Fei Chen
Analyst · Oppenheimer
Thank you, Chris. Let me start with a discussion on different revenue streams within the SAAS Businesses. Following its stellar performance throughout 2020, Developer Services continued to be the biggest revenue contributor in first quarter 2021. We recorded RMB52.4 million in revenue for Developer Services, which represented a very strong 67% growth on a year-over-year basis. The significant revenue growth was driven by a strong 35% growth in Subscription Services and a 189% growth in Value-Added Services. Subscription Services revenue was RMB33.7 million, an increase of 35% year-over-year primarily driven by the -- by new push notification customer acquisition and cross-selling of non-push notification products in our product portfolio, which includes other subscription products such as JVerification, JSMS, JAnalytics, et cetera. Revenue contribution of non-push notification products increased to 35% from 23% in 1Q 2020. Non-push notification products have a higher ARPU, resulting in the overall ARPU for Subscription Services increasing by 21% to RMB16,900 compared with RMB13,900 in 1Q '20. New and renewed contracts of notable customers included Starbucks, McDonald's, Jans, iHerb, China Eastern Airlines and so on. Value-Added Services within Developer Services, which include revenues from JG Alliance services and Advertisement SAAS, recorded another very impressive quarter as revenues grew by 189% to RMB18.8 million from RMB6.5 million in 1Q '20 despite Q1 being a seasonally slower quarter. This stellar year-over-year revenue growth is attributable to the growth in both the supply and the demand side of the JG Alliance. On the supply side of JG Alliance, the total number of apps and the DAU within our network exceeded 280 apps compared to 200 in fourth quarter and 150 million DAU compared to 130 million in fourth quarter, representing very strong 40% and 15% growth from fourth quarter 2020, respectively. In this quarter, we continued to sign up many large and popular mobile apps from different industry verticals into our JG Alliance traffic supply pool. This continued increase in traffic pool is important as it provides a great number of usable DAUs, which in turn helps us to increase impressions and generate higher revenues. On the demand side, we see strong demand from mini-program developers, which, again, contributed more than 1/3 of JG Alliance revenue. Since we launched JG Alliance in late 2019, it has proven to be an effective traffic acquisition medium for these mini-program developers who continuously need to expand their user base. Our services for mini-program developers are also beneficial to mini-program platforms such as WeChat because the platform encourages traffic originated from outside the WeChat ecosystem to enhance the traffic pool for its mini-programs inside WeChat. The other vertical where we see strong demand are apps who use our services for dormant user retargeting purpose. Major customers of JG Alliance in the quarter consisted of market leaders across many industry verticals. They include, but are not limited to, Weibo, [Itai], [Jingdong], Taobao, [Tu Xiaomai], [Xuhu Vipshop]. JG Alliance is a highly complex business model which requires many moving parts that need to work cohesively and seamlessly in order to make it fully integrated such as technical product innovation, traffic acquisition and operation, advertisers acquisition and operation, data and AI algorithm, development and the smooth operation of the ad ecosystem and platform, just to name a few. We believe the relationships and the trust that we have built with our developers over the past 10 years have enabled us to sustain a steady flow of traffic and accumulate invaluable big data insights. As we continue to get steady traffic and use machine learning for data analysis, this will reinforce the magnitude of our AI technology and the capabilities on performance ads, which, in turn, continue to bring higher ROI for advertisers and higher return to our traffic suppliers. The total addressable market of JG Alliance is massive and is projected to be over RMB10 billion based on third-party research, and we are just at the very beginning of the growth curve. Now let's move on to the discussion of Vertical Applications. Collectively, the revenues from Vertical Applications, including market intelligence, financial risk management and iZone. Year-over-year, Vertical Applications revenue continued to grow by 36% as demand continued to recover from pandemic. Particularly, financial risk management business has outperformed where revenue grew by 56%. All these businesses recorded a solid year-over-year revenue growth. Revenues from our market intelligence product increased by double digits year-over-year. We continue to see strong growth from corporate with more than 60% of revenue contributed by corporate clients. New and renewed corporate customers included Taobao, Uber, iQiyi, et cetera. In the financial risk management segment, revenue increased significantly by 56% year-over-year. We believe the demand for this business has fully recovered from the impact of COVID-19. Solid and continued demand from banks and licensing institutions has pushed the ARPU up by 64% year-over-year. New and renewed customers included Baidu and the 360 Finance. The strong performance is also the result of our strategy shift to focus on KA customers, who typically have massive demand and the big budgets. As long as we offer solid products that perform well, brand stickiness will be retained among KA customers. And lastly, our iZone business is still in the midst of product transition. Based on market demand and our product strength, we are focusing our product development efforts on city planning, real state and marketing-related demand. Nevertheless, we recorded a solid 38% year-over-year revenue growth in the quarter driven by demand from real estate and the city planning customers. With that, I will now pass the call to Shan-Nen.