| • | | Baidu received top awards from prestigious AI competitions, including2018 WebVision Challenge (image recognition competition) and2018 ActivityNet Challenge(video recognition competition). |
Second Quarter 2018 Results
Total revenues reached RMB 26.0 billion ($3.93 billion), representing a 32% increase year over year.
Online marketing revenues were RMB 21.1 billion ($3.18 billion), representing a 25% increase year over year. Baidu had approximately 511,000 active online marketing customers5, representing a 9% increase year over year. Revenue per online marketing customer was approximately RMB 41,200 ($6,200), a 16% increase year over year.
Other revenues reached RMB 4.9 billion ($742 million), representing a 75% year over year, which was mainly due to the robust growth in iQIYI membership and other businesses.
Revenue from Baidu Core6 reached RMB 20.0 billion ($3.03 billion), up 28% year over year, while revenue from iQIYI reached RMB 6.2 billion ($932 million), up 51% year over year.
Content costswere RMB 5.2 billion ($788 million), representing a 68% increase year over year. The year-over-year increase was mainly due to iQIYI’s increased content costs and, to a lesser extent, increased investment in BJH, Baidu feeds’ content network.
Traffic acquisition costwas RMB 2.7 billion ($408 million), representing a 9% increase year over year.
Bandwidth costswere RMB 1.6 billion ($234 million), representing a 12% increase year over year.
Other cost of revenues, which include depreciation costs, operation costs, sales tax and surcharges and share-based compensation expenses, was RMB 2.6 billion ($386 million), increasing 5% year over year.
Selling, general and administrative expenseswere RMB 4.5 billion ($681 million), increasing 54% year over year, primarily due to the increase in channel and promotional marketing.
Research and development expenseswere RMB 4.0 billion ($609 million), increasing 28% year over year, primarily due to the growth of personnel-related costs.
5 | The number of active online marketing customers and revenue per online active customer exclude our group-buying and delivery related businesses for consistency with previous reporting. |
6 | Since the beginning of 2017, we have disposed of or planned to disclose certainnon-core businesses including Baidu Mobile Games, Baidu Deliveries, Global DU businesses, and Du Xiaoman (our financial services business). Those businesses generated approximately RMB 1.0 billion revenues and 0.1 billion operating profit, excluding share-based compensation expenses, for the second quarter of 2018. We expect these divestures together will generate approximately US$1.8 billion in cash. |
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