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Note:<\/strong> This is a preliminary transcript and may contain inaccuracies. It will be updated with a final, fully-reviewed version soon.<\/em><\/p>\n

Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (NSE: ZEEL) Q4 2026 Earnings Call dated May. 19, 2026<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Corporate Participants:<\/h2>\n

Ankit Arora<\/strong> \u2014 Head of Investor Relations<\/em><\/p>\n

Punit Goenka<\/strong> \u2014 Chief Executive Officer<\/em><\/p>\n

Mukund Galgali<\/strong> \u2014 Deputy CEO and Chief Financial Officer<\/em><\/p>\n

Analysts:<\/h2>\n

Unidentified Participant<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sameer Gupta<\/strong> \u2014 Analyst<\/em><\/p>\n

Kavish Parekh<\/strong> \u2014 Analyst<\/em><\/p>\n

Umang Mehta<\/strong> \u2014 Analyst<\/em><\/p>\n

Presentation:<\/h2>\n

Operator<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ladies and gentlemen, good day and welcome to the Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited Conference call. As a reminder, all participant lines will be in the listen only mode and there will be an opportunity for you to ask questions after the presentation concludes. Should you need assistance during this conference, please signal an operator by pressing Star then zero on your touchtone phone. Please note that this conference is being recorded. I now hand the conference over to Mr. Ankit Arora, head of Investor Relations from Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited.<\/p>\n

Thank you. And over to you sir.<\/p>\n

Ankit Arora<\/strong> \u2014 Head of Investor Relations<\/em><\/p>\n

Thanks, Daubin. Hello everyone. Welcome to our Q4FY26 and full year ended March 2026 earnings discussion. We hope you have had an opportunity to review the results. Today we are joined by our CEO Mr. Puneet Goenka and our Deputy CEO and CFO Mr. Mukund Galgali, along with the senior management team. We will start the call with the opening remarks from Mr. Goenka followed by commentary on operating and financial performance by Mr. Mukun Galgali, our Deputy CEO and CFO. Before we get started, I would like to remind everyone that some of the statements made or discussed on today’s conference call will be forward looking in nature and must be viewed in conjunction with risks and uncertainties we face.<\/p>\n

The company does not undertake to update any of these forward looking statements publicly. With that said, I will now hand the call over to PG for his remarks. Thank you. And over to you, Puneet.<\/p>\n

Punit Goenka<\/strong> \u2014 Chief Executive Officer<\/em><\/p>\n

Thank you, Ankit. Good evening everyone. It is indeed my pleasure to connect with all of you again to discuss your company’s performance in the fourth quarter of the financial year 2025 and 2026. As always, I will share an overview of our strategic priorities and its progress during the quarter, while Mukund will take you through the detailed financial metrics pertaining to the company’s performance. Our focus in the previous financial year was on judicious long term investments across the businesses in line with our growth plans.<\/p>\n

The investments will enable us to build a sustainable long term growth trajectory for the company and hence must be viewed with a forward looking lens. Considerable efforts were sown in to further strengthen our prowess in content creation in order to deliver more engaging and entertainment experience to our consumers. We also enhanced operational efficiencies across platforms with a special focus on our core that is Content and revenue. Speaking about the performance of the digital business, I am glad to share that Z5 achieved break even during the previous fiscal.<\/p>\n

The platform was operationally profitable for the second quarter in a row delivering 53% year on year growth in FY26. The success largely stems from the seven language strategy that enabled us to drive higher engagement through compelling content and seamless user experience. Digital remains our experiential growth story and we will continue to build on this momentum as we go forward in order to narrate more engaging stories through innovative concepts. The teams have invested significant energies towards sharpening the content strategy across platforms.<\/p>\n

The positive outcome of this strategy reflects in our network share which increased by 80 basis points to touch 17.4% during the quarter. Our flagship Hindi GEC ZTB continue to display robust GRP growth of 40%. Strong character led storytelling coupled with culturally rooted narratives enable the channel to garner peak engagement during the primetime slots. Our linear portfolio of languages channels also further strengthen their foothold in their respective markets by reporting an interest or increase in market share during the quarter.<\/p>\n

