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| And I think we also feel good about further expansion in 2024 as well |
| So, we're very excited |
| We delivered a record 1.62 million paid subscribers, an increase of 12% year-over-year and $402 million in total revenue, up an impressive 29% year-over-year |
| We continue to focus on maintaining rigor and discipline around our companywide costs and are pleased with the progress we made throughout the year |
| So this is a very robust market |
| Delivering a record $114 million in annual revenue, a 14% increase over the prior year, demonstrates remarkable resilience and effectiveness in our strategy and execution |
| Our balance sheet is healthy, reinforcing our confidence in achieving our profitability target in 2025 |
| In 2023, we improved free cash flow by $101 million and adjusted EBITDA by $122 million both over the prior year |
| This $100 million plus adjusted EBITDA improvement was fueled by robust revenue growth, enhanced operational efficiencies and stringent cost management |
| Our ability to efficiently and substantially narrow our losses has been outstanding, setting a benchmark for exceptional performance within our industry |
| In summary, we are encouraged by our strong fourth quarter and full-year results and the progress we are making on our long-term plan |
| We are driving improvement across our business, including marked progress around ARPU, advertising revenue, and subscriber-related expense |
| An improvement of $100 million of free cash flow really demonstrates our commitment to achieving our profitability targets |
| This last quarter was a really impressive move |
| Yes, with respect to Vizio, what we think obviously, this is a positive outcome for the industry |
| And that, also, as you know, comes with a benefit in terms of pricing |
| This progress positions us well for future success and increases our confidence that Fubo has the foundation necessary to deliver enhanced value to shareholders |
| Delivering an unparalleled streaming offering means solving problems for consumers |
| Starting with the gross margin, we saw a near 900 basis point expansion to 10%, marking our fifth consecutive quarter of positive gross margin and a record for the company |
| So, look, to your point, I think we had a great year in terms of the gross margin improvement call it around 1,000 basis points versus 2022 |
| For Q1, what I can tell you is that we had a solid January |
| These results demonstrate that we are making meaningful progress towards our 2025 positive cash flow goal |
| Our Q4 and full-year 2023 performance reaffirms our belief that Fubo's aggregated video bundle delivered through a premium, personalized streaming experience offers value for customers, shareholders, and partners |
| In addition, our ongoing efforts to identify efficiencies and maximize leverage across the business resulted in a $15 million improvement in free cash flow |
| What I can tell you for Q1 is that we're actually seeing improvement in terms of the demand factor as the quarters progressed |
| Our fourth quarter results reflect the ongoing improvement across our key performance indicators |
| The fourth quarter marks more than a full-year of this trend, serving as proof that our operational initiatives around bringing added effectiveness and efficiency to the business have been working and that our customer acquisition actions have also had a positive impact |
| We continued to see healthy top-line and subscriber growth with Q4 revenue growth in North America up 29% and rest of world revenue growth up 18% |
| We are equally pleased with our overall subscriber growth, including 12% growth in North America, well ahead of our initial guidance of 5% growth at the start of 2023 |
| Actually, Q4 came in better than we expected |
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| You didn't ask this, but from a -- given the supply coming on, like we spend time talking to our teams around that, there is a little bit of weakness on pricing, call it in the long tail |
| For rest of world, our full-year 2024 guidance projects 390,000 to 410,000 subscribers, representing a 2% year-over-year decline at the midpoint, and revenue of $31 million to $35 million, representing 2% year-over-year growth at the midpoint |
| I would say on the softer side, I'd call it maybe CPG and travel and tourism, if I call that two that were a little bit softer than the portfolio |
| And we expect revenue of $6.6 million to $8.6 million, representing a 2% decline year-over-year at the midpoint |
| We are fighting for consumers |
| As stated in our complaint, this Sports Cartel has levied content rates on us that are 30% to 50% plus higher than those of other distributors, forced us to license unwanted non-sports content to access their must have sports programming, imposed above market penetration rates for this content and restricted our ability to offer certain features while permitting competitors and their own vertically integrated services to do so |
| People are concerned that customers are tired of friction and fragmentation |
| So, actually I think we've also seen that people are confused |
| The subscriber outlook reflects some conservatism in our plan, in particular, our exposure to potential industry volatility |
| I was just wondering what you think if the lawsuit goes against you, I mean you mentioned that you've been fighting the fight, but that fight could get a little bit tougher in the event that you lose the lawsuit |
| We have been dealing with widespread and rampant misconduct from this group and the industry at large |
| I think that this is a duel to the death |
| So, John, what do you think in overall cost of the lawsuits are in '24? Does it affect your promise to hit free cash flow breakeven in '25? And worst case, I mean, you guys have competed |
| I don't want to be more precise than that, just given lack of visibility |
| But given our sports focus, I'd say we're relatively immune to that |
| If things would remain status quo, we'd have to deal with unreasonable pricing and above-market terms |
| We are fighting for our customers |
| But I'm curious if you think that there's any longer-term risk from what Charter is doing or potentially other future similar DTC bundles in that it could slow the pace of cord cutting and if that might shift the magnitude of new customers entering your funnel? Just curious how you think about that |
| On the law side, I guess it's very difficult to say, but ultimately, I think things will remain status quo |
| It has to stop |
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