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Earnings HistoryForecast Cardlytics EPS ResultsActual EPS-$0.26Consensus EPS N/ABeat/MissN/AOne Year Ago EPSN/ACardlytics Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$79.01 millionExpected RevenueN/ABeat/MissN/AYoY Revenue GrowthN/ACardlytics Announcement DetailsQuarterQ3 2023Date11/8/2023TimeN/AConference Call DateWednesday, November 8, 2023Conference Call Time5:00PM ETUpcoming EarningsCardlytics' Q1 2025 earnings is scheduled for Wednesday, April 30, 2025Conference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptSlide DeckPress Release (8-K)Quarterly Report (10-Q)Earnings HistoryCompany ProfileSlide DeckFull Screen Slide DeckPowered by Cardlytics Q3 2023 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrNovember 8, 2023 ShareLink copied to clipboard.There are 6 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Q3 2023 Cardlytics Inc. Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen only mode. After the speakers' presentation, there will be a question and answer Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. Operator00:00:37I would now like to hand the call over to your speaker for today, Nick Linton, Chief Legal and Privacy Officer. Nick, please go ahead. Speaker 100:00:55Good evening, and welcome to the Cardlytics Third Quarter 2023 Financial Results Call. Before we begin, let me remind everyone that today's discussion will contain forward looking statements based on our current assumptions, expectations and beliefs, Including expectations about our future financial performance and results, including for the Q4 and full year 2023, Adding new partners to the network, our partners' transition to the new ad server and user experience, the growth of Ripple, Improvements to our operations, our platform and our U. K. Business, international expansion, the bridge earn out payments and our liquidity. For a discussion of the specific risk factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from today's discussion, please refer to the Risk Factors section of the company's 10 Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2023, which has been filed with the SEC. Speaker 100:01:49Also during this call, we will discuss non GAAP measures of our performance. GAAP financial reconciliations and supplemental financial information are provided in the press release issued today in the 8 ks that has been filed with the SEC. Today's call is available via webcast and a replay will be available for 1 week. You can find the information I have just described in the Investor Relations section of the Cardlytics website. Please note that a supplemental presentation to our 3rd quarter results has also been posted on our Investor Relations website. Speaker 100:02:22Joining us on the call today is our CEO, Kareem Tinsamani and our CFO, Alexis DiCieno. Following their prepared remarks, we'll open the call to your questions. With that said, let me turn the call over to Karim. Speaker 200:02:36Good evening, and thank you for joining our Q3 2023 earnings call. To start the call, I'd like to provide some context to this quarter, now that I've spent a year in the business. When I arrived last year, our finances needed to improve. Before I started, our Q2 2022 adjusted EBITDA Annual run rate was worse than negative $55,000,000 and adding to the difficulty our teams were facing. My immediate priority was to right size our cost structure and reinvest in building the foundations of our business, starting with our financial institution relationships. Speaker 200:03:20While we have much left to accomplish, I am proud of the work our teams have done so far. The financial foundations of our business is stronger and our banking relationships are in a much better place. We can now think longer term about our growth prospects. Our results this quarter match this sentiment. We're in line with guidance on our top line metrics and better than expected on our profitability metrics. Speaker 200:03:52Of note, adjusted contribution grew 22% year over year and our adjusted EBITDA was positive for the first time in 2023 at $3,900,000 We also had positive operating cash flow for 2nd straight quarter. Alexis will provide more details later on, on our full financial results. Our solid financial performance this quarter points back to our underlying value proposition. For example, gas grocery and convenience grew more than 65% this quarter year over year. We saw success because we helped brands target shoppers who buy competing brands. Speaker 200:04:38We deliver strong ROI for them, which helps us succeed in this category. Another goal that saw success was travel entertainment, which grew more than 20% in the quarter year over year. While consumer spending travel and entertainment has softened in the back half of the year, our clients are still leaning into budgets. Our platform helps them reward loyalty and acquire new customers, particularly in environments where spending is volatile. These positive results were balanced by subpar performance in restaurant and retail. Speaker 200:05:20We believe these verticals can and should be significant contributors to our business and we are aiming to drive high growth moving forward by reinvesting in our teams in this category. As we saw with our vertical performance in the quarter, Underlying fundamentals were mixed. Unique consumers activating offers decreased 7% year over year in Q3, driven by the loss of the previously mentioned large restaurant clients. That said, unique customers with a redemption Our spend per serve in the quarter saw a 13% increase, which indicates we're serving relevant and engaging offers to consumers. Where there will be quarter to quarter variation in activations, we expect unique customers activating to increase over time as we continue to evolve our platform. Speaker 200:06:18As we mentioned last quarter, our expectation was to sign 1 new bank partner by the end of 2023. We are excited to announce that our U. K. Team signed Monzo, one of the fastest growing banks in the U. K. Speaker 200:06:33We can't wait to launch in 2024 to help their customers save money on the brands that they love. And the teams aren't stopping there. Our partner pipeline remains strong and we believe we will sign at least 1 more major bank partner in the U. S. Over the next few months. Speaker 200:06:54Let's move to our strategic initiative. In the quarter, we spent a considerable amount of time on strategic planning. While I expect an Investor Day at a later date, I do want to provide initial color on how I see our strategy evolving over the next 4 years. Our vision for the future of Cardlytics is aligned around 4 strategic pillars. 1, Strengthening our core product by driving user engagement and building out demand, supply and marketplace liquidity, while simultaneously expanding the core business globally outside of the UK. Speaker 200:07:352, scaling Bridge and Ripple and connecting it with the core Cardlytics to unlock a unique data and measurement ecosystem. 3, broadening our reach to non FIs to diversify supply and access the broader merchant ecosystem. This is a large growth vector for our business, but will require further exploration in the New Year. And last, but also most importantly, embedding insights into everything we do internally and externally to become the most trusted commerce partner. As a data company, this builds our credibility to reinforce our core and tap into new revenue streams. Speaker 200:08:24I'm excited about the future and potential of Cardlytics and can't wait to discuss the detailed initiatives behind our strategy with all of you. And while I could spend most of the call discussing our strategic plan, I do want to move to our near term initiatives that are critical to realizing many elements of this vision. So first, let's discuss the key initiatives for our bank partners and advertisers. On the bank front, like last quarter, all our major U. S. Speaker 200:08:58Banks have data in AWS and most have systems in AWS. In the quarter, a large U. K. Bank completed the migration, moving us closer to 100% completion. We still expect nearly all our major banks to migrate to AWS and the new user experience by the middle of 2024. Speaker 200:09:21We continue to have constructive conversations with our partners and we want to drive to full adoption as soon as possible. One bank focused area that saw