Q4 2019 Earnings Call

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Thanks, Andy Good morning, everyone and welcome to like the fourth quarter and full year 2019 earnings call. Joining me today to discuss the results are I wish I, Ebrahimi, CEO and co founder nears, our president and COO and Lior Shemesh CFO.

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Now I will hand, it over to I wish I was going to say a couple of worries about the quarter.

Thank you Maggie and welcome everyone.

We ended 2019 on a very strong note. We finished do you were 28.

Shouldnt collection growth on a FX neutral basis, which was higher than we expected by all accounts. It was a fantastic year.

Before we go to questions I.

I just want to emphasize how excited I am about it doesn't went.

Before.

We had so many new initiatives new products, new opportunities heading into a new year.

Into doesn't in 20, we will for the first time ever so brush $1 billion and collection.

As a great.

Embolic milestone flood business and what I Finkel, there's the beginning of weeks second though.

This is Jim Bowles Hall will become show much more than a website builder, we should they stay at home over 165 million people, who not only build a website on our platform, but also managed to communication relationship with their customers do fads Endo users.

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It is a bullish work for business can be run along to small business the sale opportunities. It's a big one.

Where does this one announcement of any torics and all new market is opening to us we see huge opportunity in this market.

Larger businesses and global brands.

We believe the do upcoming launches editor lakes combined with quoted.

That does offering is a money to get better than any product in the market today.

We already we are executing against sheet.

We have more to come.

My management team and Oh extremely bullish.

But what does that mean fought business and I believe it will accelerate a girlfriend. The next couple of years. We don't we can now take your questions. Thanks, I wish I.

Operator can we take the first question please.

Your first question.

It's from Ron Josey from JP Morgan.

Great. Thanks from from JMP and I, just wanted to ask a little more about the new disclosures in the quarter run credit subscriptions and business solutions, maybe Oh. There certainly are I think the data is extremely helpful. Just to understand the drivers of business, but any additional context of whats, including the breakdown of the drivers specifically within solutions I know GE, Sweden payment drink.

Alluded so any insights there would be helpful. And then maybe taking a step back as we think about as as obviously you mentioned the new the new day or whatever of of wakes going forward just the approach in deciding why these new reporting lines or or most relevant. Thank you very much.

So it's going to ask you all to describe bodies included and delved into second questions. So.

So first of all with regard to the in in general or to the trend just look with med. We filled up so you know those changes actually so and provide much more transparency into our business and we need to understand that's all business I was involved in the last few yield as we mentioned many times that problem.

Well no logo, just oh website builder well much more than dogs.

And I think the breakdown of all of the revenue over the top line into those two separate segments.

Actually it provides the right transparency and older to really to understand the business and and the changes look when tool, which we dealt with a content on each and and all of them a the grid subscription in a way. Its include all the packages, that's we sell and monetize.

Including also the domain was the biggest solution. When you think about it. This is exactly be oh, the changes that weve a winter will include all the different application as well a statement.

Application is like juice, we send a oversleep payments and many other initiatives.

That will include it over there.

We believe that's a if we took for example, digital rigs will be a grid contribution to de a creative subscription in the future in two weeks growth and obviously for the business solution, a we see a abuse potential, especially coming from payments and other application and most solution that we intend to.

We're introducing into future.

So the second part of your question and why we think that each day.

On this we actually start the board.

Additional information I think that it's partially script in CE bit when customers I gross and we now have customers that are paying $5 a month and then people that they.

It doesn't times that on weeks.

And then yes, we believed that just.

Telling about the amount of subscription become less.

Let's clear because obviously, each one of them olds dramatically different value.

As a result, we think that we need to provide more transparency.

And on the add on to stand to.

Subscription base more than I, often website building pod and then on the other side on the business a management growth that we also see growing very quickly.

Great. Thank you very much.

Thanks, Ron maybe the next question please.

Your next question comes from Ken Wong from Guggenheim. Please go ahead.

