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| We continue to see mid-90% retention in our subscriber customers and believe as we commercialize our new Media Suite, we will see further improvement here as well as expansion of our subscription business |
| This will help us produce stickier subscribing customers that give us staying power and retention as well as brand loyalty in the market |
| Products like the Media Suite and PR Optimizer will help drive utilization volumes, but we also believe we will see further lift in price over the years as we still have pricing leverage in the market |
| For the fourth quarter, our collective news brands contributed to an increased market share of 14%, up from 11% in the prior quarter ended September |
| This is a 10% revenue expansion and 5% subscriber growth on a year-over-year basis |
| Adjusted EBITDA was up 5% to $1.1 million from $1 million last year, and our subscription business also grew 5% for the quarter, and our average price per release and our core news business has held steady |
| We have and continue to be bullish on our Communications platform led by our news distribution brands, ACCESSWIRE and Newswire, where we are gaining market share each month, customers and further brand recognition |
| Once it gets to that point near the year-end and into next year, we'll start to see gross margins climb in the Communications segment of our business for obvious reasons that the product is an 80-plus percent gross margin product to deliver |
| But before we do, I'd like to reaffirm, we remain confident in our business, our products and the market we serve |
| We are optimistic going into 2024 that our year-over-year basis will see continued double-digit growth |
| We just completed our 33rd consecutive quarter of positive cash flows from operations for the company |
| We are confident in our news business, both from a growth perspective, but also brands and global reach over the next several years |
| We are pleased with the fourth quarter results |
| First, customer insight and usage to accurately predict the market size; second, flesh out opportunities we see for tech enablement with large volume customers that could result in better-than-average gross margins; and third, leverage our brands and continue to move up market to a larger installed base, typically owned by our larger incumbents |
| With some of the new things that we've planned this coming year, we feel confident that we can continue to see customers increase double digits year-over-year |
| We also achieved increased revenue in ACCESSWIRE, which increased 1% during the fourth quarter and 10% for the year compared to the same periods of the prior year |
| We think the lead quantities are coming in at a relatively good clip |
| We continue to believe our IR business will experience high single-digit to low double-digit growth in 2024 |
| Our peer optimizer, formerly MAP product suite, performed well in the fourth quarter, driving another $200,000 in new ARR |
| But before I talk about these accolades and what we expect for 2024, I want to highlight some nice wins and accomplishments in 2023 |
| Steve did a good job laying out the numbers for the quarter and year |
| Revenues from our Compliance business increased 20% for the fourth quarter and 24% during the full year compared to the same periods of 2022 |
| Our teams have been able to put together what we think is a great public relations communications platform that includes media database, pitching, monitoring as well as the existing media rooms, reporting platforms and our news distribution offerings |
| As Brian mentioned, quarterly and year-end results were primarily driven by our acquisition of Newswire and growth in our ACCESSWIRE news brand, which resulted in our press release revenue increasing 12% for the quarter and 75% for the full year |
| And we are focused this year and for several years on transforming our business, continuing to grow customers and revenues and outpacing the industry in some important metrics like year-over-year volumes in news distribution and outpacing industry annual growth rates, something we feel confident that we will and can do for years to come |
| We also experienced an increase in revenue from our transfer agent business due to an increase in market activity and corporate actions |
| So if you can start a product sale and generate hundreds of leads and qualify these folks and build pipelines that quickly, it should shape up to be a good product launch for us this year |
| And so we are confident with AME integrated into all of these products and some of the ideas that we came away with over the last couple of days and workshops that we've done here on site we're going to iterate feature sets more than we're going to release new products |
| Total revenue was up 6% year-over-year to $7.5 million, driven by our news distribution businesses, which both Steve and I will discuss throughout the call today |
| The full year operating income increased to $2.8 million from $2.7 million in 2022 |
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| Conversely, in Canada, we have seen signs of new customer activity slowing slightly, not just in our results, but an industry as a whole |
| Partially offsetting these increases was a decrease in revenues from webcasting and events due to less demand of our virtual products as well as a large conference, which occurred last year but did not occur in the current year |
| We posted operating loss of $105,000 for the fourth quarter of 2023 compared to operating income of $44,000 during the fourth quarter of 2022 |
| So conversely, we are taking a one-time write-down of $300,000 in our Canadian installed base, something we are working hard to ensure is not going to be a repeatable result this year |
| On a GAAP basis, we had a loss of $726,000, or $0.19 per diluted share, compared to a net loss of $109,000, or $0.03 per diluted share, during Q4 of 2022 |
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