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| I've never been more bullish about Taboola, and I'm so proud of our Taboolars' dedication, passion, making us the high-performing company through the most difficult of times |
| As Adam said, our strong revenue and Ex-Tac gross profit performance was driven by strength in our e-commerce, bidding, and Taboola News businesses, as well as the initial contributions from Yahoo and relatively stable yields in our core business |
| And I'm so proud of the tremendous resilience displayed by our nearly 2,000 Taboolars during the war in Israel |
| Their resilience is what's driving our progress in reaching new users, delivering engaging experiences in the open web, improving our effectiveness at monetization and driving yield |
| We have real momentum coming into this year, and it shows in our Q4 results and strong 2024 financial guidance |
| So, the way I think about it is, we can do well and potentially even grow because again, in the past, other demand came to us when it couldn't find other channels and we were a good channel to spend money on |
| Q4 adjusted EBITDA of $50.1 million, a significant beat to the high end of our guidance by $18 million, representing over 30% adjusted EBITDA margin |
| In summary, we are coming in strong into 2024 with stunning partnership, fresh revenue growth, and a strong EBITDA and free cash flow profile |
| 2024 is set to be a record year for Taboola across all key measures, revenue, ex-TAC gross profit, adjusted EBITDA, and free cash flow |
| So, where the top line growth comes from over time is also migrating the Yahoo advertisers over and growing our overall advertiser base, thanks to this really great high quality supply we have |
| Revenue is growing 33% to nearly $2 billion this year |
| So, first of all, we're growing nearly $500 million in top line revenue this year, so 33% year-over-year, so obviously, strong growth |
| On the business front, there is a lot of good momentum |
| 2024 is benefiting from fast adoption of our AI offerings, and we assume yield expansion this year after two years of softness |
| It's been -- by the way, we did say that we expect to see $100 million in revenue from the supply in Q1, so that's encouraging |
| Then you add data integration, we're looking to expand our contextual data segments with Yahoo, that's something that I'm very excited about, especially on the back of current H2 cookie deprecation, so that's also going to compound our ability to drive yield |
| On the back of our business momentum, strong balance sheet, and commitment to shareholder returns, we're announcing a new share buyback authorization of $100 million, which represents approximately 6% of our current market cap |
| You all know Times.com, you know advanced also working with us in e-commerce with turnkey, and now AP, that was a new announcement today, and all that is helping us to essentially attract new retailers and improve our, basically, weighted average yield across the network |
| Free cash flow benefited from the stronger than forecasted adjust EBITDA, which reflects the cost controls mentioned previously, partially offset by the expenses related to the onboarding of Yahoo inventory in the period |
| It's the fastest adopted product since I started Taboola, and it's really fantastic |
| Let me finish by saying that we are happy with our fourth quarter performance, and excited about the step change growth that we are expecting in our business in 2024 |
| We're seeing great momentum of publishers choosing Taboola on the back of our technology investments |
| Our Q4 revenues were approximately $420 million and grew 13% year over year, accelerating from Q3 levels |
| Publisher win rates continue to improve with terrific new publisher partners joining Taboola family from all around the globe, including A360 Media, Postmedia, Times Internet, Nine Entertainment, and more |
| Revenue is growing 33% to $2 billion, ex-TAC is growing 25% to nearly $670 million, EBITDA is doubling to over $200 million, free cash flow is nearly doubling to over $100 million |
| We're coming in strong into 2024, making it a record year for us |
| In terms of OpEx and how we control headcount here, I think we've shown pretty good cost discipline over the course of the last year |
| So, it's still early days, but I'm seeing really good things and they are very happy |
| In 2023, we've benefited from the combined fire power of Connexity, Skimlinks, and Taboola |
| E-commerce had double-digit growth in 2023, driven by strong growth in advertising budgets from some of our largest retail advertisers, as well as strong momentum in Europe |
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| So, question, it seems like every week, since you last reported, we're hearing about layoffs at open web publishers, how much this industry is really struggling to survive for a lot of them, especially how they're struggling to generate traffic off search and social and anywhere near the levels they have in the past |
| Year-over-year, adjusted EBITDA was down, which was due primarily to higher expenses related to the onboarding of Yahoo's supply that were not in the year-ago period |
| As well as, some advertisers are seeing reduced CPA by nearly 20% |
| A lot of them going through layoffs and struggling to generate traffic |
| However, there are two things that would be missing |
| One, it's unlikely they are going to sell to tens of thousands or hundreds of thousand's performance made from the advertisers |
| Our headcount is down approximately 2.5% from its peak in July of 2022 |
| Now as I am wrapping up my part, I would be remise in not acknowledging that our industry is facing tectonic changes this year like cookie deprecation, gen AI, and the need for performance advertising in times of recession and market softness |
| Jason Helfstein And then, you said the fourth quarter obviously was like meaningfully below that |
| Like how are you thinking about that? Because I don't think you're describing the business is like slowing down |
| We had a net loss of $82 million and non-GAAP net income of $33 million |
| And the second thing that it is unlikely they will develop a technology that use AI and data and match make between users and ad in a way that works for advertisers to continue to buy |
| Today's discussion is also subject to the forward-looking statement limitations in the earnings press release, future events could differ materially and adversely from those anticipated |
| Today it's very, very complicated to succeed |
| I just don't -- personally I feel comfortable because we don't need any new solution to do well |
| Microsoft made some changes to its Epic platform in Q4 that impacted all Epic partners they work with, including us |
| This is more than I ever thought will happen |
| Jason Helfstein And then, just on Identity, you've talked in the past that you're not dependent on cookies and so folks should be less concerned about kind of where we go from here |
| Laura Martin The second question I had for you, Adam is I'm really curious as you bring over these new types of advertisers that Taboola has never had with Yahoo like Verizon and Citi and these big enterprise, high quality branding customers |
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