8/24/2021

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Operator

Greetings and welcome to the iMedia Brands second quarter 2021 earnings call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. If anyone should require operator assistance during the conference, please press star zero on your telephone keypad. Please note this conference is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to your host, Mr. Monty Wagman, Chief Financial Officer for iMedia Brands. Please go ahead, sir.

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Monty Wagman

Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining. This is Monty Wagman, iMedia Brands Chief Financial Officer. We issued our Q2 earnings release earlier this morning. If you do not have a copy, you may access it through the news section of our IR website at imediabrands.com. This release is also an exhibit to the Form 8K filed this morning. I would also like to remind everyone this call will be available for replay through September 7, 2021, starting today at 1130 a.m. Eastern Time. A webcast replay will also be available via the link provided in today's press release, as well as on the IR section of our website. Some of the statements made during this call are considered forward-looking and are subject to significant risks and uncertainties. These statements reflect our expectations about future operating and financial performance and speak only as of today's date. We undertake no obligation to update or revise these forward-looking statements. We believe the expectations reflected in our forward-looking statements are reasonable, but give no assurance such expectations or any of the forward-looking statements will prove to be correct. For additional information, please refer to the safe harbor statement in today's earnings release in our SEC filings. Finally, we will make references to non-GAAP measures on this call, such as adjusted EBITDA. Please refer to our earnings release for further information about these measures, including reconciliations to the most comparable GAAP measures. Now I would like to turn the call over to the CEO of iMedia Brands, Tim Peterman. Tim? Thank you, Monty, and good morning, everyone.

