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| We continue to believe in the significant long-term opportunities ahead and our team's ability to capture them |
| As Jeremy shared, we have a strong portfolio of initiatives to drive revenue growth |
| Net revenue increased by 12% year-over-year to a record $1.34 billion in 2023 |
| Net income nearly tripled year-over-year to $99 million and adjusted EBITDA grew to $330 million, delivering a strong 7% net income margin and a record 25% adjusted EBITDA margin |
| So, we do think there is going to be a positive benefit in introducing new people to the platform, and those users very well may be - extremely valuable, because they're coming in for a services request, which is by definition much more valuable than say restaurant searcher |
| So, we feel confident about the solutions and the go-forward from here, but it's something that we're keeping a close eye on, to make sure that we can keep that YA revenue going for the long-term |
| Our initiatives to grow quality leads and monetization and services continued to pay off in 2023 as advertising revenue from services businesses grew 14% year-over-year to a record $793 million |
| We believe that Yelp gained market share in 2023 by continuing to differentiate the product experience to better connect consumers with trusted pros, which enabled us to deliver more valuable leads to services businesses |
| Yelp delivered one of the strongest financial performances in our company's history in 2023 |
| The home services category remained particularly strong in 2023 with year-over-year revenue growth of approximately 20% |
| We are really happy with the progress there |
| And partially that's because we've been building to this moment working on Request-a-Quote in particular, and we've made incredible strides there |
| We do have strong advertiser demand, as you said, particularly within services, and you know we've made continued progress with Request-a-Quote, and as you mentioned we've made significant progress with respect to monetizing connections |
| We're really pleased with our performance in services |
| We're proud of that |
| In closing, we are proud of our performance in 2023, which was filled with record results and product innovation |
| We also saw improved consumer demand in the fourth quarter, with request to quote requests growing by approximately 5% year-over-year |
| Adjusted EBITDA grew by 19% year-over-year to $96 million, representing a 28% margin, up 2 percentage points from the fourth quarter of 2022 |
| It feels like we have good momentum in this area, the business is really working, and that leads us to SCM |
| Ad clicks returned to year-over-year growth, increasing 5% as we executed against our roadmap of ad system initiatives |
| Average cost per click increased by 9% year-over-year as a result of robust advertiser demand for Yelp's valuable high-intent clicks |
| We were encouraged by the combination of increasing ad clicks and moderating CPCs in the second half of the year, which typically has a positive impact on retention |
| While it is important to note that the expected benefit of this action to expenses will be largely offset by cash compensation increases in 2024, we expect the stacking impact of this reduction in stock-based compensation to begin to have a positive impact on our GAAP profitability in subsequent years |
| Self-serve revenue increased by approximately 20% year-over-year and multilocation revenue grew by approximately 15% year-over-year |
| We're obviously very encouraged by what we saw as we moved through '23, and I really do want to underscore that it has taken a very significant product effort to enable us to not just efficiently buy leads |
| We believe we have an opportunity to build Yelp into the best place for consumers to connect with trusted service pros |
| We set multiple records as local advertisers continued to see the value of Yelp's high-intent audience |
| By investing in our robust product roadmap and services, we plan to continue to enhance the experience for consumers while driving more quality leads to advertisers, both on Yelp and through search engine marketing |
| Over the coming quarters, we expect to scale our SCM efforts across all-home services categories and believe they have the potential to accelerate overall project growth over the long term and drive more valuable leads to service pros |
| This contributed to a record adjusted EBITDA margin of 25% for 2023, an increase of 2 percentage points year-over-year |
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| We believe this broad-based softness reflects a variety of factors, including a slowdown in consumer traffic from severe weather and widespread respiratory illnesses, as well as margin pressure for businesses from higher input costs |
| As we exited Q4 and moved through January, we saw weakness across our RR&O categories |
| David will talk more about fourth quarter results in RR&O, where we saw weakness in the back half of December due to macro impacts that have continued into the new year |
| And while that remained resilient, we did see some weakness in our RR&O categories in December, particularly in late December, and that trend has continued into January |
| For what it's worth, we don't believe this macro pressure is in a permanent state, but we do see some conservativism in terms of how marketers, are looking at that spend |
| This represented a 3 percentage point deceleration from Q3 |
| We ended 2023 with the total headcount of approximately 4,700, down modestly year-over-year |
| I think we have a situation in, which input costs continue to be very high for restaurants, and we believe that's driving some conservativism on marketing spend |
| In addition, we are subject to a number of risks that may significantly impact our business and financial results |
| We expect the number of shares subject to employee equity awards granted in 2024 to be approximately 65% lower than in 2023 |
| Just on the RR&O weakness you called out kind of in December, January |
| There are some components here would certainly seem transitory, and then there are some things just a broader backdrop in terms of inflationary pressures, as Jed mentioned on restaurants |
| Obviously, we're making a lot of investments on the services side, but all the stuff that we're doing on the consumer side, is also impacting restaurants as well |
| There's a little bit of up and down because of the timing of grants in prior years, but certainly maybe to just extend this as time goes by, having reduced the grants here in '24 by about 65% is our expectation |
| I think also there's an inflationary effect on consumers in terms of the frequency of dining |
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