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Yelp Inc.
8/8/2024
Welcome to the Q2 2024 Yelp Inc earnings conference call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speaker's remarks, there will be a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question during this time, please press star one on your telephone keypad. I would now like to turn the conference over to Kate Krieger, Director Investor Relations. You may begin.
Good afternoon, everyone. And thanks for joining us on Yelp's second quarter, Q2 2024 earnings conference call. Joining me today are Yelp's Chief Executive Officer, Jeremy Staubelman, Chief Financial Officer, David Schwarzbach, and Chief Operating Officer, Jed Nachman. We published a shareholder letter on our Investor Relations website and with the SEC, and hope everyone had a chance to read it. We'll provide some brief opening comments and then turn to your questions. Now I'll read our Safe Harbor Statement. We'll make certain statements today that are forward-looking and involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. Please note that these forward-looking statements reflect our opinions only as of the date of this call and we undertake no obligation to revise or publicly release the results of any revision to these forward-looking statements in light of new information or future events. In addition, we are subject to a number of risks that may significantly impact our business and financial results. Please refer to our SEC filings as well as our shareholder letter for a more detailed description of the risk factors that may affect our results. During our call today, we may discuss adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA margin, and free cash flow, which are non-GAAP financial measures. These measures should not be considered in isolation from or as a substitute for financial information prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. In our shareholder letter released this afternoon and our filings with the SEC, each of which is posted on our Investor Relations website, you will find additional disclosures regarding these non-GAAP financial measures, as well as historical reconciliations of GAAP net income or loss to both adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA margin and a historical reconciliation of GAAP cash flows from operating activities to free cash flow. And with that, I will turn the call over to Jeremy.
Thanks, Kate, and welcome everyone. Yelp delivered record net revenue and strong profitability in the second quarter. Net revenue increased by 6% year over year to $357 million as we introduced more than 20 new features and updates in the quarter, reflecting our product led strategy. With a disciplined approach, we expanded net income margin by six percentage points and adjusted EBITDA margin by one percentage point from the prior year period. Businesses in our restaurant, retail, and other categories continue to face a challenging operating environment in the second quarter, resulting in a decline in revenue for our R&O of 3% year over year. At the same time, our services business, which remains the focus of our product led strategy in 2024, saw continued momentum. Services revenue increased by 11% year over year, making it the 13th consecutive order of double digit growth. We saw even stronger performance in the home services category, which increased by approximately 15% year over year. Request to quote project growth accelerated from approximately 20% year over year in the first quarter to approximately 35% year over year in the second quarter. This acceleration resulted from both organic improvements, as well as paid project acquisition. Regarding our paid project acquisition, we continue to see strong top of funnel metrics, including projects, ad clicks, and TPCs. As we scaled spend in the quarter, we also saw early indications of retention benefits among newer businesses with fewer reviews, which often experienced difficulty competing with established advertisers for leads. We plan to leverage this learning to become more precise in lead distribution, narrowing our focus towards the opportunities that we believe have the highest return. With just 20% of services revenue coming from multi-location businesses, we also see an opportunity to extend our success with SMBs in these categories to enterprise businesses. We have been adapting our services product offerings to better fit the needs of these larger advertisers. We recently launched request to quote for brands and introduced a new leads API. This enables multi-location businesses to compete for the millions of request to quote projects available on Yelp and seamlessly manage leads across multiple business pages. More broadly, our product and engineering teams continue to leverage AI to further optimize advertisers' budgets by displaying the most relevant ad content to consumers. In the second quarter, ad clicks increased by 9% year over year while average CPC decreased by 1% year over year. We also rolled out a number of user experience and backend improvements to our website and introduced a number of new features to make Yelp more useful for consumers with accessibility needs. In summary, we were pleased with the continued progress on our product roadmap in the second quarter, particularly in services while we delivered strong profitability. Overall, we remain confident in our strategy to drive profitable growth and shareholder value over the long term. With that, I'll turn it over to David.
