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豆包少花钱赢下中国AI竞赛:广告费降60%,月活2.27亿
豆包将季度广告投入从1.61亿元降至6500万元,月活却在2025年从9980万增至2.27亿,并在2026年4月仍居中国iOS AI下载量第一。
豆包(字节跳动)
做的是什么生意
Doubao is ByteDance's consumer AI assistant for mainland China, the domestic counterpart to the overseas Dola and built by the same Flow organization. It answers questions, edits images and generates content for free, while the underlying Doubao model is also sold to enterprises through ByteDance's Volcano Engine cloud.
起因
Doubao went out as ByteDance's free answer in China's consumer AI race and was already winning by early 2025: MAU hit 99.8 million in Q1 while that quarter's user-acquisition spend was ¥161M. The premise, per TMTPost, was a flywheel: more users produce more data, data improves the model, and a better model retains and attracts more users.
经过
Across 2025 the flywheel turned. MAU climbed each quarter to 227 million by Q4, up more than 127% for the year, while quarterly ad spend fell to ¥65M by Q3 - growth moving opposite to marketing. TMTPost cites average 30-day retention of 44.5% from January to November 2025 against 32.1% for second-place Kimi. When the Spring Festival 2026 marketing war began, rivals outspent ByteDance massively: Qwen reportedly poured in ¥6B and held the App Store free-chart top spot for eight days, while Doubao spent ¥1.5-2B, joined the fight only on February 13 and still retook first place on February 17, holding it through February 26 and leading iOS downloads at 12.43 million for December 20-February 20 (Jiemian/Diandian data). DataEye's April 2026 report then showed the whole mainland AI-app market contracting 16.95% month over month while Doubao kept first place on iOS at 5.89 million downloads (22% share) and its share of ad materials fell to 2.0% - which DataEye read as proof that a brand moat had replaced paid traffic.
结果
Still running as China's #1 AI app as of DataEye's April 2026 report; TMTPost describes the domestic flywheel as the playbook ByteDance then exported overseas through Dola.
背景
豆包是字节跳动面向中国大陆的消费级AI助手,由后来推出海外应用Dola的同一个Flow组织打造。据TMTPost报道,其押注是飞轮效应:一个保持用户粘性的免费助手能产生更多数据,数据改进模型,更好的模型保留并吸引更多用户——因此增长不应依赖付费流量。
数据走势与通常的营销规律相反。月活从2025年第一季度的9980万增至第四季度的2.27亿,全年增长超过127%,而季度用户获取支出从1.61亿元降至6500万元。2025年1月至11月平均30天留存率为44.5%,同为第二位的Kimi为32.1%;TMTPost称豆包是首个日活破亿的中国AI原生应用。
2026年春节营销大战检验了这一理念的成色。据报道,通义千问投入约60亿元,占据App Store免费榜榜首8天;豆包支出估计在15亿至20亿元,2月13日才加入,却于2月17日重新夺回榜首,并保持至2月26日,12月20日至2月20日iOS下载量达1243万(界面新闻/点点数据)。
到2026年4月,中国大陆AI应用市场环比收缩16.95%,而豆包仍以589万次下载量和22%的份额位居iOS第一,同时广告素材份额降至2.0%。DataEye将这一组合解读为以留存构建的品牌护城河已取代付费获客。
这件事要成立,得有什么
- 月活从2025年第一季度的9980万增至第四季度的2.27亿,而季度获客支出从1.61亿元降至6500万元——增长与营销投入反向。
- 平均30天留存率44.5%(2025年1月至11月)对比亚军Kimi的32.1%,意味着每个获客用户价值更高,因此减少购买不会损失份额。
- 面对通义千问60亿元春节攻势,豆包仅投入15亿至20亿元并迟到加入,仍重新夺回免费榜榜首,并以1243万下载量领先。
- DataEye 2026年4月数据显示,iOS份额第一,下载量589万次、占22%,而广告素材份额萎缩至2.0%,表明飞轮在竞争对手付费潮退去后依然强劲。
可借鉴之处
当留存产生复利时,广告可有可无:豆包在削减获客支出的同时超越了中国AI竞争对手,因为留下来的用户反过来滋养了更好的模型——飞轮自己买了增长。
后续进展
截至DataEye 2026年4月报告,豆包仍位居中国大陆iOS第一,且留存模式经受住了最严峻的考验:通义千问投入约60亿元,是豆包支出的3至4倍,但豆包仍于2026年2月17日重新夺回App Store免费榜榜首,并领先iOS下载量1243万次(界面新闻)。4月市场环比收缩16.95%,增长并非必定持续;豆包广告素材份额降至2.0%,只有在留存保持时优势才成立。TMTPost称这一飞轮是字节跳动推向海外的Dola模板,Dola在2026年第一季度下载量突破2亿次;商业化路径尚未探明。
资料来源
- ByteDance's Doubao passes 200M overseas downloads (Dola); includes domestic Doubao MAU, retention and ad-spend figures
- After the three AI giants burned nearly ¥10B over Spring Festival: Doubao tops the chart 8 days straight (DataEye/Jiemian)
- April AI report: global native-AI downloads reach 365M; Doubao #1 on mainland iOS at 5.89M (DataEye/Diandian data)
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