NASDAQ:VMEO Vimeo Q2 2023 Earnings Report $5.20 +0.06 (+1.17%) Closing price 04/25/2025 04:00 PM EasternExtended Trading$5.20 0.00 (-0.10%) As of 04/25/2025 05:51 PM Eastern Extended trading is trading that happens on electronic markets outside of regular trading hours. This is a fair market value extended hours price provided by Polygon.io. Learn more. Earnings HistoryForecast Vimeo EPS ResultsActual EPS$0.03Consensus EPS -$0.11Beat/MissBeat by +$0.14One Year Ago EPS-$0.16Vimeo Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$101.84 millionExpected Revenue$100.59 millionBeat/MissBeat by +$1.25 millionYoY Revenue Growth-8.20%Vimeo Announcement DetailsQuarterQ2 2023Date8/1/2023TimeAfter Market ClosesConference Call DateWednesday, August 2, 2023Conference Call Time8:30AM ETUpcoming EarningsVimeo's Q1 2025 earnings is scheduled for Monday, May 5, 2025, with a conference call scheduled at 5:00 PM ET. Check back for transcripts, audio, and key financial metrics as they become available.Q1 2025 Earnings ReportConference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptPress Release (8-K)Quarterly Report (10-Q)SEC FilingEarnings HistoryCompany ProfilePowered by Vimeo Q2 2023 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrAugust 2, 2023 ShareLink copied to clipboard.There are 8 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Good morning, and thank you for joining Vimeo's Q2 2023 Earnings Live Q and A. Before we begin, a few comments. First, this session will be recorded and available on the Vimeo Investor Relations site later today. 2nd, we will discuss Vimeo's outlook and future performance. These forward looking statements typically may be preceded by words such as we expect, we believe, we anticipate or other such statements. Operator00:00:23These forward looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, and our actual results could differ materially from the views expressed today. We've also provided information regarding certain key metrics and our non GAAP financial measures, including certain forward looking measures. These should be considered in addition to and not as a substitute or in isolation from GAAP measures. Additional information regarding Vimeo's financial Performance, including reconciliations with comparable GAAP measures, can be found in our shareholder letter and Vimeo's filings with the SEC as well as in supplemental information posted on the Investor Relations section of our website. With that, I'll turn it over to our CFO, Jillian. Speaker 100:01:03Good morning. Thank you for joining Vimeo's Q2 2023 earnings Q and A session. I'm Gillian Munson, Vimeo's CFO, And I'm happy to be joined for the first time on quarterly earnings by Adam Gross, our recently named Interim CEO. Adam has been with us for about a month and is quickly ramping up on all things Vimeo. We're excited to have him on board, Particularly given his wealth of experience as a leader in the SaaS space and as a member of Immuneo's Board over the past 2 years. Speaker 100:01:32We're all looking forward to working with him going forward. Before we jump into the Q and A, I'll mention a few main highlights from the quarter. 1st, we continue to believe we are on track to return bookings to growth in the back Half of this year. 2nd, our efficiency initiatives continued to pay off, with gross margin up, operating expenses down And improved profitably year over year in the quarter. And 3rd, we showed that we could control costs while still investing in innovation With our AI powered video creation suite, which we believe will help make video easier and more accessible for all. Speaker 100:02:09It's still very early days in terms of where video communication can go, particularly in the business world. I'm confident that Vimeo's platform and products Can be part of facilitating this evolution and believe we're making good progress against our goals. We look forward to taking your questions. Operator00:02:28Our first question comes from Brian Fitzgerald at Wells Fargo. Brian? Speaker 200:02:37Thanks. Adam, welcome. We're looking forward to working with you. Given your experience with SaaS businesses in the past, We're just wondering if there's anything you could share about what you'd like to bring to the business in an operating role, any new priorities and strategy or go to market? Thank you. Speaker 300:02:55Yes. Thanks so much for the question. Really three things I'm excited about as I get up to speed here. The first is the technology. I think we're in the early days of seeing video's impact on business. Speaker 300:03:07I think it's going to be an exciting decade ahead as we What video is evolves and the applications for the enterprise expand and we have an opportunity to find new strategic ways to partner with our customers in bringing video value to them. And the second is the team. I've been a member of the Board for 2 years. I had a hand in recruiting most of the management team and working with them In the Board room and so that's really helped get up Speaker 400:03:31to speed Speaker 300:03:32quickly and very much looking forward to working with them as we continue to execute on the