Bilibili - Q2 2023
August 17, 2023
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Operator (participant)
Good day, welcome to Bilibili Second Quarter 2023 Financial Results and Business Update Conference Call. Today's conference is being recorded. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Juliet Yang, Executive Director of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.
Juliet Yang (Executive Director of Investor Relations)
Thank you, Operator. During this call, we'll discuss business outlook and make forward-looking statements. These comments are based on our predictions and expectations as of today. Actual events or results could differ materially from those mentioned in today's news release and in this discussion, due to a number of risks and uncertainties, including those mentioned in our most recent filing with the SEC and Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The non-GAAP financial measures we provide are for comparison purpose only. Definition of these measures and a reconciliation table are available in the news release we issued earlier today. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. In addition, an investor presentation and a web, webcast replay of this conference call will be available on the Bilibili IR website at ir.bilibili.com.
Joining us today from Bilibili senior management are Mr. Rui Chen, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer; Ms. Carly Li, Vice Chairwoman of the Board and Chief Operating Officer; and Mr. Xin Fan, Chief Financial Officer. I will now turn the call over to Mr. Fan, who will read the prepared remarks on behalf of Mr. Chen.
Xin Fan (CFO)
Thank you, Juliet, and thank you everyone for participating in our 2023 second quarter conference call to discuss our financial and operating results. I'm pleased to deliver today's opening remarks on behalf of Mr. Chen. We set our sights on prioritizing profitability and DAU growth, and we have made solid steps towards these goals. In the second quarter, we meaningfully improved our growth profit and narrowed our losses, while continuing to deliver healthy DAU growth and strong community metrics. I will share more color on both fronts. First of all, on our path to profitability. In the second quarter, we further improved our commercialization efficiency, enabling us to convert our growing traffic to quality top-line growth. The momentum we see in our advertising and live broadcasting business is encouraging. In the second quarter, our ad revenues increased by 36%, and live broadcasting revenues increased by 32%, both year-over-year.
Moreover, our gross profit increased significantly by 66% year-over-year, driving our gross profit margin to 23%, marking the fourth consecutive quarter of improvement. Meanwhile, we have continued to strengthen our expense controls. Our total operating expenses declined by 14%, including a 22% decrease in sales and marketing expenses, a 14% decrease in G&A expenses, and a 7% decrease in our R&D expenses, all on a year-over-year basis. These margin enhancements and our effective cost management contributed to our bottom-line improvement. We meaningfully reduced our non-GAAP net loss by 51% year-over-year. Moving on to our community growth. Our DAUs increased by 15% year-over-year to 96.5 million in the second quarter, driving our DAU to MAU ratio up to 29.8%.
Meanwhile, the users' average daily time spent on our platform reached 94 minutes in the second quarter, driving total time spent up by 22% year-on-year. We are pleased to see this strong DAU growth has continued in Q3. As we move into the second half of this year, our main tasks will be in three core areas. First, we aim to further enhance our traffic commercialization efficiency by increasing our ad revenues and the live broadcasting revenues. Additionally, we will bring more high-quality games to our users, including the highly anticipated game, Pretty Derby. Secondly, we will continue to take a prudent financial approach with strict control of our costs and expenses and further narrow our losses. Finally, yet importantly, we are committed to achieving ongoing DAU growth and fostering an inspiring video community for young generations in China.
With that overview of our progress, I'd now like to provide a brief update on our three core pillars of content, community, and commercialization. Starting with content. Content creators continue to be our ecosystem's most valuable asset. Supporting these talented content creators in their ability to amass larger followings and to be able to earn more money are among our top tasks. As always, we continue to optimize our algorithms and products to facilitate high-quality content and enable creators to be recognized. In the second quarter, the number of daily active content creators on our platform and our monthly content submissions increased by 19% and 43% year-over-year, respectively. In the second half of this year, we plan to shift our video watching metric from video views to video time spent, which will help our users discover more high-quality content on Bilibili.
We are also beta testing an AI-powered search feature in our community that enables relevant videos to be found more easily. Creator monetization on Bilibili increased as well in the second quarter. Over 1.58 million creators earned money through various Bilibili channels, showing a 40% increase year-over-year. In addition to our cash incentive program, more creators are earning income through advertising and live broadcasting channels. For example, our video commerce ads have opened up new efficient earning opportunities for content creators. In the second quarter, the number of creators who earned money through video commerce grew by over 220% year-over-year. Resonant content and multi-scenario products like Story Mode continue to drive platform traction.
In the second quarter, our total daily video views were up 31% year-over-year to 4.1 billion, among which Story Mode daily video views grew by 76% year-over-year. It has become one of the key video consumption scenarios for our users, contributing to our growth in DAUs and ad revenues. Turning to our community, our users remain highly engaged and sticky. The users' average daily time spent on our platform was 94 minutes in the second quarter, reaching the highest second quarter level in our company's history. Their monthly interactions reached nearly 15 billion in the second quarter, up 19% year-over-year. Our core group of official members also increased by 26% year-over-year to 214 million, with a solid 12-month retention rate of around 80%.
Our signature offline events also bring our community together in person. This July, we hosted two exciting offline events, Bilibili World and Bilibili Macro Link in Shanghai. Over 200,000 tickets sold out almost immediately. The tremendous response highlights Bilibili's strong influence among young generations, as well as users' willingness to pay for our unique community experiences. Finally, let's look at our commercialization and financial progress. Total revenues for the second quarter increased by 8% year-over-year to RMB 5.3 billion. Specifically, revenues from our advertising and live broadcasting businesses increased by 36% and 32% year-over-year, respectively. Meanwhile, we continued to improve our gross profit and margin. Our gross profit in the second quarter grew by a notable 66% year-over-year, driving our gross profit margin up to 23% from 15% in the same period last year.
Looking at this in more detail, revenues from our value-added services business grew 9% year-over-year to RMB 2.3 billion in the second quarter, primarily driven by increased revenues from our live broadcasting business, which grew by 32% year-over-year. As we further integrate live broadcasting within our video operations, we have opened up multiple opportunities to expand and diversify our live broadcasting content by converting content creators into live broadcasting hosts. In the second quarter, the number of monthly active live broadcasting hosts increased by 15% year-over-year. In addition, we are exploring new live broadcasting products to create more paying channels for our users, including live celebration events. We expect our ongoing integration activities to support our revenue growth in the second half of 2023.
By the end of June, we had 20.5 million premium members, over 80% of whom are on an annual subscription or auto-renew package, highlighting our trust-based user relationships. In Q3, we released several highly anticipated Chinese anime titles, including Fog Hill of Five Elements, Wù Shān Wǔ Xíng: Xīchuān Huàn Zǐ Lín, and our self-produced title, Link Click Season 2, Shíguāng Dàilǐrén dì èr jì, to bring more exclusive, high-quality content to our premium members. Turning to our advertising business, as we progress our initiative to integrate sales conversion with ad products, we believe we have found an effective way convert our high-quality traffic to advertising revenue growth. For the second quarter, our advertising revenues grew 36% year-over-year to RMB 1.6 billion, mainly led by our performance-based ad revenues growth, which increased by over 60% year-over-year.
Ad revenues from our brand and the Sparkle offerings also grew by a double-digit percentage year-over-year. Our top five advertising verticals in the second quarter were games, e-commerce, digital products and home appliances, skincare and cosmetics, and food and beverage. Our continuous improvements to our integrated industry ad solutions have also helped us gain more ad budget spend from industries such as games and e-commerce. Specifically, by introducing video commerce products, revenues from the e-commerce industry increased by 144% year-over-year in the second quarter. Meanwhile, content creators were able to benefit from more ad opportunities. The number of creators who earned income through video commerce grew over 220% year-over-year. Moving forward, we will continue to build our commercial database, refine our algorithms, as well as optimize our ad product offerings.
