HONG KONG, Could 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Kuaishou Know-how (HK:1024) (the “Firm” or “Kuaishou”), a number one content material neighborhood and social platform, at the moment introduced its unaudited consolidated outcomes for the primary quarter ended March 31, 2022.
First Quarter 2022 Key Monetary and Working Highlights
- Common DAUs on Kuaishou APP had been 345.5 million, representing a rise of 17.0% from 295.Three million for a similar interval of 2021.
- Common MAUs on Kuaishou APP had been 597.9 million, representing a rise of 15.0% from 519.Eight million for a similar interval of 2021.
- Common each day time spent per DAU(1) was 128.1 minutes, representing a rise of 29.0% from 99.Three minutes for a similar interval of 2021.
- Common on-line advertising and marketing providers income per DAU(1) was RMB32.9, representing a rise of 13.4% from RMB29.0 for a similar interval of 2021.
- Whole GMV of e-commerce transactions facilitated on our platform(2) was RMB175.1 billion, representing a rise of 47.7% from RMB118.6 billion for a similar interval of 2021.
- Whole income elevated by 23.8% to RMB21.1 billion from RMB17.Zero billion for a similar interval of 2021. Amongst complete revenues, on-line advertising and marketing providers elevated by 32.6% year-over-year to RMB11.Four billion and Different Providers elevated by 54.6% year-over-year to RMB1.9 billion. As a share of complete income, on-line advertising and marketing providers contributed 53.9%, whereas dwell streaming contributed 37.2%. The remaining 8.9% got here from different providers.
- Gross revenue elevated by 25.7% to RMB 8.Eight billion from RMB 7.Zero billion for a similar interval in 2021. Gross margin within the first quarter of 2022 was 41.7%, enhancing from 41.5% and 41.1% within the fourth quarter and first quarter of 2021 respectively.
Mr. Cheng Yixiao, Co-founder and Chief Government Officer of Kuaishou stated, “Within the first quarter of 2022 we achieved passable outcomes throughout our enterprise operations, amidst a difficult surroundings. Our a number of progress engines in every enterprise phase, in addition to differentiated worth propositions, rooted in our trust-based ecosystem, underpinned our market share good points and drove us to new report highs throughout key working metrics. We stay dedicated to creating extra worth for our customers and empowering extra industries, advertisers and retailers by quick movies and dwell streams, particularly throughout the pandemic. Trying ahead, we are going to proceed to bolster our flourishing ecosystem and enhance our capabilities in monetization and profitability, propelling the sustainable and wholesome long-term growth of our enterprise.”
Notes:
(1): Key working information are these on Kuaishou App for the intervals indicated
(2): Positioned on or directed to our companions by our platform
BUSINESS REVIEW AND OUTLOOK
Within the first quarter of 2022, our enterprise demonstrated comparatively stronger resilience amidst a difficult macro surroundings and the resurging pandemic. We set new data by way of our key working metrics within the first quarter of 2022. Our complete person visitors continued to develop at a powerful tempo within the first quarter of 2022, rising by over 50% year-over-year on Kuaishou App. We continued to enhance monetization functionality and optimize value construction and working effectivity, delivering a 23.8% year-over-year enhance in complete revenues of RMB21.1 billion, and attaining year-over-year enhancements in across-the-board profitability within the first quarter of 2022. Our gross margin and working margin improved by 0.6 share level and 16.Zero share factors within the first quarter of 2022 in contrast with the identical interval of 2021, and our adjusted web loss narrowed considerably to RMB3.7 billion from an adjusted web lack of RMB5.7 billion within the first quarter of 2021.
Ecosystem
Within the first quarter of 2022, we additional optimized person acquisition effectivity and person retention fee, and continued to implement a differentiated progress technique to bolster our distinctive social attributes, main content material operations and technological capabilities, and different varied aggressive edges of our enterprise. This resulted in one other set of record- setting person metrics within the first quarter of 2022. Our common DAUs and common MAUs on Kuaishou App elevated by 17.0% and 15.0% year-over-year, to 345.5 million and 597.9 million, respectively, throughout the interval. As our deeply related ecosystem and wealthy content material continued to resonate with customers, person stickiness and engagement have been enhancing together with our increasing person base. That is demonstrated by an improved common DAUs to common MAUs ratio on Kuaishou App, which reached 57.8% within the first quarter of 2022, representing a 1.Zero share level enlargement year-over-year. On the identical time, our common each day time spent per DAU on Kuaishou App reached 128.1 minutes within the first quarter of 2022, rising by 29.0% year-over-year and seven.7% quarter-over-quarter.
