5/1/2026

speaker
Martin
Conference Call Operator

Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Savio Holdings' 2025 Earnings Call. The financial statements and management discussion and analysis are available on CDAR+. Today is Friday, May 1st. Joining us are Savio's founder and Chief Executive Officer, Aziz Ramatullah, and our Chief Financial Officer, Sajid Premji. After management's remarks, we will open the call for questions. Analysts may raise your virtual hand, and investors may submit questions in the question and answer window. Before we begin, please note that today's remarks may contain forward-looking statements and information. These statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. Please refer to the filings on CDAR Plus for more information. All figures are stated in U.S. dollars unless noted otherwise. With that, I now turn it over to Aziz.

speaker
Aziz Ramatullah
Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Thank you, Martin. Good morning, everyone. Our performance in 2025 reflects a year that was both transformative and volatile. We entered the year with a clear mandate, drive top-line growth while diversifying into programmatic and international markets. That strategy delivered strong early results with a 34% year-over-year growth in the first half. As the year progressed, macroeconomic pressures, particularly tariff impacts across two key sectors of auto and telco sectors, disrupted momentum, resulting in a flat second half relative to the first, something we had never experienced in our 11-year history. Despite these headwinds, we delivered 10% top-line growth excluding political inadequacy, driven by expansion into new products and global markets. More importantly, we have established a stronger foundation for future growth through diversification and scale. We transitioned from a business where 97% of revenue in 2024 was driven by a single product and one geography to a more balanced model, with 48% now generated from two key growth vectors, programmatic and international, all while maintaining a strong 90% renewal rate among our top customers. At the same time, we are scaling a third platform, our creative television platform, which is expected to contribute meaningful in the year ahead. This positions us well for 2026, which we expect to be another strong political cycle. We'll share more on our outlook shortly, but for now, I'll turn it over to Sajid to walk through the financials in more detail.

speaker
Sajid Premji
Chief Financial Officer

Thank you, Isis. After a record first half with revenue growth of 33%, our core branded business continued to perform solidly into the second half. Results were impacted by tariff-related uncertainty in two of our largest branded verticals, and in the fourth quarter, we saw the expected drop-off on political advocacy spend along with some incremental softness. Gross revenue was $11.2 million U.S. where 10.3 million U.S. normalized for political advocacy, up 10% compared to 9.4 million U.S. in the same period last year on a normalized basis. Expected softness in the non-political fourth quarter was further impacted by domestic tariff-related pressures. Consolidated net revenue was 9.8 million U.S. compared to 18.3 million last year, driven by an $8 million decrease in non-recurring political advocacy spend in an off-election year. as well as margin pressure associated with the company's expansion into programmatic markets. Core asset-supported streaming revenue increased by 29% year-over-year, excluding political absentee, demonstrating continued double-digit growth in our foundational business. It represented 75% of gross sales for the quarter. Programmatic revenue scaled from less than $200,000 in Q1 to $2.7 million in Q4. representing 24% of our consolidated growth revenues and highlighting strong adoption of automated buying for a new offering launched just this year. International sales more than tripled to 2.6 million U.S. and less than 800K in the prior year, driven primarily by strong traction in the U.K. as our investments in the region continue to deliver high returns. Gross margin was 57% compared to 62% last year, reflecting mixed pressure for the scaling of lower-margin programmatic and, to a lesser extent, international, partially offset by Fabio's end-to-end technology stack. Adjusted EBITDA was a loss of $2.1 million compared to a $2.8 million gain in the same period last year, reflecting lower political and advocacy spend in the non-election year and temporary softness in select advertising categories tied to tariff uncertainty. Programmatic and international sales combined accounting for nearly 48% of our four-quarter sales, highlighting the rapid scaling of our newer offerings and geographies. Normalized for political and advocacy spending, full-year consolidated gross sales increased 10% year-over-year, with core revenues rising to $35.2 million in the U.S. from $31.9 million. Savio continues to demonstrate growth in non-political years, with gross sales of 41.3 million U.S. across all categories compared to 36 million in the prior 2023 off-election year. Our newer offerings were meaningful contributors. Programmatic gained strong early traction, accounting for approximately 14% of consolidated gross sales and generating 5.6 million U.S. in revenue during the year. International revenues increased nearly fourfold to 5 million U.S. from 1.4 million in the prior year, representing approximately 12% of consolidated gross sales. Together, international and programmatic represented 26% of our sales for the year. Notably, 82% of programmatic and 88% of international sales were generated in the second half of 2025, reflecting rapid scaling over the course of the year. Early trends in the first quarter of 2026 indicate This momentum is continuing, with both programmatic and international sales growing on more than 20 times year-over-year levels. U.S. reoccurring revenues reached 87%, including 90% of our top logos, underscoring top-strong client retention. Meanwhile, our expanding product suite and growing international footprint continue to broaden our roster of leading global brands, driving a 153% increase in new logos in 2025. As we continue to fine-tune our cost structure, subsequently as the year ran, Savio implemented approximately $1 million in annualized cost reductions in the first quarter, which further targeted its efficiency to be implemented in the near term. Turning to capitalization, Savio ended the year with $1.3 million in U.S. in cash, And during the quarter, we completed the $1.3 million Canadian dollar listed issuer financing exemption offering. And starting from the quarter end, supplemented this with a $900K Canadian convertible debt financing. Just as a similar size raise in 2023 enabled the company to secure higher margin supply ahead of the 2024 election cycle, we believe these actions position as well for the 2026 U.S. midterm election cycle, which will be our first with a programmatic offering. It is worth noting that political clients prepaid their spend with Fabio, which benefits near-term liquidity. The size is significant. In 2024, we received approximately $8 million in prepaid media spend during that election cycle. During the second half of 2025, our UK subsidiary entered into a receivable agreement with Advanced Funding, a common liquidity tool in the ad tax sector. This facility allows us to access cash earlier by investing against invoices for campaigns that have already been delivered. Our receivables continue to exhibit very low loss rates, reflecting a customer base comprised primarily of major global brands and leading advertising agencies. As collections are received, they are used to repay the facility which can then be redrawn for ongoing working capital needs, providing a self-repunishing source of liquidity. Collectively, these steps position Fabio with enhanced flexibility as we enter 2026. Aziz, back to you.

