Q4 2020 36kr Holdings Inc Earnings Call

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Hello, ladies and gentlemen, thank for standing by for <unk>. So it is ex KR holdings incorporated fourth quarter and fiscal year of 2020 earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are in listen only mode.

Management's prepared remarks, there'll be a question and answer session. Today's conference call is being recorded.

I'll now turn the call over to your host you'll enter the U I our management of the company. Please go ahead your dander.

Thank you very much Hello, everyone and welcome to Thursday, KR holdings fourth quarter, and the physical year 'twenty 'twenty earnings conference call. The company's financial and operational results were released earlier today and have been made available online you can also view the earnings press release.

By visiting the IR section of our website at IR Dot Thursday, Fs KR Dot com.

Participants on today's call will include our co chairman and CEO, Mr. Doug on phone and our acting CFO Mr. Shan Li Mr.

Mr phone well start the call by providing an overview of the company and performance highlights of the cart in Chinese followed by English integration. Mr. Lee will then provide details on the company's financial results before opening the call for your questions before.

Before we continue please note that today's discussion will contain forward looking statements made under the safe Harbor provisions of the U S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

We're looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties as such the company's results.

May be materially different from the views expressed a day holding information regarding these and other risks and uncertainties is included in the company's prospectus and other public filings as filed with the U S. S E C.

The company does not assume any obligation to update any forward looking statements, except as required under applicable law.

Please know that Thursday, Kr's earnings press release, and this conference call include discussions of audited GAAP financial measures as well as unaudited non-GAAP financial measures.

Six KR is press release contains reconciliation of the unaudited non-GAAP measures to the audited GAAP measures.

And please note that all amounts numbers are in RMB.

I will now turn the call over to our co chairman and CEO Mr phone Paul. Please go ahead.

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Going back to our argument.

Before we begin I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to all of our stakeholders for your continued support over the past year.

'twenty 'twenty was an extremely unusual year for the whole world and also for all of our business.

As with many companies, we encountered a borrowing degrees of challenges and nickel.

Gnomic uncertainties stemming from the widespread impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Thanks to proactive responses from other supporters and exceptional employees on zero timely adaptational to changing market dynamics.

At least we have weathered the storm.

Having similar fully overcome this short term obstacles other fundamentals are evolving to be stronger and we are entering 2021 from a position of strength as we return to more normal business activities.

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First of all we are proud to have concluded 2020 with strong traffic momentum in the fourth quarter across all of our core platforms and the major third party platforms.

Thanks to consistent delivery of high quality content and diverse distribution channels. Our total average monthly page views reached a new record high of $632 million for the full year 2020, increasing 48, 1% from the prior year.

And 11, 3% sequentially.

Stellar performance marks our 11th consecutive quarter of PD growth and further validates that our ever growing and engaging P. D C and UDC content.

Are resonating well with our expanding audience.

In addition to upgrading our own platforms to effectively improve the rating and the viewing experience all of our users are very efficient use of a third party traffic platforms, such as the unbelievably simultaneously depends although it doesn't have smoke by driving additional healthy traffic growth.

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Average content creation and production capabilities have gained momentum.

Our UGC production and distribution capabilities as well as other amortization abilities for the 2020 full year, we produced 108000 pieces of content and increase of 16% year over year.

Besides our superior quality content creation and production. We have also strategically created compelling library of insightful user generated content leveraging of her in depth data insights into user demographics, we proactively help institutional.

D C creators determined appropriate topics around which they can create a compelling content in the fourth quarter. Our U D. C offerings accounted for 67% above our total content offerings up from 48% in the prior year period and 68%.

<unk> in the prior quarter the increase indicate that we are well on track to strength in our content platform capabilities.

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Our research expertise and experience the more we are able to extend our services across a wide spectrum of industries.

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Available in a variety of digital forms clearer trends in video how quickly emerge as a top choice with all of our considerable capability in this arena the rapidly growing BDO market presents a huge growth opportunity for us and we significantly increased our engagement.

Across our broad demographic in the fourth quarter average.

Self produced video content has spurred us to become one of the most sought after organization accounts on a leading video per that the platforms such as availability. We are way host more than 600000 followers. In addition to globally. We continue to work with other highly trafficked platforms too.

Enhance other monetization channel.

Our KR finance accounts has more than $3 6 million followers and we are ranked among the top 30 video creators in the finance segment. We have also distribute it monopole trendsetting short form videos on volume each spanning over $10 million play back the high.

<unk> engagement level and the rapid growth. We are hearing on these influential social platforms are excellent barrow meters of our success and successfully activating our growth strategy with Cumulus abating content.

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As the video content continues to be heavily sought after by incubated users companies from virus industries and government, we have father's day paying all of our strategic cooperation with prestigious partners on the content production side, both domestically and overseas and including our strategic share.

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Following last septembers announcement of our strategic collaboration with <unk> in December 2020, we became the exclusive tech media partner for Youku first production of the Tac hawkish.

