Hisham Sarwar
Alibaba’s sales from the last year’s Singles day were $17.8 billion and this year, it only needed 12 hours to beat that record. Alibaba cleans the house on the biggest online shopping day in all year.
The Chinese mega e-Commerce website sold over $25 billion of products in one day making it a all time record. This year’s Chinese Singles day will be remembered in the history because of Alibaba’s record breaking sales as well as founder Jack Ma’s appearance on the big screen in a memorable lead role.
WATCH: Highlights From the 2017 11.11 Global Shopping Festival pic.twitter.com/SiuK2BvwdP
— Alibaba Group (@AlibabaGroup) November 11, 2017
Within 2 minutes after 12 A.M., total GMV had hit US $1 billion which set the tone of expected sales for the rest of the day. By the 40 minutes time, the site’s sale had crossed $7.5 billion already.
#Double11: Total GMV has hit US $1 billion in 2:01 minutes. pic.twitter.com/u4krOnJnfQ
— Alibaba Group (@AlibabaGroup) November 10, 2017
Less than 15 minutes into Alibaba’s Singles day GMV has hit US$5 billion. The company says within first 30 seconds, 97% of sales generate through mobile devices
And kicks off w some some kind of strange rift on a Victoria’s Secret fashion show (?) pic.twitter.com/vNdH1U4Otc
— Deirdre Bosa (@dee_bosa) November 10, 2017
Sales from last year’s Singles Day were $17.8 billion that was achieved this year within 12 hours.
#Double11 2017: As of 24:00, total GMV has exceeded RMB168.2 billion – more than USD25.3 billion. Mobile GMV: 90%. pic.twitter.com/Kfm3dhNNdw
— Alibaba Group (@AlibabaGroup) November 11, 2017