Great. Thanks for taking my question. Obviously his question just regarding fiscal 20 gross when I think about your outlook. The first thing that often in my head is just some of the headwinds that you guys experienced in fiscal year 19, I think a lot about were expecting maybe salvage reaccelerating customer support contributing you guys had mentioned.

Points of growth and then then also see some traction with Corbett ice when thinking about your outlook. How are you feathering in some of those elements of some of those pieces then been pushed out a little or any color there would be great.

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Let me start we'd be a fourth quarter, a we managed to beat the on expectation during the fourth quarter and that was a and by the way also in total.

Net addition in several subscription.

And that was for us are great indication for the stressful for business and especially the new initiative.

Like are you know going into the Oh creates a mountain and also a week Colby and other new initiatives experiments and so on.

We believe that's you know looking in the last few years, well really strong track record of growth, which I believe that will continue.

We are entering into a new markets with the huge opportunity then we feel really really excited about it we actually started to see things happening and and and and I believe that eats will generate even a higher growth during the second half will do a wonderful will start to monetize.

Well maybe torics.

Well, obviously not everything you spoke to FFO guidance, because some of it is still in progress and some of it we simply need to understand exactly what will be the model, especially when we talk about digital X and the ones that monetization of stuff that's going to be not the second half will do you.

A very important thing to remember we've never had a so many new products in the initiative.

And we believe that those new products and initiatives are going to provide a more upside for us in becoming a into new future.

Great.

And then maybe if we can just a I'm not sure. If you guys have kind of thought the through yet, but thinking about the creative business and then the the business the business segment any rough sense of how we should be thinking about growth between between those two buckets.

[laughter]. So obviously, what we provided a guy this is a just a a one number.

And I think that's that's a you know or it seems that a it's something that we didn't want to provide guidance for both of them separately and let me try to explain why sometimes there is a mix between.

Oh subscription to Oh business solution and I believe that the Beast agents mix much supervise only one number but then again, we provide you with a with the model in how the Oh subscription creative subscription.

He is a actually acting, especially together with D.A. Aldo we provided for the first time, which which do not provide you much more color and transparency about how to try to predicted.

At this point of time, we feel very comfortable in providing a just one number with regard to the guidance.

Great. Thanks, a lot guys.

Thanks, Ken can be in the next question. Please.

Your next question comes from you called erroneous from Wedbush Securities.

Please go ahead.

Hey, good morning, guys, maybe I will try that the guy that question a little bit more directly with with agency pushing you guys are clearly excited about about the agency or professional designer market.

You put a lot, but a lot of the pieces together over the course in 2019 anyway to help help met you understand how much that's contributing today you know we're we're early there, but how much of the country bidding how much how much is that contributing to the overall guidance for the year I understand that there's upside.

If it starts if it starts to build out but is it still built into guidance at all and then and then Oh related follow up.

Do you put the sales team in place.

You know over the course of last year, I still had or acts was a kind of big missing piece and in the go to market for for the sales team and so can you help also help us understand how how the sales team is contributing to the is the push.

If that helps accelerate growth and expand opportunity and you know did they need editor acts before they were really able to make.

You know meaningful headway in that market. Thanks.

I think this is Josh I've tried to Flexpod [noise].

So what we do see use that we have really good growth on a sunday professionals graders and agencies and which exceeds that 50% growth.

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Were very excited about I think we started to become significant numbers.

As we've started to see that they'll put you needed to not just with but it's something that he's a better before us and weekend.

And easily put dissipate.

We started work on any directs because it will give us even the ability to further accelerate.

Into does the domain.

And one of the thing we really like the bodies to manage that if you look at it.

In terms of why these are the companys will provide tools southern creators and in it.

And designers own on web design, it's really a bunch of old tools with companies that.

The other boring.

And.

Yeah, I think that this is a time, where we have really a massive opportunity obviously like everything else, we provide guidance or the thing that we do know that's where those to achieve that no. Other things that we hope we will achieve so the portion that we are aware that we can achieve is already into guidance.

