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| This meant partnering more closely with our largest customers and improving our platform usability for consumers |
| So we're excited about being able to launch some of those win-back offers and bring customers back onto the platform at a price point that makes sense and that's cost efficient for us |
| Continuing down the financial statement, our total gross margin in the third quarter improved to 89% compared to 87.1% a year earlier, primarily due to headcount reductions implemented in March |
| With the strategic focus on profitability, we are driving revenue from a healthier, more resilient base of customers, which we believe will provide us with a stronger financial foundation in the long term |
| But watch, I am very optimistic about what we can do through this sort of 3 to 10 store operator size |
| So we're actually quite pleased with how the market has received our price increases |
| This operational rigor has enabled us to remain focused on our key objectives, strengthen our relationships with high-value clients, reduce retailer friction and continue to improve the consumer experience, solidifying Leafly as a leading destination for cannabis discovery and e-commerce |
| It also helps establish Leafly as a leader in the New York market |
| And I'm so proud of the efforts in our activation in Maryland, where we started early the full rec sales, one |
| Through both headcount reductions and cost-cutting efforts this year, we've achieved meaningful results as seen in our operating expenses |
| So we've seen significant improvement in both operating and adjusted EBITDA margins, especially relative to the last 2 years |
| But overall, I'm actually really quite proud of the work that's been done, the targeted approach and how that's gone across our client base |
| We've seen great growth quarter-over-quarter in the market with a 33% increase in order volume and a 21% increase in revenue as we partnered with retailers to make the transition from medical to rec |
| This includes better monetization of our brand advertising products that we know deliver value |
| This breaks down barriers to integration, improved accessibility for both our customers and business partners and bolsters operational performance and efficiency for retailers |
| This gives us the ability to take a more consultative approach with top-performing clients as we look to increase our share of wallet |
| What gives us confidence in the long-term opportunity is that consumer demand for cannabis is unwavering and continues to grow |
| There is a mirroring benefit on the consumer side, making it easier for the consumer |
| We have been diligently working on building a healthier customer base that includes improving our credit and collections processes over the last 2 quarters |
| This win reinforces our commitment to give consumers information and resources to be informed shoppers and provide retailer's access critical channels to reach consumers |
| We've made the shopping by effect experience better, and it is now easier for consumers to shop the strains most recently added to our comprehensive strain database |
| We continue to bring value to retailers, brands and consumers, providing the technology they need to drive sales and e-commerce shopping experiences, ensuring that we remain an important and unique player in the local cannabis markets across North America |
| Absolutely on the consumer side, the ability to improve and enhance that experience |
| We also enhanced our consumer life cycle management, which automates reorder notifications via e-mail and in-app push making it easier for consumers to order again based on their past purchase history |
| And of course, many of the improvements we have made to reduce retailer friction translate to improvements to the consumer experience as well |
| And we've seen pretty good reactivation rates from accounts sort of gone off of the platform |
| And we continue to make improvements to our suite of tools making several significant enhancements to our product to reduce retailer friction and drive orders, the single most important metric for retailers |
| We also made improvements to our ad functionality, introducing a tool that increases customization of ads across Leafly |
| But what we've been able to see is both new account activation in that market, but also really growing spend across retailers, leveraging this consultative approach that we brought -- that we've really focused on over the last year |
| Our third quarter results reflect our progress towards building a sustainable business in this evolving industry |
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| We continue to see retailers struggle with their own margins, and this has led to pressure on our business |
| Revenue for the quarter was lighter than expected due to the decline in retail ending accounts |
| In the third quarter, our revenue was $10.6 million, down 10.2% year-over-year |
| Despite our progress in these areas, which I'll talk about in a minute, broader headwinds continue to pressure the industry |
| These external factors are compounded by lack of access traditional banking and much-needed liquidity |
| To reiterate what Yoko discussed, the cannabis industry continues to be rise with challenges |
| In addition, we experienced a further softening in brand revenue |
| All of these factors negatively affect their ability to spend on the Leafly platform and are also driving a continuation in out of business across our customer base |
| And coming into this year, we started to see as the environment changed, [Leafly] in the last quarter a lot of them were having increased challenges in terms of paying |
| In addition, regulatory logjams in many markets are driving constraints in their businesses |
| These account declines were primarily related to customer budget constraints and Leafly's removal of nonpaying customers |
| The fourth quarter revenue estimate primarily reflects a full quarter's impact of the lower ending retail account base |
| Cannabis markets are experiencing pain points of various types |
| New York's long-awaited adult-use regulations went into effect in September, but the regulations greatly limited retailers' ability to market and promote their products and reduce consumers' ability to research and shop online |
| I guess my first question, just any incremental color you can offer on how the price increase conversations went with retailers? Obviously, the top line was a bit below guide, and there's a pretty outsized loss in accounts |
| These outside factors masked the growth taking place across the broad cannabis industry |
| But we do know customers are going through a tough environment and people are making difficult decisions |
| We expect the decline in ending retail accounts to continue in the near term, but at a more moderate pace |
| We also see market consolidation with operators and retailers unable to continue operating stand-alone in these constrained environments |
| We've made efforts to work collaboratively with our retailers, but in cases where they are unable to make payments or solidify a payment plan, we have had to make the difficult decision to remove them from our platform |
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