We are confident that we can improve our ad revenues per DAU and achieve solid growth in the second half of 2023. As for our games business, our revenues were RMB 891 million for the second quarter, a 15% decline from the same period last year. The year-on-year decline was mainly due to a lack of new game launches in the second quarter and a grossing decline for certain titles. Our top two performing games, Azur Lane and FGO, remained stable. Particularly, during Azur Lane sixth year anniversary, the game reached a new peak in paying users and revenues. In addition, we have also successfully extended our exclusive license of Azur Lane for another five years. In July, we launched our first self-developed game in the female romance genre, Alkaid Land Records: Yaoguang Lu Luanshi Gongzhu.
Welcomed by a host of female users, the game ranked number one on the iOS free download chart shortly after its release. We are actively working on developing more games that users love. In the meantime, we have seven new titles that we plan to release in domestic and overseas markets in the second half of the year, including the highly anticipated game, Pretty Derby: Shǎnyào! Yōu Jùn Shàonǚ. Pretty Derby is scheduled to launch on August 30 and is now available for pre-registration. Over 2 million players have already pre-registered as of today. Given said that, the launch of Pretty Derby, as well as few self-developed titles, were delayed by several months than we initially planned.
Due to lower revenue contribution from games and other non-core businesses, such as IP derivatives and others, we now expect the full year 2023 revenue to be between RMB 22.5 billion and RMB 23.5 billion. As I mentioned earlier, our key financial goal for this year is to improve our gross profit and narrow losses. We have delivered on this goal with 66% increase in gross profit and a 51% cut on adjusted net loss in the second quarter. Look ahead, we are committed to further improve our gross profit and control our expenses, and meaningfully cut down losses in the second half of this year, and reach our breakeven target by 2024. As we progress on achieving our financial target, we will continue to lead the healthy growth across our platform and enrich the everyday life of young generation in China.
This concludes Mr. Chen's remarks. I will now provide a brief overview of our financial results for the second quarter of 2023. As mentioned in Mr. Chen's remarks, our financials continue to improve. We are improving our margins and showing clear results in our bottom line with narrowed losses. Total net revenues for the second quarter were RMB 5.3 billion, up 8% compared with the same period last year. Our total net revenues breakdown by revenue stream was approximately 43% VAS, 30% advertising, 17% mobile games, and 10% from our IP derivatives and other businesses. Our cost of revenues decreased by 2% year-over-year to RMB 4.1 billion, driving our gross profit to RMB 1.2 billion, up 66% year-over-year. Our gross margin was 23%, up from 15% in the same period last year.
We expect growth margin to continue to improve throughout the back half of the year. Our total operating expenses were down 14% year-over-year to RMB 2.5 billion. Tight control of our expenses is ongoing while we improve our monetization at the same time. We cut sales and marketing expenses by 22% year-over-year to RMB 918 million, while our DAUs grew by 15%. As a percent of total revenues, sales and marketing was 17%, compared with 24% in the same period last year. G&A expenses were RMB 539.7 million, down 14% year-over-year, and the expenses were RMB 1 billion, down 7% year-over-year. Our net loss and adjusted net loss were RMB 1.5 billion and RMB 964.1 million, respectively, narrowing by 23% and 51% year-over-year, respectively.
Our adjusted net loss ratio in the second quarter was 18%, improving from 40% for the same period a year ago. Turning to our capital allocation and liabilities management. In June 2023,
...We completed the repurchased rights offer for our 2027 notes with a total principal amount of $746 million. As of the end of the second quarter, our outstanding convertible bonds totaled a principal amount of $876 million. As of June 30, 2023, we had a cash and cash equivalents, time deposits, and short-term investments of RMB 14.3 billion, or $2 billion million. We believe this amount is sufficient to cover all of our remaining convertible bonds and fund our future operations. Thank you for your attention. We would now like to open the call to your questions. Operator, please go ahead.
Operator (participant)
Ladies, and gentlemen, we now begin the question-and-answer session. If you wish to ask a question, please press star one and one on your telephone and wait for your name to be announced. For the benefit of all participants on today's call, if you wish to ask a question to management in Chinese, please immediately repeat your question in English. Please limit your questions to one at a time. If you wish to have a follow-up question, please rejoin the queue. We are now taking the first question. The first question from Xueqing Zhang from CICC. Please go ahead.
Xueqing Zhang (Analyst)
管理层晚上好。谢谢接受我提问,恭喜又一个季度稳步迈向盈亏平衡。我的问题主要是关于用户的,二季度看到我们的DAU进一步增长,想请教一下如何展望未来DAU的趋势,然后尤其是最近暑期作为旺季的话,用户表现如何?
Speaker 10
Good evening, management. Thanks for taking my question and congrats on advertising towards profitability. My question is about user engagement. The DAU further increased in the second quarter, what's the DAU trend going forward? Can management share more details on the user engagement during the recent summer holidays? Thank you.
Rui Chen (Chairman of the Board and CEO)
从 去 年 开 始, 我 就 一 直 在 强 调, 提 升 盈 利 能 力 和 实 现 健 康 的 DAU 增 长 是 公 司 最 重 要 的 两 件 事 儿, 我 们 在 实 际 工 作 中 也 是 这 么 在 执 行.
Speaker 10
Since last year, I have been emphasizing increasing our earnings power and achieve healthy and sustainable DAU growth are the top 2 priority of our company. We have been executing on that strategy.
Rui Chen (Chairman of the Board and CEO)
今 年 Q2 在 我 们 的 市 场 费 用 year-over-year 下 降 22% 的 前 提 下 , 我 们 的 DAU 是 year-over-year 增 长 了 15%, 到 96.5 million。 用 户 的 日 均 使 用 时 长 是 94 分 钟, 也 是 历 年 同 期 的 历 史 新 高。 我 们 的 社 区 的 总 使 用 时 长 year-over-year 增 长 了 22%。 这 些 数 据 在 我 看 来 都 是 非 常 健 康 和 积 极 的 数 据。
Speaker 10
In the second quarter, with sales and marketing down 22% year-over-year, we have grown our DAU by 15%, reaching 96.5 million. Our daily time spent, daily user time spent, reached 94 minutes. This is the record high of same period in our operating history. Our overall time spent of the entire community grew by 22% year-over-year. All of above metrics shows a very healthy and robust growth of the community.
Rui Chen (Chairman of the Board and CEO)
为 什 么 我 们 会 这 么 重 视 就 是 DAU 的 一 个 健 康 增 长 呢 ? 因 为 我 们 认 为 ,DAU 的 增 长 是 B 站 实 现 盈 利 的 前 提 和 基 础 。 我 们 在 过 去 几 年 已 经 逐 步 探 索 出 一 条 通 过 广 告 和 直 播 将 流 量 转 化 为 收 入 的 一 个 方 法 。 我 们 觉 得 就 是 这 一 个 DAU 增 长 和 收 入 增 长 , 它 会 形 成 一 个 正 循 环 的 飞 轮 。
Speaker 10
The reason why we have been emphasizing on the healthy growth of our DAU is because we believe the healthy growth of DAU is the foundation and preliminary requirement for Bilibili to achieve sustainable profit. We believe we have, we have already discovered an effective way to convert our high quality traffic into increasing top line, through advertising and live broadcasting. We believe with this effective route and methods, we can achieve DAU and top line growth, and this will be a virtuous cycle.
Rui Chen (Chairman of the Board and CEO)
在 2Q, 我 们 的 广 告 业 务 和 直 播 业 务 是 分 别 实 现 了 同 比 36% 和 32% 的 增 幅 , 这 个 数 字 是 超 出 行 业 的 平 均 水 平 。
Speaker 10
In the second quarter, our ad revenue and live broadcasting revenue achieved 36% and 32% year-over-year growth, respectively, which exceeded the industry average growth a lot.