Your company also took steps to further build an integrated future ready monetization engine. The strengthened advertising revenue team enhances our ability to unlock emerging revenue streams and respond swiftly to market dynamics. The uncertain geopolitical environment and macroeconomic headwinds disrupted consumer sentiments during the quarter. The continuing ambiguity in the global economic landscape is a result of the conflict in the Middle east and that has impaired or that has impacted overall growth across sectors and the industry at large over the last couple of quarters.<\/p>\n

Your company has also taken keen steps to identify and establish its presence across emerging segments. In line with this approach, we announced a strategic investment in Global VFX and and Phantom VSX which will build your company’s capabilities in the VGC segment by creating more immersive content across platforms. Overall, your company remains resilient and well poised on all fronts to face any challenges emerging from the weak macroeconomic environment. We continue to remain focused on the opportunities that lie ahead and stay confident in the abilities to capitalize on them and maximize value.<\/p>\n

On that note, I will hand over the call to Mukul to take you all through the operating and financial metrics in detail. I look forward to interacting with all of you during the Q and A session. Thank you and over to you Mukak.<\/p>\n

Mukund Galgali<\/strong> \u2014 Deputy CEO and Chief Financial Officer<\/em><\/p>\n

Thank you Puneet and good evening everyone. It’s a pleasure to connect and interact with all of you. On behalf of Zee, I hope you’ve had an opportunity to go through our quarter four and financial year 26 results which have been uploaded on our corporate website as well as the stock exchange portal. In my remarks today, I will focus on providing additional context to our performance during the quarter and for the year ended March 26th. I would like to begin the update by mentioning our digital business wherein we are extremely happy with its performance.<\/p>\n

During the year we witnessed continued momentum in our revenues which grew 71% year on year basis for quarter four FY26 to 4,700 million. This quarter has also marked our highest ever revenues in the digital business for the full year. FY26A strong revenue growth was seen at 53% with a balanced cost structure. It resulted in delivering a positive EBITDA in FY26 compared to a loss of 5,480 million in the previous year. This also marked the first year in which our digital business has delivered a positive EBITDA on a comparable basis, achieving the guidance which we had given.<\/p>\n

At the start of the year our digital offerings were more than doubled by releasing over 120 shows and movies including 34 originals. The enhanced content offering across seven languages coupled with revised pricing strategy aided in an all round improved performance. We remain confident of the unit economics in this business and we are further confident of the momentum continuing ahead in this in the medium term. Moving to subscription revenues, it has registered a 4% year on year growth primarily driven by our digital business.<\/p>\n

In our broadcast business, the overall linear TV landscape remains continues to remain stable with weekly impressions of above 28 billion and a weekly reach exceeding 740 million during the year. We continue to maintain our position as India’s strong number two TV entertainment network as we look at the viewership share. As UNEET also mentioned, we exited the month of March with a network share of more than 18%, while for the quarter it stood at 17.4%, a gain of 80 basis points on a year on year basis.<\/p>\n

Our flagship Hindi GEC ZTV has witnessed higher GRP with nearly 21% stronger performance than its closest competitors for 26 weeks straight. Further, I’m pleased to inform you that as a part of our omnichannel strategy, Z’s monthly unique reach has crossed 800 million across platforms. The above developments reaffirm that the strategic initiatives which were implemented during the year are delivering results in the right direction. On the advertising front, we did witness healthy traction in the initial months of Jan and Feb.<\/p>\n

However, March was severely impacted with the ongoing Middle east contract conflict where advertisers have held back their spends in the end of the quarter. As a result, our Overall advertising revenues declined 4% year on year. Adjusted for the month for the impact in the month of March, advertising revenues would have witnessed single digit low single digit growth in quarter four despite the shifting of ILT20 to quarter three during the year we have also invested across multiple initiatives to augment our advertising like the omnichannel strategy, the diversification of advertiser base beyond fmcg, improved content offering leading to higher network share and grp.<\/p>\n

While the advertising environment looks challenging in the immediate term amidst the prolonged West Asia crisis, we do believe that the investments in strategic levers during the financial year 26 along with our digital proposition positions us well from a medium term perspective talking about our music business. During the year we have garnered over 217 billion total video views with more than 176 million subscribers on YouTube. This performance was driven by a new age music catalog and a rich library of over 20,000.<\/p>\n