Thanks, Jeremy. In the second quarter, net revenue increased by 6% to a record $357 million. $2 million above the high end of our outlook range. Driven by our disciplined approach, net income was $38 million or 54 cents per share on a diluted basis, representing an 11% margin. Adjusted EBITDA reached $91 million, representing a 26% margin, putting it $16 million above the high end of our outlook range. Continued strength in services categories drove this growth. Advertising revenue in services increased by 11% year over year to a record $223 million. As Jeremy mentioned, restaurants and retailers remain pressured in the quarter, resulting in a 3% year over year decline in our R&O revenue to $118 million. A decrease in our R&O locations offset growth in services locations in the second quarter. This resulted in an overall decline of 6% year over year in paying advertising locations to $531,000. We remain focused on driving growth through our most efficient channels. Self-Serve continued its momentum, growing approximately 20% year over year in the second quarter. This makes it the 15th consecutive quarter with year over year growth at or above this level. At the same time, multi-location revenue came in approximately flat year over year, reflecting continued softness in our R&O. Similarly, Yelp audiences maintained its annual run rate of approximately $45 million in the second quarter. We continue to see growth opportunities for Yelp audiences and recently expanded its reach to enable advertisers to connect with our high intent audience through audio platforms, along with additional connected TV platforms. Turning to expenses, in the second quarter, we remain disciplined in our allocation of resources while focusing on opportunities that have the potential to drive incremental returns. This resulted in our net income margin improving by six percentage points year over year and our adjusted EBITDA margin improving by one percentage point year over year. We achieved this even as we invested $12 million in paid services project acquisition during the quarter. In the second quarter, we also reduced stock-based compensation expenses, a percentage of revenue by one percentage point year over year and remain focused on reaching less than 8% by the end of 2025. We expect these efforts to stack over time, improving the quality of our adjusted EBITDA and benefiting gap profitability in the years to come. Returning capital to shareholders through share repurchases continues to be a key element of our capital allocation strategy. In the second quarter, we repurchased $63 million worth of shares at an average purchase price of $37.94 per share. As of June 30th, 2024, we had $456 million remaining under our existing repurchase authorization. We plan to continue repurchasing shares in the second half of 2024, subject to market and economic conditions. Turning to our outlook, in the second quarter, services revenue maintained double digit growth, while our R&O revenue remained impacted by a challenging operating environment for businesses in those categories with additional pressure as we move through the second half of the quarter. As we look to the third and fourth quarters of the year, we expect these trends to persist. In the third quarter, we expect net revenue to be in the range of $357 million to $362 million. For the full year, we now expect net revenue will be in the range of $1.410 billion to $1.425 billion, a decrease of $12.5 million from the midpoint of our prior range. Turning to margin, our business continues to demonstrate its underlying profitability, and we remain dedicated to disciplined expense management. In addition, as Jeremy mentioned, we are narrowing the focus of our paid project acquisition efforts, and now expect to spend approximately $35 million in total for the year on paid search, having spent $19 million in the first half of the year. We expect third quarter adjusted EBITDA to be in the range of $82 million to $87 million, for the full year, we now expect adjusted EBITDA to be in the range of $325 million to $335 million, an increase of $10 million at the midpoint, despite continued RRNO headwinds in the second half of the year. As a result of subleasing a portion of our Toronto office space in July, we expect to incur an impairment charge of approximately $4 million in the third quarter related to right of use assets and leasehold improvements associated with the underlying operating leases. We expect third quarter net income to be reduced by the full amount of the charge, but do not expect it to impact adjusted EBITDA. In closing, Yelp second quarter results reflect our abilities drive leverage in the business amid a challenging macro backdrop. We continue to believe in the significant growth opportunities ahead, as we focus our investment on areas that we believe will drive business performance and shareholder value over the longterm. With that operator, please open up the line for questions.
Thank you. If you would like to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone keypad. If you would like to withdraw your question, simply press star one again. Please ensure that your phone is not on mute when called upon. Thank you. Your first question comes from the line of Eric Sheridan with Goldman Sachs. Your line is open.
Thanks for taking the question. I know we'll talk a lot about the macro environment tonight, but I wanted to ask maybe two bigger picture questions. First, Jeremy, you know, the AI landscape and what it might mean for search and local services continues to evolve. And there's been a lot of announcements around data licensing in that environment as well. I wanted to get your most updated thoughts on the AI landscape and what that might mean for Yelp in the years ahead. That would be number one. And number two, obviously there was the antitrust decision with respect to Alphabet recently. And I know we don't yet know what the remedies might be around that, but how do you think about that ruling? And again, what that might mean over the medium or longer term in terms of competition in the landscape of search and local services.
