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| We are very positive based on the trends so we have seen so far |
| Within GAAP marketplace revenue, core marketplace revenue, mainly consisting of transaction-based fees and advertising revenues was $1.6 billion, up 41% year-on-year as a result of platform growth and improved monetization |
| So assuming that the same seller sell 100 items, our platform sell 10 other platforms, clearly, we have a fairly better bargaining power in terms of how much price that can be set |
| In 2023, we achieved profitability, strengthened our market leadership for our e-commerce business, grew our digital financial services business, and stabilized the performance of our digital entertainment business |
| We have emerged with a much stronger balance sheet with our cash position increasing to $8.5 billion as of the end of 2023, demonstrating the discipline and prudence we have applied in our investments over the past year |
| And on top of that, the most important thing is, with this, we're able to sustain our market leaderships while building up all the competitive modes that we've been building over the past years |
| We are happy to have solidified Shopee’s market share in the region, and we intend to maintain our market share in 2024 |
| We expect Shopee’s full year GMV growth to be in the high-teens range and its adjusted EBITDA to turn positive in the second half of this year |
| To retain and strengthen our competitive advantage, Shopee’s three operational priorities in 2024 are improving service quality for buyers, enhancing the price competitiveness of our product listings, and strengthening our content ecosystem |
| So, we are very excited about the long-term prospects of Garena, again, as a leading global game company |
| It's on building better user experience, such as easy access to users, file download size, and data requirements, introducing more engaging content, and strengthen esports communities to further develop the game into a strong evergreen franchise |
| I think these are the encouraging signs we see and that's also how actually we have been reducing our unit -- improving our economics in the past few months |
| During the quarter, Shopee delivered strong results with both top-line growth acceleration and bottom-line improvement |
| And also, on top of that, we have our strong integration with our digital financial services businesses |
| Shopee’s GMV and orders grew 29% and 46% year-on-year and 15% and 13% quarter-on-quarter, respectively, resulting in solid market share gains across our markets |
| But on top of that, I think more importantly for us actually for live stream is we're seeing very good news percentage coming to live stream, which means that it does help us to reach out to segments that we might not completely reach out to before, which help us to grow the marketplace further as time goes |
| The second one is, I do believe that we have a strong local leadership team and operating team to execute on what we set up to execute and also make the right judgment based on what we see in the market |
| This translates to the economic scale benefiting by both having better monetization capabilities and also better cost efficiencies |
| We've been doing all this in the past few quarters and we do believe across all dimensions we're able to do better over this year |
| And even with the most intensive competition during the past few quarters, we're able to gain market share while improving our unit economics |
| But yeah, all in all, we're pretty happy with what we see in Q1 so far |
| We are also seeing good progress made on delivery speed |
| So, putting all these things together, we will probably see a pretty high, pretty good upside for our financial services |
| As time goes, this will go to a positive cycle that we have a better cost of service, better risk management, so that we are able to target even broader segment in the market |
| Our e-commerce logistics network is now one of the most extensive and efficient in our markets, and a strong competitive moat for us |
| With the scale and leadership achieved, unit economics of the segment also improved meaningfully quarter-on-quarter |
| Shopee Brazil continued its strong performance in the fourth quarter |
| Its contribution margin loss per order improved by nearly 90% year-on-year |
| This was driven by improvements in both user monetization and cost efficiency |
| And then this will flow to a very positive direction and the win-win for everybody from the both buyer and seller perspective |
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| Value-added services revenue, mainly consisting of revenues related to logistics services, was $0.7 billion, down 5% year-on-year as a result of higher revenue net-off against shipping subsidies |
| In our other markets, the adjusted EBITDA loss was $32 million, narrowing meaningfully from last year, when losses were $124 million |
| For our Asia markets, we had an adjusted EBITDA loss of $193 million during the quarter, compared to an adjusted EBITDA of $320 million in the fourth quarter of 2022 |
| Can you provide some color on why EBITDA was weaker quarter-on-quarter? We noticed that you spend more on marketing this quarter |
| E-commerce adjusted EBITDA loss was $225 million in the fourth quarter of 2023, compared to an adjusted EBITDA of $196 million in the fourth quarter of 2022 |
| This was partly driven by our own logistics network cost per order decreasing by 20% from the same period last year |
| And it makes it harder for many of the sellers to excel in the platform |
| As a result, net loss was $112 million in the fourth quarter of 2023, as compared to net income of $423 million in the fourth quarter of 2022 |
| So in a way, we cannot see market share as a stacked number |
| The reason for VAS top line growth to deviate from that is because of accounting treatment that has a contra revenue effect caused by shipping subsidies |
| First, I just wanted to understand a little bit about competition in the e-commerce space, particularly in Indonesia |
| So that actually does not only affect the bottom line, but also affects the top line for that revenue segment, causing a departure in over trend |
| For the full year of 2023, our total adjusted EBITDA was $1.2 billion, compared to an adjusted EBITDA loss of $878 million for the full year of 2022 |
| For the full year, our non-operating income was $208 million, compared to a loss of $13 million for the full year of 2022 |
| First is that obviously with the Ramadan’s coming, do you anticipate your competitors in Indonesia to further step up the spending? And in the event, if your competitors in Indonesia are catching up on the market share, would you step up your spending that might actually prevent your EBITDA to regain profitability in the second half of this year? Second question is, what are the main reasons for your confidence in growing the Free Fire in double-digit in booking and user, this year |
| Not only the scales, but while we're growing it, we have been reducing the economics quite significantly in the past few months and continuing Q1 essentially |
| What have you done or plan to do to regain your user traction and monetization? Thank you |
| In a way, we are not chasing for growth for the growth |
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