Robert Antokol
Analyst · Morgan Stanley. You may begin
Thank you, David, and thank you for everyone to join our first earning call. I'm really excited about it to have this first call. The IPO was one month ago, it was a major event in the Playtika's history. And first, I want to take a moment to thank our employees about the amazing job they're doing in the last 11 years, working with me, working under pressure, growing the revenues, growing the company, building the special DNA that we have. And of course, I want to tell the players that playing our games, we have millions of players around the world playing our games and they will keep our mission, providing infinite ways to play and to have a big pleasure to our players. So, a little bit background about Playtika. So, the company was established actually almost 11 years ago and I was one of the founders. When you look at the 11 years, we have a few main things that I would like to say. First, we have unbelievable growth. We started to grow our revenues and to be a cash flow positive company from day one. This was always our focus. Every dollar that we invest, we try to understand how we are making more money from this dollar. So, this was our first -- this is one of the main DNA of Playtika. The second big thing is the seven acquisitions that we did in the last 10 years. We did different kinds of acquisition. We acquired big companies, we acquired small companies, but a comment to all these acquisitions is we have huge success with them and we will speak about it a bit later. One more important stuff when you look at the portfolio of Playtika, most of our games are evergreen games. It's not games that's going to disappear tomorrow. It's not games that it's coming and going after one year. This is a game seen for long-term. The last thing about Playtika is 9 of the top 100 grossing games in the US market are Playtika's games. This is unbelievable. You cannot compare to any other company. This is very unique for us and we are really excited about it and want to bring more games to the top 100. So, what is unique about Playtika? So, as I said before, we were always looking to grow revenue. This was our main focus from day one, to grow revenues and to be a cash flow positive company. So, we did it by true stuff. First, operations. We knew how to operate game. This is a -- when we started to operate our first game, Slotomania, we thought to ourselves, this is a game that's going to stay for many years. And actually, it's not a game, it's a platform. This platform today is called Slotomania and it's still growing internally 11 years in a row. So, how we did this? First, operation. Second, we look at data. Playtika is a company that's taking decision only regarding data. This is what's important to us. This is where we're focusing. Data, data, data. I will speak a lot about data, because this is something really close to us and this is something really make us a unique company. So, is there marketing? We always did diverse marketing. We never spent all the money without understanding. We never spent the money without getting data and showing -- helping us to understand where to focus. We always did everything regarding data. So, to take the operation, the data, and the marketing, we've built a unique operation that's called LiveOps. Everything together help us to move revenues, to grow revenues by LiveOps. And we took the LiveOps and the technology of Playtika and we established a new feature -- it's not a feature, it's a new division in Playtika that's called Playtika Boost. So Playtika Boost, taking everything that Playtika did in the last 10 years, putting in one place, all our experience, all the best feature, all our technology and helping us to grow the internal games, but it's more important, will help us to grow the games that we're going to acquire in the coming few years. And this is what give us a huge advantage on other companies. The last thing that's really important about us is the team. We are working together more than 10 years. We are very united, we understand each other, and give us the ability to run this company. I think when we're looking at the potential of Playtika, I think first important stuff to understand is that we have more than $1 billion for acquisition, and this is where we're focusing, acquisition. As I said before, we did seven acquisitions and we are going to make different acquisitions in the coming future. Second, we know how to take games and to make it better. Every game that we acquired in the last 10 years, we're getting better. As a result, we bought company with zero profitability, with zero understand what is EBITDA and we made them huge profitable companies. Third, to go beyond games. We always spoke about it, we always believe with it, and now, with the technologies that we're building with Playtika Boost, we believe that in a few years from now, we can take Playtika beyond games. So, to take everything that I spoke, we are really exciting about the future. We're really exciting about being a public company. For us, it's a tool that will help us to grow our business. It will help us to acquire more companies, and people will know about this Playtika around the world. We are a different company. We are a data-driven company. This is what we're doing, this is what we did in the past, and we are exciting for the future. Now, I will turn the call over to Craig to discuss our operations and financial results.