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Earnings Call: Q4 2019

Feb 20, 2020

Operator

Good morning. My name is Cindy, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Wix 2019 fourth quarter and full year financial results 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. To ask a question, you may press star then one on your touchtone phone. To withdraw your question, please press star then two. For those on the webcast, you may submit questions throughout the event by typing in the Submit a Question box on your screen. I will now hand turn the call over to Maggie O'Donnell, Director of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Maggie O'Donnell
Director of Investor Relations, Wix

Thanks, Cindy. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Wix's fourth quarter and full year 2019 earnings call. Joining me today to discuss the results are Avishai Abrahami, CEO and Co-founder, Nir Zohar, President and COO, and Lior Shemesh, 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 20-F 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. You can find all reconciliations between our GAAP and non-GAAP results in our press release, presentation slides, and shareholder updates, as well as our interactive analyst center on the investor relations section of our website, investors.wix.com.

Before I turn the call over to Avishai, I want to mention that we will be hosting an analyst and investor day on March 18th in New York. Please email us at ir@wix.com if you are interested in receiving an invitation. Now, I will hand it over to Avishai, who's going to say a couple of words about the quarter.

Avishai Abrahami
CEO and Co-founder, Wix

Thank you, Maggie, and welcome everyone. We ended 2019 on a very strong note. We finished the year with 28% collection growth on an FX neutral basis, which was higher than we expected. By all accounts, it was a fantastic year. Before we go to questions, I just want to emphasize how excited I am about 2020. Never before have we had so many new initiatives, new products, and new opportunities heading into a new year. In 2020, we will, for the first time ever, surpass $1 billion in collection. It is a great symbolic milestone for our business and what I think of as the beginning of Wix's second act. It is a symbol of how we've become so much more than a website builder.

Wix today is the home of over 165 million people who not only build their website on our platform but also manage the communication and relationship with their customers, their fans, and their users. It is a place where a full business can be run, allowing the small business the same opportunities as a big one. With the recent announcement of Editor X, a whole new market is opening to us. We see a huge opportunity in this market of larger businesses and global brands. We believe that with the upcoming launch of Editor X, combined with Corvid, that our offering is dramatically better than any product in the market today. We are ready. We are executing against it, and we have more to come.

My management team and I are extremely bullish about what this mean for our business. I believe it will accelerate our growth in the next couple of years. With that, we can now take your questions.

Maggie O'Donnell
Director of Investor Relations, Wix

Thanks, Avishai. Operator, can we take the first question, please?

Operator

Your first question is from Ron Josey from JMP Securities .

Ron Josey
Analyst, JMP Securities

Great. Thanks. From JMP, I just wanted to ask a little more about the new disclosures in the quarter around creative subscriptions and business solutions. Maybe Avishai and Lior, I think that the data is extremely helpful just to understand the drivers of business, but any additional context of what's included in the breakdown of the drivers, specifically with business solutions, I know G Suite and payments are included, so any insights there would be helpful. Then maybe taking a step back as we think about, as Avishai you mentioned the new day or whatever of Wix going forward, just the approach in deciding why these new reporting lines are most relevant. Thank you very much.

Avishai Abrahami
CEO and Co-founder, Wix

I'm going to ask Lior to describe why this is included, and then I'll take the second question.

Lior Shemesh
CFO, Wix

Sure. First of all, with regard in general to the changes that we've made, we feel that those changes actually serve and provide much more transparency into our business. We need to understand that our business has evolved in the last few years. As we mentioned many times in the past, we are no longer just a website builder. We are much more than that. I think that the breakdown of the revenue of the top line into those two separate segments actually provide the right transparency in order to really understand the business and the changes that we went through. With regard to the content of each of them, the creative subscription in a way, it includes all the packages that we sell and monetize, including also the domain.

While the business solution, when you think about it, this is exactly the changes that we've went through, include all the different application as well as Payments, applications like G Suite, Ascend, obviously Payments and many other initiatives that were included over there. We believe that if we take, for example, the Editor X, will be a great contribution to the creative subscription in the future and to its growth. Obviously for the business solution, we see a big potential, especially coming from Payments and other application and more solution that we intend to introduce in the future.

Avishai Abrahami
CEO and Co-founder, Wix

The second part of your question, why we think that it's a time that we actually start to report additional information. I think that as price discrepancy between customers grows, we now have customers that are paying $5 a month, and then people that pay 1,000x that on Wix. We believe that just telling about the amount of subscription become less clear because obviously each one of them holds dramatically different value. As a result, we think that we need to provide more transparency and on the standard subscription-based model of the website building part, and then on the other side, on the business management growth that we also see growing very quickly.

Ron Josey
Analyst, JMP Securities

Great. Thank you very much.

Maggie O'Donnell
Director of Investor Relations, Wix

Thanks, Ron. Can we have the next question, please?

