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Earnings Call: H1 2023

Aug 18, 2023

Good morning and good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the Maoyan Entertainment 2023 Interim Results Conference Call. A copy of the earnings announcement can be found and downloaded from the company's investor relations website at ir.maoyan.com. At this time, all lines are being placed on listen-only mode, and the floor will be open for questions following today's presentation. I'd now like to hand the conference over to IR Senior Manager for Maoyan Entertainment, Michelle Yu. Please go ahead, ma'am. Thank you, operator. Good morning. It's my pleasure to welcome everybody to Maoyan Entertainment's first half 2023 earnings call. Joining me for today's call are Mr. Peter Zheng, our Chief Executive Officer; Mr. Li Liang, Financial Director; and Ms. Xia Zheng, Vice President. The presentation will be conducted in English, and the question-and-answer session will be conducted in Chinese. Before we begin, I would like to remind you that the management comments during the call will include forward-looking statements based on our current expectations, which are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties and may not be realized in the future for various reasons. Furthermore, information about general market conditions comes from a variety of sources outside of the company. This presentation also contains some unaudited, non-IFRS financial measures that should be considered in addition to, but not as a substitute for, measures of the company's financial performance prepared in accordance with IFRS. Please do take a minute to read the risk factors and the non-IFRS measures discussion in our first half 2023 earnings release. And with that, let me now turn the call over to Peter to get started. Thank you, Michelle. Welcome everyone. During the first half of 2023, the entertainment industry got back on track, benefiting from the domestic consumption recovery and the strong policy support from the government. According to the China Film Bureau, the box office of Chinese movie market increased by 53% year-over-year to RMB26.3 billion. The national live performance market also experienced robust growth. According to the 2023 first half national live performance briefing, the total box office of national commercial live performance soared by 673% year-over-year, with audience numbers increased by 10 times. Alongside the industry recovery, we captured growth opportunity and achieved impressive results that outpaced the market. During the reporting period, we further optimized our record and hit new record highs in both our top line and bottom line. We also achieved significant operating and financial breakthrough in our entertainment content service, and our promotion and distribution service maintained its market-leading position. Looking first at our