阜博集团(SEHK:3738)2025年度业绩发布会
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Fubo Group achieved total revenue of HK $2.87 billion in 2025, up 20% YoY, and adjusted net profit of HK $0.232 billion, up 29% YoY. Focusing on AI strategy deepening and copyright protection, RW asset trading platform and music copyright management have made progress. Gross margin improved to 44.8 percent and operating cash flow improved. In 2026, music business, AI asset realization and RW asset issuance are expected to bring new growth. The company emphasizes the protection of the rights and interests of small and medium-sized creators through a trusted data platform, and cooperates with Fosun Group to promote the transformation of the content industry.
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At the 2025 annual results conference, the chairman of Fubo Group shared the company's progress in deepening its AI strategy and significant financial results. Group total revenue reached 2.87 billion billion, up 20% YoY, and adjusted net profit of HK $0.232 billion, up 29% YoY. Cash flow position improved, with operating adjustment of HK $0.542 billion, up 24% YoY. In the future, Fubo Group will continue to deepen its AI strategic layout and open up a broader space for the company's development.
This paper discusses the new challenges of copyright protection brought by the development of AI technology, including copyright infringement caused by generative AI, and the importance of copyright protection for digital culture industry. This paper emphasizes the key role of solving the copyright problem for the AI technology to produce economic benefits in the entertainment industry, and points out that in the absence of clear intellectual property regulations, the content generated by AI is difficult to realize effectively, which leads to the inversion of input and output and affects the development of the industry.
In 2005, under the background of the rapid development of Internet broadband, YouTube rose rapidly and faced the problem of copyright piracy in the initial stage. However, through efforts to build an industrial environment that respects copyright, it has become an important profit center for Google. This case indicates that respect for copyright combined with the latest technology AIGC multi-modal generation, will promote the healthy development of the industry, the turning point is coming.
The dialogue discussed how Internet technologies, such as youtube, IPTV and DTC models, can subvert the distribution channels of the traditional film and television music culture industry, so that content creators can directly reach users and form a new charging model. In the era of AI, the innovation of production tools has prompted small and medium-sized creators to produce high-quality content efficiently, and the whole industrial chain is facing the subversion of upgrading.
This paper discusses the risks and limitations of high-cost live-action shooting in traditional film and television production, puts forward the revolutionary role of AI technology in the field of content production and distribution, and emphasizes that the effect-based distribution model will break the traditional business model and promote the film and television industry to enter a new ecology based on trusted data measurement.
The dialogue discussed how AI technology can bring about changes in the field of production, and demonstrated the powerful impact and rapid iteration characteristics of AI through specific applications such as dance generation and Vientiane, highlighting the important role of AI in modern production.
This paper discusses the use of AI and block chain technology, especially RW, to provide individual creators and small and medium-sized creators in the film and television music industry with new ways of copyright confirmation, registration, automatic distribution and realization, aiming to awaken sleeping assets, promote the free circulation of copyright economy and the development of fan economy, and realize the change and outbreak of creator economy.
In 2025, the company expanded its multi-modal rights determination capabilities by acquiring Pax assets, especially in the music field, introducing a vertical model that can accurately determine AI-generated music, and commercializing it with a number of music platforms and publishers. In addition, the Pax model also has the ability to track the content generated by the mainstream music generation model, providing strong support for music copyright management and traceability.
In 2025, the company won a copyright protection service contract for byte soda music through a bid, demonstrating the advantages of rolling technology. In the field of micro-drama, the company quickly became a head-scale service provider, processing more than 6 million infringement data, reducing copyright monitoring costs by more than 30%. AI slow drama accounted for 40%, driving the cost of content production to rise rapidly. At the same time, the company strengthens element-level management, helps the global realization of content, meets the needs of IP image protection, and demonstrates China's global leading position in the field of multi-modal large model applications.
In 2025, we will deepen cooperation with key platforms such as Byte, Tencent, Ali and Fast Hand, covering many fields such as short dramas, music, copyright services and AI scenes, so as to achieve full integration at the ecological level and promote the expansion of business scale and the strengthening of service depth.
The report outlines the growth in the size of AI assets under management in 2025, in particular the increase in the number of active assets from 4.69 million to 4.86 million and the increase in the proportion of AI content to 17%. This paper discusses the impact of copyright disputes on content realization, as well as the application of data set services and intelligent body technology provided by max platform in the field of education, emphasizes the importance of right confirmation and copyright management, and shows the core competitiveness of the company at the level of production relations.
Financial reports showed full-year revenue of HK $2.87 billion, up 20% year-on-year, gross profit of HK $1.29 billion, and gross profit margin increased to 44.8. Revenue in the United States and other regions and China increased by 20%. The scale of overseas business realization increased, and China's mainstream platform cooperation promoted, driving revenue growth.
