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| Additionally, the new [indiscernible] e-commerce sales event generated a higher demand for advertising and contributed to a sequential increase in advertising revenues |
| These efforts have collectively resulted in the increase of our gross margin year-over-year |
| We added 18.2 million subscribers for the full year, up from 12.3 million in 2022, a compelling testament to our content leadership, platform value, and high quality user experience |
| These streams grow consistent growth in music paying users and per user spend, anchoring our subscription revenues accelerating year-over-year growth throughout the year |
| We are pleased to share that in the fourth quarter, both QQ Music and the Kugou Music recorded another record high share of music streams from recommendations |
| And from the product point of view, we will use the industry leading technology and knowhow to provide the best user experience for our users |
| These results mitigate the top-line headwinds from the social entertainment business and reasonably contributed to a lift in net profit for the quarter and the full year |
| Entering 2024, we are also seeing strong momentum in subscriber growth in the first quarter |
| Such solid performance was driven by our powerful content and platform dual engines |
| We are optimistic about the industry's future and believe that our users, central operations and expertise will continue to drive the business forward |
| It also lay a very solid foundation for the healthy development of our business in 2024 |
| We believe that the fourth quarter's accelerated growth in the subscription revenue, really lay a strong foundation for, this year's growth |
| So, I think that we have a strong start on the subs growth in Q1, 2024 and partially because of the impact of promotion during the transiting year |
| Lastly, our rich foundation of content and relationships with label partners empowered us to capture diverse opportunities across the user industry, amplifying content's value |
| Along with our operational and promoting events during the Chinese Spring Festival, we say the performance is better than what we expected |
| And, in year 2023, I think our online music business has consistently delivered a very strong performance, and our total monthly subscribers have reached, 107 million already, which is a new milestone to us |
| Regarding the year of 2024, right after we enter into the year of 2024, benefited from our product innovation and use of privilege expansion along with our very robust execution strategy, and we offer the high quality experience to their users |
| We further enhance our content appeal and leadership across Pop, Rock, and Chinese ancient style music genre, allowing us to better attract and retain young users |
| Regarding the year of 2024, we're going to finance the NetEase and other and we have every confidence we will be able to maintain the online music business and the subscription revenue at a very healthy level |
| So in the year of 2023, actually, the net aided value for our subscription user reached 182 million and which lay a very solid foundation for us to further expand the user base in the near future |
| Along with our very strong operational capacity and a very robust execution, we will be able to accumulate many paying users based upon the enabling turnover environment and the faster conversion rate |
| We are confident about the long-term health growth of the music industry and our company |
| In 2023, we achieved the highest level of profitability in our company's history |
| These results demonstrated our robust financial performance, enhanced operating efficiencies and the positive impact from our share repurchase program |
| The first, music subscription revenues have significant growth, higher monthly up and the paying user base growth both have positive impact on our gross margin and the robust growth of advertising revenues also has the favorable impact on gross margin |
| Our dedication and passion for serving hundreds of millions of music users will further inspire us to deliver more compelling music entertainment experiences seamlessly across a broader range of user cases |
| As a result, revenue from artist merchandise record a robust year-over-year growth |
| Given the solid performance that we are seeing in Q4, 3.7 billion, we thought, is better than the street expectation |
| These initiatives not only brought in music's reach geographically, but also expand its positive impact across the industries, maximize this societal value |
| In conclusion, we're excited about the vibrant growth of the music industry for the years to come |
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| In the fourth quarter of 2023, our total revenues were RMB6.9 billion, down by 7% year-over-year, primarily due to decline of revenues from social entertainment services and others |
| Revenues from social entertainment service declined by 34% year-over-year due to adjustments in certain live streaming, interactive functions and a more stringent company as a procedures as we implemented several service and asset management and the risk control measures in the past couple of quarters |
| Social and entertainment services and other revenues were RMB1.9 billion down by 52% year-over-year |
| Total revenues were RMB27.8 billion, down by 2% year-over-year |
| We are from the data analytics, we can say that regarding the loss of the user, actually, especially according to the days of the active, the majority of them leaving us are actually those low active users |
| Total operating expenses for 2023 were RMB5 billion, down by 10% year-over-year |
| Selling and marketing expenses were RMB255 million down by 4% year-over-year |
| General and administrative expenses were RMB1 billion down by 8% year-over-year, primarily driven by low employee related expenses partially because we incurred expenses related to late audio acquisition in Q4 2022, but such expenses did not recur in Q4 2023 |
| Selling and marketing expenses in 2023 were RMB0.9 billion, down by 20% percent year-over-year, largely due to more efficiency, I focused the promotional strategies |
| And, for, gross margin, in the Q4 2024, we expect our gross margin will be keep increase and compared the piece will be lower than the Q4 in 2023 |
| So that's the reason in Q1 of 2024, they're going to see that MAU is being slightly decreased due to the spring festival reason |
| General and administrative expenses were RMB4.1 billion down by 7% year-over-year primarily due to reduced employee related expenses including expenses related to Maize Audio acquisition and the expenses related to the Hong Kong secondary listing incurred in 2022 |
| We've largely mitigated the revenue decline in social and consumer service and others |
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