Thank you, Charlie. Hi, everyone.

Welcome to Audioboom's H1 update. You're joining me in our Audioboom studios in New York.

Brad is in London, and we are just, I think, very pleased to be back with you. First time we've been able to talk directly with you for almost a year and there's lots to tell you about.

It's been a period of exceptional performance. Excited to be able to walk through that with you today.

Just a little kind of running order, I think here. We'll kick off and just talk through the business model a little for those of you that are new to Audioboom.

Talk about the H1 performance which, as I said, has been exceptional. Brad will go a little deeper on some of the finances.

Then we'll get to some of the parts I know you're interested in hearing about. We'll talk about the strategic review, and we'll kind of push forward and tell you about the future plans and the strategy going forward.

We'll dive straight in, and you can ask questions, and we'll pick those as we go across this 45-minute session. As I said, just very happy to be back with you and to tell you more about everything that's been happening at Audioboom.

For many of you maybe new to the company, and I'll just walk you through the business model, but it's pretty straightforward, and it's a pretty strong, efficient, and scalable model that we have here at Audioboom. What the platform does, and it's a scaled global efficient platform, is it sits between three very important elements of the podcast industry, and connects those three elements together.

The platform is connecting podcasts and the podcast content together with audience and together with brands and advertisers. Pulling those three things together is creating significant value at a strong global scale.

The platform does this very efficiently. There's a lot of automation built into the technology platform.

That's driving the growth of the Audioboom business. On the publisher side, on the podcaster side, our platform allows those creators to upload their content, to distribute their content to all of the listening and viewing apps out there, their content can be listened to and viewed as widely as possible.

It allows those podcasters to get insight into their content and the consumption of that content through our data platform and our analytics platform. It really does give them all the tools necessary to distribute and to publish that content so they can focus on the core element of the content production.

Then on the audience side, as I said, there's one-click distribution of that content out to all of the major listening and viewing apps like Spotify, Apple, Pandora, iHeartMedia, wherever you can hear and view podcasts, our platform allows that content to be delivered to. Again, tremendous scale going through that part of the platform.

You'll see it in some later slides, but we now deliver more than 180 million downloads or video views per month on average, which, again, is really moving quickly and growing the network very quickly. We reach more than 50 million unique listeners or viewers every single month, as well.

A big audience, and then the third element of this platform is to connect that audience and that content with advertisers. Once we have the audience, once we have the content, we then bring in advertisers.

We work with more than 10,000 brands. Those advertisers through two or three advertising products can monetize that content, and that drives a lot of value back to the creators and back to the podcasters.

That's the basics of the business model. Any questions on that, we can look at afterwards and you can always drop Brad and myself a line and we can go deeper on that.

For anyone new to Audioboom, I think that's just a quick snapshot of what the platform does, how it achieves it, how it achieves that scale, and the kind of valuable and very important role that we play in the podcast industry. As I said earlier, a tremendously pleasing H1 of 20 2026.

A real exceptional performance and super proud of the Audioboom team here. It's a small team, and that's very important to our model here.

It's a very small team that builds things in a very kind of sustainable approach, very disciplined approach, and has had a tremendous amount of success in the first half of 2026. We'll walk through those numbers, talk a little bit about some of the drivers behind those and give you a little insight into how we got here.

First up, H1 2026, we delivered $45.7 million of revenue and that's up 30% versus the same period of last year. We have a slide coming up on the drivers for this one, I won't go too in depth now, but, effectively, it's inventory levels, the building of that network, and then the pricing and demand levels on the advertising side that are driving that revenue figure.

I think what you can kind of see here across these three metrics, and we'll get to that in a moment, is just the gearing effect of our business model. While revenue is up 30%, our gross profit is up 33%, $9.9 million for the first half of the year.

That's up at a higher level than revenue because we have that focus that we've talked about over the last couple of years on quality of revenue. Higher margin revenue is being delivered there.

