Internet users are reading but a lot of them appear to feel wary of it: 70% of them think that at best only half the information retrieved on the Internet is reliable. (SOURCE: BDA/WORLD Internet PROJECT) China was home to an estimated 202.4 million social media users in 2008. (SOURCE: OGILVYONE) Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) are at the heart of China's social media attracting 10 million posts every day, with 80% of all Chinese websites hosting their own BBS. (SOURCE: OGILVYONE) Such is the stronghold social media has on China's online population that more than 50% of Chinese Internet users are making new friends online. (SOURCE: OGILVYONE) When the Chinese want to connect with these friends, they overwhelmingly choose instant messaging - 90% of them use IM to do this. (SOURCE: OGILVYONE) The Chinese love listening to music online, with Internet music usage rates of 84.5%, representing 214 million people. The next favourite form of online entertainment
  • 20. 18 asia pacific digital marketing yearbook is online video with 71% usage rates; followed by online gaming (58.3% usage rates). (SOURCE: OGILVYONE) The longer Chinese Internet users spend online, the longer they spend online - those Internet users who have only been online for less than a year spend on average 12.7 hours per week on the Internet, while those who have been online for more than eight years spend on average 26.4 hours online a week. (SOURCE: CNNIC) China is renowned for its tight controls over Internet content. The country's online users don't seem to mind however - 85% of them approve of Internet censorship. Perhaps the reason being is that 93% of them feel that much of Internet content to be unsuitable for children. (SOURCE: TRENDSSPOTTING) China's Web 2.0 market is expected to be worth US$645.8 million by 2011. (S OURCE: IDC/TRENDSSPOTTING) China MMORPG Market Forecast 2007 2008E 2009E 2010E 2011E MMORPG gamers (m) 34.4 44.7 55.9 66.0 75.9 Game users penetration 19.7% 22.3% 25.3% 27.6% 29.4% Average ARPU per month (RMB) 20.7 21.7 22.4 22.8 23.3 Market size (RMB million) 8,544 11,663 15,016 18,073 21,200 MMORPG Market size (US$M) 1,124 1,535 1,976 2,378 2,789 Growth Rate 54% 37% 29% 20% 17% (SOURCE: JP MORGAN) China Casual Game Market Forecast 2007 2008E 2009E 2010E 2011E Casual game players (million) 42.4 50.9 59.0 66.1 71.4 Casual players penetration 24.2% 25.4% 26.7% 27.7% 27.6% Assumed Ratio of paying users 25% 27% 29% 30% 31% APRU per month (Rmb) 12.2 13.5 14.5 15.6 16.7 Market size (RMB million) 1,563 2,227 2,996 3,714 4,435 Casual Market size (US$M) 206 293 394 489 584 Growth Rate 56% 43% 35% 24% 19% What Chinese Internet Users do online (% of groups) Middle/primary College Office Rural Total school students students employees migrant workers Network news 68.1% 89.9% 83.1% 73.4% 78.5% Search engines 63.5% 84.4% 71.9% 56.6% 68.0% Online recruitment 8.9% 29.5% 23.0% 23.7% 18.6% Email 52.2% 81.4% 60.4% 38.9% 56.8% Instant messaging 77.5% 91.1% 75.0% 66.5% 75.3% Having blogs 64.0% 81.4% 50.9% 43.1% 54.3% Forum/BBS 24.1% 55.5% 34.6% 17.2% 30.7% Friend-making Websites 16.8% 26.0% 20.2% 18.2% 19.3% Network music 86.9% 94.0% 83.4% 78.2% 83.7% Network video 67.4% 84.4% 68.1% 57.3% 67.7% Network games 69.7% 64.2% 60.6% 55.5% 62.8% Online shopping 16.2% 38.8% 29.4% 11.7% 24.8% Online selling 2.1% 5.2% 4.4% 0.8% 3.7% Online payment 9.6% 30.5% 22.4% 7.9% 17.6% Travel reservation 2.0% 6.8% 6.8% 2.5% 5.6% Online banking 7.7% 29.9% 25.5% 7.4% 19.3% Online stock speculation 4.7% 4.7% 15.5% 4.1% 11.4% Online education 16.2% 25.6% 17.3% 7.8% 16.5% (SOURCE: CNNIC) Use of Online Apps by Chinese users: 2007 vs 2008 End of 2007 End of 2008 Change Growth Use rate Size of Use rate Size of Increase rate users users (10,000) (10,000) Network news 73.6% 15,500 78.5% 23,400 7,900 51.0% Search engine 72.4% 15,200 68.0% 20,300 5,100 33.6% Network job seeking 10.4% 2,200 18.6% 5,500 3,300 150.0% Email 56.5% 11,900 56.8% 16,900 5,000 42.0% Instant messaging 81.4% 17,100 75.3% 22,400 5,300 31.0% Having blogs - - 54.3% 16,200 - - Updating blogs 23.5% 4,900 35.2% 10,500 5,600 114.3% Forum/BBS - - 30.7% 9,100 - - Friend-making websites - - 19.3% 5,800 - - Network games 59.3% 12,500 62.8% 18,700 6,200 49.6% Network music 86.6% 18,200 83.7% 24,900 6,700 36.8% Network video 76.9% 16,100 67.7% 20,200 4,100 25.5% Online shopping 22.1% 4,600 24.8% 7,400 2,800 60.9% Online selling - - 3.7% 1,100 - - Online payment 15.8% 3,300 17.6% 5,200 1,900 57.6% Travel reservation - - 5.6% 1,700 - - Online banking 19.2% 4,000 19.3% 5,800 1,800 45.0% Online stock Speculation 18.2% 3,800 11.4% 3,400 -400 -10.5% Online education 16.6% 3,500 16.5% 4,900 1,400 40.0% (SOURCE: CNNIC, Jan 2009) How spending time online makes Chinese users feel Sentiment Level of Acceptance Without the Internet, I cannot work or study 39.0% Without the Internet, my entertainment life will be very monotonous 59.1% Handling business online saves me a lot of trouble from visiting a place in person 69.3% Generally I read major