New year's Eve gala future imagination technology building, our numbers its industry, leading content and resource capabilities. We featured our insights into futuristic technology trends under the impact of debt.

As well as helped screen and identify new economy companies, who showcased innovative products and future technology. Other events going forward, we plan to co produce more high quality content covering a wide spectrum of business topics and explore.

The possibility of multi channel network MCM business.

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This March we entered into a strategic partnership on business centric video content production and new economy focused services with China's major media outlet format with a share dimension to embrace the involving new economy environment across multiple Chinese consumer brands.

Are adopting digital transformation, we kicked off the program production on the sponsorship a.

Promotion for our first joined proprietary program the great Chinese companies as part of the partnership. We also have future plans to work together to discover and retain talented talented content creators.

Business wise content that fosters a vibrant content ecosystem and at this time to explore.

Our monetization opportunities.

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Turning to our monetization efforts in the light of the intricate margin environment. During 2020, we were responsive to seek opportunities to transform upper corner businesses into a more concert political on the scalable model at the same time, we have been actively work.

King on tapping into emerging markets mined in the aftermath of the pandemic by leveraging our premium content and capability and causes consistently optimizing technology and data insights across segments with increased our ability to capture new opportunities.

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In terms of our value added enterprise services.

Segment, we successfully hosted upper highly influential new economy annual summit in Beijing from December 2020, including both offline and online activities otherwise 'twenty 'twenty event with the theme of Rice and return featured a broader spectrum of industry wide.

And the keynote speakers attend.

Attendance at ever offline venues and the live streaming sessions were better than expected.

Over the course of the three day event more than 22000 visitors joined us on site and ever live streaming sessions are attracted 319 million visitors across our core and third party platforms.

Broad reach of these prestigious events not only had a positive impact from Melbourne.

Non hydration, but highlights our ability to continually enhance our brand recognition and to expand our consumer customer base not just domestically, but also abroad as a number of overseas new.

Economy participants access our live broadcasting sessions.

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As normalcy returns to most of the countries offline activities, we remain committed to cultivating diverse learning communities for different industries and sectors by connecting entrepreneurs and executives in the same industry. They can more effectively share and learn best practices to better.

Tackle shared industry challenges.

These initiatives are also designed to help us generate leads for our subscription services. For example, our exclusive seminar on strategy don't quit and the industry interview fibrosis KR hung up with cooking have helped clients in both traditional industries and new economy sector.

<unk> to explore and discover new opportunities in areas, we were not previously familiar with.

While achieving efficient customer acquisition and the building collaborative business connections to access more resources and growth opportunities.

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Given the ubiquitous the formats and the massive margin in China, We began actively exploring commercialization opportunities in video content. This is a natural evolution of average capabilities and in the fourth quarter more than 30% of our service.

Lucian adopted the video formats and have received positive feedback as video content and followers rapidly grow across our core and third party platforms more traditional brands increasingly want to work with us to capitalize on these translating market strategy. For example, we originally.

Sign a contract with one of China's leading direct competition to create a digital our digital marketing plans by our self produced meetings to make kids yogurt products resonate with young consumers as we further expand.

The diversified product and service offerings, including our robust video content, we will continue to explore strategic collaborations with more prestige <unk> Congress.

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This Tuesday, we just announced a strategic cooperation with Chinese State media Cctv's program, the growing up the great brand supported by multiple online and offline activities. We will use our diverse services and a strong resource networks to help a large number of Chinese new economy.

Enterprises to enhance their brands and propel more coordinated business development along your supply chain.

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In terms of subscription services.

Fourth quarter, we launched a new and upgraded version of ever Enterprise Service review website damping Dot Thursdays KR dot com in order to view China's most professional platform for enterprise level application and services selection.

This comprehensive new offering enables.

Potential buyers to view the information GAAP by providing the rankings and feedback for application and services from real user on the platform.

Enterprise service providers can simultaneously upgrade your products to spur a cyclically at Wassa dynamics feedback of users as well as capture potential customer needs and sales leads.

Our goal with this innovative service is to form a V.

Virtual business cycle, driven by powerful content offerings. This is a natural per session and extension of our own enterprise service.

Carol.

Well also potentially helping us involved into a more scalable.

Subscription model with higher customer thickness, we plan to utilize our large scale enterprise now worried community to boost traffic for our new platform.

Moving and Enterprise services Alliance community focus on number of Enterprise services review business.

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To do that here.

Our innovative and creative services getting further attract.

Traction with new government collaborations during the fourth quarter. For example in December 2020, we supported our local municipality to host and air and Aerospace information from eight in Hangzhou, a significant local industry seminar. We also aided local governments in planning.

And developing smart cities concept without a serious of entrepreneurial contest focused on smart city projects across different regions in partnership with local governments, our strategic focus on governmental collaborations not only raises awareness of our brand but also play.

With us as a from a forefront of our compute opportunities in cross regional economic growth within the new economy space.

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In summary this.

The challenging 2020, and the fast evolving market dynamics, we continue to build our.

Build out our core strength at the same time, we demonstrated our ability to swiftly adjusted upper cooperations.

