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Is Douyin the Right Channel for Your International Brand?

This fast growing China marketing channel does provide opportunities for B2B

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Douyin, the video based social-networking platform (known as TikTok internationally), has, at the last count, amassed almost 750 million active users.


This makes it a hugely popular platform in China, and one that China marketers in both B2C and B2B sectors are constantly reviewing for opportunities.


The demographics of the channel itself are pretty focused. A s reported by Statista at the end of 2022, one in every three Douyin users is under the age of 26. The average user is consuming 26.6 hours of content a month and they are doing so via their phone. 80% of users are under the age of 30 and 40% live in top tier cities. 60% have a college education.


What this all translates to is that Douyin users are young, affluent, educated consumers.


The channel provides multiple opportunities for brands to promote their products, brand messaging, and amplify their digital presence. This includes several advertising formats including open screen ads, in-feed ads, sticker ads and paid search.


Douyin also features its own paid promotion functionality called Dou+ that amplifies existing content, has its own KOL ecosystem, and can link to various e-commerce channels once you reach a certain threshold for follower numbers.
All the above can be segmented and target via Douyin’s Data Management Platform (DMP), allowing for effective, targeted campaigns if you have clear objectives and metrics in place to measure what works and what you need to tweak to improve.


There is no doubt Douyin can be a hugely impactful China marketing channel for consumer brands, but there is also a lot of potential there for B2B brands as well, albeit with several caveats.


The platform can be content hungry, and the content itself needs to be impactful, engaging, and shareable to stand out. Creating regular content like this can be a challenge for B2B organisations. 
This also means that Douyin needs to be approached with a clear plan and adequate resources to manage.


Douyin is not going to be a priority for all B2B brands, but if the demographics match your China marketing strategy there are opportunities to engage with a rapidly growing, young, and affluent target audience that will grow and mature as your China business grows.

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