Rui Chen (Chairman of the Board and CEO)
对 于 暑 期 的 展 望 呢 , 因 为 现 在 其 实 已 经 是 进 入 到 那 个 暑 期 了 , 我 们 可 以 看 到 就 是 那 个 DAU 和 日 均 使 用 时 长 是 保 持 了 健 康 和 强 劲 的 增 长 。 就 是 我 们 预 计 第 三 季 度 B 站 的 DAU 是 能 够 首 次 突 破 100 million 的 大 关 的 。 我 们 也 预 测 我 们 的 日 均 使 用 时 长 也 会 实 现 新 高 。
Speaker 10
...as for the outlook into the summer, given that we're in August, in the period of the summer vacation, we have been witnessing and experiencing a strong DAU and daily user time spent growth. We do expect that in the third quarter, our DAU can surpass a very exciting milestone of 100 million, and we also expect our average daily time spent can reach a new historical high.
Rui Chen (Chairman of the Board and CEO)
我 们 有 信 心 , 在 控 制 市 场 费 用 的 前 提 下 , 通 过 B 站 的 优 质 的 内 容 和 社 区 , 吸 引 和 留 住 更 多 的 用 户 , 实 现 DAU 的 健 康 增 长 , 同 时 把 这 些 高 质 量 的 用 户 量 转 化 为 我 们 的 商 业 收 入 。
Speaker 10
We are very confident with tight control on sales and marketing expense. We can continue to attract our users with high quality content, and retain our user with our engaging community, and achieve DAU sustainable and healthy growth. We also believe this high traffic can be effectively converted to our sustainable top line growth.
Juliet Yang (Executive Director of Investor Relations)
Next question, please. Thank you.
Operator (participant)
Thank you for the question. We are now taking the next question. Please stand by. The next question from Lisa from Bank of America Securities. Please go ahead. Your line is open.
Speaker 9
Oh, hi.
管 理 层 晚 上 好 , 谢 谢 接 受 我 的 提 问 , 然 后 恭 喜 非 常 强 劲 的 一 个 广 告 的 增 速 。 我 的 问 题 呢 , 也 主 要 是 关 于 广 告 的 。 可 以 请 管 理 层 跟 我 们 分 享 一 下 这 个 2Q 的 超 预 期 的 广 告 增 速 背 后 的 主 要 的 driver 是 哪 些 ? 尤 其 是 我 们 在 618 期 间 整 体 广 告 的 表 现 , 还 有 就 是 接 下 来 怎 么 看 整 个 2Q 广 告 业 务 的 outlook, 还 有 我 们 最 近 新 的 这 个 广 , 直 播 带 货 的 广 告 的 贡 献 应 该 怎 么 看 呢 ? 谢 谢 。 我 自 己 翻 译 一 下 。
Speaker 10
Thanks management for taking my question, and congrats on the solid advertising growth. My question also relate to ad business. Can you share with us the major driver of the ad business follow the strong base of second quarter? Also, can you give us some updates on the June 18 promotion ad growth on our platform? In addition, how should we look at the second half ad growth on Bilibili? How should we think about the new business e-commerce streaming development to our ad business? Thank you.
Carly Li (Vice Chairwoman of the Board and COO)
呃 , 第 二 季 度 的 广 告 收 入 我 们 实 现 了 同 比 增 长 百 分 之 三 十 六 , 在 整 体 上 半 年 应 该 是 超 过 整 个 广 告 行 业 的 增 速 的 。 同 时 期 也 可 以 看 到 , 我 们 广 告 占 总 收 入 的 比 例 从 去 年 平 均 百 分 之 二 十 五 左 右 , 到 现 在 , 呃 , 上 升 到 了 百 分 之 三 十 , 也 直 接 地 带 动 了 公 司 整 体 毛 利 的 提 升 。
Speaker 10
In the second quarter, our ad revenue grew by 36% year-over-year. Overall, for the first half of this year, our ad growth rate has exceeded the industry average. At the same time, if you look at the ad revenue per ad revenue as percentage of total revenue, it has increased from 25% in last year to 30% in the second quarter, which directly lead the growth of our gross profit.
Carly Li (Vice Chairwoman of the Board and COO)
这 个 核 心 驱 动 其 实 跟 我 上 个 季 度 提 到 的 一 纵 一 横 的 这 个 策 略 还 是 初 见 成 效 的 。 就 一 横 还 是 说 一 下 , 就 是 其 实 我 们 内 部 会 说 这 是 一 个 技 术 中 台 的 能 力 以 及 数 据 能 力 , 包 括 优 化 推 荐 的 模 型 , 包 括 提 升 广 告 的 库 存 , 以 及 普 配 的 , 匹 配 的 效 率 , 也 以 及 AIGC 带 给 广 告 效 率 的 提 升 等 等 。
Speaker 10
The one horizontal, one vertical strategy we mentioned last quarter is beginning to pay off, and that's been driving our advertising revenue growth. The one horizontal is actually referring to the technology middle platform and the data capability. It includes optimizing the recommendation model, improving the advertising inventory, and matching efficiency, and the application of AIGC to improve overall ad efficiency.
Carly Li (Vice Chairwoman of the Board and COO)
一 纵 呢 , 其 实 , 我 们 内 部 是 指 为 六 大 垂 直 行 业 , 包 括 游 戏 、 电 商 、 3C 数 码 、 大 快 消 、 汽 车 、 网 教 经 等 , 提 供 了 B 站 有 效 的 行 业 投 放 模 型 。 其 实 在 电 商 跟 游 戏 行 , 等 行 业 已 经 收 到 特 别 明 显 的 一 个 增 速 跟 收 效 了 。 在 第 二 个 季 度 , 电 商 行 业 的 广 告 收 入 同 比 增 长 了 超 过 140, 那 游 戏 的 同 比 实 现 超 , 同 比 增 长 实 现 超 过 了 40%, 电 商 是 同 比 增 长 超 过 了 140。
Speaker 10
The one vertical is referring to the six customized industry ad models, including games, e-commerce, FMCG, automotive, and internet service. Among which, e-commerce and games starting to show very positive results. In the second quarter, ad revenue from e-commerce industry grew by over 140% year-on-year, and advertising revenue from game industry grew by over 40% year-on-year.
Carly Li (Vice Chairwoman of the Board and COO)
第 二 点 呢 , 其 实 从 去 年 开 始 , 我 们 还 是 很 坚 持 内 容 生 态 跟 商 业 生 态 的 融 合 。 在 保 证 用 户 体 验 的 基 础 上 , 我 们 还 是 挖 掘 了 社 区 不 同 场 景 的 广 告 有 效 库 存 , 今 年 上 半 年 已 经 形 成 了 初 步 的 势 能 , 也 会 加 速 了 整 体 广 告 收 入 的 增 长 。
Speaker 10
The second reason is that since last year, we have stick to the integration of content and commercialization, and expand ad inventory in different scenes of the community on the basis of ensuring user experience. In the first half of this year, it has formed very good growth momentum and drove the accelerator at revenue growth.
