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| This advanced capability provides DV with a strong comparative advantage in social media content analysis, where video comprised a whopping 67% of all social content in 2023, according to Magna Global, and in which we exhibited our speed to market leadership on the Meta News Feed brand safety launch earlier this year |
| 2023 was DV's third year as a public company and one where we continue to deliver industry-leading revenue and profitability growth fueled by AI powered product innovations that drove a higher ROI for our customers and accelerated DV's global client expansion trajectory and market share gains |
| We're excited about the prospect of another great year of growth driven by our unmatched global scale and differentiated technology |
| DV’s continued expansion into new global markets and media environments fueled over $120 million of incremental revenue during the year and established our scale as not only a market differentiator, but also a springboard for future revenue growth, especially internationally, where our measurement business grew over 40% last year |
| So it's a good uptick and a good attach rate |
| This rare and winning combination of growth and profitability allows us to continue to invest in AI and automation, which, in turn, helps drive our global scale and connectivity and fuel market-leading product innovation |
| These are DV’s core differentiators and the engines of our long-term growth |
| Before I discuss the numerous drivers of our strong performance and market share gains in the quarter and the year in detail, let me highlight the two growth areas I am most excited about for 2024 and beyond |
| Fantastic news |
| We grew our top 700 customers’ adoption of DV’s social measurement solutions by 10 percentage points in 2023 to 54%, helping propel the sector’s revenue growth to nearly 50% for the year |
| In addition, we grew fourth quarter social measurement revenue by 21% sequentially, and all of our new measurement wins in the fourth quarter signed up for social coverage |
| As social media gains a larger share of advertiser wallets, our position as one of the few companies scaled to operate independently across this media puts DV in a unique and differentiated position |
| But net-net, the addition of coverage of Instagram Reels and now the News Feed make Meta a really a strong driver and a strong growth catalyst |
| With Scibids, DV has a unique value proposition that allows advertisers to protect their brand equity and reduce media waste while simultaneously improving core performance KPIs such as lower CPMs and higher reach |
| This seamless achievement of both protection and performance is a differentiator that is helping DV win new deals |
| And I think it's a great testament to the efficacy of the product |
| Speaking of wins, we are pleased to have delivered a banner fourth quarter for new customer wins with strong continued win momentum year-to-date |
| The likely, our expectation is that we will continue to see strong MTF because we're able to continue to upsell premium priced products |
| And as you've seen, we're guiding towards really nice gross margins, even though a very big chunk of our growth is going to come from this video |
| With zero debt, a strong cash balance, we are well-positioned to drive further business expansion and long-term growth in 2024 |
| The midpoint of our guidance implies an approximately $124 million increase in revenue in full-year 2024, a testament to the accelerating demand for DV’s solutions by existing and new customers, across more geographies and media environments |
| As Mark mentioned, we have maintained an 80% plus win rate across all opportunities and have a strong pipeline of new and expansionary deals that will continue to support our long-term growth trajectory |
| We delivered full year adjusted EBITDA of $187 million, representing a 33% adjusted EBITDA margin and $71.5 million of net income as our business continues to combine high revenue growth with high profitability |
| Our ability to continue to upsell existing clients and acquire new clients to the full suite of products has yielded an overall increase in MTF over the last four years, including a 5% increase in Q4 2023 |
| ABS revenue grew 45% year-over-year in the fourth quarter driven by volume growth of 34% and MTF growth of 9% year-over-year |
| MTF growth accelerated sequentially from 2% in the third quarter to 5% in the fourth quarter due to a continued mix shift towards premium priced solutions, followed by the impact of the ABS display and video price bifurcation, which was completed across all major DSPs in the third quarter |
| As media performance joins media quality protection as a core part of our superior value proposition, closed loop optimization leveraging data partnerships like we have with Attain, fueled by data insights from Scibids AI and activated via proprietary solutions like ABS, will help us to further enhance our premium value position in the marketplace, elevate and differentiate the level of our customer engagements and set DV up for continued future market share growth |
| DV maintains and will continue to maintain our strong pricing and margin profile based on these higher levels of strategic customer engagement, driven by the measurable ROI that our premium solutions deliver |
| DV delivered industry-leading fourth quarter and full-year 2023 revenue growth and profitability, demonstrating continued strong operational execution through a year challenged by geopolitical and macroeconomic uncertainty |
| The fundamental drivers that have powered our growth over the last three years remain strong and intractable |
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| We've always thought ourselves as transactional SaaS, which is fixed and has its pluses, but as you know, in this space, when CPMs go up, it can also have a potential negative as well |
| And as Nicola noted, we are learning over time, the bigger the customer and whether or not they're launching globally all at once or they're launching market by market, there is a bit of a drag that creates some level of predictability challenges for us |
| We have a couple of retailers are having a tough go of it, a CPG company is having some issues regarding ramping up spend based on some challenges they have |
| Our growth rate in the first quarter reflects a slow start by brand advertisers and a slow ramp by recently signed new customers, which will catch up in the second half based on large new customers’ seasonal spend and usage patterns |
| So, the, what we said, what we're seeing is a slow ramp of our new contracted wins |
| They started a little bit slower than we expected, and it created a bit of a drag |
| Item two is a slow start for existing brand advertisers |
| That becomes scary for advertisers |
| I think we just had some selected customer who had slower growth in the first couple of months of the year |
| Fraud is still a challenge for CTV buyers and DV is still the leader in protecting our clients from sophisticated fraud schemes |
| They're just coming in a bit slower than we would have hoped |
| I don't think there's anything brand versus performance that we really would talk about, other than that a handful of retail and CTV clients that we had, had a slower start to the year |
| In Q3 ‘23, we launched an industry-first made for advertising, or MFA, solution to provide our advertisers the ability to identify and avoid MFA content, which has exploded since the launch of easily accessible generative AI tools |
| It's a bit anomalous |
| It just happens to be a handful of customer spending slower than they did last year |
| being a little more immune to some of the macro pressures in there |
| And I think that was at the detriment of a lot of great publishers, particularly marginalized publishers who are being excluded from media buys |
| So we're not seeing pricing pressure |
| Just a touch base again on the certain brand advertisers that are kind of starting a little bit slower this year |
| We are not seeing pricing pressure period |
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