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Thank you for standing by, and welcome to the iQIYI First Quarter 2024 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] I would now like to hand the conference over to Ms. Chang Yu, IR Director of the company. Please go ahead.
Thank you, operator. Hello, everyone, and thank you for joining iQIYI's First Quarter 2024 Earnings Conference Call. The company's results were released earlier today and available on the company's Investor Relations website at ir.iqiyi.com. On the call today are Mr. Yu Gong, our Founder, Director and CEO; Mr. Jun Wang, our CFO; Mr. Xiangjun Wang, our CCO, Chief Content Officer; Mr. Wenfeng Liu, our CTO, Chief Technology Officer; Mr. Youqiao Duan, Senior Vice President of our Membership business; Mr. San Ha Yang, Senior Vice President of Moelis and overseas business; and Mr. Fan Liu, Senior Vice President of Brand Advertising business.
Mr. Gong will give a brief overview of the company's business operations and highlights, followed by Jun, who will go through the financials. After the prepared remarks, the management team will participate in the Q&A session.
Before we proceed, please note that the discussion today will contain forward-looking statements made under the safe harbor provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. [ Certain ] statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from our current expectations. Potential risks and uncertainties include, but not are limited to, those outlined in our public filings with the SEC.
iQIYI does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements, except as required under applicable law. I will now pass the floor to Mr. Gong. Please go ahead.
Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us today. We kicked off the year with a strong first quarter as we continue to execute our high-quality growth strategy and achieved multiple historical highs, in key financials and operational results. The non-GAAP operating income and its corresponding margin both reached a record high with income and RMB 1.1 billion and making 14%.
The expanding margin is a natural result of high-quality growth. For our Membership Services business, the monthly on growth to an all-time high, which is the sixth consecutive quarter of sequential growth, we are satisfied with the program and continue to believe that remains one of the key drivers for unleashing the long-term value of Membership Services.
In our Advertising Services, revenue from the performance has achieved double-digit annual growth and is historical high in Q1. We anticipated the momentum to continue as it directly benefited from the growing adoption of generative AI, which as expected due greater returns on investment for advertisers. Common distribution revenue hit historical high as well reached RMB 928 million and grew 27% annually. This clear illustrates that our growing content production capabilities are creating more high-quality content that is recognized by television stations and other buyers.
While we delivered impressive financial performance in the quarter, we maintained dominance in content, data from enlightened shows that our total viewership across major content categories, such as dramas and movies maintained the top spot in the market in Q1. Notably, in the crucial drama general category, we have held the #1 position for viewership share for 9 straight quarters. Aside from our domestic achievements, we are also excited by the amplified reach and the influence of our content and the brand in the overseas markets.
Now let's dive deeper into the performance of core business segments. Starting with Membership Services, we are committed to offering our users superior content, the finest user experience and enhanced number of privileges and benefits, which we believe will fuel the sustainable long-term growth of our Membership Services revenue. Our focus extends beyond merely the quarterly subscriber numbers, as the revenue result ultimately reflect all the collective component contributing to that performance. With that, we believe the way we share the development of our membership business would be online as well.
Starting in Q1 of this year, we will stop reporting the quarterly average subscriber numbers and ARM. We will provide updates on key milestones related to subscriber growth and ARM as they are achieved. In the first quarter, we delivered membership revenue of RMB 4.8 billion, flat sequentially and down 13% from a year earlier. The year-over-year fluctuation was primarily due to the high base effects created last year with the relief of our mega hit, The Knockout. The surge in travel and offline entertainment during the very first Chinese New Year holiday of this year post COVID also partially diluted the online activities.
Currently, among the various factors contributing to the revenue performance, we are intently focusing on enhanced ARM and extending the lifespan of each membership, which serves as our principal areas of focus. We remain highly confident in the long-term growth potential of our membership business.
Our confidence is supported by the success of our ARM strategy, which reflects 6 consecutive quarters of sequential growth. The strong performance is driven by our ongoing efforts to improve operations, enrich product offering, and enhance membership benefits, all of which have bolstered the value proposition of our members. Given that our membership fees are affordable and the effective ARM remains modest, we have the opportunity to further refine our pricing strategy emphasizing the exceptional value of our premium content and services.
We have been working on improving ARM by introducing exciting services that add substantial value. Take the Express Package for example: cash purchase for the drama. Lonely Warrior reached a new high. The Express Package, not only brought in more revenue, but it also increased the popularity of the title. In fact, just one day after we launched this package, the drama hit its peak on iQIYI Popularity Index score. We are making good progress in bringing additional value to our members while can currently driving revenue and popularity.