Carly Li (Vice Chairwoman of the Board and COO)
第 三 点 , 其 实 呃 , 行 业 也 应 该 有 留 意 到 , 我 们 在 第 二 季 度 我 们 成 立 了 , 呃 , 交 易 生 态 中 心 , 就 主 要 可 能 是 大 家 俗 称 的 带 货 相 关 的 业 务 , 我 们 把 交 易 作 为 一 种 基 础 能 力 , 将 交 易 场 景 融 入 了 广 告 的 产 品 , 进 一 步 地 促 进 了 收 入 的 增 长 。 其 今 年 预 期 产 生 广 告 的 收 入 占 总 收 入 的 百 分 之 十 到 二 十 之 间 。 在 未 来 几 个 月 , 呃 , 我 也 将 计 划 把 首 页 的 会 员 购 的 tab, 也 是 大 家 熟 悉 的 IP 以 及 衍 生 的 这 个 手 机 入 口 , 会 进 行 升 级 改 版 , 形 成 逛 的 场 景 入 口 , 有 信 心 未 来 在 交 易 生 态 能 做 更 大 的 突 破 。
Speaker 10
Thirdly is that, you, many of you probably already aware that we have established the trading ecosystem, ecosystem center to focus on building video e-commerce related capability in the second quarter. By integrating the transactional scenario into the advertising products to further boost the revenue growth, we expect the video e-commerce related ads will generate about 10%-15% of ad revenue this year. In the next few months, we also plan to upgrade the membership shopping 会员购 tab on our main page to a 逛 shopping tab, and creating a new entrance for more commercial opportunities.
Carly Li (Vice Chairwoman of the Board and COO)
刚 才 你 也 特 别 关 心 618 的 表 现 , 通 过 跟 电 商 平 台 此 前 进 行 了 深 度 的 数 据 合 作 跟 战 略 合 作 。 618 期 间 , 电 商 行 业 包 括 交 易 , 收 入 同 比 增 长 超 过 200% 。 今 年 Double Eleven , 来 自 电 商 行 业 , 的 广 告 收 入 , 预 估 我 们 依 然 能 实 现 高 速 的 增 长 , 能 实 现 同 比 50%-60% 的 一 个 增 长 。 在 这 里 其 实 可 以 看 一 下 , 跟 Alibaba 的 合 作 的 Spark, Spark Program , 其 实 这 个 结 果 也 是 特 别 的 超 预 期 的 。
Speaker 10
As for the June 18th period promotions, how, how you performed? Through our in-depth data collaboration with e-commerce platform, ad revenue from e-commerce industry, including transaction scenario during June 18th period, actually grow by 200% year-over-year. We expect to achieve 15%-16% ad revenue year-on-year increase from e-commerce industry during upcoming Double Eleven festival. As for examples, we actually did a collaboration with Alibaba's Spark Program, AKA 星火计划. The results exceeded our expectation.
Carly Li (Vice Chairwoman of the Board and COO)
这 里 有 一 个 特 别 有 意 思 也 超 乎 我 们 预 期 的 数 据 。 在 B 站 种 草 进 入 Taobao 店 面 的 用 户 有 70% 是 新 客 , 甚 至 有 部 分 行 业 这 个 比 例 超 过 了 90%。 在 B 站 , 只 要 实 现 了 广 告 种 草 , 他 们 会 获 取 源 源 不 断 的 新 客 户 , 并 且 在 合 作 稿 件 发 布 当 天 的 15 天 之 内 , 仍 然 能 持 续 产 生 有 价 值 的 人 群 转 化 。 这 个 就 是 我 们 所 内 部 所 说 的 长 效 的 广 告 价 值 。 在 618 期 间 , 水 星 矢 跟 Alibaba 的 合 作 同 比 也 实 现 了 涨 幅 300%。
Speaker 10
There are a few interesting data points I can introduce. About 70% of the user who entered Taobao through Bilibili were new customers, and this ratio reached even to 90% for certain industry. That shows that we have the effective ability to consistently convert user to for advertisers. In addition, Bilibili user maintained a very high conversion value 15 days after the related video was posted, and during June 18th period, the ad revenue from Alibaba actually increased by 300% year-over-year.
Carly Li (Vice Chairwoman of the Board and COO)
刚 才 大 家 可 能 也 比 较 关 心 我 们 怎 么 去 定 义 跟 做 这 个 事 情 , 包 括 带 货 业 务 , 交 易 跟 消 费 怎 么 去 定 义 。 现 在 所 有 内 容 平 台 都 在 做 自 己 的 电 商 , 就 是 所 谓 的 闭 环 电 商 , 就 B 站 此 刻 还 是 选 择 坚 持 大 开 环 的 生 态 , 和 积 极 地 和 电 商 平 台 以 及 品 牌 方 一 起 , 在 B 站 这 个 生 态 继 续 做 大 交 易 规 模 。
Speaker 10
While many other content platforms choose to build their own e-commerce platforms, Bilibili, on the other hand, we choose to take an open approach, partnering with e-commerce players and brand owners to grow the sales volume together on Bilibili.
Carly Li (Vice Chairwoman of the Board and COO)
Bilibili on the other hand, we choose to take an open approach, partnering with e-commerce players and brand owners to grow the sales volume together on Bilibili.
Speaker 10
First of all, cultivating users' consumption behavior and mind share on Bilibili is our top priority. We believe that the young generation has strong willing to consume, and building the mind share is very important as we unleash their consumption power on our platform. In the first half of this year, near 30 million user clicked on the shopping link on Bilibili's video commentary section, which leaded to a transaction-related behavior. As we unleashing our user consumption demand, the number of videos that carries product links increased by eight times in the first half of this year, and the number of live broadcasting e-commerce shows increased by seven times in the first half of this year.
Carly Li (Vice Chairwoman of the Board and COO)
《Speaking Chinese》
Speaker 10
Secondly, we will continue to help our content creator to achieve sustainable operations through our video e-commerce initiatives. More content creator already started to try out Bilibili video e-commerce. This includes, but not limited to, many well-known content creators such as Wang Shifu, Xiaomaomao, Mideng, Baojianshao, Dawushiyan, et cetera. We are very delighted to find the model is very valid and successful. This also broke the rumor that Bilibili's user have no consumption power. Actually, as a matter of fact, from the data that's shown, that we have a lot of female user with consumption potential and power. Actually, 45% of Bilibili user are female. We do notice that they do have strong willingness to consume on Bilibili, and they have strong purchasing power.
Carly Li (Vice Chairwoman of the Board and COO)
《Speaking Chinese》
Speaker 10
Thirdly, is that we intend to try more categories from our on top of our traditional strong verticals. In addition to the IP derivative, aka our membership shopping, which is focused on the ACG preferential products and content, we intend to explore more categories such as food, beauty, 3C and digital products, home appliances, and etcetera. Here is an example: In mid-April, Xiaomi launched a live broadcasting e-commerce show promoting its new cell phone. Based on the data that I have in hand, Bilibili ranked number one in terms of GMV among all content platforms. It not only reflected that the strong word-of-mouth influence that we had among our young user group, but also the strong consumption power our users had.
Carly Li (Vice Chairwoman of the Board and COO)
...B 站 的 整 体 的 广 告 模 型 , 从 擅 长 建 立 品 牌 心 智 , 特 别 擅 长 做 整 合 营 销 , 已 经 转 化 为 从 建 立 品 牌 心 智 到 深 度 种 草 , 再 到 效 果 或 者 交 易 做 转 化 全 链 路 的 整 合 营 销 的 广 告 模 式 。
Speaker 10
I think the Bilibili ad model has evolved from establishing brand perception and mind share to a true integrated ad solution, a full advertising chain of brand building, seeding and sales conversion.
Carly Li (Vice Chairwoman of the Board and COO)
上 半 年 其 实 , 我 们 对 游 戏 、 电 商 以 及 交 易 策 略 进 行 了 升 级 , 也 初 步 见 了 成 效 。 下 半 年 , 我 将 会 对 原 来 优 势 的 几 个 行 业 , 包 括 大 快 消 跟 3C 数 码 进 行 策 略 的 迭 代 。 在 用 户 能 持 续 健 康 增 长 的 前 提 下 , 对 今 年 全 年 广 告 收 入 能 实 现 , 同 比 25%-30% 的 这 个 增 长 还 是 特 别 有 信 心 的 , 谢谢 。
Speaker 10
In the first half of this year, we have upgraded our industry ad solution for game and e-commerce and transactional strategy, it's already starting to show positive results. In the second half, I personally plan to conduct additional upgrade for our leading ad inventory, ad industry such as FMCG, 3C and digital products. We believe as we deliver healthy and sustainable user growth, we are confident that we can achieve 25%-30% ad revenue growth on a full year basis year-on-year.