That means that we are focused on just bringing that revenue through Showcase that has a higher gross margin and through contracts with our podcast partners that has a more favorable revenue share to Audioboom, and that's where the focus has been of improving that over the last couple of years. That gross margin is now up to 22% and was in the high teens just a couple of years ago.

Significant improvements over the years on that gross margin point, which is driving the gross profit number at a higher rate than revenue. Then through to adjusted EBITDA, $3.2 million of adjusted EBITDA in this period.

That's up 80% versus last year. Again, you can see that gearing effect of the business model.

It's that focus on higher revenue quality, which is driving a higher gross margin. Then, as Brad will get to in some greater depth soon, that consistent opex that we have in the business hasn't really changed over the last few years, very efficient platform, very automated platform that we have, we don't need to increase those operating costs greatly to drive this revenue.

That means that we're seeing that gearing effect and that flow of that revenue through to adjusted EBITDA with that strong 80% growth in the first half of this year. A fantastic, I think, set of metrics for the company here.

I think worth pointing out as well is again, that we see a stronger gearing effect in the second half of the year as well. The reason we do that and the reason we will expect that EBITDA margin, which was 7% in the first half to be even greater than that in the second half, is because of the seasonality that's in the business.

Many of our podcast partners get paid at a flat monthly rate across the year, but our revenue is weighted significantly into the second half of the year in general. That means that we pay podcasters the same rate, but we're seeing more revenue coming into the business.

That means that EBITDA margin will be above 7% in the second half of the year, and will drive an even stronger adjusted EBITDA in H2. Just a little note on that and the seasonality that we do have in the business.

Back to those top three metrics, I think, a great performance in H1 and very pleasing, and just shows off the performance of this business model and the gearing effect that it has as that revenue grows. I mentioned it on the last slide, but the key drivers of that revenue performance are all here, right?

We start off with advertising inventory, which is a product of the amount of distribution that we have going through the platform. I mentioned earlier 183 million downloads and video views per month across our network in Q2 of 2026, and we're seeing tremendous growth on that metric.

A year ago, we had just around 100 million downloads and views, and that's grown 83% or 84%, I should say, year-on-year. How have we got that?

The first of the drivers there is that acquisition that we made of Adrelish in July of last year, so that added just around 25 million downloads and video views to the size of the network through that acquisition in July. Second of all, the rise of video podcasting, a lot of video view growth in this period as audiences are finding podcasts through Netflix and other video channels, and that's driven a lot of distribution growth over that time.

Then thirdly, we continue to make signings to the network of some of the biggest creators, top tier creators, top tier podcasters in the world. Two great examples of that in Q1 were the signing of Crooked Media, a large political network, and RedHanded, a large true crime show.

Those between them bring more than 20 million downloads and video views to the platform. You can see and we've marked on the chart there just that growth of the distribution across our network.

Obviously, each one of those video views, each one of those podcast audio downloads has a level of advertising inventory for us to sell within it. As the download number goes up, the amount of advertising inventory that we can sell goes up significantly as well, and that's obviously driving revenue as we sell it in a more optimal way each and every period.

The two parts of that advertising growth that I want to look at really is first of all is Showcase. Showcase for those of you that perhaps new to Audioboom is our global advertising marketplace.

It's built and delivered through our advertising technology stack. It's very efficient, very scalable.

It allows advertisers and brand partners to target advertising against demographics, against geo targets within anywhere within the world. Whatever their targeting parameters is, our Showcase can deliver that for them.

Again, very efficient and a very strong way for advertisers to reach their target audiences. Showcase just continues to grow very, very strongly for us, up 60% in this first half of the year versus last year, following on from 25% a year ago.

Just continuing very strong growth in Showcase as we bring in more and more demand sources, more advertising sources into that marketplace, out there talking to brands, talking to ad networks, talking to programmatic partners, and bringing them in and connecting them to that marketplace so they can advertise very efficiently in podcasting through Showcase. That higher level of advertising inventory combined with the Showcase growth is really pushing revenue.

