China App Index: Mobile Catches a Ride on the Year of the Horse
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The Chinese New Year usually heralds a lull in app downloads, but some scored big. See how one game got 1.4 million downloads in 2 weeks!
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Wandoujia
Mobile Catches a Ride on the Year of the Horse
The China App IndexFebruary 2014
China’s Mobile Content Search Engine
Top Trend:
Top Trends
Mobile Catches a Ride on the Year of the Horse
Episode II: Games That Strike Back
Special Case Study: Carrot Fantasy 2: Ice World
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Chinese celebrated the Lunar New Year in January, returning from the big cities to their home towns. Downloads fall for most apps in this period as people spend time with friends and family, but some apps rose to the occasion.
Beautiful Wishes (最美祝福)
Monthly Downloads: 32k
Mobile Catches a Ride on the Year of the Horse
Sending well-wishes and clever poems to family and friends for the coming year is a new year’s eve tradition. Beautiful Wishes and Horse-Year Blessings are two apps that climbed into the Top Ten New Apps by enabling users to share beautiful holiday cards via social networks.
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Tencent scored over the New Year revealing the rising tide of mobile internet users. J.P. Morgan estimated that “61% more mobile messages were sent through Tencent’s mobile communication products (Mobile QQ and [WeChat]) than total SMS sent through three Chinese telcos on the day of CNY eve."1
WeChat’s New Year Red Envelope
On January 25, WeChat debuted a viral “Red Envelope” function in its messenger, allowing its users to send the traditional new year’s gift of cash electronically. The hook: a group “lottery” feature allowed group members to win random amounts from a single envelope. The catch: users had to link their bank cards to Tencent’s new Tenpay payments service, which gained 8 million new users over the holiday.
New Year’s Red Envelope
Normal EnvelopeGroup Lottery Envelope
New Year’s Red Envelope
Envelope Number
Cash Amount
1 J.P. Morgan Asia Pacific Equity Research, February 2014
Six of the top fifteen new games demonstrate the brand loyalty of Chinese gamers with massive monthly downloads. Chinese consumers are notorious for their risk adverse behavior, and it seems this rewards risk adverse developers willing to leverage brand power: if it ain’t broke, make a sequel.
Episode II: Games That Strike Back2
Carrot Fantasy 2: Ice World 保卫萝⼘卜2: 极地冒险
Downloads: 1,442,300
Cut the Rope 2 割绳⼦子2
Fishing Joy 2 Classic 捕⻥鱼达⼈人2经典
Tiantian Bomberman 2 天天泡泡堂2
One Shot 2 ⼀一枪弄死它2
Find Your Sister 2 找你妹2
Downloads: 367,283 Downloads: 118,320
Downloads: 117,808 Downloads: 110,872 Downloads: 75,137
For their sequel to the hit Carrot Fantasy tower defense game, Luobo Interactive partnered with Wandoujia for a special launch and promotion campaign. They garnered 1.4 million downloads in the first two weeks after launch.
Carrot Fantasy 2: Ice World (保卫萝⼘卜2: 极地冒险)
Monthly Downloads: 1.4 million
Special Case Study: Carrot Fantasy 2: Ice World
Carrot Fantasy 2 provides an inside look at the promotional techniques Chinese games use to connect to their player-base.
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A viral video of a Wandoujia girl imitating game monster noises built buzz about the launch. It encouraged users to “reserve” the game in advance and share the message with a chance of winning prizes such as a scarf or in-game gems.
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Special Case Study: Carrot Fantasy 2: Ice World3
The release of Carrot Fantasy 2: Ice World coincided with the launch of Wandoujia’s new 4.0 mobile client. The titular Carrot character of the game was featured in traditional ads on bus stops nationwide and on video sites promoting Wandoujia’s “Only One” mobile search campaign. Ads led to a landing page featuring the game as a top pick.
Special Case Study: Carrot Fantasy 2: Ice World3
The buzz paid off with more than 200,000 downloads for each of the first 2 days of the game’s launch and more than 1 million in the first week. After the initial swell recedes, daily downloads decrease to plateau around 50,000, but higher-quality users drive increasing daily revenue.