Juliet Yang (Executive Director of Investor Relations)
Thank you. That concludes the question answer. Operator, next question, please.
Operator (participant)
We are now taking the next question. Please stand by. The next question from Kenneth Fong from Credit Suisse. Please go ahead. Your line is open.
Kenneth Fong (Head of China Internet Research)
嘿,管理层晚上好,谢谢接受我的提问。我的问题是我看到公司,调低了对全年的收入的指引,请问这个是出于什么呢,什么样的考量?我们全年亏损收窄的目标还能实现吗?我翻译一下。
Speaker 10
Thank you management for taking my question. We noticed that we lowered the full year revenue guidance. Can you share with us the key considerations behind? Are we still on track for narrowing losses for this year? Thank you.
Rui Chen (Chairman of the Board and CEO)
2023 年 收 入 指 引 下 调 的 原 因 主 要 是 2 个 。 第 1 个 呢 , 就 是 我 们 个 别 游 戏 的 发 行 时 间 延 期 了 。 第 2 个 呢 , 就 是 我 们 部 分 的 非 核 心 业 务 , 比 如 说 像 漫画 、 会员购 , 它 现 在 处 于 调 整 期 , 它 的 收 入 不 及 年 初 。 就 是 这 2 个 原 因 。
Speaker 10
The reason why of the guidance update is largely due to two reasons. Number one is, number of our games launch plan was delayed, and secondly is, certain non-core business, such as our comic and mem, the IP derivative and others business, and the is in the period of adjustment of strategy, and its revenue is lower than expected.
Rui Chen (Chairman of the Board and CEO)
呃 , 但 是 我 们 可 以 看 到 的 是 , 就 是 我 们 收 入 下 调 的 原 因 , 它 其 实 它 是 一 个 叫 阶 段 性 的 或 者 是 局 部 的 原 因 , 就 是 它 并 不 是 我 们 的 在 营 收 方 面 的 一 个 基 本 面 的 改 变 , 或 者 说 是 它 并 不 是 我 们 现 在 就 是 最 核 心 的 这 个 , 这 个 , 这 个 营 收 的 这 个 能 力 产 生 了 变 化 。 啊 , 比 如 说 就 是 我 说 这 个 游 戏 的 这 个 延 期 , 它 虽 然 延 期 了 , 但 是 它 那 个 目 前 也 确 定 了 这 个 发 行 的 一 个 时 间 。 啊 , 比 如 说 我 们 的 这 个 闪 耀 优 俊 少 女 , 她 已 经 确 定 了 是 在 八 月 三 十 日 啊 , 就 会 上 线 。
Speaker 10
We believe the reason for guidance update, the core is just it's for a temporary phase change, and it's not a change of foundations. The core business actually remains intact. For example, the delay of games is just that we're recognizing the revenue a little bit later. For example, Pretty Derby has already scheduled to launch, to be launched in August 30th, and this we will be releasing this game on that day. This is confirmed and certain.
Rui Chen (Chairman of the Board and CEO)
对 , 本 身 我 们 对 闪 耀 优 俊 少 女 这 款 游 戏 的 预 期 是 不 会 有 任 何 变 化 的 。
Speaker 10
Our, our outlook for and our confidence in the quality of the game and the revenue is unchanged.
Rui Chen (Chairman of the Board and CEO)
对 , 而 且 的 话 大 家 也 都 看 到 , 就 是 在 Q2 我 们 的 平 台 的 核 心 业 务 , 直 播 跟 广 告 的 收 入 , 它 的 增 长 都 是 很 不 错 的 。
Speaker 10
As you may already seen, that in the second quarter, the core business, Bilibili live broadcasting and advertising has achieved very solid growth.
Rui Chen (Chairman of the Board and CEO)
我 们 预 计 今 年 下 半 年 , 包 括 明 年 , 我 们 的 直 播 和 广 告 的 收 入 仍 然 会 保 持 健 康 和 快 速 的 增 长 。
Speaker 10
We do expect that in the second half of this year and, look forward to 2024, the advertising and live broadcasting business will sustain a very healthy and solid growth.
Rui Chen (Chairman of the Board and CEO)
最 后 我 还 是 想 说 , 就 是 其 实 我 们 在 年 初 的 时 候 , 我 们 就 已 经 是 明 确 , 就 是 公 司 的 财 务 目 标 , 首 先 是 增 毛 利 , 减 亏 损 。 我 们 在 今 年 , 就 是 对 于 所 有 的 业 务 是 优 先 保 证 毛 利 的 增 长 。
Speaker 10
In the beginning of this year, we have set our financial target to increase gross profit and narrow our net losses. As our requirement, financial requirement or KPIs to each department, business lines is to ensure the absolute dollar growth for its, its, gross profit.
Rui Chen (Chairman of the Board and CEO)
今 年 我 们 是 在 策 略 上 减 少 了 部 分 低 毛 利 , 或 者 亏 损 的 产 品 和 业 务 的 投 入 。 虽 然 这 部 分 的 业 务 的 收 入 它 受 到 了 影 响 , 但 是 我 们 的 毛 利 的 总 额 是 实 现 了 更 快 的 增 长 。
Speaker 10
Strategically, we have lowered the revenue contribution of low margin business or loss-making business. Even though some of the revenue growth rate has been impacted. However, the absolute dollar of our gross profit has sustained a very healthy and robust growth.
Rui Chen (Chairman of the Board and CEO)
在 今 年 的 第 二 季 度 , 公 司 的 毛 利 润 同 比 增 长 了 百 分 之 六 十 六 , 我 们 的 毛 利 已 经 连 续 四 个 季 度 环 比 提 升 , 而 且 呢 , 今 年 Q 二 我 们 调 整 后 的 净 亏 损 是 同 比 收 窄 了 百 分 之 五 十 一 。
Speaker 10
In the second quarter, our gross profit grew by 66% year-on-year, and our gross margin has experienced 4 consecutive quarter quarterly growth, and our adjusted net loss has narrowed by 51% year-on-year.
Rui Chen (Chairman of the Board and CEO)
我 认 为 我 们 今 年 全 年 亏 损 收 窄 的 目 标 是 能 实 现 的 , 而 且 我 们 明 年 盈 亏 平 衡 的 目 标 也 是 能 实 现 的 。
Speaker 10
I'm confident to achieve our loss cutting target for 2023 and achieve our breakeven target by 2024.
Xin Fan (CFO)
Yeah, this is Xin. I just want to add that on the loss reduction side, even so, the revenue growth rate, and encode the chance already mentioned that well below the expected, but we are still confident to achieve the loss cutting target we set in the beginning of this year, which is to cut our adjusted operation loss by RMB 3 billion. Through the, you know, gross profit increase and expense control. Notably, in the second quarter, our operating cash flow was close to breakeven. We think there are good chance that we can achieve operating cash flow positive in the fourth quarter this year. Additionally, we are confident to continue to improve our gross profit margin in the second half of this year and achieve our breakeven target by 2024.
Lastly, the updated full year guidance reflects our current projection of various potential outcome. We will try our best to ensure a smooth product launch as well as achieve our goal of increasing gross profit and narrowing losses. Thank you for your question.
Juliet Yang (Executive Director of Investor Relations)
Next question, please, operator.
Operator (participant)
We are now taking the next question. Please stand by. The next question from Yiwen Zhang from China Renaissance. Please go ahead. Your line is open.
