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Qiiwi Games AB (publ)
8/21/2024
So, då hälsar vi alla välkomna till vår webcast för genomgång av det andra kvartalet 2024. Och med mig i webcasten här har jag ju Erik Dahlgrenberg, vd och med grunden till Kiwi Games och jag har med mig två andra... Personer från ledningsgruppen, Marcus Dahl, som kommer prata om live operations och Daniel Svensson som kommer prata om new games. Efter genomgången av kvartal två så har vi också en frågestund där det finns möjlighet att ställa frågor. Har ni några frågor ni funderar på så kan ni Yes, already now send in the QA feature that is in Zoom. Then we will answer the questions that we feel is possible to answer in the current situation and we start.
And we look at Let's see here.
If we look at the first quarter, we reach a turnover of about 5.4 million SEK compared to the same period the previous year, which ended up at 5 million SEK. And it's about an 8% increase. And it mainly led to... Extreme Makeover, which didn't exist in the portfolio the previous year. And that title has continued to be an extra revenue injector for this quarter. Another title that has stood out during the quarter has been Midsummer Murders, where we have seen very good effects on UA, which we will talk more about a little later. And then we also have Worthington. Extreme Makeover, Midsomer Murders and Co-Worthington are the three largest contributors during the period. In summary, the quarter has been influenced by the fact that we have focused a lot on implementing our new strategy and vision. Under året eller i början av året så informerade vi om och även exekverade på vår kostnadsbesparing och omorganisering. Alla de åtgärderna i det programmet har slutsats under den här perioden vilket är väldigt skönt så framöver så kan vi fokusera utslutande på kärnverksamheten och helt enkelt att utveckla nya spel men också ta hand om våra live operations spel. Let's move on to the next point. As we also mentioned, we continue to see an improved EBIT result. This is mainly related to the fact that we have lower staff costs now due to the cost savings and reorganization, for example at the SIP. så har vi inte kvar något kontor längre utan vi personer som är kvar där jobbar redan hemifrån så kontor som vi har kvar är i Sverige och i Allingsås där vi har fortsatt samma personalstyrka som vi har haft tidigare också i Sverige så nedskador av personal har And that is in our new strategy and vision that we want to create a central place for game development in order to achieve the best possible results and work locally in teams. And here we have a graph that shows Den procentuella ökningen om cirka 5% relaterat till omsättningen jämfört med samma period föregående år. Tittar vi på antal anställda som jag nämnde där så samma period föregående år så var vi 52 stycken och vid utgången av det andra kvartalet 2024 16 stycken. Så vi har en betydligt lägre The number of employees now and a significantly lower cost mass in relation to staff costs. And we estimate our staff costs to be around 2.5 million SEK in the coming quarter. If we look at the marketing of the UAE, I mentioned that that Midsummer Murders has performed very well during the second quarter, which means that we have also been able to invest, partly more than in the first quarter of 2024, but also more than in the same period last year. We see an increase of about 42% in UAE investments and marketing. And here, especially Midsommar Murders stands out, where we have seen very good ROI results, which means that we have been able to keep up a relatively high spend and marketing for that game, which is actually a live operation game where we will try to get as much profitability as possible. But when we see the type of results that we have seen for Midsommar Murders during the second quarter, we have chosen to keep going. a relatively high spend, then we feel very safe with getting the UA investments back quickly. Other game titles we have invested in are still Extreme Makeover, but to a smaller share than the previous quarter, and also Worthington, which is on a relatively low share of UA investments. We don't go out with any exact figures here, But most of our investments have gone to midsummer murders during the period. And if we look at our geographical distribution of revenues, it is very similar to previous quarters. We have mostly revenues that come from the USA. It is also where we market our games primarily. Followed by Great Britain. Germany, Canada, France and Sweden. Then we have other countries where we have several countries that are below this 3% threshold. level that is bundled. But above all, the USA is a very important market for us. We also foresee that Nordic countries and Germany can grow, hopefully if, for example, our new game Backpacker Go gets fixed and works well. But of course, the USA is also a very interesting market for that type of game. If we look at the distribution of revenues, 37% of the revenues were created via purchase in the game, so-called in-app purchase, and 63% via announcement revenues. And the reason we see that it goes down sequentially related to in-app purchase is because Extreme Makeovers... revenue has decreased, which has been a big driver to reach higher in-app purchases in our games. And yes, we assess that what we see in distribution right now is probably what we will have in the coming quarter as well, where we see a majority coming from ad revenues. Summing up the financial results for Q2 2024, we have a turnover of SEK 5.4 million, EBITDA of SEK 1.9 million, EBITDA landing at SEK 2.9 million, And that's an improvement compared to the previous year with minus 4 million SEK, with some improved tax results at minus 2.9 compared to 3.8. And we have liquid funds of about 19.1 million SEK at the beginning of the second quarter. And considering that we That will be in the next... Yes, you will see it in the final part. But let's move on to live operations. And I'll hand it over to you, Marcus.
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