LIZHI INC. is a leading online UGC audio community and interactive audio entertainment platform in China, with a mission to enable everyone to showcase their vocal talents. The company is aiming to bring people closer together through voices.
Since launching LIZHI app in 2013, LIZHI has cultivated a vibrant and growing community encouraging audio content creation and sharing. Now LIZHI is an audio wonderland offering a wide range of podcasts and audio entertainment products and features, including audio live streaming and various interactive audio products, empowering users to enjoy an immersive and diversified entertainment experience through audio.
LIZHI envisions a global audio community – a place where everyone can create, share, and connect with each other through voices and across cultures.
In January 2020, LIZHI was listed on the Nasdaq Global Markets (NASDAQ: LIZI), and became the first online audio platform in China to go public.
The LIZHI app Version 1.0 was launched. Users were able to record, upload, and share podcasts on the app through mobile phones. We advocate "everyone is a content creator".
February 2014, the number of registered users of LIZHI app exceeded 1 million.
October 2014, the number of registered users of LIZHI app exceeded 10 million.
LIZHI launched the AI-driven recommendation function to achieve optimal content matching for specific users while different user preferences can be identified and matched with content profiles through big data analytics and AI technology.
LIZHI took the lead in the industry to launch the audio live streaming function on the platform. Content creators can host audio live streaming and interact with audiences at anytime and anywhere.
The number of registered users of LIZHI app exceeded 100 million.
LIZHI announced its brand upgrade strategy, replacing the original "LIZHI FM" with "LIZHI" as the brand name. "Bring people closer together through voices" became the new slogan.
LIZHI established the content security center to monitor content quality, ensuring a steady growth and long-term development of LIZHI.
LIZHI set up a scholarship program for graduate students in The School of Communication and Design of Sun Yat-sen University, and announced cooperation strategies to carry out more partnerships in the audio industry.
LIZHI cooperated with Baidu in the IoT field, bringing real-time interactive audio features on Xiaodu Smart Speaker.
LIZHI was successfully listed on the Nasdaq Global Markets (NASDAQ: LIZI), and became the first online audio platform in China to go public.
To enable everyone to showcase voice talent
User First, Same Goal, Study & Share, Love
To be the biggest voice platform of the world
Every summer, LIZHI designs a T-shirt to pay tribute to a band or a singer and the spirit of rock and roll. The expressions of freedom, romance, and uncompromising of rock music are in line with the self-innovative corporate values of LIZHI. LIZHI Tee, which is closely linked with the rock and roll spirit, has become a part of the LIZHI brand culture.
2017 Sonic YouthLIZHI spares no effort to take corporate social responsibilities. In terms of social welfare, LIZHI innovatively explored "voice public welfare", LIZHI 3.0. With years of experience in the audio industry and support from content creators and massive audio contents, LIZHI has encouraged millions of people, including children, teenagers, and women.
During the COVID-19 epidemic in 2020, LIZHI has donated 2 million RMB worth of supplies and cash to support the anti-epidemic work, including donations to Sun Yat-sen University Medical Support Special Fund, online charity events on LIZHI app, as well as medical supplies.
LIZHI promotes traditional culture and classics through voices. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the "May Fourth Movement", LIZHI app and the Kanlema app, the People.cn, and People's Daily jointly conducted the "Read Aloud 2019" event. People's Daily provided a number of selective articles. Users on LIZHI app could read articles and historical stories of May Fourth Movement and share their reading experiences by creating and uploading podcasts on the platform.
On the Children's Day in 2019, LIZHI cooperated with content creators such as Beijing Bro. Talk Show Radio to create the "Angel's Smile" charity podcast, and donated a total of 19,870 Lizhi coins raised from the show to the Angel Home charity organization to help orphans treat diseases. Total views of the event topic have reached 1.24 million on Weibo.