Profitability in the music business remains healthy and we continue to diversify our catalog across additional language markets. On the studios business during the quarter we released 13 movies, seven in Hindi and six in other languages of which nine were our own productions and four were distribution deals. We continued our focus on the syndication vertical as was highlighted in the previous quarters and this continues to deliver promising results. This was partly offset by a muted performance in the studio business resulting in other sales and services declining by 47% in Q4 as the number of releases were lower.<\/p>\n

Now I would like to touch upon a couple of strategic investments approved by the board of the company during the quarter. Firstly, an investment of 20 crores was approved in respect of Core Private Limited which is culture of real experiences. Core stands for culture of Real Experiences, so this will help drive our live business. Secondly, an investment of up to 116 crores was also approved as Puneet mentioned in Phantom Digital Effects Ltd. Which happens to be a listed company as well. This investment shall significantly enhance the company’s current content creation capabilities and also our presence in the animation, visual effects, gaming and comics segment.<\/p>\n

Further, the microdrama app bullet continues to garner steady games with its unique model of gamifying the viewer, viewers viewing experience and engaging consumers through short form content. Before moving on to profitability, I would like to provide context and details pertaining to change in estimates of movie rights, amortization pattern and additional impairment recognized during this quarter totaling to 4,084 million for our movie inventory, the company reviewed its basis of estimates and its amortization to closely align the recognition of costs based on the estimated monetization pattern and digital viewership trends over the past few years and while the total tenure remains the same, an accelerated amortization pattern has been adopted for the initial years and this is in line with the trends which we have seen as a result of the above and optimized fresh acquisitions, the content inventory advances and deposits as of March 26 stood at 67.6 billion, down by 2.8 billion on a year on year basis.<\/p>\n

Now for the purpose of now for the discussion on profitability, we would like to make the comparison adjusted to the one off charge. As mentioned earlier, our overall operating costs remained nearly flat year on year. This was driven by lower programming cost due to shift of ILT to quarter three and lower production costs in studio business, which was partly offset by increased marketing spends in our digital business and hosting of our marquee event the Z Cine Awards. During this quarter, with a 7% decline in operating revenue and optimizing our other fixed costs during the quarter, our adjusted EBITDA margin stood at 6.9%.<\/p>\n

Further, we had higher costs due to legal expenses in quarter four. Excluding these one offs and lower advertising revenue on account of the Middle east conflict, our margins would have been similar to quarter three on the balance sheet. Our focus efforts continue to strengthen our liquidity and financial position. Cash and treasury Investments as of March 2026 stood at a healthy 27.6 billion, comprising of cash balance of 7.5 billion, fixed deposits and other treasury investments of 7.8 billion and mutual fund investments of 12.3 billion.<\/p>\n

As we look ahead with the ongoing West Asia uncertainty, the advertising we notice advertisers are approaching are adopting a cautious approach. However, we believe that the multiple strategic initiatives implemented by your company in FY26 across content, its omnichannel approach, investment in new initiatives augurs well for us in the medium term. At the same time, we continue to invest behind our people as there are real assets in this business. Once the current macroeconomic environment stabilizes, our focus will remain will continue to remain on driving revenue growth while maintaining a cost prudence, aiding operating leverage resulting in profitability improvement and cash generation.<\/p>\n

With that I would like to hand it back to Ankit. Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

Ankit Arora<\/strong> \u2014 Head of Investor Relations<\/em><\/p>\n

Thanks. Mukul Darwin we can now open the floor for question and answer session<\/p>\n

Mukund Galgali<\/strong> \u2014 Deputy CEO and Chief Financial Officer<\/em><\/p>\n

Just for the<\/p>\n

Ankit Arora<\/strong> \u2014 Head of Investor Relations<\/em><\/p>\n

Participants. Just an input. PG has a hard stop at 6:15 for one of his other prior commitments, so would request all the participants to direct your questions to pg if any until that time. Thanks and dovin. We can now open it up the floor.<\/p>\n

