Shopee is number 1 despite being the youngest eCommerce player in Southeast Asia.
As someone from the region who spends way too much π°π°π° on Shopee, here is a thread on everything you need to know about Sea Limited: Shopee $SE
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From day one, Shopee adopted a mobile-first approach.
Its competitors were focused on their websites as the key battlefield.
In this region with high smartphone penetration rate but a low PC penetration rate due to affordability.
Shopee's strategy paid off handsomely.
As user attention span gets shorter, Shopee has to get creative.
Shopee gamified its shopping experience and kept users logging in routinely throughout the day for quests and events.
This drastically raised the engagement rate on the platform!
Take Shopee Farm, for example, players receive a reward when they water their plants routinely.
Friends can water each other's plants, which encourages users to rope their friends onto the platform for help!
This social element greatly increases the stickiness of the platform.
Shopping in Asia is a highly social event.
This involves finding out more info or haggling with merchants!
Shopee Live Chat enables direct conversations bw buyers & sellers!
In a region that has multiple languages (>6), it offers highly accurate real-time translation π€―
Shopee hyperlocalized, unlike Lazada who had an app across the entire Southeast Asia region, Shopee had an app for each country!
Every app UX is slightly different based on cultural differences and consumers' preferences.
Shopee uses data to drive hyperlocalization efforts!
Shopee works closely with their merchants and I often hear them praising Shopee as the most helpful platform.
Shopee holds strategic planning workshops with sellers.
It also provides loyalty program such as Brand Membership Program for sellers to boost buyers' loyalty.
Shopee was the first to use celebrities endorsement.
Its competitors favoured growth ideas around quantifiable performance such as social media ads due to mgt incentive structure.
Celebrities endorsement became a massive success for Shopee at raising brand awareness!
Buying something online is new for many in Southeast Asia.
Building trust is key for consumers.
Shopee launched Shopee Guarantee, where consumers only released payment when orders are fulfilled.
Garena's Free Fire provided Shopee with deep pockets!
When its competitors were under pressure to show short-term profitability, Shopee spent heavily on brand awareness and free shipping!
Garena is bankrolling much of Sea Limited ($SE) success with Shopee and SeaMoney.
This comprehensive thread will cover everything you need to know about Garena and its self-developed game: Free Fire.
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1. Video Game Market Overview
Garena is a growth monster sitting on the strong tailwind of video gaming.
This is the might of the tailwind we are talking aboutβthe global video game market is about twice as big as the worldwide box office and music industries combined!
1.2 Even at todayβs size, the global video game market is still expected to grow at double digits. And a huge amount of growth is coming from mobile gaming.