And operations to align with the changing market and reach our sustainable growth goes over the long term with a pandemic largely behind US we will work to strategically.

Product and service offerings.

Hands on networks.

Increase our user base and diversify our growth avenues to strengthen our monetization capabilities.

As the go to content and service platform from China's new economy space, we retained committed to capturing additional opportunities in the growing markets and delivering long term value to our shareholders.

With that I will now turn the call over to our acting CFO, Mr. Shan, Li who will discuss our key financial results. Please go ahead Neil.

Thank you Yolanda, Thank you Paul Hello, everyone.

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The COVID-19 pandemic extended into or force culture pulp high performance.

Over revenue from or a line of the.

The replacement services and subscription services deliver are crucial to our.

Growth.

Which we see.

<unk> also a gradual demand.

However, given the challenging environment and the license they learn we havent been activity of job growth or business operations in order to achieve long lasting deficiencies multiple day or gross margin increased by 400 basis points too.

42 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2020 from the third quarter.

They also realize the full day key operating cash flow for the FERC continuing culture.

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Suddenly falling the resilience.

A DVT or business model.

Internally, we continue to see or to see quarter over quarter improvements or accounts receivable. After we made or prepayment policy adjustment on the Python requirement for the tree sales.

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Now I will go through more detail, all or fourth quarter of 2020 financial results.

Our total revenue were $121 million in the fourth quarter as well for 2020 compared to 300 from history millions in the same period also 2019, although other word pricing services revenue decreased by 54% to 69 million.

In the fourth quarter. It's also 2020 from 150 150 minutes and the thing to at all from 2019. The decrease was mainly caused by the big demand from certain advertiser and the assumption of a trick for variety of policy.

For customer selection.

Surprised about it as your services revenue were $41 million in the fourth quarter of 2020 compared to 140 <unk> hundred 50 Board meeting since I've been here at all from 2019.

Decrease was mainly caused by the inquiries.

Revenue from.

Integrity marketing services.

Our strategy.

Continued decrease includes certain venues.

Subscription services revenue was $11 million in the fourth quarter of 2020 compared to $18 million in the same period off the 2019. The decrease were mainly caused by the decreased revenue from in the vertical subscription of some.

Some of the off line training courses were cancelled due to collectively impact from COVID-19.

Cost of revenue were $71 million in the fourth quarter of 2020, compared with 266 meeting in the same period at all for 2019. The decrease was mainly caused by the decreased revenue gross profit.

51 million in the fourth quarter of 2020 compared to $156 million in the same period of 2019.

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Operating process, where a hunger from two 7 million is in the fourth quarter of 2020 compared to a hunker and <unk> 7 million in the same period of last year.

The decrease was mainly due to the increase in G&A as opposed to in the fourth quarter of 2020.

Sales monkey pause. This work 35 millions of fourth quarter of 2020 compared to 15 million in the same period of the 22019. The decrease was mainly caused by the decrease in payroll related expenses on the share based compensation.

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A J on the aging process for 82 million in the fourth quarter of 'twenty 'twenty compared to $47 million in the same period of 2019.

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The increase was mainly caused by the increase in.

Allow reversal for thoughtful accounts, partially offset by the decrease in the share based compensation proposals.

RMB pause this decreased by 12% to $9 million in the fourth quarter of 2020 compared to 10 million in the same period from 2019. The decrease was mainly caused by the decrease in share based compensation expenses.

Share based compensation expenses recognized in cost of revenue.

Sales marketing RMB passes and the general of NIM, because if youll total.

In total we're line median in the fourth quarter of 2020.

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Well 16 million from equity method the life's moments.

Income of $5 million from government grants.

Compared to others income.

Two men is in the same period.

2019.

Tom types of deposits were $4 million in the fourth quarter of 2020 compared to $20 million in the same period also 2019.

The increase was mainly caused by the increase in the allowance for deferred tax assets net loss was $19 million in the fourth quarter of 2020 compared to income of 32 million in the same period of 2019.

Note that the adjusted net loss was $81 million in the fourth quarter operating expenses compared to income of $58 million in the same period of 2019 net.

Net loss attributable to 36, KR Holdings, Inc. Ordinary shareholders was $91 million in the fourth quarter of 2020 compared to income of 99 million in the same period of 2019 mentioned increase.

Occur accretion.

I'll return within book Bowl.

Non core holdings interest.

Ah Ah creation on the racy violation effect of convertible redeemable preferred share.

Basic and diluted net loss per share was Bob.

Zero point their line in the fourth quarter after 2020 compared to the based on the diluted.

Net loss per share of.

0.1 on the 0.03 in the same period of 2019.

As of December 31, 20.

'twenty 'twenty.

The company had cash and cash equivalent restricted cash and short term investments also.

200, and the $9 million compared to 264 million.

But at.

At the same time in the last year.

To be mindful of the loans off our earnings call for the first full year of 2020 financial result, I really encourage listeners to refer to our earning price release for further details.

This concludes this concludes all of our prepared remarks today, we will now open the call to questions.

