Upstream in the AI marketing industry chain are foundational technology suppliers—companies providing computing power, large models, multimodal generation, and vector databases.

Midstream are providers of AI marketing SaaS, intelligent ad placement, content generation, private-domain agents, and data and tagging services.

Downstream, the chain connects with brands, advertising agencies, and traffic platforms. Here, full-chain marketing efficiency is achieved through automated creative production, audience insights, intelligent bidding, A/B testing, and customer operations—supported by data compliance, review, and performance monitoring.

Growth Capability and Profitability of Companies in the AI Marketing Industry Chain

A company's growth capability refers to its ability to sustainably expand asset scale and market share, while profitability involves an in-depth analysis of its profit margins.

Based on business relevance, this article selects 10 companies in the AI marketing industry chain as research samples.

It uses revenue CAGR, non-recurring net profit CAGR, and operating net cash flow CAGR as indicators of growth capability; and return on equity, gross margin, and net margin as indicators of profitability.

No. 10 Fushi Holdings

Industry segment: AIGC SaaS, social media private-domain influencer marketing

Growth capability: The company proactively cleared high-risk, inefficient businesses, leading to revenue contraction, and is seeking new growth through the FlinkAi SaaS platform.

Profitability: Having just turned around from sustained losses, non-recurring profit has not yet turned positive, leaving a relatively weak profit foundation.

Company highlight: Relying on its proprietary FlinkAI platform and industry-specific AIGC models, the company adopts the "AI MAX" strategy to integrate large models and AIGC into the entire integrated marketing chain, providing brands with AI marketing services for intelligent content production, distribution, and data analysis.

No. 9 Leo Group

Industry segment: GEO/ARO answer optimization, brand-performance-sales AI marketing

Growth capability: The digital marketing segment maintained double-digit growth, while the machinery business dragged down overall performance; GEO adds a new highlight to the marketing business.

Profitability: Profitability in the marketing segment is improving, but the manufacturing business lowers overall profit, with profit quality pulled by the dual main businesses.

Company highlight: With digital marketing as its core segment, the company independently developed systems such as LEO AIAD and CubSwarm multi-agent, using AI to connect the entire chain of insights, creativity, placement, and optimization, and implementing commercialized AI marketing services.

No. 8 B-Ray Media

Industry segment: Brand IR/PR GEO, credible public opinion communication

Growth capability: Revenue has somewhat recovered; GEO and public opinion IR businesses are new directions, while traditional businesses are clearly dragging.

Profitability: Turned from profit to loss at this stage; AI/GEO business is still in the investment phase and has not yet contributed stable profit.

Company highlight: The company acquired MeiJing Technology and, relying on its Yuyan Zhixuan AIGC platform, GEO, AI public opinion, and other products, provides government-enterprise and financial clients with AI marketing and intelligent communication solutions covering content generation, intelligent distribution, and communication optimization.

No. 7 Guangdong Advertising Group

Industry segment: Vertical large models, brand + overseas integrated AI marketing

Growth capability: Revenue growth is decent; overseas expansion and the Lingxi AI product matrix continue to expand the customer base.

Profitability: Non-recurring profit improved, but investment income disturbs book profit, and gross margin of the main placement business is not high.

Company highlight: The company embeds AIGC, intelligent placement, and other capabilities into the entire process of creativity, materials, placement, and operations, empowering its own digital marketing main business with AI, providing brand clients with full-chain AI marketing services and achieving cost reduction and efficiency improvement.

No. 6 Zhewen Interactive

Industry segment: GEO, automotive/FMCG AI placement, AIGC content

Growth capability: Proactively cleared inefficient businesses and is transforming toward computing power + GEO high-value businesses, with short-term revenue under pressure.

Profitability: Traditional placement has thin gross margin; computing power and AI businesses are still in investment, and performance fluctuates significantly.

Company highlight: With digital marketing as its foundation, the company independently developed the Haoqi series AIGC and AI Agent tool matrix, embedding AI into the entire chain of user insights, content production, placement distribution, and reputation management, implementing commercialized AI marketing services.

No. 5 BlueFocus

Industry segment: Domestic and overseas full-domain AI marketing, digital humans, GEO layout

Growth capability: Overseas placement volume is massive with a solid foundation; AI and GEO layout continue to broaden business boundaries.

Profitability: Revenue growth is flat, but impairment improvement drove significant net profit recovery; net margin remains thin.

Company highlight: With its proprietary Blue AI as the core, the company runs AI through the entire chain of marketing insights, creativity, placement, and optimization, transforming through its AI strategy into an AI-driven marketing technology leader and exporting full-stack AI marketing solutions externally.

No. 4 Yiwang Yichuang

Industry segment: E-commerce vertical GEO, AI e-commerce agency operations

Growth capability: Proactively cut low-gross-margin distribution and focused on brand management and e-commerce GEO; revenue contracted but structure optimized.

Profitability: Gross margin is significantly higher among marketing targets; profit quality and cash flow performance are excellent.

Company highlight: The company built an AI Agent matrix including Yunjian, Master Image Generation, and Susutou, integrating AI into the entire chain of consumer insights, content generation, and intelligent placement, providing brands with AI-driven full-domain digital marketing operation services.

No. 3 Easy Click Worldwide

Industry segment: Overseas GEO, cross-border AI performance marketing

Growth capability: Cross-border overseas revenue growth is strong; GEO + AI material products bring a second growth curve.

Profitability: Gross margin recovered at this stage, but exchange gains and other factors cause significant disturbance, resulting in relatively high profit volatility.

Company highlight: The company is an overseas AI marketing service provider, combining large models with programmatic advertising to achieve a full-chain AI marketing closed loop of marketing material generation, multilingual localization, intelligent placement, and data analysis.

No. 2 Sanrenxing

Industry segment: Major client integrated full-chain AI integrated marketing

Growth capability: Solid major client resources; revenue maintained growth, but short-term profit is under pressure.

Profitability: Gross margin is relatively considerable; relying on top brand clients, profit stability is good, with short-term decline affected by placement cycles.

Company highlight: Relying on its full-chain marketing service foundation, the company lays out AI marketing, empowering content production, placement optimization, and user insights with AI, providing brand clients with intelligent integrated marketing solutions.

No. 1 Yinli Media

Industry segment: GEO + full-domain social AI marketing, AIGC creativity

Growth capability: The marketing main business is steadily expanding, relying on GEO and social AI placement to open incremental space.

Profitability: Overall net margin is relatively low; profit growth slightly outperforms revenue, and AI conversion is still ramping up.

Company highlight: The company independently developed its AI foundation, Jiuhe Creative AIGC platform, and Heli Intelligent Placement system, integrating AI into the entire process of user insights, material production, advertising placement, and customer operations.

*Data is based on historical information and does not represent future trends; for static analysis only, not investment advice.