coohua

Coohua (酷划在线) is a Beijing-based Chinese mobile advertising company founded in 2014 and backed by Qiming Venture Partners. It pioneered the incentive- and lock-screen-advertising model in China, rewarding users with cash for unlocking their screens, reading content, and engaging with ads. Its flagship products include Coohua Lockscreen (酷划锁屏) and the Tao News (淘新闻) reading-rewards app, serving advertisers across internet, finance, automotive, and e-commerce verticals. At its peak Coohua captured a majority share of China's lock-screen advertising market and returned billions of yuan in cash rewards to users annually. No public API, developer portal, SDK, or machine-readable specification could be found during enrichment; this profile is retained as a company/provider record surfaced from the Qiming portfolio.

coohua is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Advertising, Mobile, AdTech, and Incentive Advertising.

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5.0/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

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Composite quality — 5.0/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 5.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: coohua
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/coohua.png
name: coohua
description: Coohua (酷划在线) is a Beijing-based Chinese mobile advertising company founded in 2014 and backed by Qiming Venture
  Partners. It pioneered the incentive- and lock-screen-advertising model in China, rewarding users with cash for unlocking
  their screens, reading content, and engaging with ads. Its flagship products include Coohua Lockscreen (酷划锁屏) and the Tao
  News (淘新闻) reading-rewards app, serving advertisers across internet, finance, automotive, and e-commerce verticals. At its
  peak Coohua captured a majority share of China's lock-screen advertising market and returned billions of yuan in cash rewards
  to users annually. No public API, developer portal, SDK, or machine-readable specification could be found during enrichment;
  this profile is retained as a company/provider record surfaced from the Qiming portfolio.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/coohua/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- qiming
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Advertising
- Mobile
- AdTech
- Incentive Advertising
- China
- Consumer
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://coohua.cn
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence