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| Obviously, AI is a tremendously exciting area in video for our customers, and I would encourage all of you to stay tuned |
| And so what you're really seeing us do is actually because we're feeling good about the business actually proactively take a little bit more risk and we'll bring down advertising more, get ourselves to the right profitable mix, invest in the product and then move forward from there |
| Vimeo Enterprise continued its strong double-digit growth trajectory with net revenue retention of 103% and some impressive customer wins in the quarter |
| And really exciting in the quarter for us is those retention trends we mentioned in the letter, and we particularly focus in on self-serve, where we saw increased retention across the board and in all cohorts |
| And most exciting for us, the team delivered retention improvements in all cohorts in the self-serve business and in aggregate |
| I think the benefit of video becoming more strategic to organizations of all sizes should help provide tailwinds across our channels |
| But we continue to see really strong growth prospects for Vimeo as a whole, and in particular, in Vimeo Enterprise, where we see double-digit growth is absolutely the future of that business with a lot of opportunity |
| At the same time, the strength of our business model remains evident |
| I think really good execution from you guys on the enterprise side, maybe getting a little bit lost in the sauce, if you will, with everything going on in Other and self-serve |
| And even while we make the transitions that we've been talking about to get the business to where we want to get it to in terms of setup, we're able to have really strong EBITDA results |
| In Q4, we have some great customer wins, Hermès, Southwest, Toyota, Domino's, Gartner |
| We delivered solid results in Q4 with revenue flat year-over-year, adjusted EBITDA of $13 million and $10 million in free cash flow, ending the year with over $300 million in cash |
| In 2023, Vimeo made significant strides in improving profitability while also showing bookings, revenue and some encouraging product metric improvements in the second half of the year |
| Reorganizing how we look at territories, looking at our systems about how we're around lead handling and other issues and continue to be very focused, and we're optimistic about the opportunities for optimization there |
| We're really seeing a lot of adoption across a broad swath of industries, which is a great early indication that our product value proposition is being well received |
| And as we've talked about in the letter, we really think there's an opportunity to take that organic traction to take those product experiences and better and more efficiently convert them into free users and ultimately into paying customers |
| When we look at the rate of new bookings, particularly in the self-serve business relative to the rate of cuts we're making in the ad dollars, there is a positive relation there |
| That makes us feel confident that the product is starting to do exactly what we want it to do, which is sell itself |
| In self-serve and add-ons, we saw some green shoots that our bet on product-led growth is the right one, partial offsetting top of the funnel pressure, conversion and AOV improved |
| So first off, you guys have been able to generate some solid free cash flow over the last few quarters |
| AOVs and ARPUs are looking better |
| In terms of the sales team, we made nice progress during the quarter |
| And the early results are promising |
| I mean the free cash flow and EBITDA story here really shows you what a great business model Vimeo has |
| And that's just an enormous differentiation for us |
| So as it relates to the advertising spend, I think what you're really seeing is us be more confident |
| We, as an organization, are fully heads down, engaged and really enjoying taking advantage of all the strategic opportunities that our market allows |
| We have been and are continuing to move to more efficient product-led growth with increased investment in R&D, improved go-to-market systems and processes and an eye to cost containment, especially in advertising spend |
| We have a great team running OTT |
| You're seeing and how we're modifying and evolving our products, especially on the enterprise side, to be more solution-oriented to fundamentally be more strategic to our customers and hopefully create more value and allow us to capture more value as part of that |
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| On the sales execution and the macro issues, you talked about last quarter, I think it was lead handling and also maybe some macro softness with respect to SMBs |
| Revenue trails the bookings |
| When we net out the factors impacting our bookings and revenue, we expect they will both decline in 2024 as we work our way to a healthier Vimeo |
| And then in the Other segment, we continue to think that's going to decline as we manage that business down to basically being OTT |
| So in terms of how we're thinking about the business in the booking side of the business, as we get Vimeo Enterprise bigger, its rate of growth will probably slow |
| In other words, the new bookings are falling less than the ad dollars are falling |
| You talked about some of the growth coming down just as low as large numbers |
| So when we look at the business and we look at the green shoots we see in terms of what product-led growth can do for the business, we're feeling embolden to take a little bit more risk in getting the business more quickly to the kind of business model we think is the right answer long term |
| These forward-looking views are subject to risks and uncertainties, and our actual results could differ materially from the views expressed today |
| The biggest delta in the revenue as I look at 2024, is actually the Other segment where we continue to bring that down |
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