Sean Shenglong Zou
谢谢,Danny。大家早上好,晚上好。感谢大家今天参加我们2016年第四季度的财报电话会议。让我首先评论一下我们的营收情况。本季度我们的总收入为3950万美元,同比增长12.3%。移动广告、云计算和订阅业务等关键领域的进展推动了这一增长。订阅业务同比增长9.5%,移动广告增长185%,云计算收入同比增长80.4%。我们的首席财务官Tom将在他的部分提供更多财务结果的细节。鉴于这是今年的第一次财报电话会议,我想借此机会简要回顾一下去年,更重要的是迅雷在即将到来的2017年新年中的关键战略和展望。2016年全年,我们报告的总收入为1.57亿美元,较2015年同期增长20.7%。随着这一增长,我们实现了一系列战略举措。首先,我们在云计算业务方面取得了进展。我们成功地将带宽销售扩展到直播视频行业,这是中国互联网使用中前景广阔的增长领域之一。其次,我们通过增加活跃用户和丰富产品多样性,进一步加速了向移动互联网的转型。最后,我们的订阅业务在收入方面实现了增长。我们一直非常专注于该产品的执行和管理。对于2017年,我们的战略将继续聚焦于关键举措。对于云计算,我们需要在技术、收入规模、客户组合和细分市场多样性方面进一步提升规模和水平。直播视频仍应是我们关注的核心应用,但显然我们也需要关注市场上出现的其他应用以及我们的云计算产品在这些新领域的相关性。其次,继续开发和改进我们的移动应用和用户界面。最后但同样重要的是,继续专注于执行和传统业务的客户关怀,这是我们在过去一年中做得相当不错的事情。云计算,现在让我们从云计算业务开始,该业务由利用现有闲置容量的处理技术驱动,主要专注于流媒体因素,包括直播视频、视频点播以及2017年可能的短视频。快速回顾一下这项业务的起源,内容分发和加速一直是迅雷从一开始的核心竞争力。虽然过去这种内容分发和加速技术几乎完全用于迅雷自身的用途,但我们清楚地认识到,我们可以将这项技术货币化,服务于具有类似需求的其他商业平台。尽管向服务其他业务的转型并不意味着迅雷不再寻求业务,但我们认为这是我们技术核心竞争力的自然延伸,并且在向其他商业客户提供该技术方面我们确实具有差异化优势。2016年第四季度,我们的云计算业务收入较同期增长80.4%。如前所述,直播视频细分市场在整体带宽销售中尤为重要。我们与熊猫TV取得了特别的成功,熊猫TV是中国直播视频业务的领先者之一。云计算的总客户数量也在增加。如前所述,我们将专注于扩大更广泛的客户组合以及直播视频等垂直应用。短视频也是中国快速兴起的消费应用,但我们仍处于审视我们的技术架构和在该领域相关性的早期阶段。2017年,我们云计算的关键战略首先是继续在产品和技术前沿取得进展。这仍然是一项不断发展的技术,肯定需要进一步的优化和定制。其次,建立更高效的成本结构。随着技术的改进,我们还需要改善该业务的盈利状况。这项业务仍处于投资阶段,为迅雷带来亏损。2017年整体战略的第二个支柱与迅雷持续技术改进的重要性有关,特别是应用机器学习技术。这对于升级用户体验、潜在地推动用户流量以及改变我们的收入结构至关重要。我们的传统业务是一个专注于下载加速服务的内容分发平台。随着技术改进和我们持续的新移动服务,我们也在短视频领域进行尝试,这是中国快速增长的行业。这项业务主要在我们的移动应用空间内,并且更侧重于用户生成内容,而非下载工具。显然,如何更高效地将用户生成内容分发给用户对该业务更为重要。从去年年中开始,我们开始在这些服务中应用我们的专有技术。这种技术在改善用户体验方面发挥了作用,例如提供更相关的内容,我们的移动应用自应用该技术以来已经看到了有意义的改进。我们在去年年底进一步投资了更复杂的技术,这似乎也对我们的用户体验产生了积极影响。我们在这里要说的是,对于2017年,我们的关键战略之一是进一步专注于改进我们的应用机器学习技术,特别是在我们的移动内容分发业务中,以增加用户流量的规模、质量和该业务的收入潜力。在我交给Tom之前,让我简要评论一下我们的订阅业务,该业务在2016年仍占我们总收入的约57%。订阅业务去年表现相当不错。尽管会员数量保持相对平稳,但去年的会员收入同比增长约9.4%。我们非常专注于执行和客户关怀。第一季度的ARPU为30.1元人民币,较去年同期增长约19%,推动了订阅收入的增长。截至12月的付费订阅用户数为497万,与去年的502万基本持平。这是一项相当传统且在某种程度上成熟的业务。我认为我们在管理收入和盈利能力方面做得相当不错。这项业务对迅雷具有战略重要性,不仅因为它提供了最大的用户流量(越来越多地集中在智能手机上),还为迅雷提供了最大的收入、利润和现金流来源,使我们能够继续投资于新的增长领域。因此,对我们来说,继续管理好这项业务并平衡其与新的增长举措至关重要。说到这里,我现在将交给Tom进行更详细的财务回顾。我们期待很快向您更新我们的进展。Tom?