Questions and Answers:<\/h2>\n

Operator<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thank you very much. We will now begin the question and answer session. Anyone who wishes to ask a question may press star and one on their touchtone telephone. If you wish to remove yourself from the question queue, you may press star and two participants are Requested to please use handsets while asking a question. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now wait for a moment while the question queue assembles. Our first question comes from the line of Avnish Roy with Novama. Please go ahead.<\/p>\n

Unidentified Participant<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, thank you. I have one strategic question for pg. Given limited time, I’ll first start with that one is Z is a content and entertainment company. I wanted to understand why invest in backend in terms of Global VFX and Phantom vfx, how does it help? How much investment? What can be the impact on revenue longer term? Second strategic question is. Yes, Z5, you have delivered on the guidance of ebitda breakeven. Will FY27 be a reinvestment year in terms of content? Given you achieved that profitability matrix now would you need to change the overall strategy in FY27 given competition is quite fierce and you have achieved the breakeven now would you want to go back to the content in terms of investment?<\/p>\n

Punit Goenka<\/strong><\/p>\n

So to your first question and thank you for the questions. The reason we are investing in these back end businesses because you know, just like we invested in music and in the studio business, all these are complementary to the way the entire entertainment landscape is changing. And you know, VSX and these kind of things will come into the television space as well. So we cannot ignore it. We can always keep trying to outsource it. But we believe that, you know, having it internally could be far more beneficial and cost effective in our perspective.<\/p>\n

So that was the first one. The second one, I believe that we are at optimum level of investments on the Z5 or the digital front. At some point in time we may choose to up our investments but they will not move the needle to the extent that it will start impacting our EBITDA line.<\/p>\n

Operator<\/strong><\/p>\n

So<\/p>\n

Punit Goenka<\/strong><\/p>\n

From that perspective, you know, little bit here and there, but just as we do in the television business as well, this is the way we are looking at it and that’s how we are going to run it.<\/p>\n

Unidentified Participant<\/strong><\/p>\n

So thank you. My second question is essentially in music business we have got one unlisted player and then two listed player in which one is large. In your music business, would you want to invest more, do some kind of a value unlock? Because in a TV linear broadcasting and an OTT company, is music getting the desired value? Of course you’ll have to invest in that. What is your thoughts on this?<\/p>\n

Punit Goenka<\/strong><\/p>\n

No, we certainly want to invest in the music business because that’s the only way to keep broadening and going ahead. And whether the question of unlocking value that is always Something that we keep considering all the time. But as of now our objective is to just keep expanding from the 20,000 songs that we have today. Compared to my competitors, we are still a very small player and we will keep investing and going ahead on that basis. But if opportunities come, why not? We will always evaluate and look at those.<\/p>\n

Unidentified Participant<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last question. You have 80 bips market share gain on the network level and Hindi GC you are claiming leadership. So I wanted to understand that a bit more because clearly I saw an advertisement also where you have claimed that in prime time Hindi GC is having leadership. Now every channel claims leadership given the way dissection of data happens. So I wanted to understand one, how is the, how strong is the leadership? Second, are you able to monetize this because of Iran crisis? Everything gets hidden.<\/p>\n

All this improvement in market share, if it is there, is it reflecting somewhere in terms of revenue? Because in terms of reported numbers, obviously we can’t see given Iran crisis impact in March. If you could share that detail.<\/p>\n

Punit Goenka<\/strong><\/p>\n

So leadership as you have rightly said, Amnesh, is only in prime time as of now and the advertisement that you may have seen is marketing thing that my team may have done. So don’t hold me to that. But we are working towards getting full leadership and that’s what we want to attain. As you know that any gain in viewership has a 13 to 16 week lag in terms of converting to revenues. So that’s what we have to work towards and my teams are working very hard to make sure that we attain that conversion of revenue as well.<\/p>\n

Unidentified Participant<\/strong><\/p>\n

Understood. Thank you. That’s all from us.<\/p>\n

Punit Goenka<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thank you. Avnish.<\/p>\n

Operator<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thank you. Our next question is from the line of Sameer Gupta with IIFL Capital. Please go ahead.<\/p>\n

Sameer Gupta<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hi, good evening sir and thanks for taking my questions. Sir firstly wanted to understand the ad spend line in the cost. So I understand these are costs incurred upfront but when we as a country are staring at inflationary pressures and you have a expectation that most of the FMCG companies in all likelihoods for protecting their margins will flash their ad budgets and part of it is already visible in Our results in 4Q and the subscription line item. Also consumers are likely to reduce discretionary spends.<\/p>\n

