快手 (01024.HK) 2025年第三季度业绩电话会
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In Q3 of 2025, Kuaishou achieved a revenue of 35.6 billion yuan and adjusted net profit of 5 billion yuan, with a significant year-on-year growth. AI technology plays a crucial role in video generation, e-commerce marketing, and live stream optimization, enhancing efficiency and user experience. The company is deepening its comprehensive management system, optimizing content ecology, and driving a 15.2% increase in GMV for e-commerce business. In the future, Kuaishou will continue to increase investment in AI, explore more application scenarios, consolidate its competitive advantages, and promote long-term growth.
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The meeting announced the performance for the third quarter of 2025, reminded of the risks of forward-looking statements, emphasized that the Chinese original statements prevail, and management shared performance and future plans in both Chinese and English.
In the third quarter of 2025, Kuaishou achieved a revenue of 35.6 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 14.2%, with an adjusted net profit of 5 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 26.3%. The AI strategy drove business innovation, with daily active users reaching 416 million, hitting a new high for three consecutive quarters. AI technology has unlocked value in both content and commercial ecosystems, with core business revenue increasing by 19.2% year-on-year.
In the third quarter of 2025, with the help of AI big model technology, online marketing service revenue reached 201 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 14%. Both external circulation and internal circulation marketing service revenues achieved rapid growth. Through measures such as intelligent delivery and AIGC commercialization tools, user growth, content operation, and e-commerce marketing services were optimized. At the same time, the life service industry and short drama content consumption industry have become the main drivers of growth.
In the third quarter of Kuaishou e-commerce, GIV grew by 15.2% year-on-year, reaching 385 billion yuan. Through diversified policies, comprehensive traffic support, and other measures, the platform promotes businesses and influencers to build a high-quality ecological system, enhance user experience and user stickiness. The platform actively expands the breadth of merchant shipping, optimizes the supply ecosystem, and leverages AI technology to empower the full chain of content production, optimize merchant efficiency, and improve product matching efficiency, driving the continuous and healthy development of the e-commerce ecosystem.
In the third quarter of 2025, the live streaming business achieved a year-on-year revenue growth of 2.5% to 9.6 billion yuan through content innovation, technological application, and offline activities. The overseas business focuses on high-quality growth, with stable daily active users in the Brazilian market and healthy growth in e-commerce GMV. Looking to the future, the company will increase investment in AI strategy to drive product and organizational upgrades.
In the third quarter of 2025, the company's total revenue increased by 14.2% year-on-year to 35.6 billion yuan, with core business revenue increasing by 19.2%. Thanks to the upgrade of AI technology and the increase in e-commerce GMV, online marketing services and e-commerce revenue have significantly increased. Live streaming business remained steady, with a revenue growth of 2.5%. Cost control was effective, and the gross profit margin increased to 54.7%. Operating profit and adjusted net profit saw a substantial increase, reaching 5.3 billion yuan and 5 billion yuan respectively. The company continues to buy back shares and announced a special dividend, demonstrating financial stability and long-term growth confidence. In the future, the company will deepen its AI strategy and explore diverse growth channels.
The conversation revolves around the market competitiveness and technological development direction of video generating AI, emphasizing the innovation space for products and technologies, as well as the application potential for professional creators and consumer markets. It discusses the complexity and openness of video generating AI, and how industry progress can be driven through technological breakthroughs and ecosystem construction. At the same time, it looks ahead to the commercial trend of video generating AI combined with social interaction, expressing confidence in the landing of consumer applications.
The conversation revolves around the application of AI technology in content and business ecosystems, emphasizing 2025 as a pivotal year for the deep application of AI. It discusses how AI technology can accelerate its implementation by building a technology and application system centered around user needs, thereby improving the efficiency of content and business ecosystems, as well as infrastructure development within organizations.
Kuaishou has achieved comprehensive empowerment in content understanding, generation, recommendation and other aspects through AI technology, enhancing user usage time and content diversity, and significantly increasing AIGC content volume. At the same time, AI has also played an important role in internal organization infrastructure and customer service, improving efficiency and quality. From AI technology innovation to application landing, Kuaishou has formed a virtuous cycle, enhancing market adaptability and growth potential.