Yiwen Zhang (Research Analyst)
哎 , 哎 , 好 的 。 呃 , 关 心 我 说 好 , 谢 谢 ! 接 着 我 的 提 问 。 呃 , 我 的 问 题 是 关 于 游 戏 的 , 呃 , 就 想 问 一 下 咱 们 游 戏 业 务 的 pipeline, 啊 尤 其 是 就 是 看 到 闪 , 呃 , 那 个 闪 耀 优 俊 少 女 也 定 档 了 , 然 后 也 取 得 了 一 百 万 的 预 约 , 我 们 应 该 怎 么 想 这 款 游 戏 的 一 个 预 期 呢 ? 然 后 除 了 这 款 游 戏 以 外 , 也 想 请 公 司 介 绍 一 下 其 他 pipeline 里 面 的 游 戏 。 好 , 最 后 是 咱 们 自 己 也 跟 自 由 这 一 个 策 略 跟 方 向 可 以 分 享 一 下 吗 ? 谢 谢 !
Speaker 10
So thanks for taking my question. My question is on the our game business. Can you discuss on the pipeline and especially for the Pretty Derby, how should we think about this, you know, expectation? Also, can you talk about our self-development game strategy and the direction? Thank you.
Rui Chen (Chairman of the Board and CEO)
呃 , 我 们 下 半 年 会 有 七 款 游 戏 和 国 内 外 的 玩 家 见 面 , 然 后 其 中 五 款 拿 到 版 号 的 会 在 国 内 发 行 , 然 后 两 款 会 在 海 外 发 行 。
Speaker 10
In the second half of this year, we have seven titles in our pipeline ready to be launched domestically and internationally. Among those seven, five of them have already gained approval and ready to be launched in the domestic market, two will be launched internationally.
Rui Chen (Chairman of the Board and CEO)
对 , 然 后 闪 耀 优 俊 少 女 这 个 游 戏 确 实 是 很 受 大 家 期 待 啊 , 然 后 我 们 是 在 这 个 月 也 是 公 布 了 它 的 一 个 上 线 时 间 嘛 , 就 是 八 月 三 十 号 , 然 后 目 前 的 预 约 还 是 非 常 的 火 热 , 呃 , 应 该 两 周 不 到 的 一 个 时 间 吧 , 已 经 有 超 过 两 百 万 的 玩 家 预 约 了 这 款 游 戏 , 这 也 是 创 下 了 B 站 这 个 预 约 的 记 录 。
Speaker 10
As for the highly anticipated game, Pretty Derby, we have already scheduled the launch day to be August thirtieth. Right now, within just two weeks of pre-registration, over 2 million users are already pre-registered for this game. This is a new record for in our operating history for the pre-registration amount.
Rui Chen (Chairman of the Board and CEO)
对 , 因 为 玩 家 非 常 的 期 待 , 所 以 我 们 在 做 这 个 闪 耀 优 俊 少 女 的 这 个 相 关 的 发 行 准 备 工 作 的 时 候 , 我 们 也 是 ...... 非 常 的 重 视 , 呃 , 我 们 应 该 是 花 了 很 多 的 精 力 去 做 好 它 的 本 地 化 的 工 作 , 然 后 确 保 能 够 给 玩 家 带 来 原 汁 原 味 的 游 戏 体 验 , 这 个 其 实 也 是 这 个 游 戏 比 预 期 上 线 延 迟 的 原 因 。
Speaker 10
Just because that it's such a highly anticipated games with large fan base, we actually spend a lot of effort doing the localization work, making sure that our gamers will be having the a re- very original Pretty Derby experience. That's actually one of the, the reason why it has been delayed by several month.
Rui Chen (Chairman of the Board and CEO)
因 为 我 们 的 团 队 应 该 说 就 是 国 内 在 发 行 二 次 元 游 戏 方 面 最 有 经 验 的 团 队 了 , 所 以 我 们 肯 定 也 是 会 尽 一 切 努 力 做 好 这 款 游 戏 。 我 们 预 计 闪 耀 优 俊 , 优 俊 少 女 应 该 能 够 成 为 较 好 又 较 做 的 二 次 元 的 一 个 头 部 产 品 。
Speaker 10
We believe that Bilibili's pro game launch team is the best ACG game launch team in China, and they are very experienced, and they will make sure a very smooth and successful launch of Pretty Derby, and we're confident Pretty Derby will be a very successful title, and also have good user feedbacks and reputation.
Rui Chen (Chairman of the Board and CEO)
关 于 自 研 游 戏 , 我 们 接 下 来 会 有 2 款 自 研 的 二 次 元 卡 牌 游 戏 会 上 线 , 一 个 是 斯露德 , 在 今 天 , 还 有 一 个 是 依露希尔 , 会 在 10 月 份 。
Speaker 10
As for our self-development pipeline, we have actually have two ACG card game will be launched in the second half of this year. This includes 1 game called Thrud, which is was already launched today, and there will be another game called Eruthyll. This is will be scheduled to launch in October.
Rui Chen (Chairman of the Board and CEO)
对 , 关 于 自 研 游 戏 呢 , 就 是 我 相 信 大 家 也 都 看 到 , 就 是 , 呃 , 其 实 尤 其 是 今 年 吧 , 就 是 游 戏 市 场 的 竞 争 , 啊 , 已 经 越 来 越 激 烈 了 。 啊 , 所 以 的 话 , 就 是 我 们 的 这 个 自 研 游 戏 肯 定 会 坚 持 我 之 前 所 说 的 , 就 是 聚 焦 , 就 聚 焦 我 们 的 这 个 , 这 个 优 势 品 类 。 同 时 的 话 , 就 是 , 呃 , 我 会 非 常 看 重 成 功 率 , 啊 , 就 是 我 并 不 希 望 在 自 研 游 戏 方 面 , 因 为 我 们 并 不 是 一 个 在 自 研 游 戏 方 面 以 前 就 做 得 非 常 好 的 一 个 公 司 , 我 觉 得 这 一 块 我 是 摆 正 心 态 , 就 是 一 步 一 个 脚 印 , 首 先 保 障 我 们 的 游 戏 要 成 功 , 然 后 做 成 功 了 之 后 , 我 们 再 做 下 一 个 目 标 。 所 以 的 话 , 就 是 自 研 游 戏 的 成 功 率 应 该 是 我 现 在 那 个 , 呃 , 对 于 团 队 , 啊 , 非 常 关 注 和 重 视 的 一 个 指 标 。
Speaker 10
As for our self-development game strategy, as you may, you all aware, there's been a very heavy competition among the game industry this year. As for our own self-development game, the strategy will remain unchanged, which is focus, focus our on the content on the genres that Bilibili has most advantage of. Me personally, will be spending a lot of time to ensure a success rate, as we have, we, we have only started doing self-development games, and we will be very down to earth and grounded to take a step by step approach to ensure every game that we launch will be high quality and will be successful. This is the target that I, I personally will spend a lot of time to ensure and also require our team to achieve.
