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Wix.com Ltd.
8/7/2024
Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the WIC's second quarter 2024 earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you will need to press star 1-1 on your telephone. You will then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press star 1-1 again. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Emily Liu of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.
Thanks, Amy, and good morning, everyone. Welcome to WIX's second quarter 2024 earnings call. Joining me today to discuss our results are Abhishek Abrahami, CEO and co-founder, Nir Zohar, our president and COO, and Lior Shemesh, our CFO. During this call, we may make forward-looking statements, and these statements are based on current expectations and assumptions. Please consider the risk factors included in our press release and most recent Form 20F that could cause our actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements. We do not undertake any obligation to update these forward-looking statements. In addition, we will comment on non-GAAP financial results and key operating metrics. You can find all reconciliations between our GAAP and non-GAAP results in the earnings materials and in our interactive analyst center on the investor relations section of our website, investors.wick.com. With that, I'll turn the call over to Abhishek.
Emily, and good morning, everyone. I'm very pleased to share that we finished the first half of 2024 with excellent Q2 results. And by successfully executing our strategy and delivering innovative solutions to our users, we were able to drive impressive year-over-year bookings, growth of 15%. This is a significant acceleration from the 10% bookings growth we saw in Q1 and underscores our leading position as the go-to platform for any user or business to create, grow, and succeed online. We also generated 12% revenue growth, which again exceeded the top end of our guidance The strong top line results reflect the encouraging reception and performance of our key product initiatives that are continuing to propel our momentum. I'll share some updates on Wix Studio and our AI strategy before letting Nir dive into the incredible progress we've made in expanding our commerce platform. First, we continue to see outstanding results from Studio as we steadily add new features and enhancements. This quarter, we rolled out new dynamic no-code design expressions, business enablement capabilities and tools to help partners work better with their clients and grow their business. Most notably, we announced a highly anticipated Figma plugin, a top partner request. Partners can now leverage Studio's no-code animations, built-in business and AI solutions, CMS and workflow management tools to transform their Figma designs into powerful and dynamic websites seamlessly. Feedback has been very positive following this launch. The number of Studio accounts and rate of new partners joining the Wix platform through Studio continue to outperform expectations. We also saw an acceleration in the pace of Studio subscription purchases. This, along with strong retention of existing subscriptions and the ramping of partners purchasing their second, third, and fourth Studio packages drove quarter over quarter Studio bookings growth of 20%. Our platform is increasingly resonating with the professional community as we continue to deliver best-in-class innovations and grow our partner ecosystem. Second, we continue to build up our suite of AI capabilities as a result of the numerous AI initiatives and work streams across weeks. Last quarter, we introduced our plan to embed AI assistance across our platform and products. I'm excited to share that we have released 17 AI business assistants so far to date. These assistants span a wide range of use cases to support users with minimal hands-on support, thus streamlining their experience. These conversational AI assistants act as a right-hand aid for users to guide them through the entire lifecycle of ideating, creating, and managing their online presence. Our offering includes an analytics assistant that can help Wix users find the data they need without having to search through dozens of reports. and an assistant that helps users create events through a conversational chat. We have already received positive feedback on this first set of AI assistants, with dozens more set to launch later this year. Additionally, on the AI front, we launched AI creation capabilities for our mobile app builder in June. This new solution enables users to create and edit iOS or Android apps through an AI chat experience. Once AI understands the user's goals, intent, and desired aesthetic, Our technology generates a branded app that can be customized and managed from the app editor. We also recently released a suite of new AI features designed to help users identify relevant topics for blogs, as well as generate outlines, content, and images for their target audience. With this new experience, users can swiftly turn ideas into near-ready articles, significantly reducing the time and effort required to create engaging content, and ultimately changing the blog creation experience. Both self-creators and partners continue to show excellent engagement with our AI tools. As we expand the breadth of our AI technology, we expect it to continue to be a competitive advantage for us, as well as a significant driver of growth going forward. We have built up a lot of momentum in the first half of 2024 with many exciting and impactful innovations powering meaningful growth acceleration. We expect to continue this momentum into the back half of the year with many exciting things still to come. Thank you to the entire Wix team for your hard work to make Wix the web creation platform of choice. And thank you to our users for trusting us to help you achieve your goals. With that, I'll turn it over to Mir.
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