news first on the Internet 61.8% When encountering a problem, I will first go to the Internet to seek answers 64.6% I make many new friends on the Internet 65.4% The Internet strengthens my contact with friends 82.5% In the age of the Internet, I feel more lonely 19.9% The Internet reduces my time spent with my family 29.0% The registration information I fill in on the Internet is true 47.5% It is safe to have transactions online 27.6% The Internet is my primary channel for airing my views 41.9% After having access to the Internet, I am more concerned with social events than before 76.9% (SOURCE: CNNIC) ONLINE ADVERTISING China's online advertising market was valued at RMB17 billion, or US$2.4 billion in 2008, representing year on year growth of 53%. Online advertising is now the fastest growing advertising sector in China. (SOURCE: BDA) Online advertising represented 5% of China's advertising market in 2008. (SOURCE: BDA) China's online advertising market is expected to grow by 20% in 2009. (SOURCE: BDA) Online display advertising in China was expected to grow by 41% year on year in 2008, generating RMB6.4 billion in revenues. Growth is anticipated to slow down in 2009 however to around 18% year on year growth, representing RMB7.58 billion in earnings. (SOURCE: JP MORGAN) By 2012 online ad revenues in China are expected to reach US$3.4 billion. (SOURCE: EMARKETER) This growth has something to do with the increase in number of online advertisers in the country, numbering 600,000 in 2008. In 2009 this number could reach 900,000. (SOURCE: BDA) The advertisers that will spur this growth are likely to come from the top three industries for online advertising - IT, automotives and real estate. Other sectors to watch out for in 2009 are telecoms, online services and FMCG. (SOURCE: BDA) ❚
  • 21. asia pacific digital marketing yearbook 19 Economic hardships could actually prove a boon for the online advertising market in China, with expectations of 28% year on year growth in 2009 for the online ad market, and 37% year on year growth in 2010, representing US$2.9 billion. (SOURCE: JP MORGAN) China currently has 2.87 million websites registered within its territory, an increase of 91.4% from 2007. The total number of web pages passed the 16 billion mark at the end of 2008. (SOURCE: CNNIC) Half of the top 20 sites in Asia Pacific by traffic are based in China, led by Baidu.com, Tencent, SINA.com and NetEase. (SOURCE: TRENDSSPOTTING) Of all advertisers in China using search engine marketing, 86% use Baidu and 60.2% use Google. (SOURCE: CHINA Internet WATCH) Baidu is the clear market leader in China's search market with 64.4% market share, followed by Google with 25% and Yahoo! with 8% share. (SOURCE: COMSCORE/TRENDSSPOTTING) Search advertising will experience strong growth in China's online advertising market in 2009, generating an estimated RMB6.61 billion, up from RMB4.66 billion in 2008. (SOURCE: JP MORGAN) User-generated content is very powerful in China, with 58% of all purchasing decisions being influenced by online consumer reviews, rating sites, blogs, forums and bulletin boards. (SOURCE: NETPOP) The most influential source for online Chinese when making purchasing decisions is the search engine - 46% of 'broadbanders' consult a search engine to make their shopping decisions, compared to just 25% of American 'broadbanders'. (SOURCE: NETPOP) The Chinese online gaming market grew by 63% in 2008 making it worth US$2.8 billion - by 2012 it will be worth $5.5 billion. (SOURCE: PEARL RESEARCH/BUSINESS Internet CHINA) Forget Facebook, China's Qzone could be the largest social network in the world. Ranked number one in China (Facebook doesn't even make it into the top 15), Qzone claims to have more than 200 million users, compared to Facebook's 150 million. (SOURCE: WEB2ASIA) Not only is Qzone the biggest social networking site in the world, it could also be the most active - 150 million of its users actively update their accounts every month at least; 4 million users upload photos daily totalling on average 60 million photos a day; and 9.5 million new blog entries appear on it each day. (SOURCE: WEB2ASIA) In China, the biggest search engine marketing advertisers are in manufacturing (49.3% of advertisers); the next biggest group being IT (12.5%); then Trade (10.3%); Service Industries (6%); Pharmaceuticals (5%) and Chemical Industry (5%). (SOURCE: CHINA Internet WATCH) Chinese online users respond well to viral messages, particularly the 25-29 age group, 85% of which have received viral messages containing an ad or a link to an ad at one time, with 71% of them saying they had passed it on. (SOURCE: TNS/MEDIA) Most Popular Chinese Sites Rank Site Name Unique Visitors (000) Major Business 1 QQ.Com 62,248 IM 2 Baidu.Com 60,174 Online Ad 3 Sina.Com.Cn 48,373 Portal (Online Ad) 4 163.Com 40,805 Portal (Online Game) 5 Yahoo.Com.Cn 38,852 PaidSearch 6 Google.Cn 34,882 Paid Search 7 Sohu.Com 31,184 Online Games MVAS 8 Soso.Com 30,602 Paid Search 9 Microsoft.Com 