Then the bottom chart on the right here is our ad demand model and this is really a view on how well we're selling all of those ad impressions. The number you'll see here is the dollar value that we receive for every 1,000 ad impressions that we make available or we create through the platform to sell, and you'll see good growth here, 8% growth.

That's a combination of the price that we sell those advertising impressions for and then our fill rate, how many of those were able to sell. That's coming through and growing strongly.

Revenue being driven this year by stronger downloads, which equals stronger advertising inventory, Showcase doing a great job of monetizing that advertising inventory, and then the ad demand, how efficient and how optimal our monetization engine is, is growing very strongly as well. Those things coming together, those are things that we're focused on building behind the scenes here and are the key drivers of that revenue now and also going forward.

I'll hand over to Brad. Brad's going to go a little deeper on some of the financial metrics, and I'll be back with you in a few minutes to talk strategic review and forward-looking strategy.

Perfect. Thanks, Stuart.

Hi, everyone. Good to speak to you again.

For those who hear me for the first time, CFO here at Audioboom. Obviously, been here for over eight years, having started in March 2018.

Many years in experience in other media companies, but, it's really pleasing to put these numbers out out to the market today. The next few slides we've got information on revenue, gross margin, minimum guarantees, opex, EBITDA, and cash.

These slides reflect a record first half of the year for the company. They also reflect a company that is financially stable, self-sustainable, growing, profitable, generating cash, and absolutely primed for future growth, and we're well set to execute our plans in the second half of the year.

As we've probably got some new followers and listeners here today, let's go through the basics of the revenue streams first. Stuart's given you that overview of Showcase just now, but in terms of the other revenue lines we've got here at Audioboom, we've got three revenue lines.

First one being premium revenue. That's generated generated from our high-value ad model in which the host of the podcast endorses products directly to their highly engaged audience.

Gross margin here, typically around 20%, and by gross margin, I mean what are Audioboom retaining from the advertising revenue generated. We enter into revenue share agreements with our podcast partners where Audioboom will retain around 20 to 30% of ad revenue generated, typically 20% gross margin on this revenue line of premium.

That's because that revenue is mainly generated from the top 200 shows that we work with, where we have to give up a little bit more of that gross margin to work with them because of the scale of some of these podcasts that we're working with. That's the first one, premium.

Showcase is our highly automated marketplace, which Stuart has given you a bit more detail on just now. Gross margin, typically 25%, it's higher than the gross margin on premium.

That revenue is generated being across our entire roster of shows, where revenue share moves more in favor of of of Audioboom. Then our third revenue product, Sonic, is our platform for brands, which helps advertisers develop and execute campaigns across the podcast landscape.

Gross margin here, typically 15%, as it's an agency-based model, so that gross margin is slimmer. What have we seen in the first half of this year?

Historically, premium revenue has contributed the majority of our revenue. It still does.

We've seen really good growth on that revenue line of 14% or $2.8 million in the first half of the year, good growth on on premium through the first half of the year. What we've seen over the last few years and again in the first half of this year is that significant increase in Showcase revenue, which Stuart showed you just now, success of our marketplace offering.

We've seen that grow again in the first half of this year, revenue contribution increasing by 24%, 41% revenue contribution, Showcase revenue increasing by 60% year-on-year to $18.6 million. What we're seeing is because of that increase in overall revenue, increased contribution of Showcase revenue at that higher gross margin, we've seen an increase in gross profit, which has grown by 33% to $9.9 million.

We've seen a slight uptick in gross margin from 21 to 22% in the first half of the year year-on-year. Key takeaway from this slide: revenue is growing well, higher gross margin products Showcase is contributing more, which leads to a higher gross profit.

Okay. On this next slide, we can see details of revenue, gross profit growth over the last few fiscals, along with the gross margin recognized historically.

We can all see that revenue growth very, very pleasing. The key takeaway for me is that over the last 5 years from 2019 to 2025, we've recognized 45% of our annual revenue in the first half of the year, 55% of the revenue in the second half of the year, with 30% typically coming in the fourth quarter of the year.