significant progress was adoption of our ad decisioning engine or ADE. If you recall, ADE drives higher monetization and offer relevancy for the business through improved targeting. This quarter, 2 of our largest banks fully adopted ADE. We're excited about the increases in overall engagement we see with ADE and can't wait for all of our banks to adopt this new product. Speaker 200:10:03We continue to scale our advertising product to provide our partners and which provide variable incentives based on objectives, are seeing rapid adoption and have shown 2 times better performance than our baseline offering in some campaigns. For example, a customer came to us with an ask to increase premium membership purchases. Historically, this customer saw a split of 50% premium membership to 50% basic memberships. Our multi tier offers were able to drive consumers to an 80% premium membership split, providing additional value for its advertisers and its consumers. We're also continuing to make improvements to our operations. Speaker 200:10:58Several key items were completed in the quarter that we expect to significantly improve our execution, including transitioning legacy processes to our data lake and facilitating new interfaces for onboarding new publishers such as Monzo. We are also continuing to make improvements to our operations. Several key items were completed in the quarter that we We've also made process improvements that have significantly reduced the time to onboard a merchant from 2 weeks to just 2 days. Moving to Bridge and Ripple. For our customer data platform or CDP product, we re signed a national retailer to a large long term contract. Speaker 200:11:57This is a great win for us and evidence that the CDP product can deliver the data enrichment that larger retailers need. Earlier this quarter, we launched Ripple, our retail media network. To remind you, we believe Ripple will provide CPG brand flexibility in building sophisticated audiences, seamless access to a national footprint and user friendly tools that empower them to gain valuable insights, drive substantial incremental sales and accurately measure the impact of their campaigns. While the lumpiness We expect that in growth for the platform is materializing, we are making solid progress in transforming the business. We have 33,000,000 profiles live on Ripple and the initial feedback is strong. Speaker 200:12:51We also recently hired a Chief Revenue Officer for the business to help increase our growth. We expect to announce some big wins in the coming quarters and we see strong potential for Ripple to scale in 2024 and beyond. Let's move to the global business. While Monzo is the big news, I do have another important update. Please join me in welcoming Ian Carrington, who will serve in a newly created General Manager of International role. Speaker 200:13:21Ian helped build several $1,000,000,000 global businesses from scratch at Google and has over 25 years of experience in global markets. At Cardlytics, he will be charged with leading a global expansion and Tragic business development. We're extremely excited to have attracted him to Cardlytics and I look forward to providing more updates around our global business plans in the near future. Moving to our outlook. On the surface, Consumer spend looks solid this quarter with a 5.6% increase year over year, largely driven by gas prices. Speaker 200:13:59But despite this persistent spending, inflation is still higher than normal and some of our fine short institutions partners highlighted elevated interest rates, Lower deposits and higher credit card charge offs as negative indicators. In our conversations with advertisers, We are seeing elevated cushions around commitments and the size of advertising budgets given trends that they are seeing in Q4. It appears that some of the moderate optimism in Q2 has ceded ground to renewed recessionary concern. Economic volatility will impact our Q4 billings and revenue, but our adjusted EBITDA should still be positive in Q4. We can also reach positive adjusted EBITDA for the full year if we execute on our plan. Speaker 200:14:51We remain highly focused on our cash flow and profitability as we navigate this choppy environment. The trajectory of our adjusted EBITDA and operating cash flow since Q1 of 2022 is reflective of the incredible efforts and dedication from our team to right size our business and I think a great predictor of our future success. And like we discussed, there are many exciting developments coming over the next few quarters that will drive growth for us in the coming years. By the end of 2024, we expect our platform to look completely different with new large bank partners, A broader and deeper data set, more sophisticated audience targeting, better analytics and reporting in a variety of ad formats that will drive increased engagement. We're confident in our strategy for the next 4 years and our belief in our long term growth prospect has never been stronger. Speaker 200:15:59Now I will turn it over to Alexis to discuss our financial results. Speaker 300:16:05Thank you, Kareem. I'm thrilled to be addressing all of you today on my first earnings call. I spent my first 80 days as CFO meeting the teams, evaluating next steps for our capital structure and beginning to optimize our finance processes and systems. I also helped lead the 4 year strategic planning process that Karim mentioned. There is room to expand our addressable market and diversify our revenue streams, while maintaining a focus on profitability and cash flow to strengthen our balance sheet. Speaker 300:16:36I'm excited to be joining at this time in our trajectory. We are positioned to be the leader in providing trusted and intelligent business insights and there are a few other platforms that have the level of data and reach that we do. This gives us the right to compete with any platform in our space. And in the post cookie landscape, the trends align with our strengths. In the near term, I have 3 major priorities. Speaker 300:17:021st, driving incremental revenue through pricing improvements and monetization of our assets, which will ultimately allow us to deliver more insights to our partners. 2nd, continuing to embrace automation and data analytics across the organization to allow us to make more informed decisions more quickly and more nimbly. 3rd and most importantly, being hyper focused on profitability and improving our balance sheet and capital structure. This will allow us to deliver our goals and our promise to investors. Now let's move to our results and guidance. Speaker 300:17:41As Kareem mentioned, we delivered solid 3rd quarter results with billings revenue and adjusted contribution consistent with our Q3 guidance and adjusted EBITDA exceeding our Q3 guidance. We had our 2nd consecutive quarter of positive operating cash flow at $1,200,000 and our Q1 in 2023 of positive adjusted EBITDA of $3,900,000 We are showing sequential improvements and momentum on profitability. My comments will be year over year comparisons for the Q3 unless I state otherwise. Billings increased 5% to $116,400,000 primarily due to sales to new advertisers. Revenue increased 9% to $79,000,000 primarily due to a decrease in consumer incentives as a result of changes in our mix of financial institutions Our top five customers accounted for 22% of revenue this quarter compared to 19% last year. Speaker 300:18:42Adjusted contribution increased 22 percent to $42,900,000 Geographically, U. S. Revenue increased 10%. For our top advertisers across both years, revenue increased 30%. These increases were driven by higher brand spend and pricing improvements. Speaker 300:19:05U. K. Revenue decreased 12%, due mainly to the loss of a major bank partner last year. For the U. K, this is a sequential improvement over Q2, which we expect to continue in the next several quarters due to the additional supply from signing Monzo and from auto enrollment launching with another large bank partner set to begin in the next several months. Speaker 300:19:27For Bridge, revenue increased 10% driven by contract expansion of existing clients. As Karim said, we launched Ripple in August and have added 33,000,000 profiles to our database with the line of sight to adding additional profiles in the near term, which enables us to scale and drive network effects. Adjusted contribution grew 22% with the margin calculated off of