Manila Bulletin

Shopee wraps up impressive 11.11 Big Sale with 70 million items sold on November 11

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Shopee, the leading ecommerce platform in Southeast Asia and Taiwan, wraps up its largest Shopee 11.11 Big Sale. Shopee continued to drive the 11.11 shopping phenomenon in the region as it set new records on November

11. Highlights include:

• 70 million items sold on November 11

• 3 times more orders were recorded in the 1st hour compared to 2018

Shopee also delivered on its promise to offer an engaging shopping experience at 11.11 Big Sale. Users returned daily to play and win prizes via Shopee’s collection of in-app games, including its first augmented reality (AR) game Shopee Catch. The games were playedover 150 million times in three weeks.

Shopee brought non-stop entertainm­ent to users with over 65 million views recorded across its 11.11 Big Sale streams. Local celebritie­s including Alden Richards, Maine Mendoza, and

Jose Mari Chan, as well as superstars GFriend and Rainie Yang also joined special streams on November 10 and 11 to celebrate the finale of 11.11 Big Sale with users.

Martin Yu, Associate Director at Shopee Philippine­s said: “We are delighted to continue our robust year-end momentum with a successful Shopee 11.11 Big Christmas Sale. More sellers, brands, and partners joined us this year as we delivered an engaging and social experience for our users. Shopee will continue to localise this global 11.11 phenomenon for the people in our region and we look forward to even more success in the years ahead.”

In the Philippine­s, Shopee 11.11 Big Christmas Sale treated users to three weeks of unstoppabl­e promotions and entertainm­ent, headlined by free shipping with no minimum spend.

Shopee welcomed the peak sale day with the Shopee 11.11 Big Christmas TV Special on November 10 live on GMA and Shopee Live. The televised show featured performanc­es from top celebritie­s including Alden Richards, Maine Mendoza, Heart Evangelist­a, and more. Brand ambassador Jose Mari Chan also gave an exclusive performanc­e of Shopee’s latest Christmas jingle on-stage.

On11.11, brands and sellers on Shopee received a huge boost to their sales. Top performing brands recorded an average of 4,227 times increase in traffic and 1,899 times growth in sales, while shopping activity peaked at 12:10 a.m.

Shopee continued to see more male users and older users shopping on November 11.

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