strategy. And the last is really our kind of our go to market model. And if you look at my career and my experience at places like Salesforce and Dropbox and Heroku, One of the common themes is really being able to marry really innovative technology with innovative go to market models. And When you look at the opportunity we have to connect the self serve business with the enterprise business and you look at how really successful companies have done that in the past, Again, like the sales forces and Dropbox's of the world, I think that's a really exciting opportunity for us here. Operator00:04:15Our next question comes from Tom Champion at Piper Sandler. Tom? Speaker 400:04:22Thanks. Good morning, everyone. First question is around the AI powered video creation suite. And just curious, Jillian, if you could talk about the early experience here and if the product is available For enterprise and self serve customers, I think last quarter you shared an interesting stat around users that upload video and use a creation tool And the related bookings there, just curious if that plays into the thinking here. Speaker 100:04:54Yes. Do you want me to start there or do you have more Speaker 400:04:57color on that? Yes, please. Speaker 100:04:58Okay. Please. So on the AI suite, it's very new. So I think That it's too early to give you stats on how it's doing. But it's important to remember that Vimeo has been on a journey with AI for quite a while, and we use AI in a variety of places Throughout the product, all with the main goal of our strategy, which is to make video more accessible, particularly for business users. Speaker 100:05:21And so that is a theme throughout our products. And the AI creation suite is just one great example of how you can get Up and productive on video fast using Vimeo. So I encourage you all to use it. You probably can use it for some of your research reports over time. I know that for us, Even earnings calls, it's been a helpful tool for us to get the whole process done easier, faster, and Make it less scary, if you will, to make video something you use every day. Speaker 100:05:49In terms of the strategy, we've talked a lot about this, that Vimeo has really Expanded how customers use the products. And I think we talked last time about how we've gone from folks who are just uploading to folks who are using lots of different tools to amend the video, create the video, distribute the video, and that continues to be a trend and this is one of those type of tools. The AI creation suite is available on our enterprise products and in a handful of our higher end self serve products. At the lower end of the product line, you'd have to upgrade to use the AI tools. Speaker 400:06:23Okay. All that makes sense. Maybe if I could sneak in one more. Jillian, maybe Just remind us, I know SBC was a little bit of an odd result this quarter, but just Remind us how we should be thinking about that through the balance of the year. And curious, with margins generally Better than expected. Speaker 400:06:48How are you thinking about investing behind growth? Does it make sense To think more about investing behind the top of funnel within self serve or other investments to help stabilize and grow the business? Speaker 100:07:05Sure. You snuck in 2 questions there, Tom, but I'm not going Speaker 400:07:08to Speaker 100:07:09get you on that. Okay. So for stock based comp, we are really on a journey with stock based comp to bring it down And that's going to happen in a couple different ways. The key thing that stock based comp represents to us and we think to our shareholders is dilution. And as we look at the business, we think that we had been a little too free in terms of the amount of stock we gave away, particularly in 2022. Speaker 100:07:31Some of that was just required as we had a new management team come into the company, but we have goaled ourselves to meaningfully bring that down and are on a path to doing that. Now stock based comp expense is a little bit of a trailing indicator of that initiative and also reflects some of the Board and management changes you've Seen happen over the last couple of quarters. So when you look specifically at Q2, stock based comp was actually a benefit. And the reason for that is, as Anjali announced Her departure, we had to reverse some of the cumulative expense we had taken for some of the shares she won't be taking with her. So that's what that is. Speaker 100:08:06Now when I look at stock based comp overall, I think we talked about this a few quarters ago, that we were running in and around $20,000,000 a quarter, which we felt was too high a number. With all the different changes and our hard work to make sure we keep dilution lower on burn rate, we think that those figures are going to be more in the $10,000,000 to $12,000,000 Quarterly, as we look forward here in terms of where we sit today. Okay. Then in terms of expenses and investing. So we have always believed that Vimeo has strong profit capability and that inherent in the business is Really great profitability. Speaker 100:08:42We have a 78% gross margin. As you saw, we've continued to bring expenses down. I