Social Media Case Study - Yihaodian - YHD (Walmart) Made in China by Uncle Advertising, a full service agency providing creative advertising solutions, digital marketing and social connectivity strategies for brands in China.

1. CASE STUDYMarch 2014
Yihaodian - YHD
SOCIAL MEDIA

2. BACKGROUND
• Founded in 2008, YHD is one of the fastest-growing eCommerce company in China with more than 30
million registered users and a total of annual sales of RMB2,7 billion*
• Since 2011, Walmart has been a major investor in the company and in 2012, became majority
shareholder and has since controlled 51% of YHD.
• Plus, Jing Dong and Tencent-owned Yixun were previously top two ecommerce leaders in Chinese market.
They merged, drawing a great deal of attention towards the new conglomerate and away from YHD.
www.YHD.com

3. • Uncle-ad aimed to devise a campaign strategy to draw popular awareness back to YHD.
• The campaign would revolve around why, despite being smaller, YHD had a lot to offer the consumer as
the second tier ecommerce site.
PRICE ADVANTAGE
CHALLENGE

4. • The Uncle-ad team created an awareness campaign to draw attention back to YHD.
• We developed comic strips that would communicate YHD’s pricing advantage in an engaging way for
viewers.
• Throughout the campaign, we used Weibo and Wechat to keep our viewers and customers informed on
YHD’s battle with the new leader for ecommerce dominance.
SOLUTION
Uncle-ad enlisted the help of effective KOL’s to
help spread the message about YHD.
Content was distributed via
Wechat & Weibo.

5. Simple but strong key message transmit by chosen KOLs, strongly
increase the awareness of YHD‘s absolute price advantage.
RESULTS
From March 20st to March 30th 2014 From March 20st to March 30th 2014
WEIBO WECHAT
Post by 11influencers
9000forwards
700comments
Post by 16influencers
500,000reach
200,000reads
35,000shares

6. Uncle Advertising is a full service agency providing
creative advertising solutions, digital marketing and
social connectivity strategies. We provide ‘creative
solutions’ which build brands and businesses in China.
We help brands to listen, understand and engage in
conversations in chinese social media: Weibo and
Wechat.
For more information, please visit our linkedin
company page Uncle Advertising (Scan our QR code),
follow us on Twitter @ShanghaiUncleAd or drop us an
email at josselin@uncle-ad.com.
Contributors: Elsa Bouillot, Josselin Roulet, Morris
Lipman