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Revenue growth driven by FX, ad revenue declined, margins under pressure
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Weibo is China's Twitter-like microblogging platform where users post short updates, follow celebrities, and discover trending topics, while brands pay to reach those audiences.
Advertising and marketing services dominate revenue, with gross margins around 73% and net margins near 18% on roughly USD 1.76B annual revenue, making it a high-margin, recurring ad business.
Weibo's network effects and entrenched celebrity/trending-content ecosystem in China are hard for newcomers to replicate, but ByteDance's Douyin and Tencent's WeChat are actively pulling users and ad budgets toward short-video and social commerce, eroding its