Seasonally weighted into that second half of the year and particularly into the last quarter of the year around festive period, Thanksgiving, and also we have those US midterm elections where our impressive slate of political content as well to take advantage of that. Then on to the next slide, we can see here opex and adjusted EBITDA.

My favorite slide, to be honest, in in the entire deck. We have a really simple P&L here at Audioboom.

We have the revenue billed to advertisers, then we have cost of goods sold, which is payments to our podcast partners, which leads to our gross profit, i.e., Audioboom's retention of revenue. Then we have a simple opex base: 60% of that is salaries and commissions, 25% is technology costs to run the platform and deliver the ads.

The remainder of costs are cost of being a listed entity, small bit of marketing, bit of T&E. Overall, very, very straightforward P&L, nothing complex or I wouldn't be here if it was complex, very, very simple in terms of how you view this P&L.

One thing to note before we move on to the opex and EBITDA is just to talk you through minimum guarantees. We offer minimum guarantees to around 30 of our podcast partners.

We offer these to remain competitive, to secure our revenue growth. It's part of doing business in the US.

We did disclose a couple of onerous contracts a couple of years ago in 2023, but to confirm the last of these finished in December 2025. We continue to have a very disciplined process of offering minimum guarantee contracts.

We always monitor the performance of those very, very closely. We do utilize some of our gross margin to satisfy all minimum guarantee commitments, with the impact of this being higher in the first half of the year than we'll see in the second half of the year because that's when we reach our seasonally stronger revenue period.

Adjusted EBITDA showing really good progression, now starting to gear, as as Stuart said. The only cash costs that we have below EBITDA is a a $200,000-a-year lease for our New York office, plus a one-off restructuring cost.

You'll see $0.2 million in these results today due to the restructure we completed in May. We also have $0.1 million of corporate transaction costs as well in relation to the strategic review, neither of which of those are material to the business.

One question we've had is to confirm the costs relating to the strategic review. We've confirmed those today in a material $0.2 million, with fees being linked to a transaction occurring.

Nothing happened, obviously, we're not lumbered with a cost hangover, we're you know we move on with a with a with a relatively low cost incurred for that process, which is good. We've said continuously, monitor the company, EBITDA is a proxy for cash generation.

Won't always be exactly the same, because it's always likely to be something, not in the normal course of business that we put below that EBITDA line. I'm not expecting anything material below EBITDA going forwards, therefore the proxy for cash generation holds.

Why does EBITDA gear? For me, the key takeaway point, one of the main points from this presentation, is to communicate how this company works.

If you're new to this company, is that, with that relatively fixed and stable opex base that Stuart mentioned earlier, we don't have to scale opex in order to capture growth. Opex did increase post-Adrelish acquisition in the summer of last year.

Headcount increased from 42 to 53, but following the restructure in May, we're back down now to 44 heads. Going forwards, don't expect that opex base to grow materially.

It'll remain stable. The savings from the restructure recognized due to lower headcount.

Those will be partially offset by higher sales commissions due to the higher revenue and which run at around 1.3% of of revenue, the sales commissions. Also increased downloads and ad impressions will incur, marginally increased cost within our with our tech cost line, but main point is that's not going to grow significantly.

Key takeaway is that that focus on higher-quality revenue, with a controlled focus on MGs, gross profit will increase. Combine that with a well-controlled opex base, your EBITDA and your cash will grow as we go forwards.

Then on this next slide, we can really see that cash progression within the company over the last couple of years. Inconsistently, it's increasing as we thought it would do when you look at the fundamentals of the business model.

That backs up our message that EBITDA will be a proxy for cash generation going forwards. We're a small company in terms of headcount, which means that internal processes for booking inventory and advertising, billing, and payment to our partners have to be market-leading.

I believe it is. We're utilizing automation capabilities within Salesforce and NetSuite really well to ensure that cycle works as efficiently as it as it can do.

We've got a proven track record that when we bill something, we're going to collect it. As always, our messages there's a question that I saw earlier from Ned, I think it was, in terms of why doesn't cash equal EBITDA yet.