The company's annual total revenue was HK $1.22 billion, of which subscription business accounted for 43%, up 11% year-on-year; value-added business revenue was HK $1.65 billion, accounting for 57%, up 27% year-on-year. Adjusted net profit increased 29% to HK $0.23 billion, with net margin of 8%. Operating expense rate of 33%, per capita income of nearly HK $5 million, operating cash flow increased nearly 30 times to HK $60 million. The company continued to optimize operating efficiency, prudent investment in AI business, overseas technical team expansion of 37 people.
The expected improvement in financial conditions in 2026 was discussed, thanks to high-interest debt repayments, a significant reduction in financing costs and room for net profit improvement. At the same time, it introduced the cooperation with Xinlu Technology in RWA business, emphasizing the importance of compliance, asset package diversification and data capabilities. It is expected that the first RWA asset package will be launched in the first half of the year.
In the AI era, the copyright dispute resolution strategy between copyright owners and large model manufacturers, as well as the role of independent third parties in copyright confirmation, distribution and data credibility, emphasizing the importance of technical protection and reasonable distribution.
The issue of the inability to realize the value of some assets due to copyright disputes is discussed, and it is pointed out that the growth rate of the total amount of active assets under actual management continues to accelerate. This paper analyzes the prudent attitude of copyright parties under legal disputes and the win-win situation that may be brought about by the reference YouTube5545 profit sharing model. It is predicted that effective solutions may be formed in the next six months to unlock the revenue potential that has not been fully released.
It is discussed that under the background of AI copyright cooperation, the termination of Disney cooperation has little impact on business and has not formed large-scale profit sharing. SaaS subscription mode is adopted for domestic business, which can realize value-added services and profit sharing. AI active assets need to generate income and be declared by copyright owners; Analysis of the progress of debt-to-equity conversion and the effectiveness of capital use, increasing overseas technology investment; The sources of new technologies mainly involve technological foresight and the impact of industrial revolution.
The application of AI technology in content creation is discussed, and the need for copyright and realizability of effective assets is emphasized. It is pointed out that AI content may bring higher user activity and realization potential due to its novelty. At the same time, we attach importance to the open attitude of the creators of the Central Standing Committee to the AI, and believe that its advancement will be faster than that of the major copyright parties. The mention of technology investment, including large model research and development and AI identification technology, as well as the flexible processing strategy of 1.6 billion convertible bonds, indicates that the company's cash flow is healthy, financing channels are diverse, and there is no significant capital pressure.
The dialogue discussed the reasons for the slowdown in Q4 revenue, explaining that the large customer strategy led to short-term twists and turns, and Q1 is expected to resume growth. Mention that RW platform compliance promotion and Dream Maker platform have generated revenue. Looking ahead to 2026, the emphasis on the potential for large-scale revenue from the music business, the efficient promotion of copyright negotiations and the IWA innovation realization channel are expected to bring additional surprises.
要点回答
Q:What are the new challenges facing copyright protection in the AI era?
A:In the era of generative AI, the traditional copy and cut piracy mode has changed. Now piracy can be generated by AI, involving the protection of intellectual property rights at the element level, such as characters and sounds, which makes the protection work from a simple copy level to a deeper level. For example, a video may be generated with countless element assets, which brings new challenges to enterprises engaged in copyright protection.
Q:How does the development of AI technology affect the entertainment industry and how should the copyright problem be solved? What is the subversive impact of the AI era on the film and television music culture industry?
A:The application of AI technology, especially multimodal AI, in the entertainment industry is a key point, which not only brings new ideas and possibilities, but also raises copyright issues. To solve the copyright problem and make the industry generate revenue, we need to find a compromise solution, that is, to use the latest technology such as AIGC to generate content under the premise of respecting intellectual property rights, which will bring great positive promotion to the whole industry. In the AI era, by changing the production end, small and medium-sized creators can create high-quality content more efficiently, which is an upgrading and subversion of the industrial chain. For example, AI can simulate real scenes and effects, greatly reducing the cost and risk of physical shooting, while greatly improving content production efficiency and quality. In addition, the massive content produced at low cost can find a suitable business model in the Internet ecology through new distribution channels and effect-based distribution mechanisms, which has brought great changes to the industry.
Q:In the current industrial environment, what changes and opportunities do you think AI technology has brought to the content industry?
A:AI technology is having a profound impact on the content industry, breaking the traditional business model and making a new content industry ecosystem based on trusted data measurement possible. Through AI-enabled production, it is possible to achieve high returns on low-cost inputs, breaking the previous model of having to invest on a large scale to make a profit. In addition, the combination of AI technology and blockchain and RWA technology provides significant opportunities for creators to realize their creative works quickly and form an economic cycle of continuous creation.
