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Tripadvisor, Inc. (TRIP)

Q4 2012 Earnings Call· Wed, Feb 13, 2013

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Operator

Operator

Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the TripAdvisor Fourth Quarter and Year End 2012 Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later, we will conduct a question-and-answer session and instructions will be given at that time. (Operator Instructions) As a reminder, this call may be recorded. I would now like to introduce your host for today’s conference, Mr. Will Lyons. You may begin.

Will Lyons

Management

Thanks, Ashley. Good afternoon, everyone and welcome to TripAdvisor’s fourth quarter and year end 2012 earnings conference call. I am Will Lyons, Senior Director of Investor Relations for TripAdvisor. And joining me on the call today are our CEO, Steve Kaufer; and our CFO, Julie Bradley. Before we begin, I’d like to remind you that the estimates and other forward-looking statements included in this call represent the company’s views as of today, February 13, 2013. TripAdvisor disclaims any obligation to update these statements to reflect future events or circumstances. Please refer to today’s earnings release and TripAdvisor’s filings with the SEC for information concerning factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements. You will also find reconciliations of non-GAAP financial measures to the most comparable GAAP financial measures discussed on our call in our Q4 earnings release, which is available on our IR site, ir.tripadvisor.com. Finally, unless otherwise stated, all references to selling and marketing expense, general and administrative expense, and technology and content expense excludes stock-based compensation and all comparisons on this call will be against our results for the comparable period in 2011. With that, I will now turn the call over to Steve.

Steve Kaufer

Management

Thank you, Will and welcome everyone. The fourth quarter closed out a great 2012, a year in which we made wonderful progress along our growth initiatives. We grow strong member and content collection across our increasingly global footprint. We invested in our social and mobile offerings to enhance brand awareness. We laid the foundation for growth in our business listings and vacation rentals products and we continue to innovate the TripAdvisor platform for our users and customers alike. For the quarter as expected, revenue and adjusted EBITDA growth accelerated growing 23% and 17% respectively. TripAdvisor hotel shoppers grew in the mid 30s driving 24% click-based revenue growth. For the year, over 30% hotel shopper growth drove 20% total revenue growth, 18% click-based revenue growth, and 9% adjusted EBITDA growth. Strong results in light of substantial revenue headwinds and our ongoing commitment to invest for the long-term. Julie will discuss our financials and outlook in more detail shortly. On the consumer side, we are pleased to see continued strong traffic growth around the globe. Specifically according to our logs, total monthly unique visitors to TripAdvisor branded sites grew approximately 45% in the fourth quarter with Asia-Pacific leading the way at over 75% growth. Over 60% of our traffic originates from outside of the core U.S. and UK markets. In the 2013, we are focused on enhancing the TripAdvisor brands in these markets amassing more local language content to drive more user growth engagement. While we continue to grow hotel shoppers fastest in newer international markets, we are also seeing healthy growth in the U.S. and UK despite their relative maturity showing that there is headroom even in our most established markets. As it relates to our social initiatives, according to app data, TripAdvisor’s Facebook app reached the number one spot in…

Julie Bradley

Management

Thanks, Steve and good afternoon everyone. Driven by strong hotel shopper growth in our click-based business, Q4 came in a little better than we had expected with revenue and profit growth accelerating to 23% and 17% respectively assuming constant currency revenue would have been 1% higher. Our Q4 click-based revenue was at 24%. When comparing to hotel shopper growth in the mid 30s lower year-on-year pricing from Expedia and other partners due to macro weakness and FX is the main driver of why click-based revenue did not track closer to hotel shopper growth. Additional factors also include increasing international and phone traffic, our meta rollout on smartphones plus impacts from Hurricane Sandy, all of which are much harder to quantify independently. More importantly, 2013 has gotten off to a great start. We are seeing strong hotel shopper growth and better year-on-year pricing. We believe that is at least partially due to an improving European landscape and higher quality traffic. As it relates to geographic mix, non-U.S. revenue was 50% of total revenue during the quarter, which was consistent with Q3 and up slightly from 48% in the fourth quarter of 2011. As a housekeeping note, starting on our Q1 2013 earnings report, we will disclose geographic revenue breakout by regions, North America, EMEA, LatAm, and APAC, which is more consistent with how we measured the business internally as suppose to U.S., U.K., and rest of world. Of course, we also provide historical quarterly information on our metric sheet back to 2010. While year-over-year click-based comps eased in Q4, the opposite was true for our display business. Display-based revenue was down 3% year-over-year due to a tough Q4 2011 comp driven by a large buy that did not reoccur. However, due to our continued geographical diversification for this product, we are…