Operator, Please go ahead.

Thank you.

Later to ask a question press star one on your telephone to withdraw.

Your question press the pound of cash P. M. Please standby, while we compile the Q&A roster.

Once again for your questions. Please press star one and for the benefit of all participants on today's call. If you wish to ask questions to management in Chinese piece immediately repeat your question in English.

Your question. Please press star one.

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Just wanted to ask I'll add demand by vertical how does it trend in the fourth quarter. Thank you.

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Okay. Thank you for your question Avi.

I think.

Directly on the customer at the mine site over a multinational customers have been affected the most.

Moving to delayed budgets for advertising.

Ever since the Q3 advertising needs from some customers began to recover like what we're seeing in.

Automobile and the three seats at the same time, a quite a few Chinese consumer brands, which are which we actively reached out in the second half of 2020 show their growing demand for our platform.

And another characteristic.

Our new economy customers they show their resilience during and post the COVID-19, and their own businesses kept growing.

And this contributed to the increases in the number of customers and our average customer price in this year, especially when it comes to those TMT Giants and Super Unicorns.

We can share some more color on the industry distribution. The top five are in 2020, our consumer Entertainment Enterprise services free C and E Commerce, Besides where we also saw strong demand growth for our advertising Edward.

<unk> services in the AI and the online education industry, so to sum up a week, we can see that we are.

Chief.

Nearly 36 percentage.

Sequential just to correct the mistake.

And if.

If we see and in the last quarter. We can see this sequential growth have already achieved as 63 per cent present in the Q2 free. So we can see these AR consecutive a recovery from other advertisement segment.

I think this is for your question. Thanks.

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Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Our next question is from the line of.

E of Needham and company. Your line is open. Please go ahead.

This is as.

The whole reason that once your EBIT neutral going to argue that you don't want to ship will make sure that your distributable cash.

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The whole Jay good to go.

Thank you chip.

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Sure Sheila.

Sure Jack Ocean County in the country. The Shinbu some time on our financial income.

The measures we're taking my question. The first question is about <unk>.

When you want.

Luke can management share some.

Insights on the fiscal year, 'twenty, one outlook and where do we see the most potential.

In terms of revenue growth and where are we investing the most the second question is can management share some insights from the shift in revenue mix in the fourth quarter.

Well.

<unk>, so what drove the ships.

Moving to be the new normal going forward. Thank you.

As I sit here at Ensign.

Well, our day Nando Nigel sure Vantiv in almost any sort of balance sheet accounts out anything yet.

So you know you can do that.

Your line.

And <unk>.

Gentlemen.

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Hey, listen.

Thank you so much Vincent for just two questions and I think these two questions are well linked.

For your first question to comment on our outlook for this.

This year I think like a floor for us and for most of the companies in.

In China and globally.

20 must be very challenging year and jobs.

You know from the macroeconomic level and for the fast evolving market dynamics. So we are.

This situation May does two things about our business from a longer perspective and out of.

But also in the short term, we also proactively made multiple adjustments in.

In our operations in a short and.

Medium term, maybe we will remain focused on our video oriented strategy and to explore opportunities in broader address a market for it for ourselves I mean for the private and.

Public markets.

Markets and a second.

You can see.

We are already explained if we're a longer longer term, we will involve all of our business model into a more scalable and a counter political we expected.

Maybe are there, Chris and never enterprise value added services this year, but we believe.

Dreamily important for our longer term development and.

For index.

This year of our advertising sites, we expect that continue recovery.

And this year just like we performed last Q3 end of Q4 and at offline.

Activity restrictions, our total and looked at I believe our offline businesses well continue to restore and be strengthened.

On the investment side, we will keep investing in our technical and data capabilities.

So as to facilitate the evolution and upgrading for forever current enterprise value added services and the upper subscription products as well as to innovate other new products.

So to sum up.

We will see the main driver will still be our enterprise to be asked.

And for the for the second question as you noticed that.

There is a little bit.

Structure changing for forever fourth quarter, but actually all from the from the whole year's scope.

The enterprise V S, where still the top contribution to our total revenue.

Around 50% and a.

Compared to the advertisement accounts for 40, 44.7% as I just shared.

Or is the idea that the.

The structural change brought by the pandemic impact will mainly line a number of enterprise value added services. So we Memphis.

Prudence adjustments and.

Involved and into a more scalable and a contract political model for upper enterprise value added services.

Over the last two quarters in 2020 and.

At the same time, we cut down some low margin.

Marketing business, which is accounted for the most in our and enterprise value added service segment.

And so that's you can see that's why the revenue of the enterprise value added services in Q4 at the price. However, we believe it's also a broth already a higher GP margin and there continues.

Continue the improvement in operating cash flow for us. So are these are for your two questions and I. Thank you for your question Vince.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Our next question is from the line of Shanghai L. A C. ICC. Your line is open. Please go ahead.

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As Paul just mentioned, we successfully hosted our featured Wise 2020 conference.

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This why is 2020 to achieve a record high of online and offline engagement and even though we extend the scale of this conference, but the GP margin for forever.