Q:What does the "max platform" you mentioned do?
A:max platform is a platform designed to solve copyright issues and promote the confirmation, registration, automatic distribution and realization of creative assets. Through this platform, users can use blockchain technology to automatically issue and trade property rights in the form of tokens, thus realizing the liquidity of intellectual property rights and solving the problem of realizing massive innovative content.
Q:In the film and television industry, why is copyright operation so important, and how can AI, blockchain and other technologies change this situation?
A:The core of copyright operation is to master a large number of copyright libraries. For example, Warner Exploration is competed by major film and television companies, and its value can reach hundreds of billions of dollars. The application of AI, blockchain and other technologies has changed this situation, allowing creators to directly benefit from creative content, forming a positive economic cycle. For example, through new trading platforms (such as the RW trading platform based on blockchain technology), a large number of sleeping assets can be awakened and activated, allowing the free circulation of the creator's assets and promoting the development of the fan economy, thus realizing the awakening and explosion of the creative economy.
Q:What are the company's highlights and progress in music rights management and services?
A:The company has made significant progress in music rights management and services, especially with the introduction of a vertical model in 2025 that accurately determines whether music content is generated by AI, and has commercialized it with multiple music playback platforms and publishers. At the same time, through the acquisition of Pax music assets to expand the multi-modal field of power, as well as in the AI music generation model traceability breakthrough, for music copyright management to provide strong support. In addition, the company has also made a major breakthrough in the service of micro-short series slow drama, becoming a large-scale service provider of the domestic head platform, effectively reducing the cost of copyright monitoring for customers, and successfully helping to AI the commercial application of slow drama in the domestic market and the global demand for copyright protection.
Q:In 2025, with which key platforms the company has reached a fully integrated eco-level cooperation? What concrete results have the company achieved in its cooperation with byte-based platforms?
A:In 2025, the company has fully integrated ecological-level cooperation with several major platforms such as byte series (including red fruit skits, soda music and other products), Tencent, Aliyun, and Fast Hand. In cooperation with the byte system platform, the company has formed in-depth cooperation in a number of content categories such as music, short dramas, such as soda music month active users close to 0.1 billion. At the same time, it is also actively involved in the content creation of tremolo and tomato novels, and the pace of cooperation continues to accelerate, and more projects are in progress.
Q:What role does the company play in its partnership with Tencent?
A:As the most important service partner for NBA copyright in China, the company provides a full range of copyright services from live broadcast to fragmented dissemination, covering a wide range of areas such as drama skits and content going to sea.
Q:How does the company maintain a deep cooperative relationship with Ali and what progress has been made in AI areas?
A:The company maintains in-depth cooperation with Ali and Ant Group, especially in the AI and cloud computing scenarios, the two sides have carried out substantial business cooperation in the model layer and computing power layer, and specific progress will be reported in due course.
Q:How does the company serve fast players and what data can be shared on AI asset types? What is the company's AI asset management situation in the current litigation environment?
A:In 2025, the company provides fast hands with music, micro-drama, variety content and a large number of star live broadcast of comprehensive in-depth services. In terms of data on AI asset types, the ending value of active assets as of Q3 2025 was 4.69 million, of which 9.2 per cent were related to AI production; by 31 December 2025, the number of active assets reached 4.86 million, an increase of 3.6 per cent. In the current litigation environment, the company found that a large number of content using customer IP has been temporarily shelved. If calculated according to the original judgment standard, this part of content could have generated good revenue on the platform. If this part of assets is included, as of December 31, 2025, the number of active assets can reach 5.2 million, and the proportion of AI content will reach 17%.
Q:How can the company leverage its strengths to drive copyright and liquidity?
A:Through its accumulated element-level management capabilities, the company has implemented copyright asset management and realization services on platforms such as YouTube, and has launched a dataset service capability to monitor and capture the use of AI in the creative process, and to showcase daily new views and estimated revenue streams through the Max platform.
Q:What are the latest developments in the application of AI tools and the confirmation of rights on the Make platform?
A:Make platform from the initial natural language generation content, to the development of raw maps, raw video, and access to intelligent body technology, to achieve model aggregation, to serve professional creators. The platform has been used by North American universities such as Friedel University for content production competitions and course sales. In addition, the company is committed to contributing to the determination of rights and copyright management by cooperating with copyright owners, using large model technology and intelligent body technology, in order to promote the wider application of AI tools in the field of content creation.
Q:In the cooperation with Disney, do we provide them with certain services, and how much impact does this termination have on our group?
A:Under the framework of cooperation at that time, we did provide certain services for Disney. However, the impact of this termination on our Group is limited as the value added component of the AI does not account for a significant proportion of the overall partnership. We have been providing technical support services to Disney, including monitoring content usage in online datasets. Because Disney's attempts at AI were very modest and not applied on a large scale, the partnership had little material impact on our business.