think one thing we've done really nicely in 2023 is Show that even in a transitional revenue period, we can get profitable and we can be free cash flow positive. So Underlying that are actually continued investments to drive growth. And we're really trying to balance delivering profitability in a transitional time In a little bit of an uncertain time, while also investing. Speaker 100:09:10So inherently, we actually think the business could be more profitable, but the delta there is some of the investment we are making. We're really focused on great product. We're really focused on making sure our customers are getting to the products easily. And so we will continue to make investments To sort of make those trade offs between profitability investment, our balance sheet and our really strong cash position Puts us in a great position to do that, but we are also doing that while generating cash flow right now, which I think is a really nice thing for the company. Speaker 400:09:41Thanks for the comments. Speaker 100:09:42You're welcome. Speaker 200:09:44Our next question will come from William Kerr at TD Cowen. William? Speaker 500:09:49Great. Thank you. So bookings growth was a lot better than we expected and reacceleration in enterprise was especially Encouraging. Could you just touch on the current booking trends in 3Q? And then maybe fundamentally, how we should be thinking about the relationship between bookings and revenue? Speaker 100:10:09Absolutely happy to. So as you know, we've been working our way through a period of down bookings. I think bookings were down in 4 of the last 5 quarters. And what happens is your bookings precede your revenue. So what you've started to see and have seen in the last couple of quarters, 3 of the last quarters, Is that revenue has fallen as well following those booking trends. Speaker 100:10:31So as we look at the business, we are on a path to Turn bookings to growth. That's our strategy. And we want to return bookings to growth, and then we believe that revenue would follow, and we want to do this all profitably, as we've we talked about. So, in terms of the business, we continue to believe, and we confirmed in the shareholder letter, that we believe we can get bookings back to growth by the end of the year, and everything we are doing is oriented around that. We did reduce the rate of decline in bookings in Q2 by a couple of points, which is Great, but we've got a lot of work to do and a lot of heavy lift to move our way to the end of the year. Speaker 100:11:08As you frame it and you think about how to think about bookings As that leading indicator, we continue to believe it will be led by VE. That's where the strongest growth is in the business and we continue to see VE growing as a Percentage of the business and as a percentage of our bookings, it was just under 20% of bookings in the quarter. Offsetting that has been other, Which is our OTT product, which is a really great ongoing product for us, and in addition, some products that we've been deprecating. That's now down closer to about 10% of bookings. So as VE gets the VE growth now will overcome that and lead us into growth. Speaker 100:11:48In the middle is self serve, which is the core of the business and the thing that we've always talked about. Growth comes through self serve. And so we want to turn that to growth as Well, as we work our way to the end of the year. Putting it all together, you'll be led by VE, self serve, we hope to turn to growth. And the other portion of our business will get to be such a small portion of bookings that it's not going to be as much of a headwind on the overall growth rates over time. Speaker 100:12:12So that's how we're thinking about it. Speaker 500:12:15Great, great. Thank you. And that kind of rolls into my second question, which is, on self serve, how do you think about You know, sub stabilization versus, versus price versus pricing and and getting that as you get that back to growth over the coming quarters. Speaker 100:12:34Yeah. In self serve, what you're seeing in terms of sub declines sort of mirrors what you're seeing in terms of bookings decline. But if you step back and look at it on a macro basis, what you're seeing for the overall Vimeo and you're going to see start to see it self serve is that we are focused on Going to a higher level customer, a business customer. Business customers use the product more, retain better, have all those financial Factors that we think are beneficial for the business. So over time, we are trying to work up ARPU in self serve. Speaker 100:13:06It starts with AOV. It Starts with where do you bring customers in? And we saw really nice double digit growth in AOV in the quarter. Now it takes a while to roll those AOVs Through your overall ARPU, but that's the strategy. So ultimately, my suspicion is we'll be at a place where the ARPU It's probably a little bit faster growth than, say, the subs as we continue to mix shift the business towards businesses over time. Speaker 100:13:32Right now, Everything at the company is working on turning both bookings and subs back to growth, and then the pricing will be the X factor in terms