DouYu International Holdings Limited (NASDAQ:DOYU) Q3 2023 Earnings Conference Call December 7, 2023 7:00 AM ET

Corporate Participants

Lingling Kong - IR Director

Hao Cao - Vice President of Finance

Conference Call Participants

Thomas Chong - Jefferies

Derick Pei - Morgan Stanley

Katrina Chiu - Citi

Lei Zhang - Bank of America

Raphael Chen - BOCI Research

Operator

Good morning and good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you and welcome to DouYu International Holdings Limited Third Quarter 2023 Earnings Conference Call. At this time all participants are in listen-only mode. We will be hosting a question-and-answer session after management's prepared remarks.

I will now turn the call over to the first speaker today, Ms. Lingling Kong, IR Director at DouYu. Please go ahead, ma'am.

Lingling Kong

Thank you. Hello, everyone. Welcome to our third quarter 2023 earnings call. Joining us today are Mr. Mingming Su, Chief Strategy Officer and Mr. Hao Cao, Vice President of Finance from Interim Management Committee. You can refer to our third quarter 2023 financial results on our IR website at ir.douyu.com. You can also check a replay of this call when it becomes available in a few hours on our IR website.

Before we start, please note that this call may contain forward-looking statements made pursuant to Safe Harbor provision for the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are based on management's current expectations and observations that involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors not under the company's control, which may cause actual results, performance or achievements of the company to be materially different from the results performance or expectations implied by this forward-looking statements.

All forward-looking statements are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statement, risk factors and details of the company's filings with the SEC. The company undertakes no duty to revise or update any forward-looking statements for selected events or circumstances after the date of this conference call.

Before I provide an update on our business performance for the third quarter of 2023, on behalf of management, I'd like to briefly address the current recent situation concerning Mr. Shaojie Chen. As announced, DouYu have formed an Interim Management Committee to manage the company's operations until further notice, as of now speak on behalf of our Interim Management Committee on Business update and the call will be handed to our Vice President of Finance Mr. Hao Cao for financial discussion.