entertainment content service. In the first half of 2023, we enhanced our market competitiveness by further strengthening our movie promotion distribution capability. Coupled with exceptional movie selection capability and efficient execution, our entertainment content service delivered outstanding results. During the reporting period, we were involved in 24 domestic movies, a new high compared to the first six-month period in previous years. Those movies contribute more than 60% of overall domestic movie total box office in the period and occupied nine out of the top 10 spots on the domestic movie chart. We also recorded a historic high in terms of the market share and top movie coverage. Moving to the promotion and distribution service. During the period, we promoted and distributed 23 domestic movies, representing about 80% of the total domestic box office. Among them, we distributed 13 movies, an all-time high for the first half year. Many of the movies topped various box office charts. A standing out result was "Full River Red," 满江红. The movie topped the Spring Festival season and took in RMB4.5 billion at the box office. The figure makes it the sixth highest-ranking movie box office in China movie history. Another one of our leading distributed movie, "Godspeed," 人生路不熟, championed the Labor Day holiday and exceeded RMB1.18 billion at the box office. Those results showcase our industry-leading promotion and distribution system, high-quality service, and organization capability. We also broadened and deepened our participation in top-tier movies. With the diligent effort, we are steadily growing our involvement in this sector. In terms of box office, we were involved in the top three movies of Spring Festival, the top two over the Labor Day holiday, and the number one during the Dragon Boat Festival. Following the summer holiday, a number of movies that we were involved was released. Many of those earned great audience reviews and recorded excellent box office results. Some of those including "Lost in the Stars," "Never Say Never," "Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms." Going forward, we are involved in a broad array of movies scheduled for release in the second half of 2023, such as "Lost to Win," "The Last Truth," "Johnny Keep Walking!" We also have an abundant pipeline of quality content in the works, such as "Shining from Wanshan" and "The High Wolf." Those are in addition to our self-produced movie, including the "Endless Journey of Love," "Game Star." All of those are on track to be released in the near future. Next, our online ticketing service business. Throughout the first half of 2023, we concentrated on improving our service capability that enhanced the user experience. We provide a diversified suite of marketing solutions to promote the sales of product and cinema members. Notably, we were honored once again to be chosen by