TECH CRUNCH – Oct 28 - China has a long history of matchmaking so just going online, finding someone you like and messaging them isn’t going to appeal to a lot of the population. The ones who are comfortable with doing that will just use social networks. For those who aren’t, there are already an established off-line alternative in some 200,000 very local, fragmented companies that specialize in matchmaking, charging between 2,000 and 60,000 RMB per six months.Chinese Web entrepreneur Song Li operates Digu.com, a Twitter-clone, and Zhenai.com an online dating site. Zhenai is free to join and free to search, with revenues provided by a 350-person strong call center of real-life matchmakers. Using the service costs 3,000 RMB ($430) for a six-month subscription. The site has 22M registered members (growing by 40,000 per day). Zhenai.com is profitable, generating ~$2M in revenues per month, growing at double-digit rates month-over-month. FULL ARTICLE @ TECH CRUNCH
FYI the big social networks are not accessible in Mainland China, unless the user is clever enough to use a proxy or VPN to conceal his or her online activities. On the other hand, dating sites that have the same features as Facebook are accessible (who knows why).
FYI the big social networks are not accessible in Mainland China, unless the user is clever enough to use a proxy or VPN to conceal his or her online activities. On the other hand, dating sites that have the same features as Facebook are accessible (who knows why).
Chinese economic department wants to keep subscription money generating sites for themselves. That’s always been their policy. Sites like Facebook is a public access site free for all and do not make money except in advertising.
Chinese economic department wants to keep subscription money generating sites for themselves. That’s always been their policy. Sites like Facebook is a public access site free for all and do not make money except in advertising.