Bilibili responded to "starting a new round of layoffs": some business adjustments, no large-scale layoffs

CTOnews.com, December 6, according to thepaper.cn, the relevant person in charge of bilibili said in response to "a new round of layoffs within bilibili" that some businesses have been adjusted recently, so there are no large-scale layoffs accompanied by personnel adjustments.

In addition, according to the previous report of "later Finance", bilibili has recently launched a round of systematic actions to reduce costs and increase efficiency, including personnel optimization, reduction of business input costs and management expenses. People familiar with the matter said that this personnel optimization involves the core business such as main station and live broadcast, and a number of measures to reduce costs and increase efficiency are expected to save the company more than 2 billion yuan.

CTOnews.com learned that the financial report showed that in the third quarter of 2022, bilibili achieved revenue of 5.8 billion yuan, an increase of 11% over the same period last year, and a net loss of 1.7 billion yuan, 36% lower than the same period last year. During the reporting period, the average number of daily active users of bilibili reached 90.3 million, and the average number of monthly active users reached 333 million, an increase of 25% over the same period last year.

In the earnings call, bilibili Chairman and CEO Chen Rui said that he would focus on reducing the company's non-core business investment and focusing resources on the core business. At the same time, the company will optimize its organizational structure and "lose weight and lose weight". This part of the adjustment will be completed within this year and will see results in the first quarter of next year.