Mastering XiaoHongShu to Accelerate Chinese Outreach in APAC & Greater China
1 October 2026, Thursday, 9am – 5pm (GMT+8)
Singapore, In-person
OVERVIEW
As XiaoHongShu (XHS/RED) rapidly evolves into one of Asia’s most influential social discovery and cross-border lifestyle platforms, brands across ASEAN and Greater China are increasingly looking to strengthen their presence and marketing strategies on the platform. Particularly dominant among Gen Z and Millennial consumers, XHS is reshaping how users discover brands, research products, engage with trends, and make purchasing decisions across beauty, travel, luxury, FMCG, retail, finance, and lifestyle sectors.
This intensive masterclass, Mastering XiaoHongShu to Accelerate Chinese Outreach in APAC & Greater China, is designed to help marketing and brand teams better understand how XHS functions as both a social content ecosystem and a high-intent discovery platform for Chinese-speaking and increasingly multilingual audiences across Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Greater China.
Participants will gain practical insights into XHS content strategies, platform algorithms, social discovery behaviours, influencer ecosystems, brand storytelling, and cross-border consumer engagement trends shaping the future of digital marketing in Asia. The programme focuses on helping organisations build practical XHS marketing playbooks that drive stronger visibility, engagement, and brand relevance across regional markets.
KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES
- Provide storytelling framework or toolkit for campaigns across owned, earned, paid and social media.
- “Workshop” an existing project to ideate ideas or develop a national or regional social media marketing playbook
- Enhance participants’ knowledge of new tactics in paid and organic search and social advertising in XHS with case studies from Asia
- Improve understanding and expertise of integrated brand storytelling across owned/brand, earned/PR and offline stores
- Strategise end user story arcs or narratives to leverage on different audience profiles, behaviour, service and product consumption patterns
- Develop new and innovative brand/customer personas to drive new campaigns, brands or product launches
- Leverage on new digital media habits of millennial and Gen Z consumers for campaigns in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan
- Learn to “storify” current content, service or products for new campaigns
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
- Marketing and digital marketers
- Social media and digital marketing professionals
- Product marketing and growth teams
- PR, communications, and content teams
- Retail, FMCG, beauty, luxury, travel, and lifestyle brands
- Ecommerce and cross-border commerce teams
- Agencies and media professionals
- Community and influencer marketing teams
- Chinese brands expanding into ASEAN markets
- ASEAN brands targeting Chinese-speaking consumers across Asia
- Business leaders exploring XHS/RED marketing opportunities in APAC and Greater China
- Regional and local ecommerce teams
About the Trainer
About the Trainer
Kestrel Lee
Head of Strategy
MARKETING-INTERACTIVE
With over 20 years of advertising experience in branding, integrated campaigns, social media, e-commerce, gaming, search video and mobile advertising, Kestrel Lee has led digital, social media and integrated campaigns for many global brands in Singapore, Southeast Asia and China.
Kestrel has won nearly 100 digital marketing and integrated advertising awards. He is also an influential industry speaker and trainer to Unilever, LVMH and L’Oreal Paris and many other brands in Asia as he shares learnings from his award-winning work in digital transformation, AI, social media, ecommerce and retail innovation.
In his spare time, he is an avid gamer and a geek for new technology.
Agenda
Key sessions covered:
Discovering KFS: Keyword, Feed & Social Influencers
Understand how XHS’s discovery-driven ecosystem works and how Keyword, Feed and Social Influencers (KFS) can strengthen social discovery, search performance and brand storytelling.
Understanding SHZ: PR & Social Search on XHS
Learn how Sheng Zeng Jiang (升增降 / SHZ) can drive organic search discovery, strengthen brand visibility and support PR, influencer and crisis-prevention strategies on XHS.
Learning ESC: Influencer Engagement & Story-fication
Explore the Environment–Society–Culture (ESC) framework to build stronger influencer engagement, advocacy and conversion, using story-fication, gamification and online-to-offline tactics.
From Story to Search: Content That Gets Discovered
Learn to turn campaign ideas into XHS-ready storylines, hashtags, social content and search-led narratives designed to generate organic buzz and word-of-mouth.
Hands-on XHS Campaign Workshop
Apply the frameworks to a real brand, product, service or CSR project — from identifying cultural hotspots and audience personas to developing an XHS campaign storyline for Chinese audiences across ASEAN.
Plus: Best Practices & Case Studies from China and Asia
Want the full session breakdown, learning outcomes and hands-on exercises? Request the full brochure here.
LOOKING FOR SOMETHING MORE BESPOKE?
This masterclass can also be customised into an in-house training programme tailored to your organisation’s products, target audiences, regional expansion priorities and cross-border marketing goals across ASEAN and Greater China.
The in-house format allows teams to work directly on actual campaigns, brand positioning, XHS content strategies, social discovery planning, influencer ecosystems and market-specific consumer engagement approaches relevant to their business objectives.
This is particularly valuable for organisations looking to:
- Strengthen XHS and cross-border social commerce capabilities internally
- Develop market-specific strategies for Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Greater China
- Better engage Chinese-speaking Millennial and Gen Z audiences across Asia
- Improve organic brand discovery, search visibility and community engagement on XHS
- Build stronger brand storytelling and lifestyle-driven content strategies
- Align regional marketing, ecommerce, PR and content teams on a unified XHS strategy
- Reduce reliance on external agencies through hands-on capability building and internal playbook development
Workshops can also incorporate live brand audits, competitor analysis, campaign ideation, influencer strategy planning, and hands-on exercises using actual company products, launches, and regional market priorities.
Get in touch with the team today and we will get you sorted.
Register today
1 October 2026, Thursday
Singapore, In-person, 9am – 5pm (GMT+8)
SGD 829
Group promo: Register for 3 for only SGD1,800
* 9% GST applies for Singapore-based companies and individuals.
**Group discounts applicable.
- All bookings are final.
- Should you be unable to attend, a substitute delegate is welcome at no extra charge.
- MI Masterclass Series cannot provide any refunds for cancellations.
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