Revenue from Baidu Core reached RMB 17.5 billion ($2.60 billion), increasing 8% year over year, or 16% year over year excluding the impact of announced divestures, whilerevenue from iQIYI reached RMB 7.0 billion ($1.04 billion), increasing 43% year over year.
Content costswere RMB 6.2 billion ($917 million), increasing 47% year over year, mainly due to increased investments in iQIYI content and, to a lesser extent, in content for BJH accounts, Baidu feeds’ content network.
Traffic acquisition costwas RMB 3.2 billion ($474 million), increasing 41% year over year, as a result of higher TAC costs and revenues derived from online TV and offline digitalized screens.
Bandwidth costswere RMB 2.0 billion ($304 million), increasing 39% year over year, mainly due to increasing demand from feed, video and cloud.
Other cost of revenues, which includes depreciation, operational costs and share-based compensation, was RMB 3.5 billion ($515 million), increasing 75% year over year, mainly due to higher depreciation expense and the growth in sales of first-party smart devices.
Selling, general and administrative expenseswere RMB 6.1 billion ($902 million), increasing 93% year over year, primarily due to increased investment in channel and promotional marketing, including the marketing campaign around the Chinese New Year, as well as an increase in personnel related expenses.
Research and development expenseswere RMB 4.2 billion ($621 million), increasing 26% year over year, primarily due to an increase in personnel related expenses.
Operating loss was RMB 936 million ($139 million), compared to operating income of RMB 4.6 billion in Q1 2018.Operating income of Baidu Core was RMB 1.1 billion ($163 million), decreasing 81% year over year.Non-GAAP operating income was RMB 401 million ($60 million), decreasing 93% year over year.Non-GAAP operating income of Baidu Core was RMB 2.1 billion ($314 million), decreasing 67% year over year.
Total other income was RMB 900 million ($134 million), decreasing 57% year over year, mainly due to increased loss from equity method investments.
Income tax expense was RMB 294 million ($44 million), compared to RMB 1.1 billion in Q1 2018. Low income tax expense in the quarter was mainly due to lowerpre-tax income generated by Baidu Core.
Net loss attributable to Baidu was RMB 327 million ($49 million), compared to net income attributable to Baidu of RMB 6.7 billion in Q1 2018. Diluted loss per ADS amounted to RMB 1 ($0.15).Net income attributable to Baidu Core was RMB 703 million ($105 million), decreasing 90% year over year.Non-GAAP net income attributable to Baidu was RMB 967 million ($144 million), decreasing 80% year over year.Non-GAAP diluted earnings per ADS amounted to RMB 3 ($0.41).Non-GAAP net income attributable to Baidu Core was RMB 1.8 billion ($272 million), decreasing 66% year over year.
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