{"id":135726,"date":"2025-09-03T01:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T01:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=135726"},"modified":"2025-09-03T01:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T01:30:07","slug":"why-labubu-craze-is-just-the-start-of-chinas-branding-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=135726","title":{"rendered":"Why Labubu craze is just the start of China\u2019s branding boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostCall them China\u2019s Sputnik moments: DeepSeek. BYD and Xiaomi cars. A robot Olympics in Beijing. Huawei\u2019s resurgence. And Labubu.<br \/>\nLabubu did its job. The little gremlin doll made it clear that a brand being from China is no longer shorthand for cheap. Pop Mart has built trust to such an extent that company management is now forecasting US$4 billion in sales this year. So what\u2019s next?<br \/>\nNot more Labubu. The next chapter is bigger and more industrial than Pop Mart. Brand muscle is spilling into places&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/china-opinion\/article\/3323996\/why-labubu-craze-just-start-chinas-branding-boom?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostCall them China\u2019s Sputnik moments: DeepSeek. BYD and Xiaomi cars. A robot Olympics in Beijing. Huawei\u2019s resurgence. And Labubu. Labubu did its job. The&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135726"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}