Zing Angel, QQ Girl and Asian Softporn

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Sunday, December 9. 2007

Zing chat is a new instant messenger service provided by Vinagame which cloned from China's popular Tencent' QQ IM. In a Yahoo IM dominated country such as Vietnam, it is nearly a mission impossible for Vinagame to challenge the incumbent Yahoo IM. By spending bulk of advertising dollars both offline and online, flooding all local high traffic websites and BBSs (online forums), spiral spamming on Yahoo IM networks, Vinagame is trying to lure young teens to their cutie services. In search of virtual money information I came across an art icle on QQ coins and QQ girl which made me think of Zing Angel. First seen Zing Angels you would see Vietnamese cheerleaders of Victoria's Secret. In an Asian country where online dating is not popular as in Western nations, spending sometime chatting with webcam-equipped pretty girls could be a fun experience for local boys. With those tricks Vinagame could get good number of young guys trying out the services but I am questioning how it top the place of Yahoo IM. And we will wait whether those Angels ask guys for Zing coins to buy virtual items made by Vinagame in the near future.

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I would say they're doing pretty well in term of marketing (except IT community is against Chinese product, but let's see how it will affect Zing). But the question remains is if the product is good enough to retain users. Big company normally wait until 2 rounds of beta (or more) before going full force on marketing.

#1 Anh on 2007-12-10 09:14 (Reply)

Actually, I agreed with Anh that Zing Chat's marketing is quite good. However, as I personally asked some teens (Zing's target audience), they either don't care or gave up after playing with Zing Chat for a while. Last but not least, they are pretty annoyed with Zing Chat's floating ads all over Vietnamese forums.

#2 Sonny (Homepage) on 2007-12-11 08:59 (Reply)

Zing chat = http://www.lava-lava.com/softdownnew.php

#3 TestMe on 2007-12-11 09:02 (Reply)

From my point of view, Vinagame's marketing is not outstanding at all. The thing is they just copy the features of marketing camp in China... Period Thanks for your blog, it 's definitely interesting, Mr Jason. It 's very nice to meet you

#4 Roy (Homepage) on 2007-12-12 08:34 (Reply)

We'll start from the bottom: Roy - Marketing is mediocre at best - good job at annoying the target audience. Word of advice, don't be such an ass kisser. No one cares if you met Mr. Jason or not. TestMe - should W.R.I.T.E something more. Sonny & Anh - I now pronounce you husband and wife. Or is it Pitcher and Catcher. And by the way, Zing Chat marketing is only great at burning money. Jason - Should do some research on QQ before you write. Do you even understand why QQ works? stop regurgitating what you read on other blogs and get some original thoughts. The best part of Zing Chat marketing is the use of hot young ass. Exclamation Zing!

#5 jonhson (Homepage) on 2007-12-13 15:23 (Reply)

I guess I saw more of this at http://loadingvault.com

#6 eeeesy on 2008-03-22 20:17 (Reply)

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