In summary, our strategy for our membership business involves consistently delivering premium content and streaming -- streamlining operations and making efforts to attract and engage users. We also intend to adapt our membership offering to suit diverse user preference and bolster our loyalty program to motivate commitment to long-term premium subscriptions. Such initiatives are designed to foster loyalty and enhance customer lifetime value.
Moving on to Content. Maintaining market leadership in key content genres has reinforced our reputation as a diversified and high-quality premium content powerhouse. For 9 consecutive quarters, our drama viewership shares have topped to the industry. The quarter's newly released title highlighted the extensive range and depth of our offering. We achieved meaningful advancements in the realistic genres, distinguishing ourselves our competitors through quality dramas infused with varied creative elements. This strategy has successfully broadened our content creation expertise. Our original programming remains the cornerstone of our content strategy. iQIYI Originals accounted for over 70% of our key new dramas launched in the first quarter, covering diversified themes.
In particular, War of Faith emerged as the first drama in this year and 13th in history to surpass iQIYI popularity index score of 10,000. Setting it apart from other war-themed shows. War of Faith, historical period of setting with financial intrigue, suspense and other creative elements. This demonstrates our commitment to innovation as we continue to push genre boundary and introduce unique storytelling perspective.
The well-received drama, Always on the Move [indiscernible], which was released during the Chinese New Year holiday, recorded viewership share of over 27% at its peaked according to Enlightent. It also set a new record for drama viewership on CCTV-8 and its iQIYI popularity index score was 9,959, just shy of 10,000 landmark.
After establishing our industrial leadership in the suspense genre with Light On Theater, we have continued to thrive in the comedy genre introducing 3 new titles under the Laugh On Theater brand this quarter. This includes Our Parallel Universes [indiscernible] and The Great Nobody [indiscernible] both of which are dramas spin-off our hit variety show. Additionally, the new released, A Soldier's Story [indiscernible] has broken iQIYI records for the highest popularity index score, highest revenue and the best ROI for Laugh On Theater production.
During the quarter, we also released a collecton of diverse high-quality dramas, such as Burning Flames, Born to Run [indiscernible] Detective Chinatown 2 [indiscernible]. For the quarter, our movie viewership outperformed competitors as reported by Enlightent. We released 24 major films across genres like crime, suspense and action including top-grossing theatrical releases on our movie channel. Meanwhile, 32 movies debuted on Cloud Cinema channel to positive audience reception. We also observed encouraging early responses on new action, Action Master Season and Art Films Cinema brand releases.
For variety shows, we made solid progress in both new releases and established IPs. “Become a
Farmer 2 [indiscernible] leveraged the strong buzz of the first season, it achieved not only a notable
boost in popularity and revenue, but also spurred a resurgence in viewership for the first season. In addition, “[indiscernible] had a powerful season. With a high level of interaction among guests, its popularity index surpassed 8,400 at its peak.
For animations, we got better at what we do and users responded well. Our original works, “The
Great Ruler and “Against the Gods [Foreign Language] achieved the best performance for
domestic animations on our platform.
Our upcoming dramas feature standout titles such as “Fox Spirit Matchmaker [Foreign Language] Follow Your Heart [Foreign Language] and “As Husband as Wife [Foreign Language] And our slate of recent releases,
Including “In the Name of the Brother [Foreign Language] ” and others, have bolstered our reputation For delivering high-quality, diverse content with great audience appeal. Notably, “City of the City became the highest-rated show during prime time on CCTV-1 this year. In particular To the Wonder [Foreign Language] exemplifies our success in blending artistic merit with commercial
success. The series, adapted from literary prose and spiced up with light comedy elements
Supports our pioneering eXave standard and offers a cinematic experience that sets a new industry
benchmark.
Additionally, this series is the first to utilize our in-house developed cloud-based on-site production management system, enabling instant collaboration on daily shooting footage, remotely and largely boosting production efficiency. “To the Wonder” has achieved profitability
While garnered domestic and international acclaim. It topped the ratings on [indiscernible] this year
Became the first 8-episode mini-series to air during CCTV-1’s prime-time slot, and was the first Chinese drama to be selected for the prestigious Long Form Competition at CANNESERIES.