prestigious Beijing International Film Festival to provide the ticketing service and comprehensive marketing solution. Since the beginning of the year, Tenyas demand has boasted rapid recovery of the live performance market. To better capture rising growth opportunities, we actively broadened and deepened our presence in the sector. In the first six months of the year, both the GMV and the number of the performance we served surpassed the pre-pandemic levels. Across many categories, including concert, sports events, music festival, all recorded remarkable growth. In particular, we served as the general ticketing agent for many top-tier concerts. Looking to the future, we explore the opportunity across the investment, production, and IP development for the live performance. Our Hong Kong ticketing service has also achieved a steady growth and is progressing. During the reporting period, we delivered high-quality ticketing and operating system for Hong Kong urban ticketing system, covering many well-known performers. Now, we cover a little bit about our advertising and other service business. During the period, we continued to develop effective promotion distribution solutions to create great value for our clients. Through our extended channel network, we helped the movie increase their exposure, expand the audience coverage across the dynamic and diversified scenario. Supported by our enhanced marketing effectiveness and improved commercialization efficiency, the total number of the project we served reached a new high, increasing by 85% year-over-year. Before closing, I would like to share some of the detail about our work with AI technology. We have continued to build and strengthen our AI power technology capability as a catalyst to enhance our own service, promote the progress of the overall industry with innovative products. In particular, we have been gradually implementing AI technology products in our service and have already made some very encouraging breakthrough. For example, the promotional distribution stage, we have enhanced our promotional efficiency with dynamic material and solutions. We also utilize AI technology to enhance our data analysis capabilities and improve Maoyan Pro's box office forecasting capability. Moreover, we launched several AI-powered tools and products to help our partners further explore AI's massive potential in the movie industry. To sum up, recovery accelerated across the entire industry. Going forward, we will continue to leverage Maoyan's leading competitiveness across our business lines, deepen our penetration in top-performing movies, and strengthen our infrastructure service capability. We will also work to develop our AI power, technology capability, and expand our application scenario along the value chain to benefit the whole industry. At the same time, we will capitalize our leading position and advanced technology