of what that Operator00:13:49Our next Question will come from Chris Zhang at Truist. Chris? Speaker 600:13:56Hi, thank you. I have this question on behalf of Youssef Squali. What do you think is the level of steady state growth for both self serve and enterprise business as the situation normalized for Vimeo? Speaker 100:14:09Well, we're right now really focused on getting the overall business back to growth. So we're not we don't really guide by business, but I'll go back to Kind of where I really want to make sure people understand the framing. VE is having very strong double digit growth, 72% in the quarter. And we continue to believe that's where you're going to have your outsized growth at Vimeo. And then self serve, we want to get back to growth. Speaker 100:14:33And then as we get it back to growth, then we'll figure out at what growth rate we land over time. But right now, our orientation is around turning the overall bookings back to growth By virtue of that strong VE growth and then turning self serve back to growth, too soon to kind of peg long term growth rates, but I would expect You will always see the VE product have much stronger growth overall in our portfolio. Speaker 600:14:57Thank you. Appreciate your time. Operator00:15:01Our next question will come from David Lustberg at Jefferies. David? Speaker 700:15:07Hey, thanks and good morning, guys. This is David on for Brent. Around Vimeo Enterprise, I wanted to ask about the ARPU dynamics. I was wondering if you can tease out what's going on in the declines there between different product mix versus seat based would be helpful. Speaker 100:15:23Absolutely. So ARPU in VE has been about $20,000 for quite a few quarters here. And ultimately, we think it's going higher. We think we can get to higher wallet share in companies overall. The challenge with ARPU, of course, is that when you are growing a business This fast, you have a mix of both customer sizes and new customer incoming price points that you have to sort of mix in to get to an overall ARPU. Speaker 100:15:50So over time, we expect that to go up. But because it's still a smaller business, it can be a little bit lumpy as we work our way through. So when we look at there are no trends between customers or customer sizes that were particularly notable in the quarter. I think overall, our aim is to get ARPU up. There'll be a number of factors that get there. Speaker 100:16:09Another indicator that we're making progress along that would be our NRR. So as you saw in the quarter, NRR was over a Percent, that again is kind of where we were last quarter as well and coming up. And so we'll move we want to move NRR up, we want to move AOV up. We want to move ARPU up. But we are also really excited whenever any customer wants to come to Vimeo. Speaker 100:16:30So in this early stage of growing the business, If people come in lower than the ARPU and we can move them up over time, that's an opportunity for us that we'll take. So it will probably take a little time for the averages to move, But the trend is the same, is to the positive. And then as it relates to VE over the overall business, When you look at Vimeo, I think 2 years ago Vimeo's our overall ARPU was less than $200 and it has come up meaningfully over the last couple of years as a result of VE's growth And some of the other work we're doing in the business. Speaker 700:17:03Got it. That's super helpful. And then maybe to follow-up on, you beat me to my Question on NRR, but I think it's 2 consecutive quarters of over 100%. Maybe if you could provide any color, I know you guys Maybe a little bit more locked about the numbers, but how that trended specifically versus last quarter if it's high or lower around the same? And then I know you said you plan on continuing to raise that higher. Speaker 700:17:28Is that a dynamic of, hey, like we're past The COVID cohort that kind of came on and churned off and you guys feel that that could be more of a steady increase over time as we get more to this normalized environment? Speaker 100:17:39Yeah, a couple of factors on NRR. COVID cohorts don't really have too, too much to do with our VE business. That really is a business that we almost Kind of really took off. It was very, very small and has grown much more meaningfully into in the post COVID period. The COVID cohorts kind of has more to do with the self serve business. Speaker 100:18:01In terms of NRR, we think of it as a Holy Grail of Customers being happy, expanding their use of Vimeo, and that's what we're aiming both the product teams at in terms of all The new features and functions they're bringing to enterprises as well as our sales force in terms of their relationships with customers. So NRR to us is a really good sign that we're doing a good job at that. The way we expect to expand ARPU Inside customers is both by expanding the use of Vimeo across a company. So oftentimes, Vimeo will start in one department and then expand out because people say, Oh, wait. This is really dead simple way to do video, and while my partner over here might want to use it, I, of course, always believe that the The finance team should use Vimeo, and then the HR team and the marketing team. Speaker 100:18:48Actually, it tends to start more in the HR and the marketing, then fly over to a finance team. But that's the idea. So it's both going to be expansion of the number of people using Vimeo and with all the kind of cool new features that we continue to bring out, expansion of features. So along both lines is where our strategy sits. Speaker 700:19:09Great. Thank you. Speaker 100:19:10You're welcome. Operator00:19:12At this point, there are no further questions. 