Evening news: Alibaba released the third phase of the Puhuiti system to help small and medium-sized enterprises go overseas and cultural exchanges; Douyin e-commerce suspended the addition of new products and removed the existing products from the shelves and took effect on August 11; Dingdong Maicai's direct procurement scale reached 80.6%; Shopee released an announcement on the adjustment of short-term service rates for overseas warehouses in Malaysia; AliExpress's European market insight in August: the demand for pets to reduce heat and ice mats has increased by more than 200%...
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1. Alibaba releases the third phase of the Universal and Welfare System to help small and medium-sized enterprises go overseas and cultural exchanges
August 12th news, on August 12th, at the 2022 "U Design Week", the third phase of Alibaba Puhui Sports was officially released. This year, Alibaba's Puhui Sports Project also launched a "font copyright detection tool", allowing users to actively check whether the material has a risk of font infringement. Data shows that the Alibaba Puhui font family currently has a total of about 737,099 characters, covering multiple word weights. Taking Simplified Chinese as an example, there are 9 word weights in total. Alibaba Puhuiti has viewed the cumulative downloads on various platforms, which have exceeded 4 million times. (E-commerce News)
2. Douyin e-commerce suspends the addition of new products for live and tourism business and removes existing products from the shelves. It will take effect on August 11
On August 12, on August 4, the Douyin e-commerce operation team issued an announcement that the latest revision of the "Industry Management Specifications" will take effect. After the revision of this rule takes effect, Douyin e-commerce will suspend its business of live and tourism, and all merchants' entry methods will become "suspended operations", that is, new products will be suspended and existing products will be removed. The orders sold will not be affected. Merchants must continue to provide fulfillment services to consumers on the Douyin e-commerce platform. The business categories involved in this adjustment include special hotels/special inns/apartments and hotels, vacation routes/visa delivery/tourism services, attractions tickets/surrounding tours, as well as travel and transportation. (E-commerce News)
3. ICON advertising review guide released by JD Hot 8 Shopping Season
On August 12, the JD.com Mai Merchant Center issued a notice stating that in order to ensure the unity of the spread of JD.com Hot 8 shopping season, ICON advertising review guide has been released. It is reported that the use time range of ICON is from August 12, 2022 to August 18, 2022. Among them, advertising creativity on and off the site involves ICON and copywriting promotions in JD Hot 8 Shopping Season. It will expire at 23:59:59 on August 18, 2022. Merchants need to change their creativity in advance, please do not use it overdue. (E-commerce News)
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4. Douyin Live Rectify the Chaos of Outdoor Live Broadcasting from June to now, more than 130,000 accounts have been punished.
According to August 12, today, Douyin Live officially released the "Doing Notice on the Remediation of Chaos in Outdoor Live Broadcasting". From June 2022 to the present, Douyin Live has imposed a total of 137,809 accounts, and has recovered live broadcast permissions for 28,729 accounts with serious violations, and has recovered 137 live broadcast usage permissions indefinitely. Douyin Live stated that it will further strengthen the management of live broadcast accounts and content. For those who violate community norms, the platform will impose penalties such as warnings to stop broadcasting and recover live broadcasting rights in accordance with the law and the requirements for passing the examination and training based on the actual severity of the anchor's behavior, subjective maliciousness and the impact caused by the anchor. (E-commerce News)
5. The direct procurement scale of Dingdong Maicai fresh produce reaches 80.6%
According to August 12, Dingdong Maicai recently announced its unaudited financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022. At present, Dingdong Maicai’s shallots have been planted 100% orders. As of Q2 2022, the scale of direct procurement of Dingdong Maicai fresh produce reached 80.6%. In Q2 2022, Dingdong Maicai's sales of its own brand products, including Douzhi and Baoluo Workshop, accounted for 17.5%, most of which were developed and processed and produced by Dingdong Maicai 3F factory. In June, the monthly consumption frequency of mamas in Shanghai was more than 7 times, with an average customer price of 89 yuan. (E-commerce News)
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6. Amazon European delivery network has now been restarted
August 12th news, Amazon's European website recently issued an announcement stating that Amazon's European Delivery Network (EFN) between the UK and the EU has been fully restarted. It is reported that the European Delivery Network (EFN) can help sellers reach the European and British buyers group, allowing sellers to use FBA inventory stored in the distribution center to deliver cross-border orders for qualified products, but they need to pay EFN fees. (Yibang Power)
7. Shopee releases an announcement on adjusting short-term service rates for overseas warehouses in Malaysia
Starting from February 2022, Shopee overseas warehouses will comprehensively improve the overall service timeliness and quality, including inbound, outbound, inventory management, return and refund, and the transparency and standardization of seller appeal processes, building an efficient, stable and sustainable full-process supply chain system, and are committed to cooperation with sellers for win-win results. (E-commerce News)
8. AliExpress's European market insight in August: Pet summer heat reduction ice mat demand growth rate exceeds 200%
Specifically, in the Spanish market, the peak of consumption of home and pet equipment was ushered in August, among which the search volume of pet cool pads increased twice compared with the past, and the total market for pet smart products increased by 8 times compared with the previous year. Smart feeders, smart cameras, and smart water dispensers became the "three major items" of pet smart products, and the penetration rate exceeded 50%. In terms of home decoration products, due to Spain's continuous high temperature and high energy costs, Spanish consumers are more willing to choose energy-saving, cost-effective and highly versatile and practical products. The overall transaction volume growth rate of floor-standing fans, air-conditioning fans, table fans, etc. increased by 188% year-on-year. (E-commerce News)
9. eBay cooperates with tax filing service company TaxAct
On August 12, eBay's US website recently issued an announcement stating that it is working with TaxAct, a leading tax filing service company, to help sellers understand the tax obligations of Form 1099-K, and to provide sellers with information and support when filing taxes through TaxAct's Tax Information Center. eBay said in the announcement that the new tax requirements may confuse sellers, so eBay partnered with TaxAct to launch the eBay seller tax information center. Whether it’s an amateur or professional seller, TaxAct will provide the tools and support needed to make tax filing simple. TaxAct works closely with the IRS and state governments to ensure the security of the filer's accounts and ensure that the filer's calculation results are 100% correct. (E-commerce News)
10. Sensor Tower: TikTok and its overseas version of TikTok exceeded 69 million downloads in July, ranking first in the download list
According to the news on August 12, Sensor Tower store intelligence data showed that in July 2022, TikTok and its overseas version of TikTok had exceeded 69 million downloads, ranking first in the global mobile application download list, an increase of 13.2% from July 2021. Instagram ranked second with nearly 63 million downloads, up 28.5% from July last year. India is the largest market with downloads, accounting for 35.9%, followed by Brazil, accounting for 5.9%. The other three apps in the top five are Facebook, WhatsApp and Snapchat. (E-commerce News)
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