Operator

Operator

Thank you. (Operator Instructions) Our first question is from Lloyd Walmsley of Deutsche Bank. Your line is open.

Lloyd Walmsley - Deutsche Bank

Analyst

Thanks. Wondering if you can just talk a little about the shift to meta search and meta display and mechanically how you expect that to work? Is it still going to be primarily CPC-based revenue model or will there also be some rev sharing? And then as you think about kind of effective take rates in that model, is there any reason why you don’t think they could they could go up as you are delivering more qualified leads to clients as opposed to the neutralish guidance you talked about?

Steve Kaufer

Management

Sure. Excellent question on the minds of many, I am sure. So, we expect to remain in a mostly CPC cost per click-based environment. We are certainly open and with some clients will have some component of the traffic team paid for on a rev share basis when it makes sense for them and when it makes sense for us. At the end of the day, we believe we have the tremendous number of hotel shoppers coming into the top of our funnel and nothing – and meta really doesn’t change any of that. So, what it does is it enables that visitor to do a bunch of price shopping while staying on TripAdvisor, which in fact doesn’t generate any click or any revenue event for us. But when the clients or when the traveler does in fact click over to a client they are qualified by the hotels they were looking at being available and at being a price that they can afford. We have had years of experience with this in our price product, which has been meta for many, many years. There is no doubt in our mind because we have seen the data from many clients that the downstream conversion of these travelers as they land on our client sites, they are much more ready to book. So, the question in our mind truly comes down to we know we will generate fewer clicks from our website to our clients. We know that those leads will convert at a much higher rate if in fact those two numbers balance, for instance, if we send a third list leads that convert at 3X the number of 3X the conversion rate on the part of the client’s site, then we are even assuming neutral pricing, i.e., price goes…

Lloyd Walmsley - Deutsche Bank

Analyst

And as a follow-up I was just thinking is there a way you can help us quantify the opportunity from the improved user experience around meta to close the gap between hotel shoppers and unique users. So, in other words, as the experience improves what kind of percent of your traffic is actively already hotel shoppers that could perhaps and versus the percent that’s not they could be converted into hotel shoppers from the better user experience, is there any kind of color you could provide there?

Steve Kaufer

Management

I am not sure I’d look at it that way. In general terms, I can give you the guidance that you can think of about half of TripAdvisor’s traffic is in hotel shopping mode and half is doing other stuff, it varies. I mean, there is lot of puts and takes there, but it’s a ballpark number you can hang on to. While we think hotel, while we think meta will absolutely increase the number of people that enjoy the experience of hotel shopping and therefore tell their friends and come back and use TripAdvisor as the first place they go to plan that trip, I am not convinced or rather we didn’t build meta in order to get folks who are looking at restaurants or attractions over into hotel shopping funnel. We have a lot of personalization efforts, we have a lot of cross sales obviously we do a lot with all the traffic that comes to the site, but if you’re looking for a restaurant fundamentally there’s no way I’m going to get you interested in hotel, no matter what the commerce technology is.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question is from Nat Schindler of Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Your line is open.

Nat Schindler - Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Analyst

Yes, thank you. You mentioned that less than 5% of your click-based revenue comes from smartphones. But as I understanding wasn’t at all monetized prior to meta so with the launch of meta all of that revenue is from smartphones this quarter and all incremental the Q4 results.