27,999 Online Ad, SNS 10 Taobao.Com 25,778 Online Auction (SOURCE: ComScore/Trendsspotting) China Online Advertising Market Forecast Type of Advertising (RMB m) 2007 2008E 2009E 2010E Brand Advertising 4,559 6,428 7,585 10,013 Search Advertising 2,851 4,663 6,614 9,438 Other Online Format 122 135 148 163 Total Online ad market (RMB M) 7,533 11,226 14,347 19,614 Total Online ad market (US$ M) 999 1,627 2,092 2,860 Growth Rate 53% 49% 28% 37% Total China ad market 116,422 155,074 178,336 203,303 Growth Rate 10% 11.0% 15.0% 14% Ad market as % of GDP 0.47% 0.49% 0.49% 0.50% Online ad as % of total ad market 6.5% 8.0% 9.3% 11.0% (SOURCE: JP Morgan) China Branded Ad Segment Forecast 2007 2008E 2009E 2010E Branded Advertising (RMB m) 4,559 6,428 7,585 10,013 Branded Advertising (US$ m) 605 932 1,106 1,460 Growth rate (RMB, %) 35% 41% 18% 32% Branded ad as % of total ad market 3.9% 4.6% 4.9% 5.6% (SOURCE: JP Morgan) China Search Market Forecast 2007 2008E 2009E 2010E Avg. Internet users (m) 174 239 295 348 Number of search (bn) 123 161 209 254 Coverage 21% 24% 26% 29% Click through rate 24.3% 25.5% 25.5% 26.2% Price per click (RMB) 0.40 0.44 0.45 0.47 PPC Market (RMB m) 2,472 4,299 6,234 9,039 PPC Market (US$m) 328 623 909 1318 Growth rate (RMB, %) 133% 74% 45% 45% Total Search Market (RMB m) 2,851 4,663 6,614 9,438 Total Search Market (US$ m) 378 676 964 1,376 Growth rate (RMB, %) 98% 64% 42% 43% Search ad as % of total ad market 2.4% 3.3% 4.3% 5.3% (SOURCE: JP Morgan) China's Most Popular Social Networks Rank Social Network Average Weekly Unique Browsers in December 2008 (million) 1 51.com 14.0 2 xiaonei.com 9.5 3 chinaren.com 7.0 4 kaixin001.com 3.5 5 myspace.cn 2.0 6 5460.net 1.0 7 wangyou.com 1.0 8 ipart.cn 1.0 9 360quan.com 0.9 10 cyworld.com.cn 0.8 (SOURCE: CR-Nielsen)
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  • 23. asia pacific digital marketing yearbook 21 Top 20 Advertisers Using Digital Media in China Advertiser % of users KFC 80% Coca Cola 77% Nike 76% Nokia 75% Li Ning 69% China Mobile Telecom 69% Lenovo 68% Sony 67% McDonald's 67% Adidas 66% VISA 65% Pizza Hut 64% Motorola 64% Haier 62% Smartone-Vodafone 62% Pepsi-Cola 62% Olay 62% Tsingtao Beer 60% Philips 60% Samsung Electronic Group 59% (SOURCE: TNS/MEDIA; Q: Which of the following brands have you seen advertised via digital media?) Trust in Media Channels in China Media channel % who trust the channel completely Recommendations from friends and family 66% Consumer product review from websites 29% Product labels on packaging 24% Expert product review from websites 22% Consumer opinion in blogs 21% Independent reviews in publications 21% Consumer opinion on message boards 18% Consumer opinion in chat rooms 18% Manufacturers/brands websites 15% Email newsletters 14% Magazine ads 13% TV ads 12% Products/brands that appear in movies or within TV programmes 12% Ads that appear on search engines 10% Newspaper ads 10% Radio ads 9% Recommendations from other consumers who you do not personally know 9% Ads at the cinema before the movie starts 9% Ads on posters, buses/bus shelters 9% Ads that have been sent to you by e-mail 8% Banner ads on websites 8% Ads in virtual worlds 7% Ads in video games 6% Ads via mobile SMS 6% Pop-up or pop-under web ads 5% (Source: TNS/Digital Media) MOBILE In mid-2008, China had 595 million mobile phone subscribers, representing mobile penetration rates of 44.7%. (SOURCE: EMARKETER) By the end of 2008 China was estimated to have had 640 million mobile users. (SOURCE: ROA) China currently has 85 million mobile Internet subscribers - approximately 14.3% of all mobile phone subscribers in the country. (SOURCE: EMARKETER) Other sources put China's mobile Internet population as high as 117.6 million, marking a 133% jump from 2007. (SOURCE: CHINAInternetWATCH.COM/CNNIC) There were 106.1 million 3G subscribers in China in 2008. (SOURCE: BTRAX) ❚ The most prolific mobile Internet users are students, 43.5% of them using their mobile devices to read the news, download music and check their email. (SOURCE: BBC/CNNIC) Chinese Internet users have embraced their mobiles as music devices, with nearly three quarters (73%) of all digital music revenues being mobile generated. (SOURCE: EMARKETER) Chinese Internet users are more likely to access the Internet via their mobile devices than their American counterparts, with 58% of them using their phones for this purpose. (SOURCE: NETPOP) Top 10 Mobile Sites Rank Site 1 Kong 2 Baidu 3 Google 4 Sina 5 QQ 6 Hao123 7 Xiaonei 8 Paojiao 9 Ruanj 10 3g (SOURCE: Friendster/Opera) Top Mobile Internet Website Categories Category % Mobile Internet Users Entertainment 55% Games 36% Music 31% News/Politics 26% Business/Finance 18% (Source: Nielsen) Chinese Users' Preferred Mobile Content/ Applications Content/App % of users News 69% Downloads 62.4% IM 51.1% Search 44.5% Email 38.9% Games 21% SNS 20.5% Others 1.7% (SOURCE: InStat) E-COMMERCE One third of China's Internet population engage in e-commerce. (SOURCE: JP MORGAN) One brand rules China's e-commerce market - Taobao, with a market share of 76%. (SOURCE: JP MORGAN) China generated US$297.8 billion in online shopping revenues in 2007 - 44.9% of the region's total online shopping revenue turnover. By 2010 it is expected to bring in US$1,415.7 billion. (SOURCE: MASTERCARD WORLDWIDE INSIGHTS) ❚
