If Qutoutiao makes money just by watching news, it will cost about one yuan a day. It can be used as entertainment, but it is still unrealistic to really use it as the main source of income.

In June 2019, the Shanghai Municipal Administration for Market Regulation interviewed Qutoutiao and other information platforms that had claimed that "you can make money by watching news" and required relevant companies to strengthen pre-release review and control of advertisements to prevent the release of false and illegal advertisements. .

In November 2019, Shanghai Jifen Culture Communication Co., Ltd. was issued the "Internet News Information Service License" by the State Internet Information Office.

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Application features of Qutoutiao

1. Unique algorithm

Qutoutiao recommendation system, knn based on user attributes Clustering, deep mining of user interests, using the lda topic model to classify articles, and using the deep neural network model to train doc2vec (sentiment analysis under text analysis, automatically identifying people's subjective views, emotions and attitudes towards specific topics from text etc).

Offline calculation uses svd matrix decomposition and item base collaborative filtering to generate a set of personalized recommended articles. The LR prediction model is used online in real time to reorder the recommendation results through click feedback. Classify people and articles, and recommend articles that users like to users.

2. Unique operation

Based on grasping the trend of aggregated content, Qutoutiao also meets users' needs for personalized, socialized and localized information. Through PGC's strong support plan, a large number of self-media and content creators from fashion and lifestyle categories, authoritative media, corporate organizations, etc. have been attracted to settle in.

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