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Connect is emerging Chinese consumer brands.

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Coming GP LP conference in Hawaii.

Features industry summit will be held in Shenzhen soon in this may and more to see IP well be launching.

In Shanghai, Beijing, and other cities this year as well along with our growing and a broader user base and as I just.

Shared with you also some new offline ip's like <unk>.

Exclusive seminars on strategy a strong way.

And the industry interview by Thursday, KR, Charles we're quoting we're launching in.

Fourth quarter against the backdrop of the integrate our integration of the private and the public market.

So to sum up we are strengthening our ability to serve the free.

Friends and new economy participants.

Better with more offline English Adas.

Thank you thank you Josh and for your questions.

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Thank you.

Due to time constraints that concludes today's question and answer session now I would like to try to call over let's call back over to the company for closing remarks.

So sorry for that for the time limitation. So that's that's where for for US today. Thank you once again for joining US today. If we have further questions. Please feel free to contact us or six KR Investor relations contact information provided on our website or a day.

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Hello, ladies and gentlemen, thank for standing by for <unk>. So it is ex KR holdings incorporated fourth quarter and fiscal year of 2020 earnings conference call. At this time, all sports you said pension listen only mode. After management's prepared remarks there'll be a question and answer session. Today's conference call is being recorded.

I will now turn the call over to your host she landed IR manager of the company. Please go ahead your lender.

Okay.

Thank you very much Hello, everyone and welcome to cirrhosis, KR holdings fourth quarter and the fiscal year 2020 earnings Conference call.

Company's financial and operational results were.

Earlier today and have been made available online you can also view the earnings press release by visiting the IR section of our website at IR Dot Thursdays KR Dot com.

It depends on today's call will include our co chairman and the CEO, Mr. Doug on phone and our acting CFO Mr. Shan Li.

Mr phone well start the call by providing an overview of the company and performance highlights of the car in Chinese followed by English integration. Mr. Lee will then provide details on the company's financial results before opening the call for your questions before.

Before we continue please note that today's discussion will contain forward looking statements made under the safe Harbor provisions of the U S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

We're looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties as such the company's results.

May be materially different from the views expressed today further information regarding these and other risks and uncertainties is included in the company's prospectus and other public filings as filed with the U S. SEC.

The company does not assume any obligation to update any forward looking statements, except as required under applicable law. Please.

Please know that Thursday, KR earnings press release, and this conference call include discussions of unaudited GAAP financial measures as well as unaudited non-GAAP financial measures.

Ex KR <unk> press release contains a reconciliation of the unaudited non-GAAP measures to the unaudited GAAP measures and please note that all amounts numbers are in RMB.

I will now turn the call over to our co chairman and CEO Mr phone Paul. Please go ahead.

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Thank you and Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us today.

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So you are talking about almost exactly four generic contact our argument.

Before we begin I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to all of our stakeholders for your continued support over the past year.

2020 was an extremely unusual year for the whole world and also for our business.

With many companies, we encountered a borrowing degrees of challenges and Nicole.

And Amit uncertainties.

Stemming from the widespread impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Thanks to proactive responses from our suppliers and our exceptional employees.

Zero timely adapt patients who changing market dynamics, we believe we have weathered the storm.

Having similar fully overcome this short term obstacles other phone handhelds are evolving to be stronger.

And we are entering 2021 from a position of strength as we return to more normal business activities.

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First of all we are proud to have concluded 2020 with strong traffic momentum in the fourth quarter across all of our core platforms and the major third party platforms.

Thanks to consistent delivery of high quality content and diverse distribution channels.

Total average monthly page views reached a new record high of $632 million for the full year 2020, increasing 48, 1% from the prior year and 11, 3% sequentially.

This stellar performance marks our 11th consecutive quarter of PV growth and further validates that our ever growing and engaging PVC and UDC content.

Is resonating well with our expanding audience.

In addition to upgrading our own platforms to effectively improve the rating and the viewing experience all of our users of our efficient use of a third party traffic platforms, such as Don on book.

Billy simultaneously Dep has all of our business growth by driving additional healthy traffic growth.

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Average content creation and production capabilities have gained momentum as have our UGC production and distribution capabilities as well as other monetization abilities for the 2020 full year, we produced 108000 pieces of content and increase of 16.

Percentage year over year.

Besides our superior quality content creation and production. We have also strategically created compelling library of insightful user generated content leveraging of her in depth data insights into user demographics, we proactively help institutional.

D C creators they terminal apart weighted topics around which they can create a compelling content in the fourth quarter, our UGC offerings accounted for 67% up over total content offerings up from 48% in the prior year period and 68%.

And in the prior quarter the increase indicate that we are well on track to strength in labor content platform capabilities.

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Our insight for business with search spanning a broader range of companies and industries continues to gain popularity and virus markets. In particular it is widely praised among security market participants Tucson, our information is invaluable.

Bridging our new economy community centric resorts networks, we are spearheading the transformation of timely and in depth analysis of public companies by covering their pre and post IPO see this for instance, we publish exclusive and thoughtful business overviews.