revenue of 54% compared to 48% 1 year ago. We are seeing the benefits of our partner share with JPMorgan Chase as well as product improvements. Adjusted EBITDA exceeded the high end of guidance and was positive for the first time in 2023 at $3,900,000 which is $16,700,000 better than Q3 of 2022. Speaker 300:20:17Bridge was profitable for the 2nd quarter in a row. Operating cash flow was $1,200,000 and positive for the 2nd consecutive quarter. While operating expenses excluding stock based compensation came in lower than expected at $38,900,000 We still expect the run rate to be in the low $40,000,000 range per quarter. Our focus is on improving our profitability and cash flow And the expectation moving forward is to be operating cash flow positive and adjusted EBITDA positive on an annual basis in 2024. On the contingent consideration for the 2nd anniversary earn out payment related to our acquisition of Bridge, We continue to believe the payment amount to be $0 However, SRS, the group representing the former Bridge shareholders, submitted a notice in Q3 objecting to our calculations. Speaker 300:21:11We continue to believe our calculations are correct and are fully prepared to defend our position of 0 dollars. On the balance sheet, we ended Q3 with $90,100,000 in cash and cash equivalents and we had $4,000,000 of unused available borrowings under our line of credit. We still believe that our available liquidity is sufficient to support our long term plans. However, capital structure is top of mind for me and we plan to address our upcoming debt maturities on an appropriate timeline. Before I turn to guidance, I want to note that we changed the definition on how we report our MAUs to reflect unique users within each bank, regardless of the number of cards or accounts that they have at that bank. Speaker 300:21:56We believe this change is a more accurate view of our region monetization ability. Under the new definition, MAUs were $162,500,000 an increase of 4%. Also based on this new definition, ARPU during Q3 was $0.49 compared to $0.47 last year. Now turning to Q4 guidance. For most of the year, we have discussed the macro trends and dynamics that are causing uncertainty and mixed results in the advertising market. Speaker 300:22:29Our advertisers have shown renewed caution around budgets. However, we expect a strong adjusted EBITDA result given the work we've done on our cost structure. With that in mind, for Q4, we expect billings of between $122,000,000 $133,000,000 Revenue of between $82,000,000 $90,000,000 adjusted contribution of between $44,000,000 $50,000,000 and adjusted EBITDA between positive $4,000,000 and positive $8,000,000 Billings are primarily driven by growth in travel and continued success in our everyday spend categories. This growth is partially offset by weakness in restaurant and retail. Despite the mix trends, we are seeing our largest clients spend more with us. Speaker 300:23:21Advertisers spending more than $1,000,000 per year are up 15%. For example, we closed a deal in October with 1 of the largest retailers in the United States. That should push them to over 8 figures in billings in 2023 and around 20 times their spend from 2022. This is a solid demonstration of how we can grow budgets with our existing clients as they get comfortable with the value proposition of our platform, particularly around our ability to drive incremental loyalty spend. And in most years prior to 2022, we saw unplanned holiday budgets materialize in the Q4. Speaker 300:23:59We have not assumed these budgets in our forecast, so they could provide additional upside given the large number of days between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year. While Q4 and full year billings growth is mixed, we are on track for a second consecutive quarter of positive The midpoint of our Q4 adjusted EBITDA guidance implies we will be close to breakeven for the full year 2023. Our annual adjusted EBITDA could be over $40,000,000 better than 2022. These are incredible achievements by the teams. Like Karim said, we are bullish on the long term. Speaker 300:24:38We've added more supply in the UK. We expect to sign in other bank partner in our core business and nearly all of our banks should be on our new systems by the middle of 2024. We are adding profiles to the Bridge Retail Media Network and revenue should follow as we continue to scale the business. We have identified our strategic path and our teams are hard at work on turning these initiatives into real growth. While we expect some bumpiness given the seasonality of our business, we are on a path to sustain positive operating cash flow and positive adjusted EBITDA on an annual basis. Speaker 300:25:16And with that, I will turn it back over to Karim. Speaker 200:25:20As you know, I am extremely happy with the progress we've made on our financial structure. The trajectory of our profitability has dramatically improved of our run rate in Q2 of 2022. We are gathering speed with each passing quarter. Our platform is starting to look different And the collective improvements we are making to our product and operations are far exceeding our pace from prior years. And we can back this up with recent feedback from our banks who have told us we are moving at a much better pace than in prior years. Speaker 200:26:00Our dedication to product leadership, financial health and strategic growth is setting us on a promising course and I'm looking forward to the future. Operator00:26:40Please standby while we compile the Q and A roster. Your first question comes from the line of Kyle Peterson from Needham. Kyle, please go ahead. Speaker 400:27:00Great. Thanks and good afternoon guys. I wanted to start off On the outlook, chicken billings and revenue, I guess a lot of the commentary sounds pretty Positive in terms of feedback you guys are getting from one of your larger clients, but I guess the numbers looked a little light. So Just wanted to see what is driving that? Is this more of a consumer spending headwind kind of The other side of the funnel or is this just broader pressure especially with some clients that maybe aren't Some of the larger advertisers or is there something else at play here? Speaker 200:27:44Thanks, Kyle, for the question. Just to step back first, as you know Kyle, our priority has been to put this company back on the right financial footing, While obviously at the same time rebuilding many parts of our operations. I think we've demonstrated that we've made very large progress Going from a run rate of close to €55,000,000 in EBITDA losses to a breakeven situation. So what's really critical here is that we now believe that we can run the company profitably on a much lower cost base. This will allow us to concentrate on growing our revenues going forward. Speaker 200:28:25But going back to sort of the gist of your question, It's clear that our revenue guidance is lower than we had hoped for, for a couple of reasons. One, there are macro factors at play. I mentioned some of that on the call. We're seeing that inflation is still high, interest rates also and we're definitely seeing some points weakening consumer demand and signals are pointing to that. And obviously, there's a lot of additional feedback that you're hearing in the market with regards to Weakening consumer signals. Speaker 200:29:00We're also seeing some weakness in some of the sectors, Which we are addressing internally. That's definitely not easy for us to do better with our sales driving in some of our teams given that We're seeing inconsistency in delivery between some high growth sectors and some much lower and even declining sectors. So there's definitely work that We want to do it internally. And then I would say there's also a few areas that We wanted to be cautious around in the guidance we provided, but that could provide additional benefits to us in the quarter. The longer than normal holiday sales cycle this year could potentially help us. Speaker 200:29:46And we still hoping that there will be unplanned budget that you can't this time of the year that we could have last minute. So overall, We're very positive about the future. We're cautious about Q4, but we're very positive about the future. We see And our positive EBITDA for Q4 and possibly for the whole year, as we said, we see that some categories are growing very well And that we're continuing to grow large accounts that