Kevin McCrystle
Analyst · Stifel
Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining our 2026 second quarter conference call. We have quite a bit to share with you today, including our second quarter results and outlook for the full year as well as our recent corporate rebranding and the introduction earlier this week of our new roll card product. Elias will follow with a review of the second quarter financial results in detail before we open it up for questions. Looking at our operating performance in the second quarter, revenue of $37.8 million and adjusted EBITDA of $7.7 million were in line with our expectations. We also generated nearly $10 million in adjusted free cash flow, which is a positive indication on the health of our business and our ability to generate attractive levels of cash flow. The restructuring we announced in May is now substantially complete with the bulk of the associated costs incurred in the second quarter. Cost savings from the restructure will benefit margins in the second half of the year, underpinning our full year guidance, which we reiterated today. Looking a little further out, we will exit 2026 with a significantly higher adjusted EBITDA and free cash flow run rate and an expanded margin profile for the business. The second half margin profile will carry forward into 2027. Our business has grown and diversified significantly since our IPO, and our recent rebrand reflects these changes. Grandstand captures where the business is today and importantly, where we will continue to invest and grow. We have established our position as the intelligence layer at the heart of the sports and gaming ecosystem. Our portfolio of data, technology, content and audience solutions help power informed decisions across sports, gaming and entertainment, serving both consumers and partners. Our consumer brands have built trust with each of their unique audiences developed over more than 20 years and will continue to reach millions of users under the Grandstand umbrella. We started as a U.K. gaming comparison hub and over time, added products targeting new global audiences around sports betting, fantasy sports and Las Vegas. Now in addition to recommending the best places for users to play online, we are developing more of our own products to directly service the problems users face in the market, thus deepening the relationship with each user. The data, technology and advertising tools we developed initially for consumer audiences have significant application for partners in the wider sports, gaming and entertainment ecosystem. Today, we have multiple partner solutions across 5 core areas: sports data, which includes real-time off data, line movement, injuries and sports content, namely via optic OS. Advertising with our ad tech and commercial solutions connecting operators to consumers; Partner audience monetization through Grand Sam Partners, a technology and commercial support platform that provides media companies, apps, communities and influencers with the infrastructure to monetize their audiences at scale. Entertainment and ticketing solutions through Spotlight Vegas and now fintech with the recent launch of Roll Card, which I will come back to soon. Clearly laying out our partner solutions helps us discover more B2B opportunities. We will continue to report based on sports data services and marketing. Sports Data Services revenue grew 12% year-over-year in Q2 with B2B continuing to be the accelerating growth driver. Sports Data revenue is on track for growth in the teens this year with significantly higher growth coming from our B2B Opti OS solution. B2B now makes up the majority of revenue for the Sports Data Services business and is pacing to grow well in excess of 50% this year compared to last year. Optic Ops is the intelligence layer, powering informed decisions in sports, processing more than 1 million requests per second. New B2B data deals in Q2 were led by quant and market-making partners who value the speed of our data. 40% of our new deals were international partners, and we continue to see success upselling existing clients. OpticOdds is also rapidly becoming the sports data layer for consumer AI. Perplexity went fully live into production in early July. OpticOdds is the 11th most invoked connector in Perplexity ahead of massive enterprises like Gmail, Google, Drive, Slack, Notion and Snowflake. API daily volume requests are still climbing by the day, all before the natural catalyst of the NFL season. Q2 total marketing revenue was down 10% year-over-year to $26.5 million, driven from declines in SEO revenue, but we saw strong growth in North America and from our partner audience monetization platform, Grandam Partners. Our marketing business has dramatically diversified from a year ago with non-SEO marketing revenue now accounting for 67% of our marketing business. While gross margins for our non-SEO channels are lower, the OpEx requirements tied to these revenues are also much lower than for organic SEO. The restructure heavily targeted fixed costs in the marketing business, which will result in improved margins going forward. As we move into the second half of the year, we see a clear path to returning the marketing business to growth for the 2027 full year. I also want to highlight that even at the lower marketing revenue run rates, our marketing operations continue to generate attractive levels of cash flow. Now we can finally talk about Roll Card, our new fintech solution. It's a purpose-built FDIC-insured high-limit debit card for sports betting, casino and prediction markets. Payments and money movement remain a high friction point in gaming for both consumers and operators. Card has been designed as a high-limit, low-friction debit card built with a betting consumer in mind. The revenue model is based on interchange generated from dollars deposited into sportsbooks, casinos and prediction markets. Gold card customers are in cash back and qualifying deposits. The underlying deposits that drive handle and trading volume are in the tens of billions of dollars, a low single-digit market share for gaming, betting and trading deposits forecast a $50 million to $100 million revenue opportunity in the next 5 years. The majority of handle and trading is concentrated into a smaller cohort of players that actively bet across multiple platforms. Gold card was designed to serve that cohort of players. The value proposition for the cardholder is simple, safe, private, high-limit, low-friction debit card to manage the funding of their betting and trading strategies. The cardholders will be incentivized with cashback program and other premium benefits that we will introduce to enhance cardholder experience and loyalty. card is backed by Grand Sam's sports, gaming and entertainment audience. That existing audience relationship provides Gold card direct reach to high-intent customers from the start. In addition, our existing relationships with prediction markets, online operators and land-based operators will expedite the go-to-market motion. The Well card payments platform is a clear example of Grant Sand developing value-added solutions as a fintech intelligence layer for payments and sports, gaming and entertainment, creating a deeper connection between both consumers and partners. Looking forward, the balance of 2026 is setting up for a typical seasonal pickup as we move into the North American sports season, which will drive revenue growth. We will also benefit in the second half of this year from a restructure related to fixed cost savings, which will drive margin improvement. The restructure wasn't just about resetting our cost structure. It was an intentional shift to layer AI at the core of how we operate and then build teams around it. The AI-enabled restructure has allowed us to reduce management layers and empower more nimble teams. Repetitive processes have been and continue to be automated, while work velocity is increasing. We are continuing to innovate in how we utilize the AI tools available. We are now rolling out Momento, our context layer that sits underneath our tools and gives them the company's memory. The benefit compounds the more we use it by remembering relevant knowledge across the business. We're also moving to multi-agent harness to provide access to the best models while keeping token costs in check. Grandstand is now positioned to sell more of our own product suite directly to our audience, including Rollcard, OSgem, Rotowire and Spotlight in addition to our performance-based advertising. Keeping our audience within our own ecosystem allows us to deepen engagement while increasing revenue opportunities. Enterprise data growth and a diversified marketing business are positioning Grandstand for a return to revenue and adjusted EBITDA growth as we move through 2026 and into 2027. With that, I will turn the call over to Elias for a review of our second quarter financial results and further detail on our guidance for the year.