And everything else is hopefully I was going to continue to.

A big.

Does that imply.

Great.

No I mean, the next question please.

Your next question comes from Deepak Mathivanan from Barclays. Please.

Please go ahead.

Hi, guys. Thanks for taking the questions two quick ones from us So part of the advertising spend was up 14% you know last year. We can is there anything decelerated over the past couple of years I not 29 digging adds a bit up a unique yard given the pricing change and then shifts towards more salesforce what are you fracing constrained.

Range on outdoor Hi, Bill markdowns, and ROI still quite and you use at this time, how should we think about you know the advertising spend in 2020, and then you know going forward.

And then the second question is Ah, it's probably shy, whereas badminton penetration right now maybe talk about it in terms of new subscribers are existing subscribers is the adoption can kind of tracking as you hadn't originally expected how does it come back to your expectations. Thank you.

Yep.

Let me start with the Oh Gee marketing.

Today, we oh steel onto the seven to nine month.

Yeah.

No change by the way into almost the way that we actually the way that we actually do the mounted being in the go to market with a with regard to that will still able to a you know to generate the growth in some of the number will fuel stuff. We all good things and we can actually see death of volatile the numbers.

And we don't see any changes with regard to that I was told the Oh. The agencies. Obviously you know we are we already started a process so for breaking it down a flaw o'neil.

In order to measure it obviously separately, but let's remember Doug as part of the or a 2 million users that we bring to every month. So many of them, though agencies and many of them on creative.

That said I don't expect the seven to nine month put change a in the near future.

And this should have a shot.

But to.

Regarding the who is using payment today.

And so when we released just bought US we assume that the majority of the new users will adopt it and we do see that happening.

And we estimate of gonna be some move from old customers.

And what we should today is that we actually have a bit more than we expected more formal or customers into payments.

I think because of the quality all the way that you could actually to trucks transactions.

And.

So as it was always she both of them going very well.

Jodi over new users today own weeks.

Doug choosing week statement and pretty much everybody would change or if they meant.

Solution on an old stole and old any kind of what transaction our base.

Brought up on weeks is moving two weeks payment.

So we're very proud of the product and obviously.

Already returns a lot of dividing that.

What we expected and I think that we'll continue to do so.

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Your next question comes from now need Khan from Suntrust. Please go ahead.

Yeah. Thanks.

So I think previously previously you guys are talking about at least three accident on this expanded customer support is that still oh and expectation, but 2020 and then in your prepared commentary you talked about implementing a more proactive approach to support can you just maybe.

Just because that and what do you do it and then secondarily.

Oh can you maybe give us some more color on what drove that flourishing in Lebanon collections for business solutions in the fourth quarter.

Oh sure. So this is it all starts with the.

With the first Baltimore and Neil will show for more life about the progress.

So so we still feel very strong about the opportunity in 2020 with regard to de our care and we still feel very strong about the returns above the 5% look we indicated.

Last year.

Obviously some of it already encrypted incorporated into our guidance, but not all of it because because in the Wade steel walking progress.

So I think that we might get some upside.

During this year and so to the next few but near we love or it's more about it.

So I think you don't generally.

Our company our size are doing such a change for the customer.

Really a big huge undertaking and I think you know we you know we move forward a lot and and we had to align ourselves a little bit.

We're making some mistakes underway, but border nor I think that having a in a very positive direction.

Yeah, Hi, cadence is changing now all of our agents do a to adopt this new approach, which we really believe it I believe that by the end of this quarter or very early in Q2 will finish all of the training program, but the good news is that consistent since the cadence 13 weeks, we do a you're doing it.

Oops, we already started seeing some of the agent that having changed too we're taking phone calls and there are a I can say that we're seeing extremely positive side first and foremost by just much higher satisfaction customers that don't be diligence significantly more oh satisfy that once one or two.