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  • 25. asia pacific digital marketing yearbook 23 China is home to the largest potential online shopping market in Asia/Pacific representing 147.1 million people, or 49.9% of the region's e-commerce population. By 2010 the country will be home to 480.4 million online shoppers, representing 58.6% of the region's online shopping community. (SOURCE: MASTERCARD WORLDWIDE INSIGHTS) China may have low penetration rates but this small group of people likes to spend - the country's online shopping penetration rates are proportionately very high at 70%. (SOURCE: MASTERCARD WORLDWIDE INSIGHTS) Chinese online users are no stranger to shopping online, with 87% of them intending to make a purchase online in the next 6 months. (SOURCE: MASTERCARD WORLDWIDE INSIGHTS) Chinese online users may like shopping over the Internet but that does not mean they like spending a lot of money, averaging out at US$506.10 spent over a period of three months. (SOURCE: MASTERCARD WORLDWIDE INSIGHTS) That being said, a significant and extraordinarily large amount of what the Chinese spend on personal consumption (32.8%) goes on online purchases. (SOURCE: MASTERCARD WORLDWIDE INSIGHTS) Security concerns are a major issue for Chinese online shoppers, with 87% of them saying they are reluctant to make online purchases because they believe online transactions are unsafe. (SOURCE: MASTERCARD WORLDWIDE INSIGHTS) For those Chinese who do make purchases online, only 25% of them prefer using credit cards as their online payment method, compared to 35% who prefer debit cards and 32% who prefer electronic transfers. (SOURCE: MASTERCARD WORLDWIDE INSIGHTS) Online banking experienced very minor growth levels in 2008, rising to 19.3% penetration rates from 19.2% in 2007. And fewer Chinese online users are speculating on stocks online, down to 11.4% of users compared to 18.2% in 2007. (SOURCE: CNNIC) There may be a lot of people online in China, but that doesn't mean they have a lot of money to spend online. The biggest group of users by income happen to be the lowest earners - 30.5% of Chinese Internet users earn less than 500 Yuan (US$68.50) per month. (SOURCE: TRENDSSPOTTING) The majority of China's online gaming revenues come from massively multiplayer online role playing games (MMORPG) representing around 84% of the total online gaming market. (SOURCE: JP MORGAN) CASE STUDY Client: eLong.com Agency: Netconcepts Web Technologies Campaign: Sales-building Objective: Increasing natural search traffic and sales by increasing rankings of targeted keywords. Strategy: Carry out overall optimisation site-wide, including website structure, contents, and backlinks. Increase natural search traffic and sales by increasing both head keywords traffic, and long tail keywords traffic. Reduce eLong's PPC cost. Increase natural search sales through gaining more visibility generated from effective keywords that are able to bring relevant clicks and sales. Details: Netconcepts researched approximately 100,000 keywords, which can be differentiated into grades including primary keywords, secondary keywords and long tail keywords. Netconcepts carried out an overall audit and provided improvement solutions including programming and content related changes according to the keyword research. Focus on the optimisation for homepage and channel pages, integrating with the optimisation of hotel and flight section pages. In the second stage, the plan was to increase the amount of static pages by generating approximately 100,000 HTML hotel pages. In the mean time, keyword optimisation was continued and integrated with the overall optimisation strategy. Regular updates of page content were carried out periodically. The next stage was to maximise the use of Google map data by categorising the hotels further and generating more hotel pages according to attractions, hospitals and businesses etc. It also improved the presentation of integration between Google Maps and tourism products. The fifth stage was to release approximately 200,000 flights related static pages. The last stage in the plan was to create strategies for eLong around travel blogging, which would enhance the link building strategy and brand image. Results: • Natural search traffic increased by 100%. • Hotel bookings from natural search increased by 88%; • PageRank increased from 5 to 8. • Almost 1 million pages have been indexed on Google network. • Number of backlinks increased to approximate 8.5 million. • The keyword rankings for eLong.com have been significantly improved. For example, among the top 100 hotel terms, over 50% of the keywords are gaining the Page 1 Ranking on both Baidu and Google. Terms such as 酒店预定 (hotel booking), 宾馆(hotels), 酒店查询 (hotel search), 北京酒店(Beijing hotels) and 上海酒 店预定(Shanghai hotel booking) are all ranked in the top three position. ❚