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Monty Wagman

Thank you for joining. Q2 was another strong quarter for us. We navigated through a logistics challenge related to COVID-19. We ignited three catalysts to accelerate shareholder growth, one in each of our three business strategies, TV networks, consumer brands, and digital services. We grew our customer file again. In fact, July was the 10th month in a row We improved our gross margin to 42.3%, a 510 basis point improvement over the same prior year period. We significantly strengthened our balance sheet, and despite the logistics bumps and bruises we endured in Q2 that challenged our revenue, we exceeded our profitability expectations that we communicated to investors during our Q1 earnings call. Strategically, our individual successes within our TV networks, consumer brands, and digital services are collectively accelerating our company's timeline to becoming the leading single source partner to consumer brands and advertisers seeking to entertain and transact with customers using interactive video. Now, let's walk through these Q2 highlights in a bit more detail. Q2 net sales were 113.4 million, a decrease of 9% compared to the same prior year period, and about 5 million lower than we'd expected for the quarter. As many retailers are enduring, for the first time we experienced material shipping delays for several of our most productive products. From our fashion favorites like Kate & Mallory and Indigo Thread, to health favorites like our air purifiers and laser paint massagers, to our seasonal home favorites like Quantum Vacuums and Colston Air Fryers. Inventory receipts were consistently delayed. Fortunately, our entrepreneurial culture pivoted quickly, reprogramming our calendar with on-hand inventory that was often higher margin but lower productivity. Thus, the results you see for the quarter are gross margin dollar and rate growth despite reduction in net sales. For example, several of our 34 new product launches during the quarter received more airtime than originally estimated, like Dr. Sevenor Skin Care, which is based on Dr. Sevenor's 40 years of experience performing plastic surgery and is a proprietary collection of quick and easy beauty treatments for women and men to use in the comfort of their own home. Jewels by Jorge Perez, which is a collection that showcases Jorge's artistic talent for creating colorful and unique designs infused with his vibrant Cuban heritage. And last but certainly not least, our very own Christopher and Banks, which debuted in Q2. These shows focus on putting her first, providing our customers with style, value, and service that help her look fabulous and feel amazing for every day and for life's special moments. The good news is, although we expect continued congestion at the domestic ports on a smaller scale going forward, we have already adjusted our programming calendars accordingly. Also good news are year-to-date KPIs are strong. Year-to-date net sales were $226.6 million, which was a 3% growth compared to the same prior year period and the strongest year-over-year net sales growth in the company's first two fiscal quarters in seven years. And Year-to-date adjusted EBITDA was $16.4 million, a $7.3 million increase or 80% improvement over the same prior year period, and the highest Q2 year-to-date adjusted EBITDA in the company's history. Now let's talk about our Q2 strategic catalysts. First, our acquisition of Cinecorp's portal and advertising business segment, which is the catalyst for our digital services strategy and is truly the foundation of iMedia's overall digital strategy. which is best explained in my mind with a simple formula. Cinecor's video advertising platform plus iMedia's first-party purchasing data from ShopHQ plus Float Left's best-in-class OTT app equals a truly differentiated video advertising platform. A good example of a competitor to our strategy would be Walmart's advertising platform, Walmart Connect, that utilizes its first-party purchasing data to help it better serve its advertisers seeking to reach better targeted audiences. We have renamed our advertising business iMedia Digital Services, or IMDS. And I'm proud to announce it is already a leading video advertising platform that monetizes over 200 million monthly users for its online publishers by utilizing its proprietary technologies and its interactive video services to drive engagement, traffic, and conversion. We expect IMDS will generate at least $45 million in profitable revenues over these next 12 months. Very soon, our plan is that IMDS will also offer our advertisers tailored first-party customer shopping data from retail, catalog, and e-commerce that will enable us to efficiently deliver publishers' targeted demographics and conversion at real scale. Today, major advertisers use IMDS's comprehensive suite of video, header-bidding display technology, and search in mobile and desktop to eliminate costs, maximize yield, and create exposure to new demand sources. Our advertising products names are S2S Bidder, Reflex, and Search. We also offer our advertisers and publishers an optional best-in-class value-added engagement platform. which is a managed online and OTT digital start page that enables our advertisers and publishers to provide their end users a compelling video-centric website slash portal slash app, depending on the platform, for original content, news and entertainment, email, identity management, identity protection, and TV everywhere. IMDS creates and hosts these fully managed interactive video experiences online. across all technology platforms, specializing in desktop, mobile, OTT, and CTV apps. Our next catalyst, Christopher & Banks, or CBK, is the central driver in our consumer brand strategy and is the first real example of how iMedia is being positioned in the marketplace already as being the best single-source partner to drive growth using interactive video. In this case, Hillco is our partner, and I'd like to give more context on this opportunity that Hillco and iMedia are so excited about capturing. CBK was a publicly held specialty retailer featuring exclusively designed, privately branded apparel targeting plus-size women who were 55-plus years old. CBK operated 450 retail stores in 44 states, as well as its websites. However, CBK filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on January 14, 2021, and its primary lender, Hillco, purchased it. To really size the opportunity, let's look at its history. For 2019, CBK posted about $350 million in revenue, of which about $80 million was e-commerce sales. For 2020, CBK posted about $200 million in revenue, and about $100 million of that was e-commerce sales. So that was the opportunity that Hillco was thinking about. Hillcote carefully evaluated its best path from doing it itself to partnering with other folks, and it concluded that iMedia, with its national television promotional platforms, expertise in fashion merchandising, proprietary e-commerce capabilities including web and mobile, customer service, 3PL capabilities, and financing products, was the best choice for them for a single source partner to relaunch its CBK brand. iMedia's growth strategy for CBK centers on its ability to create live CBK-branded television experiences on Shop HQ to engage CBK customers who may miss the live demonstration that they used to enjoy within the bricks-and-mortar experience. Our short-term goal is clear, and that is to recapture quickly the $100 million in digital sales from prior year, and I am pleased to report that our progress to date has been meaningful. Our second catalyst, RNN's new 20 million HD homes that launched on June 28th, is a central driver in our TV network strategy. As you may recall, these were 20-plus million high-definition homes across New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Dallas, Washington, D.C., Houston, and Boston, which will help us level the playing field against our competition in these markets that matter most. To date, our revenue lift in these markets is consistent with our already communicated expectations, and we are very pleased. Now back to walking through our Q2 KPIs. Our operating expenses in Q2 were $50 million, an increase of 15% or $6.5 million, driven primarily by new merchandising and marketing-related costs, an additional transaction and integration costs for CBK, and an increase in amortization related to our broadcast distribution rights. Regarding our balance sheet, Total unrestricted cash was $20.9 million compared to $15.5 million at prior year, year end. On June 14th, we closed on a common stock equity raise, generating proceeds of $40.3 million net of discounts, commissions, and other offering costs. Then, on July 30th, we closed on an expanded $108.5 million debt refinancing facility to replace our previous facility with PNC. Regarding capital expenditures, during the quarter, we spent approximately 3.1 million on capital projects, primarily reflecting investments and upgrades to our websites, infrastructure, and facilities. Regarding our outlook, for Q3, we anticipate reporting at least 9 million of adjusted EBITDA and approximately 127 million in net sales, which is roughly a 17% growth in net sales compared to the same prior year period. For the full year 2021, We anticipate reporting full year adjusted EBITDA between 37 and 40 million, which is an increase from our previous guidance of between 35 and 37 million. In addition, we anticipate reporting full year net sales of at least 502 million, which is an approximate 11% full year net sales growth compared to 2020. As a reminder, from a tax perspective, the company has approximately $397 million in federal NOLs that are available to us to offset future taxable income. In closing, I would like to say that these are important times here at iMedia as we accelerate our growth in building shareholder value. Thank you for your time this morning. I will turn the call back over to the operator for Q&A. Operator?