We've got that timing difference, which is important to realize, in terms of paying our leading podcast partners typically on 30-day terms and collecting on average the first half of the year first half of this year more than double that, debtor day of 72 in the first half of this year. There's that timing difference before we see cash before we see that EBITDA drops through to to cash generation.

Not an immediate drop-through, it does take a little bit of time, but given write-offs within the company are you know really immaterial, it's a case of when, not if, that cash generation occurs. As I say, debtor day of 72 in the first half of the year, that's good, but I do expect that to tick up into the 80s by the time the year-end rolls round, again because we're seasonally weighted in revenue in terms of the second half of the year, which we'll collect Q4 revenue in the first quarter of next year.

I'd expect that debtor day to increase slightly back into the 80s, but not materially so. As I say, once we bill it, we're going to collect it.

It just takes a bit of time for that for that EBITDA to drop through to that cash cash number. Final couple of points from me is that, to support that working capital cycle in the business, it's great that we have access to both the HSBC overdraft that we've got.

That helps with any working capital shortfalls that we may have due to slower debtors paying. Also the addition of the imminent RCF facility from HSBC as well to help support that M&A plan that we have.

Really good endorsement from partners at HSBC. We're just going through the legal process on the RCF now just to get that finalized and in place, which we should have within the next couple of weeks.

As I say, hopefully that's given you, good insight into the key financial metrics of the company. As I say, it's financially stable, self-sustainable, growing, profitable, generating cash, primed for future growth.

We look forward to, keep pushing this thing on. Any questions that you have, as some of you do, please email me.

I can't always answer all of them directly because we're a listed company, but if I can, I will get back to you. For now, back to you, Stuart.

Thank you, Brad. That was a a great in-depth look.

I think just how healthy and and how primed for future growth this this business is. Let's move on.

Let's let's talk strategic review. I know it's the the one thing we've had the most questions on, we'll cover as much of those as as as we can.

I think let's walk you through it. It's it's been the thing that's kind of prevented us talking directly to you over the the last 12 months.

It really kind of began, I think, in in Q3 of of 2025. I think the key part here is that it was it was kind of designed, I think, as a as a private, slow, and steady process.

We were, not trying to auction off a a struggling business here. This was a a business growing very quickly and in a strong position.

The process that that that was designed here was to, yeah, to to explore opportunities in a private, slow, and steady way across a number of months. There was a a leak, a press leak, which forced us to make a public declaration of of a strategic review, pushed us to move faster than than perhaps we would have have somewhat like to, pushed us to to do some of this in the the kind of the public spotlight and that wasn't ideal for for for for that for that process.

I guess I think that probably gives you a sense of, why it perhaps took a little longer than than you all would have hoped to to to conclude, but, I think it was important that we we we kind of remained steady and and and slow in in in that process. Like I said, it was that's the the way it was designed pre-leak.

I think it was the right time to to test the market. We were we're growing quickly.

We had the Adrelish proof-of-concept acquisition. I think that it was a good time to do that.

During the the process, we we spoke to and engaged with more than 30 companies in the US and Europe, both strategic media companies, private equity, pretty much anyone you can think of, we will we we did engage with, and and many others that that that you probably can't think of. We really did test the market.

This was broad, and and and and and I think well well kind of carried out. The result of that of that piece of work was three non-binding proposals that that kind of came in in the the first towards the the end of the first quarter of of this year.

I think all the way along, the the valuation part here was the most challenging challenging element, right? We were already trading across that time, across that strategic review time, on a 20 to 25x EBITDA multiple.

It was the the valuation piece that was most challenging in those three non-binding proposals. As a result, I think that they while they were at a premium to to that share price, the they were just not taking into account, and were not justifying the the strong growth that we're seeing in the first half and that that you've seen today and that we've talked about today.

We we've moved on from those. We remain independent and management can now focus on the M&A growth plan, which we laid out to you back in, I think, Q3 or Q4 of of of last year.