Steve Kaufer

Management

No, we actually had what we call our classic version on the phones, where you entered your dates for the hotel and we would show you the logos of our providers and you’d click on a logo and you’d open up another webpage land on that site, it was just an incredibly painful experience on that very small screen real-estate. So, shifting that experience to the phone was it actually that’s my recollection revenue negative at that point, but we didn’t feel it was a true reflection of desktop again because the experience was particularly painful on the phone. So, we think of that is just more of a better conversion and I wouldn’t – that the growth in mobile was truly growth in traffic base as suppose to the meta switch over.

Nat Schindler - Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Analyst

Okay, and one more question on meta, when we last spoke about meta, you would discuss it being launched on the desktop throughout all of 2013 largely the minimized the risk of revenue hit. Is there any – is this sounds like you have sped up the timetable on this. Is there a reason why you have and what you have been seen from your initial test that kind of drove you to do that.

Steve Kaufer

Management

I’m sure, I’ve never talked about it specific timeframe we had said earlier that we began testing meta and as we tested certainly, we feel the experience is significantly better. We’ve gotten our clients on board with the new bidding models that the new pricing and we’ve seen the benefits of the conversion. So, it’s really about that user experience that has gone so well and in fact that the technology is in place now that is – I guess you could say we’ve been able to speeded up, but I think we’ve always been interested in releasing at as soon as we can. The ongoing open question mark on the timeframe is in part making sure our technology and scale and the part making sure our plans have enough time to adjust their processes for buying traffic on TripAdvisor to this new model.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question is from Mark Mahaney of RBC. Your line is open.

Mark Mahaney - RBC

Analyst

Thanks. I think there was a comment made about demand trends in Europe picking up a little bit. Could you just clarify that a little bit it seems little hard so, what we hearing in other places is there some particular region part of Europe that seems to have recovered a little bit more quickly, thank you.

Steve Kaufer

Management

I guess, it’s always a little hard for us to tell how much is a good stuff we are doing versus macroeconomic picture, it might just be from our perspective more market stabilization so the rest of our campaigns are search engine optimization or traffic purchases or search engine marketing allowing those efforts to kick in at a stronger basis, but we have seen some growth worth mentioning in continental Europe and obviously we didn’t really see much of the slowdown elsewhere.

Mark Mahaney - RBC

Analyst

Thank you.

Steve Kaufer

Management

Sure, thanks.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question is from Scott Devitt of Morgan Stanley. Your line is open.

Scott Devitt - Morgan Stanley

Analyst

Hi, thanks for taking the question. A few around the hotel shopper growth, just wondering if you could talk through the drivers or to the extent today, maybe missed them, of the acceleration to the mid-30%s in the fourth quarter. And then also Julie mentioned some of the factors of why the click-based revenue did not track closer to the hotel shopper growth, I think Expedia other partners due to macro weakness and then FX and then just wondering if you could bridge those for us? And then lastly to the extent that you can share with – embedded within your 2013 guidance what you are expecting for full year hotel shopper growth? Thanks.

Steve Kaufer

Management

Sure, I’ll try Scott. A bunch of questions in there, so I – part of the hotel shopper growth rate, we believe has been the growing brand presence that we have around the globe. So, it’s getting harder and harder to travel to any tourist destinations certainly and not see signs of TripAdvisor as you go. We think that’s a nice halo effect that’s coming right back reflecting in domain direct traffic growth as well as the harder to prove but it is what we believe growth in our search channels. So, as people for instance do a traveler related search on Google and they see TripAdvisor in the result because it’s a brand that they saw a sticker on or they saw a certificate of excellence in the hotel they last stayed at or saw a label on a bus or whatever it might be, more likely to click through. So, we have seen growth in all of our major channels the free ones, the paid ones and some of it again we can only direct at the ongoing strength of the brand and the global nature of it.