The conversation discussed that the revenue of online marketing services in this quarter increased by 14% compared to the same period last year, especially with domestic revenue growing by over 16%. The growth was driven by an increase in exposure of marketing materials and CPM, benefiting from the application of high-quality native content and AI technology. The performance of the lifestyle services and content consumption industries was outstanding, and by optimizing product and service links, as well as deeply empowering with AI technology, user reach efficiency and conversion rates have been improved.
Continuously iterate e-commerce marketing services, optimize delivery through intelligent pricing and AIGC tools, and increase conversion efficiency. Upgrade UX tools, live digital human products, etc., to reduce marketing barriers and enhance customer conversion. In the future, we will deepen the application of AI technology to help efficient marketing.
During the Double 11 period, Kuaishou E-commerce performed outstandingly in industries such as jewelry, health, and clothing, investing a large amount of platform traffic incentives to drive a year-on-year increase in the number of businesses with GMV exceeding tens of millions. Implementation of tiered support policies to promote ecological prosperity. Looking ahead to the next 1-2 years, live streaming e-commerce will become a key driver of growth, with the platform continuing to focus on core products, launch series of projects, and improve user shopping experience. It is expected that GMV from search will continue to grow.
The conversation discussed key driving factors for the growth of e-commerce business, including increasing user purchase frequency and deepening user trust in the platform. Through measures such as optimizing product supply, strengthening content creation, and building a healthy ecosystem, the goal is to achieve steady growth in ARPPU and improve the health of the e-commerce monthly buyer structure. At the same time, it encourages businesses to operate across different scenarios to enhance the resilience and certainty of the e-commerce ecosystem.
The conversation revolved around the impact of AI technology development by 2025 on capital expenditure (capex) and profit margin, discussing the increase in investment by Kuaishou in the field of AI, including upgrading computing power and deepening technology, and the positive impact of these investments on profitability. Despite the increase in AI-related expenses, the company is confident in achieving year-on-year growth in adjusted net profit margin through technology empowerment and efficiency improvement, continuously enhancing overall profitability. In the next two years, Kuaishou plans to continue expanding its profit scale, steadily improving profitability, and timely disclosing progress.
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Q:In today's meeting, the management will discuss non-International Financial Reporting Standards financial indicators and please explain the definition of these indicators and their reconciliation with international financial performance standards, as well as related risk factors. Hello everyone, welcome to the Kwai 2025 third quarter performance communication meeting. Could you please first share the main highlights of the overall company performance at this meeting?
A:In today's conference call, management will discuss certain non-international accounting standard financial metrics as supplementary considerations to the company's financial performance indicators. For specific definitions of non-international accounting standard financial metrics and their reconciliation with international accounting standard financial performance, please refer to the information provided in the company's third quarter 2025 performance announcement. Please note that while the meeting will provide such non-international accounting standard financial metrics, they cannot replace the company's financial performance indicators prepared in accordance with international accounting standards.
Hello everyone, welcome to the Keach 2025 third quarter performance communication meeting. This quarter, we have achieved high-quality operational and financial performance by implementing our AI strategy, enabling value in various business scenarios, and enhancing organizational infrastructure performance. Specifically, Keach's average daily active users exceeded 416 million, reaching a historical high; total revenue increased by 14.2% year-on-year to 35.6 billion RMB, with core business revenue growing by 19.2% year-on-year. In addition, adjusted net profit reached 5 billion RMB, a 26.3% year-on-year increase, with an adjusted net profit margin of 14%.
Q:Could you please provide a detailed introduction on the progress and achievements of the company in terms of investment in AI strategy?
A:While steadfastly advancing our AI strategy, we have achieved a year-on-year increase in the overall profitability of the group. Especially in terms of empowering the content ecosystem and commercial ecosystem of Kwai with AI technology, significant progress has been made. For example, in the field of KeLian AI, we continuously improve the quality of technology models, develop innovative features, and create a one-stop creative productivity platform to help creators produce high-quality content through AI. Specific achievements include the launch of flexible animation canvas, upgraded tail light function, the launch of digital human solutions, and the debut of the Ke02.5 model at the end of September, which achieved a substantial improvement in multiple dimensions and topped the global video and image rankings of well-known AI evaluation agencies. The application of the new model has reduced the cost of generating a single video for creators by nearly 30%, significantly enhancing overall cost-effectiveness.