Why not go slow on these expenses and protect margins? I mean These are a 44% this quarter. Full year is. It’s fine. We didn’t know that West Asia is going to happen. But just your thoughts on this sir.<\/p>\n

Punit Goenka<\/strong><\/p>\n

To Sameer, you know when it comes to marketing we have to look at it in multiple contexts. We have new businesses that we have just launched and therefore there’s going to be marketing expense on that account. That’s one part. Second part is that while we are, you know, running the business, we can’t behave like, you know, selling soaps or detergents or, you know, things like that. Therefore, our business is about consumption on a daily basis by our consumers on content. So we cannot pull back on marketing from that perspective.<\/p>\n

We have in the past and not necessary that that has worked for us. Therefore, I’m very, very cognizant of the fact that how do we make our marketing more efficient rather than cutting back? If I have answered your question, you know,<\/p>\n

Sameer Gupta<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fair enough, sir, but then, and, and I’m asking, I know I’m asking a difficult question here, but in the context of where we are today, how do you see the FY27 then pan out in terms of growth and margins? We have finished at 8,9% on the foliage basis start of the year. We had ambitious plans on the margin front. But what needs to change and how do we get to that high teens kind of a margin, if at all?<\/p>\n

Punit Goenka<\/strong><\/p>\n

No, Sameer, you know, most of your colleagues will tell you that I am an optimist by nature. I do believe that once we have hit rock bottom, the only way to go is up. And that’s what we are going to do going forward as a company, your company. And that’s what we are working towards. That’s our sole objective. So whether we get to the high teens or the this thing number, I can’t guarantee right now because I can’t give you a guidance. But we are certainly going to continue to work to make sure that we create value for our shareholders and for you all.<\/p>\n

Sameer Gupta<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last question if I may. Squeeze in the Employee cost down 16% this quarter, 9% for the full year. Just trying to understand what is going on here.<\/p>\n

Punit Goenka<\/strong><\/p>\n

No, as Mukun mentioned in his speech that we have done a lot of optimization in manpower through our omnichannel strategy. A lot of people have taken on a lot more responsibility towards achieving their KPIs and all those things. So that’s how we’ve optimized it. If you go back four, five years before the pandemic, we used to operate at 9% people cost to revenue and we are trying to bring it back to that and that’s what our objective is going to be.<\/p>\n

Sameer Gupta<\/strong><\/p>\n

Has there been a major rationalization in the amount of manpower also? Yes, there has been.<\/p>\n

Punit Goenka<\/strong><\/p>\n

I mean, yes, there has been and that’s not happened overnight. This has happened over a period of one year. So we’ve you know, evaluated every role, every this thing and then taken conscious cause on what we need to do.<\/p>\n

Mukund Galgali<\/strong><\/p>\n

So Samir, just to add to Puneet, there was a major activity in the previous quarter and the results of which are being reflected in the current quarter.<\/p>\n

Punit Goenka<\/strong><\/p>\n

And as I said, we also continue to invest in our human assets and you know, we will continue to keep adding on to the skill sets wherever<\/p>\n

Mukund Galgali<\/strong><\/p>\n

Needed while maintaining, you know, additional people, additional responsibilities being taken by current team which also give them a growth opportunity. So I think we are maintaining a fine balance here.<\/p>\n

Sameer Gupta<\/strong><\/p>\n

Great. That’s all from me. All the best.<\/p>\n

Punit Goenka<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thank you, Sameer. Thank you.<\/p>\n

Operator<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, to ask a question you may please press star and one. Our next question is from the line of Janesh Joshi with PL Capital. Please go ahead.<\/p>\n

Unidentified Participant<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thanks for the opportunity. Sir, my first question is on the amortization charge that we took in this quarter to the tune of about 300 crores. So can you share what is our revised amortization policy for movies?<\/p>\n

Mukund Galgali<\/strong><\/p>\n

So pj I’ll take that. So Ginesh, as we mentioned in our annual reports and our disclosure we are amortizing the movies over a period of five years on a straight line basis. We’ve had a look at the various patterns of consumption and we have changed that estimate to make it more front ended to increase it to 50% in the first two years and then the balance in the next three years. So that’s the impact which we have taken which is reflected in the note.<\/p>\n