to explore more opportunities at home and abroad. Thank you, everyone, for your time. Now I will return over to Leon to walk you through the details of our financial results. Thank you, Peter, and hello, everyone. I will now briefly go through our financial highlights for the first half of 2023. As a reminder, all the financial numbers we are presenting today are in RMB, and all percentage changes are on a year-over-year basis unless otherwise stated. In the first half of 2023, China's entertainment industry rebounded rapidly and recovered more than expected. The robust growth of China's film and live performance market boosted the confidence of all practitioners in the industries. During the reporting period, we grasped valuable opportunities to strengthen our businesses and achieve an outstanding first half of 2023 was our strongest half year ever, and both our top line and bottom line hit new record highs. Now let's move to our financial results. Our total revenue increased by 84% from RMB 1.2 billion in the first half of 2022 to RMB 2.2 billion in the first half of 2023, driven by encouraging revenue growth in entertainment content services and online entertainment ticketing services. Revenue from entertainment content services increased sharply from RMB 533 million in the first half of 2022 to RMB 1.1 billion in the first half of 2023, up 106%. The increase was mainly because of two reasons. First, we distributed or produced 24 domestic films, much more than the past fiscal half years. Second, a few of the films we re-distributed and produced, such as "Full River Red," "Man Jiang Hong," and "Godspeed," "Ren Sheng Lu Bu Shu," achieved extraordinary box office. Revenue from our online entertainment ticketing business increased from RMB 592 million in the first half of 2022 to RMB 1 billion in the first half of 2023, up 72%. The increase was mainly due to the fast recovery and growth of China's film and live performance market. For example, the box office of China's film market increased by 53% to RMB 26.3 billion, and that of China's commercial live performance soared by 673%. Revenue from our advertising services and other business increased by 23% to RMB 81 million in the first half of 2023 from RMB 66 million for the first half of 2022. The increase was mainly due to the growth of our e-commerce services, represented by the in-venue food and beverage pre-ordering services with the full recovery of China's film industry in the first half of 2023. Our gross profit for the first half of 2023 was RMB 1.1 billion, up 77% from RMB 372 million for the first half of 2022. Our gross margin for the reporting period was 50.1%, remaining relatively stable compared with 52.2% for the first half of 2022. Our selling and marketing expenses increased by 33% to RMB 366 million from RMB 276 million in the first half of 2022. We increased marketing and promotion spending