Microsoft Advertising and Media.Monks Unlock New Opportunities in China
Microsoft Advertising and Media.Monks have bolstered their positions in China to support marketing, advertising, and advanced services in two different announcements. Artificial intelligence is used to support services in the majority of cases.
Microsoft Advertising ventures into the Chinese market
Microsoft Advertising and InMobi have declared their intention to extend their partnership into the Chinese mainland. With Microsoft Advertising’s native display and search capabilities, Chinese marketers can now leverage an integrated solution to improve their campaigns. Its enterprise and strategic sales, account management, marketing, finance, collection, and billing for customers in China will all benefit from the partnership.
This will expand upon Microsoft and InMobi’s already fruitful partnership, which was established in July 2018. Since then, it has grown to encompass Microsoft Advertising’s solutions in almost 75 nations and regions, including Africa, the Middle East, India, Southeast Asia, and now Mainland China. The biggest search and tech company in China, Baidu, competes with Microsoft Advertising in the area. Baidu incorporates AI into all of its platforms and tools for cloud services and advertising.
Here’s what they said
Charlie Liang, GM of InMobi China, and SVP of InMobi Group said,
This extended collaboration between Microsoft Advertising and InMobi in China will bring the best value across both organisations to marketers in the region, given China’s highly competitive marketers environment. InMobi China is well positioned to bring the best experience to advertisers with a deep understanding of China’s search and display ad markets, a customer-oriented product and business operation team, and Microsoft Advertising’s cutting-edge solutions.
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Media.Monks partner with Baidu to strengthen its presence in China
S4 Capital plc’s operating brand, Media.Monks China announced a partnership with Baidu to support international brands hoping to succeed in the Chinese market. Media.Monks, as a premium partner, is in a unique position to enable brands to leverage Baidu’s demand in China, which goes beyond Search and Programmatic Display to include a range of products, including Baidu’s AI-driven Ad-tech products.
The Data and Digital Media team (DDM.monks) emerges as a reliable partner for both inbound and outbound clients across diverse industries in the ever-changing landscape of China’s digital market. DDM offers a wide range of services, with a focus on programmatic display, data solutions, paid search, paid social, managed media, and brand marketing. DDM assists clients in navigating the challenging world of digital marketing in China and around the world, producing significant outcomes and promoting long-term growth, from carrying out media strategy to attaining data-driven efficiency.
With this new partnership, Media.Monks China can now offer a wider range of products to brands on the market. To enhance their influence in this dynamic and quickly changing market, Media.Monks and Baidu plan to collaborate closely in related fields in the future. They will also provide superior services to a wide range of customers.
Here’s what they said
Emily Yaoli, Data and Digital Media China team lead at Media.Monks remarked,
We will help brands with an integrated marketing strategy targeting mass audiences in China, by leveraging Baidu’s profound AI-driven solutions.
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Baidu unveils ERNIE, the AI-powered chatbot to ChatGPT
Baidu’s ERNIE Bot, the ChatGPT-like AI chatbot to transform China’s AI landscape in March. Baidu one of China’s biggest search and artificial intelligence firms plans to implement its artificial intelligence chatbot ‘Ernie’ into its search engine in March. ERNIE, which stands for “Enhanced Representation through Knowledge Integration,” is an AI model that not only generates text, such as poems and essays but also has the capability to create images from text, which is a combination of the functionalities of ChatGPT and Midjourney. This feature makes ERNIE a more comprehensive and valuable tool.
Baidu’s CEO Robin Li announced in an internal memo that ERNIE Bot will be utilized in all of Baidu’s operations, including search and cloud services. Moreover, Baidu plans to incorporate ERNIE Bot into its driverless car technology and smart speaker for enhanced user experience. Currently, Baidu’s cloud services hold just 9% of the market, but the addition of an AI chatbot like ERNIE Bot could give the company a competitive edge.
Li said in the memo,
AI technology has reached a tipping point and all industries will inevitably go through transformation.
Baidu stands as the best example of the long-term growth of China’s AI market and is advancing at the forefront of this new wave.
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China’s biggest tech companies, such as Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent, along with top universities and city governments, are vying to develop their own AI chatbots to keep up with the global competition. Despite being beaten to the punch by American-made chatbots like ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Bing, these Chinese companies have been investing in their in-house AI capabilities for years, and are now pushing forward to create their own AI chatbot versions.
In China, regulators review all online content, including comments and search results, before posting to ensure it complies with a growing list of banned topics. Baidu, the Chinese Google has become adept at filtering content but faces a challenge in applying these constraints to an AI chatbot like ERNIE, which generates fresh content with each use. The ability of ChatGPT to create a sense of organic conversation by responding to each prompt is precisely what makes it so difficult to censor.
If Beijing’s worries about Ernie Bot’s unfiltered responses increase, Baidu may need to halt its operation shortly after its launch. Well, that time will tell! China’s tech giants have so far used their AI capabilities to develop less politically risky products like cloud services and driverless cars. Baidu’s launch of ERNIE Bot puts the company in a precarious position, particularly after a government crackdown on tech companies.
After years of regulatory scrutiny and a weakened economy due to COVID-19, the launch of ERNIE Bot could be a significant move for Baidu’s future growth.
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