Company Overview
| Company Name |
ADCHINA LTD. |
| Company Address |
211 SHI MEN YI ROAD MEDIA ZONE JINGAN 20F SHANGHAI 200041 |
| Company Phone |
862162675588 |
| Company Website |
www.adchina.com |
| CEO |
Alan Fangjun Yan |
| Employees (as of 12/31/2011) |
491 |
| State of Inc |
-- |
| Fiscal Year End |
12/31 |
| Status |
Filed (2/17/2012) |
| Proposed Symbol |
ADCN |
| Exchange |
Nasdaq National Market |
| Share Price |
-- |
| Shares Offered |
-- |
| Offer Amount |
$100,000,000.00 |
| Total Expenses |
-- |
| Shares Over Alloted |
-- |
| Shareholder Shares Offered |
-- |
| Shares Outstanding |
-- |
| Lockup Period (days) |
180 |
| Lockup Expiration |
-- |
| Quiet Period Expiration |
-- |
| CIK |
0001468784 |
We estimate that we will receive net proceeds from this offering of
approximately US$ million after deducting
underwriting discounts and commissions and the estimated offering expenses
payable by us. These estimates are based upon an assumed initial offering
price of US$ per ADS, the mid-point of the range
shown on the front cover page of this prospectus. [We will not receive any of
the proceeds from the sale of ADSs by the selling shareholders.] A US$1.00
increase (decrease) in the assumed initial public offering price of US$
per ADS would increase (decrease) the net proceeds of this offering by US$
million, assuming the sale of ADSs at US$
per ADS, the mid-point of the range shown on the front cover page of this
prospectus and after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and the
estimated offering expenses payable by us.
The primary purposes of this offering are to create a public market for our
shares for the benefit of all shareholders, retain talented employees by
providing them with equity incentives, and obtain additional capital. We
intend to use the net proceeds received by us from this offering for the
following purposes:
• approximately US$ million for continuing
investment in our technology and solutions development, with focus on our
mobile platform and performance-based solutions;
• approximately US$ million for acquiring strategic
advertising inventory, including selectively extending our reach to
publishers who have complementary audience bases;
• approximately US$ million for pursuing sales and
marketing initiatives to facilitate our geographical expansion within China,
including further expanding the headcount of our sales force and increasing
spending on training we provide to our sales force; and
• the remainder for general corporate purposes, including strategic
investments and acquisitions (although we are not currently negotiating any
such acquisitions).
The amounts and timing of any expenditures will vary depending on the amount
of cash generated by our operations, competitive and technological
developments and the rate of growth, if any, of our business. Accordingly, our
management will have significant flexibility in applying the net proceeds of
the offering. If an unforeseen event occurs or business conditions change,
we may use the proceeds of this offering differently than as described in this
prospectus. For example, we may use a portion of the net proceeds we receive
from this offering for strategic acquisitions, although we are not currently
negotiating any acquisition transactions.
In utilizing the proceeds from this offering, we are permitted under PRC laws
and regulations to provide funding to our PRC subsidiaries only through loans
or capital contributions and to our consolidated affiliated entities only
through loans, and only if we satisfy the applicable government registration
and approval requirements. We cannot assure you that we will be able to meet
these requirements on a timely basis, if at all.
Pending use of the net proceeds, we intend to hold our net proceeds in
short-term, interest-bearing debt instruments or demand deposits.
As demand for internet advertising services and solutions continues to
increase, we expect new competitors to enter the market and existing
competitors to allocate more resources to developing and marketing internet
advertising services and solutions. As a result, we expect competition in the
internet advertising market to intensify.
Our primary current and potential competitors include internet advertising
networks such as Adsit! Media Corporation, Adsame Networks Technology
Incorporated, Shanghai MediaV Advertising Co., Ltd., YoYi Media (Beijing)
Interactive Advertising Co., Ltd., hdtMEDIA Corporation and Shanghai Quantone
Digital Advertising Co., Ltd., an entity related to Allyes Online Media
Holding Ltd.
We also compete for a share of advertisers' overall marketing spending with
large internet companies and traditional media, including website publishers
with their own sales forces that sell their advertising space directly to
advertisers; major internet portals and search companies; and direct
marketing, television, radio, cable and print advertising companies.
Company Description
We operate a leading integrated internet advertising platform in China,
according to research conducted in April 2011 by iResearch Consulting Group,
or iResearch, a third-party market research firm. Our online platform reached
486 million monthly unique visitors in December 2011 according to a
report
issued in February 2012 by DCCI, an internet data search agency in China,
and our mobile platform provided our advertisers with access to 249 million
monthly unique visitors in December 2011. Our online publisher base comprised
409 publishers in China, including 20 of the top 50 websites in China based
on rankings from Alexa.com, a third-party website, as of February 1, 2012.
We provide advertisers with targeted nationwide access to Chinese consumers,
and we enable publishers who use our platform to better monetize their
traffic.
Based on our industry knowledge, advertisers historically have had few options
to reach a nationwide audience in China due to its highly fragmented media
distribution system and underdeveloped advertising services sector. As
consumers have increasingly migrated online, the wide range of activities
they pursue across millions of websites has led to increasing diversification
of user traffic, which we believe prevents advertisers from realizing the
promise of internet advertising: targeted, nationwide consumer reach. As
a result, internet advertising spending as a percentage of total advertising
spending in China lagged behind consumer time spent online as a percentage of
time spent on all media platforms. We believe that a lack of reliable,
third-party tools for advertisers to measure their return on investment and
for publishers to offer effectively targeted advertising solutions have
further contributed to this lag in internet advertising growth.
Our mission is to become the indispensable platform for internet advertising
in China. We offer a differentiated value proposition to advertisers that
enables them to achieve a higher return on investment by matching individual
advertising campaigns to their target audiences across a variety of formats
and access points, enabling advertisers to realize the interactivity and
precision targeting capabilities of the internet at scale. In doing so, we
also help participating publishers better monetize their traffic and improve
the liquidity of their advertising inventory. As a result, we provide internet
users with value-added advertising content that is tailored to their
interests.
Our integrated internet advertising platform comprises software and related
technical support services that automatically deliver targeted advertisements
from advertisers to websites or mobile apps or sites of publishers with whom
we have contractual arrangements. Our platform effectively integrates
advertisers with publishers and delivers advertisements across different ad
formats and different types of internet access devices. The core component of
our platform, our AdChina AdManager system, tracks available advertising
space from publishers, processes orders from advertisers, analyzes audience
data and matches advertisements to their target audience almost
instantaneously across the entire range of our publisher base. We have
extended the reach of AdChina AdManager system by providing a hosted demand
platform for advertising agencies and advertisers and a separate hosted supply
platform for internet publishers that operate online websites or mobile apps
or sites addressing mobile device access.
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Our principal executive offices are located at 20/F, Media Zone Jing An, No.
211 Shi Men Yi Road, Shanghai, 200041, People's Republic of China. Our
telephone number at this address is +86 (21) 6267-5588. Our registered office
in the Cayman Islands is located at the offices of Corporate Filing Services
Limited, 4th Floor, Harbour Center, P.O. Box 613, George Town, Grand Cayman,
Cayman Islands. We also have offices in Beijing, Guangzhou and Xiamen in
China. Our corporate website is www.adchina.com. Our agent for service of
process in the United States is Law Debenture Corporate Services Inc.