Thanks. Sure, happy to take those. Eric, thanks for the questions. AI landscape, I would say, you know, very exciting. You know, obviously we've already taken steps to leverage LLMs and find early wins. You know, obviously within search, there's improvements that we've made, summarizing business reviews. We've rolled that out. You know, we've incorporated LLMs into our ad tech as well as leverage neural nets. You know, so within the business itself, there's so much that we're able to take advantage of. Yelp Assistant comes to mind, obviously, a recent launch, you know, that helps walk people through submitting a project. And that's really showing some promise. So very exciting from an on Yelp product standpoint. And then when you look out at the wider landscape, I think really exciting opportunities for Yelp. You know, one early search engine out there is Perplexity. You know, when they were looking at where to get their local data and how to service their users with trusted local information, they turned to Yelp. And so that's a really good sign. Obviously, you know, they're one of many companies that are working on this. We would hope to see many more of these flourish. And that of course ties into your antitrust question, which I can take in a second. On the data licensing side, you know, we do have a significant data licensing business. There's lots of conversations going on in that area. We'll keep you posted. We do see a lot of opportunity there both to grow our existing business, as well as find additional revenue streams through folks that are looking to leverage AI. And of course, we also have an AI API that we've put out there that, you know, showing some early signs of promise. You know, and also when I think about the Yelp Assistant and the way that that product works, that lends itself quite well to a potential Yelp API application as well. And so you think about some of these, you know, next generation search services. When a user is asking, you know, something that has local intent, that's about, you know, a home services project, that can be then hitting our API and matching that user, you know, with relevant businesses that has monetization built in. So I think that's a really exciting new area for us to pursue. Obviously we haven't even built the thing, but you know, it's just something on my mind. You know, there is a clear vision and opportunity that we have there. On the antitrust decision side, DOJ versus Google, obviously that's a huge watershed moment, I would say for antitrust. And certainly we're very excited about it. This is something that we've been calling for, you know, scrutiny of Google regulation and antitrust enforcement. So, you know, we're very excited. Obviously the wheels of justice turned slowly. I testified in front of the Senate in 2011. So it's been a long time that we've been advocating for scrutiny of Google and its illegal monopolistic practices. And so it's great that we've reached this moment. I do think it is going to breathe a lot of oxygen into the search space. It's going to create opportunities for startups. It's gonna create opportunities for innovation for smaller companies like Yelp and others. So it's very exciting. You know, there's a lot of factors at play here. It's hard to predict exactly, you know, what might the remedies be? How will it play out? Obviously Google will do its best to delay things as well as likely appeal, et cetera, et cetera. So, you know, it's gonna take some time to fully play out, but I think a very positive development for Yelp.
Thank you.
Your next question comes from the line of Jason Cryer with Craig Hellam Capital Group. Your line is open.
Great, thank you. This is Cal for Jason. So first question, can you just kind of walk us through what you're seeing in paid search? It looks like you might be pulling back the budget a little bit this year, but just curious the thoughts on your confidence in that opportunity and whether you're seeing any early signs of users returning to the platform after you've acquired through paid search, you know, more engagement. Just kind of curious your thoughts there.
Yeah, Cal, I can take that question. So to set the stage a little, we're talking about Yelp driving projects through paid search. So this project show up as request a quote. And if you look at the top of funnel metrics, request a quote projects up to 35%, you can see that impact there. So, you know, we're really excited about what we've learned. You know, sure enough, there is a large pool of untapped leads that we can bring into the Yelp ecosystem at what we think are pretty reasonable prices. So that's a really exciting first step. As we saw those projects flowing through our system where we saw the most opportunity, and the businesses that seem to be reacting to those additional leads, the fastest seem to be businesses with fewer reviews. So no reviews or just a few reviews, they seem to be really picking up on the additional value. And so as a result, as we go into the back half here, we're gonna be focusing on that lead distribution, trying to drive those leads to the businesses that are most likely to change their behavior, whether it's upping their budget, retaining for a longer period, et cetera. So I think, you know, still a very exciting area for us. We've learned a lot. And so we're honing in on where the ROI is. And obviously we wanna be thoughtful with our shareholders' money and drive a healthy ROI over the long-term.
Perfect, makes sense. And then secondly, can you just kind of give any additional color on the progression of some of these RRNL pressures throughout Q2 and how that's kind of progressed in the Q3?