Julie Bradley

Management

So, I will take the second part of that. So, when we are looking at the click-based revenue up 24% compared to hotel shoppers growth in the mid-30s. The largest driver is year-on-year pricing. And I think the largest component of that is the rollout of the change in the Expedia pricing in Q4 of last year that was related to the spin. And also some of our other partner pricing on a year-over-year basis a little weaker I think tied to some other macroeconomic weaknesses. The – a positive factor on pricing is that sequentially we did see an increase in pricing. And then I have listed out a bunch of other factors that are just are frankly more difficult to quantify individually, but we did see an increase in the international traffic phone traffic that we have mentioned earlier and the fact that meta was rolled out on smartphones and then probably to a lesser extent the impact of hurricane Sandy.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question is from Tom White of Macquarie. Your line is open.

Tom White - Macquarie

Analyst

Thank you for taking my question. Just wanted to see if there was any update on where you guys were in the rollout of the minimum bid pricing threshold for the CPC product and maybe talk a bit about how you are setting those levels and what the feedback has been from your largest partners. And also on the offline marketing campaign I guess I was sort of curious if you can elaborate a little bit why now, you talked a bit in the past quarter or so and today about how your brand, the brand flywheel has been humming is the decision to do this around kind of expected or current increased competition in the meta search space? Thanks.

Steve Kaufer

Management

Sure thing, so on minimum bids we have rolled out to our major clients a – what we call property level minimum bids. It’s part of our transition over to the meta space. And we are giving our clients some time to adjust and the rules vary a little bit in terms of what happens if the client has a bid that is below the minimum level. We want to work with our major clients. We have to – we certainly appreciate and we will need to appreciate that they are trying to often manage bids on tens or hundreds of thousands of properties with different bids depending on where the traveler lives in the world. So, it might be 100,000 properties times, 20 different locales, each locale being worth with different amount in terms of click from that client and that we add on our requests or ability to let clients bid at a mobile level or say phone level, a desktop classic level and the desktop meta level. And so it’s a fair amount of complexity minimum bids are rolling out have rolled out on the meta side of things, desktop meta because that’s where our world is going. And the client reaction has been fine, we just want – clients just want to make sure that they are reasonable and in general if they can’t afford to bid at the minimum level, they probably won’t getting any traffic anyways because even in our old option if we have five or six players and you were number six, it wasn’t a particularly meaningful property for you anyways. So, I don’t actually think through going up property level minimums affects the folks who are active in the option very much and it’s a little sort of protection the bidding…

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question is from Laura Martin of Needham & Company. Your line is open. Laura Martin - Needham & Company: So I was really fascinated by your comments, Steve about your Facebook growth. Could you talk about both strategically how you think about Facebook versus Google and your revenue mix and also economically, does it save money as you move traffic acquisition over to Facebook, please?.

Steve Kaufer

Management

Sure. Thank you, Laura for the question. Facebook has so many parallel to TripAdvisor as a company in the sense that is very global, it is social and it occupies yet quite a different space. So for us to be able to reach a global audience and global online audience, there is search marketing grade, we know that, we master that and it’s a major channel for us. And then there’s Facebook and this is a channel there are very few people when we look around for example to choose master this channel, very hard to find companies that have really done extremely well other than the gain companies that have built a business on Facebook. So, we really haven’t built our business on Facebook, but we figure out this great way to tap into that audience. And so, it’s the – our ability with the instant personalization with our TripAdvisor cities I visited map application, we touched 100s of millions of Facebook users or rather Facebook users have told their friends that they have been using TripAdvisor, which is just fantastic social proof. So, it’s been a membership vehicle for us. It’s been a content contribution vehicle for us. It hasn’t been much of a traffic acquisition vehicle for us yet, but we really like the direction that Facebook is headed with their Facebook Exchange and the other improvements to their advertising network. So, we look forward and we are working pretty closely with Facebook to see how we can spend more, how we can do more with Facebook to get the travelers who are spending time on their network over to TripAdvisor to plan their trip. I call the partnership excellent. It really helps both companies. They love the vertical company like TripAdvisor that helps to explain why wisdom of friends is a good thing. We love the social group for travel helps other people plan their trips based upon where their friends have been. And I give the relationship an A+. Laura Martin - Needham & Company: Very helpful and my follow up question is on the $250 million share repurchase, could you talk through either Steve or Julie how you think about are there targets you have to invest that capital in your shares or how do you think about how you are going to spend that money that you just allocated to us today?

