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| We are showing sequential improvements and momentum on profitability |
| And we see that new ad formats and ad tech and ADE will soon be at scale and at us continue to improve our monetization potential |
| The financial foundations of our business is stronger and our banking relationships are in a much better place |
| We are seeing the benefits of our partner share renegotiation with JPMorgan Chase as well as product improvements |
| Of note, adjusted contribution grew 22% year-over-year and our adjusted EBITDA was positive for the first time in 2023 at $3.9 million |
| We also had positive operating cash flow for the since straight quarter |
| Our solid financial performance this quarter points back to our underlying value proposition |
| Our focus is on improving our profitability and cash flow and the expectation moving forward is to be operating cash flow positive and adjusted EBITDA positive on an annual basis in 2024 |
| We expect to announce some big wins in the coming quarters, and we see strong potential for Rippl to scale in 2024 and beyond |
| We deliver strong ROI for them, which helps us succeed in this category |
| Another that saw success was travel and entertainment, which grew more than 20% in the quarter year-over-year |
| This is a solid demonstration of how we can grow budgets with our existing clients as they get comfortable with the value proposition of our platform, particularly around our ability to drive incremental loyalty spend |
| We have not assumed these budgets in our forecast, so they could provide additional upside given the large number of days between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year |
| Our annual adjusted EBITDA could be over $40 million better than 2022 |
| But having said that, we're thrilled with the progress we're making |
| These are incredible achievements by the teams |
| Like Karim said, we are bullish on the long term |
| Some of our everyday spend categories like grocery, gas and convenience, are really growing very, very strongly year-on-year |
| However, we expect a strong adjusted EBITDA result given the work we've done on our cost structure |
| Adjusted EBITDA exceeded the high end of guidance and was positive for the first time in 2023 at $3.9 million, which is $16.7 million better than Q3 of 2022 |
| We are confident in our strategy for the next four years, and our belief in our long-term growth prospect has never been stronger |
| As a data company, this builds the credibility to reinforce our core and tap into new revenue streams |
| The trajectory of our profitability has dramatically improved of our run rate in Q2 of 2022 |
| Our dedication to product leadership, financial health and strategic growth is setting us on a promising course and I'm looking forward to the future |
| If you recall, ADE drives higher monetization and offer relevancy for the business through improved targeting |
| As Karim mentioned, we delivered solid third quarter results with billings, revenue and adjusted contribution consistent with our Q3 guidance and adjusted EBITDA exceeding our Q3 guidance |
| Multi-tier offers which provide variable incentives based on objectives are seeing rapid adoption and have shown 2 times better performance than our baseline offering in some campaigns |
| So overall, we're very positive about the future |
| We can also reach positive adjusted EBITDA for the full year if we execute on our plan |
| Now that we have two of our largest bank that have fully adopted ADE, we can see that there will be further benefits for us going forward |
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| But going back to sort of the gist of your question, it's clear that our revenue guidance is lower than we had hoped for, for a couple of reasons |
| Before I started, our Q2 2022 adjusted EBITDA annual run rate was worse than negative $55 million and adding to the difficulty our teams were facing |
| As we saw with our vertical performance in the quarter, underlying fundamentals were mixed, unique consumers activating offers decreased 7% year-over-year in Q3, driven by the loss of the previously mentioned large restaurant clients |
| revenue decreased 12% due mainly to the loss of a major partner last year |
| But despite this persistent spending, inflation is still higher than normal and some of our final institutions partners highlighted elevated interest rates, lower deposits and higher credit card charge-offs as negative indicators |
| Interest rates also, and we're definitely seeing some points of weakening consumer demand and signals are pointing to that |
| We're also seeing some weakness in some of the sectors which we are addressing internally |
| It appears that some of the optimize in Q2 has cited ground to renewed recessionary concerns |
| We are definitely seeing that in other industries like retail and restaurants, for instance, there's a lot more caution and some of the budgets that you would see normally at this time of the year really come up, particularly in retail, are a lot softer than we expected |
| That's definitely not easy for us to do better with our sales driver in some of our teams given that we're seeing inconsistency in delivery between some high-growth sectors and some much lower in declining sectors |
| We know that there's a lot of issues around this period for many retailers as consumers just get further into that |
| Our advertisers have shown renewed caution around budgets |
| While operating expenses, excluding stock-based compensation, came in lower than expected at $38.9 million, we still expect the run rate to be in the low $40 million range per quarter |
| While consumer spend in travel and entertainment has softened in the back half of the year, our clients are still leaning into budgets |
| Some of that is definitely driven by sort of caution around the economy and the ability for consumers to spend |
| For most of the year, we have discussed the macro trends and dynamics that are causing uncertainty and mixed results in the advertising market |
| While obviously, at the same time, rebuilding many parts of our operations |
| This growth is partially offset by weakness in restaurant and retail |
| Karim, just wondering if you can talk about -- you indicated things are getting a little bit less stable as we get into Q4 |
| And then I would say there's also a few areas that we wanted to be cautious around in the guidance we provided, but that could provide additional benefits in the quarter |
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