Category Chinese New Year

Apple, China, Chinese New Year, Culture, Mercedes, Web Globalization

The Year of the Rabbit

Lunar New Year is here and, with it, my whirlwind tour of global and local websites taking full advantage of this holiday. Here was my tour last year of the year of the tiger. Not surprisingly, the celebratory color red…

John Yunker
January 22, 2023

Amazon, Apple, BMW, China, Chinese New Year, Holidays, Web Globalization

The Year of the Tiger: Websites celebrate Lunar New Year

If you were to visit the US home page of BMW you’d see the obligatory photograph of the latest models: But if you were to visit the China home page of BMW, you’d encounter this fella: That’s right, even high-end…

John Yunker
January 31, 2022

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COVID flattened the language curve, and that’s actually good news

I began the Web Globalization Report Card back in 2003. It became the first report of it kind to benchmark global websites and I’ve been publishing this report annually ever since then. For the first time in all those years,…

John Yunker
March 25, 2021

Accenture, Adobe, Airbnb, Alibaba, Amazon, American Airlines, Apple, Automotive web localization, Avis, BMW, Booking.com, Brand TLDs, Brazil, British Airways, Business globalization, Canon, Capgemini, Carnival, Chevrolet, China, Chinese New Year, Cisco Systems, Companies, Countries, Country Codes, Culture, Deloitte, Delta Airlines, Disney, Domain names, Emirates, Enterprise, Ernst & Young, Expedia, Facebook, FedEx, Ford, Four Seasons, Global By Design, Global gateway fail, Global Marketing, Global navigation, GoDaddy, Google, Hertz, Hilton, Holidays, Honda, Hotels.com, Hyatt, IBM, India, Indonesia, Intel, Intercontinental Hotels, Iran, Israel, Japan, KLM, KPMG, Languages, Lexus, Lithuania, Machine Translation, Malaysia, Marriott, Mercedes, Microsoft, Mobile, Multilingual search, Nike, Nissan, Norway, Pitney Bowes, Porsche, Professional Services, PWC, Reports, Retail globalization, Royal Caribbean, Russia, Samsung, Saudi Arabia, Social, Software Localization, South Korea, Starbucks, Subaru, Sweden, Tesla, Thailand, Toyota, Transcreation, Translation, Travel, Travel, Travel companies, TripAdvisor, Twitter, Uber, United States, US Hispanic Market, Usability, Vendors, Video, Voice, VW, Web Globalization, Web Globalization Report Card, Web performance, Wikipedia, Wordpress, WordPress, Xiaomi

The top 25 best global websites from the 2021 Web Globalization Report Card

I’m pleased to announce the publication of the 2021 Web Globalization Report Card. This is the 17th annual edition of the Report Card, and it reflects a challenging year. Yet there is much to be optimistic about as we look ahead.…

John Yunker
March 10, 2021

Airbnb, Amazon, Apple, Automotive web localization, Business globalization, China, Chinese New Year, Culture, Disney, Events, Global Marketing, Google, Holidays, Languages, Microsoft, Retail globalization, Starbucks, Translation, Web Globalization, Web Globalization Report Card

Websites celebrate Chinese New Year: The Year of the Ox

This has become a bit of an annual tradition for me, taking a virtual tour of a number of global brands, seeing how they celebrate Lunar New Year (牛年), particularly to customers in China. As in years past, the color…

John Yunker
February 12, 2021

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The top 10 global websites from the 2020 Web Globalization Report Card

I began the Report Card back in 2003 because, at the time, there was nothing out there that focused specifically on the globalization and localization of websites. And, to be honest, most websites were not all that “global” yet; 10…

John Yunker
February 11, 2020

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The best global websites from the 2019 Web Globalization Report Card

A little more than 15 years ago, I began benchmarking websites for a new report I had in mind, tentatively titled the Web Globalization Report Card. The number one website in the first Report Card was a startup company by the…

John Yunker
February 15, 2019

BMW, China, Chinese New Year, Culture, Events, Google, Holidays, Nike, Starbucks, Web Globalization, Web Globalization Report Card

The Year of the Pig (one localized website at a time)

Lunar New Year has arrived and, with it, the Chinese New Year (and related Asian New Year celebrations). As I’ve done a few times in the past, I thought I’d feature a few localized web pages from multinationals as they…

John Yunker
February 5, 2019