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| So when you have an opportunity to play in the whole end-to-end go-to-market strategy for a vendor, you put yourself in a really good position |
| I think in terms of member and audience, and clearly better user experience for our members who come to our sites |
| And as we create a better user experience for our members, we also gain relevant first-party purchase-intent signals |
| The combination creates the companies with a strong financial profile, and we expect 2024 pro forma revenues to be over $500 million |
| We structured the deal so our shareholders will get some immediate benefit by receiving an $11.79 per share in cash and long-term benefit by providing the opportunity for shareholders to participate in the value creation through a 43% stake going forward |
| We see that as a pretty big competitive advantage |
| So pure revenue growth, driving 50%-plus incremental EBITDA margins |
| Within 5 years, we expect revenue to grow to over $1 billion in revenue and at least 35% EBITDA margins |
| And the ability to take on revenue growth, which we have shown improvement over the history of our time, we have a greater than 50% incremental EBITDA margin |
| There'll be a flight back to quality, and we're putting ourselves in the best position to take advantage of that flight back to quality and focus on the recovery |
| And what I would say is TechTarget had a really good history of making sure that we manage our margins |
| A lot of that revenue ends up all in the bottom line, so we'll be able to expand the margins on that side |
| And I see there's really four areas that we see the benefits of generative AI in creating measurable impact on the business |
| We've seen good adoption in terms of reps leveraging that, reducing their time to create e-mails and leveraging the first-party prospect-level intelligence |
| And then I would say, whenever there's a disruption or an evolution in the market, that benefits TechTarget quite well |
| The combination increases our TAM by over 10x as we will enter 18 new vertical markets with a unique end-to-end solution across the go-to market |
| We've seen success on that |
| In regards to the current environment, we came in slightly ahead of the high end of our Q4 guidance |
| The combined company will have increased scale with over 8,000 customers in over 20 countries, first-party purchase intent data from over 220 leading digital brands and a permissioned audience of over 50 million people |
| The real key on this is a lot of growth through cross-selling and upselling our platforms into new customers |
| We want to be the premier provider to help our customers with their end-to-end go-to-market strategy |
| Also, if you take a look at the two businesses, when they combine, there are over 8,000 customers that we have an opportunity to both cross-sell and upsell the solutions that we have respectively to get a deeper footprint into existing customers |
| We can do this through infographics to make sure that we're helping our customers earlier in their go-to-market stage, then being able to take that content and put those into very effective programs that will be delivered and put in front of prospect and buying teams that we know who they are |
| That gets over a period of several years to the growth and the opportunities that we have |
| And so we saw an increase of 14% year-over-year of organic traffic, Kunal |
| I think you were talking about the margin expansion over the years |
| We also see technology initiatives such as AI, we've seen it with virtualization and cloud and other things before, that create a pent-up demand |
| And we're seeing some, again, very consistent with our November call, like pretty stable and no surprises right now |
| So that being said, that's been a vision that we've stated pretty clearly around permission-based audience, first-party insights and a comprehensive end-to-end go-to-market strategy |
| And again, it's another sign |
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| This reflects the macro technology environment, which customers remain cautious regarding their sales and market investment levels |
| So as we've seen that stabilize versus last year going into Q1, we saw a big dip |
| So like we reported, the number of customer count was done and that reflected in terms pretty close to the decline in revenue for this year |
| And the APAC region may have cut back |
| That's when the market started to send signals that it was slowing down |
| When you see Q4 to Q1, over the history of our business, it's typically between 10% and 13% decline from Q4 to Q1 and we predict in between 9% and 10% |
| So I'd say Q1 is always historically the lowest, and you align this to the technology market |
| It was down 100 in 3Q, down about 300 in 4Q |
| What I do know on this is, we've seen pullbacks before |
| We expect this dynamic to continue throughout 2024 because of uncertainty surrounding inflation, interest rates, the presidential election and geopolitical issues internationally |
| And it was the second half of 2022, really in Q3 when we started seeing some of the decline |
| And EMEA may have cut back but North America was still going |
| And so in terms of their world, that's typically the lowest revenue quarter |
| Heading into 2024, we still on the tech industry, on the enterprise B2B tech industry, we still have high inflation, high interest rates and a lot of layoffs right now |
| We saw some signs that the market stabilized a little bit and when the pent-up demand is there |
| And we don't see things follow up, and we don't see big catalysts sprucing up right now and into the first half of 2024 |
| What do you think is the floor here? And I guess, to the extent that you know, how much of the decline over the course of '23 is kind of involuntary, like companies going out of business versus voluntary cutbacks? Mike Cotoia So I would say the decline, if you look at the overall decline throughout the year, you had a lot of customers that may have signed annual deals in 2022 |
| It was actually up a little bit |
| And then just last one for me, it looks like the guide implies something like a double-digit decline in Q1 but flat or better for the year |
| We mentioned in the last two earnings calls, whenever we see a pullback, budgets get centralized |
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