Gridsum Renews Contract with SAIC Volkswagen

BEIJING, July 11, 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 it has renewed its contract with SAIC Volkswagen Automotive Co Ltd. ("SAIC VW"), an automobile manufacturing company headquartered in Anting, China and a joint venture between Volkswagen Group and SAIC Motor.

SAIC VW engaged Gridsum in 2016 to transform their digital marketing strategies and stay abreast of market trends by monitoring their official website and digital media placements using Gridsum's cutting-edge Marketing Automation Suite. Leveraging its big data analysis and AI-driven marketing and sales intelligence technology, Gridsum's Marking Automation Suite optimizes digital media monitoring and advertising placements to increase conversion rates, efficiently place bids to improve advertising efficiency and lower labor costs.

Mr. Guosheng Qi, Chief Executive Officer of Gridsum, commented, "I am pleased to renew our contract with SAIC VW and further deepen our relationship after working closely with them over the past few years. We believe this contract renewal demonstrates the effectiveness and value our solutions bring for SAIC VW and their continued trust in Gridsum. We will continue build out and innovate new marketing solutions to help our clients making incisive and effective data-driven decisions and enhance their digital marketing initiatives going forward."

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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