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Operator

Thank you. At this time, we'll be conducting a question and answer session. If you'd like to ask a question, please press star 1 on your telephone keypad. A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press star 2 if you'd like to remove your question from the queue. For participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up your handset before pressing the star keys. Our first question comes from the line of Tom Forte with DA Davidson. Please proceed with your question.

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Tom Forte

Great, Tim, Monty. Can I have one short-term question and one long-term question? I'll start with the short-term one. Tim, you and I have been following the industry for a long time. How can we put in historical context the supply chain challenges? Is it the toughest to spend in the last 24 months ever? How do you think about it? And what gives you confidence you can navigate the challenges over the next 12 months? And then after that, I have a longer-term question.

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Monty Wagman

Thanks, Tom. It's a great question, right? If I had a crystal ball, I could say that for sure the it's probably the most challenging I've seen ever, right? Because it is just the wave is just cresting now, right? So it's been building, you know, people talked about the logistics challenges and so did we last year as the pandemic slowed virtually all areas. But that was just a little ripple as the wave was headed to shore. And it was really focused or contained within the consumer electronics and some of the more ordinary products that you would think would be affected by these types of logistics issues. However, now as we move into Q1 and Q2, it's a combination of container shortages for these direct imports as well as big backups at the ports, the local ports, whether that's east or west coast. Now, the container shortages have lightened up a bit, and the ports are getting a little bit better on the congestion, but it's still there. Now, so I would say that if you ask my view today, and then I'll give you that view every quarter, I would say that I think Q2 was the crest. and then we're going to start to see this dissipate in Q3 and Q4. And so there will be some challenges, but it won't be as acute, at least as broadly speaking, from a product category. You know, we looked at it was in fashion, it was in beauty, it was virtually in every category. So that's what I think will dissipate and move behind us. It's here for at least a year, in my view. It took a year to build. It'll take a year to get back to normal. And so from an organizational perspective, from a programming perspective, we've implemented several different countermeasures from making sure that the product was in-house at least three weeks prior. in-doc before, and even getting to port, which used to be a point of reference for product being available to calendar, is no longer reliable because of the congestion. So just different programming policies that we put in place has helped alleviate the short-term pressure, and that's how we're planning Q3 and Q4.

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Tom Forte

All right. Thank you for that. All right. So then the longer-term question, and I'll get back in the queue for maybe a couple more follow-ups. is that you did a wonderful job explaining your advertising efforts. How should we think about how that could potentially positively impact your long-term gross margin and then therefore your long-term EBITDA margin?

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Monty Wagman

Great question. Again, I think there's two catalysts to our gross margin. As you know, we worked hard throughout 2020 to improve our gross margins by 500 basis points. And as I talked about, getting to the 37%, 38% was where we could scale revenue. And that's for TV retailing, and we've demonstrated that. But as you point out, certainly in the consumer brands with CBK and certainly with our new video advertising platform, our acquisition of Cinecor's portal and advertising business, those margins are higher. So as those businesses scale, you will see our gross margin move. And you've seen some evidence of it in Q1 and Q2, but I think it's going to move into more of the, from a modeling perspective, if you want to think about our enterprise margin, it would be in the Yes, 39 to 40% by next year is our view. Excellent.

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Tom Forte

I'm going to get back in my queue for a couple more follow-ups. Thanks. Thanks, Tom.

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Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from Eric Wold with BYU Security. Please proceed with your question.

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Eric Wold

Thanks. Good morning. A couple questions. One, first off, kind of following on the last questions around the port issues, it sounds like obviously you're making some programming changes, making sure the inventory is in hand, et cetera. But with gross margins in the shop issue segment well above target levels for now the second consecutive quarter, does it make sense at all to try to expedite air freight, do some things around that to get the desired products in hand to drive further customer growth, or is that just not an option at this point?

