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Livestreaming changes China’s retail landscape

Daryl Guppy
Daryl Guppy • 5 min read
Livestreaming changes China’s retail landscape
Livestream selling is fast-paced, high-pressure selling, nothing like the old-fashioned late-night TV advertisements that promised an extra set of steak knives if you ordered right now / Photo: Bloomberg
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In the first months of the Covid lockdown, I was interviewed on China’s Global TV network about the development of livestreaming. As a selling tool, I suggested it was a temporary trend that would disappear.

Boy, was I wrong.

Six years later, livestreaming is not just a thriving sector of the retail economy; it is now one of the major retail distribution channels.

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