Co-founder of Cube Asia, Cube Asia

Simon Torring

Co-founder of Cube Asia

Defining Social Commerce in Southeast Asia

Cube Asia

We offer granular market data and insights for online retail in Southeast Asia, helping brands and retail companies drive profitable growth. 

Why the Cube?
3 dimensions of granularity to help you get deep into the 1) geographies, 2) categories, and 3) types of data and insights you need for your business.

The Cube is a big-data machine that is continuously listening to public data sources and primary research, and triangulating across thousands of data points using probabilistic modeling to produce an accurate and granular picture of Southeast Asia’s online retail landscape.

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Shopee, Southeast Asia’s largest e-commerce player, has been on a strict financial diet to reach profitability in the last year.</li>
<li>That’s been welcome news for shareholders of its listed parent, Sea Ltd, but more challenging for sellers on the platform who have faced lower sales growth and higher selling costs after years of heavily subsidised operations. </li>
<li>In this blog post we report on the most important figures from Shopee’s newly published Q1-2023 results (<a href="https://www.sea.com/investor/quarterlyresults" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released 16 May</a>) as well as the key implications for e-commerce sellers in Southeast Asia.</li>
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Shopee, Southeast Asia’s largest e-commerce player, has been on a strict financial diet to reach profitability in the last year.
That’s been welcome news for shareholders of its listed parent, Sea Ltd, but more challenging for sellers on the platform who have faced lower sales growth and higher selling costs after years of heavily subsidised operations. 
In this blog post we report on the most important figures from Shopee’s newly published Q1-2023 results (released 16 May) as well as the key implications for e-commerce sellers in Southeast Asia.


Shopee Enters a New Era of Slower GMV Growth and Higher Fees for Sellers

Articles from Caixin Global, Caixin Global

Caixin Global

Articles from Caixin Global

Caixin is a media group dedicated to providing financial and business news through periodicals, online content, mobile apps, conferences, books and TV/video programs. Caixin aims to blaze a trail that helps traditional media prosper in the new media age through integrated multimedia platforms.

News from Caixin

<ul><li>ByteDance’s TikTok is cranking up its e-commerce foray into Southeast Asia as the Chinese tech giant pushes to commercialize the popular short video app to create a new revenue stream.</li><li>During the first half, TikTok launched e-commerce businesses in Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore, expanding its presence to all major markets in the region.</li><li>TikTok has been operating online shopping services in Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s largest economy, since early 2021.</li></ul>

ByteDance’s TikTok is cranking up its e-commerce foray into Southeast Asia as the Chinese tech giant pushes to commercialize the popular short video app to create a new revenue stream.During the first half, TikTok launched e-commerce businesses in Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore, expanding its presence to all major markets in the region.TikTok has been operating online shopping services in Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s largest economy, since early 2021.

TikTok Dives Into Southeast Asia With E-Commerce Push

External broker reports(aggregated public sources), CMB International

CMB International

External broker reports(aggregated public sources)

Incorporated in Hong Kong, supported by the mainland and targeting in global market, CMB International Capital Corporation Limited (“CMBI”) is an integrated financial institution providing comprehensive and professional services. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Merchants Bank ("CMB"), by leveraging on the Group’s synergy and coordination in domestic and overseas markets, as well as CMB’s strong resources and outstanding social reputation, CMBI and its subsidiaries have been actively implementing diversified business strategies and set up an overall layout of main business segments including Corporate Finance, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Global Markets and Structured Finance, etc. Adhering to the philosophy of “being clients oriented and increasing our own values by the way of creating value for clients”, CMBI endeavors to provide quality and integrated financial services to institutional, corporate and individual customers both domestic and overseas including Hong Kong IPO sponsorship and underwriting, share placement and rights issue for listed companies, financial advisors, bonds issuance services, asset management, direct investment, wealth management, equity sales and trading, etc.

<ul><li>Meta hosted the Meta Connect 2022 on 11 Oct, launching its first high-end VR headset Meta Quest Pro.</li><li>The new VR headset will begin shipping on 25 October for US$1,499.99.</li><li>With innovative features like pancake lenses, eye tracking, natural facial expressions and colour passthrough, Meta Quest Pro will meaningfully enhance the social/gaming/work VR experience in our view.</li></ul><p><em>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.</em></p>

Meta hosted the Meta Connect 2022 on 11 Oct, launching its first high-end VR headset Meta Quest Pro.The new VR headset will begin shipping on 25 October for US$1,499.99.With innovative features like pancake lenses, eye tracking, natural facial expressions and colour passthrough, Meta Quest Pro will meaningfully enhance the social/gaming/work VR experience in our view.Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

China Internet Sector – Meta Connect 2022: bridging the gap towards metaverse

Research from EqualOcean, EqualOcean

EqualOcean

Research from EqualOcean

EqualOcean is an investment research firm and information service provider focusing on China's Technology, Automotive and Consumer Internet sectors. With unique research and due diligence methodology, we provide tailored insights into a wide range of industries and companies, empowering our clients' value-added decisions.

Founded in 2014, EqualOcean is headquartered in Beijing and has offices in Shanghai, Shenzhen and New York.

<ul><li>ByteDance's ambition in healthcare - According to EqualOcean data, ByteDance has invested in 56 companies in 2021 only</li><li>Expanding in adjacent fields - It is generally easier to invest in areas that are more compatible with a company's core businesses.</li><li>Still, a long way to go - Online healthcare is a domain full of risks. </li></ul>

ByteDance's ambition in healthcare - According to EqualOcean data, ByteDance has invested in 56 companies in 2021 onlyExpanding in adjacent fields - It is generally easier to invest in areas that are more compatible with a company's core businesses.Still, a long way to go - Online healthcare is a domain full of risks. 

A Late Starter, ByteDance Begins to Accelerate Its Effort in Healthcare

China

Beijing Douyin Information Service Co. Ltd. provides online information and contents. The Company develops and operates short video platform, original short video community, news platform, and other related products. Beijing Douyin Information Service offers services worldwide.

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Shopee Enters a New Era of Slower GMV Growth and Higher Fees for Sellers

Shopee, Southeast Asia’s largest e-commerce player, has been on a strict financial diet to reach profitability in the last year. That’s been...

Simon Torring

TikTok Dives Into Southeast Asia With E-Commerce Push

ByteDance’s TikTok is cranking up its e-commerce foray into Southeast Asia as the Chinese tech giant pushes to commercialize the popular short...

Caixin Global

China Internet Sector – Meta Connect 2022: bridging the gap towards metaverse

With innovative features like pancake lenses, eye tracking, natural facial expressions and colour passthrough, Meta Quest Pro will meaningfully...

CMB International

A Late Starter, ByteDance Begins to Accelerate Its Effort in Healthcare

The Chinese upstart behind TikTok has emerged into a major venture capital investor. Online healthcare (or telehealth) has been in the spotlight in...

EqualOcean

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