speaker
Aziz Ramatullah
Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Thank you, Sajid. To reinforce the strength of our execution, despite the macro challenges we've consistently delivered strong growth, 31% in non-election years and 66% in election years, which we are back in this year. Importantly, this performance now comes with significantly greater scale and diversification. Our year-over-year new logos increased by 153% as we expanded both locally and globally while continuing to retain 90% of our top customers. We are also beginning to win back customers we previously lost due to gaps in programmatic capabilities, global reach, and unique inventory. We have addressed each of these areas, and as a result, we are now well-positioned to accelerate in 2026. To recap and talk about the outlook forward, core growth positioned for strong growth backed by a 90% renewal rate, with top-rated customers. International expansion is continuing to accelerate. AppSci's programmatic capabilities in Creator TV providing more defensible moat. Record numbers of new logos and election year opportunities point to a strong 2026. We're excited about the year ahead and do fully expect to accelerate at new levels here at Savio. On that note, I'm going to hand it back to Martin for any questions.

speaker
Martin
Conference Call Operator

We will now open the line for questions. Analysts, please raise your virtual hand, and you may address management directly. Investors, please submit questions in the question and answer window. How do you plan to leverage the 153% increase in new logos to drive deeper wallet share in 2026 and beyond?

speaker
Aziz Ramatullah
Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Thank you for the question. The way we're going to execute on those new logos is, you know, as we talked about, we have a 90% renewal rate of our top customers. And so once we get a logo, some of the ones that you have seen on the screen are which are obviously very big companies that have different lines of business, we then are able to leverage our app science programmatic. In addition, we now have Creator TV, which is our first entry into the Creator space, which a lot of these brands are very excited about. And so we use that combination. to not only land but expand the spend we have with these 153 logos. And we're excited. And what we're also finding is these logos are not just logos that, once again, have reach here in the U.S. market, but now are reaching into Europe. And so that combination is, once again, a key differentiator for Savio as we expand globally.

speaker
Martin
Conference Call Operator

What is the target steady state margin for the programmatic business as it continues to scale?

speaker
Aziz Ramatullah
Founder & Chief Executive Officer

That's a tough question, and the reason I say that is because what tends to happen is in political years, our margins do increase, even on the programmatic side. Programmatic is a function of supply and demand, more so than the managed service business, and what I mean by that is As demand increases, as does in election cycles, the actual price of inventory and targeting goes up. And so it is a very market-driven dynamic. And so to answer the question, you know, we still are – this is going to be our first political cycle with political – sorry, this is going to be our first political cycle with programmatic, and it still remains to be seen where that's going to end up. But we'd be very surprised if we don't see the range at the end of this year between – somewhere between 58% to 61%.