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Daily Downloads January 16-31, 2014
Daily Revenue January 16-31, 2014
RevenuesDownloads
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Top New Fastest Growing
February 2014Star Apps
Top NewTop New App Top New Game
QQ Theme Manager (QQ主题管家)
Carrot Fantasy 2: Ice World (保卫萝⼘卜2: 极地冒险)
Rank Name Downloads
1 QQ Theme Manager (QQ主题管家) 133,158
2 Beautiful Apps (最美应⽤用) 38,245
3 Beautiful Wishes (最美祝福) 32,393
4 DIY Theme Master (主题DIY⼤大师) 15,292
5 Mini Trip (微游记) 13,218
6 Mini Lens (微镜头) 11,330
7 One Wallet (壹钱包) 10,945
8 Horse-Year Blessings (⻢马年祝福短信) 10,060
9 WiFi Password Cracker (WiFi万能钥匙密码破解) 7,695
10 Carp Dynamic Wallpaper (锦鲤动态壁纸) 7,027
Top New Apps
Rank Name Downloads
1 Carrot Fantasy 2: Ice World (保卫萝⼘卜2：极地冒险) 1,442,300
2 Despicable Me: Minion Rush (神偷奶爸: ⼩小⻩黄⼈人快跑) 521,351
3 Cut the Rope 2 (割绳⼦子2) 367,283
4 Where’s My XiYangYang (喜⽺羊⽺羊⼩小顽⽪皮) 251,096
5 Draw a Stickman: EPIC (画个⽕火柴⼈人) 217,957
6 Run Bears! (熊出没之熊⼤大快跑) 213,433
7 Dragon Ball Q (⻰龙珠Q传) 153,272
8 Angry Birds (Chinese Version)(愤怒的⼩小⻦鸟 [中⽂文版]) 118,725
9 Fishing Joy 2 Classic (捕⻥鱼达⼈人2经典) 118,320
10 Tiantian Bomberman 2(天天泡泡堂2) 117,808
Top New Games
Fastest GrowingFastest Growing App Fastest Growing Game
Android Flashlight (安卓⼿手电筒)
Bubble Cat (开⼼心泡泡猫)
Rank Name Downloads Growth rate
1 Android Flashlight (安卓⼿手电筒) 261,386 620%
2 Tencent Weishi (腾讯微视) 198,909 486%
3 Traffic Rule Violation Check (⻋车轮查违章) 155,802 429%
4 KuaiDi Taxi (快的打⻋车) 187,808 403%
5 YunTu Livestream (云图电视直播) 178,940 229%
6 Mobile QQ 2013 (⼿手机QQ2013 国际版) 335,972 58%
7 LaiWang (来往) 225,730 53%
8 Baidu (百度) 335,398 44%
9 Screen Lock Sprite (锁屏精灵) 210,576 39%
10 LeTV (乐视视频) 223,486 28%
Fastest Growing Apps
Rank Name Downloads Growth rate
1 Bubble Cat (开⼼心泡泡猫) 173,493 74,681%
2 Jet Battle (全民⻜飞机⼤大战) 562,363 28,359%
3 Escape the Room (密室逃亡) 185,309 8,214%
4 Hulai Mahjong (胡来⿇麻将) 327,759 2,032%
5 Three Kingdoms Kill (三国KILL) 188,583 658%
6 Asphalt 8: Airborne (狂野飙⻋车8: 极速凌云) 221,932 350%
7 Party Play (聚会玩) 162,876 305%
8 Jetpack Joyride (疯狂喷⽓气机) 198,244 268%
9 WoLongYing (乐趣卧⻰龙吟) 160,397 114%
10 Tiantian Racing (天天⻜飞⻋车) 835,449 107%
Fastest Growing Games
China is the world’s largest smartphone market. But it’s a black hole for app data. Mobile research firms use Google Play data, which works for most of the world, but not for China. Nine out of ten new smartphones sold in China run Android, but developers are left in the dark. !Here at Wandoujia, we decided to change that. As an Android mobile content search engine with 300 million users, we decided to shine a light on the market. We hope it will encourage more foreign developers to come to China.
Methodology: !• Top new: Launched within the last 60 days. • Fastest-growing: Highest growth-rate this month, relative to an average of the previous 3 months. • App data is carefully screened to eliminate ‘zombie downloads’ • All data is from the Wandoujia platform, with 300 million+ Android users in China.
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150,000 downloads in the first week.
Our China launch with Wandoujia was a big success. A few short days after we got in contact, we were ready to launch with a nicely designed campaign that fit with our brand image. Wandoujia has delivered hundreds-of-thousands of downloads, including some of our highest-quality users in China. !!
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Case Study: Flipboard in China
When Flipboard came to China in June 2012, it partnered with Wandoujia on the launch.
-Alvin Tse, Product Director at Flipboard China
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