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| So if you run the numbers, hopefully, we'll be able to get closer to profitability and even improve the profitability towards the second half of the year |
| Mainly, Agora is uniquely positioned to facilitate innovation in this industry by leveraging our cutting edge RTE technology and deep understanding of industry specific use cases |
| This capability makes users more confident to participate therefore, boosting user engagement and stickiness on our customers' platform |
| In closing, we are very proud of our execution and strong financial results during this challenging period |
| We believe Agora is an ideal alternative for Twilio's video customer base and expect to enhance our global market share following Twilio's exit |
| Live shopping, IoT particularly in developed market, those are the areas that we see a strong growth momentum |
| and international markets, we do see strong growth momentum in media and entertainment sector and telehealth verticals |
| And we have been helping people with all those knowledge and know-hows already, and those are the unique advantages we could help to help them to grow into a bigger global market |
| About talking China Internet companies going overseas, I think we are in a very strong unique position to help them because on one side, we do have a strong and very influential customer base in China Internet industry |
| Our network is well positioned to power such content and interaction |
| I'm pleased to announce that we've achieved non-GAAP net income of $1.4 million in Q4, despite a very challenging operating environment |
| The competitive environment with that we see is clearly improving |
| Thanks to our effective cost control and relentless drive for revenue growth |
| We are pleased to announce that our Board has also authorized another 12-month extension of a $200 million share repurchase program through end of February next year with all other terms unchanged, which is a vote of confidence on financial strength and long-term prospects of the business |
| This technology breakthrough in AI will greatly expand the boundary of real-time engagement and bring about tremendous new possibilities |
| I believe Agora is well positioned to play a critical role in facilitating massive games transmission between AI models and human users |
| Early data from our customers shows that the mini game integration has resulted in increased user penetration, longer session duration and more monetized opportunities |
| We not only delivered consecutive quarter-over-quarter top line growth since the second quarter, but also achieved non-GAAP probability in the fourth quarter |
| Overall usage in both markets, we're actually seeing still growing despite all the regulatory and macro changes, which is the foundation of overall customer value growth and revenue growth |
| As Tony just mentioned, thanks to our effective cost controls and relentless drive for revenue growth, we achieved profitability on a non-GAAP basis for the first time in more than three years |
| This demonstrates the resilience of our business amid a very challenging operating environment as well as our continued discipline and efforts in optimizing our cost structure |
| Turning to profitability is a remarkable milestone |
| And in mid-term to long term, we do see the powerful impact where Vision Pro can enable a lot more attractive use -- new use cases or make some new use cases more viable for more meaningful for consumer or business use cases, where we would be able to support both persona-based social interactions or business collaborations in that platform |
| A loyal community of repeated buyers will strive and help drive sales |
| I personally used Vision Pro, and I believe, it marks an important breakthrough in XR technology |
| We expect we will be gaining market share with those changes |
| We are also thrilled to see OpenAI's recent launch of Sora, a powerful AI model that can create realistic and imaginative video clips based on task instruction |
| The high-value resolution and the see-through capability of Vision Pro demand higher quality video content and opens the possibility for hologram video content consumption and interactions |
| Over the past few months, mini games that overlay on video live streaming have been gaining popularity among social platforms |
| And our goal is to reach double-digit revenue growth in Q4 year-on-year |
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| This put some pressure to our Q1 results |
| The year-over-year decrease was primarily due to slowing demand from internet customers due to regulation and general economic conditions |
| But as for Q1, it will be challenging to achieve profitability in Q1 given the revenue debt |
| Agora's revenues were $15.3 million in the fourth quarter, flat compared to last quarter and decreased 3.2% year-over-year |
| Adjusted EBITDA was negative $2 million translating to a 5.6% adjusted EBITDA loss margin fourth quarter, significantly lower than the adjusted EBITDA loss margin of 21.1% in Q4 last year |
| Well, there are -- we continue to see there are more competitors kind of backing off, which in last quarter, we see another large Internet company reduced their team in this area in Q4 |
| The year-over-year decrease was primarily due to reduced usage from customers in emerging markets due to a challenging macroeconomic environment and tightening financing conditions starting from the second half of 2022 |
| There could be a reason that COVID demand is also fading away |
| The quarter-over-quarter decrease was mainly due to an increase in on-premises solution, revenue which has a lower gross margin |
| Yes, the Q1 revenue guidance would imply a year-on-year revenue decrease |
| Total revenues were $36 million in the fourth quarter, an increase of 2.9% quarter-over-quarter and a decrease of 10.2% year-on-year |
| Adjusted G&A expenses were $5.8 million in Q4, decreased 20.5% year-over-year |
| There's a Seasonal impact, especially reduced usage in certain regions |
| Price-wise, we see more pressure in emerging markets, where it's impacted by macro environment, including the currency exchange rate, et cetera |
| Adjusted sales and marketing expenses were $6.3 million in Q4, decreased 40.6% year-over-year |
| Some competitors' products only build on top of a PC open source projects or a simple rather lean, layer of technology add-ons, which can only serve a fraction part of the demand for our RTE use cases which, of course, limited their capability to expand and grow in this area |
| As I mentioned, in some of the regions where we operate as well as the Chinese New Year is a low season for social apps and for education apparently, so usage will drop during that holiday |
| Price-wise, in China market generally drops about 10% over the last few years and often happen in the beginning of the year |
| And the third question is on the potential market share gain |
| Shengwang revenues were RMB 148.7 million in the fourth quarter, an increase of 5% quarter-over-quarter and a decrease of 9.6% year-over-year excluding revenues from the of the disposed CEC business |
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