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| Through the combination of free cash flow generation and share management, we hope to continue to generate significant long-term value for our existing and our new shareholders |
| Now with the majority of the market moving that way, that's a good economic development for the MAX platform, and that obviously benefits our software segment |
| And so, we're very excited about not only what our solution can do within our core category, but the expansion opportunities it presents us |
| I am immensely proud of our team's dedication and hard work, which has resulted in our software platform revenue growing by 76% in 2023 |
| And that's what gets us really excited |
| This is a clear testament to the strength and potential of the updates we have made to our AI advertising engine, AXON |
| And so that's what gets us really excited is it all comes down to efficiently monetizing a huge audience that we have access to |
| I'm proud to state that in Q4 2023, our incremental revenue had an approximate 80% flow through to adjusted EBITDA, culminating in record cash flows |
| This growth trajectory underscores a robust financial health and positions us favorably for diverse opportunities to enhance shareholder value, like ongoing share repurchases |
| Now, looking ahead to 2024 and beyond, we continue to remain bullish about the potential of our core AI technologies, which stand amongst the most advanced across all markets |
| It's growing exceptionally quickly, very high margin |
| So we think because the technologies are new, it'll take a while for investors to understand what we already see, which is not only is this very powerful technology in our core market, we've been able to grow much greater than the market is growing because this technology is efficient |
| In conclusion, we're very happy with our financial performance this quarter and for all of 2023, as a result of a strengthening market combined with our team's execution |
| So we're very excited about where it could go |
| We surpassed the high-end of our guidance and established a consistent pattern of exceptional performance throughout 2023 |
| The combination of these factors are contributing to improved efficiency, leading to compounding growth for our company and our partners in the industry |
| But the marketing technology is evolving from here and continuing to improve is going to be a really good catalyst for a return to growth for this mobile market |
| That's an impressive 50% adjusted EBITDA margin |
| We also exceeded our analyst expectations this quarter by beating the consensus averages for both revenue and adjusted EBITDA |
| Adjusted EBITDA was nearly 10% higher than expectations |
| But we are seeing better free cash flow conversion from EBITDA than we were expecting, which is a positive impact that we're seeing from all the technology improvements that we've done |
| Our team has built really cutting-edge technology that works better than any other -- I think any of the advertisers or our peers have seen in the sector, but that benefits everyone in the sector |
| We still grew revenue every quarter this year due to the tremendous performance of our software platform and continued strength and growth in the advertising market |
| Our Apps portfolio continues to perform well with 5% growth from last quarter, while maintaining a consistent 15% adjusted EBITDA margin |
| Our Software Platform had another excellent quarter |
| And if that happens, we've always said that's going to greatly benefit the advertising solutions |
| Over the last five years, we've been able to achieve remarkable growth in our Software Platform business |
| All of our businesses were able to grow their revenue this quarter, with AppDiscovery, the primary driver of our success |
| We're thrilled to report another outstanding quarter in Q4 |
| Optimization efforts within our Apps business in the first-half of the year resulted in a slight decline in revenue, but it led to improved EBITDA margin |
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| And what we saw in Q4 was that just coming off of weak comps in '22 when every part of the economy was fearful and this sector was particularly fearful we saw brands and performance advertisers more willing to invest in marketing dollars |
| It's coming off from weak comps |
| China lockdown was a huge area of inefficiency in the market |
| While taking into account, the first quarter is a seasonally low period for the industry |
| Just to echo what Adam said, Omar, given the difficulty in kind of forecasting and understanding the impact of launching a new technology like we did with AXON 2.0, it's very difficult for us to forecast what the impact, what the financial impact of that is |
| I had some trouble with the sound on the first part of the presentation |
| And maybe just going back to the non-gaming business, I think it's been positioned in the past, there was a bit of a lag between the adoption of AXON 2 from gaming and non-gaming and just the scaling of budgets here within the non-gaming business once those advertisers adopt AXON 2 |
| So we're only seeing positive from this transition |
| And obviously, you know, the impact on margins |
| I'm sure there's an element of conservatism on wanting to guide |
| So we've seen the market really hit a trough last year, or two years ago, and then start recovering late last year |
| After a challenging 2022 characterized by stagnant growth, we refocused on growing our existing business and investing in new initiatives |
| Historically, in this channel, the modernization has been very low per 1,000 impressions, compared to what the social networks and the search engines and the video apps have gotten to |
| It's just that it tends to be a more commoditized space, and it's a tougher space for content providers to plan, whereas non-gaming enterprises tend to have a brand and they have fixed budgets and they normally plan their budgets in every quarters and years out |
| You knew it was going to be above the street |
| There is -- we think the harder part when it comes to our business is that we were in a no-growth period in '22 |
| If you just think about the dollars on our platform, majority are transacted to drive IAP today and the dollar is taxed down to $0.70 |
| Cookies were a lot later than expected and still in a very small percentage rollout |
| Matt Cost And then the second question was just on the competitive environment |
| So Facebook called out Chinese advertisers, both e-commerce and video game publishers is one of the reasons their advertising outperformed in Q4 |
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