Sure, Cal, this is Jed, I can take that. Yeah, certainly as we moved to the back half of the second quarter, we saw some additional pressure on the restaurant retail and other category. You know, and that was a continuation as well from what we saw kind of in the first quarter. You know, really our large restaurant retail and other customers have felt the impact of declining transactions and not really being able to really take price like they were able to do over the last couple of years. And that's reflected in some of the current marketing budgets. We do believe that we are in a cyclical moment for RRNO. And while the timeframe for recovery is unknown, we expect consumer spending to return in a well-positioned to participate in that recovery when that happens. In the meantime, we are laser focused on the services opportunity with a multi-location. Right now, only 20% of services revenue is multi-location. And we recently launched a bunch of improvements to the business owner platform, you know, that allow for a streamlined handling of leads on the Yelp platform, as well as releasing a leads API that gives our enterprise customers the ability to ingest Yelp leads into their own CRM and work within their own internal processes. We've also created a playbook for multi-location customers to utilize the request quote system for the first time. And, you know, we are running full speed ahead on that opportunity while we wait for a full recovery. I will say we're keeping up relationships, certainly on the restaurant retail and other side, and feel that those are very strong and we'll be well positioned when that comes back. Great,
thank you guys.
Your next question comes from the line of Colin Sebastian with Baird. Your line is open.
Thanks, good afternoon, everybody. Nice quarter, guys. Maybe just to follow up a bit on the outlook revision for the second half and the decision to pare back on the paid project acquisition. Was there more of a general decision to favor profitability over growth, given macro or their considerations, or is it really just a reallocation of priorities? And I think related to that, I guess if you're pleased with the levels of retention, do you have confidence that other ways of engaging consumers and service providers will kind of give you that same level of, I guess, lifetime value? Thank you.
Hey, Colin, it's David. I'll answer the first part of that. On the outlook, the decision around paid search was very much independent of the overall profitability that we saw in the second quarter and the outlook for the year and the impact of what's happening to RRNO on revenue. So they're actually very separate. I wanna underscore that we think that we can continue to become even more efficient. And so we are driving that underlying profitability, and that's what put us in a position to raise the guide for the full year. And then, when we think about the LTV of the opportunity with advertisers, we, as Jeremy said, are really looking for the folks who are gonna be most responsive. And there's work to do in order to ensure that we're actually funneling those leads directly to the advertisers that are most responsive. And what we did see was that folks who are unreviewed or only have a few reviews, they do respond when they get those leads. So we're directing it there, but there's more work to do. We're gonna keep you posted. We'll come back, obviously, on the Q3 call to provide the next update, and we're gonna continue to refine it.
Okay, thanks, David.
Your next question comes from the line of Sergio Segura with KeyBank. Your line is open.
Great, thank you for taking the questions. I wanted to return back to the RRNO we can ask you guys on the quarter. So the shareholder letter mentions competition from food delivery as a secondary reason for the weakness in that category. I guess, given the solid results those food delivery platforms reported this quarter, just what gives you the confidence that competition is a more significant factor for the challenges that you're seeing within that category?
Thanks, Sergio, I can take that. This is Jed. Certainly at the margins, there are some pressures from the delivery ad platforms, but our belief is that it is largely macro when talking to customers, their posture in light of what's happening to consumers these days and spending habits and what is a volatile outlook for the second half of the year. That it largely falls in the camp of macro, that's not to say there's not a marginal competitive dynamic coming in from these delivery ad platforms. A lot of that had been baked in and kind of from prior years as consumer behavior change.
Understood, and maybe a second one. I was hoping you'd just talk about the EBITDA outperformance for the quarter that came in nicely above the outlook you gave. So just wondering what was the primary driver behind that or what was different versus your initial outlook? Was it more finding efficiencies in the business or just a shift in investment spend to the second half? Just any color behind the EBITDA outperformance for the quarter would be helpful, thanks.