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Monty Wagman

Thanks for the question, Eric. That's the age-old question, right? If I could look back to 2020, I'd say that I could have taken less margin and perfectly brought those in. It's a constant question we wrestle with. Particularly for jewelry, we can do that, and we do do that. For some of the bigger items like fashion, they were stuck in containers and they were stuck in route where we didn't really have that option. So where it wasn't caught up in route, we took advantage of it. And then the other side of that is that When we put the existing products we had on hand, as we talked about, or as I talked about in my prepared remarks, some of it was already higher margin, and we knew it would be less productive. And so that balance is something that we're used to doing, you know, as we did all last year. So when we looked at the overall impact, it was a balance of what do we know we have in-house, what do we know that will resonate with the customers, have a strong margin, what can we air in from a category perspective in the quarter, and then, again, What do we have to then brace for impact on in terms of what we won't get in fashion, what we won't get in home, what we won't get in, you know, even in some cases, watches. So it was a blended rate that at the end of the day, you know, allowed us to make sure from a – EPS and the net income and margin perspective, we delivered on what we promised. And we feel good about it. I mean, we feel it wasn't like it happened all at once. It was like one of those things that kept, really? This happened again? Really? On that? And so as we moved through it, we reacted pretty quickly.

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Eric Wold

Got it. And the second question, you mentioned obviously Christopher Banks going along well. Maybe give us some kind of details around kind of what you've done so far you know how have you exploited or targeted their customer list that came along that kind of what's next on the calendar and you know what would you be disappointed at you know if that didn't generate x amount of revenue this year and and how much could that grow next year

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Monty Wagman

Great question, Eric. So when we think about CBK, the first and foremost is the customers. We called over 1.5 million 12-month customers when we began the journey, and what we've been doing to re-engage those customers, and it's a multi-pronged effort. First and foremost, we're reaching out from an email perspective and re-engaging them to bring them back with new products, because, you know, as you might recall, in the last six months of last year, they weren't really introducing new products. So making sure that we have the new products to engage them when they come is first and foremost. And, you know, the first step in the spring was making sure we kept all the vendors, that some of them were in the bankruptcy and engaged with them and they were They, together with our team, created an amazing fall season and brought in some goods for the spring to help us with this re-engagement process we're talking about. So first and foremost, there was an email. We've also, as you think about a retailer, have many of our customers that don't have email addresses, and so we old-fashioned re-engaged them with postcards, and that has been tremendously successful. So we bring them, you know, we mail them a postcard, we say that we miss them, And we do it by strata within the customer file, and we do it monthly. And those have been very productive. And then on the television side, so you think about email, you think about the postcards, and then you think about our television. Our television began, you know, the monthly rotation is what we're doing for this brand. So in fashion, you can have static programming that happens every week. But then when you have a distinct brand, like One World, for example, or Christopher Banks, we rotate them in monthly. And when a brand starts, it starts to call it three to four hours. And the first rotation for CBK was in April, and it was, you know – Good. There were some learnings. Sizing was different. There were all these different things that we wanted to try to make sure we were doing right by the customer, and some of the art of TV retailing we didn't pay enough attention to. So in May and June, the on-air presentation was much improved. The new products that we brought were much improved, and it's really taken off on the television side and something that we're very excited about in the fall to rebuild that customer file. So you have those three pieces, and then we have stood up the, you know, two of the bigger, more productive retail stores because we do believe in omni-channel. It's just we don't believe in retail, brick-and-mortar retail driving the bus. We believe television and digital drives the bus, but it's a complement on the physical retail side. And so in Branson, Missouri, and here in Minnesota, both of those stores were up and engaged, and, you know, the customers are – on the social platform are very happy to have that store back. And so that's really the fourth side. And then as we think about engaging customers in digital, we've talked about salesflor.com, which is a way for us to virtually style out different customers as they think about what they want to buy from us. And that's something that is planned for the fall. So it's a multi-pronged approach to get back those $1.5 million into the 12-month file. And I would be disappointed if we didn't reach that $100 million next year, and I would be disappointed in digital sales. And I would be disappointed if If you think about it, we should have, in the first full year, reached half of that. So we started in March. You can do the math. It is a meaningful growth catalyst for us and something that we're already seeing, you know, great success with. That's perfect. Thank you. Yeah, thanks, Eric.

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Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from Mark Argento with Lake Street Capital Market. Please proceed with your question.