Rui Chen (Chairman of the Board and CEO)
对 , 第 二 个 的 话 就 是 长 线 运 营 , 因 为 那 个 我 认 为 , 呃 , 未 来 的 游 戏 它 一 定 得 做 到 长 线 运 营 , 否 则 它 就 不 能 挣 钱 。 啊 , 所 以 的 话 , 就 是 , 呃 , 从 我 的 一 个 角 度 , 就 是 我 看 B 站 内 的 这 个 , 那 个 自 研 游 戏 的 一 个 项 目 , 就 是 如 果 不 能 做 到 长 线 运 营 的 项 目 , 我 们 就 不 会 去 立 项 , 然 后 如 果 不 能 做 到 长 线 运 营 的 游 戏 , 呃 , 我 们 在 代 理 发 行 线 我 们 也 不 会 去 签 代 理 。 啊 , 同 时 的 话 , 就 是 如 果 现 在 已 经 上 线 的 游 戏 , 那 个 我 会 把 长 线 运 营 就 作 为 它 最 重 要 的 一 个 指 标 。
Speaker 10
Secondly, is about the long-term operation of the game. I believe in the future, all the game will be a long-term operation cycle, otherwise it won't make any profit. This is the requirement I have for our self-development game. If the title from day one is not a long-term operation title, we won't be, we won't allow it to be set up. As for the licensed game, if it's not a long-life cycle game, we won't, we won't sign it, we won't license it. As for the game that's already online, the long-life cycle management and operation will be also be one, one of the most important KPIs I have for the team.
Rui Chen (Chairman of the Board and CEO)
其 实 B 站 在 过 去, 在 游 戏 运 营 方 面, 我 们 在 长 线 运 营 这 一 个 尺 度 上, 我 们 是 能 做 得 很 好 的. 我 们 的 Azur Lane, 已 经 今 年 已 经 完 成 了 6 周 年 庆, 我 们 的 这 个 FGO 刚 刚 也 就 是 在 这 个 月, 也 是 做 完 了 我 们 的 7 周 年 庆. 就 是 其 实 这 个 这 些 游 戏 现 在 的 健 康 度 都 是 非 常 不 错 的, 我 们 FGO 7 周 年 的 DAU 其 实 比 第 6 年 的 时 候 还 要 高.
我 们 会 把 这 个 这 一 点 持 续 地 做 下 去 , 也 把 这 一 点 做 成 我 们 的 一 个 优 势 。
Speaker 10
As for Bilibili, we have very good track records of making sure a long, long life cycle operation. As a matter of fact, our Azur Lane just celebrated 6 years of anniversary, and FGO just last week, we celebrated its seventh year anniversary, and all of the user data and metrics remain very healthy for both of the games. As a matter of fact, during the sixth anniversary of FGO, its DAU even surpassed the six years anniversary DAU. We will stick on this route and making sure that all of our game will sustain a long life operation cycle.
Juliet Yang (Executive Director of Investor Relations)
Operator, next question, please. Thank you.
Operator (participant)
We are now taking the next question. Please stand by. The next question from Lincoln Kong from Goldman Sachs. Please go ahead. Your line is open.
Lincoln Kong (Executive Director)
好 , 谢 谢 观 丽 程 , 这 个 这 是 我 的 问 题 了 。 我 的 问 题 是 想 关 于 这 个 AIGC 这 边 , 我 们 之 前 也 在 就 是 B 站 Investor Day 也 看 到 , 就 是 公 司 也 说 了 , AIGC 在 可 能 创 作 者 的 这 个 生 产 效 率 、 营 销 工 具 , 以 及 这 个 甚 至 AI 搜 索 这 边 可 能 都 会 有 一 些 这 个 应 用 的 产 品 的 一 些 想 法 , 可 不 可 以 请 观 丽 程 再 跟 我 们 更 多 的 说 一 说 这 个 B 站 在 这 个 AIGC 的 应 用 这 边 的 一 些 策 略 和 这 个 进 展 。
My question is about AIGC's application to Bilibili. From past Investor Day, we already seen some, you know, development or strategy showcase in terms of AIGC speeding up the production efficiency, the marketing promotion tools, as well as this AI integrated search. Could you imagine elaborate more around how we think about AIGC could benefit Bilibili? Thank you.
Rui Chen (Chairman of the Board and CEO)
我 相 信 大 家 都 看 到 了,AIGC 是 一 个 跨 时 代 的 一 个 技 术 浪 潮 吧。这 个 我 感 觉 就 是 我 今 天 看 AIGC, 就 像 10 多 年 前 我 们 看 移 动 互 联 网 一 样, 我 觉 得 这 个 一 定 是 能 够 改 变 世 界, 改 变 行 业 的 一 个 那 个 技 术 的 一 个 革 命。
Speaker 10
We believe this is breakthrough technology of the AIGC, what can bring, bring to the industry. The way we look at it, it equals to the mobile Internet that happened 10 years ago, and this will not only benefit Bilibili, it will actually benefit everyone.
Rui Chen (Chairman of the Board and CEO)
对,其 实 对 于 B 站 来 说,因 为 我 们 的 主 业 是 视 频 加 上 ACG 嘛,我 们 其 实 已 经 可 以 看 到,就 是 AIGC 对 于 视 频 和 对 于 ACG,它 都 是 有 很 明 显 的 一 个 增 益 的。就 比 如 说,它 能 够 很 大 程 度 地 去 提 高 创 作 者 创 作 内 容 的 一 个 效 率。比 如 说 我 们 可 以 看 到 就 是 在 社 区 管 理 方 面,因 为 大 语 言 模 型 对 于 内 容 的 理 解,它 是 能 够 把 我 们 的 社 区 能 够 体 验 变 得 更 好 的。其 实 像 B 站 与 B 站 直 接 的 体 验 和 这 个 业 务 应 用 相 关 的 一 些 场 景,我 们 都 看 到 了 一 些 AIGC 能 够 带 来,很 大 进 步 的 机 会。
Speaker 10
As for Bilibili, our core business is video and ACG, and it has been very clear that AIGC can enable an increased efficiency in a large amount on both fronts. For example, on content production as well as content recommendation. Also, based on the LLM, we can increase a lot of the efficiency of managing our community by understanding what the text means, the content means within our community. We believe this technology, AIGC, has multifaceted applications and scenarios to help us to improve all around user experience.
Rui Chen (Chairman of the Board and CEO)
对 , 其 实 我 们 已 经 开 始 做 一 些 实 实 在 在 的 事 情 , 然 后 再 用 AIGC 的 技 术 来 提 高 我 们 的 用 户 体 验 , 来 提 高 我 们 的 业 务 能 力 。 啊 , 比 如 说 刚 才 在 财 报 一 开 始 大 家 听 到 的 那 个 Xin 的 这 个 那 一 长 段 发 言 , 其 实 那 并 不 是 Xin 自 己 说 的 , 那 就 是 用 我 们 自 研 的 , 就 是 AI 语 音 的 这 个 工 具 来 说 的 。 反 正 我 听 了 以 后 , 我 是 听 不 出 来 不 是 本 人 的 。
Speaker 10
As for the application scenario, actually we have already conduct some extent of research and development, and we believe there's a lot of scenarios that we can leverage. For example, the prepared remarks that spoken by Xin just now, before this Q&A session. Actually, it was not actually conducted by Xin. It, it's powered by our a self-developed AI tool, text, text to speech, TTS tool. Similar products like this is, we have already starting to research and develop and apply it in our various scenarios.
Rui Chen (Chairman of the Board and CEO)
... 其 实 这 个 技 术 在 现 在 我 们 的 业 务 场 景 里 面 已 经 可 以 发 挥 作 用 了 。 像 今 年 BML 开 场 的 时 候 , 二 二 三 三 那 一 段 话 , 它 不 是 那 个 配 音 的 那 个 演 员 说 的 , 它 就 是 由 我 们 的 AI 语 音 生 成 的 。
Speaker 10
There are other examples, for example, this year's Bilibili Macro Link, our live virtual host 22 and 33, their voice was also generated by the same tool, TTS AI tool that ours, that's Bilibili self-developed.
