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Sound Group Inc. connects people seeking entertainment, companionship and shared interests with hosts through voice live streams, group voice conversations and podcasts. Users buy the platform’s Golden Coins and spend them on virtual gifts for creators. Those gift sales generate most of the company’s revenue. Sound Group shares the proceeds with hosts and the guilds that recruit, support and organize them; other paid features contribute much less.
The business depends on keeping hosts who produce engaging content and users who are willing to pay. A material portion of revenue comes from a limited number of key paying users, so retaining their spending matters alongside attracting a wider audience.
Sound Group also offers AI applications for productivity and professional tasks, earning subscription fees. These applications remain at an early commercialization stage, and subscriptions and paid audio content together account for only a small part of revenue.
Substantially all revenue comes from China. Foreign-ownership restrictions mean Sound Group runs its Chinese business mainly through contracts with Guangzhou Lizhi and Guangzhou Huanliao rather than owning them directly. These entities hold operating licenses and key assets, making the business dependent on enforceable contracts. Chinese content rules also restrict what the platforms may carry; violations can lead to service suspension or license revocation.
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HUYA competes with Sound Group for users’ entertainment spending and creators’ engagement: both sell virtual gifts for live interactions and share the proceeds with hosts. Watch HUYA’s live-streaming revenue and payments to broadcasters and talent agencies for clues to gift spending and the cost of keeping creators.
DouYu’s game-focused live streams compete with Sound Group’s audio live streams for Chinese users’ attention and spending on virtual gifts for hosts. DouYu’s live-streaming revenue, mainly from gifts, fell from RMB4,799.0 million in 2023 to RMB2,177.4 million in 2025—a trend to watch alongside Sound Group’s gift sales.
Yalla offers a comparison for Sound Group’s social-audio business: both earn money from users buying virtual gifts and playing games, but Yalla tailors its communities to Middle Eastern and North African cultures while Sound Group earns substantially all its revenue in China. Watch spending on Yalla’s group-chat gifts, chat privileges and games as a comparison for Sound Group’s ability to turn interaction into paying-user revenue, rather than a gauge of Chinese demand.
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HUYA’s report will show how much users spend on live-streaming gifts and how much HUYA pays broadcasters and talent agencies, revealing the spending and creator-cost pressures Sound Group faces in a competing gift business.
Read HUYA’s live-streaming revenue alongside its payments to broadcasters and talent agencies. Steady revenue without faster-rising payments would suggest gift spending is holding up without creator costs rising as quickly, easing pressure on Sound Group’s competing gift business. Falling revenue, or payments rising faster, would point to weaker spending or greater costs to retain creators—and a tougher contest for Sound Group.