  • 26. 24 asia pacific digital marketing yearbook DEMOGRAPHICS Hong Kong has one of the highest Internet penetration rates in the region at more than 72%. (SOURCE: OGILVYONE) Hong Kong currently is home to 3.8 million unique Internet users. (SOURCE: COMSCORE) Hong Kong is a highly networked city with 83% of its homes linked up to the Internet. (SOURCE: HK Internet PROJECT 2000-2008) Broadband is widespread in Hong Kong - at the end of 2008, 195 million homes had broadband Internet access, representing penetration rates of 77.7%. (SOURCE: OFTA HK) More women were online in 2008, now representing 50% of all Internet users compared to 48% in 2007. (SOURCE: HK Internet PROJECT 2000-2008) More than half (53%) of Hong Kong Internet users are aged between 31 and 50 years old. (SOURCE: HK Internet PROJECT 2000-2008) The higher their education level the more likely Hong Kongers are to be connected to the Internet - 97% of degree holders or above are online compared to 29% with middle school education. (SOURCE: HK Internet PROJECT 2000-2008) ❚ Furthermore the money you have the more likely you are to be an online user - 94% of Hong Kongers in the top income bracket (HK$40,000 or more per month) have Internet access compared with 53% of those in the lowest (less than HK$20,000). (SOURCE: HK Internet PROJECT 2000-2008) Hong Kong's Internet Users 2008 Composition of Penetration in the Users population Sex Male 50% 73% Female 50% 65% Age 18-24 15% 99% 25-30 14% 96% 31-35 13% 89% 36-40 14% 87% 41-50 27% 75% 51-60 14% 48% 61-74 4% 17% Status Married 59% 61% Unmarried 41% 85% Education Middle School or below 14% 29% High/Technical School 42% 79% Associate Degree 13% 97% University Degree 27% 97% Postgraduate Degree 6% 95% Profession Civil Servant 4% 86% Managerial/Professional 17% 95% Worker/Shop Assistant 45% 77% Self Employed 4% 91% Student 10% 100% Retired/Unemployed 21% 41% (SOURCE: HK Internet PROJECT 2000-2008) HONG KONG Hong Kong's tallest building Two IFC rising above the city
  • 27. asia pacific digital marketing yearbook 25 How Hong Kongers go Online Access point % of users Home 94% Office 54% School 71% Internet Cafe/Library/public places 9% Telephone dialup 6% Broadband 82% Cable Modem 14% Wireless 22% Desktop PC 92% Notebook PC 37% Mobile Phone 10% PDA 5% TV/other appliances 0.2% Other devices 0.4% (SOURCE: HK Internet PROJECT 2000-2008) Internet Use in Hong Kong Total Homes (000) Online Home PCs Dial-up Homes Broadband Homes (000) (000) (000) 2,298 1,910 40 1,870 % of Total Homes 83% 2% 81% % of Internet Homes 100% 2% 98% (SOURCE: HK Internet PROJECT 2000-2008) Hong Kong Online Users, by Income (000) (% OF USERS) Household Income Less than HK$8000 Per Month 317 8.6% HK$8,000-9,999 Per Month 187 5.1% HK$10,000-12,999 Per Month 349 9.4% HK$13,000 - 14,999 Per Month 108 2.9% HK$15,000 - 19,999 Per Month 401 10.8% HK$20,000 - 29,999 Per Month 732 19.8% HK$30,000 - 39,999 Per Month 453 12.2% HK$40,000 - 49,999 Per Month 302 8.2% HK$50,000 - 69,999 Per Month 327 8.8% HK$70,000+ Per Month 492 13.3% HK$0 Per Month 30 0.8% (Source : Nielsen Media Index Hong Kong; Base population: Individuals aged 12 - 64; Recency Of Using Internet [Past Week (Cum)]) Hong Kong Key 2009 Digital Indicators Services No. Mobile subscribers 11.4 million 2.5G and 3G mobile subscribers 3.3 million Mobile subscriber penetration rate 163.1% Public Wi-Fi access points 7,987 Household fixed line penetration rate 99.2% Registered customer accounts with dial-up access 959,703 Registered customer accounts with broadband access 1.9 million Household broadband penetration rate 77.8% Internet service providers 167 Mobile network operators 5 (SOURCE: OFTA HK) USER BEHAVIOUR Online users in Hong Kong overwhelmingly favour word of mouth when making purchasing decisions, with 93% of them saying they rely most on recommendations from consumers. (SOURCE: OGILVYONE) Nearly two thirds (65.8%) of Hong Kong's active Internet population claim to have read a blog. (SOURCE: OGILVYONE) Hong Kong is home to some of the biggest media junkies in the region with local youth aged up to 24 spending on average 12.7 hours a day online, watching TV or DVD/VCD/ videos, reading newspapers/magazines and listening to the radio. (SOURCE: SYNOVATE) ❚ Hong Kong's online youth is pretty familiar with social networking, with 53.2% of active users having their own social network profile. (SOURCE: OGILVYONE) Many Hong Konger's have also embraced blogging, with 57% of them saying they are into blogging; 43% of them spending some of their time reading blogs but not commenting; just over one third (34%) actively comment on the blogs they read. (SOURCE: SYNOVATE) When it comes to online forums and discussion groups, Hong Kong's online youth are the most active in the region with 45% of them reading as well as contributing to them. (SOURCE: SYNOVATE) Hong Kong's online youth are amongst the most prolific bloggers in the region, with 35% of them creating and updating their blogs in the past 30 days. (SOURCE: SYNOVATE) Hong Kong's online youth like seeing what their friends are up to online: 43% of the read others' social network pages on a variety of different social networking sites. (SOURCE: SYNOVATE) As many as 3.9 million Hong Kongers are estimated to be social media users, out of an overall population of 7 million people. (SOURCE: OGILVYONE) Two social networking sites pretty much own the market in Hong Kong - Xanga with 1.8 million users, and Facebook with 1 milion. (SOURCE: OGILVYONE) Hong Kongers are number three in the region, behind Taiwan and South Korea when it comes to the length of time online user spend on gaming sites, averaging 143 minutes per visitor over a month, visiting sites on average 13 times. (SOURCE: COMSCORE) What Hong Kongers do Online Features Used (000) % OF USERS EMail 2724 51% Search Goods/Services Information 2001 37.5% Read Newspapers/Magazines 1773 33.2% Instant messenger 1643 30.8% Play Online Games 1262 23.6% Search Financial Information 1117 20.9% Search/Download Information 1065 19.9% Listen To Songs/Radio Programs 1036 19.4% Use Online Banking Services 983 18.4% Settle Payment 936 17.5% Download Songs/Music 843 15.8% Watch Video Programs 842 15.8% Browse Blog 670 12.5% Write Blog 635 11.9% Download Software 619 11.6% Trade Stock 534 10% Search Job Vacancies 471 8.8% Download Movies 449 8.4% Make Reservation/Book Tickets 444 8.3% Use Auction Services 341 6.4% Purchase/Order Goods/Services 309 5.8% Internet Phone 238 4.5% Download Mobile Phone Ringtone 234 4.4% Download Novel/Comic 200 3.7% Request Customer Services 192 3.6%
  • 28. 26 asia pacific digital marketing yearbook Download Mobile Phone Game/Wallpaper 123 2.3% Netmeeting 81 1.5% Others 783 14.7% (Source : Nielsen Media Index Hong Kong; Base population: Individuals aged 12 - 64) Why Hong Kongers go Online Primary purpose % of users Information acquisition (e.g. search and web browsing) 85% Leisure and entertainment 36% Communication (e.g. email, IM, SMS, chat, etc.) 31% Study 9% Online banking, trading, payment, etc. 10% Getting free resources (e.g. free email accounts, storage, downloads) 6% Making friends (e.g. alumni sites) 1% Online shopping 5% Other 3% (SOURCE: HK Internet PROJECT 2000-2008) How Long Hong Kongers Spend Online Average Time Spent Using Internet (000) % OF USERS Less Than 30 Minutes 385 7.2% 30 Minutes-Less Than 1 Hour 697 13% 1 Hour-Less Than 2 Hours 905 16.9% 2 Hours-Less Than 3 Hours 699 13.1% 3 Hours-Less Than 4 Hours 436 8.2% 4 Hours-Less Than 5 Hours 269 5% 5 Hours-Less Than 6 Hours 121 2.3% 6 Hours Or More 435 8.1% (Source : Nielsen Media Index Hong Kong; Base population: Individuals aged 12 - 64) ONLINE ADVERTISING Online advertising spend came to HK$702 million in 2008. (SOURCE: MARKETING-INTERACTIVE/NIELSEN) The most prolific online sector in Hong Kong is finance, which spent HK$36.6 million online in Q4 2008 - 17% of overall online ad spend. (SOURCE: MARKETING-INTERACTIVE/NIELSEN) Hong Kong's spam rate - 87% for September 2008 - is both higher than the global rate of 78%, and that of China's which was just 70% in September. (SOURCE: COMPUTERWORLD/MESSAGELABS) Hong Kong's online ad revenues in Q4 2008 marked an increase of 33% on Q3, representing more than HK$208 million. (SOURCE: NIELSEN ONLINE) During the October-December period, 1,060 advertisers ran 3,062 online ad campaigns in Hong Kong, attracting more than 6.7 billion ad impressions. (SOURCE: NIELSEN ONLINE) Consumption of the Internet increased in 2008 - while it still ranks third behind TV and newspapers as engaging Hong Kongers the most, more of them - 60%, compared to 53% in 2007 - had logged on in the previous day. (SOURCE: NIELSEN ONLINE) Dedicated brand websites seem to still be the best media channel to reach Hong Kong consumers in 2008 - as it was in 2007 - with 50% of Hong Kongers recalling their use by online advertisers. Sponsored content was the next most recognised form of advertising with 43% of Hong Kong online users recalling its use; followed closely by pop-up ads (42%). (SOURCE: TNS/MEDIA) ❚ Digital marketing methods are proving themselves to be persuasive in Hong Kong, but only to a degree, with 25% of Hong Kong online users feeling digital media as a whole significantly increased their interest in using the brand in question, while 53% were somewhat interested. (SOURCE: TNS/MEDIA) If you really want to get an advertising message across in Hong Kong, go viral. Nearly three-quarters (73%) of Hong Kong online user have received a viral message at some point and more than half (54%) of them have passed it on. (SOURCE: TNS/MEDIA) The most active in the viral message community in Hong Kong are aged between 30 and 34 - 84% of people in this age group have received a viral message at some point, and 69% of them have passed it on. (SOURCE: TNS/MEDIA) Top 10 Hong Kong Online Advertisers: Q4 