as our business grew quickly in the reporting period. Our general and administrative expenses slightly increased by 4% to RMB 187 million from RMB 179 million in the first half of 2022. As a result of the foregoing, our operating profit for the first half of 2023 increased by 180% to RMB 518 million, from RMB 185 million in the first half of 2022. Our net profit for the first half of 2023 was RMB 405 million, hitting a record high and representing an increase of 167% from RMB 152 for the first half of 2022. Our adjusted net profit for RMB 456 million, representing an increase of 95% from RMB 234 million in the first half of 2022. As our performance grew substantially, our balance sheet continued to be optimized and maintained stronger and healthier. As of June 30, 2023, our cash and cash equivalents and other forms of bank deposits were RMB 3.76 billion, increased by RMB 1.36 billion from RMB 2.4 billion, as of December 31, 2022. In summary, the fast recovery of China's entertainment industry fully reflects its strong resilience. We are very confident in the long-term growth potential of the industry. Moving ahead, we will continue to focus on the industry to further expand our services and products, offerings and reach broader markets, both home and outside of mainland China. This concludes our prepared remarks for today. Operator, we are now ready to take questions. Thank you. We will now begin the question and answer session. To ask your question, you may press star, then one on your touch-tone phone. If you are using a speakerphone, please pick up your handset before pressing the keys. If at any time your question has been addressed and you would like to withdraw your question, please press star then two. The Q&A session will be conducted in Chinese. At this time, we will pause momentarily to assemble our roster. The first question today comes from Xu Qingzheng with CITIC. Please go ahead. 谢谢管理层。早上好,恭喜上半年在整个电影市场的恢复下取得了很好的业绩。我们也看到6月份以来暑期档的票房很好,包括后续定档的影片内容也很多,大家对于后续的电影市场的恢复也非常有预期。想请问一下,咱们的管理层如何评价今年暑期档的表现,以及怎么看待全年电影市场大盘的趋势?谢谢。 谢谢许静。参加今天的会的、对这个行业还有对猫眼感兴趣的分析师和投资人都非常多。今天线上我看着人数也是这几年来的非常高的一次,可见大家对电影、整个的娱乐行业兴趣都是非常高。所以您的问题这里面提到了暑期档,暑期档今年是非常热,大家也看到了,到这个时间点,今天为止已经突破了178亿的票房。其实昨天整个暑期档已经创了中国影史的票房新高。那么今年暑期档大家还在估算今年暑期档会把整个未来的记录抬到多高。那么暑期档的高也抬高了整个全年对电影市场的预期。今天可能我猜大家一会儿开始积极购买投资猫眼股票的时候,中国全年的电影票房就要突破400亿了。也是让我们看到了非常振奋的,就是春节档的时候,我们能感觉到经历了三年疫情之后,电影的春天来了。但我们没有想到这个春天之后,夏天的火热让我们带来了更多的信心和对未来的期望。所以我们能注意到,今年的暑期档也好,还是春节档也好,它第一个是一个百花齐放的一种内容创作状态。因为我们看到的影片的部数,还是它的类型,它的话题题材都是多样的。那么这是一个特点,就是百花齐放。第二个,确确实实看到了优质的国产内容释放出来的效果更大一些。所有的过10亿的影片到目前为止全部是国产影片。那么不管是我们刚才在讨论上半年,比如说非常优秀的《满江红》、《流浪地球》、《熊出没》,《满江红》和《人生路不熟》是我们出品的。那么现在暑期档的纪录从头到尾 到现在已经跑出来这么久了,178亿里面,从上往下数的应该是《消失的她》、《孤注一掷》、《八角笼中》、《封神》,还有《长安三万里》。所有这些影片都是国产影片,确确实实中国电影观众对国产影片的兴趣和喜爱会持续得更高。还有一个特点,就是其实疫情刚恢复的时候,大家对行业其实是有一定的信心不足。但随着好的影片发生票房产出之后,我们观察到中国的电影观众在陆续地回到电影院。我们看到几部头部影片,不光是原来的观众回到电影院,我们看到了很多观影用户以前是不看电影的,但是因为某一个题材,因为某一个话题,走进电影院里面去观赏电影,这里边有各个年龄层、各个社会特点和画像人群的观众,也是非常好的一种现象。