Remark Media Releases Much Anticipated KanKan 2.0 and KanKan Data Intelligence Platform 1.0

LAS VEGAS, March 30, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Remark Media (NASDAQ: MARK), a global digital media technology company, announced the much anticipated release of its KanKan app 2.0 and KanKan Data Intelligence Platform 1.0.

The KanKan Data Intelligence Platform is on its way to building one of the largest and most comprehensive social, travel and Online-to-Offline (O2O) content platforms.  Over the course of the last 21 months, KanKan has been gathering, analyzing, and organizing major social media, travel and O2O business content globally.  This has resulted in a growing global platform of over 1.3 billion socially active user profiles, over 15 billion posts, more than 10 billion images, and over 50 billion comments and reviews.  KanKan's data mining technology provides the opportunity to capture multi-level information for any consumer database, with opportunities to enable better targeted advertising to a larger consumer base.

Due to the success of the technology platform, KanKan has expanded its relationship with Alibaba, China's largest e-commerce platform, to include a data integration partnership.  This partnership provides KanKan access to the 400 million buyers worldwide that conduct their transactions through Alibaba annually.  Already one of Alibaba Cloud Services' largest customers, the expanded partnership will also include a dedicated internet gateway to China for Kankan, which bypasses China's government-imposed Great Firewall.  Currently, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and many other platforms are blocked in China.

Kankan 2.0 is a lifestyle mobile application that offers personalized, relevant, real-time and multi-cultural social events from all over the world. Backed by its proprietary social media data platforms, Kankan not only provides users a vivid experience of their local and world events, but also makes recommendations on improving their daily life as it relates diet, fitness, and travel.

Kai-Shing Tao, Remark Media Chairman and CEO, stated, "Kankan is shaping itself into the most powerful sources of search and local discovery. In addition to representing one of the largest, one-of-a-kind social media data applications, KanKan's Data Intelligence Platform represents a large growth opportunity for Remark Media as we pursue relationships with advertisers and retailers who can benefit from KanKan's unique capabilities. In addition, KanKan's data provides us with a significant advantage in enhancing user engagement and brand awareness across all of our digital media properties on a global basis. Having opened up an office in Alibaba's worldwide headquarters located in Hangzhou, China, we are excited to build upon our partnership to include the integration of as access to its large volume of consumer data."

The KanKan app can be downloaded at: http://appstore.com/remarkmediainc.

About Remark Media, Inc.

Remark Media, Inc. (NASDAQ: MARK) owns, operates and acquires innovative digital media properties across multiple verticals that deliver culturally relevant, dynamic content that attracts and engages users on a global scale.  The company leverages its unique digital media assets to target the Millennial demographic, which provides it with access to fast-growing, lucrative markets.  The company is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, with additional operations in Beijing and Chengdu, China. For more information, please visit the Company's website at www.remarkmedia.com.

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