By A Correspondent

Cheetah Mobile Inc. announced its strategic cooperation with Moca, China known as Ventes Avenues in India. Ventes Avenues will be Cheetah ad platform’s exclusive branding inventory partner for the Indian market.

The expansion is to take advantage of India’s growing mobile advertising industry. Per a study from Deloitte India Technology, mobile advertising in India would account for 15-20 per cent of overall spends by 2020. This is on the back of current information from IAMAI which states that out of 354 million internet users in India, 213 million are mobile-only. This correlates perfectly with data from eMarketer which suggests that advertisers in India will spend close to $35bn in 2016 to reach consumers on tablets and mobile phones, an exponential rise from $26bn in 2013.

Cheetah Mobile CMO, Xinhua Liu, said, “India is one of the most important markets for Cheetah Mobile. We are seeing tremendous growth of our user base in the Indian market in the past year. Along with the penetration of smartphones and 3G and 4G high speed networks, mobile internet business will continue to boom. India is a very young and energetic market. Mobile advertising is changing the way how brands connect and interact with their customers. We see a big opportunity for mobile advertising branding in India and hence we have decided to partner with Ventes Avenues; and together we will make good inroads by offering innovative advertising solutions and services in the mobile branding space in India. We look forward to full support from Indian brands.”

Speaking on their recent appointment, Niloufer Dundh, Founder and CEO of Ventes Avenues remarked, “It is an honour to partner Cheetah Mobile in India. Cheetah Mobile pioneers the Utility space globally with marquee apps like Clean Master, Battery Doctor and CM Security etc. The Utility space in which Cheetah operates is already large in India with over 85 million MAU & will continue to grow in the years to come given our uptake toward Android phones. Advertising is big in India across all mediums and in mobile this will only continue to grow in the years to come. Together, with Cheetah, we are creating ad units specially designed for mobile devises and usage pattern, which deliver both Impact and Reach.”