are spending a lot more with us. We want to emulate that more consistently across the business. Speaker 200:30:19We see that we're winning most supply and we see that new ad formats and ad tech and ADE We'll soon be at scale and will help us continue to improve our monetization potential. So definitely not where we want to be in Q4, but some very good So outlook for us longer term. Speaker 400:30:40Got it. That's helpful. And then maybe if I could Follow-up on some of the newer products. It seems like there's some good traction there. I guess Any metrics you might be able to share or whether it's qualitative or quantitative on some of the adoption of these products? Speaker 400:31:01Our clients that are using these are some of these new logo wins that are interested in these or is this expansion with Existing clients or is there some pure substitution, but happier clients or kind of all of the above? Speaker 200:31:20Yes. I mean, I think there's 2 parts to your question. The first one is that the adoption of our tech at scale It is a great benefit for us longer term. So in the call, I mentioned that ADE drives higher monetization and offer relevancy for the business so that we can improve targeting. Now that we have 2 Of our largest bank that have fully adopted ADE, we can see that there will be further benefits for us going forward. Speaker 200:31:50And then, certainly the adoption of new product features like multi tier offers, which I also talked about in the call, Definitely enables us to have different discussions with clients and bring new clients as well to ecosystem. And I've been talking over the last few Our new pricing models, we're trialing some of these now. And obviously, there's no numbers that we want to share yet until some of these things are at scale. But there are many elements of our core offering where we really see potential growth going forward. Speaker 400:32:23Got it. That makes sense and it's helpful. And maybe if I could just squeeze one more modeling question Nice to see the adjusted contribution margin move up nicely in the Q3 and the 4Q guide kind of Implies that seems like it's going to continue. Is there any mix with whether types of offers or anything in the pipeline or is this kind of 54 ish percent run rate for Adjusted contribution, is that a good run rate to use moving forward in our models? Speaker 300:32:59Hi. This is Alexis. I can take this one. So the benefit you're seeing in adjusted contribution is primarily due to the renegotiation of the major bank contract as well as a small mix shift from our financial institutions. So we do have different agreements with each one, which does drive some of The changes there. Speaker 300:33:18You're also seeing that impact in revenue, so changes to partner mix. And as I said on the call, also improvements in pricing. So I do think that Q3 is a more normalized state going forward, and so that would be a good thing to continue. Speaker 400:33:34Got it. That makes sense. That's really helpful. Thanks guys. Operator00:33:38One moment for your next question. The next Question comes from the line of Jason Kreyer from Craig Hallum. Jason, please go ahead. Speaker 500:33:57Terrific. Thank you. Karim, just wondering if you can talk about you indicated things are getting a little bit less Stable as we get into Q4. What are you hearing from advertisers? Like are you seeing campaigns get paused? Speaker 500:34:12Are you seeing those get terminated? Or Are you getting any transparency around things are being paused in the short term, but some indications that those may come online at some point in the future? Just Speaker 200:34:27What we're seeing is that there's no uniformity across the various verticals. There's definitely a number of verticals where we're seeing very strong growth as we've mentioned on the call as well. Some of our everyday spend categories like grocery, gas and convenience are really growing very, very strongly year on year. Travel Entertainment also is doing well. We are definitely seeing that in other industries like retail and restaurants for instance, There's a lot more caution and some of the budgets that you would see normally at this time of the year already come up particularly in retail are a lot softer than we expected. Speaker 200:35:07Some of that is definitely driven by sort of a caution around the economy and the ability for consumers to spend. We know that there's definitely a lot of issues around this period for many retailers as consumers just get Further into that. But there's also things that we're looking at ourselves, because We definitely want to drive more consistency in how we are driving the business across all of our verticals and we think we have opportunities to ourselves improve the performance of our business. So yes, does that answer your question, Taze? Speaker 500:35:46That's very helpful. Thank you. I also just wanted to see if we can step back and talk a little bit about what you view as the market opportunity for Ripple and then The go to market for you guys on if you expect to do a lot of that independently or if there's partnerships you're looking to pursue To kind of strengthen that or broaden that go to market approach. Speaker 200:36:08Yes. Well, so as a reminder, repo really provides a single point of access to anonymize Shopper profiles, which were enriched with SKU level data. So advertisers that are using Ripple will have an ability To have transparent shopper data that they can use to drive additional spend and a better shopping experience for consumers. We expect that there's going to be choppiness in how Bridge and Ripple scale. It's very new businesses and obviously We are in very early stages of talking to many of our customers there. Speaker 200:36:45But and I would say as well that So the time lines for getting customers to join the repo network is longer than our core product as well. But having said that, we're thrilled with the progress we're making. We're getting a lot of positive feedback from discussions we're having with both Retailers and CPG brands, we have promising pilots in progress and we have a number of discussions with large clients that are going well. And on top of that, we've just hired a new CRO for Bridge, who will help us scale the Bridge and Repo business and We expect that to contribute meaningfully in 2024. So we're very excited about the prospects, but expect some choppiness as we build that business. Speaker 500:37:34Thank you. Last one for me. I wanted Speaker 200:37:36to just maybe double click on Speaker 500:37:38the multi tier offers, which sounds like A really interesting opportunity. What is the gating factor to that growing more rapidly? Is there like did you need more banks on The ADE or the user experience or is it just take more time to get advertisers on there? Speaker 200:37:55Yes, it depends on sort of The goals that advertisers have and their ability to have differentiated type pricing or So offering for their customers. So multi tier offer is going to be a very successful product for us. That's It's going to be relevant for many of our customers, but not for all of our customers. We're certainly having multi a number of discussions about multi tier offers With customers right now and we're planning to scale it as fast as we can. One of the things that I would mention though is that Having more of these type of products to sell also opens up discussion for the core product. Speaker 200:38:39So as you have more product to sell and can have new discussions with advertisers, often you see them seeing that maybe the multi tier offer is not relevant for them Right now or even in the future, but they end up spending on sort of the normal rewards offers that we have. So it's relevant in many different areas. So As we have these products at scale, and again, I appreciate you all asking for numbers, but we want to see them at scale so that we can Provide more meaningful data with regards to the impact that they're having on our network and we certainly plan to do that in the future. Speaker 500:39:14Got it. All right. Thanks, Kareem. Thanks, everyone. Speaker 200:39:18Thank you, Jason. Operator00:39:22Thank you. At this time, I would now like to turn it back over to the speaker for any further comments. So back to you, Karen. Speaker 200:39:32Thank you very much, Felicia. That brings the call to a close. 