Sure, Sergio, thanks for the question. So in terms of the second quarter, we did see increased efficiency in our marketing spend. So while we spent $12 million on paid surge across our other marketing spend, we've been able to actually improve the results that we're seeing. And so we got leverage there. That was a significant factor. Another, probably on the more technical side relates to capitalized software, CAPDEV. We had more projects that we were able to capitalize so that contributed. There are third, just the normal puts and takes from a forecasting perspective around things like healthcare that have some variance to them that ended up being positive. So when you combine those things, and just again, just to underscore what I was saying to Colin, we do think that we are continuing to be even more efficient as a business. So we took those and maybe just to clarify what I said in response to Colin's question, certainly the reduction of 5 million from the prior expectation of 40 million of spend in 2024 to 35 million contributes to the higher EBITDA, even though those decisions again are quite independent. So that is a contributor, but fundamentally we just see ourselves continuing to get better and better at delivering against our roadmap and against our marketing targets. When you take those things together, I think that 26% adjusted EBITDA on the second quarter, again, is yet another proof point of the continuing leverage that we think we're building in the business.
Understood, thank you.
Your next question comes from the line of Josh Beck with Raymond James, your line is open.
Thanks for taking the question. Maybe to go back to Eric's earlier question about generative AI, I'm kind of curious on how you maybe bisect the data licensing benefit from just potential traffic. It certainly seems like just with perplexity that you're featured quite heavily when it's local or review oriented query. I'm just wondering which one of those two dimensions do you see as the most important and a little bit related? Pretty good idea of what the Apple intelligence system will look like with iPhone 16 and beyond. Does that kind of create any opportunity for you within the Apple ecosystem?
Okay, Josh, happy to answer those questions on how do we think about data licensing versus traffic? I mean, this is the age old question for you. We've had lots of these structures in the past. And I think the fact of the matter is we have very unique data. We have very accurate information on local businesses. We have attributes about them. We have hours, things like that. And then we have all of the subjective information around ratings and reviews with incredible depth. And so if you are an AI player looking to do a search experience in local, we are a natural partner to turn to. And of course, there's Google out there, but they're competing with everyone else. And so I think that plays into our positioning as a go-to source of information in the coming years. So I think it's an exciting opportunity for us. There's different ways that we can work with some of these potential partners. We can provide APIs. We're happy to do that. We have some APIs out there. We're gonna continue building that out. For certain experiences, it may make more sense to license data. We certainly do that already in a variety of non-AI applications. So that's a possibility as well. So it's a target rich environment. It's rapidly developing. It's hard to say how big it will be and what it means, but I think the thing that we can all come back to is Yelp is an incredible resource for local information and for helping people to connect with businesses. And so to the extent that we are the best channel for that kind of information, the best place to go, I think that will position us well for whatever develops in the AI space. And then for pivoting to the Apple question, we have a great relationship with Apple. Our data is incorporated throughout their Maps application. You may have noticed a request to quote has been added recently to Apple Maps. And so that's great. As far as what their plans are in the future, I have no idea. And obviously we're a resource to them. So to the extent there's opportunities, we're always, the doors are open for that, but really can't comment on the direction that Apple is gonna take things in from an AI perspective.
Okay, yeah, I think we all await anxiously. And maybe more of a just financial framework question. Even a margins have kind of roughly been low to mid 20s or for the last three to four years. Is that somewhat of a line that you would look to hold depending on various macro scenarios as we think about 25. And then just anything else that we need to be mindful of in terms of trends as we're thinking about key factors for growth next year.
Josh, thanks for the question. And obviously we'll have a lot more to share when we get to the Q4 call next year. But fundamentally, I just wanna underscore again, we think that a product led strategy will enable us to deliver margin leverage over time. And I'd say over the past several years, margins actually have increased. And then what we have done is taken the opportunity as we were doing with paid search to invest in the business. So we're always looking at ways to continue to drive top line performance. And a theme for us most definitely has been tapping into all of this off-yelp traffic, whether it's through paid search, whether it's through syndication on sites like Facebook, and whether it's monetizing our own audience off-yelp through something like Yelp Audiences. So we're gonna continue to look for those opportunities and we're very disciplined. If we think there's an ROI to be had, then we're gonna make that incremental investment. But again, what we have been able to do over the past number of years is to continue to drive margins up and take time along the way to continue to invest in the business. So the whole time we've been talking about profitable growth, our commitment is to deliver long-term profitable growth. And we're always evaluating the best way to run the business that takes into account the trade-offs between top line growth and delivering EBITDA. That's something that we'll continue to do. And we'll look forward to sharing more about 24 when we get there, excuse me, for 25 when we get there.
Super
helpful, thank you both.
Our next question comes from the line of Dian Li with Evercore, your line is open.
