Shopee Brands Summit 2023 Award Winners with Junjie Zhou, Chief Commercial Officer at Shopee (From Left to Right: Adityea Kapoor from Abbott, Giraldi Jusuf from Adidas, Lucy Moran from Procter & Gamble, Shawn Kwon from Samsung, Yosser Zmitri from L'Oréal Luxe, Jasper Knoben from Intrepid Group Asia, Junjie Zhou from Shopee, Derek Wang from Jet Commerce, Yap Kian Yee from Xiaomi, Beom Kim from Amorepacific, Jay Go from Unilever, Sumeet Vohra from Reckitt and Miranti Daniar from L'Oréal CPD)

During the event, Shopee focused on three key trends for brands this year: increasing demand for digital services in Southeast Asia, rise of a new generation of buyers with different needs and the growing importance of establishing a secure shopping ecosystem. Shopee also announced several platform enhancements designed to help brands leverage these trends.

Zhou Junjie, Chief Commercial Officer at Shopee, said, “We have seen how digital services like e-commerce can improve people’s lives and transform the way consumers and businesses interact. With the macroeconomic landscape constantly changing, it is important for brands to innovate their engagement strategies and strengthen their data analysis. The new features and enhancements we are rolling out give brands the power to effectively target and deepen their relationships with consumers. Shopee is committed to continue supporting our brand partners and help them adapt to evolving trends so they can unlock long-term growth opportunities and advance in the digital economy.”

1. Increasing demand for digital services Consumers in the region are spending more time on online platforms. Shopee recently launched its 2023 Consumer Trends Report, which found that in Singapore, browsing on Shopee is a daily routine for two in three users. Additionally, more consumers are also relying on e-commerce for all their purchases, from daily essentials to big ticket items such as electronics and furniture.

In line with this, Shopee is committed to continue delivering more value and convenience to meet this increased demand. This includes having exciting shopping events that provide more deals and savings, such as:

• 3.3 Mega Shopping Sale as the first big shopping campaign of the year, featuring deals across all categories.
• Regional Shared Super Brand Days which will allow complementary brands to collaborate with each other to target a specific segment of consumers, while enabling consumers to enjoy greater value on products they need.

• New Transaction Index: Since its launch in 2021, Shopee Brand Portal has been providing brands with comprehensive data and insights. This year, Shopee announced a new transaction index, an indicative benchmarking tool based on a number of factors including sales and consumer behaviour insights. This will allow brands to understand key trends and buyer behaviour, discover white-space opportunities and obtain tailored recommendations and strategies from Shopee.
• Brand Membership Insights: As consumers purchase more frequently and across more categories, more brands are finding ways to build consumer loyalty. As such, Shopee is enhancing its brand portal to provide more granular insights on brands’ membership performance, in order to help brands better understand how they can continue to best meet their customers’ needs and maximise their customer lifetime value.

Shopee has found that this group of consumers are shopping differently from previous generations, with trust and quality being essential in their consumer journey. Shopee’s 2023 Consumer Trends Report found that young consumers pay particular attention to product quality, security of payment methods and the credibility of KOLs who endorse the brand and its products. In Malaysia, seven in 10 shoppers make purchase decisions based on product demonstrations, unboxing videos and the inclusion of a warranty while Indonesia saw a three times increase in products purchased through links shared by Shopee’s KOL affiliates compared to 2021. In Vietnam, users are increasingly utilising Shopee’s review feature, leaving more than 268 million product reviews last year.

In addition to online shopping, younger consumers are also exploring more of Shopee’s engagement features and services, which in turn, allows brand partners to leverage Shopee to engage customers from discovery to delivery. In Indonesia, three in eight Shopee users use Shopee Video to look for product reviews and promotions and Vietnamese shoppers spent more than 37 million hours on Shopee Live last year for both entertainment purposes and to look for product information. Shopee announced that it will be making further enhancements to its platform features to enable brands to continue engaging with their consumers through a variety of touchpoints. These include:

• Shopee Live: Brands will now be able to tap on Shopee’s network of Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) to host Shopee Live sessions. They will also be able to hold competitions through Shopee Live, allowing them to explore new content formats to engage with shoppers. Shopee will also be introducing new features exclusive to Shopee Live, such as vouchers, limited-time prices and a real-time livestream performance dashboard.
• Virtual Tools: Together with its partners, Shopee also continues to explore new virtual tools that can enhance consumers’ online shopping experience and help brands deepen their engagement with shoppers. Recent examples include SkinCam, an AI-enabled skin diagnostics tool that can recommend skincare products and routines to users, and Show Me My Home, a virtual home shopping feature that provides a gamified shopping experience for P&G shoppers.

Looking ahead, in 2023, Shopee will double down on its brand protection efforts with the launch of several brand protection initiatives to better serve its community. These include:

• Shopee Brand IP Portal: Shopee has developed a new one-stop portal for brands and Intellectual Property (IP) owners to protect their IP rights and grow their brand on Shopee. Through the portal, brands can seamlessly report and manage takedown requests.

• Enhanced Solutions for Product Monitoring and Takedowns: Shopee continues to collaborate with brands to enhance its counterfeit detection capabilities and technologies to proactively address listings for infringing and counterfeit products.

• Collaborations with Brands and Industry Partners: Shopee will continue to work closely with brands and intellectual property rights-focused organisations to improve its brand protection initiatives and continue combating intellectual property rights infringements.

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