Ah getting or people, who haven't had the training.

And also I would say on on the Oh financial upside potential because.

And much higher conversion rate for the three uses that's causing that.

After talking to our agent that the B Tran as well as many look at premium users, who calling and largest adopting a much higher level and more expensive or level. So far a far additional their services. So I think that Oh, we have very very high conviction that this is gonna be of.

Very successful undertaking.

He 2020 and then your Scott.

Yes.

With regard to the second question about the business solution growth.

So so a Wi Fi or obviously and this is what we need because there's also a last quarter is about the payment growth.

So that was a one was the reason why do we see the acceleration in growth on business solution and also a much better adoption of application.

Including juice we've.

We've seen on a year over year basis.

Got it thank you [laughter].

Thanks, and that we have the next question. Please.

Your next question comes from Nate Schindler from Bank of America.

Yeah, Hi, guys. That's so just looking at slide 11 to the first time or Youre cohorts for 2019 were behind your cohorts for 2000, the previous year or any of the previous years and is that because of the cut off a connect.

And.

Do you expect that's only going forward.

The answer is yes studies exactly and because of the.

And the fact that we moved and connecting it might domain package, but but I think that you can go back to slide.

And look at the end to the core value I think which is more important part you can actually see that they do still ahead of any corn before that in terms of here.

And that number question.

When you say you're building you're getting customers that are a thousand times more valuable for many times more valuable.

Than previous ones I assume you mean agencies, but.

Are you building the agencies on a per website basis or as you you're just as they probably were prior to 2019 or are you changing it to build them a kind of more enterprise pricing.

So it's it's agencies are just part of it.

And and yesterday and then did.

It can be very decent pricing model.

But he also we have customers that they meant and true buying into place packages and buying huge amount of applications and just paying us.

As substantially higher amount then day Lori customer right. So and that is part of the reason that we felt that subscription alone does not necessarily reflect.

The value of customers.

Sure just showed ride with your question, which is a Q1 cohort two 2018 on absolute number.

Look smaller, but if you look at the dollar amount is.

Yes, so and that just show that and you say we believed that this discrepancy in this difference and we'll continue to grow.

Going forward and so it's important to be able to establish drive matrix is.

Great. Thank you.

Thanks, Matt I mean, the next question please.

Your next question is from Brent Hill from Jefferies.

Please go ahead. Thanks.

Oh, thanks in the U.S. the growth rate was really consistent throughout the year, but you did see a pretty material deceleration in Europe business, starting a 32% growth going to ending that at 21% can you just maybe talk through some reasons why you're seeing some major deceleration and whats bought a quarter or your business.

Sure. So I think that's you know if if you look at the child. So obviously, a the North America was.

Extremely strong for us and and and as we mentioned many timing to fast we do a the till already based on chime in and geography or even country.

The fact is that you know for example, many ofone your initiatives will launch in the U.S.

So obviously have the T O Y and therefore, we can feed us a in some of the marketing it was more efficient frost in other places.

I think that you know the rest of the regions will pretty much consistent are the only place where into fourth quarter, we sold like a a kind of Ah Ah decreased.

Compared to last time was actually in ER in initiative Pacific and it was mostly because of Australia I guess look it's got to do with.

The files and everything that's happened over there into fourth quarter.

And then regards to Europe, and again I think that there's still says a lot of the new initiatives without of course in the United States, but also a things like Brexit and instability in Russia and.

It's slow Dod business and that we can see already that the speaking up Buck and Luckily.

I think Brexit finally.

It's been decided on.

Okay, Great and just a quick <unk>.

Thanks for the color just a quick follow just a quick follow up I know you mentioned, you're moving away from subs as a metric, but youd originally held a view that premium subs should accelerate in 2020 deal are you still holding that view or not. Thank you. Yes. We are we are we are actually even feel much more bullish about people when.

Well, we starting the year and I think the Q4 hundred indication for that we actually manage to be to own expectations in terms from its up.

