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The Western expansion of the Chinese digital mega-companies is underway. One of these gigantic companies is the Chinese digital shopping conglomerate Alibaba who recently had its own American IPO. Alibaba is often referred to as the Chinese Amazon (without the fulfillment element). With stats like the ones below, one can understand the general comparison.
Here are a few of the more interesting Alibaba statistics and facts I was able to dig up…
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Alibaba Facts
- Creator: Jack Ma
- Key Subsidiaries: Taobao, Tmall, Alipay, Juhuasuan, AliExpress, Alibaba.com, 1688.com, eTao, Aliyun, China Yahoo!, Laiwang, Yu’E Bao, AutoNavi, Lazada, Cainiao, Chinavision, Alimama, SM.cn, Ele.me, Koubei and 11 Main
- Alibaba also has sizable interests in a number of other large digital companies including: Weibo, Youku Tudou, Shoprunner, Tango, Singapore Post and UCWeb
What is Alibaba?
Alibaba Group’s mission is to make it easy to do business anywhere. We enable businesses to transform the way they market, sell and operate. We provide the fundamental technology infrastructure and marketing reach to help merchants, brands and other businesses to leverage the power of the Internet to engage with their users and customers. Our businesses are comprised of core commerce, cloud computing, digital media and entertainment, innovation initiatives and others. Through our subsidiary Cainiao Network and investee affiliate Koubei, respectively, we participate in the logistics and local services sectors. In addition, we have a strategic relationship with Ant Financial Services, the financial services group that operates mainly through Alipay, the leading third-party online payment platform in China. (source)
Alibaba Statistics
How many people shop on Alibaba?
Last updated 11/2/18
Alibaba’s share of the Chinese ecommerce market:
Last updated 8/13/18
How many people use Xiami?
Last updated June 2017
Number of Alibaba cloud customers:
Last updated 8/17/17
Year Ant Financial was spun off from Alibaba:
2011
Ant Financial’s reported market value:
Last updated 4/11/18
Number of people that Ant Financial reaches:
Last updated 4/11/18
Number of small businesses in China that Ant Financial helps:
Last updated 5/7/18
Year Shenma was launched:
2013
Shenma’s mobile search market share in China:
Last updated 11/10/16
Number of Alibaba Passport users:
Last updated 11/10/16
Number of Fliggy (formerly Alitrip) members:
Last updated 11/7/16
Average number of Fliggy (formerly Alitrip) daily visitors:
Last updated 11/7/16
Number of YunOS users:
Last updated 7/30/16
YunOS’ share of smartphone shipments in China:
Last updated 6/30/16
Year Koubei was launched:
2015
Number of offline merchants Koubei has partnered with:
Last updated 1/25/17
Average daily orders recorded on Koubei:
Last updated 1/25/17
Number of Alibaba Group employees:
Last updated 8/23/18
Percentage of Alibaba revenue that is generated from Alimama:
Last updated 6/9/17
Alibaba GMV for FY 2018:
Alibaba revenue for FY 2018:
Alibaba FY 2018 core commerce revenue:
Alibaba FY 2018 cloud computing revenue:
Alibaba FY 2018 digital media and entertainment revenue:
Alibaba FY 2018 innovation initiative revenue:
This report is a digital collection of the most interesting Alibaba statistics I have been able to dig up over the years; 120 of them including stats on:
- Users
- Sales
- Revenue
- Advertising
- Singles Day
- AliExpress
- Etc.- all in one place
I try to go through each and every stat regularly and update as much as possible, but we all know that some stats are easier to track down than others. As always, every stat is linked to its original source and has the source date listed.
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or get it in one of my report bundles:
Bundle 1: Alibaba property reports (Alibaba, Alipay, Tmall and Taobao).
Bundle 2: China digital reports (Alibaba, Baidu, Ctrip, JD.com, QQ, YY, Tmall, Taobao, WeChat and Weibo).
Bundle 3: eCommerce digital reports (Alibaba, Alipay, Amazon, eBay, Etsy, Flipkart, JD.com, Square and Paypal).
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