Julie Bradley

Management

Sure. Thanks for the question Laura. This is the board did authorize up to a $250 million share repurchase program. The program is really aimed at allowing the company to be opportunistic. As this being the first year as a public company, we are continuing to evaluate our optimum capital structure. And we just felt that a share repurchase program was an important element to have in place in order to optimize that capital structure.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question is from Mike Olson of Piper Jaffray. Your line is open.

Mike Olson - Piper Jaffray

Analyst

Hey, good afternoon, just following up on that marketing and social questions. So, you talked about how Facebook is an interesting channel, but more specifically can you talk about how are you will weight the balance between SEM and social in 2013, I think it kind of went back and forth to some degree in 2012. And then given your positive comments on Facebook I guess will the focus be shifting more that way in the coming year and does the offline campaign impact any of the SEM or social initiatives?

Steve Kaufer

Management

Sure Mike, I don’t use them as kind of one or the other shifting between. I look at maximizing each of the three or in previous times two. So, I charter the SEM team with grow, get me the best traffic you can make it profitable, bring it into the TripAdvisor experience. If I need some trial and do it in all markets with sometimes different profitability metrics depending on the market sort of nothing new there. It’s just been a standard part of our playbook. Social, we have been investing for quite some time in adding the Facebook social elements to TripAdvisor to make it a better experience when you are on our site. And at the same time adding more social brand awareness through the Facebook viral mechanisms, which is really all about branding on their platform for us. The team has – both teams have grown in size, both teams have grown in spend, the Facebook team versus the SEM team. And if we can find cost effective ways of buying traffic from Facebook, we would love to that I would not expect it to take a penny out of our SEM budget because they have on a limited budget to spend at ROI I set for them. And the same with the crew with the folks trying to buy the traffic on Facebook, if you could find a vehicle, hey we will do that all day long, so as long as it meets our criteria. The offline spend is the first time, where we are looking at a meaningful spend where we don’t expect a positive ROI on it and that’s again to let the world know of this new value proposition, take a page out of some other folks playbooks, but really the whole engine is humming so well now in so many markets that it’s the ability to drop a little more fuel on the fire to get it going even faster is the game plan basically.

Mike Olson - Piper Jaffray

Analyst

Okay. And then as far as daodao given the intense pricing war in the online travel market in China, is that having any impact on your business there what are you guys seeing that market?

Steve Kaufer

Management

Good question, I wouldn’t say the pricing war is having too much of a challenge on our business. I guess there is a pro and a con to us. The pro is hey if it gets more people traveling because the hotel rooms are cheaper that’s good more people discover us. It’s a con in that is the margins that the OTAs are playing with are a lot less. And therefore they can spend less on buying traffic from sites like daodao or (indiscernible). So, we generally like healthy margins on the part of our clients so net, net I guess I wish there weren’t a price war. We are very happy that Ctrip is as the OTA, so Ctrip plus eLong plus the other guys are all advertising on our platform. So, it’s a nice competitive dynamic everyone’s interested in the traffic we can send. And so like many of our markets its less a sales challenge for us and more a biz dev. how do we grow traffic, how do we grow the content on the site. Clearly, it’s phenomenally huge market a lot, a lot, a lot less to do for us to turn it to deliver the potential that’s there for us.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question is from Peter Stabler of Wells Fargo Securities. Your line is open.

Peter Stabler - Wells Fargo Securities

Analyst

Thanks. Two, if I could. So at risk of beating the marketing horse here, could you give us a little sense of how you’re going to allocate your spend? It’s pretty easy to spend substantial sums in offline media around the world. So can you give us a sense of the prioritization of markets? And then secondly wondering if you could comment on whether the Facebook success has helped you create a bit of a virtuous circle in terms of getting more TripAdvisor visitors contributing content to the platform? I assume that is one of the primary goals as well. Thanks very much.