And well going to still by the way, we're going to still provide a subscription in 2020 and later on you know a on an annual basis, but again I must say about you know from our point of view.

No after a everything that we discuss about do evolution will fall business and what I wish I mentioned before.

You know a oh.

The way that we presented.

Explained and show di di business and the way that we actually look at all business in a much much better way.

Thank you thank you Brad.

I mean, the next question please.

Your next question comes from Lloyd Walmsley from Deutsche Bank. Please go ahead.

Thanks to solid croissant for Lloyd I'm confused talk about how you guys are thinking about the attach rate of some of these new functions are associated with editor acts functions you guys talked about in the latter related to collaboration management gross and then maybe second could you just talk a little bit about how you guys are thinking about the value of these additional.

Functions versus the value that the core editor acts product would provide on a standalone basis. Thanks.

I think that and then guides to any torics and mostly.

An important thing a lot is that.

It opens waste a completely new market, but things like.

Yeah response of design vacancies HTML level.

And really powerful aging of she says.

Absolutely.

Professional dishonest to dramatically accelerate dashboard.

We didn't launch to part it seems like and Wayne just announced it.

And we hope to.

What are the Lucy today before summer.

Andy.

Yeah. So we have not yet they have the ability to share performance and revenues or anything else.

And there's no value it's different by some of them of course, it's a different that brought it to a different crowd.

Yeah, which we believe is by far the most superior product out there.

And addressing these market then provide.

Tremendous value so.

Especially combined with Covance.

So it's going to have a different price model.

And a higher price more than scores and when we actually a they see it would be happy to Sherry.

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We have the next question please.

Your next question comes from Jeff. So this from Oppenheimer. Please go ahead.

Hey, guys point Jason.

Do you question.

What quarter. This year will also be on the new pricing plan and then secondly, you you know, it's still a margin drag and if so maybe help us understand how much. It was a drag on last years. However, you want it you know do it either free cash flow or your EBITDA. Thanks.

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So so a with regard to be a the first question about a about that price increase. So obviously, we're going to see you know a the endorse fall off a of its all the effect of eating into second quarter.

So this is with regard to the first question.

With regard to do.

Do you feel now and and I think that's let a newer level with about some more.

We basically a launch or you know do you are the new products. We feed on the Amazing first result in some of the business metrics, a it's volatile FFO guidance, it's it's not a big.

But but we believe that we're going to generate much more growth from D.V. I know into future.

Hi, Jason there so Uh huh.

You mentioned I think that definitely on the margin side dividend.

Doctors the drag.

Very small probably not that significant.

But I think what's more interesting is that's a lot of 2019, we managed to.

Pretty much overall and released a new product in detail into art.

Rich.

Let's be kind of stuff that leaving in terms of folks decline the amount of users and then.

ER tripled London tripled and no new legislation. So sometimes had we not only managed to stop that leading as it relates to actually have gone into into the path through there, which we think its amanda.

So girlfriend standing adoption.

But also when in the behavioral adoption, we do community so.

How much people Offloading you do you mean, the items and then you art.

How much people on communicating with each other and commenting and this is basically I think there right time for us to start working on the how do we.

Its value for those users that to be can monetize on.

Definitely want to go what im going to do a 2020.

Just a quick follow up there was just accounting question. There was a non GAPP sales and marketing 1.7 million add back to what we've got related to.

[noise] again 1.7 million off non-GAAP citizen marketing.

Yeah, there was a in the reconciliation tables.

Uh huh.

Yeah.

That's why we can take it offline or when I go elsewhere.

It's probably the stock based compensation expenses, but are we cannot go over it so flooding.

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Your next question comes from Mark Mahaney from RBC capital. Please go ahead.

Thanks, I wanted to ask about gross margin trends in both segments creative subscriptions and business solutions they've been could they came down. This last year you provided a the reasons why the investments in customer care and in this mix shift towards G suite in the weeks payments. It sounds like going forward, you expect creative subscriptions gross margins to kind of stabilize.