An area of newly listed Chinese companies, such as rack technology and <unk> from <unk>.

Inception to their ipos the deeper we go into our research expertise and experience. The more we are able to extend our services across a wide spectrum of industries.

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The information we cure it is available in a variety of digital forums clearer trends in video how quickly in March as a top choice with our considerable capability in this arena the rapidly growing BDO market presents a huge growth opportunity for us and we significantly.

The increase of our engagement.

Across our broad demographic in the fourth quarter average.

Self produced video content has spurred us to become one of the most sought after organization accounts, a leading video platforms such as scalability, where we hosted more than 600000 followers. In addition to availability we continue to work with other highly traffic platforms too.

Hence other monetization channels, although in our KR finance account has more than $3 6 million followers and we are ranked among the top 30 video creators in the finance segment. We have also distribute it monopole trend setting short form videos on volume each gaining over.

10 million play back the high engagement level and the rapid growth. We are hearing on these influential social platforms are excellent barrow meters of our success and successfully activating our growth strategy with Cumulus abating content.

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As video content continues to be heavily sought after by innovative users companies from virus industries and governments, we have father's day plan, our strategic cooperation with prestigious partners on the content production side, both domestically and overseas and including our strategic share.

Our holders.

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Following last septembers announcement of our strategic collaboration with <unk> in December 2020, we became the exclusive tech media partner for Youku first production of the tax focused.

New year's Eve gala future imagination technology building, our industry, leading content and resource capabilities. We featured our insights into futuristic technology trends under the impact of debt as.

As well as helped screen and identify new economy companies, who showcase their innovative products and future technology ever event going forward, we plan to co produce more high quality content covering a wide spectrum of business topics and explore the possibility.

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This March we entered into a strategic partnership on business centric video content production and new economy focused services with China's major media outlet format with a share dimension to embrace the involving new economy environment across multiple Chinese consumer brands.

Are adopting digital transformation, we kicked off the program production on the sponsorship.

Promotion for our hardest joined proprietary program the great Chinese companies as part of the partnership. We also have future plans to work together to discover and retain talented talented content creators.

Business wise content that fosters a vibrant content ecosystem and at this time to explore.

Our monetization opportunities.

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Turning to our monetization efforts in the light of the intricate margin environment. During 2020, we were responsive to seek opportunities to transform other core businesses into a more contract political on the scalable model at the same time, we have been actively work.

King on tapping into emerging markets mined in the aftermath of the pandemic by leveraging our premium content and capability and the concepts consistently optimizing technology and data insights across segments with increased our ability to capture new opportunities.

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In terms of other value added enterprise services.

Segment, we successfully hosted our highly influential new economy annual summit in Beijing from December 2020, including both offline and online activities, otherwise 2020 event with the theme of rice and return they charge a broader spectrum of industry wide.

And the keynote speakers attend.

Attendance at ever offline venues and the life streaming sessions were better than expected.

Over the course of the three day event more than 22000 visitors joined us on site and ever live streaming sessions attracted 319 million visitors across our core and third party platforms.

Reach of these prestigious events not only had a positive impact from another amortization, but highlights of our ability to continually enhance our brand recognition and expand our consumer customer base.

Not just domestically, but also abroad as a number of overseas.

New economy participants access our live broadcasting sessions.

Suitable in any channel.

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As normalcy returns to most of the countries offline activities, we remain committed to cultivating diverse learning communities for different industries, and capex by connecting entrepreneurs and executives in the same industry became more effectively share and learn best practices to better.

Taco shared industry challenges.

These initiatives are also designed to help us generate leads for our subscription services. For example, our exclusive seminar on strategy don't wait and the industry interview fibrosis KR hung up with cooking have helped clients in both traditional industries and new economy sector.

<unk> to explore and discover new opportunities in areas, we were not previously familiar with.

While achieving efficient customer acquisition and the building collaborative business connections to access more resources and growth opportunities.

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Given the ubiquitous the format and the massive margin in China, We began actively exploring commercialization opportunities in video content. This is a natural.

Evolution of average capabilities and in the fourth quarter more than 30% of our service solutions adopted a BDO formats and have received positive feedback as video content and followers rapidly grow across our core and third party platforms more traditional brands increasingly want to work with us to.

Capitalize on these translating market strategy. For example, we originally signed a contract with one of China's leading direct competition to create a digital our digital marketing plans by our self produced meetings to make kids yogurt product RASM.

With young consumers as we further expand and diversify our product and the service offerings, including our robust video content, we will continue to explore strategic collaborations with more prestigious partners.

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This Tuesday, we just on non strategic cooperation with Chinese State media Cctv's program, the growing of the great brand supported by multiple online and offline activities. We will use our diverse services and a strong resource networks to help a large number of Chinese new economy.

Enterprises to enhance their brands and propel more coordinated business development along your supply chain.

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In terms of subscription services in the fourth quarter, we launched a new and upgraded version above or Enterprise service review website.