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It offers Cardlytics platform, a proprietary native bank advertising channel that enables marketers to reach customers through their network of financial institution partners through digital channels, such as online, mobile applications, email, and various real-time notifications; and Bridg platform, a customer data platform which utilizes point-of-sale data and enables marketers to perform analytics and targeted loyalty marketing, as well as measure the impact of their marketing. 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There are 6 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Q3 2023 Cardlytics Inc. Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen only mode. After the speakers' presentation, there will be a question and answer Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. Operator00:00:37I would now like to hand the call over to your speaker for today, Nick Linton, Chief Legal and Privacy Officer. Nick, please go ahead. Speaker 100:00:55Good evening, and welcome to the Cardlytics Third Quarter 2023 Financial Results Call. Before we begin, let me remind everyone that today's discussion will contain forward looking statements based on our current assumptions, expectations and beliefs, Including expectations about our future financial performance and results, including for the Q4 and full year 2023, Adding new partners to the network, our partners' transition to the new ad server and user experience, the growth of Ripple, Improvements to our operations, our platform and our U. K. Business, international expansion, the bridge earn out payments and our liquidity. For a discussion of the specific risk factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from today's discussion, please refer to the Risk Factors section of the company's 10 Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2023, which has been filed with the SEC. Speaker 100:01:49Also during this call, we will discuss non GAAP measures of our performance. GAAP financial reconciliations and supplemental financial information are provided in the press release issued today in the 8 ks that has been filed with the SEC. Today's call is available via webcast and a replay will be available for 1 week. You can find the information I have just described in the Investor Relations section of the Cardlytics website. Please note that a supplemental presentation to our 3rd quarter results has also been posted on our Investor Relations website. Speaker 100:02:22Joining us on the call today is our CEO, Kareem Tinsamani and our CFO, Alexis DiCieno. Following their prepared remarks, we'll open the call to your questions. With that said, let me turn the call over to Karim. Speaker 200:02:36Good evening, and thank you for joining our Q3 2023 earnings call. To start the call, I'd like to provide some context to this quarter, now that I've spent a year in the business. When I arrived last year, our finances needed to improve. Before I started, our Q2 2022 adjusted EBITDA Annual run rate was worse than negative $55,000,000 and adding to the difficulty our teams were facing. My immediate priority was to right size our cost structure and reinvest in building the foundations of our business, starting with our financial institution relationships. Speaker 200:03:20While we have much left to accomplish, I am proud of the work our teams have done so far. The financial foundations of our business is stronger and our banking relationships are in a much better place. We can now think longer term about our growth prospects. Our results this quarter match this sentiment. We're in line with guidance on our top line metrics and better than expected on our profitability metrics. Speaker 200:03:52Of note, adjusted contribution grew 22% year over year and our adjusted EBITDA was positive for the first time in 2023 at $3,900,000 We also had positive operating cash flow for 2nd straight quarter. Alexis will provide more details later on, on our full financial results. Our solid financial performance this quarter points back to our underlying value proposition. For example, gas grocery and convenience grew more than 65% this quarter year over year. We saw success because we helped brands target shoppers who buy competing brands. Speaker 200:04:38We deliver strong ROI for them, which helps us succeed in this category. Another goal that saw success was travel entertainment, which grew more than 20% in the quarter year over year. While consumer spending travel and entertainment has softened in the back half of the year, our clients are still leaning into budgets. Our platform helps them reward loyalty and acquire new customers, particularly in environments where spending is volatile. These positive results were balanced by subpar performance in restaurant and retail. Speaker 200:05:20We believe these verticals can and should be significant contributors to our business and we are aiming to drive high growth moving forward by reinvesting in our teams in this category. As we saw with our vertical performance in the quarter, Underlying fundamentals were mixed. Unique consumers activating offers decreased 7% year over year in Q3, driven by the loss of the previously mentioned large restaurant clients. That said, unique customers with a redemption Our spend per serve in the quarter saw a 13% increase, which indicates we're serving relevant and engaging offers to consumers. Where there will be quarter to quarter variation in activations, we expect unique customers activating to increase over time as we continue to evolve our platform. Speaker 200:06:18As we mentioned last quarter, our expectation was to sign 1 new bank partner by the end of 2023. We are excited to announce that our U. K. Team signed Monzo, one of the fastest growing banks in the U. K. Speaker 200:06:33We can't wait to launch in 2024 to help their customers save money on the brands that they love. And the teams aren't stopping there. Our partner pipeline remains strong and we believe we will sign at least 1 more major bank partner in the U. S. Over the next few months. Speaker 200:06:54Let's move to our strategic initiative. In the quarter, we spent a considerable amount of time on strategic planning. While I expect an Investor Day at a later date, I do want to provide initial color on how I see our strategy evolving over the next 4 years. Our vision for the future of Cardlytics is aligned around 4 strategic pillars. 1, Strengthening our core product by driving user engagement and building out demand, supply and marketplace liquidity, while simultaneously expanding the core business globally outside of the UK. Speaker 200:07:352, scaling Bridge and Ripple and connecting it with the core Cardlytics to unlock a unique data and measurement ecosystem. 3, broadening our reach to non FIs to diversify supply and access the broader merchant ecosystem. This is a large growth vector for our business, but will require further exploration in the New Year. And last, but also most importantly, embedding insights into everything we do internally and externally to become the most trusted commerce partner. As a data company, this builds our credibility to reinforce our core and tap into new revenue streams. Speaker 200:08:24I'm excited about the future and potential of Cardlytics and can't wait to discuss the detailed initiatives behind our strategy with all of you. And while I could spend most of the call discussing our strategic plan, I do want to move to our near term initiatives that are critical to realizing many elements of this vision. So first, let's discuss the key initiatives for our bank partners and advertisers. On the bank front, like last quarter, all our major U. S. Speaker 200:08:58Banks have data in AWS and most have systems in AWS. In the quarter, a large U. K. Bank completed the migration, moving us closer to 100% completion. We still expect nearly all our major banks to migrate to AWS and the new user experience by the middle of 2024. Speaker 200:09:21We continue to have constructive conversations with our partners and we want to drive to full adoption as soon as possible. One bank focused area that saw significant progress was adoption of our ad decisioning engine or ADE. If you recall, ADE drives higher monetization and offer relevancy for the business through improved targeting. This quarter, 2 of our largest banks fully adopted ADE. We're excited about the increases in overall