The Light On Theater is set to introduce six titles in 2022, with notable ones such as the already released “Tell No One [Foreign Language] and the upcoming “Lost in the Shadows [Foreign Language] and “Interlaced Scenes [Foreign Language]. In addition, we're broadening our genre focused theater Mode with two new brands: “Microcosm Theater”, [Foreign Language] which focuses on premium mini-series that explore the nuances of everyday life, with "To the Wonder" being its first title. The “Masterpiece Theater” [Foreign Language] on the other hand, offers adaptations of esteemed literary works. We believe the theater mode will further enhance content performance and commercial value.
Our Q2 movie offer -- offerings include social relevance, title like “Pegasus [indiscernible] and “The Pig, The
Snake, and The Pigeon [Foreign Language] Cloud Cinema will showcase “YOLO [Foreign Language] a hit from The Chinese New Year release window, along with renowned director Zhang Yimou's “Article 20 [Foreign Language] and the action-packed “Suspect [Foreign Language]. Additionally, we are eager for the May 17
Theater release of “Hovering Blade [Foreign Language] based on Keigo Higashino’s esteemed novel.
With our variety shows, we have seen a strong return on our established IPs including The Detectives’ Adventures Season 4 and “The Rap of China 2024. We Are also exploring new IPs in the reality shows genre with “I Play Basketball in Hengdianand Wonderland [Foreign Language].
Our original production capabilities for animations continue to improve. We expect the number of Kids’ animation titles we release next quarter to increase. In addition to sequels from existing series We will launch new IPs such as Fantastic Around [Foreign Language]. We also pressed forward with sequels of new animation IPs like “Phoenix Guardians: The Golden Court Crisis [Foreign Language] and “I’ am The Blade Master [Foreign Language] in the martial arts and fantasy genres.
We recognize that the core strength of the long-form video industry lies on consistently delivering High-quality content that strikes a balance between creative value and economic success. Our edge in this industry is secured by combining elite talent and industry resources, rigorous content evaluation and management, sophisticated business intelligence, and innovative technology. As we progress through 2024, our approach will focus on crafting top-tier, diverse content that leverages our leadership in the drama category, while exploring advancements in other genres.
We will also refine our release strategy to align with the evolving tastes of our audience.
Moving on to the Advertising business. In the first quarter, revenue reached RMB 1.5 billion, up 6% annually, which was driven mainly by the growth of performance ads. Performance ads are the highlight of the quarter, the record high revenue was propelled by the growing adoption of generative AI which in turn improves ROI for advertisers. In fact, we have successfully integrated generative AI tools into our IT advertising platform allow advertisers to promote increased advertising materials on their own. This truly can be effectively reducing production costs while improving ad quality and boosting ROI for gaming and the short drama advertisers, apps created with generative AIs have seen increase in ROI by over 40% -- 50%. With the role of generative AI rapidly expanding, we are leveraging is from their potential to transform the world of advertising.
On brand and business side, our premium content continues to attract from advertisers. With over half of the revenue stemming from content targeted app, a great example to this trend is drama always on the move, which achieved exception of [indiscernible] in performance. Additionally, the variety show become a farmer [indiscernible], which built in 2023 has seen a notable 88% increase in revenue this year. By industries, the food and beverage sector stood out with solid increases in spending both annually and sequentially. The medical services and the communication sectors also [ adjusted ] substantial growth in ad revenue exceeding 20% on both annual and sequential business.
Looking ahead, we set to see our resurgence in ground ad spending as second quarter as our traditional high season for brand business, and we have a strong lineup of [indiscernible], although we remain cautiously optimistic regarding the brand advertisement market for this year. We anticipate domestic brands to show faster recovery than their international peers.
Moving on to our technology and products, our dedication to advancing technology innovation remains [indiscernible] as it plays a crucial role in driving the industrialization of content production, improving user experiments and boosting operational efficiency. We look forward to the opportunities that AI presents across our business. We have been resonating the revolutionary impacts that the rest of AI technology is having on the involving entertainment ecosystem other than the performance as discussed earlier.
We also see the substantial benefits from integrating generative AI into the program of production and operations. Well, we are still at the initial stage of fully leveraging the potential of generative AI. It has meaningfully enhanced the industrialization of content production, contributing to the content quality improvements and cost saving.
For example, we utilized our in-house developed data-driven platform, the ITA Content Production Management System, to meaningfully improve the [indiscernible] while enhancing content production and operational efficiency or late upgrades expanded its scope from dramas to include variety shows, animations and movies. And it is continuously refine to improve production and management capabilities.
