2020 China Market Report

Philippe MEDA

14 Feb 2020 — 1 min read

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Totem Media has had the finger on the pulse on the Chinese market for quite a few years now. I never worked with them, but their insights on the evolution of China as a leading digital market are always spot on. Here’s their latest 148 page report covering key trends on:

Consumer spending/confidence
Brand ROI challenges
Opportunities in Lower Tier Cities
China’s changing media landscape
The growing importance of CRM
Livestream Selling, KOLs and branded video
Lessons to be learned from DTC brands

Greed will end up solving climate change

Working on long-term trends is obviously getting tricky since a few months ago, and I guess I don't have to explain why anymore. Whether some key events will have long-term negative or positive impacts, businesses and innovators need some level of stability to invest in the future. Knowing

From social media to social credit: the creeping convergence of U.S. and Chinese citizen profiling

How to protect your phone at the US border is now an ongoing trope of many tech blogs, travel websites, and consumer magazines. Beyond the quite obvious geopolitical implications, we see in real-time a core transformation of how the US deals with online and social media privacy (or lack thereof)

China's guerrilla warfare on tariffs starts with luxury goods

If you've been on any social media recently, you've probably been hit by one of these videos initially pushed through TikTok. The script is always the same: a Chinese manufacturer demonstrating how they carefully craft high-end luxury bags with imported leather, high skills, and very aggressive

How many times can you say 'mistake' to your board?

A powerful statement from Warren Buffett, writing Berkshire Hathaway's annual letter last February: Sometimes I’ve made mistakes in assessing the future economics of a business I’ve purchased for Berkshire — each a case of capital allocation gone wrong. That happens with both judgments about marketable equities — we

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Greed will end up solving climate change

From social media to social credit: the creeping convergence of U.S. and Chinese citizen profiling

China's guerrilla warfare on tariffs starts with luxury goods

How many times can you say 'mistake' to your board?