In a 20 is the is it would be what would it didn't theoretically after 20 start start rising again as you get scale against the customer or customer care organization costs, and then on the business solution side. It sounds like gross margins could be up or down it will just depend on the product mix shift is.

There are a way to know which at what level those gross margins could stabilize maybe not in 20, but at some point in the future. Thank you.

Yeah. So I think that you described is quite good I think that's a you know the the gross margin for the Oh, creative subscription or more or less stable I think about the mall duct, we actually get the benefits from the customer support and obviously you know from Oh.

Now to monetize on for example, an editor.

So I think that we might see some upside on the gross margin.

With regard to the ER business solution.

You're absolutely right, it's really depends on on on the volume of Oh payments for example in volume of new products as well going to launch it would be part of it.

It's really hard to tell but the most important thing that the all anything you know incremental dollar.

So you know this is the way that we actually looking to do.

Okay. Thank you earlier.

Thanks, Mark any of the next question please.

Your next question comes from Sterling Auty from JP Morgan. Please go ahead.

Yeah. Thanks, I guess I apologize, if you kind of against but how do we think about how the FX impacts will you know kind of pulled through the year, especially around collections.

[noise] well certainly it's hard to tell you know a most of the impact that we have actually a lot. When you look at 29 team.

And you know excluding the FX effect the growth was 28%.

It was about on the year over year basis. It was 12 million dollar.

You know many many many analysts say about you know what's going on results seem 2020 Bucks, you'll always how to tell in Silicon Valley, we cannot tell that so I hope that we will start to feed the benefit of the you on the British pound versus the dollar, but you know, it's it's hard to tell.

Okay, and then my follow up if I may.

When I look at that product road map you you've done some vertical solutions two years and then some horizontal obviously the news I didn't give update how do we think about where the focus of the intubation won't be as you look.

Throughout 2020 in interest will be one is gonna be more the horizontal broad based solutions like what you did with editor and could we go back into something that little bit more vertically focused.

I think that day and de stage.

Yeah, we're going to continue to focus on a.

Editor acts and similar initiatives in order to complete a a offering to go after day Creatives and agencies. So that is partly but you're going to see most coming in and this year.

We are playing with a few verticals.

And but.

It's not necessarily something that we gonna released issue.

Thank you guys.

Sure.

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Question. Please.

Your next question comes from Josh back from Keybanc. Please go ahead.

Yeah. Thank you for taking the question I wanted to ask about the monetization strategy around.

Editor Act and how it impacts were bid you know you're looking at those things.

Certainly now that you have both products, maybe you could you give us.

Update I realize it.

Solving strategy.

Of course, I wish I still.

Hey, Colby didn't editor eggs actually complete each on it right because one of them allow you to they designed to website in the superposition away and I don't want allowed to program and Angel digital pens last Kunshan audits you haven't to website. So many ways to multiply the power the chart it.

When we look at it right. So 82 exits is of course, good they say amortization would be aligned toward.

Professional and then the the fact that they are doing design part of it.

On a go read and so it makes a lot of it would be geared toward how do we help.

Honors and align their business with our business ball with their business model.

And globally is when you go deeper right. If you have in large customer right and enterprise customer.

It was going to find you're going to find as gold will have more and more teams just paying payment in order to be able to skill that and the right way.

So any kind of wage woven metrics than a linear line well covered goes deeper into each customer and editor eggs is actually lying designers to local moved Paul Toms and that should that's how we're thinking about it was at all.

Okay. That's helpful and just to follow up it seems like one of the.

The benefits of editor.

That it has richer tie ends with a lot of yes that.

Platform. So you know I'm just wondering is that benefiting from it seems like there was a industry shift towards had lists a commerce and headless website.

HM editor acts in any way benefiting from that trend.

Yeah, well I do believe so you can and do all that easily we did two x.

And.

And and that Goodies simplify.