Great, thanks for taking a question. First, I have just a follow-up on the AI search, again, for the mentioned perplexity, but maybe at a high level, do you have a sense of whether the traffic through these AI search engines have better conversion or higher intent? You can just kind of share any color around what you've seen in user behavior around Yelp content and then AI search context.
This is Jeremy, I can take that one. Again, I think AI search represents an exciting opportunity for Yelp as a partner to the ecosystem that develops here. I think it's really too early to sort of describe the characteristics or know what it means. The players that are out there perplexity or otherwise are all pretty small still. And if you step back and look at the overall search industry, it's still very much structured the same way it always has been, which is Google is completely dominant and an abusive monopoly as the court recently ruled. So, unfortunately that structure remains, how AI search develops and infuses competition is an interesting possibility. And I think antitrust could also play into that. So, depending on how that all plays out, that could breathe oxygen into the environment and create a lot of new and interesting competitors for Google.
Got it. And second question, just add pricing. If you can parse out the CPC trends for services and RO separately, I'm assuming that you're seeing more pricing pressure on RO side, if you can double click on that. And also just given the improvement you've made in the ad tech specs, should we expect this to be reflected in ad pricing improvements, maybe to counter or to offset some of the math corp pressure as you're able to drive greater ROAS from the ad tech ad stack improvement? Thank you.
Thanks for the question. Just zooming off for one second, if I can, we have built an auction system for matching consumers with advertisers. That auction system takes into account a very large number of parameters. And what we're really doing is finding the market clearing price at a moment in time for that visitor in the category they're searching for in the geography at that time of year. And what we're always striving to do is to get better and better at doing that matching. And fundamentally, what we believe is that when we do that well, we drive incremental value to the advertisers in terms of cost per lead, and we drive the incremental value to the consumer in the form of relevance. So with the trends over the past several quarters has been around this, the same level of growth, which is 9% click growth with about flat CPC growth. Now, I just wanna underscore, we did see real strength in growth in clicks in the second half of next year. So over the coming two quarters, we do expect that CPCs will moderate, and that is to go up a few percentage points and click growth will come down a few percentage points, but obviously it's clicks time CPC, and that's what supports the guide that we've given you. Now, what are the things that we're concerned with in terms of being able to continue to deliver value with continuing to also deliver on the revenue targets? That is where we're always trying to drive, and again, I just wanna underscore, cost per lead. If we have a more relevant lead, then we do believe that advertisers would be willing to pay more on a cost per click basis. So that's something that we track very closely. It's something that we've been able to do in the past, and we do have quite a robust roadmap to continue to drive improvements in the ad tech stack.
Thank you very much.
Once again, ladies and gentlemen, if you have a question, it is star one on your telephone keypad. Your next question comes from the line. It looks as though, oh, my apologies. Your next question comes from the line of Georgia Anderson with Wolf Research. Your line is open.
Hi, I'm Angur Swadika Juria, and I just had a question in relation to your guidance for the full year. What's giving you confidence that you can raise EBITDA by 10 million, and how do you really plan to offset this weakness in R&O that we've talked about so far?
Thanks for the question, Georgia. Fundamentally, there are a couple of things that are happening simultaneously that do give us the confidence to be able to raise the EBITDA guide. The first is, again, notwithstanding the fact that we have spent $12 million on paid search in the second quarter and still have, so that's 19 million in the first half, we revised our estimate to 35 million. So even as we spend $16 million in the second half, we believe that the improvements that we've been able to make to the way that we build our advertising programs, that those will persist. And there's something I did want to underscore that's very important about our broad effort around paid search, something that we've said in the past, which is, as we have built out our capability to purchase leads at scale, and as we've worked to do that efficiently and generate a ROAS, we've made numerous improvements to the site and the experience, whether it's new account creation, magic links for login, the way that we buy those ads, the landing pages that we land folks to, we're now embarked on improving the way that we direct those leads. That has benefit, not just for paid search around consumer acquisition, but more broadly, all of the marketing that we're doing in paid search, for instance, around business acquisition, and then broadly making consumers, enabling consumers to use Yelp in a more seamless way. It also rolls over to the request to quote side, where we've continued to make improvements. So you take this focus on continuous improvement, you combine it with very, very strong discipline around incremental spend, and we feel that that supports, obviously, the guide that we've provided for the second half of the year.
That's helpful, thank you. This concludes the question and answer session and concludes today's conference call. Thank you for joining. You may now disconnect your line.