speaker
Sajid Premji
Chief Financial Officer

Yeah, just to piggyback on that, that represents a huge opportunity for us. 90% of our political spend and upwards is spent programmatically, and we've been operating in a smaller pond this whole time. All of our political sales in the past have been through managed service, so now we're finally operating in that bigger pond for the first time in 2026.

speaker
Martin
Conference Call Operator

Thank you. We will take our first question now from Gabriel Lone.

speaker
Gabriel Lone
Analyst

Good morning. Thanks for taking my questions. Just a couple things. I'm just curious if you've seen any sort of prepayment yet for the political campaigns thus far in 2026. And maybe on a similar note, have you seen any sort of recovery from those two key verticals that were impacted in the second half of last year?

speaker
Aziz Ramatullah
Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Good morning, Gabe. Thank you for the question. The first question is, have we seen any prepayments? We have not. And what we usually see where we benefit from political is usually it'll start kicking in in June and Q3. Because what happens is we traditionally don't play in the primaries. We play in the main races. And so while we saw just the slimmer of spend, really we're going to see a bigger portion of that as we, at the end of Q2 and more specifically Q3. And then your second question, sorry, Gabe, what was the second question as it relates to

speaker
Gabriel Lone
Analyst

Yeah, no, just curious if you've seen any sort of recovery from some of the hurdles that impacted the second half of last year.

speaker
Aziz Ramatullah
Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Yeah, and so we did see recovery specifically in the automotive sector, and we are feeling pretty confident about what's going to happen ahead. We do think that there will be some – we think automotive is going to be backloaded quite considerably this year, and part of that reason is because There is incentives as part of the tax bill that was passed last year that provides incentives for domestic auto purchases. And so a lot of the automotive makers are revving up for a big push there, namely in Q2 and Q3 and Q4, the summer driving season. Now, what's also obviously impacted that a little bit, the surprise war that we went through at the, you know, in Q1, that we started during Q1, and so that's impacting their positioning. Do they push out those EVs or do they not? And so that's starting to, you know, in the meetings I just had with some of our key automaker clients, including Hyundai Motors, they told us that there's definitely, you know, there's a lot of planning going on. And there's a lot of recalibrating based off of gas prices that are currently continuing going up. So we do think that there's still a little bit of some challenging environment as it relates to automotive, a little bit of a challenging environment on automotive. But what we've been told is that they're ready to really start kind of pushing out towards June and then specifically as it relates to Q3 in a big way. And by the way, on other brands, and you saw the logo picture that we painted, 153% increase in logos, we're seeing a tremendous amount of interest both in our programmatic offering and our creative TV offering, which is really getting a lot of great traction. And so we're getting a lot of new opportunities. So we've diversified the logo mix even past outside of the automotive category. We're seeing great growth in Quick Search Restaurant, we're seeing great growth in entertainment, and we're also seeing a lot of interest in pharma, and along with financial. So, you know, while, yes, going into this year, our dependency on automotive was fairly high, we are finding that automotive is going to continue being important, but it's not going to be as important as we diversify across.

speaker
Gabriel Lone
Analyst

Thank you.

speaker
Sajid Premji
Chief Financial Officer

Yeah, just to add on to that, it's a testament to that kind of growth that we're seeing in that expansion of logos. You know, we are seeing international and programmatic combined up about 20x, you know, year over year from last year.

speaker
Gabriel Lone
Analyst

Yeah, maybe on that note, I'm just curious on the international growth you're seeing, I guess primarily in the UK, is that driven by managed or programmatic? And, you know, where do you see sort of the managed and programmatic mix coming? over the course of the next 12 months. And so what does that sort of mean for your, I guess, gross margin profile over the near term?

