
In China, the world’s biggest smartphone market, mobile commerce and payments are heating up fast.
When e-commerce giant Alibaba sold $5.7 billion in goods during its annual 24-hour megasale Nov. 11, 2013, 21% of orders came from mobile devices. A year earlier, that figure was only 5%.
“So far it’s only a campaign to encourage people to download we are on phase one,” said Gregory Wu, digital marketing VP of 180China, the agency behind the ads. He can envision mobile apps encompassing the entire consumer journey browsing product info, looking at an item from every angle, discussing it with friends on social media, buying it. That’s still down the road.
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