Chinese startup transforms ads with AI-based technology

A survey by U.S. consultancy Boston Consulting Group shows that 70% of young people are motivated to shop by browsing or viewing media content. As a result, content-based ads are becoming a new trend in the e-commerce marketplace. Live commerce platforms and image- and video-sharing social media are also winning the hearts of fickle consumers by stimulating consumer appetite via the content. While there is a lot of content that can be monetized on China's Twitter-like microblogging site Weibo and video-sharing platforms, existing methods like spot ads do not appeal to viewers or hamper users' viewing experience. Markable AI (mai), launched in 2016, is an artificial intelligence-based solution for content recognition technology aimed at optimizing content ads.