speaker
Aziz Ramatullah
Founder & Chief Executive Officer

And that international is coming out of various points, but it's really, you know, the area is coming out of the UK, but it's really about Europe as a whole. So it's not just necessarily the UK market that we're actually doing deals in. It is we're now doing deals in Africa, in the Middle East, And so as it relates to that, that is primarily managed service. We're the first, you know, we're in a position to be one of the first movers out there. We're going to be announcing some really interesting strategic partnerships fairly soon, along with some new products that we've been working on for that market. We're very excited about this international expansion. And then as it relates to, like, you know, programmatic and what we're seeing with that, We're seeing a lot of, once again, traction there. We are 75% of all the customers who spent on us last year in programmatic came back and added additional, increased their spend. And so we are seeing the velocity of programmatic increase in really see the composition of the business driven by three key factors. While managed service has been kind of the core, as we talked about, you know, 97% of our revenue going into last year, in a highly driven AI automated marketplace, everyone wants programmatic. And the only exception is when they want some unique integration opportunities. And so programmatic is going to be a bigger percentage of our revenue, but In the U.S., in international, managed service continues to be a key component for them. And then we have creative TV, this third component, which is connecting, you know, connecting our brands and agencies with the top influencers and creators in the media space and essentially allowing them to run efficiently and more effectively on our creative TV channel, as well as our distribution platform. So that is managed service. So we have these different variations that are now happening in our business model that is allowing us to scale up both programmatically, internationally, and now create a TV, differentiated inventory. So the picture is hard to, you know, so that's hard to say in terms of what will our composition be in the next few months. It's really hard to say outside of the fact that, We're growing on all three, especially programmatic and international and creative TV. So, like, we're excited, but it's hard to tell you where the end composition would be. Spajid, anything you want to add to that? No, we can't go closer.

speaker
Gabriel Lone
Analyst

Great. Thanks for the feedback. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you.

speaker
Martin
Conference Call Operator

And now we welcome Nicholas Cordolucci.

speaker
Nicholas Cordolucci
Analyst

Hey, Spajid. Thanks for answering my questions. First thing I kind of wanted to ask, what was the profitability you're expecting for 2026? Are the levels that you guys reported in 2024 kind of a good baseline? Again, with the cadence waiting to the back off.

speaker
Aziz Ramatullah
Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Great. Thank you for joining our call. I'm going to hand it over to Sachin.

speaker
Sajid Premji
Chief Financial Officer

Yeah, yeah, I think it's a good question. I think that, you know, given the, you know, there will be a very stark turnaround in 2026 compared to 2025. It's our full expectation. I think that when you look at what happened last year, you saw, you know, the revenues ranked up between 23 and 24 in an election year. You saw a material swing going from a loss of $1.8 million in 23 to a gain of $3.8 million in 24. And we believe that that swing could be more pronounced this year. I think that, you know, looking at, you know, the loss for 2025 and where we ended up at, You know, we believe that we can eliminate that loss in its entirety in 2026 and make it an edge up to, you know, a low even margin in 2026, which will be a very stark turnaround year over year. And that is as well as and more so going afterwards because, you know, going into the last off-election year in 2025, you know, we had a political – I'm sorry, an international business that was doing $1 million a year. Now, that's doing, you know, 5 million a year in 2025. In 2026, we're seeing, you know, a huge growth in that business of over 10x in Q1. And that's going to continue on for the rest of the year. So, if you look at it that way, we could be entering next year in a situation where international loan is going to make up for that full political gap going into the next off-election year in 2027. And that's why they've been adding programmatic on top of that, which is also scaling up. I mean, programmatic scaled up from 200K in Q1 to 2.7 million in Q4. It did 5.5 million for the year in its first full year. And so you've got those two alone. That's going to bring a lot more structural consistency to our business. And so to answer your question, Nicholas, I think that – We do expect to eliminate that loss that we incurred in 2025 this year. We are well-positioned to do so, but I think that what gets us really excited is 2027 and afterwards.

