Weibo shrinks net loss on higher income
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AN unexpected rise in revenue on higher advertising income helped Sina’s microblogging site Weibo shrink its net loss by 1.9 percent to US$5.2 million in the third quarter from a year ago.
Weibo’s revenue during July to September jumped 58 percent year on year to US$84.1 million, with advertising income from mobile channels making up 44 percent of total ad income, the company said in a stock exchange filing yesterday.
“Weibo’s mobile advertising income and commercialization process, especially on the smartphone channels, is progressing smoothly,” said Charles Chao, Weibo’s chairman.
Weibo projects revenue at between US$102 million and US$105 million in the fourth quarter of this year.
Advertising income from Weibo’s microblogging post feeds more than quadrupled to US$22.8 million as it added advertising packages for small- and medium-sized merchants to sell products or services to their followers on Weibo. Meanwhile, third quarter revenue at Sina’s portal businesses rose 8 percent from a year ago to US$198.6 million and profit jumped to US$133.6 million from US$25.4 million a year earlier due to a one-off gain from the sale of part of its stake in Alibaba.
Weibo’s monthly active users by the end of September rose 36 percent from a year ago to 167 million.
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