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There are 8 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Good morning, and thank you for joining Vimeo's Q2 2023 Earnings Live Q and A. Before we begin, a few comments. First, this session will be recorded and available on the Vimeo Investor Relations site later today. 2nd, we will discuss Vimeo's outlook and future performance. These forward looking statements typically may be preceded by words such as we expect, we believe, we anticipate or other such statements. Operator00:00:23These forward looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, and our actual results could differ materially from the views expressed today. We've also provided information regarding certain key metrics and our non GAAP financial measures, including certain forward looking measures. These should be considered in addition to and not as a substitute or in isolation from GAAP measures. Additional information regarding Vimeo's financial Performance, including reconciliations with comparable GAAP measures, can be found in our shareholder letter and Vimeo's filings with the SEC as well as in supplemental information posted on the Investor Relations section of our website. With that, I'll turn it over to our CFO, Jillian. Speaker 100:01:03Good morning. Thank you for joining Vimeo's Q2 2023 earnings Q and A session. I'm Gillian Munson, Vimeo's CFO, And I'm happy to be joined for the first time on quarterly earnings by Adam Gross, our recently named Interim CEO. Adam has been with us for about a month and is quickly ramping up on all things Vimeo. We're excited to have him on board, Particularly given his wealth of experience as a leader in the SaaS space and as a member of Immuneo's Board over the past 2 years. Speaker 100:01:32We're all looking forward to working with him going forward. Before we jump into the Q and A, I'll mention a few main highlights from the quarter. 1st, we continue to believe we are on track to return bookings to growth in the back Half of this year. 2nd, our efficiency initiatives continued to pay off, with gross margin up, operating expenses down And improved profitably year over year in the quarter. And 3rd, we showed that we could control costs while still investing in innovation With our AI powered video creation suite, which we believe will help make video easier and more accessible for all. Speaker 100:02:09It's still very early days in terms of where video communication can go, particularly in the business world. I'm confident that Vimeo's platform and products Can be part of facilitating this evolution and believe we're making good progress against our goals. We look forward to taking your questions. Operator00:02:28Our first question comes from Brian Fitzgerald at Wells Fargo. Brian? Speaker 200:02:37Thanks. Adam, welcome. We're looking forward to working with you. Given your experience with SaaS businesses in the past, We're just wondering if there's anything you could share about what you'd like to bring to the business in an operating role, any new priorities and strategy or go to market? Thank you. Speaker 300:02:55Yes. Thanks so much for the question. Really three things I'm excited about as I get up to speed here. The first is the technology. I think we're in the early days of seeing video's impact on business. Speaker 300:03:07I think it's going to be an exciting decade ahead as we What video is evolves and the applications for the enterprise expand and we have an opportunity to find new strategic ways to partner with our customers in bringing video value to them. And the second is the team. I've been a member of the Board for 2 years. I had a hand in recruiting most of the management team and working with them In the Board room and so that's really helped get up Speaker 400:03:31to speed Speaker 300:03:32quickly and very much looking forward to working with them as we continue to execute on the strategy. And the last is really our kind of our go to market model. And if you look at my career and my experience at places like Salesforce and Dropbox and Heroku, One of the common themes is really being able to marry really innovative technology with innovative go to market models. And When you look at the opportunity we have to connect the self serve business with the enterprise business and you look at how really successful companies have done that in the past, Again, like the sales forces and Dropbox's of the world, I think that's a really exciting opportunity for us here. Operator00:04:15Our next question comes from Tom Champion at Piper Sandler. Tom? Speaker 400:04:22Thanks. Good morning, everyone. First