speaker
Aziz Ramatullah
Founder & Chief Executive Officer

And, Nicholas, one of the things we should add, and I think Sajid said it pretty well across the board, is the fact that the reason we're uniquely positioned in programmatic is our data graph, is our AppScience household data graph, that 80 million household graph. And we are seeing a lot of incredible momentum there on the programmatic side. And guess what? That is using inventory everyone else has, right? And so when we go up against competitors in the marketplace, okay, great. You got the same inventory. I got the same inventory you have as it relates to programmatic. Awesome. Well, guess what? I have app signs. And that's what clients are using this for on programmatic. Then you add Creator TV on there. And so Creative TV is differentiated inventory now. And so it's giving us a whole different conversation piece, at least in the U.S. for the time being because we haven't expanded internationally. And then the third aspect of that is international. And international is... just taking off, as Sajid alluded to. We're seeing an incredible amount of momentum across the board, and we don't see any real slowdown there. So, you know, while we did this similar kind of act in 23 going to 24, we were coming out of a rough year in 23, and we had one of the best years in company history in 24. And that was before these additional levers. And so now we're coming out in 25, despite the fact that we executed our key strategies in Q1 and Q2, and we got hit by tariffs. And I just want to explain real quick, what does that mean? Why did we get impacted by tariffs? A company like Skyview gets impacted by automotive tariffs. Well, when that category is one of your bigger categories, and you see we did more revenue in Q2 last year than we did in automotive than we did all of the second half of last year. So that tells you that that impact was significant in our top category, and yet we were able to deliver this 10% year-to-year growth. And now we're in a position where, as I mentioned, that automotive category is recovering, but other categories have really taken off for us, and we have this international. So we're hitting on all gears, and I think what I think the marketplace is going to see this year is don't underestimate us. Get ready for this year because we are going to execute at a high level, as we did last year. We didn't anticipate the tariffs as no one did, including our automaker clients who were surprised by that. Ford had the biggest loss in company history in Q3 and Q4 last year. And so, like, this is where we are going to execute and diversify. We diversify and execute, and we're excited about the year ahead.

speaker
Nicholas Cordolucci
Analyst

Right. Thank you for that. The other thing I wanted to ask about is if you guys have considered any cost-cutting initiatives, like you did in 2024, maybe leveraging AI or if there's some low-hanging fruit out there to right-size the cost base.

speaker
Aziz Ramatullah
Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Yeah, AI is playing a big role, and I'll let Sajid get in here as well. We have actually, as Sajid talked about, we've already committed to have executed on over $1 million of cost savings. We actually have some additional ones in the works. really driven by, I agree with you, it's driven by AI and efficiencies we're seeing there. Our teams are working on automation processes, specifically where we see the biggest impact for us on AI is on the efficiencies that we get from operational capabilities using agents to help set up campaigns, run campaigns, execute campaigns, as well as the analytics side of AppScience AI. And so we are seeing efficiencies there. We're going to see the gains of that. From a cost structure basis, what is really telling is we actually have, as it relates to the U.S., our business is actually cost-wise operating at a lower headcount than we have in the past. our headcount has not increased since 23, and yet we are growing, you know, our top-line estimates for this year are 60 million, where our expansion has been, which is not by big numbers, but it has been internationally. So we have already seen efficiencies in our current setup as it relates to the U.S., and now some of those headcounts, which have not been significant in international. So part of what we're doing is we have been gaining more efficiency as it relates to our poor business in the U.S., and then allocating resources into growth areas such as international and creative TV, which we see is a huge opportunity. Sajid, anything you want to add to that?

speaker
Sajid Premji
Chief Financial Officer

Yeah, that was very well said, Aziz. I think that, you know, Aziz kind of reiterated from some of the transcripts as well that we did implement about $1 million of cost cutting in Q1. We have identified further areas of efficiency that we plan to enact sooner rather than later. And the interesting thing about our evolution into programmatic is that while programmatic may be a lower margin than running service, it's more operationally efficient. You don't need as many account managers to run a programmatic campaign. You don't need many senior sellers to operate a programmatic campaign. You can go lower down the funnel into more junior headcount. And so I think that, you know, as programmatic grows, as we scale up, and even if we scale up international where we're seeing higher sales per seller, I think that our businesses can become a lot more efficient and we're going to reduce that offense that we're having.

speaker
Aziz Ramatullah
Founder & Chief Executive Officer

And on the AI side, we pretty much have eliminated our pre-planning teams and have used some of the efficiencies we've seen with some testing of AI as well as some other automations we've put in place. So we are looking for efficiencies across the business, and we do believe there's a lot more we can do, and we are actively working on that as we speak. But, you know, also keep in mind that business our size, yes, we're going to see efficiencies, but we've never gotten bloated. and where, in fact, you know, AI is benefiting a lot of these bloated companies in a bigger way because we're cutting a lot of staff. In our case, certainly, we do have efficiencies it's going to give us. Where it really benefits us is on the operating leverage. As we continue scaling up, that's where AI comes into play even bigger. So we're going a different way relative to a meta or one of these other folks who have to do these major layoffs because they were already bloated to begin with. In our case, we've been efficient, but as we scale up, that operating leverage will increase with AI, and that's what we're excited about.

