China’s Singles Day — a weeks-long shopping event that has become a key measure of consumer demand in the country — has reportedly seen a lackluster response this year. Analysts expect that the increases in gross merchandise value (GMV) seen by eCommerce firms that have...
Started by Chinese eCommerce giant Alibaba.com as a kind of Valentine’s Day for the unattached to buy gifts for themselves, the annual Nov. 11 Single’s Day phenom has since grown into the world’s biggest sales event, generating an estimated $139 billion in just 24 hours...
What started in the 1990s in China as an anti-Valentine’s Day remains the world’s largest shopping day of the year — and though regulatory scrutiny muted some of the Singles’ Day celebration, consumers still came out in droves to buy from eCommerce merchants. Alibaba launched...
Alibaba has rolled out what it’s calling a “metaverse” ahead of China’s Singles Day, according to RADII, a China youth culture publication founded by a former vice president of Alibaba. “Metaverse Art Exhibition,” a virtual space in which people can interact, is Alibaba’s way of...
November 11, 2022
Started by Chinese eCommerce giant Alibaba.com as a kind of Valentine’s Day for the unattached to buy gifts for themselves, the annual Nov. 11 Single’s Day phenom has since grown into the world’s biggest sales event, generating an estimated $139 billion in just 24 hours last year. For context, compare that to the $12 billion […]
December 18, 2019
Singles Day started quite humbly. Before it was an international shopping festival raking in just under $50 billion in sales in a single day, it was an informal holiday in...
November 10, 2018
When Singles Day launched nearly a decade ago, the then-fledgling eCommerce brand Alibaba didn’t really think they were changing the face of commerce in its nation. By even their own accounts,...
November 11, 2022
During the 10 days leading up to China’s Singles Day shopping event, there was a 40% increase in the number of online transactions via the Alipay+ payment platform compared to the same period last year. In terms of transaction volume increase, parent company Ant Group said in a Thursday (Nov. 10) press release that the […]
November 11, 2022
China’s Singles Day — a weeks-long shopping event that has become a key measure of consumer demand in the country — has reportedly seen a lackluster response this year. Analysts...
November 03, 2021
Alibaba has rolled out what it’s calling a “metaverse” ahead of China’s Singles Day, according to RADII, a China youth culture publication founded by a former vice president of Alibaba....
November 12, 2020
Alibaba smashed Singles’ Day sales records this year with help from an aggressive push into European and other foreign markets. Alibaba notched sales worth more than $74 billion in gross...