question is around the AI powered video creation suite. And just curious, Jillian, if you could talk about the early experience here and if the product is available For enterprise and self serve customers, I think last quarter you shared an interesting stat around users that upload video and use a creation tool And the related bookings there, just curious if that plays into the thinking here. Speaker 100:04:54Yes. Do you want me to start there or do you have more Speaker 400:04:57color on that? Yes, please. Speaker 100:04:58Okay. Please. So on the AI suite, it's very new. So I think That it's too early to give you stats on how it's doing. But it's important to remember that Vimeo has been on a journey with AI for quite a while, and we use AI in a variety of places Throughout the product, all with the main goal of our strategy, which is to make video more accessible, particularly for business users. Speaker 100:05:21And so that is a theme throughout our products. And the AI creation suite is just one great example of how you can get Up and productive on video fast using Vimeo. So I encourage you all to use it. You probably can use it for some of your research reports over time. I know that for us, Even earnings calls, it's been a helpful tool for us to get the whole process done easier, faster, and Make it less scary, if you will, to make video something you use every day. Speaker 100:05:49In terms of the strategy, we've talked a lot about this, that Vimeo has really Expanded how customers use the products. And I think we talked last time about how we've gone from folks who are just uploading to folks who are using lots of different tools to amend the video, create the video, distribute the video, and that continues to be a trend and this is one of those type of tools. The AI creation suite is available on our enterprise products and in a handful of our higher end self serve products. At the lower end of the product line, you'd have to upgrade to use the AI tools. Speaker 400:06:23Okay. All that makes sense. Maybe if I could sneak in one more. Jillian, maybe Just remind us, I know SBC was a little bit of an odd result this quarter, but just Remind us how we should be thinking about that through the balance of the year. And curious, with margins generally Better than expected. Speaker 400:06:48How are you thinking about investing behind growth? Does it make sense To think more about investing behind the top of funnel within self serve or other investments to help stabilize and grow the business? Speaker 100:07:05Sure. You snuck in 2 questions there, Tom, but I'm not going Speaker 400:07:08to Speaker 100:07:09get you on that. Okay. So for stock based comp, we are really on a journey with stock based comp to bring it down And that's going to happen in a couple different ways. The key thing that stock based comp represents to us and we think to our shareholders is dilution. And as we look at the business, we think that we had been a little too free in terms of the amount of stock we gave away, particularly in 2022. Speaker 100:07:31Some of that was just required as we had a new management team come into the company, but we have goaled ourselves to meaningfully bring that down and are on a path to doing that. Now stock based comp expense is a little bit of a trailing indicator of that initiative and also reflects some of the Board and management changes you've Seen happen over the last couple of quarters. So when you look specifically at Q2, stock based comp was actually a benefit. And the reason for that is, as Anjali announced Her departure, we had to reverse some of the cumulative expense we had taken for some of the shares she won't be taking with her. So that's what that is. Speaker 100:08:06Now when I look at stock based comp overall, I think we talked about this a few quarters ago, that we were running in and around $20,000,000 a quarter, which we felt was too high a number. With all the different changes and our hard work to make sure we keep dilution lower on burn rate, we think that those figures are going to be more in the $10,000,000 to $12,000,000 Quarterly, as we look forward here in terms of where we sit today. Okay. Then in terms of expenses and investing. So we have always believed that Vimeo has strong profit capability and that inherent in the business is Really great profitability. Speaker 100:08:42We have a 78% gross margin. As you saw, we've continued to bring expenses down. I think one thing we've done really nicely in 2023 is Show that even in a transitional revenue period, we can get profitable and we can be free cash flow positive. So Underlying that are actually continued investments to drive growth. And we're really trying to balance delivering profitability in a transitional time In a little bit of an uncertain time, while also investing. Speaker 100:09:10So inherently, we actually think the business could be more profitable, but the delta there is some of the investment we are making. We're really focused on great product. We're really focused on making sure our customers are getting to the products easily. And so we will continue to make investments To sort of make those