Q:How is big AI model technology applied in various major business scenarios of Kwai, and what achievements have been made?
A:The AI Big Model technology has been fully integrated into various key business scenarios of Kuaishou, unleashing value increments. For example, in the online marketing business, we have upgraded the end-to-end generative recommendation Big Model VINRAC and extended this technology to online marketing business and e-commerce storefront recommendation scenarios, effectively enhancing the bidding capabilities and ROI of online marketing clients. At the same time, by exploring end-to-end generative recommendation technology in the online marketing business, we have achieved bidirectional matching of user interests and marketing demands, improving the personalization and matching efficiency of online marketing material recommendations. The application of AI Big Model technology has also led to an increase of approximately 4%-5% in domestic online marketing service revenue, as well as a reduction in online marketing material generation costs and the opening up of new business scenarios in e-commerce live streaming. In addition, in the e-commerce business scenario, the launch of the end-to-end generative retrieval architecture "one search" has optimized product matching and user experience, driving an increase of nearly 5% in mall search orders. In the live streaming business scenario, the AI All-Encompassing Gift customization feature utilizes AI capabilities to generate personalized and novel effects, stimulating user interaction intentions.
Q:In the third quarter, which aspects of the content consumption industry played a major role in driving the company's external marketing services revenue growth? How does the company promote the growth of the short drama content consumption industry through what innovative forms and strategies?
A:In the third quarter, aside from the life service industry, the content consumption industry represented by short dramas was the main driving force for the company's continuous growth in external marketing service revenue. The company continues to optimize the supply of content and product innovation for short dramas, mini-games, and novels, and seizes the incremental space brought by the explosion of comics and dramas. By using AI's globally leading video generation capabilities, the company has lowered the cost threshold for comic and drama content, while also achieving multiple value transformations for high-quality short drama content through revenue sharing, IP, and content mix models.
Q:How was the specific performance of Kuaishou's e-commerce business in the third quarter of 2025? What achievements did Kuaishou make in combining AI and e-commerce business?
A:In the third quarter of 2025, the GMV of Kuaishou's e-commerce business increased by 15.2% year-on-year to RMB 385 billion. The company has implemented measures such as diversified preferential policies, comprehensive traffic support, and empowerment of intelligent tools to help merchants build a comprehensive operating ecosystem, enhance user experience, and promote high-quality development of supply and demand. Kuaishou empowers the entire chain of e-commerce business in the third quarter around the content production of the AI system, improving efficiency for merchants, and matching efficiency of goods, including the application of technologies such as AI generation and optimization of materials, intelligent slicing, and AI intelligent explanation in live streaming rooms, significantly improving conversion efficiency and user interactivity.
Q:What measures did Kuaishou e-commerce take in the third quarter to attract more merchants to settle in and increase merchant activity?
A:During the third quarter, Kuaishou e-commerce leveraged platform traffic and content commerce advantages to attract merchants to naturally settle in, reducing the cost and threshold for merchant entry; launched new commercial growth task policies and targeted investments in high-quality existing merchants, leading to continuous growth in the number of monthly active merchants; simultaneously expanded the width of merchant freight and optimized merchant operating efficiency.
Q:How does Kwai help businesses and influencers build a dual engine of content and product selection?
A:Kuaishou launched the "Heavenly Bao Increase in Fans" product to activate the private domain value of merchants and influencers, bridging the entire chain from exposure to conversion. In addition, by strengthening the platform's control over products, launching the official popular product plan for influencers, and combining merchant-influencer matching, niche influencer development, and platform subsidy policies, Kuaishou aims to enhance influencer coverage and brand rapid growth.
Q:What are the performance and driving factors behind the live streaming business in the third quarter of 2025?