In addition, we have incorporated our broader range of AI into the system, streamlining everything from content selection to promotion. Our new AI features not only can summarize novel and scripts but they also -- but they can also assist in crafting story outlines and character profiles, increasing producers, raising efficiency by several times. Additionally, our system skillfully handles wise restoration for actors and cost of production, which has been implemented in major projects beyond production on marketing and the distribution efforts are being upgraded as well. We are now better equipped to produce compelling promotional materials under our smart [indiscernible] offers more accurate content recommendations by effectively responding to cloud oriented searches and the conversational dramas. The use of products done great price -- pride in our continuous commitment to improving the user experience, the introduction of kids mode on our Smart TV app designed to collect content suitable for children has resulted in increased parental trust and the user engagement time.
Last but not least, for our business performance in regions outside of Mainland China. We achieved solid annual revenue growth in the first quarter. Membership revenue grew both annually and sequentially with nearly 80% annual increase in markets such as Hong Kong and the U.K. We continue to uplift on the inflows of our content and the brand in the overseas markets.
[indiscernible] continued to gain traction among overseas audience, the overall viewership of [indiscernible]. We are first in all regions and categories on our overseas platform to popularity charts in Thailand, in Indonesia, the second season of our Malaysian original [indiscernible] continued success over the first season boosted both traffic and membership revenue growth on our [indiscernible], leveraging our premium content developed local partnerships to boost global penetration and monetization. We have strengthened a house with telecom companies and tourism authorities in Hong Kong and Thailand and the [indiscernible] ITC drama on selected local TV station in Thailand.
Looking ahead, we aim to provide [indiscernible] slate of premium C-pop content to keep overseas market and accelerate the production of original premium content for local audiences. Maybe we will persist in our efforts to promote C-pop and local content ton partnership with Southeast Asian TV stations as we have our brand presence in key markets. We are also committed to deploying a variety of IP monetization opportunities.
In summary, the strong performance in the first quarter demonstrated the successful execution of our high-quality growth strategy. We recently celebrated our 14th anniversary. As we step all into the future, we are seeing more exciting opportunities ahead, especially [indiscernible] assessed the par generative AI which could potentially transform the entire landscape of entertainment. With this in mind, we are committed to leveraging the pioneering technologies to further enhance ability to continuously provide high-quality content and extend our lead in the industry.
Now let me pass on to Jun Wang for our financial performance
Thanks, Mr. Gong, and hello, everyone. We delivered a strong Q1 results with a record high operating profit and corresponding margins include cash flow and a healthier balance sheet. We believe we can utilize more tools to enhance shareholder value over time.
Now let me walk you through the key numbers. In Q1, the total revenues were RMB 7.9 billion, membership services revenue reached RMB 4.8 billion, remained stable sequentially and decreased 13% annually. The annual decrease as previously explained, was primarily due to the high base effect from the same period last year. For online advertising, revenue grew by 6% annually to RMB 1.5 billion. The increase was primarily driven by the growth of performance and revenue, which achieved double-digit annual growth and hit the historical high in Q1, even compared with a high base from the last year. The content and distribution revenue also hit all high reached RMB 928 million and grew 27% annually.
Moving on to cost and expenses. The accounting cost was RMB 4 [ million ], down 5% annually driven by our improvement in content strategy and operating efficiency. Total operating expenses was RMB 1.4 billion, down 12% annually primarily due to our discipline in the marketing spending and the reversal of allowance for credit losses.
Turning to profit and cash flow. Our non-GAAP operating income was RMB 1.1 billion, and its corresponding margin is 14%, reaching historical high. Furthermore, the operating cash flow totaled RMB 938 million, remaining positive for 8 consecutive quarters, reflecting the continuous improvement of our balance sheet.
At the end of Q1, we had cash, cash equivalents, short-term investments and long-term restricted cash included in the prepayments and other assets of RMB 7.3 billion in total.
Moving forward, we remain committed to creating long-term value for our stakeholders. We aim to continue to generate sustainable profit and cash flow and to further strengthen our balance sheet. For [indiscernible] financial data, please refer to our press release on our IR website. With that, I will open the floor for Q&A.
[Operator Instructions] Your first question comes from Xueqing Zhang in from CICC.
[Foreign Language] Congratulations on the strong results. My question is about the membership business. The company did not disclose the [ prescribed ] numbers this quarter. What's the reason for that? And how should we think about the outlook for the membership business in the longer term?