Steve Kaufer

Management

Sure, so to the first question the offline spend priorities to be frankly we have not mapped them out yet. We are at the earlier stages. So we think of the dollars is being committed, the timing being dictated in the part by when meta completes it’s rollout where we haven’t articulated internally, we haven’t come to our conclusions on where the spend is going to be. In terms of the Facebook, the Facebook success we look at the overall spend there and say it has been remarkably effective for us we can’t tie it directly to traffic as I indicated before, but the global nature absolutely generates more content for us. They become full members everyone that interacts with our app we get the email of they get welcome to our sites, they get after writer review and we’ve learned something about them because the part of the Facebook connect process we’ve learned where they checked in the things around the web that they’ve liked again all this with the permission as they given us but it builds up the database of how we can show how this friends of yours can help you plan the next trip. The most popular places people have been to for instance when you talk to TripAdvisor then you have a friend’s tab when you visit TripAdvisor that’s now populated within half and lot of this information. I’m not sure I completely answered that. So I’m happy to take a follow up if you like.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question is from Dough Anmuth of JPMorgan. Your line is open.

Dough Anmuth - JPMorgan

Analyst

Thanks for taking the question. Steve, I was just hoping you could talk to us about how you think about the potential for more of a direct bookings path on the site in the future? And then secondly, any thoughts you might have on two of your biggest partners just buying similar businesses that look, at least a little bit, like TripAdvisor? Thanks.

Steve Kaufer

Management

Sure thanks. So direct booking a topic that certainly comes up some of the other sites out there that has been search offerings have direct bookings that they really process or you will call an assisted booking inventory source but somebody else. We like our position in the media space, we really focus on what do we think our consumers want, what do the travelers want and we are just not hearing at this point that the travelers want the ability to consummate a booking on the TripAdvisor site versus going to other in most cases very well branded sites to their own, but we don’t have religion on the subject, but it’s not a shift that we would do truly for hoping to get some extra margin on or something. Our clients do a fabulous – our clients, the Pricelines and Expedias and Orbitzes and Travelocities as a world, and all the international ones do a great job for what they do. They contract with hotels, they offer tremendous inventory, they offer great rates, and we are very pleased with our position in the meta world, that’s not only being able to provide the best recommendations fueled by millions reviews from millions of travelers, but also now the best price that you can find on the internet one click away. And for us that addresses what consumers are telling us that they are asking for. To the second question, hey Priceline is in the process of buying Kayak and Expedia, the same for Trivago, I don’t see it interact – interfering with our interactions with our big clients. We have the scale. We have the high-quality traffic. The auction is extremely robust, can’t imagine why that will change, the option on TripAdvisor. All these folks still want our leads. And I can appreciate how each of those OTAs would also like to have a little more traffic under their own control to presumably reduce their dependency on the Google and the TripAdvisor and the other sources. So, it makes a certain amount of sense, but doesn’t sort of bother me at all in terms of our growth path and our ability to help more and more travelers. We don’t think prices are changing if that’s all you got is a complete enough offering in the travel research funnel. And it’s really hard and I am not sure even those guys would even try to replicate the type of functionality that TripAdvisor is known for.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question is from Brian Nowak of Nomura. Your line is open.

Brian Nowak - Nomura

Analyst

Thanks. I have two please. First is I wonder can you give us any help at all on hotel shopper growth by region, even if just a little more clarity on the U.S. and the more mature markets compared to the rest of world? And then secondly, there is a lot of focus in kind of marketing and traffic acquisition costs, I was wondering if you could help us understand kind of rate now within your variable marketing spend, what portion of that is dedicated to your mature markets of the U.S., UK, and Western Europe versus the portion that’s still related to emerging markets where you have a lower brand equity? Thanks.