Being able to refocus, I think, on on on that and build significant value through that that M&A growth plan and through the organic operational growth of of this business, is is is very exciting for us. I think let's let's go through that again, let's let's talk about it again, because it is where Brad and and my focus is.

We've set out, I think, some very clear targets with our with our growth plan. We we believe we can build this business to to being more than $200 million of revenue and $40 million plus of EBITDA by by 2030.

That growth plan involves obviously the organic growth combined with accelerated growth through M&A. The Adrelish acquisition that we made in July of last year is a great proof of of concept for that.

In terms of of what that did for us, you can kind of see in, helped us achieve, you can see some of that in the metrics that that we've laid out here. We've gone from 35 million without Adrelish to 45.7 million in this H1, with 1.8 million of adjusted EBITDA to 3.2 million.

That organic growth plus acquisition is really pushing this thi- this business forward. We believe, I think, that the industry is is primed for consolidation, more than 75% of industry advertising revenue is controlled by a large group of independent publishers, independent studios, independent networks.

Our platform is primed to supercharge those, we pick them up, we put them on top of our platform, allow them to do what they do best, which is to create content, curate content, provide them with a monetization engine and a platform that can really drive them them them forward. That's exactly what we did with Adrelish, where we had a very smooth integration.

Within 2 months, they were fully into into our platform. We saw an immediate revenue upside.

Within you know within a month of buying Adrelish, putting them into our monetization engine, we saw a 40%-plus uptick in the revenue coming through that Adrelish slate of podcasts. Extremely effective platform for supercharging revenue of those networks and and publishers that we're able to to bring onto it.

As Brad mentioned earlier, with the Adrelish acquisition, very strong synergies as well. Immediately post-acquisition, our headcount went up to 53.

Now, following the full integration and the restructuring of of of of that business, that that headcount comes down to 44, just two more than pre-transaction. As he said and as he showed off, the majority of our opex is connected to headcount.

Being able to to realize though- those synergies is is is an important part of this this M&A growth strategy. We will focus on building and I think, those numbers that we talked about, the the 200 million of revenue and 40 million of EBITDA, I think you can see here on the chart at the bottom right that they are very achievable based on what we've delivered in in in the last year.

The annual growth needed to to get to those get to those numbers is very comparable to and and, I guess, in some ways very conservative versus what we have achieved in in in the last year. We believe four to five acquisitions over the the coming four or five years will take us to to to to those numbers.

Just like the Adrelish acquisition, those those targets will need to be immediately accretive to to Audioboom, and they'll be focused around key areas: market expansion, moving into new territories that we don't currently operate in; adding market share, as we did with Adrelish, that's the most straightforward way to do this. With Adrelish, we we immediately added market share in the UK and moved our position up to the number two podcast network in in the UK through that acquisition; we'll be focused on adding production capabilities and and IP ownership of content through through M&A; and adding platform capabilities as well.

Where we can see that opportunities to improve our platform, to improve the monetization engine that we have, through those those technology capabilities, those those will be targets as as as well. I think there's a a very kind of you know clear pathway to to to those numbers.

There's a very clear rationale behind this. As Brad said, we are very close to confirming a $10 million revolving credit facility that we can use to support this this growth.

That $10 million, combined with the ever-increasing cash position of of the business, means that we can we can target acquisitions larger than the the the Adrelish acquisition. We'll continue to be disciplined, like I said, everything needs to be accretive, and that will be a a core kind of element of of anything that that that we we do make a move on.

We now have that that cash support through that RCF at $10 million and our increasing cash position to to do that. That's where our focus is.

That's where we believe this platform that we have built, the next phase of of growth is is very connected to to this accelerated growth strategy. We're excited to to focus on the delivery of that over the next 4 to 5 years.

Then finally from us, and we'll kind of leave you with this one as as we head towards that that 40-minute mark, is is what the outlook is for the the rest of this year and and beyond. Brad mentioned it earlier, but short term, we expect to deliver you a record year for Audioboom and and very focused on on achieving and going beyond those market expectations for for revenue and EBITDA.