那么另外一个呢,大家可以看到,今年国家对电影行业的政策扶持特别好。我们电影局发布了政策,5月到10月减免专资。各地的政府都是开展各种惠民观影活动,各地的政府也积极地去参与。不管是国家电影局还是各地的政府,积极地参与很多的电影的创作制片。在这样的情况下,我们相信中国电影市场的恢复会持续这个势能。在今天的中国老百姓对好内容的渴望和创作者不断地创作好内容的过程中,整个行业会持续地迭代,并在这个势能的保持下,一次又一次创造新的纪录。今年前面两个数度我提到了,到今天为止已经冲击到178亿了。开始之后,相信大家在投资猫眼和整个行业的过程中,今天就可以突破400亿的全年票房。这个只是一个开始。我们看到的势能和后面大量的优秀的作品,观众回到影院的这个势能,会持续地推高这个行业,让我们在未来几年里面能看到一个新的纪录。中国电影市场能不断地走向更高的一个纪录,是我们能看到的,也是更鼓励着我们电影人在这个行业里投入更多的精力。所以我相信我们和所有的分析师和投资人一样,非常看好这个市场。谢谢。 Next question. The next question comes from Rebecca Zhu with Morgan Stanley. Please go ahead. 嗨,早上好,郑总好,管理层好。公司非常强劲的业绩。我的问题是关于宣发这一块的。我们看到猫眼的宣发业务市占率是在不断地提升的。上半年,国产片领域咱们的市占率达到了80%。那请教一下,猫眼在宣发这一块和其他的行业参与者比起来,独特的优势是什么?那这个优势是怎么维持或者持续发展的?感谢郑总,谢谢。 Rebecca,谢谢你的问题。我稍微纠正一点,它所谓的覆盖率,它不是市占率,我们其实是会支持所有的优秀影片。覆盖率是说我们帮助每一个影片做好很多和宣发相关的工作,有些是参与得稍微轻一点,比如说是宣传、票补,各种各样的合作,参与路演活动什么的,都有。但是我们去主控发行的影片其实是有限的,因为毕竟我们团队的能力和服务的档期的影片是有限的。同时有些影片我们虽然不是主控发行,但是我们也积极地投资,参与出品,参与创作。所以说大家一定不要混淆了覆盖和真正的深度参与。上半年其实我们主控的影片只有13部,参与出品发行的国产影片有24部,但是确确实实我们支持各种各样的轻量的或者是各种形式上的服务。影片确实是覆盖了这样票房的80%的影片,我们都有各种各样的合作和服务,确确实实也是实现了不管是主控发行啊,合作啊,对猫眼的这个工作量来说都是创了新高。这里面其实尤其需要重点提一下,因为《许愿党》的后面,我估计可能就要算作下半年的业绩了。上半年的尤其可圈可点的是两部作品,一部是春节档的《满江红》,一部是五一档的《人生路不熟》。两部影片在预售的时候开始不被看好的情况下,一步一步逆袭,能够成为档期的冠军。这样的事情,其实大家也看到了,过去三年的春节档里面,我们都有类似的表现,之前的《李焕英》也好,《杀出泰坦尼克》也好,团队也是很持续地在宣发的成熟度上成长。这个成长的过程,确确实实就是猫眼不管是顺风球、逆风球,不同的类型,不同的宣发路径,所有这些优势的形成,一方面是我们的团队组织能力的成长,另外一方面是我们能够结合我们的产品、系统、组织,它整体的配合,在核心能力的建设这几年终于取得了突破。那么底层逻辑呢,事实上是猫眼对整个电影行业,对电影宣发,对内容本体的认知,我们一直在迭代和重新迭代自己的认知,也在迭代我们的系统,也在迭代我们的组织。我不知道大家有多少了解我们,其实我们的组织就已经经历了迭代的三四个版本了,也是为了适应这个行业。大家也了解,猫眼的产品基于数据的能力,互联网的资源,能够很好地配合整个的宣发过程。我们的系统不光是我们自己的宣发团队可以用,整个行业所有的小伙伴,这个春节档大家能看到,真的是我们猫眼专业版的用户数、使用频率都创了历史新高。我在想,是不是三年疫情,有些行业的伙伴离开了行业,现在他们终于回来了。也看到很多的资本也回来了,创作者也回来了,行业的使用猫眼专业版的用户是疯狂地涨。那组织能力的建设呢?它其实不是简单的招聘和执行,而是需要建设一个smart organization。我们一直强调,其实这个组织它应该有建立认知、迭代认知、不断学习和沉淀系统的能力。这些其实也是这几年,尤其是疫情大之后这几年,我们自己迭代我们自己从系统到产品到组织上反复去成长的过程中,才取得的一些结果。我印象很深,很多的这些认知的底层的不一样,在行业里面看来,比方举个例子,《消失的她》上映两天,我们的后端系统直接预测超过33亿,直接微博热搜就是猫眼疯了。但是在我们看来,我们的系统其实是有AI和大数据的判断的智慧的。所以一周多以后,又一个热搜上了文娱热搜,是猫眼没疯,我们的认知太浅了。因为后来大家能看到,今年每日过亿的票房和实际发生的数字,和猫眼预测的几乎一模一样。当大家还没有看到《消失的她》能过33亿的时候,猫眼早早地预测了,只不过是先一步地看到了一个结果。所以我们相信在未来也是,持续的发展一定是基于我们组织继续能迭代我们的认知,我们的系统能够继续地沉淀这些认知迭代和大家学习的结果,我们的产品优于行业的其他产品,让大家觉得用得更开心,更能服务于大家的每一个目标。所以我们对我们未来的成长依然非常乐观,我们只觉得现在我们的宣发团队往前走了一步,也是持续地服务好更多的行业的作品。这个迭代的过程,我相信大家会越来越多的看到。刚才来的路上我还看朋友圈,我们经常用的一些东西,比如说我们云包场,每当有新片上映的时候,我觉得我们的云包场的包场产品就能刷朋友圈,刷微博,覆盖很多。我们的媒体矩阵,媒体矩阵不光是我们自己的片子,刚才我提到了80%的影片的覆盖,我们都有媒体矩阵帮它们去宣传预告片、物料。比如说春节档和五一档的时候,我们的媒体矩阵能覆盖差不多全网50多家互联网平台或者流量平台。我印象春节档、五一档的时候,20多部影片,光是我们给这些影片带来的流量和曝光就超过475亿。这些能力的建设,我相信它需要长期的积累和反复的自我迭代才形成的。可能这些讲得有点多,所以整体来说,我们相信我们的产品加系统加组织的这种组合的方式,给我们带来可持续性成长的未来,有很大的想象空间。谢谢您的问题。 Next question. Your next question comes from Jiawen Sun with Haitong Securities. Please go ahead. 各位管理层好,非常感谢给予提问机会。我这边想请教一下,今年我们看到包括演唱会在内的演出市场非常火热,想请问一下猫眼在演出领域的业务增长以及布局,另外就是未来的一个发展目标,谢谢。 小文,谢谢你的问题。真的是今年的火爆,不光是电影行业,所有的文娱行业的火爆,感觉去占据了大家的周末甚至周内的时间,周内抢票,周末现场观影、看演出,到处能看到朋友圈、微博所有的热搜、热词都被演出和电影频频地霸榜。