engagement we see with ADE and can't wait for all of our banks to adopt this new product. Speaker 200:10:03We continue to scale our advertising product to provide our partners and which provide variable incentives based on objectives, are seeing rapid adoption and have shown 2 times better performance than our baseline offering in some campaigns. For example, a customer came to us with an ask to increase premium membership purchases. Historically, this customer saw a split of 50% premium membership to 50% basic memberships. Our multi tier offers were able to drive consumers to an 80% premium membership split, providing additional value for its advertisers and its consumers. We're also continuing to make improvements to our operations. Speaker 200:10:58Several key items were completed in the quarter that we expect to significantly improve our execution, including transitioning legacy processes to our data lake and facilitating new interfaces for onboarding new publishers such as Monzo. We are also continuing to make improvements to our operations. Several key items were completed in the quarter that we We've also made process improvements that have significantly reduced the time to onboard a merchant from 2 weeks to just 2 days. Moving to Bridge and Ripple. For our customer data platform or CDP product, we re signed a national retailer to a large long term contract. Speaker 200:11:57This is a great win for us and evidence that the CDP product can deliver the data enrichment that larger retailers need. Earlier this quarter, we launched Ripple, our retail media network. To remind you, we believe Ripple will provide CPG brand flexibility in building sophisticated audiences, seamless access to a national footprint and user friendly tools that empower them to gain valuable insights, drive substantial incremental sales and accurately measure the impact of their campaigns. While the lumpiness We expect that in growth for the platform is materializing, we are making solid progress in transforming the business. We have 33,000,000 profiles live on Ripple and the initial feedback is strong. Speaker 200:12:51We also recently hired a Chief Revenue Officer for the business to help increase our growth. We expect to announce some big wins in the coming quarters and we see strong potential for Ripple to scale in 2024 and beyond. Let's move to the global business. While Monzo is the big news, I do have another important update. Please join me in welcoming Ian Carrington, who will serve in a newly created General Manager of International role. Speaker 200:13:21Ian helped build several $1,000,000,000 global businesses from scratch at Google and has over 25 years of experience in global markets. At Cardlytics, he will be charged with leading a global expansion and Tragic business development. We're extremely excited to have attracted him to Cardlytics and I look forward to providing more updates around our global business plans in the near future. Moving to our outlook. On the surface, Consumer spend looks solid this quarter with a 5.6% increase year over year, largely driven by gas prices. Speaker 200:13:59But despite this persistent spending, inflation is still higher than normal and some of our fine short institutions partners highlighted elevated interest rates, Lower deposits and higher credit card charge offs as negative indicators. In our conversations with advertisers, We are seeing elevated cushions around commitments and the size of advertising budgets given trends that they are seeing in Q4. It appears that some of the moderate optimism in Q2 has ceded ground to renewed recessionary concern. Economic volatility will impact our Q4 billings and revenue, but our adjusted EBITDA should still be positive in Q4. We can also reach positive adjusted EBITDA for the full year if we execute on our plan. Speaker 200:14:51We remain highly focused on our cash flow and profitability as we navigate this choppy environment. The trajectory of our adjusted EBITDA and operating cash flow since Q1 of 2022 is reflective of the incredible efforts and dedication from our team to right size our business and I think a great predictor of our future success. And like we discussed, there are many exciting developments coming over the next few quarters that will drive growth for us in the coming years. By the end of 2024, we expect our platform to look completely different with new large bank partners, A broader and deeper data set, more sophisticated audience targeting, better analytics and reporting in a variety of ad formats that will drive increased engagement. We're confident in our strategy for the next 4 years and our belief in our long term growth prospect has never been stronger. Speaker 200:15:59Now I will turn it over to Alexis to discuss our financial results. Speaker 300:16:05Thank you, Kareem. I'm thrilled to be addressing all of you today on my first earnings call. I spent my first 80 days as CFO meeting the teams, evaluating next steps for our capital structure and beginning to optimize our finance processes and systems. I also helped lead the 4 year strategic planning process that Karim mentioned. There is room to expand our addressable market and diversify our revenue streams, while maintaining a focus on profitability and cash flow to strengthen our balance sheet. Speaker 300:16:36I'm excited to be joining at this time in our trajectory. We are positioned to be the leader in providing trusted and intelligent business insights and there are a few other platforms that have the level of data and reach that we do. This gives us the right to compete with any platform in our space. And in the post cookie landscape, the trends align with our strengths. In the near term, I have 3 major priorities. Speaker 300:17:021st, driving incremental revenue through pricing improvements and monetization of our assets, which will ultimately allow us to deliver more insights to our partners. 2nd, continuing to embrace automation and data analytics across the organization to allow us to make more informed decisions more quickly and more nimbly. 3rd and most importantly, being hyper focused on profitability and improving our balance sheet and capital structure. This will allow us to deliver our goals and our promise to investors. Now let's move to our results and guidance. Speaker 300:17:41As Kareem mentioned, we delivered solid 3rd quarter results with billings revenue and adjusted contribution consistent with our Q3 guidance and adjusted EBITDA exceeding our Q3 guidance. We had our 2nd consecutive quarter of positive operating cash flow at $1,200,000 and our Q1 in 2023 of positive adjusted EBITDA of $3,900,000 We are showing sequential improvements and momentum on profitability. My comments will be year over year comparisons for the Q3 unless I state otherwise. Billings increased 5% to $116,400,000 primarily due to sales to new advertisers. Revenue increased 9% to $79,000,000 primarily due to a decrease in consumer incentives as a result of changes in our mix of financial institutions Our top five customers accounted for 22% of revenue this quarter compared to 19% last year. Speaker 300:18:42Adjusted contribution increased 22 percent to $42,900,000 Geographically, U. S. Revenue increased 10%. For our top advertisers across both years, revenue increased 30%. These increases were driven by higher brand spend and pricing improvements. Speaker 300:19:05U. K. Revenue decreased 12%, due mainly to the loss of a major bank partner last year. For the U. K, this is a sequential improvement over Q2, which we expect to continue in the next several quarters due to the additional supply from signing Monzo and from auto enrollment launching with another large bank partner set to begin in the next several months. Speaker 300:19:27For Bridge, revenue increased 10% driven by contract expansion of existing clients. As Karim said, we launched Ripple in August and have added 33,000,000 profiles to our database with the line of sight to adding additional profiles in the near term, which enables us to scale and drive network effects. Adjusted contribution grew 22% with the margin calculated off of revenue of 54% compared to 48% 1 year ago. We are seeing the benefits of our partner share with JPMorgan Chase as well as product improvements. Adjusted EBITDA exceeded the high end of guidance and was positive for the first time in 2023 at $3,900,000 which is $16,700,000 better