Marketing and eCommerce in China

Sell in China. Grow in China. Understand China.

We get brands and companies earning revenue in China. Stores on Tmall and JD, social commerce on Douyin and RED, the right distributor for your category.

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A day in Chinese commerce

Your brand, every moment of the day

Chinese consumers jump between half a dozen apps before lunch. Each one has its own audience and its own rules for selling.

  1. 07:30 Morning check-in WeChat 微信
  2. 10:15 Mid-morning discovery RED 小红书
  3. 12:40 Lunch-break shopping Tmall 天猫
  4. 15:50 Afternoon group buy Pinduoduo 拼多多
  5. 19:20 Evening delivery JD 京东
  6. 21:45 Livestream shopping Douyin 抖音
Discover our services

The playbook changes by platform. See how we help brands show up on each one.

Where to start

China is not one problem to solve

Three ways in. Pick the one that matches where you actually are, not where you wish you were.

A brand director in a modern Chinese office reviewing premium packaging samples next to a laptop showing a Tmall-style storefront
Launch

Enter China

You have a product that could work in China. No team there yet, no entity, no store on any platform.

  • Cross-border eCommerce
  • Right entry model
  • Distribution partner
  • Brand localisation
Explore Enter China
A Chinese livestream commerce host in a clean content studio with skincare products on a wooden shelf and a phone on a tripod
Scale

Grow in China

You're in the market and selling. Growth has stalled.

  • eCommerce operations
  • Social commerce
  • Media
Explore Grow in China
Two international executives walking through a quiet Chinese tea and design market in afternoon light
Intelligence

Learn China

Platform rules keep shifting. Habits from three years ago are gone.

  • Learning expeditions
  • Operator-led masterclasses
  • Fresh market data
Explore Learn China
Services

Every service you need, at every stage

First store on Tmall, first viral RED post, first distributor handshake. Whatever the stage, the same senior team runs it.

Our edge

The partner database we built for ourselves.

Every distributor we've vetted. Every TP and DP we've worked with. Every channel operator we know by name. Twenty years of relationships, turned into a database. Now yours to search.

  • Hand-vetted by our team

    Every partner cleared before we add them. Track records you can verify, references you can call.

  • Filtered the way you search

    Category, region, channel, price tier, brand portfolio. The wrong fits drop out before the first call.

  • Kept current, quarterly

    The team using BeyondCompass on live projects is the same team keeping it current.

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About us

Here's why brands work with us

The team behind BBG spent years inside Publicis Shanghai and Fortune 500 companies operating in China.

Running brand strategy, buying media, managing eCommerce operations, building social commerce channels on Douyin, WeChat and RED, localising products for the Chinese consumer. Advising brands on market entry, from business model to distributor selection to regulatory setup. Producing content at scale, both traditional studio work and AI-powered production.

We do it on the platforms, with the budgets, with the pressure. Advising from the outside is not our model.

We went independent in 2023 because we wanted strategy and execution under one roof, with the same senior people handling both. The experience didn't change. The structure did.

Meet the team
Hub Studio
Inside Hub Studio

Our content studio.
Made in China,
for Chinese platforms.

Hub Studio is the team behind everything we ship in market. Photo, film, social, livestream, packaging, OOH. Made for Chinese platforms by people who post on them every week.

Studio HQ Shanghai
Crews Shanghai · Shenzhen · Changsha · Hangzhou
Pipeline AI + human review
Now shooting Studio · Shanghai
Concept Art direction Key visuals
Creative

Work that holds up next to the local brands.

Key visuals, campaign ideas, packaging, out-of-home. Built for the apps your buyer actually opens, Xiaohongshu, Douyin, WeChat, Tmall.

  • Brand-led creative direction
  • Key visuals for Xiaohongshu and Douyin
  • Packaging and OOH that travel
Say hi

Thinking about China? Let's have a coffee.

Tell us where you are today and where you would like to be. You will hear back from a senior member of the team, not a chatbot or a sales funnel.