Now we have been persistently strengthening the social attributes on our platform and maximizing the facility of the multifaceted community results in our vibrant and trust-based neighborhood. As a testomony to the rising bonds amongst customers and their rising stickiness, pairs of mutual followers on Kuaishou App reached practically 18.Eight billion, cumulatively, by the tip of March 2022, representing a 68.9% year-over-year enhance.
We made excellent progress in content material enrichment and high quality enchancment in key verticals similar to quick performs, sports activities and pan-knowledge, which constantly drove natural progress in person base and person engagement. Our Kwai Playlet Astral (快手星芒短劇), which goals to offer all-around help for skilled quick play creators in content material themes, visitors assist and enterprise cooperation to incentivize them to supply premium quick performs, delivered wonderful ends in the primary quarter of 2022. Throughout the first quarter of 2022, Kwai Playlet Astral contributed to 18 blockbusters with cumulative viewers of over 100 million every, together with “Her Highness, Princess Royal (長公主在上)” and “Revenge from Phoenix (萬渣朝凰)”, making us one of many main platforms producing top-notch quick performs. For the sports activities vertical, we elevated our funding in premium content material such because the Winter Olympics, and strengthened our working capabilities in such content material. By the tip of March 2022, we lined greater than 40 sports activities genres on our platform.
We additionally iterated and optimized our deep studying fashions, and fine-tuned our suggestion methods. Our AI-empowered expertise offers customers with a greater expertise, which in flip serves to enhance our long-term person retention, and fosters progress in person base and time spent.
On-line advertising and marketing providers
Though we endured a typical slack season for promoting business, in addition to the slowing macroeconomic progress and the resurging pandemic, our on-line advertising and marketing providers gained extra market share within the first quarter of 2022. This has demonstrated our differentiated worth proposition to advertisers. Our on-line advertising and marketing providers witnessed a modest year-over-year progress of 32.6% within the first quarter of 2022, with income reaching RMB11.Four billion.
Robust visitors progress, in addition to the secular tailwind of video-based commercials, fueled our on-line advertising and marketing enterprise within the first quarter of 2022. We leveraged our closed-loop ecosystem, complete product matrix, main expertise and premium providers to offer an optimized expertise for our advertisers constantly. Because of this, we efficiently attracted an rising variety of advertisers to our platform. Within the first quarter of 2022, the variety of advertisers on our platform elevated by over 60% year-over-year.
Income from on-line advertising and marketing providers supplied to our e-commerce retailers maintained wholesome progress momentum within the first quarter of 2022, which additional enhanced the resilience of our on-line advertising and marketing enterprise. This was attributable to our vigorously developed e-commerce enterprise, improved service capabilities and steady product iterations for advertisers from our e-commerce enterprise as a pure extension to our platform.
Model promoting is one other space the place advertisers can profit from our high-value person neighborhood, closed-loop ecosystem and profitable occasion operations such because the Winter Olympics and Chinese language New Yr campaigns. Within the first quarter of 2022, we made inroads with dozens of world-renowned model advertisers. Our distinct and differentiated positioning for model advertisers makes Kuaishou a platform that can’t be ignored for elevating model consciousness throughout advertisers’ focused populations.
Dwell Streaming
Within the first quarter of 2022, income from dwell streaming reached RMB7.Eight billion, rising by 8.2% year-over-year as we strengthened our dwell streaming ecosystem from each the provision and demand sides.
Fast progress in our person base and visitors laid a strong basis for the wholesome growth of our dwell streaming ecosystem. On the identical time, our exploration of rising person wants in an ever-changing surroundings, and the launch of recent content material classes attracted each new customers and incremental visitors to the platform within the first quarter of 2022, together with Kwai Recruitment (快招工).
On the provision aspect, we frequently improved dwell streaming content material high quality by strengthening our cooperation with expertise businesses. On the identical time, we prioritized platform visitors allocation to encourage streamers to constantly create high-quality content material. Within the first quarter of 2022, the typical each day streaming time per streamer elevated by double-digit share factors year-over-year.