trade offs between profitability investment, our balance sheet and our really strong cash position Puts us in a great position to do that, but we are also doing that while generating cash flow right now, which I think is a really nice thing for the company. Speaker 400:09:41Thanks for the comments. Speaker 100:09:42You're welcome. Speaker 200:09:44Our next question will come from William Kerr at TD Cowen. William? Speaker 500:09:49Great. Thank you. So bookings growth was a lot better than we expected and reacceleration in enterprise was especially Encouraging. Could you just touch on the current booking trends in 3Q? And then maybe fundamentally, how we should be thinking about the relationship between bookings and revenue? Speaker 100:10:09Absolutely happy to. So as you know, we've been working our way through a period of down bookings. I think bookings were down in 4 of the last 5 quarters. And what happens is your bookings precede your revenue. So what you've started to see and have seen in the last couple of quarters, 3 of the last quarters, Is that revenue has fallen as well following those booking trends. Speaker 100:10:31So as we look at the business, we are on a path to Turn bookings to growth. That's our strategy. And we want to return bookings to growth, and then we believe that revenue would follow, and we want to do this all profitably, as we've we talked about. So, in terms of the business, we continue to believe, and we confirmed in the shareholder letter, that we believe we can get bookings back to growth by the end of the year, and everything we are doing is oriented around that. We did reduce the rate of decline in bookings in Q2 by a couple of points, which is Great, but we've got a lot of work to do and a lot of heavy lift to move our way to the end of the year. Speaker 100:11:08As you frame it and you think about how to think about bookings As that leading indicator, we continue to believe it will be led by VE. That's where the strongest growth is in the business and we continue to see VE growing as a Percentage of the business and as a percentage of our bookings, it was just under 20% of bookings in the quarter. Offsetting that has been other, Which is our OTT product, which is a really great ongoing product for us, and in addition, some products that we've been deprecating. That's now down closer to about 10% of bookings. So as VE gets the VE growth now will overcome that and lead us into growth. Speaker 100:11:48In the middle is self serve, which is the core of the business and the thing that we've always talked about. Growth comes through self serve. And so we want to turn that to growth as Well, as we work our way to the end of the year. Putting it all together, you'll be led by VE, self serve, we hope to turn to growth. And the other portion of our business will get to be such a small portion of bookings that it's not going to be as much of a headwind on the overall growth rates over time. Speaker 100:12:12So that's how we're thinking about it. Speaker 500:12:15Great, great. Thank you. And that kind of rolls into my second question, which is, on self serve, how do you think about You know, sub stabilization versus, versus price versus pricing and and getting that as you get that back to growth over the coming quarters. Speaker 100:12:34Yeah. In self serve, what you're seeing in terms of sub declines sort of mirrors what you're seeing in terms of bookings decline. But if you step back and look at it on a macro basis, what you're seeing for the overall Vimeo and you're going to see start to see it self serve is that we are focused on Going to a higher level customer, a business customer. Business customers use the product more, retain better, have all those financial Factors that we think are beneficial for the business. So over time, we are trying to work up ARPU in self serve. Speaker 100:13:06It starts with AOV. It Starts with where do you bring customers in? And we saw really nice double digit growth in AOV in the quarter. Now it takes a while to roll those AOVs Through your overall ARPU, but that's the strategy. So ultimately, my suspicion is we'll be at a place where the ARPU It's probably a little bit faster growth than, say, the subs as we continue to mix shift the business towards businesses over time. Speaker 100:13:32Right now, Everything at the company is working on turning both bookings and subs back to growth, and then the pricing will be the X factor in terms of what that Operator00:13:49Our next Question will come from Chris Zhang at Truist. Chris? Speaker 600:13:56Hi, thank you. I have this question on behalf of Youssef Squali. What do you think is the level of steady state growth for both self serve and enterprise business as the situation normalized for Vimeo? Speaker 100:14:09Well, we're right now really focused on getting the overall business back to growth. So we're not we don't really guide by business, but I'll go back to Kind of where I really want to make sure people understand the framing. VE is having very strong double digit growth, 72% in the quarter. And we continue to believe that's where you're going to have your outsized growth at Vimeo. And