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| I'm very excited about the road ahead of the company, and I'm confident that it has the right leadership, right product and the right strategy in place to return to a meaningful profitable growth and to lead the market |
| We said in the previous call that we believe that for the short term, it's going to be around the 100% based on the fact that we saw, as Ron mentioned, the improvement in both bookings and retention rates, we believe that we will be able to see are coming to a bit better numbers than the 100% |
| We posted record high total revenues in the fourth quarter, which also marked the fifth consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth |
| The quarter wrapped up a year where, as we had previously forecasted, we saw increased subscription revenue and growth rates and despite declining professional services revenues, as expected, total revenue growth rates also increased |
| As for our bottom line, the fourth quarter was also a second consecutive quarter of adjusted EBITDA profitability and a positive cash flow from operations, both for the first time since 2020 |
| It was also our highest adjusted EBITDA results since the fourth quarter of 2020 |
| It was, as mentioned, the highest booking quarter of last year, albeit relatively flattish, but also the best retention that we had in the year past, and it's also coming back to the levels that we had prior years, which are much better |
| As we draw 2023 to a close, we are pleased to have achieved and surpassed our revenue and adjusted EBITDA guidance for the year, delivering on our goal of accelerating revenue growth while also returning to adjusted EBITDA profitability in the past two quarters and has forecasted dramatically improving our cash flows |
| We've seen this year record ARPUs and continued increase in average MRR per customer all the time that win rates have remained high |
| And we continue to see these strong |
| And we think that the reason that we have done relatively better is because of these advantages |
| We believe that our differentiated horizontal platform and continuous product portfolio expansion enables our customers to increasingly consolidate many video use cases internally and externally around Kaltura |
| We believe there's a good macro directions that are going to improve next year |
| This consolidation brought forth in 2023 larger deals and continued to increase our average customer size as evidenced by record high E&C new logo ARPU and a record high average ARR per customer in 2023, which we believe will help our future growth |
| We are set aside to have achieved our bottom-line accrual and cash flow goal from the passing year and are reaffirming our expectation of posting above positive adjusted EBITDA and the positive cash flow from operations this year |
| And at the same time that we're strengthening our capability to lead the market forward |
| One of the world's largest restaurant chains expanded its usage and increased its access to Kaltura's product suite capabilities in a very well-known global leader in the direct-to-consumer streaming space, a new customer, selected Kaltura Power its internal video-on-demand portal for employees and partners |
| I firmly believe that Kaltura has the potential for significant growth in an exciting domain and that it is well positioned to lead the market |
| And we've added that, we're seeing very good acceptance for that |
| With market conditions improving, enterprise spending recovering and new opportunities arising from AI, we believe we are well positioned to capture the increasing demand for video experiences |
| So from a net booking perspective, it was a better quarter than the ones before |
| What I like is that we've done that at the same time that we have hit our revenue goals, and we are still growing faster than the industry |
| As we look ahead to 2024 and beyond, we anticipate a more favorable market environment that is expected to ease budgetary constraints for enterprises, particularly in North America |
| The AI accelerator program, which we launched last quarter, continued to grow with more technology partners joining and more customers exploring with us the possibilities of AI-powered video experiences and how they can support their interest and needs and boost their business results |
| As for AI, as previously discussed, we believe that we are in the cusp of a transformative era for video-first AI-infused experiences will drive great engagement and improve business results |
| But as mentioned, we are committed by the end of the day to post both positive adjusted EBITDA and positive cash flow from operations for this year |
| At that end, we are reaffirming our expectation of posting both a positive adjusted EBITDA and positive cash flow from operations this year |
| He's still with us in month ahead helping us and to welcome John, quite excited about him joining the team, a lot of great things for us to do together this year |
| At this point, if you look on our forecast, obviously, we'll see an improvement because we are comparing to Q4, which was much higher than what was expected before |
| While we believe our advantages helped us outperform many of our competitors in the passing challenging year, we believe that will become even more impactful when improved macroeconomic conditions are expected to cause customers to start making longer-term investments to elevate their system's quality, performance and efficiency |
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| Also important to note that as we wrapped up the year and our bookings had come down from the year before by about 25% |
| We had a 25% drop in order to be profitable, but also aligning us to the lesser productivities than during COVID |
| Within our M&T segment, total revenue for the fourth quarter was $12.9 million, down 8% year-over-year |
| Subscription revenue gross margin was 55%, down from 63% in 2022 |
| Subscription revenue gross margin was 73%, down from 74% in 2022 |
| Subscription revenue was $10.4 million, down 2% year-over-year, while professional services revenue contributed $2.5 million, down 27% year-over-year |
| As mentioned at the beginning of the year, the pressures, the headwinds that we've seen that have caused this year to be our past year 2023 to be so off are a significant lengthening of the sales cycle as well as price pressures, and we're still seeing that |
| Within our MMP segment, gross profit in 2023 was $20.6 million, representing a gross margin of 41%, down from 48% gross margin in 2022 |
| Within our M&T segment, gross profit for the fourth quarter was $5.6 million, representing a gross margin of 44%, down from 46% gross margin in Q4 2022 |
| In summary, due to a tough macro condition and industry headwind, we closed a much slower growth year than usual, albeit better than last year's guidance and that of the previous year |
| Yaron Garmazi First of all, when you were saying about the declining guidance for Q1, actually, what you see is that, as Ron mentioned, we had some pressure on the year from booking and retention level which were lower than 2022, obviously |
| We're not ready given our profitability metric and the ability of additional salespeople to contribute in a decent way |
| Subscription revenue was $162.8 million, up 7% year-over-year, while professional services revenue contributed to $12.4 million, down 24% year-over-year |
| Just as this was getting ready to impact us, we have the financial downturn |
| Now I want to be cautious about this and our guidance is in that as well |
| On the vertical side, it's not so much just a demand issue |
| It's been a tough year |
| It's been a tough year |
| Most of it was budget issues, price issues and the majority was still done through not full departure of customers but through downsell |
| It was just doing it in the tough year that it was harder because people were looking very nearsighted to additional costs just to get things shaken and moved |
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