Q:What is the understanding of the cooperation model between the domestic business sector and companies such as Hongguo, as well as the number of active assets in the AI?
A:We work with domestic partners such as Red Fruit, Tencent, Ali and Fast Hand to adopt SaaS subscription mode, mainly to find infringement off the shelf, but also to provide value-added services and share. The revenue generated by AI active assets corresponds to our value-added services, I .e. when AI active assets can generate revenue and obtain copyright claims, we believe that these assets are effective.
Q:What is the progress of the conversion of debt to equity? What is the progress and effectiveness of the use of funds? Are there any downward revision clauses for related transactions?
A:As of the end of February, the 1.6 billion zero interest conversion progress is small. In terms of the progress of the use of funds, according to the purpose of last year, the current use is good, but the specific data are not detailed in the dialogue. In terms of overseas technology investment, there is no clear answer as to whether there is a similar downward revision clause with A- share convertible bonds.
Q:What are the main sources of technology?
A:The sources of technology are diverse, but not detailed in the dialogue. It is mentioned that Disney attaches great importance to technology and has a history of accumulating innovative technologies through mergers and acquisitions and technical cooperation.
Q:What is Disney's attitude towards AI technology?
A:Disney has a high degree of recognition of AI technology. Although the Hollywood industry has a cautious attitude towards AI, within Disney, senior executives such as Bob Iger attach great importance to the revolutionary impact of AI technology on the industry. Although there is a three-year agreement not to touch AI, with the change of senior management and technological development, Disney's attitude has changed and it has tried to cooperate with AI in a limited way.
Q:What is the impact of AI generated content on effective assets?
A:AI-generated content can increase the activity and liquidity of effective assets, increase viewing, and thus increase overall revenue. Although the traditional business is still dominant due to certain factors in the near future, in the long run, changes in the environment of AI enabling creation and digital entertainment industry will bring great opportunities, especially the higher acceptance of AI technology by small and medium-sized independent producers, which may promote the rapid development of AI active assets.
Q:What about AI technology inputs?
A:We have invested heavily in AI technology, especially in large models and recognition technology. This is because AI technology plays an important role in content generation and solving complex problems. Just like the relationship between missiles and supersonic interceptors, the wide application of AI technology has prompted us to continue to increase research and investment in this field.
Q:In the case of the 1.6 billion convertible bonds just mentioned, what is the current remaining amount and the company's cash flow position? Is it facing greater financial pressure?
A:There are currently some conversions of convertible bonds in the early 1.5 billion s remaining. In fact, on the books, our cash reserves have been reduced to about 0.3 billion, and while operations remain benign, we can solve the funding problem even without financing, and there is no serious debt pressure.
Q:Can the company adjust the price of convertible bonds or refinance through flexible operations in places such as Hong Kong?
A:Yes, compared with China, Hong Kong and other places are more flexible in terms of price adjustment of convertible bonds. We can respond to market changes by issuing new convertible bonds or implementing strategic investment and issuance of shares, with various financing channels.
Q:Why is the company's Q4 development slowing down compared to Q3, and what are the reasons for the decline in various indicators?
A:Q4 We have encountered some phased setbacks in revenue, mainly because the part that focuses on large customers and large copyright owners cannot be realized for the time being and is put into the observation pool, which has a direct impact on our revenue. However, this situation is phased, not a trend decline, and growth is expected to resume after the first quarter.
Q:What is the company's current timeline for advancing platform applications? What is the current status of the Dream Maker platform?
A:We have completed the technical development of the RW platform, but as a Hong Kong listed company is subject to relevant regulatory rules, the first asset to be launched must be approved by the Hong Kong regulator. Although the waiting process may be slightly delayed, we believe that ensuring compliance is a very important first step. This will lay a solid foundation for the opening of subsequent platform applications, and we expect to see actual progress in the first half of the year. The Dream Maker platform has begun to be put into use and has been applied in overseas fields such as universities. Although the revenue has not yet reached a large scale, the platform has been launched and accepted by the market.
Q:What is management's financial outlook for the company in 2026?
A:Based on the current synchronization of business and financial indicators, we expect to maintain the growth trend of 2025 for the whole year of 2026, which is based on the judgment of the certainty of the core business. In addition, the music part is expected to realize large-scale income in 2026. The litigation between the AI model and large copyright owners is expected to be promoted efficiently and reach the landing of rules, thus accelerating the conversion of assets in the waiting pool into income. IWA, as an innovative content realization channel, although it may not bring about a huge increase in revenue and cost in the initial stage, it is of great significance to empower the distribution side of small and medium-sized content in the AI era. Combining the above three points, we are confident of bringing additional surprises to investors in 2026.

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