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Mark Argento

Hey, good morning, guys. Just a couple quick ones. Just wanted to look at Cinecore a little bit and better understand the integration process. And, you know, you walked through the whole media digital services, but maybe just talk about, you know, how close you're going to stitch the Cinecore assets together with some of the other digital assets that you currently have and kind of your level of thinking there.

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Monty Wagman

Thanks, Mark. Great question. Yeah, it is. When you think about the team and the culture that we acquired with this business, which I know well since I used to be there, called it five, six, no, more like eight, nine, ten years ago. But let me first just by saying the team that is our new business called iMedia Digital Services that is the construct of CineCourse portal and advertising business is very strong. So you have – I'll mention them by name. Ron, Matt, Bill, and Gabor is the leadership team there, and they've been there for quite some time. And so when you think about what they've done so far and what the ambition is, there's not really a stitching together – of this iMedia Digital Services with our other digital. I would say that this video asset platform that we have today is the foundation of our iMedia digital strategy. So they are driving forward with a platform that will utilize our really what we call our first party customer data. As you think about the ecosystem of digital advertising and the third party cookies going away and the tracking going away, the idea of this video asset platform having real first party data for them is a differentiation for them in the marketplace. And so we're going to take their skills and their culture of a gritty entrepreneurial development, and we're going to provide them with a couple of our assets And those assets being Float Left, which is our OTT app business that we bought back in 2019. If you think about some value-added services that IMDS provides today, they're an advertising platform, primarily in interactive video. But they provide their clients, particularly the MVPDs and the ISPs, what we call video engagement portals or websites in the online world. And that's really what Float Left does on the OTT side. So complementing the video asset platform today with our first-party customer data and the float-left OTT app is a way of better equipping them to grow faster in this marketplace. And so integration isn't really the right way to think about it. We're enabling them with a few key pieces of technology and technology data to make them grow faster as a standalone. So it's an exciting time, I think, that we're just getting started here, and you'll hear more about our efforts, you know, each and every quarter. It's foundational for us.

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Mark Argento

Great. Well, just in terms of the guidance, you know, the old guide, 490 on the top line, going to 502. So, and I think you said $45 million in revenues kind of next 12 months, and so you could just straight line it and take 40% of that this year, maybe 45%, whatever the math works out to be. And just, you know, it's probably another $16, $17 million in contribution this year, I'm guessing. And the Delta being, you know, the overall iMedia business, you expect to be down a little bit, just given the logistics relative to kind of where it was before. Is that... Kind of the put and take there or just peeling the onion a little bit on the guide?

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Monty Wagman

Yeah, absolutely, Mark. Great question. And it's like the duck on the pond as well, swimming under there. So think about it this way. We got into a full year 490 at the end of Q1, and then now we're got into a full year of 502. And as we talked about, we were short on the revenue side of guidance, call it $4 million. And so if you think about our increase of $12 million in the back half of the year, Q3 and Q4, primarily driven by IMDS, you can think about that as $16 being added because we're making up the gap in the logistics. We're starting to get all that product in now in Q3, so we do think that productivity from the receipts that were coming in from Q3 that didn't come in in Q2, coming in in Q3 will drive, obviously, productivity, and then the acquisition of the portal and ad team will drive revenue as well. So that combined $16 million is how you should think about what we're adding to the forecast for Q3 and Q4.

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Mark Argento

Great. That's helpful. Thanks, guys. Good luck.

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Operator

Thanks, Mark. Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Alex Furman with Craig Helen Capital Group. Please proceed with your question.

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Mark

Hey, thanks, guys. Tim, do you mind just building on what you were just talking about, your outlook for the third and the fourth quarter. Can you give us a sense of what's kind of baked into the forecast in terms of availability of inventory as you get closer to the holiday season? I mean, it sounds like from what you were just describing, you're not anticipating any sort of hiccups or anything in the third or the fourth quarter. Can you just give us a sense of how much visibility you have at this point into your ability to be well-stocked for the holidays?