then self serve, we want to get back to growth. Speaker 100:14:33And then as we get it back to growth, then we'll figure out at what growth rate we land over time. But right now, our orientation is around turning the overall bookings back to growth By virtue of that strong VE growth and then turning self serve back to growth, too soon to kind of peg long term growth rates, but I would expect You will always see the VE product have much stronger growth overall in our portfolio. Speaker 600:14:57Thank you. Appreciate your time. Operator00:15:01Our next question will come from David Lustberg at Jefferies. David? Speaker 700:15:07Hey, thanks and good morning, guys. This is David on for Brent. Around Vimeo Enterprise, I wanted to ask about the ARPU dynamics. I was wondering if you can tease out what's going on in the declines there between different product mix versus seat based would be helpful. Speaker 100:15:23Absolutely. So ARPU in VE has been about $20,000 for quite a few quarters here. And ultimately, we think it's going higher. We think we can get to higher wallet share in companies overall. The challenge with ARPU, of course, is that when you are growing a business This fast, you have a mix of both customer sizes and new customer incoming price points that you have to sort of mix in to get to an overall ARPU. Speaker 100:15:50So over time, we expect that to go up. But because it's still a smaller business, it can be a little bit lumpy as we work our way through. So when we look at there are no trends between customers or customer sizes that were particularly notable in the quarter. I think overall, our aim is to get ARPU up. There'll be a number of factors that get there. Speaker 100:16:09Another indicator that we're making progress along that would be our NRR. So as you saw in the quarter, NRR was over a Percent, that again is kind of where we were last quarter as well and coming up. And so we'll move we want to move NRR up, we want to move AOV up. We want to move ARPU up. But we are also really excited whenever any customer wants to come to Vimeo. Speaker 100:16:30So in this early stage of growing the business, If people come in lower than the ARPU and we can move them up over time, that's an opportunity for us that we'll take. So it will probably take a little time for the averages to move, But the trend is the same, is to the positive. And then as it relates to VE over the overall business, When you look at Vimeo, I think 2 years ago Vimeo's our overall ARPU was less than $200 and it has come up meaningfully over the last couple of years as a result of VE's growth And some of the other work we're doing in the business. Speaker 700:17:03Got it. That's super helpful. And then maybe to follow-up on, you beat me to my Question on NRR, but I think it's 2 consecutive quarters of over 100%. Maybe if you could provide any color, I know you guys Maybe a little bit more locked about the numbers, but how that trended specifically versus last quarter if it's high or lower around the same? And then I know you said you plan on continuing to raise that higher. Speaker 700:17:28Is that a dynamic of, hey, like we're past The COVID cohort that kind of came on and churned off and you guys feel that that could be more of a steady increase over time as we get more to this normalized environment? Speaker 100:17:39Yeah, a couple of factors on NRR. COVID cohorts don't really have too, too much to do with our VE business. That really is a business that we almost Kind of really took off. It was very, very small and has grown much more meaningfully into in the post COVID period. The COVID cohorts kind of has more to do with the self serve business. Speaker 100:18:01In terms of NRR, we think of it as a Holy Grail of Customers being happy, expanding their use of Vimeo, and that's what we're aiming both the product teams at in terms of all The new features and functions they're bringing to enterprises as well as our sales force in terms of their relationships with customers. So NRR to us is a really good sign that we're doing a good job at that. The way we expect to expand ARPU Inside customers is both by expanding the use of Vimeo across a company. So oftentimes, Vimeo will start in one department and then expand out because people say, Oh, wait. This is really dead simple way to do video, and while my partner over here might want to use it, I, of course, always believe that the The finance team should use Vimeo, and then the HR team and the marketing team. Speaker 100:18:48Actually, it tends to start more in the HR and the marketing, then fly over to a finance team. But that's the idea. So it's both going to be expansion of the number of people using Vimeo and with all the kind of cool new features that we continue to bring out, expansion of features. So along both lines is where our strategy sits. Speaker 700:19:09Great. Thank you. Speaker 100:19:10You're welcome. Operator00:19:12At this point, there are no further questions. I'd like to hand the call back to Jillian. Speaker 100:19:18Thank you for joining our Q2 2023 Live Q and A. We look forward to updating you again next quarter. Have a great day.Read morePowered by