WeChat Work v2.4.20 was released today with a couple very exciting updates. You can read the original posts in Chinese for updates to the user apps and admin backend. WeChat External Contacts WeChat is teasing the upcoming release of external contact group chats and…
WeChat at Work v2.4.18 Updates
WeChat at Work v2.4.18 is out today with several useful updates. You can read the original posts in Chinese for updates to the user apps and admin backend. Interoperatability with WeChat This press release is again headlined by the ability to message between WeChat…
WeChat at Work v2.4.16 Updates
WeChat at Work v2.4.16 is out today with lots of updates. You can read the original posts in Chinese for updates to the user apps and admin backend. Add external contacts from WeChat The biggest update is a semi-open beta launch of external WeChat…
WeChat at Work v2.4.9 Updates
WeChat at Work v2.4.9 is out today, with updates to mobile apps, desktop apps, and the admin backend. You can read the original posts in Chinese for updates to the user apps and admin backend. The biggest update is for payments: employees…
Global Messaging Trends 2017
Check out Grata’s keynote presentation from the annual CHina CHat Shanghai conference last week. While our talk last year was all about chatbots, this year we look at what’s driving innovation in messaging, with a particular focus in how advances…
New WeChat “Mini-Apps”, No Download Required
The Father of WeChat, Zhang Xiao Long, caused some excitement when he posted about new WeChat “mini-apps” in his Moments feed yesterday: Mini-Apps are currently in private beta The “WeChat Open Class” Official Account (WeChat ID: wx-gongkaike) followed up with…
WeChat Enterprise Messaging
Some of the most interesting projects we are working on at Grata at the moment involve WeChat Enterprise Accounts, WeChat Enterprise Messaging, and how to plug that functionality into clients’ external WeChat Subscription or Service accounts. When WeChat released Enterprise…
WeChat City Services
In the latest update on WeChat’s plans for global domination, WeChat is currently beta testing an expansive collection of new features called “City Services” [our translation] in Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and Foshan. If you want to check it out, you need…
Sharing on WeChat is Different
We’ve been relying mainly on Facebook, Twitter, and Linked-In for Grata’s content marketing, but last week we finally got around to sending out our first marketing blast to all seventy-six followers of our WeChat Official Account. Within twenty-four hours, our…
WeChat Impact Report
To celebrate the fourth anniversary of WeChat’s launch, Tencent Tech shared a 38-slide deck on January 27, 2015 titled “WeChat’s Impact: Inaugural Report on WeChat Platform Data” [our translation]. The report boasts some impressive statistics, most of them pulled from extensive…