[Foreign Language] [Interpreted] The CEO, Mr. Gong just explained why we didn't disclose the sub numbers and ARM because this only partially indicates the progress of our entire business. So disposing the numbers too much in detail, probably would disturb some of the development of our overall business. So for the details, we'll invite Mr. Duan in charge of the membership business to explain further.
[Foreign Language] [Interpreted]
After serious consideration, we decided no longer to disclose the subscriber and ARM data starting this quarter. At the same time, we believe many of you have already noted that there is overseas streaming platform, which will soon cease the disclosure of these data as well.
[Foreign Language]
[Interpreted] our reasoning is in part similar due to the different rights and pricing associated with various membership products and tiers each user contributes a different economic value, and therefore, to merely reflect business and financial progress, there is a number of subscribers at a specific point in time or over a period is actually incomplete and lacks objectivity.
[Foreign Language]
[Interpreted] Since the beginning of 2022, we have always emphasized that the core goal of our membership business is to maximize long-term memory revenue and in the current stage of development of our membership business, the indicators for evaluating its growth in health are not limited to the performance of subscriber count. So therefore, the 3 drivers to revenue growth, namely ARM, membership lifetime and subscriber scale will ultimately be reflected in the revenue performance.
So overall, we believe using membership revenue as the core indicator is the best way to help investors understand the business progress.
[Foreign Language]
[Interpreted] In terms of the content performance, aside from revenue, actually, there are other external [indiscernible] firm indicators that can help investors understand our business performance for example, and including ITE's popularity index and third-party data.
[Foreign Language]
[Interpreted] We remain confident in the long-term growth prospects of our membership business. In the future, we will continue to drive the long-term healthy growth of our membership business through measures such as improving content quality and diversity, more optimized membership products and services and also better penetrate both user groups that are not fully served for example, the elderly and youth.
[Foreign Language]
[Interpreted] And last but not least, I wanted to remind everyone that for each company, actually, the way we track subscriber number is -- or the disclosure measures are a little bit different also.
Your next question comes from [indiscernible] from CLSA.
[Foreign Language]
[Interpreted] I will translate myself. My question is related to our recently released IT original premium [ miniseries ] to the Wonder which is very well rated on to bank currently with 8.8 score and myself is a big fan of it. So I noticed that this drama series represents very outstanding artistic qualities and is very different from traditional commercial productions. I'm just wondering, what's the investment return look like for this type of similar projects? And is this indicative of the new direction for IQ's future content strategy?
Thank you, Maggie. We'll invite our CCO, Chief Content Officer, Mr. [indiscernible] answer this question.
[Foreign Language]
[Interpreted] To wonder actually has been a very much resounding success. We think it cannot be simply categorized as our drama or commercial drama, rather it also represent a new direction of our innovation and actually fully affirming our belief in emphasizing both content quality and commercial success. Indeed, we received the highest rating on [indiscernible] this year for domestic drama series, scoring as high as 8.8%, and it also represented a Chinese language series internationally for the very first time at the [indiscernible] theories, setting a very good excellent start for ITE's new macrocosm theaters.
[Foreign Language]
[Interpreted] In terms of content and innovation, we adapted the story from a little release pros and spiked up with light [indiscernible] elements. Actually, this brings new energy and rhythm to the drama with -- for a relatively strong [indiscernible] of quality.
[Foreign Language]
[Interpreted] What's more impressive, actually, is that from a commercial perspective, this drama actually achieved profitability through diverse revenue streams proving that the high-quality content yield not only strong social influence but also substantial commercial potential.
[Foreign Language]
[Interpreted] Coming back to our content strategy, we will continue to balance content quality with commercial value, consistently producing high-quality, diverse and commercially valuable content. We aim to solidify our competitive advantage in the drama sector while seeking more breakthroughs in other content dramas.
[Foreign Language]
[Interpreted] Regarding our drama strategy, we will continue to consolidate our advantages in the realistic strong and strengthening our reserve of high-quality ancient [indiscernible] syndromes. We are committed to cultivating high-quality diverse content with the aim of gaining the broadest possible recognition from our audience.
[Foreign Language]
[Interpreted] Our CEO, Mr. Gong just added, actually, content strategies, cost control is very, very important and just namely to the one that actually had a very good cost control. So that's why commercial aspect, it performed very well in this.
Your next question comes from Thomas Chong from Jefferies.
[Foreign Language]
[Interpreted] My question is about online advertising. Can management comment about the advertising outlook in 2024, in particular, performance-based advertising. On the other hand, can management comment about generative AI and our advertising business.
Thank you, Thomas. We will invite our CTO, to answer this question related to Performance Act.