2008 Ranking Advertiser By Ad impressions (in 000's) 1 Citicorp 441,133 2 Global Beauty 283,440 3 PCCW 262,585 4 Sony 189,858 5 Dell 177,758 6 eBay 172,658 7 Wall Street Institute 166,714 8 The Hong Kong Jockey Club 147,070 9 Hong Kong Government 128,553 10 HSBC 127,140 (SOURCE: NIELSEN ONLINE) Top 20 Advertisers Using Digital Media in Hong Kong Advertiser % of users Nike 69% HSBC 69% Cathay Pacific 67% Nokia 67% McDonald's 67% Coca Cola 66% Pizza hut 65% Sony Ericsson 60% PCCW 57% Adidas 57% Sony 56% KFC 54% Hang Seng Bank 52% Samsung 52% Canon 51% Citigroup 51% VISA 48% SK-II 45% Wellcome 45% Carlsberg 44% (SOURCE: TNS/MEDIA; Q: Which of the following brands have you seen advertised via digital media?) Top 20 Motivating Online Advertisers in Hong Kong Advertiser Advertising significantly Advertising somewhat increased interest in increased interest in using brand (% of users) using brand (% of users) Apple 40% 82% Pizza hut 36% 92% Wellcome 35% 93% KFC 33% 89% Sony Ericsson 33% 87% Nike 31% 81% Nokia 30% 91% Sony 30% 85% Canon 30% 86% Coca Cola 30% 81% McDonald's 29% 86% Cathay Pacific 27% 85% Adidas 25% 82% SK-II 25% 73% Johnson's Baby 24% 78% Samsung 22% 83% VISA 20% 64% HSBC 18% 83% Carlsberg 18% 58% Dragonair 17% 93% (SOURCE: TNS/MEDIA)
  • 29. asia pacific digital marketing yearbook 27 Trust in Media Channels in Hong Kong Media channel % who trust the channel completely Recommendations from friends and family 56% Product labels on packaging 25% Expert product review from websites 24% Independent reviews in publications 24% Consumer product review from websites 20% Products/brands that appear in movies or within TV programmes 18% Manufacturers/brands websites 18% TV ads 17% Consumer opinion in blogs 17% Consumer opinion in chat rooms 16% Ads on posters, buses/bus shelters 16% Newspaper ads 15% Email newsletters 15% Ads at the cinema before the movie starts 15% Magazine ads 14% Radio ads 13% Consumer opinion on message boards 13% Banner ads on websites 12% Ads that appear on search engines 11% Recommendations from other consumers who you do not personally know 11% Ads that have been sent to you by e-mail 11% Ads via mobile SMS 8% Pop-up or pop-under web ads 8% Ads in virtual worlds 7% Ads in video games 7% (Source: TNS/Digital Media) Media Channels Seen as Untrustworthy in Hong Kong Media channel % who do not trust the channel Ads in virtual worlds 53% Ads in video games 48% Ads via mobile SMS 42% Pop-up or pop-under web ads 32% Ads that have been sent to you by email 28% Ads that appear on search engines 27% Banner ads on websites 24% Recommendations from other consumers 24% who you do not personally know 20% Ads at the cinema before the movie starts 18% Magazine ads 18% Radio ads 18% Products/brands that appear in movies or within TV programmes 18% TV ads 17% Ads on posters, buses/bus shelters 16% Email newsletters 16% Newspaper ads 16% Consumer opinion in chat rooms 15% Manufacturers/brands websites 14% Consumer opinion on message boards 14% Expert product review from websites 12% Consumer product review from websites 11% Product labels on packaging 10% Consumer opinion in blogs 10% Independent reviews in publications 8% Recommendations from friends and family 2% (SOURCE: TNS/MEDIA) Types of Digital Media Seen Being Used Media % of users Dedicated websites 50% Sponsored content 43% Pop-up ads 42% Banner ads 40% Email 31% Mobile phones 15% Ads in video games 5% Ads in virtual worlds 2% Other 7% (Source: TNS/Media) Hong Kong's Top 10 Sites   Total Unique Visitors (000) % Reach Total Minutes (MM) Yahoo! Sites 3,077 80.7% 618 Microsoft Sites 2,487 65.2% 854 Google Sites 2,363 62.0% 255 FACEBOOK.COM 1,655 43.4% 195 DISCUSS.COM.HK 1,046 27.4% 16 Uwants Sites 985 25.8% 19 SINA Corporation 928 24.3% 26 Wikimedia Foundation Sites 836 21.9% 11 HSBC 760 19.9% 31 PCCW 736 19.3% 18 (SOURCE: COMSCORE MEDIA METRIX; February 2009; Audience: All Persons at Hong Kong Home/Work/ College-University Locations) Hong Kong's Top Online Gaming Sites   % Reach Yahoo! Games 6.2% Travian Games 5.5% TALESRUNNER.COM.HK 2.7% MSN Games 2.1% WildTangent Network 1.9% (SOURCE: ComsCore Media Metrix; February 2009; Audience: All Persons at Hong Kong Home/Work/ College-University Locations) Hong Kong's Top Online Retail Sites % Reach Amazon Sites 19.0% Alibaba.com Corporation 18.3% Apple.com Worldwide Sites 13.5% Dell 9.9% THREE.COM.HK 9.5% CITYLINE.COM 8.5% DCFEVER.COM 8.2% BOOKS.COM.TW 8.2% Sony Electronics 7.4% PRICE.COM.HK 6.7% (SOURCE: ComsCore Media Metrix; February 2009; Audience: All Persons at Hong Kong Home/Work/ College-University Locations; heavy Internet users) Hong Kong's Top Technology News Sites   % Reach CNET 12.9% HKEPC.COM 9.2% NetShelter Technology Media 8.9% HACKEN.CC 7.2% PHONEHK.COM 5.2% AOL Tech 3.1% REVIEW33.COM 2.4% About.com Technology Network 1.7% NEWHUA.COM 1.6% ZDNet 1.5% (SOURCE: ComsCore Media Metrix; February 2009; Audience: All Persons at Hong Kong Home/Work/ College-University Locations; heavy Internet users) Hong Kong's Top Entertainment