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| We expect continued growth from North American region in 2024, driven by increases in market share and the addition of online sports betting in our home state of North Carolina, where we are off to a strong start following the market's launch on March 11th |
| Despite our increasing size, I remain confident in our ability to continue to deliver the high-performance growth we are known for |
| This time a year ago, I said that we had started 2023 with great momentum and that I was confident we would be able to continue on our growth trajectory |
| We see strong opportunities in B2C as consumers are more willing than ever to pay for premium content, as evidenced by the accelerating growth of our RotoWire B2C subscription products as a result of recent product launches |
| We reported record fourth quarter and record full year 2023 results |
| Our expertise and excellence in performance marketing is the engine that has propelled us past $100 million in revenue |
| We expect NC will be one of the strongest sports betting markets in North America |
| And as you have correctly surmised, we do expect 2025 contribution from these assets to be quite substantially better than what we have indicated for the first nine months of the acquisition |
| While our financial performance has been impressive and industry leading for years, it is our culture of execution which should excite our investors most |
| So very confident that we can narrow the focus on those assets and drive growth |
| It's incremental improvements across every single point in the conversion funnel |
| And we are very confident that this investment will deliver a strong return on investment and create substantial shareholder value |
| We are tracking toward a strong Q1 that will show year-on-year growth and set us up to deliver on our full-year guidance, all while taking incremental market share from our peers |
| We are delighted to announce all the positive news today, including our record fourth quarter and full-year results, a highly accretive acquisition, and guidance for the full year, which continues our high-growth trajectory |
| We continue to see strong consumer demand to sign up for new player accounts and operate the demand for performance marketing services |
| Our recently announced $50 million credit facility with Wells Fargo gives us additional liquidity and financial flexibility |
| This flexibility enables us to be opportunistic and pursue acquisitions and share buybacks to enhance shareholder value |
| Total revenue growth in North America in 2023 was driven by three things, the three new state launches, by consumers opening more accounts per individual, and our accelerating media partnership initiatives, which ramped faster than initially expected, demonstrating the efficacy of our performance marketing platform to drive new revenue for the owners of leading legacy media brands |
| It's a very exciting market |
| As discussed, we saw a very strong finish to the year with all-time quarterly record revenue and record Q4 adjusted EBITDA |
| We are very well positioned with our portfolio of assets, especially with BetCarolina.com, to lead in driving new customers to online sportsbook operators across the state |
| We remain able to entirely fund our organic growth initiatives solely from operating cash flow while also continuing to generate significant positive free cash flow |
| We are confident that over time we will scale the revenue and cash flow-generating capabilities of the acquired assets as we put our operating excellence and technology platform to work, just as we have done with our earlier acquisitions of BonusFinder and RotoWire |
| We also tactically deployed cash to repurchase shares that we are confident represent excellent value to our shareholders |
| Full year 2023 results were ahead of street consensus with both revenue and adjusted EBITDA, and significantly ahead of our initial guidance of $95 million and $34 million, respectively, at the midpoint |
| NDC growth was faster than revenue growth as sports betting made up the highest percentage of our quarterly NDCs yet |
| We also expect to achieve strong growth elsewhere in Europe and international markets, where we have tactically invested in localized products for our leading brands for years |
| We have been building great consumer-facing products for over a decade, but behind all of the pretty websites is a purpose-built platform where our team translates their culture of execution into real-world processes, which give us a superior capacity to deliver with enhanced efficiency, speed, and quality |
| North America led the way with revenue growth of 103% to $20.3 million, driven largely by continued strong growth from our media partnership initiatives |
| With the addition of Freebets.com and its related European casino assets, we expect to be able to drive additional growth in the UK and Ireland and substantial growth in the rest of Europe |
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| To that tune, we've seen kind of losing traffic, losing authority for those same domains |
| While revenues from the UK and Ireland were down modestly in Q4 compared to the year ago period |
| I think the Presidential Election this year is a little bit of a headwind for iGaming |
| iGaming obviously is a more challenging political sale than sports betting |
| Total operating expenses were $19.3 million, down $1.8 million from the year-ago period |
| If you look at North America as a whole this year, with only one new state launch compared to three new state launches last year, growth will obviously moderate for the entire sector |
| Some of your competitors, I guess, have noted lower CPA rates, more competition |
| Although we have significantly eased the pace of our hiring |
| I'm going to say that again to make sure nobody missed it |
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