speaker
Nicholas Cordolucci
Analyst

Got it. Understood. Appreciate that. Those are my only questions. Thanks for the time, gentlemen. Appreciate it.

speaker
Martin
Conference Call Operator

Since we're almost halfway through 2026, can you comment on how you're seeing trends compared to last year?

speaker
Aziz Ramatullah
Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Yeah, one of the things we're – and I don't even know we're really halfway through. I mean, we're still seeing a lot of momentum in Q2. What we're seeing is – the one trend we are seeing is that – and this was similar to when we went through the last election cycle. What tends to happen is our political inadequacy gets pushed back a little bit into later quarters, and it gets concentrated into June and then Q3. And then that plays out. And now we have international coming in in the early part. So we're seeing just overall positive dynamics in our business across multiple categories. And I don't know whether it is the fact that we have these new offerings, both programmatic, creative TV, and then lastly, our international expansion, but we're seeing a lot of great momentum despite the headwinds that you hear about with consumer gas prices and some of the challenges that the consumers are having. So we're feeling pretty good, but really the key differentiation, which is similar to what we saw once again in 24, was that you will see this pushback of political advocacy moving into later quarters. But what's been great is we have filled a portion of those dollars with obviously the international expansion, automotive, and some of these other categories that have taken that place. You know, it's going to be the way to look at where Saab is going to be. It's going to be a really heavy, you know, Q2 to Q4 kind of cycle. And we're going back to, as I mentioned, we've never seen the cycle we did last year, which is like, We had a great Q1, incredible Q1, record Q1, and record Q2, and then everything dissipated to the last half of the year. We are starting off slower as it relates to the beginning of Q1 just because advocacy and political gets pushed back a little bit, but we're seeing incredible momentum going on in Q2, Q3, and Q4. So we're super excited about what we're seeing overall. Dr. Andy, you want to add to that?

speaker
Sajid Premji
Chief Financial Officer

Yeah, I think that's what I was going to say.

speaker
Martin
Conference Call Operator

With the 249% growth in international sales, what localized opportunities and challenges are you seeing in the U.K. market versus the U.S.?

speaker
Aziz Ramatullah
Founder & Chief Executive Officer

And just to clarify, it's more than the U.K. market. It's all of Europe. What we're seeing is we are going to be talking about releasing new products there into the international. I'd rather just refer to it as international, not just U.K., We have folks that are working in Spain, with UK, Africa, the Middle East. What we're finding is there is a need from a marketplace efficiency, transparency with our inventory, as well as some of the targeting capabilities we are now working on and bringing to that market fairly soon, targeting and analytics that we are uniquely positioned to do with AppScience. We're super excited about that. And I think we just see a lot of runway without a lot of headwinds at this point. And we're also early mover there. So now when you have a brand, a major brand, a major automotive brand that wants to spend globally, we do have that extension. When we have an automotive brand that, you know, a quick service restaurant or fast food chain that wants to expand internationally and has analytics that they're not getting currently, we have that option. And then you add to it this Creator TV component, which is not only a streaming channel, In the U.S., it's a streaming channel globally, even available through Plex. They're in Canada, Plex, Sling. It's on Comcast Vim in the U.S., and we're going to have TCL TVs globally. And so now we have this expansion, this reach, and it's really, once again, the reception we're getting in international markets is really positive and has actually superseded any expectations we have had. Sajay, you want to? Anything you want to add to that?

speaker
Sajid Premji
Chief Financial Officer

Yeah, yeah. I think that was well said of you. And I think just to add on to that, you know, typically in our business, we see most of our sales occur in the last half of the year, right? And so 2025 was a bit of an anomaly as we talked about, you know, how the tariffs impacted us domestically. But the UK and internationally as a whole did operate more, you know, in line with historical trends. And even more so, we get about 88% of our sales in the back half of 2025 internationally. You know, we did 5 million sales, you know, in 2025, and 88% of that came in the last half of the year. Now, what's really interesting now is that, you know, Q1, as you said, we're up over 10x year over year, right? So you're talking about seven figures in Q1 alone coming internationally. You know, Q2, we're seeing similar trends as well. That's not dropping off. And so if you look at that historical trend in our business, which, you know, usually operates between 60% and 70% of sales in the last half of the year, and in the U.K. we saw last year was even more pronounced, that really builds well for a very strong second half of the year internationally. And then you lump on programmatic upscale and up on top of that, and then you lump on political spending that's going to be coming back as well. You know, we really are set up for a very, very strong second half of the year.

