BEIJING, Feb. 7, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Gridsum Holding Inc. (“Gridsum” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: GSUM), a leading provider of cloud-based big-data analytics and artificial intelligence (“AI”) solutions in China, today announced that Vipshop Holdings Limited (NYSE: VIPS) (“Vipshop”), a leading online discount retailer for brands in China, has been using its Marketing Automation suite successfully for several months.

Vipshop is leveraging Gridsum’s cutting edge marketing and sales intelligence technology to further drive its market share and business KPIs in China’s rapidly growing e-commerce sector. Gridsum’s Marketing Automation suite leverages the Company’s cloud-based big-data analytics and AI capabilities to analyze Vipshop consumer behavior to create highly-targeted marketing content and optimize its digital marketing spending.

Mr. Guosheng Qi, Chief Executive Officer of Gridsum, commented, “Getting a potential consumer’s attention within seconds is crucial in today’s highly-competitive e-commerce market. Our natural language processing (NLP) technologies enable the extraction of information about entities, correlations, sentiments and emotions from vast amounts of data including varieties of digitized documents, text converted from audio and video streams and other digital content. This helps our clients to better understand the profiles and behavior of their potential customers. Combining our NLP technologies together with our AI-driven Marketing Automation suite features which include our intelligent, multi-platform bid-optimization solution, we are able to help Vipshop improve their content marketing strategy and directly manage and automate a greater share of their digital marketing spending. Vipshop has fantastic brand recognition and I am pleased that our AI and big-data-driven Marketing Automation suite is helping them make incisive and effective data-driven decisions and increase marketing and sales efficiency.”

About Vipshop Holdings Limited

Vipshop Holdings Limited is a leading online discount retailer for brands in China. Vipshop offers high quality and popular branded products to consumers throughout China at a significant discount to retail prices. Since it was founded in August 2008, the Company has rapidly built a sizeable and growing base of customers and brand partners. For more information, please visit www.vip.com.

About Gridsum 

Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ: GSUM) is a leading provider of cloud-based big-data analytics and AI solutions for multinational and domestic enterprises and government agencies in China. Gridsum’s core technology, the Gridsum Big Data Platform, is built on a distributed computing framework and performs real-time multi-dimensional correlation analysis of both structured and unstructured data. This enables Gridsum’s customers to identify complex relationships within their data and gain new insights that help them make better business decisions. The Company is named “Gridsum” to symbolize the combination of distributed computing (Grid) and analytics (sum). As a digital intelligence pioneer, the Company’s mission is to help enterprises and government organizations in China use data in new and powerful ways to make better informed decisions and be more productive.

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