Unidentified Participant<\/strong><\/p>\n

50% in the first two years and balance 50% in the next three years. Right?<\/p>\n

Mukund Galgali<\/strong><\/p>\n

That’s right.<\/p>\n

Unidentified Participant<\/strong><\/p>\n

And this change, I mean in the presentation we have stated that X of this change Z5 was EBITDA positive in 4Q and for the full year of FY26. So is it possible to share the adjusted EBITDA numbers for<\/p>\n

Mukund Galgali<\/strong><\/p>\n

The adjusted EBITDA you know will be below 100 crores? I can say if x this effect of the investment inventory adjustment. But it’s a little complicated accounting because you know the there are some inventories which are being used in both platforms. So hence we’ll not be able to give you more specifics of that. But this adjustment it will be below 100 crores for the quarter.<\/p>\n

Unidentified Participant<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sure. My second question is on our ratings. So while on YY basis we have seen an improvement come through. But if I look at our sequential ratings I think we are down from about 17.8% to I think sub 17%. 17.4 I think in this quarter. But while I think in some of our markets like say Hindi, Marathi and Tamil, we have seen very sharp improvement in ratings come through. So in. In that case why on sequential basis we are seeing some kind of fall in our viewership share.<\/p>\n

Punit Goenka<\/strong><\/p>\n

So sir, you have to understand it with what is happening in the market. So you had T20 World cup, we had the Bengal elections, we have had several other incidents that have possibly caused that drop to happen. But overall our improvement is still significant which I had mentioned in my opening remarks and even Mukun mentioned. So that’s how you have to look at it. You have to cut down and look at little bit more in terms of granularity of the data before you can come to that conclusion that you may be looking at.<\/p>\n

Unidentified Participant<\/strong><\/p>\n

Got it. Thank you. Thank you sir. And all the best.<\/p>\n

Punit Goenka<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thank you.<\/p>\n

Operator<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Kavish Parekh with 361 Capital. Please go ahead.<\/p>\n

Kavish Parekh<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thanks for the opportunity. Continuing, a question asked by one of the earlier participants on Zee Music. So value unlocking, you did mention that you may look at it at some point of view future. But if I remember a few quarters ago you had mentioned that you are open to disclosing the matrix. Maybe revenues, maybe some operational matrix for the music. Any thoughts on that? Why was that not disclosed?<\/p>\n

Punit Goenka<\/strong><\/p>\n

So Kabir, I think it is competitive in nature from our perspective and therefore we chose to delay that. And certainly we will be evaluating on a quarterly basis when to start disclosing. I am, I am certain we’ll start disclosing it sooner than later. But you know, for competitive reasons we have not done it so far because as you are aware, and I’m sure you are aware that lot of the international players are coming to the country trying to make acquisitions on various companies and therefore we chose not to disclose it right now.<\/p>\n

Kavish Parekh<\/strong><\/p>\n

Understood. But are you open to any of any such partnerships or maybe whenever you happen to think about value that would be more of a demerger route or something on those lines.<\/p>\n

Punit Goenka<\/strong><\/p>\n

No, As I mentioned in my opening remarks and in the earlier question, somebody asked me that if I get the right offer, why would I not be open to considering and demerging Z music from Z to a separate entity and bringing in a strategic partner there? Why not?<\/p>\n

Kavish Parekh<\/strong><\/p>\n

Secondly, on your relatively newer initiatives, bullets investments of about 100 crores planned over the next few years currently I understand, of course it remains pretty small. What kind of monetization potential do you see here? And similarly on the live event, what Is the strategy here? What kind of events are you targeting? And any scale that you envisage that you would want to see this business say in the next three years.<\/p>\n

Punit Goenka<\/strong><\/p>\n

So bullet, you know, it’s a new business from our perspective, but it’s a unique business that a lot of the world is already doing a lot of with micro dramas and small format or short format content. It’s something that’s worth. As a media company, we have to be there. We cannot ignore it. But that’s also an audience base that we cannot ignore the potential of that is still. We are studying it, we are still evaluating it. But I believe that already the micro drama market or short form content market is reached almost what correctly Mukund, if I’m wrong, 3,000, three and a half thousand crores.<\/p>\n

