Imagebot: shopping based on images revolutionizes online shopping // ShoptheWall offers globally the first image bot, based on artificial intelligence

Hamburg / Hangzhou, 19.12.2016. ShoptheWall, a portal for artificial intelligence in online shopping, is now available to 1 billion Facebook users via Messenger. The principle is user-friendly: an image containing a desired product is uploaded and similar styles, shoes or bags are displayed almost in real time. The offered range provides over 100 million products. ShoptheWall will globally integrate all relevant e-commerce items into the platform by 2018. The service is free of charge.

"We bring the Valley to Hamburg," says Andreas Perschk, CEO of ShoptheWall. The global company runs offices in Germany and China. The Asian market in particular is a strategic focus. Especially, Amazon and Alibaba can be searched at the same time via image recognition. This, according to Perschk, is unique worldwide, because "language is replaced by an image".

The emotional aspect in shopping can be enhanced. According to Perschk: "It´s very common, you see something in the store or on a Social Platform that you like, but you don´t know where to purchase the product." This is where ShoptheWall provides the technical solution. Chatbots based on Facebook´s Messenger already exist for other cases, like weather forecast or restaurant bookings; With the Imagebot now a completely new service enters the market.

Deep learning has radically changed the e-commerce lately. The integration of big data into deep learning is also used by Google and Microsoft. The semantic information of the image leads to extremely accurate search results: the user does not have to set filters. This hyper-personalized shopping on ShoptheWall comes without any personal profiling and thus without harvesting the user data. The slogan "Find what you like!" reflects this. ShoptheWall is based on a multi-platform concept: more information at www.shopthewall.com.

ShoptheWall has developed a cross-platform Imagebot based on deep-learning technology that does not require standardized data transfer. The platform was developed internationally by the team of developers and universities. ShoptheWall is available on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, all browsers and the smartphone. Solutions on WhatsApp, WeChat and other services are already under development. Currently more than 100 million products can be searched through thousands of relevant online shops worldwide as well as in China.

For more information, visit www.shopthewall.com.