Steve Kaufer

Management

Sure. So, we haven’t broken out the hotel shopper growth by region other than to say hey, everything grows faster in the Asia-Pacific, in LatAm, and in the brand newer countries, because it’s off of a lower base. We said earlier we are pleased with the growth in the U.S. and UK our most mature markets. And again see no reason why those will be declining going forward, can’t see a ceiling that you are tapping into. For the variable marketing spend, again a large chunk of the variable spend is around search engine marketing and search engine marketing is again the number. So, where is the traffic to buy and that will help you figure out where we are spending the most. To put it in a perspective, there is so much traffic in the U.S. that even if I was spending outrageously, inefficiently, entirely, and they just couldn’t match the amount of traffic that the U.S. has versus those emerging markets. I can’t really give you too much color beyond that other than its absolutely, the variable spend, mostly SEM and it is mostly global. So, it is global by definition. So, we are bidding everywhere we can.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question is from Brian Fitzgerald of Jefferies. Your line is open.

Brian Fitzgerald - Jefferies

Analyst

Thanks. Steve, wondering how your initiative to provide partners with more ROI visibilities progressing, and then maybe as a follow-up you mentioned City Guide coverage is up to 80 cities on the mobile side, how penetrated is that in terms of your total rollout that you see and how quickly are you closing on that complete rollout? Thanks.

Steve Kaufer

Management

Sure thing. So, the ROI visibility to partners, I would say there are – they are quite pleased in some cases we have delivered more information than they have been able to digest rank reports by region, by property when you are bidding or when you are advertising 100,000 properties on the TripAdvisor wow that’s a lot of data to be able to work with. I would say if you were ask our larger clients I think they would say they love the new information that they are getting, it’s helping them and they love to see it even more self service automated and our public answer to them is and we are getting there. We have been making meaningful strides each quarter for the past couple of quarters now and we are not slowing down. So, I think that piece of it is going well from all angles. The City Guide rollout, it’s an interesting question, we’ve picked we think the 80 most popular cities. We could release another 80 if we wanted to. There is just becoming - we are not at it yet but there is a role or an issue of diminishing returns with do we spend our time doing that or do we spend some more time improving the features we see in the City Guides of the ones that we have rolled out. And actually the team is correctly more focused on a very rapid iterative cycle of improvements and there is point me there and there is check-ins and there is trip journals and there is all sorts of new stuff that just didn’t exist in the app three to six months ago. And that’s really propelling some really impressive engagement numbers and that’s the City Guides app TripAdvisor also launched SeatGuru app which is fantastic airplane advice, what seat do you want to sit on for these long haul flights and combined it with our flight meta search product and some other nice pieces and it’s a new app launched I think it’s already approaching a 1 million downloads, off to the races it’s another app, another iron in the fire if you will and you will see a bunch of these sort of cross-promoted in the future from TripAdvisor.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. And our last question comes from Kevin Kopelman of Cowen & Company. Your line is open. Kevin Kopelman - Cowen & Company: Thanks. Just as you think about revenue growth throughout ’13 do you expect the headwind from ad changes to the biggest in Q2 or in Q1?

Steve Kaufer

Management

Sorry, do I expect headwinds from ad?

Julie Bradley

Management

Meta.

Steve Kaufer

Management

Oh sorry the meta Q2 is clearly going to be the quarter where we have the most headwinds will be the most fully into that transition again there is some chance that there is really nothing because the option comes into play quicker than we expect. But we are pushing forward on this and if this means that we take a bit of a revenue hit in that quarter in order to get the option off to the races and get to the end point faster, we are willing to do that it’s just a quarter. As I said we have already started in Q1 and we are not our best guess at the moment is that we won’t be completely done by the end of Q2, so you might see a little bit of headwind following into Q3, but again that’s our best guess at the moment and we certainly reserve the right to change the rollout schedule to either faster or lower. Kevin Kopelman - Cowen & Company: Thank you very much.

Steve Kaufer

Management

Very good.

Operator

Operator

And I am not showing any further questions in the queue. I would like to turn call back over to Mr. Steve Kaufer for any further remarks.

Steve Kaufer

Management

Well, alright thanks so much for everyone for joining us today. We are really excited about what 2013 holds and we look forward to updating everyone on our progress in the coming months. So, thanks again.

Operator

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen thank you for participating in today’s conference. This concludes today’s program you may all disconnect. Everyone have a great day.