Sites   % Reach YOUTUBE.COM 68.8% Yahoo! Music 43.7% TVB.COM 32.9% Yahoo! Movies 30.0% CBS Interactive 25.2% Youku 20.7% iTunes Software (App) 19.9% Tudou Sites 19.6% Sony Online 18.5% RTHK.ORG.HK 17.7% (SOURCE: ComsCore Media Metrix; February 2009; Audience: All Persons at Hong Kong Home/Work/ College-University Locations; heavy Internet users) MOBILE Hong Kong has the highest mobile penetration rate in the world at 163.1%. (SOURCE: OFTA HK) Mobile phones are ubiquitous in Hong Kong - the number of mobile subscribers now totals 11.37 million. (SOURCE: OFTA HK) Of the 11.37 million subscribers in Hong Kong, 2.81 million are 3G or 3.5G users. (SOURCE: OFTA HK) Hong Kong youth love their mobile phones - 80% of them own one, and typically are spending on average one hour and 48 minutes every day chatting on them. (SOURCE: SYNOVATE) Hong Kongers up to the age of 24 do more than just chat on their phones: 64% use them to listen to music; 63% use them to take photos; and 50% play games on them. (SOURCE: SYNOVATE) ❚
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  • 31. asia pacific digital marketing yearbook 29 Hong Kongers have increased their love of texting, sending almost 100 million additional SMS messages in the month of December 2008 than in December 2007 - 436.6 million compared to 334.7 million the previous year. (SOURCE: OFTA HK) Hong Kong leads the world in the take up of mobile instant messaging (MIM) by its mobile phone users, with 23% of its mobile Internet population using MIM. (SOURCE: MARKETINGVOX.COM/TNS) E-COMMERCE Hong Kongers may not buy as much online as those in other parts of the world but they tend to spend more. Hong Kong visitors to online shopping sites on average place 12.9 orders per 1,000 sessions, lower than the global average of 29.6 orders - but they spend on average US$191.76 on each order, much higher than the global average of US$78.69. (SOURCE: COREMETRICS) Hong Kongers have traditionally spent less time making their online purchases too, implying they are much more targeted consumers. They typically spend nearly a minute less (59 seconds) than the global average to browse, make a purchase decision and then order. But in the period October-December 2008 Hong Kongers spend more time online than the global average, by 44 seconds. (SOURCE: COREMETRICS) As one of the world's leading financial centres it stands to reason online banking would take off in Hong Kong. Here the online banking market is among the most advanced in the world with around 3.5 million banking customers, or around 50% of the city's population. (SOURCE: RESEARCHANDMARKETS.COM) CASE STUDY Client: Hong Kong Arts Festival Society Limited Agency: wwwins Consulting Hong Kong Campaign:The 37th Hong Kong Arts Festival Search Engine Marketing Campaign Objective: To increase traffic to Hong Kong Arts Festival website among the major search engines in Hong Kong in order to increase the online ticket reservations. Strategy: As the leader of the performing arts industry, Hong Kong Arts Festival was poised to become one of the pioneers in the industry to leverage paid search campaigns to generate public awareness and maximise ticket reservations during the advanced booking and counter booking periods. It was carried out by running an integrated media campaign using traditional offline media, as well as online search engines. To help the client achieve their goals, wwwins/iProspect designed a search engine marketing campaign to drive targeted visitors to the HKAF website. Details: Before the start of the paid search campaign, the client provided wwwins/iProspect with detailed offline ❚ ❚ marketing materials, as well as a media schedule in order to help develop an integrated SEM strategy. Keyword lists and ad copies were developed based on the early bird discounts and promotional materials provided by HKAF. They were centred around four key themes: performing arts, events, musical, and family choice. The campaign budget was allocated according to the booking period and synchronised with the offline marketing strategies. The paid search campaign was launched on both Google Hong Kong and Yahoo! Hong Kong to help generate awareness and momentum prior to the advanced booking period. After the conclusion of the pre-booking period, targeted keywords and ad copies were written to individually highlight the eight selected programmes. The second phase of the paid search campaign aimed to generate online ticket sales during the advanced booking period and ticket office sales during the counter booking period. Throughout the entire campaign, wwwins/iProspect provided day-to-day bid management for each keyword to ensure maximum return-on-investment. Results: • Over 36,000 visits to the website in five months. • Over 1,400 bookings were confirmed within one month and achieved a stunning 4,000% return on investment. • As a result of keywords and ad copies optimisation, the click-through-rate (CTR) increased by 380%, compared to the initial campaign launch period.