<unk> Dot Thursday, KR dot com in order to view China's most professional platform for enterprise level application and services selection this comprehensive new offering.

They both are potential.

Potential buyers to few of the information GAAP by providing the rank loans and feedback for application and services from real user on the platform.

Enterprise service providers can simultaneously upgrading our products to spur a cyclically address the dynamics feedback of users as well as capture potential customer needs and sales lease.

So with this innovative service is to form a virtuous business cycle driven by powerful content offerings. This is a natural per session and extension of our own enterprise service.

Carol will also potentially helping us involved into a more scalable.

Subscription model with higher customer thickness, we plan to utilize our large scale enterprise now worried community to boost traffic for our new platform.

Building and Enterprise services Alliance community focus on number of Enterprise services review business.

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Our innovative and creative services getting further attract the traction with new government collaborations during the fourth quarter. For example in December 2020, we supported our local municipality to host and air and Aerospace information from eight in Hangzhou a.

<unk> local industry seminar, we also aided local governments in planning and developing smart cities concept without a serious of entrepreneurial contest focused on smart city projects across different regions in partnership with local governments, our strategic focus on government.

It'll collaborations not only raises awareness of our brand, but also places us as a from a forefront of or compute opportunities in cross regional economic growth within the new economy space.

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In summary.

The challenging 2020, and the fast evolving market dynamics, we continue to build.

The build out of our core strength at the same time, we demonstrated our ability to swiftly adjusted other cooperations.

And operations to align with the changing market and reach our sustainable growth goes over the long term with the pandemic largely behind US we will work to strategically.

Product and service offerings hands on networks.

The increase of our user base and diversify our growth avenues to strengthen our monetization capabilities.

Go to content and service platform from China's new economy space, we retained committed to capturing additional opportunities in the growing markets and delivering long term value to our shareholders.

With that I will now turn the call over to our acting CFO, Mr. Shan, Li who will discuss our key financial results. Please go ahead.

Thank you Yolanda, Thank you Hello, everyone.

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Or total revenue were $121 million in the fourth quarter as well for 2020 compared to 300 from history millions in the same period of 2019.

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Income types of deposits were $4 million in the fourth quarter of 2020 compared to $20 million in the same period of 2019. The increase was mainly caused by the increase in the allowance for deferred tax assets net loss was 19 million.

In the fourth quarter of 2020 compared to income of 32 million in the same period of 2019.

Note that the adjusted net loss was $81 million in the fourth quarter of 2020 compared to an income of 68 million in the same period of 2019.

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Compared to income of $99 million in the same period of 2019 mentioned increase.

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$209 million compared to 264 million also at.

At the same time in the last year.

To be mindful of the loans off our earnings call for the first full year of 2020 financial result, I really encourage listeners to refer to our earning price release for further details.

This concludes this concludes all of our prepared remarks today, we will now open the call to questions.

Operator, Please go ahead.

Thank you as a reminder to ask a question you May press star one on your telephone to withdraw.

Your question press, the pound or cash P and please standby, while we compile the Q&A roster.

Once again for your questions. Please press star one.

For the benefit of all participants on today's call. If you wish to ask questions to management in Chinese piece immediately repeat your question in English.

Your question. Please press star one.

Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Our first question comes from the line of.

I D G of credit Suisse.

Please go ahead.

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And myself so good evening management. Thanks for taking my question I just have to have a pick one.

Just wanted to ask I'll add demand by vertical how does it trend in the fourth quarter. Thank you.

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Okay. Thank you for your question Avi.

I think.

Directly on the customer at the mine site over a multinational.

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However, since Q3 advertising needs from some customers began to recover like what's worth being in.

Automobile and three seats at the same time, a quite a few of the Chinese consumer brands, which are which we actively reached out in the second half of 2020 show their growing demand for our platform.

Another characteristic.

Our new economy customers. They showed their resilience during and post the COVID-19, and their own businesses kept growing.

And does this contributed to the increases in the number of customers and our average customer price in this year, especially when it comes to those TMT Giants and Super Unicorns.

We can share some more color on the industry distribution. The top five are in 2020, our consumer Entertainment Enterprise services <unk> and E Commerce, Besides where we also saw strong demand growth for our advertising Edward.

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If we see and in the last quarter. We can see this sequential growth have already achieved as 63% present in the Q2 are free. So we can see these AR consecutive recovery from Evercore.

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Okay.

Thank you.

Our next question is from the line of Vincent Yu of Needham and company. Your line is open. Please go ahead.

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Hopefully 'twenty one outlook.

Outlook can management share some.

A few things on the fiscal.

Fiscal year, 'twenty, one outlook and where do we see the most potential.

In terms of revenue growth and where are we investing the most the second question is can management share some insights on the share.

Mix in first quarter.

It was pretty drastic so what drove the ships and.

Is this going to be the new normal going forward. Thank you.

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So you can book.

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To your original guidance.

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Oh. Thank you so much Vincent for just two questions and I think these two questions are well linked so for your first question to comment on our outlook for.

This year I think.

Like a floor for us and for most of the companies.

