China’s Alibaba Buys Majority Stake in Digital Marketing Group AdChina

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba said on Wednesday that it has bought a majority stake in AdChina, one of the country’s leading digital marketing platforms, to boost its online and mobile marketing business.

Financial terms weren’t disclosed.

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Under the terms of the marketing deal, AdChina will work closely with Alimama, Alibaba’s online marketing technology platform, and Aliyun, Alibaba’s cloud computing unit, to develop an “end-to-end data-driven digital marketing platform that provides comprehensive online marketing services and data-marketing products to businesses, online media clients and third-party service providers.”

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“The rapid rise and development of the e-commerce industry in China has made the relationship between e-commerce and marketing ever-more linked,” said Hua Wang, general manager of Alimama.

“AdChina’s data marketing platform and Alimama’s existing online marketing business are very complementary,” Wang said.