than Q3 of 2022. Speaker 300:20:17Bridge was profitable for the 2nd quarter in a row. Operating cash flow was $1,200,000 and positive for the 2nd consecutive quarter. While operating expenses excluding stock based compensation came in lower than expected at $38,900,000 We still expect the run rate to be in the low $40,000,000 range per quarter. Our focus is on improving our profitability and cash flow And the expectation moving forward is to be operating cash flow positive and adjusted EBITDA positive on an annual basis in 2024. On the contingent consideration for the 2nd anniversary earn out payment related to our acquisition of Bridge, We continue to believe the payment amount to be $0 However, SRS, the group representing the former Bridge shareholders, submitted a notice in Q3 objecting to our calculations. Speaker 300:21:11We continue to believe our calculations are correct and are fully prepared to defend our position of 0 dollars. On the balance sheet, we ended Q3 with $90,100,000 in cash and cash equivalents and we had $4,000,000 of unused available borrowings under our line of credit. We still believe that our available liquidity is sufficient to support our long term plans. However, capital structure is top of mind for me and we plan to address our upcoming debt maturities on an appropriate timeline. Before I turn to guidance, I want to note that we changed the definition on how we report our MAUs to reflect unique users within each bank, regardless of the number of cards or accounts that they have at that bank. Speaker 300:21:56We believe this change is a more accurate view of our region monetization ability. Under the new definition, MAUs were $162,500,000 an increase of 4%. Also based on this new definition, ARPU during Q3 was $0.49 compared to $0.47 last year. Now turning to Q4 guidance. For most of the year, we have discussed the macro trends and dynamics that are causing uncertainty and mixed results in the advertising market. Speaker 300:22:29Our advertisers have shown renewed caution around budgets. However, we expect a strong adjusted EBITDA result given the work we've done on our cost structure. With that in mind, for Q4, we expect billings of between $122,000,000 $133,000,000 Revenue of between $82,000,000 $90,000,000 adjusted contribution of between $44,000,000 $50,000,000 and adjusted EBITDA between positive $4,000,000 and positive $8,000,000 Billings are primarily driven by growth in travel and continued success in our everyday spend categories. This growth is partially offset by weakness in restaurant and retail. Despite the mix trends, we are seeing our largest clients spend more with us. Speaker 300:23:21Advertisers spending more than $1,000,000 per year are up 15%. For example, we closed a deal in October with 1 of the largest retailers in the United States. That should push them to over 8 figures in billings in 2023 and around 20 times their spend from 2022. This is a solid demonstration of how we can grow budgets with our existing clients as they get comfortable with the value proposition of our platform, particularly around our ability to drive incremental loyalty spend. And in most years prior to 2022, we saw unplanned holiday budgets materialize in the Q4. Speaker 300:23:59We have not assumed these budgets in our forecast, so they could provide additional upside given the large number of days between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year. While Q4 and full year billings growth is mixed, we are on track for a second consecutive quarter of positive The midpoint of our Q4 adjusted EBITDA guidance implies we will be close to breakeven for the full year 2023. Our annual adjusted EBITDA could be over $40,000,000 better than 2022. These are incredible achievements by the teams. Like Karim said, we are bullish on the long term. Speaker 300:24:38We've added more supply in the UK. We expect to sign in other bank partner in our core business and nearly all of our banks should be on our new systems by the middle of 2024. We are adding profiles to the Bridge Retail Media Network and revenue should follow as we continue to scale the business. We have identified our strategic path and our teams are hard at work on turning these initiatives into real growth. While we expect some bumpiness given the seasonality of our business, we are on a path to sustain positive operating cash flow and positive adjusted EBITDA on an annual basis. Speaker 300:25:16And with that, I will turn it back over to Karim. Speaker 200:25:20As you know, I am extremely happy with the progress we've made on our financial structure. The trajectory of our profitability has dramatically improved of our run rate in Q2 of 2022. We are gathering speed with each passing quarter. Our platform is starting to look different And the collective improvements we are making to our product and operations are far exceeding our pace from prior years. And we can back this up with recent feedback from our banks who have told us we are moving at a much better pace than in prior years. Speaker 200:26:00Our dedication to product leadership, financial health and strategic growth is setting us on a promising course and I'm looking forward to the future. Operator00:26:40Please standby while we compile the Q and A roster. Your first question comes from the line of Kyle Peterson from Needham. Kyle, please go ahead. Speaker 400:27:00Great. Thanks and good afternoon guys. I wanted to start off On the outlook, chicken billings and revenue, I guess a lot of the commentary sounds pretty Positive in terms of feedback you guys are getting from one of your larger clients, but I guess the numbers looked a little light. So Just wanted to see what is driving that? Is this more of a consumer spending headwind kind of The other side of the funnel or is this just broader pressure especially with some clients that maybe aren't Some of the larger advertisers or is there something else at play here? Speaker 200:27:44Thanks, Kyle, for the question. Just to step back first, as you know Kyle, our priority has been to put this company back on the right financial footing, While obviously at the same time rebuilding many parts of our operations. I think we've demonstrated that we've made very large progress Going from a run rate of close to €55,000,000 in EBITDA losses to a breakeven situation. So what's really critical here is that we now believe that we can run the company profitably on a much lower cost base. This will allow us to concentrate on growing our revenues going forward. Speaker 200:28:25But going back to sort of the gist of your question, It's clear that our revenue guidance is lower than we had hoped for, for a couple of reasons. One, there are macro factors at play. I mentioned some of that on the call. We're seeing that inflation is still high, interest rates also and we're definitely seeing some points weakening consumer demand and signals are pointing to that. And obviously, there's a lot of additional feedback that you're hearing in the market with regards to Weakening consumer signals. Speaker 200:29:00We're also seeing some weakness in some of the sectors, Which we are addressing internally. That's definitely not easy for us to do better with our sales driving in some of our teams given that We're seeing inconsistency in delivery between some high growth sectors and some much lower and even declining sectors. So there's definitely work that We want to do it internally. And then I would say there's also a few areas that We wanted to be cautious around in the guidance we provided, but that could provide additional benefits to us in the quarter. The longer than normal holiday sales cycle this year could potentially help us. Speaker 200:29:46And we still hoping that there will be unplanned budget that you can't this time of the year that we could have last minute. So overall, We're very positive about the future. We're cautious about Q4, but we're very positive about the future. We see And our positive EBITDA for Q4 and possibly for the whole year, as we said, we see that some categories are growing very well And that we're continuing to grow large accounts that are spending a lot more with us. We want to emulate that more consistently across the business. Speaker 200:30:19We see that we're winning most supply and we see that new ad formats and ad tech and ADE We'll soon be at scale and will help us continue to improve our monetization