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Monty Wagman

Sure. Hi, Eric. Great question. Again, I'll have to take out my – I'm sorry, Alex. I had to take out my crystal ball here. So what do we know and what do we think, right? We know what we can control and what do we think about the logistic situation. I'd call that the unknown or the headwind is really this logistics. And so we know we've taken care of it from a programming perspective and an inventory on hand perspective. We think that from that perspective, it's baked in as a not a material distraction from the revenue performance that you see in the guidance. So there is some hesitancy that we've baked into the guidance because of the congestion, but it's not meaningful. So we are with the view that the Q2 logistics was the crest, and it would be moving down along with our remediations that we've done internally. We're not going to face the kind of tumult on the revenue side that we did in Q2. So that's the first issue. Then when you think about the tailwinds as you move into Q3 and Q4, there's several, there's really three that are new that really weren't there last year. So the first obviously is the RNN HD carriage that we have in Q3 and Q4 that we recently launched, as that matures, that growth, that incremental growth will get higher. And so as we move into Q3 and Q4, that's a tailwind, and we've baked some of that in, obviously very conservatively, in our revenue numbers. The second catalyst is Christopher and Banks, obviously not here last fall, and even in the spring from a performance perspective, We didn't have new inventory. We didn't really have inventory per se. So we've developed a great fall season. We've also introduced accessories to the balance of the product, which will be, we think, even more engaging for the customers. So that's a tailwind moving into Q3 and Q4. And our new acquisition, which is the iMedia digital services there, that is a tailwind for sure. Obviously not here last fall. So When you think about, on balance, our guidance for the back half, we have baked in some optimism from the tailwind I've just described and some concern considering the logistics issue. So it's a balance. We feel good about it. As we've always talked about, my goal with all IR communication is to beat expectations. So we think about that, too, when we provide guidance.

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Mark

Great. That's really helpful. Thank you, Tim.

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Monty Wagman

Thank you, Alex.

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Operator

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, as a reminder, if you'd like to join the question queue, please press star 1 on your telephone keypad. Our next question is a follow-up from Tom Forte with DA Davidson. Please proceed with your question.

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Tom Forte

Great. Thanks, Tim. Thanks, Monty. So let's go short-term, long-term again. So on the short-term basis, Tim, historically the Olympics are often challenging for TV retail. How, if any, do you think it impacted you this year?

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Monty Wagman

Great question, Tom. I don't know if it really is going to be impactful to us. It certainly is a distraction. I think world events and things like that are bigger distractions. I think the NFL football kickoff is a bigger distraction where we have to deploy counter-programming. But our strategy is the same and probably the same in most cases is how good can you counter-program against those? So, for example, on the NFL Sunday kickoff, we have great Invicta NFL watches, a big deal for us, right? And you would think naturally, wait, let's put that on a Sunday NFL, right? And we put it on Monday because all our fans are going to be watching the football. And then on that Sunday we would have great beauty brands like Isomers or Consult. We'd have jewelry, any of the really female-dominated categories there. is where we would go. So with the Olympics, it isn't that cut and dry, right, because it's very mixed in terms of demographics and who watches it. But that's our strategy. That's how we would approach it. But looking at it historically, it hasn't, unless there's some acute event on the Olympics, it hasn't been as painful as some of the examples I just said.

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Tom Forte

Excellent. All right, so then last one, long-term. So with the adjustments you've made to your asset portfolio, do you think you have everything in place to execute your, you know, full vision? Or are there more, you know, potentially complementary or other assets you'd like to add?

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Monty Wagman

Great question. Again, Tom, as always. I like to think about it this way. We have three primary strategies. We have television networks or TV networks. We have consumer brands, and we have digital services. That has been our offensive plan since I came back in the middle of 19, and that is all we need to execute our strategy to become the leading single-source partner to advertisers and consumer brands who are seeking to use interactive video to drive growth. And that's really what I want to make sure – I'm clear on the river that runs through it is the interactive video. So as you think about examples of single source providers out there today, similar to where we're moving, you can think of a Shopify, you can think of a Squarespace, and they're an e-com based platform. self-serve, single-source provider to consumers. You know, we are still B2B in providing advertisers and consumer brands, and again, the differentiating quality here with us is that interactive video, something that we really think we do well, and that, as a central driver, supported by a thriving TV network, a thriving consumer brand, and a thriving digital services just accelerates our path. But you won't see anything outside of those three strategies from us going forward. We have our offense on the field, and that's what we're executing against.

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Tom Forte

Wonderful. Thank you, Tim. Thank you, Monique.

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Monty Wagman

Thanks, Tom.

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Operator

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes our question and answer session. I'll turn the floor back to Mr. Peterman for any final comments.

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Monty Wagman

Thank you. And just again, thank everybody for their time and their trust. We appreciate it. As I like to end, these are exciting times at iMedia, and we look forward to talking again soon.

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Operator

Thank you. This concludes today's conference. You may disconnect your lines at this time. Thank you for your attention.

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