11/3/2025

speaker
Colby
Conference Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. My name is Colby and I'll be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome you to the EverQuote Q3 2025 earnings call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. And after the speaker's remarks, there will be a question and answer session. If you'd like to ask a question at that time, please press star then the number one on your telephone keypad. If you'd like to withdraw your question at any time, please press star one again. I'll now turn the call over to Brinley Johnson.

speaker
Brindley Johnson
Head of Investor Relations

Thank you. Good afternoon, and welcome to EverQuote's third quarter 2025 earnings call. We'll be discussing the results announced in our press release issued today after the market closed. With me on the call this afternoon are Jamie Mendel, EverQuote's chief executive officer, and Joseph Sanborn, EverQuote's chief financial officer. During the call, we will make statements related to our business that may be considered forward-looking statements under federal securities laws including statements concerning our financial guidance for the fourth quarter of 2025. Forward-looking statements may be identified with words and phrases such as expect, believe, intend, anticipate, plan, may, upcoming, and similar words and phrases. These statements reflect our views only as of today and should not be considered our views as of any subsequent date. We specifically disclaim any obligation to update or revise these forward-looking statements except as required by law. Forelooking statements are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results to differ materially from our expectations. For discussion of those risks and uncertainties, please refer to our SEC filings, including our annual report on Form 10-K and our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission and available on the Investor Relations section of our website. Finally, during the course of today's call, we will refer to certain non-GAAP financial measures which we believe are helpful to investors. A reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP measures was included in the press release we issued after the close of Market Today, which is available on the Investor Relations section of our website. And with that, I'll turn it over to Jamie.

speaker
Jamie Mendel
Chief Executive Officer

Thank you, Brindley, and thank you all for joining us today. We achieved record top and bottom line performance in Q3. Our team continues to help carriers and agents drive profitable policy growth amidst a healthy underwriting environment. We're making steady progress toward our vision of becoming the number one growth partner to PNC insurance providers by delivering, one, better performing referrals, two, bigger traffic scale, and three, a broader suite of products and services. As we innovate new products, release features, and further embed AI into our marketplace, we are fast evolving from a lead gen vendor to a growth solutions partner for our customers. We continue to partner more closely with carriers and differentiate our marketplace through Smart Campaigns, our AI bidding product. In Q3, we launched Smart Campaigns 3.0, which leverages our latest model to deliver better performance than our 2.0 version. For example, a customer who recently migrated from 2.0 to 3.0 saw a 7% improvement in ad spend efficiency, an early indication that the new model is materially improved. When customers adopt smart campaigns and experience these types of performance improvements, they often shift more budget to EverQuote. As we secure more budget, we also gain more data and as a consequence of our AI driven systems can further improve campaign performance. As evidence of this flywheel working, in Q3, we were notified by a major national carrier that we have become their number one customer acquisition partner in our channel for the first time. Turning to our local agent customers, we continue making progress in our evolution from a lead vendor to a one-stop growth partner as we roll out and gain adoption of additional products and services to help agents grow. As of October, over 35% of our local agent customers are using more than one of EverQuote's four agent products, which demonstrates broadening adoption, but also ample room for continued growth through product expansion within our existing customer base. Our consumer acquisition teams continued executing well in Q3, despite elevated competitive pressure in the insurance advertising landscape. In Q4, we have begun to ramp investments and scaling new traffic channels and programs to support future growth. Since our IPO in 2018, EverQuote has committed to growing 20% and expanding adjusted EBITDA margin by 100 to 150 basis points per year on average. Over the six year period through 2024, We delivered as promised with a 21% revenue pager and an average of over 200 basis points of margin improvement per year. As we approach the end of the year, we have confidence that we will deliver once again in 2025. And now we have set our sights on reaching a billion dollars of annual revenue in the next two to three years while transforming into a multi-product, AI-powered, profitable growth solutions provider for carriers and agents. Consistent with our track record of saying what we will do and doing what we say, We look forward to updating you on our progress as we drive full steam ahead into 2026. I'll now turn the call over to Joseph to discuss our financial results.

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