Key to that is the second half of the year revenue performance. As Brad already said, 45 historically, 45% of our revenue happens in H1 and 55% of our revenue happens in in H2.

It's pretty simple math this year because our H1 revenue was 45.7 million, you can all do the math on on on what that looks like for H2 and where that could could get us to. I'll I'll let you do that.

Sorry for sounding really American then, it sometimes slips out, but, yeah, you can you can work that out for yourselves. It looks like we have a a solid second half of of the year ahead of us given the historical weighting of that revenue.

The reasons for that, are sports seasons, a lot of our advertising revenue is connected to the NFL season in the US, the Premier League season in the UK, and of course this year, it is the US midterms, and political season in the US always drives pricing and and demand in in the advertising space. We expect to to to to see an uptick in in pricing and demand as we get into the second half of the year because of those midterms.

I think it worth noting that we are a really well-positioned to make the most of that political ad spend because of the size of our politics network that that we've built out at Audioboom. We make more than 500 million monthly ad impressions available in in the politics and and news verticals.

We work with some of the biggest political podcasts and independent podcasts and and networks out there. At the start of this year, we signed a a deal with Crooked Media.

They are the leading politics network, independent politics network in podcasting in the US. We also work with The Bulwark, another very, very large political podcast.

We work with Associated Press as a as a news outlet and a host of other independent politics podcasts. We probably have the the largest political and news vertical in in podcasting in the world and we're very well-positioned to really make the most of of of that political ad spend in the second half of the year.

Like I said, we really do expect to deliver against those 2026 guidance numbers that that are out there. Medium term, and it was a question, I think, from Aaron that came in earlier about the platform deals that we announced with with Spotify and Apple earlier in the year and when we would see upside from from those.

Just to kind of step back on those, this is a you know a medium-term growth area for us, and it's connected to the the continuing growth of of video podcasting. In Q1 of this year, we announced new partnerships with Spotify and Apple to integrate with their technology to enable video distribution through their platforms and to add in commercial partnership as as as well, allowing us to sell and distribute advertising, video advertising through those platforms as well.

Where we are with those is very much in a technological tech- technology integration phase. Following the the signing of those partnerships, we're integrating with those platforms.

Our our tech and platform team here are working with those platforms to to integrate the tech. We expect that work to be finished and live close to I think the the fourth quarter of this year, and then we will start to see revenue uplift realistically from early 2027 and onwards in a meaningful way, once the technology piece is is done and in place.

We then have to deliver and and build the same video sales engine and video monetization engine that that we currently have in in in audio. A lot of opportunity there, I think, as as video continues to be a big piece of of of podcasting.

AI, too. We have a we integrated with a platform called Sounder just around a year ago and we're starting to see more commercial opportunity coming through with with Sounder and adaptive ads and another AI focus advertising platform that that we integrated with in in 2025.

Those are, medium medium-term opportunities for us that the work the technical work is either being done on the AI side or being done on the the video side, and and the the kind of commercial uplift from those will really kick in, I think, in in 2027 onwards. Then long term, we just walked through it, the M&A growth strategy building towards those 2030 targets.

It's exciting, I think. I think it shows where this business and where this platform can go, and we're we're we're very happy to be refocused on delivering those as an independent company once again.

The outlook is great for Audioboom, in the short and medium and and and long term. I hope you agree that we're in a, we've done a great job over the the last year of delivering growth.

We've built a platform that's ready to grow even faster, and and we are ready, as I said, to to deliver against that. Thank you for for joining us today.

Thank you for your patience on a on a strategic review process that I know you you felt was longer than it should have been, but hopefully some of the context I've given you today helps you understand what why that was so and why that was necessary. I think the key part being that, while while that happened, there was no distraction in in in in this business.

We still deliver growth and we've delivered some great numbers that we were able to announce today. Hope to speak to you all again soon.

Thank you for joining today, and, Charlie, I'll hand back to you.