A:In the third quarter of 2025, the revenue from live streaming business increased by 2.5% year-on-year to 9.6 billion RMB. Thanks to the synergy of high-quality content supply, expanding live streaming scenarios, and AI product innovation, as well as focusing on high-quality content creation, enriching live interaction with AIGC technology, it has promoted the stable development of the live streaming business.
Q:How is the development situation of overseas markets in the third quarter of 2025?
A:In the third quarter of 2025, the company continues to deepen its presence in overseas markets by optimizing customer acquisition efficiency, strengthening the ecosystem for creators, expanding core content categories, and enhancing user experience. Particularly in the Brazilian market, the company has achieved stable user growth and daily active users, while both online marketing and e-commerce businesses maintain healthy growth.
Q:How is the overall financial situation and operating performance of Kwai in the third quarter of 2025?
A:In the third quarter of 2025, total revenue increased by 14.2% year-on-year to 35.6 billion yuan, and core business revenue increased by 19.2% year-on-year. Operating profit reached 5.3 billion yuan, an increase of 69.9% year-on-year, and adjusted net profit reached 5 billion yuan, an increase of 26.3% year-on-year. Revenue growth mainly came from the growth of online marketing services, live streaming business, e-commerce business, and other service revenue. At the same time, sales costs, gross profit, and various expenses also changed correspondingly, reflecting the improvement of the company's operational efficiency and the stable development of various businesses.
Q:Can you tell us more about the progress that has been made in the areas of cost reduction and efficiency improvement in the content ecosystem and a series of internal aspects with AI large models.
A:Thank you for your question. The year 2025 is widely seen as a crucial year for the deep application of AI. In this year, AI technologies, represented by multi-modal generation agents, continue to explore richer, more efficient, and more user-friendly application forms. AI technologies are moving towards a systematic realization of industrial value. In such a context, we are gradually building a complete technical and application system based on user needs, anchored in existing business scenarios, and accelerating the implementation of AI to empower content ecosystems, business ecosystems, and internal organizational infrastructure.
Q:What innovations does the product level of Kuai Shou have to promote the growth of online marketing consumption?
A:At the product level, Kuaishou has upgraded its UX AIGC marketing material generation tool, live digital influencers, and digital employees, aiming to lower the marketing threshold for customers, optimize customer conversion, and further drive growth in online marketing consumption. Specifically, the UX fully automated advertising delivery product has added a stable delivery function, which can automatically bid, control, and produce creative content based on customer needs within the delivery period, thereby improving the stability of the delivery period and making the online marketing customer's delivery more stable and continuous. In addition, Kuaishou's AIGC marketing material generation tool supports customers in quickly and cost-effectively producing short video materials in batches, with a conversion efficiency 10% to 20% higher than the industry average. Kuaishou's live digital influencer solution allows customers to start broadcasting 24 hours a day without the need for a host or live broadcast venue, while digital employees have achieved or exceeded the conversation quality of human customer service in messaging and commenting scenarios, effectively improving customer conversion efficiency.
Q:From the performance of the external circulation industry, which industries have achieved significant growth? How does Kuaishou help these industries?
A:From the performance of the external loop industry, the life service industry with operating clues as the main goal, and the content consumption industry represented by short dramas and small games, are the industries with relatively bright growth in this quarter. Kuaishou upgraded its products in the life service industry and optimized the conversion chain after segmenting vertical categories, helping clients reach users more efficiently and improve user conversion. At the same time, targeting the characteristics of the life service industry with mainly small and medium-sized customers, Kuaishou accelerated the product development of AI customer service UX fully automatic deployment AIGC marketing material generation tools to meet its continuous growth demand in the short drama field of the content consumption industry. In addition, the deep empowerment of AI technology has brought rapid development opportunities to the comic industry, and Kuaishou actively seizes this trend, and participates in upstream content production through AI technology.
Q:What innovative measures has Kuaishou taken in the field of internal circulation e-commerce marketing services?
A:In the field of internal circulation e-commerce marketing services, Kuaishou continues to iterate on its site-wide promotion products, helping e-commerce merchants to gain more incremental exposure and conversion opportunities. At the same time, Kuaishou has also launched an intelligent price adjustment agent, generating ten models to achieve stable pricing adjustments around the clock, and effectively exploring user interests to drive merchants' marketing budget allocation. Additionally, Kuaishou has strengthened its understanding of capturing users in all areas, effectively increasing the scale of converting users and constructing screens, better meeting users' e-commerce consumption experience on the Kuaishou platform.