On the demand aspect, our flourishing creators’ neighborhood and our constantly enriched premium dwell streaming content material attracted extra customers, making a virtuous cycle that maximizes the worth of our content material creators and strengthening our sturdy and dynamic dwell streaming ecosystem. This was evidenced by the sequentially rising variety of each dwell streaming viewers and dwell streaming paying customers. Within the first quarter of 2022, common MPUs for dwell streaming elevated by 7.8% year-over-year to 56.5 million on Kuaishou App. Month-to-month ARPPU for dwell streaming on Kuaishou App was RMB46.3 within the first quarter of 2022, in contrast with RMB46.1 for the primary quarter of 2021.
Different providers together with e-commerce
Our different providers delivered a strong efficiency with income of RMB1.9 billion within the first quarter of 2022, representing a rise of 54.6% year-over-year, primarily pushed by e-commerce enterprise. Our complete e-commerce GMV elevated by 47.7% year-over-year to RMB175.1 billion within the first quarter of 2022, amongst which, over 99% was contributed by Kwai Store (快手小店), our closed-loop e-commerce market.
Devoted efforts to bolster our trust-based e-commerce mannequin, increase model e-commerce and improve our service companion programs, yielded constant enhancements to the general client expertise, elevated merchandise provide, and fostered live-streaming content material creation for e-commerce within the first quarter of 2022. These endeavors, together with our cutting-edge AI-driven suggestion expertise, created rising worth for each our customers and retailers, promoted consumption and deepened dwell streaming e-commerce penetration on our platform.
To additional differentiate our distinctive trust-based e-commerce mannequin from friends, we rolled out a complete client rights safety system, Trusted Buy (信任購), which provides a client belief index to our service provider suggestion mechanism to enhance their operations and fulfill customers’ wants. This contributed to additional year-over-year enchancment of the repeat buy fee on our platform within the first quarter of 2022.
With respect to model e-commerce, we try to serve and empower not solely well-known manufacturers, but in addition rising manufacturers, particularly, Kwai Model (快品牌), which grew and flourished in Kuaishou’s e-commerce ecosystem. Leveraging our huge visitors, person loyalty and varied working measures, rising manufacturers additional strengthened their capability to achieve entry to and join with a broader vary of potential consumers, and improved their buyer outreach and conversion capabilities. Within the first quarter of 2022, the typical month-to-month e-commerce GMV of Kwai Model retailers exceeded RMB25.Zero million.
Our community of Kwai Companions (快手服務商), which offers complete and focused providers to retailers in our e-commerce ecosystem, has additionally begun to take form. We grew each the amount of service companions on our platform in addition to improved the standard of their providers to retailers, as measured by the variety of retailers attaining a quantum leap in e-commerce GMV by empowerment by Kwai Companions. We additionally launched further insurance policies to assist small-and medium-sized retailers improve their gross sales effectivity and achieve publicity to our person teams. The mixture of those efforts drove a double-digit year- over-year enhance within the variety of month-to-month lively retailers within the first quarter of 2022.
Abroad
In abroad markets, we grew at a wholesome tempo. Throughout the first quarter of 2022 we maintained tight management of our bills, strategically consolidating our assets and enhancing our effectivity in key markets. Additional distinguishing our worth proposition inside at the moment’s market panorama, we continued to distinguish our product choices, refine our focused person outreach technique, enrich our content material provide, and advance our proprietary algorithms.
Extra importantly, we continued to enhance the standard of our progress in abroad markets. Our common DAUs, person retention fee, in addition to common time spent per DAU in abroad market every continued to extend within the first quarter of 2022. For instance, common each day time spent per DAU in Brazil reached roughly 60 minutes within the first quarter of 2022.
We’re additionally making strong progress with respect to monetization in abroad markets. Throughout the first quarter of 2022, we continued to enhance our capabilities in native operations, in addition to strengthen our infrastructure in monetization. These mixed efforts have empowered us, in addition to the creators on our platform, to additional discover monetization alternatives.
About Kuaishou
Kuaishou is a number one content material neighborhood and social platform with its mission to be essentially the most customer-obsessed firm on the earth. Kuaishou has relentlessly been specializing in serving its prospects and creating worth for them by the continuous innovation and optimization of its services. At Kuaishou, any person can chronicle and share their life experiences by quick movies and dwell streams and showcase their skills. Working carefully with content material creators and companies collectively, Kuaishou offers product and repair choices that tackle varied person wants that come up naturally, together with leisure, on-line advertising and marketing providers, e-commerce, on-line video games, on-line knowledge-sharing, and extra.
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