Operator

Your next question comes from Ken Wong from Guggenheim. Please go ahead.

Ken Wong
Analyst, Guggenheim

Great. Thanks for taking my question. This question is just regarding fiscal 2020 growth. When I think about your outlook, the first thing that pops into my head is just some of the headwinds that you guys experienced in fiscal year 2019. I think a lot of us were expecting maybe subs re-accelerating, customer support contributing. I think you guys had mentioned five points of growth and then also seeing some traction with Corvid. I guess when thinking about your outlook, how are you feathering in some of those elements? Have some of those pieces been pushed out a little? Any color there would be great.

Lior Shemesh
CFO, Wix

Hi, Ken. This is Lior. Sure. I think that, let me start with the fourth quarter. We managed to beat our own expectation during the fourth quarter, and by the way, also in terms of the net addition in terms of subscriptions. That was, for us, a great indication for the strength of our business and especially the new initiatives, like going into the creators market and also with Corvid and other new initiatives like payments and so on. We believe that looking in the last few years, we have a really strong track record of growth, which I believe that will continue. We are entering into a new market with a huge opportunity, and we feel really, really excited about it.

We actually started to see things happening, and I believe that it will generate even a higher growth in the second half of the year once we start to monetize on Editor X. Obviously, not everything is part of our guidance because some of it is still in progress, and some of it we simply need to understand exactly what will be the model, especially when we talk about the Editor X and the monetization that's going to be in the second half of the year. A very important thing to remember, we've never had so many new products and initiatives, and we believe that those new products and initiatives are going to provide more upside for us in the near future.

Ken Wong
Analyst, Guggenheim

Great. Maybe if we can just, I'm not sure if you guys have kind of thought this through yet, but thinking about the creative business and then the business segment, any rough sense of how we should be thinking about growth between those two buckets?

Lior Shemesh
CFO, Wix

Obviously what we provided the guidance is just one number. I think that it's something that we didn't want to provide guidance for both of them separately, and let me try to explain why. Sometimes there is a mix between subscription to a business solution, and I believe that at this stage it makes much sense to provide only one number. Then again, we provide you with the model and how the creative subscription is actually acting, especially together with the ARR that we provided for the first time, which going to provide you much more color and transparency about how to try to predict it. At this point of time, we feel very comfortable in providing just one number with regard to the guidance.

Ken Wong
Analyst, Guggenheim

Great. Thanks a lot, guys.

Maggie O'Donnell
Director of Investor Relations, Wix

Thanks, Ken. Can we have the next question, please?

Operator

Your next question comes from Ygal Arounian from Wedbush Securities. Please go ahead.

Ygal Arounian
Analyst, Wedbush Securities

Hey, good morning, guys. Maybe I'll try the guidance question a little bit more directly with the agency portion. You guys are clearly excited about the agency, professional designer market. You put a lot of the pieces together over the course of 2019. Any way to help investors understand how much that's contributing today? We're early there, but how much is it contributing? How much is it contributing to the overall guidance for the year? I understand that there's upside if it starts to build out, but is it built into guidance at all? A related follow-up, you put the sales team in place over the course of last year.

I feel Editor X was a kind of big missing piece in the go-to market for the sales team, and so can you also help us understand how the sales team is contributing to the agency push, if that helps accelerate growth and expand the opportunity, and did they need Editor X before they were really able to make meaningful headway in that market? Thanks.

Avishai Abrahami
CEO and Co-founder, Wix

I think that this is Avishai. I'll try the first part. What we do see is that we have really good growth on the professional creators and agencies, and which exceeds a 50% growth year-over-year. We're very excited about that. It started to become significant numbers. As we started to see that the opportunity there is not just real, but it's something that is available for us and we can easily participate, where we started to work on Editor X because it will give us even the ability to further accelerate into that domain. One of the things we really like about this domain is that if you look at it, in terms of what is are the companies who provide tools for the creators and designers on web design, it's really a bunch of old tools with companies that are rather boring.

I think that this is a time where we have really a massive opportunity. Obviously, like everything else, we provide guidance on the things that we do know that we're able to achieve and all the things that we hope we will achieve. The portion that we are aware that we can achieve is already in the guidance. Everything else is hopefully how we're going to continue to beat guidance that we provide.

Maggie O'Donnell
Director of Investor Relations, Wix

Great. Thanks, Ygal. Can we have the next question, please?

Operator

Your next question comes from Deepak Mathivanan from Barclays. Please go ahead.