Q:Did the company launch fixed-term AUAX placement solutions with new features in the third quarter? How was the usage of AUAX placement solutions in the third quarter? What new marketing tools did the company offer?
A:Yes, in the third quarter, we introduced fixed-term AUAX placement solutions, adding a stable placement feature. This new feature allows customers to set marketing materials and pricing requirements for specific ad placements, while the system automatically handles intelligent infrastructure, dynamic adjustments, fine tuning, and intelligent creative content generation. This enhances stability during the adaptation period, helping our online marketing clients achieve more stable and consistent advertising effects at a more predictable cost. In the third quarter, UAX placement solutions accounted for over 70% of external marketing expenses. We introduced AI-driven marketing material generation tools that can quickly generate short video content at a lower cost and higher efficiency, with material conversion rates 10 to 20 percentage points higher than industry averages. Additionally, our real-time digital human solutions allow customers to run 24/7 live streams without the need for strangers or specific locations. Our virtual employees provide service levels equivalent to humans in terms of conversation accuracy, efficiency, and safety, and can naturally interact across private messaging and commenting scenarios, thereby improving conversion efficiency.
Q:How do you view the main incremental driving factors of Kwai's e-commerce and the future growth space of live-streaming e-commerce in the upcoming 1-2 years? What is the company's view on Double Eleven activities, and what are the main incremental driving factors of Kwai's e-commerce in the next 1-2 years? In particular, how do you view the future growth space of live-streaming e-commerce?
A:During this year's Double 11 period, we invested 18 billion in platform traffic incentives, combined with user red envelopes and 1 billion in product subsidies, effectively helping businesses improve transaction conversions and buyer activity. Among them, the number of businesses with sales exceeding tens of millions achieved double-digit growth compared to last year. We have formulated differentiated profit-sharing policies for different types and sizes of businesses, aiming to promote the prosperity of the online business ecosystem and inspire businesses to achieve better equity growth. Although consumer spending this year has shown some resilience in the service industry, overall user consumption remains cautious and rational. During the Double 11 period, we achieved expected results, especially in the jewelry, health, clothing (including men's wear, sports and women's wear for children), and fresh food industries.
Q:What are the key factors driving the growth of future e-commerce business that the company will focus on? Where does the future development potential of live streaming e-commerce lie?
A:In the future, we will focus on increasing the frequency of user purchases, followed by reducing the threshold for user purchases to increase the user base. Specific measures include strengthening the operation of high-quality categories and exploring new user demands to deepen user trust in the platform and drive steady growth in ARPPU. In addition, there is still significant room for growth in the number of monthly e-commerce buyers, but we prefer to see this as a long-term development result rather than a short-term process indicator. In the short term, we will pay more attention to the health of the structure of monthly e-commerce buyers.
Q:What is your view on the growth potential of live streaming e-commerce?
A:As a content platform, live-streaming e-commerce and trusted e-commerce have always been the basic foundation and core operating areas of Kuaishou E-commerce. We firmly believe that live-streaming e-commerce has significant conversion advantages, which are expected to continue to drive the penetration rate of the online retail market and have considerable growth potential in the future. The key to further growth of live-streaming e-commerce lies in building a healthy ecosystem for merchants to operate in the long term, while private domain fan precipitation is an important moat for long-term operation due to its high stickiness and high repurchase rate. To this end, we help merchants with various measures to establish public and private domain linkage, obtain traffic in the public domain, deposit and convert fans in the private domain, but the most fundamental work is still to create good content and provide quality products. We will continue to introduce merchants and influencers, expand quality supply, simultaneously broaden the width of merchant products, and focus on strengthening long-term collaborative development with merchants and influencers, providing rich goods and traffic support through channels such as distribution libraries. Furthermore, the platform will also provide an intelligent operation product matrix, empowering merchants with AI technology to improve operational efficiency. A quality business ecosystem will motivate continuous creation of good content.

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