Rui Chen (Chairman of the Board and CEO)
对 , 比 如 再 举 , 再 比 如 我 们 B 站 其 实 有 很 多 这 种 知 识 类 的 这 种 视 频 , 其 实 这 种 视 频 的 核 心 它 是 文 案 嘛 , 就 是 文 案 写 好 了 之 后 , 然 后 Up 主 他 会 把 文 案 读 一 遍 。 其 实 有 这 样 的 一 个 技 术 , 用 AI 帮 他 们 读 了 之 后 , 他 们 很 多 的 他 们 觉 得 满 意 的 声 音 , 他 们 就 可 以 不 再 重 新 录 了 , 然 后 他 们 不 满 意 的 他 们 可 以 再 重 新 录 , 这 个 也 能 够 节 约 他 们 创 作 视 频 的 时 间 。
Speaker 10
Another example would be knowledge related video creation. As many, knowledge content creators, they generally write the, write the text, and they record their voice. With the help of this AI tool, they can, it can largely improve its production efficiency.
Rui Chen (Chairman of the Board and CEO)
嗯 , 再 比 如 说 像 大 语 言 模 型 , 就 虽 然 我 们 没 有 就 是 对 外 公 布 我 们 的 大 语 言 模 型 , 没 有 参 与 百 模 大 战 , 但 是 呢 , 我 们 的 大 语 言 模 型 实 实 在 在 的 已 经 在 我 们 的 业 务 里 面 已 经 有 用 处 了 。
Speaker 10
As for the LLM, even though we haven't, marketed, quite, aggressively, but actually we have already starting to apply LLM in various, daily operations.
Rui Chen (Chairman of the Board and CEO)
对 , 就 比 如 说 我 们 在 内 容 安 全 审 核 上 , 其 实 我 们 过 去 是 要 投 大 量 的 人 力 去 做 的 , 而 现 在 大 语 言 模 型 因 为 它 对 语 言 是 有 理 解 能 力 的 , 所 以 的 话 它 能 够 帮 助 我 们 的 审 核 的 同 学 极 大 程 度 地 提 高 审 核 的 效 率 。
Speaker 10
Another example would be on the content auditing side. In the past, we have to spend a lot of human resource and power in managing the content. With the help of large language model, because it can understand the way, the text, the meaning, and all of the implied meanings behind the task, it can drastically increase the efficiency of how our content audit teams process the content.
Rui Chen (Chairman of the Board and CEO)
对 , 再 比 如 说 对 于 搜 索 的 体 验 , 就 是 大 语 言 模 型 也 是 能 够 去 增 强 我 们 B 站 的 搜 索 体 验 的 。 B 站 上 面 是 有 很 多 , 呃 , 用 户 创 作 的 内 容 , 其 中 携 带 了 大 量 的 信 息 , 呃 , 但 是 它 很 多 信 息 它 可 能 是 散 在 一 些 视 频 里 面 的 , 而 我 们 现 在 是 正 在 灰 度 测 试 一 个 AI 增 强 搜 索 的 一 个 功 能 , 就 是 你 直 接 可 以 在 我 们 的 搜 索 框 里 面 去 提 问 , 然 后 我 们 的 大 语 言 模 型 它 就 能 够 把 相 关 的 一 些 就 是 B 站 已 经 有 的 内 容 所 具 备 的 一 些 知 识 和 信 息 可 以 回 答 给 用 户 。 比 如 说 我 举 个 例 子 , 就 是 很 多 用 户 可 能 在 原 神 四 点 零 上 线 了 之 后 , 他 就 会 去 看 一 看 , 哎 , 原 神 四 点 零 有 哪 些 角 色 值 得 培 养 , 有 哪 些 卡 应 该 抽 ? 这 是 个 很 新 的 信 息 啊 , B 站 一 定 是 最 全 的 , 因 为 我 们 的 游 戏 内 容 是 非 常 强 的 。 那 么 过 去 可 能 用 户 要 看 完 四 个 这 个 , 呃 , 叫 Up 主 的 这 个 , 呃 , 攻 略 视 频 之 后 , 啊 , 他 才 能 够 得 到 一 个 信 息 。 但 是 现 在 可 能 在 我 们 的 搜 索 框 里 面 , 他 就 问 一 句 话 , 就 是 原 神 四 点 零 哪 些 角 色 值 得 培 养 ? 然 后 我 们 的 大 语 言 模 型 , 它 就 可 以 通 过 , 就 是 最 近 投 稿 的 一 些 攻 略 的 一 个 视 频 , 它 就 能 告 诉 , 他 就 能 直 接 去 用 文 字 去 回 答 , 就 是 有 哪 些 角 色 值 得 培 养 , 有 哪 些 角 色 值 得 抽 。 就 这 个 对 于 用 户 的 体 验 , 它 是 有 一 个 很 明 显 的 一 个 增 强 。
Speaker 10
Another application scenario would be enhanced search. Because Bilibili has a vast content library, and each video carries a lot of scattered information, and we can leverage the LLM to drastically enhance the search efficiency. We are actually beta testing a new enhanced search that by just in typing questions in our search box, our large language model can summarize and answer questions. A very valid example would be with the recent version upgrade of Genshin Impact, people can just simply ask which card is worth drawing and which character is worth spending time to improve. The large language model can summarize the valid information and just provide it to the user.
Versus in the past, they have to watch several, several videos to summarize that content, that information. Now they with a just stroke of hand, they can so get the correct and fast answer.
Rui Chen (Chairman of the Board and CEO)
对 , 比 如 还 有 一 个 就 是 我 们 也 是 利 用 AIGC 的 能 力 开 发 的 一 个 小 功 能 , 就 我 们 把 它 叫 做 叫 , 叫 AI 视 频 的 一 个 小 助 手 。 其 实 就 是 , 就 是 当 你 看 完 一 个 视 频 过 后 , 哎 , 如 果 你 想 记 得 这 个 视 频 讲 了 一 些 什 么 , 但 是 呢 , 可 能 又 记 得 不 是 特 别 清 楚 , 你 是 可 以 去 直 接 去 问 这 个 小 助 手 。 比 如 说 , 哎 , 这 个 视 频 里 面 讲 的 这 个 事 儿 , 它 到 底 , 啊 , 是 一 个 什 么 样 的 一 个 具 体 的 信 息 ? 比 如 说 你 看 了 一 个 苹 果 的 一 个 Mac, MacBook 的 一 个 评 测 的 一 个 视 频 , 然 后 看 完 了 之 后 , 然 后 你 就 直 接 可 以 问 这 个 小 助 手 , 你 说 这 个 视 频 里 面 讲 的 这 个 MacBook, 它 的 M2 Pro 的 CPU 的 型 号 跟 M2 CPU 的 型 号 它 的 区 别 是 什 么 ? 价 格 的 差 别 是 什 么 ? 那 么 这 个 小 助 手 就 可 以 直 接 回 答 你 , 这 个 也 是 能 够 去 增 强 用 户 看 视 频 的 一 个 体 验 。
Speaker 10
...Another function upgrade that we are testing is AI assistance. This will accompany users when they are watching a video, help them to summarize and extract useful information. For example, in a MacBook review video, user can ask the AI assistant what's the difference between M2 Pro chip and the M2 chip? What's the price difference? What's the efficiency difference? The AI assistant can extract the exact information to help the user to get what they want. All of this will help to increase Bilibili user experience. Internally, we really value the AIGC technology. We believe this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. This will be similar to the invention of mobile internet, which enable Bilibili's mobile user grow by tenfolds.
We believe with the AIGC technology matures, we can leverage this technology to largely enhance our user experience, our content creators' experience and productivity, as well as increase our commercialization efficiency.
Juliet Yang (Executive Director of Investor Relations)
That concludes the, the question. Operator, we can close the call today.
Operator (participant)
That concludes the question-and-answer session. Thank you once again for joining Bilibili's second quarter, 2022 financial results and business update conference call today. If you have any further question, please contact Juliet Yang, Bilibili's Executive IR Director, or Piacente Financial Communications. Contact information for IR in both China and USA can be found on today's press release. Have a great day.