Donna Li's guest appearances

Donna Li

Asia Startup Pulse

Drew Kirchhoff

Monte Singman

Andrew Gaule

Stephane Monsallier

Lu Guo

Samuel Jesse

Ben Hu

Bruce Bateman

Kenny Bloom

Ricky Ng-Adam

Frederic Bazin

Peter Mao

Sam Cai

Yintao Feng

Nicolas du Cray

OwlTail

Today we talk with Donna Li, a digital marketing veteran, who was part of the team that launched Alimama, the digital advertisement division of Alibaba, which is also the largest player by revenue in the digital advertising space in China. Show Notes:02:06 Introducing Donna Li03:25 How did you get started in digital marketing in China06:06 Digital marketing in China at around 201010:15 Transition from Yahoo to Alibaba13:12 Advertising: Taobao’s monetization model18:26 Alimama: Cash Cow for Alibaba22:15 Is Amazon following a similar playbook?25:50 New inventor: Bytedance29:55 Advertisement as a business model for early-stage startups34:10 Build digital measurement currency at Nielsen35:42 Challenges for startupsMany thanks to our guest Donna Li; host Oscar Ramos; producers Eva Shi and Sagar Chaudhary; editor David; organizer Chinaccelerator; and sponsor People Squared. Be sure to check out our website www.chinaccelerator.comShare, subscribe, review, enjoy!Follow us on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/the-china-startup-pulse/Email us: team@chinastartuppulse.com

Today we talk with Donna Li, a digital marketing veteran, who was part of the team that launched Alimama, the digital advertisement division of Alibaba, which is also the largest player by revenue in the digital advertising space in China. Show Notes:02:06 Introducing Donna Li03:25 How did you get started in digital marketing in China06:06 Digital marketing in China at around 201010:15 Transition from Yahoo to Alibaba13:12 Advertising: Taobao’s monetization model18:26 Alimama: Cash Cow for Alibaba22:15 Is Amazon following a similar playbook?25:50 New inventor: Bytedance29:55 Advertisement as a business model for early-stage startups34:10 Build digital measurement currency at Nielsen35:42 Challenges for startupsMany thanks to our guest Donna Li; host Oscar Ramos; producers Eva Shi and Sagar Chaudhary; editor David; organizer Chinaccelerator; and sponsor People Squared. Be sure to check out our website <a href="http://www.chinaccelerator.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.chinaccelerator.com</a>Share, subscribe, review, enjoy!Follow us on LinkedIn: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/company/the-china-startup-pulse/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.linkedin.com/company/the-china-startup-pulse/</a>Email us: team@chinastartuppulse.com

Unraveling Digital Ads: The Cash Cow for Alibaba, with Donna Li, Digital Advertising Veteran

Today we talk with Donna Li, a digital marketing veteran, who was part of the team that launched Alimama, the digital advertisement division of Alibaba, which is also the largest player by revenue in the digital advertising space in China.  In this episode, Donna will bring us back to the early days when Alibaba, as an e-commerce company, started to explore the advertising revenue model. Donna will talk about how she worked for Yahoo China, which then became a strategic investor in Alibaba, and how she helped built Alimama. She will also share how she supported Taobao, a C2C e-commerce player, to beat their direct competitor eachnet which at the time had over 90% market share and was owned by eBay. At the end of the conversation, she will talk about the advertisement model in social networks as former CMO of Renren, the largest copycat of Facebook in China, and one of the most influential social networks at that time.  Want to learn how Alibaba became successful through advertisement and is Amazon today following a similar playbook? Come join us to enjoy the conversation right now!Show Notes:02:06 Introducing Donna Li03:25 How did you get started in digital marketing in China06:06 Digital marketing in China at around 201010:15 Transition from Yahoo to Alibaba13:12 Advertising: Taobao’s monetization model18:26 Alimama: Cash Cow for Alibaba22:15 Is Amazon following a similar playbook?25:50 New inventor: Bytedance29:55 Advertisement as a business model for early-stage startups34:10 Build digital measurement currency at Nielsen35:42 Challenges for startupsMany thanks to our guest Donna Li; host Oscar Ramos; producers Eva Shi and Sagar Chaudhary; editor David; organizer Chinaccelerator; and sponsor People Squared. Be sure to check out our website www.chinaccelerator.comShare, subscribe, review, enjoy!Follow us on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/the-china-startup-pulse/Email us: team@chinastartuppulse.com

Today we talk with Donna Li, a digital marketing veteran, who was part of the team that launched Alimama, the digital advertisement division of Alibaba, which is also the largest player by revenue in the digital advertising space in China.  In this episode, Donna will bring us back to the early days when Alibaba, as an e-commerce company, started to explore the advertising revenue model. Donna will talk about how she worked for Yahoo China, which then became a strategic investor in Alibaba, and how she helped built Alimama. She will also share how she supported Taobao, a C2C e-commerce player, to beat their direct competitor eachnet which at the time had over 90% market share and was owned by eBay. At the end of the conversation, she will talk about the advertisement model in social networks as former CMO of Renren, the largest copycat of Facebook in China, and one of the most influential social networks at that time.  Want to learn how Alibaba became successful through advertisement and is Amazon today following a similar playbook? Come join us to enjoy the conversation right now!Show Notes:02:06 Introducing Donna Li03:25 How did you get started in digital marketing in China06:06 Digital marketing in China at around 201010:15 Transition from Yahoo to Alibaba13:12 Advertising: Taobao’s monetization model18:26 Alimama: Cash Cow for Alibaba22:15 Is Amazon following a similar playbook?25:50 New inventor: Bytedance29:55 Advertisement as a business model for early-stage startups34:10 Build digital measurement currency at Nielsen35:42 Challenges for startupsMany thanks to our guest Donna Li; host Oscar Ramos; producers Eva Shi and Sagar Chaudhary; editor David; organizer Chinaccelerator; and sponsor People Squared. Be sure to check out our website <a href="http://www.chinaccelerator.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.chinaccelerator.com</a>Share, subscribe, review, enjoy!Follow us on LinkedIn: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/company/the-china-startup-pulse/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.linkedin.com/company/the-china-startup-pulse/</a>Email us: team@chinastartuppulse.com

Unraveling Digital Ads: The Cash Cow for Alibaba, with Donna Li