http://www.wildwebwidget.com This news feed lists new companies just commencing advertisements in Beijing, China or unique advertising approaches. en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss PHP/5.2.5 http://wildwebwidget.com/imagesnl/logo30.gif http://wildwebwidget.com/ http://wildwebwidget.com/en/advertise-in-China.php Craig Mandsager The last round of Olympic ticket sales sold out today - in only two days. These were the sponsors listed on the actual domestic tickets (this is not the complete list of sponsors): CocaCola, AtosOrigin, GE, Johnsonamp;Johnson, Kodak, lenovo, Manulife, McDonalds, OMEGA, Panasonic, Samsung, VISA. Officials are aggressively enforcing Olympic IPR infringements of any non-sponsors. - 05/06/2008 http://wildwebwidget.com/en/advertise-in-China.php Craig Mandsager Doritos, that staple of the American home packed lunch is now in China. Though potato chips are very popular, corn chips are a new snack item for China. The Chinese do like corn flavor (there is even corn flavored ice cream) not that any corn flavor comes through all that nacho flavor. Maybe would have been better to introduce regular Fritos first. The bags are sized to match the size of potato chips bags; 95g. Seen in Carefour, not yet in common supermarket. - 12/19/2007 http://wildwebwidget.com/en/advertise-in-China.php Craig Mandsager More and more musicals coming to China. One of the earlier shows must have finally turned a profit and now China is a definite stop on the Theater/Dance world tour circuit. Alvin Ailey, a true pioneer, first came in 1986 returned in 2006 and now looks like they will be a yearly visitor. - 10/26/2007 http://wildwebwidget.com/en/advertise-in-China.php Craig Mandsager The two top fastfood chains in China have both have started offering breakfast meals. Which brings up an interesting question. After all these years of no special breakfast meal, why now? Perhaps the disappearance of a competitor- the small independent kitchens - means they can now get more business. Perhaps rising incomes now allow people to pay more for a meal that used to cost less than $1. Perhaps people are now too hurried to make breakfast at home. Finally, it is very coincidental that they both start offering breakfast this summer. Perhaps some corporate plans were leaked and forced the hand of the other side to also offer breakfast. - 09/17/2007 http://wildwebwidget.com/en/advertise-in-China.php Craig Mandsager The TV show Dialogue had on Jeff Bezos for an hour-long Qamp;A session with other Chinese Web CEO's. Amazon has just started operations in China after acquiring the site joyo.com for a reported $75 million in August. Amazon probably needed to wait so long because books and other media are considered a sensitive area by the powers that be. Can Amazon succeed where other web giants have failed? This very question was asked in the Qamp;A to which Jeff replied (paraphrase) the mistake other companies made was to have the China staff try to please the home office as opposed to the customer. Hhmm, probably more complex than that. We'll certainly be watching how Amazon does. - 09/16/2007 http://wildwebwidget.com/en/advertise-in-China.php Craig Mandsager In China Hooters has abandoned its signature theme in all ways. Name-wise, instead of trying to find a dual meaning word, it went with the Chinese word for Owl. Waitresses also are chosen more for personality than uhm … that other trait. What we have left is "American restaurant with cheery girls wearing hot pants". All-in-all probably wise choices given the cultural environment. Though the food is not a draw in America, it is less important here (e.g. most Chinese would prefer Pizza Hut over a slew of gourmet pizza brands). - 09/15/2007 http://wildwebwidget.com/en/advertise-in-China.php Craig Mandsager This years Beijing Pop Festival had a lot of the same sponsors as last year but this year's headliner bands where exponentially better: Public Enemy and Nine Inch Nails. Kappa and local radio station CRI were the main sponsor of a newly added second stage. This year's expanded festival also included booths for all the main sponsors. SI had its swimsuit issue in tow. Myspace is looking to edge out MSN's early lead on the blogging front. - 09/09/2007 http://wildwebwidget.com/en/advertise-in-China.php Craig Mandsager These two companies have introduced the six-pack to China. Before this point in time you could only buy beer cans as single cans or cases. Environmentalists will be happy they are using paper carriers instead of the plastic rings. Expect soda to follow. - 08/31/2007