Aurora Mobile Partners with Kuaishou to Improve Monetization Efficiency
Aurora Mobile (NASDAQ: JG) has formed a partnership with Kuaishou Technology to enhance advertising monetization efficiency using AI-driven SaaS services. This collaboration aims to help brands accurately target customers, improve conversion rates, and reduce operational costs. The short-form video market is booming, and Kuaishou reported a revenue of RMB25.3 billion with a 48% year-over-year growth in 2020. Aurora Mobile will benefit from a revenue-sharing agreement linked to advertising revenues generated through their services, creating potential for deeper future cooperation.
- Partnership with Kuaishou enhances Aurora Mobile's advertising monetization capabilities.
- Revenue share agreement could provide significant future revenue based on Kuaishou's advertising performance.
- High growth potential in the short-form video market, with Kuaishou demonstrating a 48% revenue increase year-over-year.
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SHENZHEN, China, Feb. 05, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aurora Mobile Limited (NASDAQ: JG) (“Aurora Mobile” or the “Company”), a leading mobile developer service provider in China, today announced that it has entered into a partnership agreement with Kuaishou Technology (01024.HK) (“Kuaishou”), China’s leading short video content community and social platform, to improve advertising monetization efficiency. By leveraging its powerful artificial intelligence (“AI”) and advanced analysis technologies, Aurora Mobile's advertisement SaaS services will enable Kuaishou to help brands and performance-based advertisers to accurately target potential customers, enhance advertising conversion rate, reduce operational costs, and promote a mutually beneficial relationship between Kuaishou and advertisers on its platform.
The short-form video market continues to experience huge growth. Short-form video advertising that features high traffic and conversion rates has become a preferred marketing approach for many brands and performance-based advertisers. According to Kuaishou’s IPO prospectus, as filed with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in early 2021, Kuaishou's revenue was RMB25.3 billion for the first half of 2020, representing a year-over-year growth rate of
According to the cooperation agreement, Aurora Mobile will benefit from a revenue share agreement based on advertising revenues allocated to Kuaishou if the labels provided by Aurora Mobile are used by advertisers on the platform. The partnership creates the opportunity for more extensive and deeper cooperation in the future, and Aurora Mobile believes that its innovative technology solutions will further empower Kuaishou’s ability to monetize traffic and help more advertisers improve brand marketing and operational efficiency.
Founded in 2011, Aurora Mobile is a leading mobile developer service provider in China. The Company continues to focus on developers' needs and has launched push notifications, one-key authentication, instant messaging, statistics and analytics, traffic monetization (JG Alliance), JG VaaS, JG UMS and other services. By leveraging its artificial intelligence-based data processing platform, Aurora Mobile is also committed to providing customers with one-stop, diversified big data service solutions, helping customers in various verticals to improve operational efficiency and conduct data-led decision making. Recently, Aurora Mobile signed milestone agreements with a number of leading platforms in the finance, insurance, weather, internet tools, gaming, fresh food e-commerce, online education, telecom and new energy vehicle sectors, including Ping An Bank, Data Center of China Life, Moji Weather, WiFi Master, Lilith Games, Missfresh, 17zuoye, Beijing Unicom, Dongfeng Motor and other well-known companies, to drive user growth, improve user experience and increase traffic value.
About Aurora Mobile Limited
Founded in 2011, Aurora Mobile is a leading mobile developer service provider in China. Aurora Mobile is committed to providing efficient and stable push notification, one-click verification, and APP traffic monetization services to help developers improve operational efficiency, grow and monetize. Meanwhile, Aurora Mobile's vertical applications have expanded to market intelligence, financial risk management, and location-based intelligence, empowering various industries to improve productivity and optimize decision-making.
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