A live show inside the AliExpress app: celebrities wrap gifts for other celebrities in real time — and neither the wrapper nor the audience knows who the recipient is. Viewers buy products directly from the stream window without navigating anywhere else. 125M+ rubles to sellers in the first month.
Classic unboxing: a celebrity unwraps products. Zalipaking flips the format: a star wraps a gift for another star live on air. Neither the wrapper nor the audience knows who the recipient is — the suspense holds until the end. The products on screen are real, from the AliExpress catalogue, and can be added to a cart directly from the stream.
The key technological step: the show streamed inside the app. The viewer watches, sees a product, taps — and buys, without navigating anywhere else. This eliminates all friction between interest and transaction. Nobody in the Russian market had done this before.
Shura wrapped a "5G tower protection kit" for Victoria Bonya. Pavel Artemyev and Anya Khilkevich put together gifts for Nastya Ivleeva and Jigan. The third episode with Khilkevich set a record: 256,000 in-app views and 24,000 product card opens from the stream.
On stream days, L'Oreal's store conversion grew 2–3×. The average basket of purchases made through streams was twice the usual amount — people engaged by the content spent more. The format delivered simultaneously on reach and direct sales.
In 2020, live shopping was the norm in China but barely existed in Russia. AliExpress launched the format ahead of the market — not just as an experiment, but with a ready-made monetisation mechanic. Sellers earned, viewers shopped, the platform grew. Zalipaking demonstrated that entertainment content and e-commerce don't contradict each other — they amplify each other.
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