speaker
Aziz Ramatullah
Founder & Chief Executive Officer

And I want to also mention one thing, that these are big brands. Like, we have – these are not small. These are the Hyundais, the Epsons that we're seeing internationally. So we're not talking about the small brands that have little dollars. These are brands that now want to also have a connection back. And what's interesting is we're seeing a recification. Essentially, U.S. brands who want to expand out into Europe or already work in Europe, they want one partner to connect the dots. UK brands who are working in the U.S., they want one partner to connect the dots. And they want consistency in data analytics. They want consistency in product offering. And so this is really giving us a leg up and a differentiation in the marketplace in a big way.

speaker
Martin
Conference Call Operator

How does the Creator Poker Championship success inform your future content strategy for Creator TV?

speaker
Aziz Ramatullah
Founder & Chief Executive Officer

That is a franchise we are really excited about, and it is under the Creator Sports franchise and Creator TV Sports, sorry, franchise. And the way that informs and helps us in terms of how we approach sports is a key category in the U.S. As viewing patterns have changed and, you know, rating points being challenged outside of sports, for brands is critical. And what we're finding is this new franchise that we've created, which is the Creator TV Sports, is an opportunity for key brands to reach a younger audience. Some examples of that, as you mentioned, the Creatable Poker Tour event that is actually going to be now airing. We're waiting for final dates, but it's going to be airing on CBS Sports cable network in addition to other partner networks. It is – there's a lot of excitement behind it. There's a lot of interest. And what we're doing is we're taking the challenges of a fragmented media ecosystem – And we're closing in on the two key elements that our clients want. They want followers. They want people who will tune in. You have them built into that with, for example, our Creator World Poker Tour event. At the table of that Creator World Poker Tour event, we had 105 million followers with those creators that were – the five creators that are on the table, 105 million followers. You then add in the sports component of that, helping reach a younger audience, that third component. That's what is really exciting for our brands. And we have other – we're doing, for example, a pickleball tournament at VidCon, which is the largest creator event in the U.S. And we are the ones that are actually organizing and running the Creator TV, Creator Sports pickleball tournament. And so we are going to be moving very heavily and including working on some auto racing opportunities. We are actually in conversations with a very major hotel chain that also has, obviously, deep pockets as it relates to sports betting and that franchise. And so we literally are – We're seeing a lot of great momentum there on creator sports and the excitement that our brands are exhibiting as it relates to the opportunity. And so we see that as being a real clear strategy for us. Creator sports, creative sports is going to be a key centerpiece of our strategy there. And once again, there's a lot of distribution partners who want it. And just to be clear, we are not in the production game. What we are in the game of connecting creators with content and putting them in a vehicle which they are comfortable with and is consistent with their brand, that then that is also more cost effective than the traditional way production is done. And so in some cases, we're producing with them in the sense that they're working on the production part, we just help fund it, or in other cases, we're collaborating with them on the cost and we're doing that as a joint production. But it is, you know, it is so far had a lot of great excitement and interest, and it's opening the door to brands that we would not have ordinarily been able to talk to. So we're super excited about that overall.

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Martin
Conference Call Operator

Thank you. There are no further questions. Do you have any final comments before concluding this call?

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Aziz Ramatullah
Founder & Chief Executive Officer

I'd just like to say once again and reiterate that, We are excited about the year ahead. We have our execution strategies in place, and we are already seeing the early results of what we laid out, and that on top of what we anticipate being another successful political year. So we are excited about the execution strategy ahead, and not only for this year, but from the growth, elements of our business now, both programmatic international and creator TV going into 2027. And so we're doing all the things that we need to do to make sure this business is diversified, but we are excited about the year ahead, and that's really what I wanted to convey. Anything else, Sajid, you want to add to that?

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Nicholas Cordolucci
Analyst

No, that's all I'll say.

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Aziz Ramatullah
Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Great. Well, thank you again for joining us on the call, and we're looking forward to chatting with all of you again soon.

speaker
Martin
Conference Call Operator

Thank you very much, and this concludes Savio Holdings' earning call. Thank you for joining us today.

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