Tencent rolled off another product today.
On July 5th, Penguin FM, an audio platform owned by Tencent, released an offline announcement, saying that Penguin FM regretted to say goodbye to everyone due to business adjustment. From now on, Penguin FM will close the user registration and recharge functions, and officially stop operating at 0: 00 on September 6, 2023.
It is reported that Tencent’s "Penguin FM" was originally named "Radish FM", focusing on zero-flow listening, recommending selected programs for users’ intelligence in multiple scenarios, and online listening to audio programs such as novels, music, jokes, news and entertainment gossip in a massive program library.
WeChat official account of Penguin FM shows that it has not been updated for nearly three years.
According to the "2023 China Online Audio Market Development Research Report", among the mainstream online audio apps, the Himalayan has the highest monthly active users, with 140 million monthly active users, which is in the first echelon; Followed by lazy people listening to books, listening to tomatoes, dragonfly FM and litchi, the monthly active users are as high as 12 million, and these apps are in the second echelon; The monthly users of apps such as Yunting, Uncle Kai’s storytelling, Cool Listening, Cat Ear FM, Penguin FM, Listening FM and Getting are also above 1 million, and these apps are in the third echelon.
Previously, Tencent has successively launched a number of products.
On March 9, Tencent’s digital collection platform Magic Core APP announced that it will be offline at 24: 00 on June 30, 2023 based on business adjustment. After the Magic Core APP goes offline, users who hold the collection will not be able to query, download, display and share the purchased digital collections in the APP, and they will not be able to make a refund.
On November 17th, last year, QQ mailbox released the offline announcement of QQ mailbox group mail function.
The announcement said that due to business adjustment, the "QQ mailbox group mail" function will be terminated on December 10, 2022. At that time, you can still view the historical group emails, but you can’t send new group emails or view the QQ group list. You can save multiple recipients as email contact groups and send emails conveniently.
In October last year, Tencent Map official website announced that the PC side of Tencent Map will stop service on November 11.
Last year, on August 16th, the watch APP, which had been in operation for seven years, also announced its closure and officially stopped its operation. According to public information, during the peak period, Tencent watched 240 million active users and occupied the first-class entrance position of QQ.
On July 5th, last year, the operation team of Pocket WeGame released the delisting announcement of Pocket WeGame, saying that the products of Pocket WeGame (including Pocket WeGame App, WeBiBi WeChat applet and WeBiBi H5 version) will be terminated at 23: 59 on September 8th this year.
In February last year, Tencent’s social e-commerce product Goose Pinpin announced that it would stop operating due to business adjustment.