INKEVERSE released its interim results, with a profit attributable to shareholders of 244 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 102.5%

According to the Zhitong Finance APP, INKEVERSE (03700) released its mid-term performance for 2025, with revenue of 2.6775 billion yuan (RMB, the same below), a year-on-year decrease of 24.2%; profit attributable to the company's owners was 244 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 102.5%; basic earnings per share were 0.13 yuan. During the reporting period, the group's revenue decreased year-on-year mainly due to adjustments in the group's strategy and business focus, with some innovative business lines still in the exploratory and preliminary development stages. As the cornerstone of the group's business, the live social business continued to maintain a steady development trend in a complex and changing market environment. The company laid the foundation for the long-term healthy development of the platform ecosystem through refined operational strategies and forward-looking technological layouts. While ensuring the healthy development of the business, the group continued to deepen the ecological construction of anchors and guilds, enhancing the technical and operational barriers of products, and increasing the overall user stickiness of the platform. At the same time, the group actively embraced cutting-edge technologies, continuously exploring innovative paths for user interaction experiences through the integration of AI technology and social products, creating a more diversified live social entertainment experience for users. In the first half of 2025, innovative businesses achieved rapid development. The group has always been committed to enriching its product system and business layout through innovation in various segmented tracks. The short drama business, as an important embodiment of the group's innovation capabilities, achieved a dual enhancement in production capacity and content quality, maintaining a leading market position in an increasingly competitive industry environment due to its stable scale advantages and continuous content construction capabilities. Overseas business, as a strategic direction for the group's key layout, has been steadily advancing the expansion process in other emerging markets while continuing to deepen its core markets in Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Through localized team building and product function iteration, the group effectively improved the product's user reputation and commercialization efficiency, achieving steady growth in business scale. In emerging fields, the group maintains an optimistic attitude towards the development of WEB3.0 and the blockchain industry, holding and continuously expanding its reserves of cryptocurrencies for the long term. At the same time, the group is actively promoting AI technology to empower its business, continuously exploring new paths for enhancing user experience and innovating business models, injecting new growth momentum into the group's long-term development