[Foreign Language]
[Interpreted] Performance app has indeed achieved considerable growth in the first quarter. Actually, in the first quarter, the app revenue reached an all-line pipe contributing to over 40% of the total advertising revenue, and we expect to continue to see strong annual revenue growth in Q2 and also throughout this year. And also, we found that the application of generative AI has effectively driven the growth in our performance ad business compared to brand advertising, the impact of generative AI on performance out actually is more significant and still puts tremendous potential to drive future revenue growth for us. And this is actually reflected in a few separate cases.
[Foreign Language]
[Interpreted] Jun Wang actually mentioned the 3 aspects. First, in terms of a material production efficiency, advertisers can use this AI to independently and automatically generate a wide range of image and video app materials, increasing production efficiency and lowering cost for advertisers.
And second, regarding the quality of material production, generative AI helps industries to create high-quality materials that coincide with high-quality video content on our platform, making and making apps more native and resulting in better campaign performance.
And third, an adequate by relying on upgraded model architecture and evolving app placement strategies, we can optimize app performance to make app placements more precise and personalized helping advertisers achieve better results while enhancing the monetization efficiency of user traffic.
[Foreign Language]
[Interpreted] Moving forward, we will continue to leverage generated AI capabilities to help advertisers to track high-quality users, achieved on top running delivery synergy and also reinforce the valuable exposure and enhance the advertising effectiveness. And looking at the performance by industries for Q2, we are optimistic about the development of sectors, including e-commerce, online services, gaming industry and the fast-growing sectors such as for dramas, which we believe will bring more opportunities for performance.
[Foreign Language] [Interpreted] We will invite Mr. [indiscernible] who is the Senior Vice President of Brand app business to add on the performance for the runout.
[Foreign Language]
[Interpreted] Okay. For Q2, Q2 actually is the peak season for brand advertising. And with the enhanced supply of variety shows in the quarter, we anticipate a recovery in brand advertising, both sequentially and annually. And for this full year's outlook, we remain cautiously optimistic attitude towards the brand advertising business for the entire year. And looking at the industry's perspective, we are bullish on the food and beverage, medical services and telecommunications industries. We -- in general, we believe the future growth in brand advertising will still revive on the development of domestic brand advertisers.
[Foreign Language]
[Interpreted] We think the rapid increase in Smart TV penetration rates will bring more opportunities to the advertising -- the brand advertising business, helping advertisers to deeply engage with the highly commercially valuable home scenarios. And currently, actually, we have industry-leading user coverage on the large screen.
Your next question comes from Lincoln Kong from Goldman Sachs.
[Foreign Language] [Interpreted] So my question is pretty straightforward to ask about our future strategy, especially what are the areas the management is focusing on for and there for a longer term.
[Foreign Language]
[Interpreted] our CEO, Mr. Gong is answering this question. So in the short term, actually, we will continue to improve our business operational efficiency to enhance team capabilities and including strengthening the business fundamentals and also for the financial perspective to improve the profits and cash flows.
[Foreign Language]
[Interpreted] So from the mid- to long-term perspective, the very first one is to consistently enhance the quality and diversity and supply of stability of our premium content.
[Foreign Language]
[Interpreted] And second, for generative AI, we will apply more broadly and more deeply and into contemplation and operations to increase our efficiency.
[Foreign Language]
[Interpreted] Third is to utilize all [indiscernible] to fight piracy.
[Foreign Language]
[Interpreted] The fourth one is to improve the quality of our domestic market operations. And in terms of overseas business, we'll invest, I will say carefully and then to properly invest into those markets.
[Foreign Language]
[Interpreted] In terms of future growth, actually beyond our relative [indiscernible] businesses, for example, the membership business and also the advertising business, we will utilize the generative AI and virtual reality these innovative technologies to explain to new business opportunities, such as franchise staff, including also both online and offline.
[Foreign Language]
[Interpreted] And in the future, we will also both better serve to demographics. For example, the elderly and the children by adopting products designed and content production to meet the needs, also to enhance their viewing experiences and very niche content preferences. For example, for elderly [indiscernible] increase their ability to content viewing and also for kids content to provide them safe and reliable content.
There are no further questions at this time. I'll now hand back to management for closing remarks.
Thank you, everyone, for joining the call today. And then if you have any questions, feel free to reach out to the IR team. Thank you.
Thank you. Bye-bye.
Thank you. That does conclude our conference for today. Thank you for participating. You may now disconnect.