The amount of work did and then on snow resulted you're probably going again.

Very helpful. Thank you yes.

[noise]. Thanks, Josh we haven't next question please.

Our next question comes from Nick Jones from Citi. Please.

Please go ahead.

Thank you guys have out one question on <unk>.

And the shareholder letter you pointed to a partners with one time, so I was going high they weren't 50% year over year, which is great growth, but with you know editor accident 80, I know out of the told you have created a kind of increase speed can you kinda talk about the opportunity there maybe partner with higher volume.

Fashion also we're doing a lot more than 10, maybe a 100 sites a month or is that kind of <unk> out of reach today.

So this is exactly what it means you started to do in 2019.

And we hope to continue to do it successfully in 2020 I.

I think that it's a big milestone for which the disabled out to that for US a company to be able to work with adult.

The agencies out there and to see the excitement they get from our products. So I think two x. I believe was it continue.

Good Hans exactly this trend.

And she said it's already at 50% so.

And so big numbers. So we're very excited about it and I just don't add here in terms of you know what do you want to offer an editorial and kind of I discussed that up at the launch event.

Two weeks ago.

Route editorial it's going to be a whole suite to functionality that is geared exactly towards or those more bigger kind of a have a professional designers and agencies. So I think the ER.

Through 2020, or we will definitely be able to can't afford or do you even better than we need to 19.

Great. Thank you.

Thanks, Nick I think we have time for just one more question operator can we have roughly.

Your last question comes from Matt Pfau from will excuse me William Blair. Please go ahead Sir.

Hey, Thanks, guys for taking my question just another one on the partner program, maybe you can discuss which geography as you see no success with the partner program in and then as you look at where you're allocating your investments are there certain geographies that are better suited for the partner program than others. Thanks.

Absolutely. So it's me or and I think you know currently I would say the he geography.

In the United States in North America, or not solely we do have people from across the globe is where global company, but definitely in terms of how we launched it didn't and focused our first Oh I first it's more a rig garnering more attention into North America definitely in the future and by the fact things that affect.

So here is that you're going to expand into other geographies.

I think they should be a extremely successful or across the globe.

Great. Thanks, guys.

Operator, I think we actually might have temporary when my well my question if you don't mind.

We have question from Ron Chow see from JMP Securities. Please go ahead.

Great. Thanks for sneaking me back in guys I'm, just thinking maybe out loud it or listen to call and thinking about the broader landscape and his wix increasingly goes up market can you just talk more broadly about the company the competitive landscape both on the D. White DIY why do it for me business I think we're seeing just you know newer products launched across the the cone landscape.

And just wanted to get your thoughts overall, thank you well of course, so I think that as you said, we don't have the two gun competitive landscapes.

And the first wanted to do it yourself and I think that day.

Standby says, it's it's become clear that the gap between us dog, but it or.

He is growing every year in that and become and and we launch new products has begun.

I always bigger.

Yeah, I think that the news from the recent days just emphasize again the difference between an open source.

Being hosted on a.

Domain Southern company would generic costing right and the lack of security where everybody can just talking to your website and it'll argument Danny.

Barry to a fully integrated.

And secured.

Platform like weeks and so we see that I don't think lot of that is just making it.

Easier for us to explain devalue the tremendous lives that are being taught customers.

Actually if you look at it designers and professional market, they're not really too many solutions in each market and we choose a I mean why allow us to actually be so bullish about it.

Most of the offerings are old offerings made by old companies and very little studies actually exciting there, which I think gave us a tremendous opportunity to innovate and continue to capture a big portion of this market.

Right.

Thank you Ron.

My questions you have today, thanks, everyone for joining.

Ladies and gentlemen. This concludes today's conference you may now disconnect.

Thank you for participating.

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Q4 2019 Earnings Call

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Wix.com

Earnings

Q4 2019 Earnings Call

WIX

Thursday, February 20th, 2020 at 1:30 PM

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