potential. So definitely not where we want to be in Q4, but some very good So outlook for us longer term. Speaker 400:30:40Got it. That's helpful. And then maybe if I could Follow-up on some of the newer products. It seems like there's some good traction there. I guess Any metrics you might be able to share or whether it's qualitative or quantitative on some of the adoption of these products? Speaker 400:31:01Our clients that are using these are some of these new logo wins that are interested in these or is this expansion with Existing clients or is there some pure substitution, but happier clients or kind of all of the above? Speaker 200:31:20Yes. I mean, I think there's 2 parts to your question. The first one is that the adoption of our tech at scale It is a great benefit for us longer term. So in the call, I mentioned that ADE drives higher monetization and offer relevancy for the business so that we can improve targeting. Now that we have 2 Of our largest bank that have fully adopted ADE, we can see that there will be further benefits for us going forward. Speaker 200:31:50And then, certainly the adoption of new product features like multi tier offers, which I also talked about in the call, Definitely enables us to have different discussions with clients and bring new clients as well to ecosystem. And I've been talking over the last few Our new pricing models, we're trialing some of these now. And obviously, there's no numbers that we want to share yet until some of these things are at scale. But there are many elements of our core offering where we really see potential growth going forward. Speaker 400:32:23Got it. That makes sense and it's helpful. And maybe if I could just squeeze one more modeling question Nice to see the adjusted contribution margin move up nicely in the Q3 and the 4Q guide kind of Implies that seems like it's going to continue. Is there any mix with whether types of offers or anything in the pipeline or is this kind of 54 ish percent run rate for Adjusted contribution, is that a good run rate to use moving forward in our models? Speaker 300:32:59Hi. This is Alexis. I can take this one. So the benefit you're seeing in adjusted contribution is primarily due to the renegotiation of the major bank contract as well as a small mix shift from our financial institutions. So we do have different agreements with each one, which does drive some of The changes there. Speaker 300:33:18You're also seeing that impact in revenue, so changes to partner mix. And as I said on the call, also improvements in pricing. So I do think that Q3 is a more normalized state going forward, and so that would be a good thing to continue. Speaker 400:33:34Got it. That makes sense. That's really helpful. Thanks guys. Operator00:33:38One moment for your next question. The next Question comes from the line of Jason Kreyer from Craig Hallum. Jason, please go ahead. Speaker 500:33:57Terrific. Thank you. Karim, just wondering if you can talk about you indicated things are getting a little bit less Stable as we get into Q4. What are you hearing from advertisers? Like are you seeing campaigns get paused? Speaker 500:34:12Are you seeing those get terminated? Or Are you getting any transparency around things are being paused in the short term, but some indications that those may come online at some point in the future? Just Speaker 200:34:27What we're seeing is that there's no uniformity across the various verticals. There's definitely a number of verticals where we're seeing very strong growth as we've mentioned on the call as well. Some of our everyday spend categories like grocery, gas and convenience are really growing very, very strongly year on year. Travel Entertainment also is doing well. We are definitely seeing that in other industries like retail and restaurants for instance, There's a lot more caution and some of the budgets that you would see normally at this time of the year already come up particularly in retail are a lot softer than we expected. Speaker 200:35:07Some of that is definitely driven by sort of a caution around the economy and the ability for consumers to spend. We know that there's definitely a lot of issues around this period for many retailers as consumers just get Further into that. But there's also things that we're looking at ourselves, because We definitely want to drive more consistency in how we are driving the business across all of our verticals and we think we have opportunities to ourselves improve the performance of our business. So yes, does that answer your question, Taze? Speaker 500:35:46That's very helpful. Thank you. I also just wanted to see if we can step back and talk a little bit about what you view as the market opportunity for Ripple and then The go to market for you guys on if you expect to do a lot of that independently or if there's partnerships you're looking to pursue To kind of strengthen that or broaden that go to market approach. Speaker 200:36:08Yes. Well, so as a reminder, repo really provides a single point of access to anonymize Shopper profiles, which were enriched with SKU level data. So advertisers that are using Ripple will have an ability To have transparent shopper data that they can use to drive additional spend and a better shopping experience for consumers. We expect that there's going to be choppiness in how Bridge and Ripple scale. It's very new businesses and obviously We are in very early stages of talking to many of our customers there. Speaker 200:36:45But and I would say as well that So the time lines for getting customers to join the repo network is longer than our core product as well. But having said that, we're thrilled with the progress we're making. We're getting a lot of positive feedback from discussions we're having with both Retailers and CPG brands, we have promising pilots in progress and we have a number of discussions with large clients that are going well. And on top of that, we've just hired a new CRO for Bridge, who will help us scale the Bridge and Repo business and We expect that to contribute meaningfully in 2024. So we're very excited about the prospects, but expect some choppiness as we build that business. Speaker 500:37:34Thank you. Last one for me. I wanted Speaker 200:37:36to just maybe double click on Speaker 500:37:38the multi tier offers, which sounds like A really interesting opportunity. What is the gating factor to that growing more rapidly? Is there like did you need more banks on The ADE or the user experience or is it just take more time to get advertisers on there? Speaker 200:37:55Yes, it depends on sort of The goals that advertisers have and their ability to have differentiated type pricing or So offering for their customers. So multi tier offer is going to be a very successful product for us. That's It's going to be relevant for many of our customers, but not for all of our customers. We're certainly having multi a number of discussions about multi tier offers With customers right now and we're planning to scale it as fast as we can. One of the things that I would mention though is that Having more of these type of products to sell also opens up discussion for the core product. Speaker 200:38:39So as you have more product to sell and can have new discussions with advertisers, often you see them seeing that maybe the multi tier offer is not relevant for them Right now or even in the future, but they end up spending on sort of the normal rewards offers that we have. So it's relevant in many different areas. So As we have these products at scale, and again, I appreciate you all asking for numbers, but we want to see them at scale so that we can Provide more meaningful data with regards to the impact that they're having on our network and we certainly plan to do that in the future. Speaker 500:39:14Got it. All right. Thanks, Kareem. Thanks, everyone. Speaker 200:39:18Thank you, Jason. Operator00:39:22Thank you. At this time, I would now like to turn it back over to the speaker for any further comments. So back to you, Karen. Speaker 200:39:32Thank you very much, Felicia. That brings the call to a close. As mentioned, we remain committed to positioning the business for future success. Thank you for your continued support, and I look forward to speaking to you all soon. Operator00:39:51Thank you for your participation in today's conference. This does conclude the program. You may now disconnect.Read morePowered by