Who owns Lazy Audio?
Lazy Audio is owned by Tencent Music (China, NYSE: TME), which has owned the brand since 2021.[1]
Evidence: Tencent Music Entertainment Group Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-04-17, SEC EDGAR, 17 April 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Tencent Music Entertainment Group verified
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇨🇳 China, Shenzhen
- Origin
- 🇨🇳 China
- Founded
- 2012
- Category
- Media & entertainment › Radio & audio › Podcast networks
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: TME HKEX: 1698
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Lazy Audio
Lazy Audio is Tencent Music's long-form audio app, offering audiobooks, Chinese comedy, podcasts and other radio shows and charging per title, by subscription and through advertising. It came from Shenzhen Lanren, founded in 2012, which Tencent Music agreed in January 2021 to buy for RMB2.7 billion and took over that March; the company then merged its own Kuwo Changting app into the brand.
What Tencent Music's annual report says about Lazy Audio
Sentences about Lazy Audio from Tencent Music's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Shenzhen Lanren, the entity operating Lazy Audio has been listed as the pilot institution of online audio and video industry in Guangdong by Radio and Television Administration of Guangdong Province in September 2020 and has obtained the consent letter from the NRTA.
Shenzhen Lanren has completed its record-filing in the Information Management System for National Online Audio-Video Platform, or the Online Audio-Video System, for the provision of audio-video program services through Lazy Audio .
In April 2021, we integrated Kuwo Changting with Lazy Audio , a well-established audio platform in China operated by Shenzhen Lanren which we acquired in March 2021, and re-imaged the brand Lazy Audio (formerly branded as Lanren Changting during the relevant periods).
How often Tencent Music names Lazy Audio in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central.
Ownership timeline of Lazy Audio
- 2021 – present Tencent Music [1] verified
Where Lazy Audio sits in Tencent Music
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Tencent Music
Tencent Music controls 9 brands on Brandtree, 3 of them in media & entertainment.
Also in media & entertainment
Founded in the 2010s
- Kugou Live (2012)
- Kuwo Live (2013)
- WeSing (2014)
Other brands in podcast networks, and who owns them
The 11 brands in podcast networks on Brandtree belong to 8 owners. The largest is Acast, with 3; Tencent Music has 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Acast | Acast | 🇸🇪 Sweden |
| CuriousCast | Corus | 🇨🇦 Canada |
| Cumulus Podcast Network | Cumulus Media | 🇺🇸 United States |
| iHeartPodcast Network | iHeartMedia | 🇺🇸 United States |
| PodcastOne | LiveOne | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Podme | Schibsted Media | 🇳🇴 Norway |
| LiSTNR | Southern Cross Media Group | 🇦🇺 Australia |
| Wake Word Studios | Acast | 🇸🇪 Sweden |
About the owner: Tencent Music
Tencent Music is a publicly listed company headquartered in Shenzhen, China, founded in 2012. Brandtree records 9 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: TME and HKEX: 1698.
Tencent Music Entertainment is the largest online music entertainment platform in China by monthly active users, and counted 127.4 million paying users of its music services in the fourth quarter of 2025. It was assembled in 2016, when Tencent injected its own music business into China Music Corporation, the owner of Kugou and Kuwo, and renamed the combined company; it listed on the New York Stock Exchange in December 2018 and added a Hong Kong listing in September 2022. Tencent held 93.6 per cent of its voting power at 31 March 2026, which makes it a controlled company under New York Stock Exchange rules.
Tencent Music: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇨🇳 Lazy Audio and other Chinese brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 319 brands that began in China. 39 of them (12%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Lazy Audio is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Lazy Audio?
The parent company of Lazy Audio is Tencent Music, a publicly listed company headquartered in China.
Is Lazy Audio Chinese?
Yes. Lazy Audio originated in China in 2012 and its owner, Tencent Music, is also headquartered in China.
Since when has Tencent Music owned Lazy Audio?
Tencent Music has owned Lazy Audio since 2021.
Is Lazy Audio still owned by Tencent Music?
Yes. As of 9 October 2026, Lazy Audio is still owned by Tencent Music. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Tencent Music Entertainment Group Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-04-17 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 20-F, published 17 April 2026; retrieved 26 September 2026.
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