For European retail, luxury & travel brands

The first Chinese AI visibility partner for European retail.

60%+ of Chinese outbound travelers now plan trips with Doubao, Kimi, and DeepSeek. Zero European retailers are optimized for it. We change that.

Active partnerships across European outlet villages, luxury groups & tourism boards · References on request

01 · The Window

A 2-3 year position is being claimed right now.

Chinese AI assistants are rewriting how 1.4B people discover, plan, and buy. Whoever moves first locks the recommendation slot. Whoever waits gets ranked behind whoever didn't.

  1. 226M

    Doubao MAU, Q4 2025

    ByteDance's assistant grew +126% YoY, overtaking Baidu's Wenxiaoyan as China's #1 consumer AI.

    Source: QuestMobile, aibase

  2. 5% → 60%+

    AI trip planning, 12 months

    Share of Chinese outbound travelers using AI assistants for trip research jumped from a fringe behavior to the default.

    Source: Dragon Trail International, Skift

  3. 8

    Chinese sources models actually read

    Zhihu, Xiaohongshu, Baidu Baike, Ctrip, Dianping, Weibo, Mafengwo, WeChat Official Accounts — the corpus that decides who gets recommended.

    Source: ECENTIME source-attribution audits, 2025-2026

Whoever moves first locks the position for 2-3 years.

02 · What we do

A 3-step loop, run quarterly.

Not a one-shot audit. A continuous visibility program: measure where you stand, produce what the models read, then measure again.

  1. 01

    Audit

    Where do you stand today?

    • 5 Chinese AI assistants — Doubao, Kimi, Qwen (Tongyi), Wenxiaoyan, DeepSeek
    • Real-prompt matrix in your category (luxury outlet, ski resort, beauty haul, etc.)
    • Share-of-voice baseline vs. named competitors
    • Source attribution: which Chinese sites the model cited
  2. 02

    Produce

    Get into the corpus models actually read.

    • Chinese-native content across the 8 surfaces models crawl
    • Xiaohongshu, Zhihu Q&A, Baidu Baike, Ctrip / Mafengwo, Dianping, WeChat
    • Voice, claims, and pricing aligned to your brand standards
    • NDA-clean — no grey-market resellers, no daigou content
  3. 03

    Measure

    Did the needle move?

    • Weekly share-of-voice tracker across 5 assistants
    • Recommendation slot rank · sentiment · source mix
    • Monthly Loom walkthrough with your partnerships team
    • Quarterly iteration — kill what didn't work, double what did

03 · Why ECENTIME

Three assets nobody else has put together.

Data

Years of real Chinese-shopper behavior in Europe

Through ecentime.com (nickname 一分钱), we've been the price-comparison and deal layer for Chinese consumers shopping European retail since 2018. We know which categories convert, which malls trend, which claims travel.

ecentime.com →

Content

Chinese-native content team, end to end

Editors, KOLs, and translators native to Xiaohongshu, Douyin, WeChat, and long-tail Chinese web. They write the way models cite, not the way agencies pitch.

See sample deliverables →

Trust

Existing partnerships with European retail

Active relationships with European outlet villages, luxury groups, and tourist-board partners. We've been the Chinese-market bridge for years — AI visibility is the new layer, not a new relationship.

See who we work with →

04 · In motion

Currently piloting with European retail partners.

Outlet villages

Luxury outlet category

Chinese AI visibility programs across European outlet villages · references on request.

Luxury groups

Multi-brand visibility

Group-level Chinese AI surface programs · references on request.

Travel destinations

Ski & cultural tourism

Travel-planning AI visibility · references on request.

Cases under NDA — references available on request.

05 · Engagement tiers

Three ways to start. One way to scale.

Pilot

90-day single-brand

One brand, one category, one Chinese AI baseline. Audit + content sprint + first share-of-voice measurement. For partnerships teams who need proof before scaling.

  • 5-assistant baseline audit
  • First content production cycle
  • Mid-pilot + end-pilot SoV report

Multi-brand

2-3 brand or location rollout

Multiple properties or sub-brands under one program. Shared content infrastructure, per-property measurement, quarterly review with your team.

  • Everything in Pilot, ×N locations
  • Quarterly iteration cadence
  • Cross-property benchmarking

Group partnership

Full portfolio

Group-level engagement across an entire portfolio (collection, region, or brand house). Embedded cadence with your team, custom dashboards, exec quarterly reviews.

  • Multi-brand / multi-region
  • Custom measurement dashboard
  • Quarterly exec review

From €15K / quarter · Full pricing and scope on call.

06 · About

Built by a China-Europe operator team, not an agency.

ECTIME GEO is the partnerships service line of ECTIME — a team that has spent years building the Chinese-consumer-meets-European-retail bridge through ecentime.com (consumer property) and direct partnerships with European retail brands.

We built ECTIME GEO because European brands kept asking "how do we show up in the new Chinese discovery layer?" — and there was no good answer coming from traditional agencies or SaaS tools. The team combines China-native content operators, a B2B partnerships function, and a data layer drawn from years of Chinese-shopper behavior in Europe.

07 · Contact

Let's see where your brand stands in Chinese AI today.

A 30-minute audit walkthrough: we run live prompts across Doubao, Kimi, Qwen, and DeepSeek in your category and show you the recommendation slot you're holding (or missing).