"I want to drive them to our landing page so they can register for our project updates."

This is one of the most common marketing objectives we have to clients achieve, and on the WeChat platform, the ecosystem is built differently, and how users use the platform doesn't necessarily align with the goals we are familiar with in western online and social media marketing. 

Many of us who are familiar with the various functions on english social media know that 'discovery' within an app is a huge factor in keeping users within the app - the more interesting things they can find to do within the app, the longer time they are going to spend there and the better the numbers look for the company.

With the privacy policies being quite stringent in China, the WeChat advertising platform has been in beta for the last few years. In order to become a platform for people to place ads, your official WeChat account would need a sizeable following (larger than 100K followers); and in order to advertise on the platform you would also need to have a China bank account, China mobile number and China personal ID.