So from that perspective, it’s not a market to be ignored anymore. That was the first one. Second question was what can you repeat again<\/p>\n

Kavish Parekh<\/strong><\/p>\n

On the line when.<\/p>\n

Punit Goenka<\/strong><\/p>\n

So live business on a, you know, in a. How do I put it? You know, in a live events business on an organized manner in our estimate is close to 50,000 crores in this country. And I’m not even including the non, you know, that segment which is your B2B and what happens in small towns and all those things and forget about Shadi and all those things. So there is a huge opportunity in the live business that we need to look at. And given what we are seeing today with the kinds of. I mean we did one show with and these kind of things are becoming a complete rage.<\/p>\n

So we cannot. This is also part of our entertainment business. We cannot ignore it.<\/p>\n

Kavish Parekh<\/strong><\/p>\n

Understood. Thanks. Thanks for that.<\/p>\n

Mukund Galgali<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is also complementing our current, you know, it is also platform for us to tool for us to market also for Zee Talent and Z products. And also it has synergy with our advertising clients as well. So these are other benefits of being in this business.<\/p>\n

Kavish Parekh<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sure. Thank you for that. Thank you.<\/p>\n

Operator<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thank you. Participants who wish to ask questions may please press star and one on the touchstone telephones. Our next question comes from the line of Umang from Kotak securities. Please go ahead.<\/p>\n

Umang Mehta<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hi, thanks for the opportunity in Z5. I believe last quarter we had a catch up revenue and despite that on you know, QoQ we’ve seen a big jump. So possible to share any qualitative color, any quantitative metrics on Dau MAU paying subscribers. It would really help to appreciate what you are trying to do there.<\/p>\n

Ankit Arora<\/strong><\/p>\n

So Umang, I’ll just add a couple of insights for you. So while we don’t really disclose quantitatively MAU Dau because of the entire, you know, telco pricing catch up and of course aid on the entire B2B side of the business. It has certainly seen active engagement and a better, you know, MAU matrix for Q4 and of course the momentum on the underlying business both on the digital advertising side and the subscription continues coupled with of course the entire focus on syndication vertical which also has aided our revenue growth and the improved profitability metrics on a both quarter on quarter and on a yoy basis.<\/p>\n

Umang Mehta<\/strong><\/p>\n

Got it. And possible to share what was the ad revenues from Z5 this year? Any ballpark share in total revenues.<\/p>\n

Ankit Arora<\/strong><\/p>\n

So we don’t really disclose that. But the good news which is what I can tell you is you know it continues to you know grow extremely handsomely on a you know, quarter on quarter basis and it is moving into the territory of you know us with our aspiration of becoming ad and subscription more like balanced of 5050 in the more medium term. So it’s you know doing extreme leap in terms of growth on a sequential and both on a YY basis as well.<\/p>\n

Umang Mehta<\/strong><\/p>\n

Got it. And the second question was just pertaining to cash flows. So I’ve seen this provision for bad debt, for doubtful debts to be around 70 odd crores. So any color you can share on that. I mean what was it regarding and why would we need to make a large provision?<\/p>\n

Mukund Galgali<\/strong><\/p>\n

These are you know made on a conservative basis Umang and they’re all collectible but we’ll be, we make these provisions at the especially at the end of the year. We take into account the age of the debtors and receivables and we make these provisions and they will be collected subsequently.<\/p>\n

Umang Mehta<\/strong><\/p>\n

Okay, sure. Thank you so much.<\/p>\n

Operator<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thank you. That would be our last question for today. Ladies and gentlemen. I would now like to hand the conference over to Mr. Ankit Arora for closing comments. Over to you sir.<\/p>\n

Ankit Arora<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thank you everyone. Thanks for joining us. Do feel free to reach out to us if there are any follow up questions as you do a deeper study of the numbers. We will be available and look forward to speaking with you and meeting you in person soon. Thank you very much and have a great evening.<\/p>\n

Operator<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thank you. On behalf of zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. That concludes this conference. Thank you all for joining us. You may now disconnect your lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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