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A number of companies that own China’s major social media outlets released their Q2 earnings report in August. Looking at these reports we can get a latest update on the social media landscape in China.

 

On August 13th, Tencent released its Q2 financial results, which revealed that WeChat’s monthly active users (MAUs) rose 57% YoY to 438 million, or 11% QoQ. It is clear that the user growth has started to slow, however, as the app reaches market saturation in China.

 

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Sina Weibo’s earnings report released on August 15th reveals that the company’s Weibo platform saw MAUs grow 30% YoY to 156.5 million, despite losing a lot of users to Wechat. Company revenue increased, primarily from advertising and marketing revenues which grew 99% YoY, although the company is still operating at net loss.

 

Besides Tencent and Sina, Renren announced its results which look much less optimistic. MAUs decreased 18.5% YoY to 44 million. The service now has fewer active users than it did 2 years ago.

 

Company performance also suffered from loss in gaming revenue which dropped 42.4% YoY, as gamers migrate to alternatives offered by Weibo and WeChat.

 

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Sources:

Tencent:

http://www.techinasia.com/wechat-438-million-active-users-q2-2014/

Weibo:

http://blogs.barrons.com/asiastocks/2014/08/18/sina-weibo-on-track-portal-slowed-weibo-tanked-on-valuation/

Renren:

http://www.techinasia.com/china-facebook-social-network-renren-losing-users-fast/

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