ZEAL Network SE

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to today's earnings call of the ZN Network SE following the publication of the full year results of 2023. I'm delighted to welcome the CEO, Dr. Helmut Becker, as well as CFO, Sebastian Bielski, who will speak in a moment and guide us through the presentation and the results. After the presentation, we will move on to a Q&A session in which you will be allowed to place your questions directly via audio line to the management. So having said this, I turn over to you, Mr. Bielski.

Good morning to everybody and welcome to the earnings call for the annual results of 2023 for Zeal Network. I hope you can all see the presentation, but if not, you can also access it through the investor relations section on our homepage. The agenda for today's call is as follows. Helmut will give a short summary. We'll give a business and financial update. We will give you guidance for the financial results for this year. We'll talk a little bit about the squeeze out of Loader24, which we have also announced this morning. And then Helmut will wrap everything up with some key takeaways for you. So over to you, Helmut.

Thank you, Sebastian. Good morning, everybody, and welcome. So in summary of 2023, we have achieved our goals. Revenue and EBITDA are in the upper half of guidance. Billings have grown 11% despite a below average jackpot scenario. Our customer metrics are healthy. We've increased our number of monthly active users and their spend. We launched games and it is off to a good start. Overall, we've increased our online lottery market share. We've made effective and increasingly efficient investments in marketing. And we are investing into our brand and therefore also into our future. And to our shareholders, we've paid out a very attractive special dividend. I will now hand back to Sebastian.