Taobao to Open Its Advertising Service to All Online Advertisers

 

New Alimama includes three services. (img:alimama.com)

 

Taobao Union, the advertising service of Alibaba Group, announced to expand customer base from limited e-commerce retailers to all online advertisers at its annual event today. Also, Taobao re-adopted the brand name, Alimama, for a combination of three advertising services. Released in 2007, Alimama was originally aimed to serve all advertisers across the Web but incorporated into Taobao and renamed Taobao Union to focus on serving Taobao retailers.

The re-branded Alimama includes Tanx — a real-time display advertising platform launched in 2010, Taobao Mobile Union — an app-targeted mobile ad network, and Taobao Union - including in-site search marketing and display ad services, a cross-web transaction-based contextual advertising program and an advertising service for retailers on third-party e-commerce platforms.

Taobao Union

Taobao Union has over five hundred thousand publisher partners and millions of online retailer customers. It features 300 million commodities, getting a total of 4.5 billion daily pageviews. Among all the publisher-based advertising networks such as Baidu Union, Alimama takes a 39.6% of market share, according to iResearch, a third-party research organization.

In 2012 Taobao Union brought partners 3 billion yuan ($480mn) worth of revenue cuts, with a 100% increase, and shared 100 million yuan ($16mn) with mobile partners.

Social shopping sites, including Mogujie and Meilishuo, account for 21% of the total revenue shares; individual websites took a combined 31%; online video sites took 12%; the rest went to portal sites, vertical sites and third-party agencies.

Mobile Union

Taobao had already had partners on the mobile end before the official announcement of the Mobile Union. A number of mobile browsers, third-party app markets, app developers and mobile phone manufacturers became partners, according to Chong Shan, head of Taobao Mobile Union (article in Chinese).

More than fifty mobile shopping apps such as Meilishuo and Mogujie became perfect matches. They earned half the total revenue shares, about 50 million yuan ($8mn), on the mobile end in 2012. It is estimated the total transactions on Taobao’s mobile apps will reach 50 billion yuan ($8bn) in 2012, covering 150 million users.

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