15 Facts About Taobao

In 2012 Taobao began to accept international Visa and MasterCard credit and debit cards.

Taobao's mascot is a dialogue bubble, which represents its corporate culture.

Taobao uses search tools and other functions to understand user demands.

Taobao Marketplace offers various features and services to create a better user experience for online shoppers and retailers.

Taobao Marketplace allows buyer and seller to communicate prior to the purchase through its embedded proprietary instant chat program, named AliWangWang .

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Taobao stated that they predict live-streaming on their platform will generate over 500 billion sales transactions.

Taobao has given them their own category in the app, with the purpose of making it easier for these rural sellers to find customers and followers on the platform.

Taobao extensively uses shopping strategies such as data personalizing, customer loyalties, video broadcasting and the focused demand of a single community to build stages for sellers to display their commodities.

Popularity of Taobao's searching model is based on the calculation of correlation rate and quality scores:.

Taobao automatically classifies product text and images and uses tags to match.

Some Chinese Taobao vendors claimed that their promotional videos featuring African children were "charity activity" in which most of the profits goes to the children.

In 2019, Taobao removed all items related to the Houston Rockets in response to the organization's general manager Daryl Morey posting a tweet about Hong Kong.

In October 2020 amid rising geopolitical tensions between Taipei and Beijing, Taobao announced that it would exit the Taiwanese market after the Taiwanese government ordered the company to re-register as being backed by China or to leave the island if they don't.

Mobile app of Taobao was banned in India on 2 September 2020 by the government, the move came amid the 2020 China-India skirmish.

Taobao Marketplace had more than 5 million registered users as of June 2013 and hosted more than 80 million product listings.