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| So I think that's a good sign of the recovery is giving us a stronger face in the 2024 business |
| We not only saw a recovery in the enterprise business, but also gained success in expanding into new verticals |
| Our fourth quarter revenue grew by 27.6% year-over-year to $14.1 million, and our net income was positive at $1.4 million |
| Our full year results was promising too, as our full year 2023 revenue increased by 13.1% year-over-year to $53.5 million, and our full year 2023 net income was positive at $5.4 million |
| The company operating cash flow had a net inflow positive of $13.6 million, as a result of our robust business model |
| The increases were driven by the strong momentum in our AI/AR cloud solutions and subscription services |
| For enterprise business and our mobile beauty app business powered by our advanced AI capabilities, both segments have contributed to our top line expansion, profitability improvement and positive operating cash flow |
| In this quarter, we captured a good demand in our AI [skincare] diagnosis product, as well as accelerated adoption of jewelry and fashion virtual try-on |
| The strong momentum underscores the growing interest in our suite of mobile apps and our generative AI effort has started to pay off |
| Also interesting to hear about the recovery in the enterprise sales cycles and the good growth in new business pipeline to start the year |
| And so, we have a strong faith in that |
| In terms of the generative AI, it's very, very promising |
| As far as the breakdown, B2C continues to be very strong, as we have reported in our last quarter |
| We have some very good news to share with you today |
| Our strong revenue growth in the fourth quarter of 2023 signaled a recovery in enterprise new business acquisition from the second half of 2023 compared to the slow and prolonged sales cycle we saw in the first half of 2023 |
| So -- so our remarks there, we have seen a good recovery momentum in the last quarter of '23 |
| Notably, our mobile app active subscribers has surged by 45.7% year-over-year, reaching an all-time high of over 879,000 by the end of the fourth quarter of 2023 |
| I saw -- I think for 2023 full year, you had a pretty strong top line and also solid expansion in terms of gross profit and net profit |
| We firmly believe that our positioning within the thriving AI industry equip us to remain at the front -- forefront of revolutionizing our beauty and fashion brands engage with audiences |
| Furthermore, we have also seen good demand for our new products, Skincare Pro, which was launched in the last quarter |
| Despite a very mild rise in expenses, our net income remained strong, robust, delivering double digits and margins |
| In the fourth quarter of 2023, our total revenue has consistently exhibited strong growth, primarily driven by the continued momentum in our AR/AI cloud solution and in the mobile app subscription |
| This is yet another record quarter for these metrics showing that the continuous increase in customer penetration and SKU expansion |
| This improvement demonstrated the value of our business model in creating strong capital structure to support the growth of our business operations |
| This represents a good net margin of around 13% in 2023 |
| Overall, we were able to grow our business without unnecessarily increase of our marketing expenses, this shows the benefit of our strong recurring business model and effective customer acquisition strategy |
| The company has a very good control in operating expenses |
| As I always say, we have strong discipline, and we are seeing that because of the nature of these are contractual, we can pay advance and then we have delivered the service across the year, we're able to generate these good operating cash flow |
| The continued expansion can be attributed to the strong demand of our online virtual try-on products, among brand customers and the robust growth in the mobile beauty app subscriptions, especially with the addition of new categories that now we serve on skin diagnosis, jewelry and fashion markets |
| We are very pleased to have achieved these results even under the challenge of macroeconomics in 2023 and a strong encouragement to our entire team for the year-long effort in growing our business in both enterprises and consumer apps |
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| The full year 2023, licensing revenue decreased by 10.5% to $7.5 million compared to $8.4 million in 2022 |
| We compare that to the earlier first half of '23, which was very challenging |
| But I think in terms of margin, actually, there was slight decline in terms of both gross margin and net margins on a year-on-year basis in terms of Q3 |
| The total operating expense for the fourth quarter of '23 decreased by 83.7% to $12.7 million compared to $77.9 million for the same period last year |
| Full year 2023 loss -- total operating expenses decreased by 56.2% to $48.8 million compared to $111.2 million in 2022 |
| Full year G&A expenses were $11.6 million in '23 compared to $76.2 million in '22, a decrease of 84.8% |
| The decrease in gross margin was primarily a result of the increase in third-party payment processing fee paid to digital distribution partners, such as Google and Apple due to the increase in our mobile app subscription revenue |
| The general and administrative expenses were $3 million for the fourth quarter of 2023 compared to $69 million during the same period 2022, a decrease of 95.7% |
| So we have seen that the entire sales cycle has been shortened significantly |
| The net income was $1.4 million for the fourth quarter of '23 compared to a net loss of $190.3 million during the same period of 2022 |
| The decrease were primarily due to the high base of non-cash listing expenses that occurred in the fourth quarter of 2022 |
| The decrease to reflect the shift from our traditional offline services and the demand of growing online virtual try-on offering |
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