这个氛围我相信大家都看到了,包括一周多以前的TFBOYS,还有我们现在卖得火爆的张学友、林俊杰、周杰伦、陈奕迅,这个大家只是看到头部的。那么头部以外的,是大家看到整个市场的恢复。我们有关部门统计出的数字,其实是比去年同期观众的人数增加了十倍。我们自己看到的增长差不多五六倍这么一个实际的。这里面有大演出,有小演出,有的本地演出,有的是大的演唱会。这些我们都能看到,今年是一个非常好的反弹和恢复。这个时间也是我们应该去踏踏实实去布局未来,我们觉得中国的演出市场远远没有到真正爆发和实现它的巨大潜力的tipping point,我们相信未来还有很大的成长空间。所以与其说今年对我们来说是个爆发年,不如说今年反而是应该让我们沉下心来去夯实我们的能力、系统和基础,重新夯实我们自己看到的我们有些不足,让它能更坚定地往前走的一年。所以这一年,我相信在财报里面,还有CEO阐述里面各种数字、看好、行业,这个我就不展开讲了,大家也可以看到很多。我相信如果是在线的分析师、好朋友们,你们不像我发起要一张电影票的需求,我谢谢你们了。确确实实我们猫眼员工经常有演唱会来的时候先贴个朋友圈,虽然我是猫眼员工,我也没票,我也需要抢票,我也抢不到票,然后避免各种各样的人情。因为我们现在卖票实名抢票,各种申报,其实都和有关部门要保证它的公平、公正以及透明性,也带来很多业务压力,人情压力都不说了。那未来的布局呢?我们会持续地去和优秀的创作者合作,去加大头部演出的投入和参与度。其实大家也看到了,卖得特别火的学友、杰伦、奕迅、陈奕迅很多的演唱会,猫眼是票务总代。对于高演演出这个业务,包括票务这个业务,我们其实差不多是17、18年才起步,几乎是从零建设。今天我们是头部的唯二的一个票务平台,对来说成长的速度非常快,但是还是有很大的成长空间。头部的参与和头部的深度,其实能代表一个行业的公司的基准线。在服务好头部的同时,我们特别看好真正的本地玩乐和本地的演出和文娱的消费。这里面不光是大家可以看到,比如说脱口秀、沉浸式演出,各种线下的展览,今年发展都非常好。我们也开始参与到提供好的内容,比如说之前的《扬名立万》沉浸式演出,今年我们又上线了沉浸式游戏剧场《明珠传奇》。大家有机会可以在黄浦江上体验一下,票卖得非常好,大家换装,上黄浦江的游轮,一面欣赏着江景,一面完成一个沉浸式的游戏的体验的感受。内容和平台相辅相成。我们前面讲了大演出,又讲了本地演出和玩乐。同时服务好这么多的伙伴,一定要匹配一个系统。那为什么我们在服务好这么多的峰值卖票,大家可能都想象不到,你在开始抢一个特别头部的艺人,不管是张学友、周杰伦,我们系统单位时间里边承压的难度以及对我们的技术要求的难度。现在今年基本上我们的峰值已经提高了几倍,但是依然出现了购票总裁,基本上都秒光,很多票都是秒光。我知道大家可能收到说抢票没抢到,希望走后门这个需求的时候,就能看可见这个市场和抢票的不容易。与此同时,我们也会加强和有关部门更多的合作,比如说防黄牛,让市场的公平和透明性越来越好,让真正的消费者而不是黄牛拿到票。包括我们实名抢票,公开透明化的票务的转赠和流转流程,这些都在我们的建设体系内,也和有关部门积极地合作。除了刚才讲的本地演出,其实越来越多的演出场馆,不管大的小的,也在找我们合作,希望更好地完善演出场馆后端的大系统,真正地对整个演出的未来真正的腾飞做好基础的准备。所以我们相信我们的布局现在只是个开始,而不是说今年因为比如说演出的消费者增加了10倍,我们就已经看到了开始收割了,远远没到这个时间。也是欢迎大家更多地和我们一起投入到这个产业里面,更把这个产业的基础夯实和建设好。谢谢。 Next question, please. The next question comes from Chen Junxu with GF Securities. Please go ahead. 恭喜管理层今年上半年参加了很多优秀的项目,也取得了亮眼的成绩。我想问一下,今年下半年和后续猫眼这边还有哪一些储备的优质影片可以跟我们分享?感谢。 下半年几乎每周或者每两周都能看到猫眼的作品上映。我们这儿讨论季报、半年报的时候,今天上映的是《学爸》,昨天上映的是《我经过风暴》。两部影片都有非常深刻的现实意义,也是代表了一些社会话题的讨论,同时又有人间真情在的温情。作为暑期档的收官影片,我们也非常希望这两部影片能让更多的观众看到。再下周,比如说《念念相忘》、《燃冬》这样的爱情故事也非常应景,因为毕竟有七夕。定档9月9的《三贵情史》是国家扶持的青春计划出来的导演和作品,我们也积极地支持这样的年轻导演。定档9月28号的《好像也没有那么热血沸腾》,这是目前定档的国庆档的唯一喜剧。主演魏翔是当年我们主发《这个杀手不太冷静》的主演。时隔多年,我们又一次合作,大家希望能看到新的突破。定档11月的《一个和四个》,这个作品其实已经在国际上、国内斩获了各种大奖,也是很早以前我们就看好这个年轻的导演,我们希望他在类型、在成长的路径上有更多的突破,也一直帮助他。比如说定档双11的《拯救嫌疑人》,张末导演,李鸿其、惠英红老师这个作品,它是一个犯罪悬疑题材,张兆辉老师主演。也是一个符合当下类型影片需求的一个商业创作,也期待大家去能看到这样的好作品。大家也看到了,之前定档的12月30日的《年会不能停!》,我相信这个是一个非常有突破的喜剧作品。大鹏老师在今年的上半年是劳模,真的是这么多作品,还没有上映的作品,我印象是一个是《第八个嫌疑人》,我们也有参与。年底《年会不能停!》我希望它在大鹏老师的作品的收藏集作品的里程碑上也会有新的里程碑。昨天定档大家也看到了,华仔和梁朝伟老师都在现场,定档了《金手指》,也是他们在《无间道》20年之后的第一次合作。不管是媒体朋友和大家都在非常关注,它是取材于香港的一个真实的事件。除了这些影片的储备,我们还有很多的其他的待映的作品。《盗火者》、比如说《盗火者》、《一闪一闪亮晶晶》、《危机航线》、《天台游戏》、已经杀青的《重生》、还有之前已经运作了一些年的动画片,希望明年能上映的《时间之死》《闪光少女》。还有前天我去邯郸开机的《出入平安》,然后这个影片也官宣了,姜江导演,肖央老师主演,还有比如说后面的也在准备在未来一个月、两个月、三个月陆续开机的一些好作品。可能我还得问一下我们公司的宣发同事宣发节奏,我就影片的名字不展开讲了,因为还没有官宣。每一次看这些作品的剧本也好,创作的过程也好,我内心里是非常兴奋的。我希望能早一点把这些兴奋感和大家更多地分享。等这些影片不管是开机、杀青、宣发、定档,我觉得每一个时间点都是能让我们的电影行业看到更多好作品的一些兴奋的时间。 Next question, please. The next question comes from Vicky Wei with Citi. Please go ahead. 管理层早上好,谢谢接受我的提问。恭喜猫眼非常强劲的业绩。我有一个小问题,在现在AI的大趋势下,能不能请管理层多分享一下我们猫眼在这方面的探索和可能带来的效率的提升?