Sean Shenglong Zou
Thank you, Danny. Good morning and good evening everyone. Thanks for joining us today for our earnings call for the fourth quarter of 2016. Let me start by commenting on our top line. Our total revenues for this quarter were 39.5 million which represented 12.3% increase on a year-over-year basis. Progress in key segments of mobile advertising, cloud computing, and subscription contributed to this growth. Subscription business grew by 9.5%, mobile advertising grew by 185%, and the revenue for cloud computing grew by 80.4% on a year-over-year basis. Tom, our CFO will provide more details on the financial results in his section. Given this is the first earnings call for this year, I would like to take this opportunity for a quick review of last year and a more importantly key strategies and outlook for Xunlei in the coming New Year 2017. For the full year of 2016 we reported total revenues of 157 million representing 20.7% increase from the same period in 2015. With this growth we achieved a number of strategic initiatives. First we made progress on our cloud computing business. We successfully extended bandwidth sales to the live video industry which is one of the promising growing Internet usages in China. Second, we further accelerated the transition to mobile internet by increasing active users and enriching product diversity. And last, our subscription business grew in terms of revenues. We have been very focused on execution and the management of this product. For 2017 our strategies will continue to focus on the key initiatives. For cloud computing we need to further improve our technology and the scale in terms of the revenue size, customer’s mix, and a segment's diversity. Live videos should remain a core application of our focus but, we obviously need to be aware of other applications emerging in the marketplace and the relevance of our cloud computing products in these new areas. Second, to continue to develop and improve our mobile applications and user interface. Last, but not least to continue to focus on execution and a customer care of our traditional business which is something we have done reasonably well in the past year. Cloud computing, now let's start with our cloud computing business which is powered by a processing technology utilizing existing idle capacity, focusing primarily on streaming factors including live videos or video on demand and a possibly short videos in 2017. A quick review of the genesis of this business, content delivery and acceleration have always been our core competence for Xunlei from the very beginning. While in the past the technology for such content delivery and acceleration was used almost exclusively for Xunlei’s own usage. It became clear to us that we would monetize this technology to other business platforms with similar needs. Although this transition to serving other businesses doesn't mean that Xunlei is no longer appear to seek business, we think that it is a natural extension of our technology core competence and that we do have a differentiation in providing that technology to other business customers. In the fourth quarter of 2016 revenues from our cloud computing business increased 80.4% compared to the corresponding period. As mentioned earlier, the live video segments was particularly important during the overall sale of the bandwidth. We have had a particular success with Panda TV which is one of the sought leaders in a live videos business in China. Total number of customers for cloud computing is also increasing. As mentioned earlier we will focus on increasing both broader customer mix as well as the vertical applications such as live videos. Short videos is also fast emerging consumer applications in China but, we're still in early stage of examining our technology architecture and our relevance in this space. In 2017 our key strategies for cloud computing will be first, to continue to advance on our product and the technology fronts. This is still an evolving technology. There is certainly further optimization and a customization to be rendered. Second, to build up a more efficient cost structure. As the technology improves we will also need to improve the profitability profile of this business. This business is still in that investment phase, generating losses for Xunlei. The second anchor of 2017 overall strategy has to do with the importance of Xunlei’s ongoing technological improvements. Especially applied machine learning technology. This is critical in terms of upgrading user experience and potentially driving our user traffic and in transforming our revenue mix. Our traditional business is a content delivery platform focusing on download acceleration services. With technology improvements and our ongoing new mobile services we're also experimenting in the short video segment which is a fast growing business in China. And this business is primarily within our mobile app space and it's more related to UGC content as opposed to a downloading tool. Clearly how to distribute a rather UGC content more efficiently to users is of a greater importance for this business. Starting mid of last year we started to apply our proprietary technology in these services. Such technology has made a difference in improving our user experience with more relevant content for example, our pixel rate [ph], our mobile app has seen meaningful improvements since applying the technology. We have further invested in more sophisticated technologies towards the end of the last year and that too appears to have a positive impact on our user experience. What we're saying here is that for 2017 one of our key strategies is to further focus on improving our applied machine learning technology especially in our mobile content distribution business to increase the size of our user traffic, quality, and a revenue potential of this business. Before I turn over to Tom let me briefly comment on our subscription business which still represented about 57% of our total revenues in 2016. Subscription business performed reasonably well last year. Membership revenues last year grew about 9.4% on a year-over-year basis even though membership level remaining relatively flat. We were very focused on execution and a customer care. ARPU in the first quarter was 30.1 RMB which was about up by 19% from a corresponding period of last year contributing to the growth in subscription revenues. The number of paying subscribers ended in December was 4.97 million essentially flat from 5.02 million than last year. This is fairly traditional and in some way a mature business. I think we did a reasonably good job managing both the revenues and its profitability. This business is strategically important for Xunlei not only because it provides the biggest user traffic which is increasingly on Smartphone but also provides Xunlei with its biggest source of revenue, profit, and a cash flow which allows us to continue to invest in new growth areas. So it is critical for us to continue to manage this business well and balance it with new growth initiatives. With that I now will turn it to Tom for a more details of financial reviews. We look forward to updating you on our progress soon. Tom?