In China, and globally, Twenty-twenty must be very challenging year and jobs.

You know from the macroeconomic level and for the fast evolving market dynamics. So we are this situation made us to think about all of our business from a longer perspective and.

But also in the short term we are.

Also proactively made multiple adjustments in.

In our operations.

In the short end.

Medium term, maybe we will remain focused on our video oriented strategy and to explore opportunities in broader address a market for it for ourselves I mean for the private and.

Public.

Markets and a second.

You can see we are.

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And both of our business model into a more scalable and counter political.

Expected.

Maybe a day or Chris a never enterprise value added services. This year, but we believe it's extremely important for our longer term developments.

For in this year of our advertising site, we expect that continue recovery.

In this year, just like we per box.

<unk> Q3 end of Q4 and.

And at the offline.

Activity restrictions, our total unloved assets I believe our offline businesses, well continue to restore and b strengths and.

On the investment side, we will keep investing in our technical and data capabilities.

As so as to facilitate the evolution and upgrading for forever current enterprise value added services and the upper subscription products.

As well as to innovate other new products.

So to sum up we will see the main driver will still be our.

As a b S.

And for the for the second question as you noticed that.

There is a little bit strong.

Structure changing for forever, a fourth quarter, but it's actually off from the from the whole year's scope.

The enterprise V S, where still the top contribution to our total revenue.

Around 50% and.

Compared to the advertisement accounts for 40 44.7.

7%.

As I just shared a share.

The idea that the structural change brought by the pandemic impacts will mainly line a number enterprise value added services. So we made this.

Prudence adjustments and.

Involved and into a more scalable and a counter political model for upper enterprise value added services.

Over the last two quarters in 2020 and.

At the same time, we cut down some low margin operating and marketing business, which is accounted for the most of any number.

And enterprise value added service segments.

So that's you can see that's why the revenue of the enterprise value added services in Q4. The price. However, we believe it's also abroad already a higher GP margin and their continued income and continue the improvement in.

<unk>.

Cash flow for us so.

These are for your two questions and thank you for your question Vince.

Yes.

You bet. Thank you.

Thank you.

Our next question is from the line of share and Youll see ICC. Your line is open. Please go ahead.

Okay.

However, you should know we're adding in tissue from kind of value, we need to be going into Eaton today, because you've got well don't catch all leading me I got line.

A woman she for you was on that.

Like how long you think you will triple from Eagle Ford switching.

Now I will make some young debt logging in children kitchen, and I will translate for myself in plenty of time for you to put that makes it have an impact on the overall wrote off line activities and how is the progress of off line Enterprise service recovery and how to look forward into 2021 thank you.

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There's a little bit larger accounts.

And I'm curious is your mailbox how'd, you're finding a whole day okay.

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Good day.

Do you see from cohorts, you're going to continue.

With us in terms of intangible from the highest.

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Oh, Thank you for your question, Joe Shan and.

As a as we mentioned earlier it just started from a late August of 2020, we started to we started to hold off line events.

In Shanghai.

As soon as the domestic wages.

Dressed risk free.

Share where it left us in initial elicited and this event were highly praised and again in December early December in Beijing.

As Paul just mentioned, we successfully hosted our featured Wise 2020 conference.

<unk>, which is also highly praised by industry.

And all kinds of new economy participants.

Yes.

Extended agenda, setting and gas invitation for this weis and efforts. These efforts are facilitated.

This whilst 2020 to achieve.

Hi of online and offline engagement and even though we extend the scale of this conference, but the GP margin for forever.

Wherever offline events.

Do you retain the high level.

So that's you can see that we do.

Retain this ability to hold this off line events and the falling the popularity of the wife's conference we hosted another off line events.

In Shanghai.

Forever to see IP amazement series and this event focused more on like youth culture, and the connect is emerging Chinese consumer brands.

Potential consumers.

And sorry for this year.

No new I'll break.

We believe.

There will be a strong recovery as well.

Over a white series.

<unk> expense will be expanded across a wider range of industries and regions. For example, the coming GP LP Conference Nty's features industry summit will be held in Shenzhen. Soon in this may and more to see IP will be launched.

And in.

In Shanghai, Beijing, and other cities this year as well along with our growing and browser user base and as I just.

Shared with you also some new offline ip's like exclusive seminars on strategy, often wait and industry interview by Thursday, KR chose if we're quoting we're launching in.

Fourth quarter against the backdrop of the integrate our integration of the private and the public market.

So to sum up we are strengthening our ability to serve our friends in new economy participants.

Better with more offline English Adas.

Thank you thank you Josh and for your questions.

Oh shit.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Due to time constraints that concludes today's question and answer session now I would like to turn the call over call back over to the company for closing remarks.

So sorry for any further time limitations. So that's it for free for US today. Thank you once again for joining US today. If you have further questions. Please feel free to contact us or six KR Investor relations contact information provided on our website or.

Yes and growth Investor Relations.

Yes.

Yes.

Thank you all this country.

Thank you.

Concludes this conference call you May now disconnect. Your line. Thank you.

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