谢谢。 大家了解我们公司是一个互联网和科技企业,不管我们对电影内容的创作多么兴奋,对演出行业投入度多大,并真正地落地了一个又一个的好演出,投入的好电影。其实我们从来没有忘记我们是一个科技企业,一个真正地用科技连接全文娱的一个公司。也是这些年我们一直在投入科技领域,今年尤其是。其实从去年我们就开始投入在AI领域的一些基础建设。大家可以看到,我可能是强调一下,我们毕竟是一个应用层的AI公司,我们大量地建设与文娱产业相关的AI应用的一些场景、能力,我们不太可能成为一个大模型的基础平台服务,这是我们给自己的定位。我们觉得整个文娱产业需要太多太多的AI的助力对AI的理解。在这个大框架下,其实大家可以看到,我们在不同的场景下已经用到了AI。为什么我们自己的票房预测这么准?每天我们猫眼发布票房预测,不管是实时的日票房预测,还是总票房预测的时候,大家相信猫眼,相信我们对一些判断,并能帮助大家提升宣发效率,包括预算、成本各方面的组合。也是因为这些年来我们在AI的基础积累的情况下,让我们能够有更好、更准确的数据分享给大家。这是在宣发过程中。在上游,当我们去选题,当我们去创作的时候,我们其实也更多地需要理解观众,理解市场。这个环节我们也开始介入大数据和AI,越来越多地和行业的insider进行沟通。以前的时候,大家是觉得我们是一个行业的outsider。现在基本上好多的导演在立项和剧本阶段就请求猫眼给他们的项目做诊断。我们一方面继续沿用过去的,比如说试映会,还有一些后期的产品,但是现在越来越多的早期产品,我们介入的时候,我们需要用AI,需要用大数据,需要用这些工具来帮助创作者有一个更清晰的认知。这些领域我们这些年的积累已经体现在行业对我们的认可,以及越来越多的创作者主动邀请猫眼。不管是投资还是宣发,人家都在没定的时候邀请我们参与。另外,我看到很多行业大家关注到的,比如说在创作和流程中的效率提升,比如说做海报,做视频,这些其实我们很早就做了。不瞒大家说,我们不光是做海报,做视频,做物料,我们还用这个技术尝试做出来的视频能更好地丰富我们的宣发矩阵,更好地用那些做出来的AI的视频或者是海报去宣传电影。其实最近我可能举一个例子,大家都可能没注意到,我们《封神》的有一些概念视频和海报,其实是AI做的。当时这个过程中我看了下,处理也非常好,我就不点名哪几个视频了。这些过程当中,我们不是建设一个AI的大模型平台,我们不是建设一个真的AGI的engine,但是我们需要建设真正能服务好我们的行业伙伴的应用场景。帮助他们提升效率,帮助他们降低成本,帮助他们选择正确的方向。不管是在创作阶段,在宣发阶段,在执行阶段,在每一个阶段去帮助我们的很多伙伴。这个行业需要更多更优秀的内容,观众需要找到他们喜欢看的电影,创作者也需要为他们的电影找到适合的观众。所有的以前我们面临的难题,今天我们有机会,有一把新的钥匙去解开这个难题,我们也会作为行业的科技的先行者,持续地帮助行业去用好AI这样一个工具。 Next question will be the last question. The last question comes from Alex Lu with CICC. Please go ahead. 关毅曾:早上好,我是中信证券的Alex,非常感谢这个提问机会,也祝贺猫眼取得这么强劲的表现。我想请教一下公司在海外拓展的情况,因为我们之前了解到猫眼已经开始了在香港地区布局了一些演出票务的业务,能否跟我们分享一下公司在香港业务目前的进展,以及我们在境外其他地区拓展的一些规划?谢谢。 Alex,谢谢你的问题,感谢大家对这个行业的关注。猫眼去年的时候就上线了香港的URBTIX,就是我们和香港康文署合作。我去到很多现场,尤其是最大的那个现场是红馆现场,包括全程体验当时陈奕迅老师的演唱会,从入场、检票、购票和全部的体验,我们都有现场的小伙伴去真正地感受全套服务的难度,和真正地服务好每一个创作者。我相信其实香港的疫情恢复得早于大陆,所以它的演艺恢复得也早。我们其实早早就看到了那边,尤其是红馆的演唱会,基本上是场场卖掉。陈奕迅老师是非常典型,他是出道27年,27场,我印象很深。而不光是陈奕迅,郑秀文、李克勤、林宥嘉、许冠杰、梁咏琪,还有当时的香港国际电影节,世界女排联赛,还有各种各样的传统的文化活动。因为它的场馆非常多,康文署旗下的场馆遍布香港各个区域。所以服务好这样的一个ticket,过去其实消费者有很大的抱怨。我不展开讲了,不光是抢票的时候系统堵塞,黄牛的问题很大,各种服务不好。那这次我们上线了我们的新的系统,香港市民满意度明显高了很多很多。也是我们第一次尝试猫眼的服务出海,真正地用好我们的技术和服务能力。香港这个例子有了之后,越来越多的不同地区的,不管是政府的场馆,还是民营企业,或者是国际巨头的场馆,都想找猫眼来实现他们的售票服务,平台搭建,系统服务,都找过来了,确确实实。因为涉及到哪些会落地,哪些可能我们一时暂时覆盖不了,我就不展开说了。但一定是肯定是华人地区的这些优先,肯定是东南亚慢慢地先做。那是不是将来还能扩张到更多的全球的服务和其他的国际的服务的伙伴的过程当中,我相信我们确确实实面临着一个人力、能力的瓶颈,尤其疫情恢复之后,不管是每个业务都是人力捉襟见肘,大家真是连轴转。要服务好电影行业,服务好演出行业,服务好我们的海外客户,大家出差连轴转一样,我感觉好像有点cover过来。但是当我们解决了我们组织的瓶颈和我们的人力的瓶颈之后,我希望我们不光是要服务更多的海外的伙伴,而是能提供best of the best service。目前我们也是按照这个目标来要求自己,真正地走到海外,提供best of the best service给我们的伙伴,真正地能让他们演唱会也好,演出也好,服务好他们的市民。然后我也看到了好多,包括我们的国内的消费者,有的时候为了一场演出出趟国,在海外有一些享受,有一些接触。因为毕竟国内的市场有时候他们也抢不到票,然后有些创作者可能在海外演唱或演出更合适。这样的机会我相信未来也会越来越多。这些场馆服务也好,演出经纪服务也好,整个的演出的内容质量服务也好,我们相信我们有更多的机会真正地参与到海外的这个产业和行业当中去。希望今年会有更多的产品上线,明年的会在服务体系和所跨区域上,我希望能让大家看到一些真正的落地。香港我相信只是我们走出的第一步,也希望香港的这个各方面满意度很高的项目,可以在不同的海外的地区,在不同的国家可以复制。我希望过上一段时间,我们的财报里边讲起来这个话的时候,我相信一定有更多的惊喜吧。 That is all for today. Ladies and gentlemen, that concludes our question and answer session and our conference for today. Thank you for participating. You may now disconnect.