Deepak Mathivanan
Analyst, Barclays

Hey, guys. Thanks for taking the questions. Two quick ones from us. First, the advertising spend was up 14% last year, which is fairly decelerated over the past couple of years. I know 2019 is a bit of a unique year given the pricing change and then shift towards more sales force. Are you facing constraints on ad returns and ROIs to acquire new users at this time? How should we think about the advertising spend in 2020 and then going forward? The second question is for Avishai. Where is payments penetration right now? Maybe talk about it in terms of new subscribers or existing subscribers. Is the adoption curve kind of tracking as you had originally expected? How does it compare to your expectations? Thank you.

Lior Shemesh
CFO, Wix

Yep. Let me start with the marketing, which today we are still under the seven to nine months TOI. There was no change, by the way, in term of the way that we actually do the marketing and the go-to market with regard to that. We are still able to generate the growth in term of the number of users that we are getting, we can actually see that as part of the numbers. We don't see any changes with regard to that. As for the agencies, obviously, we already started a process of breaking it down for our own use in order to measure it, obviously separately. Let's remember that as part of the 2 million users that we bring every month, there are many of them that are agencies and many of them are creators.

That said, I don't expect the seven to nine months to change in the near future.

Avishai Abrahami
CEO and Co-founder, Wix

This is Avishai. In respect to regarding who's using payment today. When we released this product, we assumed that the majority of the new users will adopt it, and we do see that happening. We estimate there are going to be some move from old customers. What we see today is that we actually have a bit more than we expected, move from our old customers into payments. I think because of the quality of the way that you can actually track transactions. As a result, we see both of them growing very well. The majority of new users today on Wix are choosing Wix Payments, and pretty much everybody who changed or added a payment solution on an old store, an old any kind of transactional base product on Wix is moving to Wix Payments.

We're very proud of the product and obviously it already returns a lot of the value that we expected, and I think that it will continue to do so.

Maggie O'Donnell
Director of Investor Relations, Wix

Thanks for your question, Deepak. Can we have the next question, please?

Operator

Your next question comes from Naved Khan from SunTrust. Please go ahead.

Naved Khan
Analyst, SunTrust

Yeah, thanks a lot.

I think previously you guys have talked about at least a 3x return on this expanded customer support. Is that still the expectation for 2020? In your prepared commentary, you talked about implementing a more proactive approach to support. Can you just maybe discuss that in more detail? Secondarily, can you maybe give us some more color on what drove the acceleration in revenue collections for business solutions in the fourth quarter?

Lior Shemesh
CFO, Wix

Sure. This is Lior. I will start with the first part, and Nir will shed some more light about the progress. We still feel very strong about the opportunity in 2020, which was out to the care, and we still feel very strong about the returns, about the 5% that we indicated last year. Obviously, some of it already incorporated into our guidance, but not all of it, because in a way, it's still work in progress. I think that we might get some upside during this year and certainly next year. Nir will elaborate more about it.

Nir Zohar
President and COO, Wix

I think, generally, for a company our size, doing such a change for the customer experience is really a huge undertaking. I think, we moved forward a lot, we had to align ourselves a little bit, we were making some mistakes on the way. All in all, I think that we're heading in a very positive direction. We're in a high cadence of training now, all of our agents to adopt this new approach, which we really believe in. I believe that by the end of this quarter or very early in Q2, we'll finish all of the training program. The good news is that since the cadence that in which we do it in groups, we already start seeing some of the agents that have been trained who are taking phone calls.

There, I can say that we're seeing extremely positive signs. First and foremost, by just much higher satisfaction. The customers that talk with those agents, significantly more satisfied than ones who are still getting people who haven't had the training. Also, I would say on the financial side of the potential, because we see a much higher conversion rate for the free users that call in and who convert to premium after talking to agents that have been trained. As well as when you look at premium users who call in, and are just adopting a much higher level and more expensive level of our additional services. I think that we have very high conviction that this is going to be a very successful undertaking in 2020 and in years to come.

Lior Shemesh
CFO, Wix

With regard to the second question.

Nir Zohar
President and COO, Wix

Yeah.

Lior Shemesh
CFO, Wix

With regard to the second question about the business solution growth. We see, obviously, and this is what we indicated also last quarter, is about the payments growth. That was one of the reason why we see the acceleration in growth on business solution, and also much better adoption of application, including G Suite, that we've seen on a year-over-year basis.

Naved Khan
Analyst, SunTrust

Got it. Thank you.

Maggie O'Donnell
Director of Investor Relations, Wix

Thanks, Naved. Can we have the next question, please?

Operator

Your next question comes from Nat Schindler, from Bank of America.

Nat Schindler
Analyst, Bank of America

Yeah. Hi, guys. Just looking at slide 11, for the first time, your cohorts for 2019 were behind your cohorts for the previous year or any of the previous years. Is that because of the cutoff of Connect? Do you expect that to reverse going forward?

Lior Shemesh
CFO, Wix

The answer is yes. That is exactly because of the fact that we moved the Connect My Domain package.

Nir Zohar
President and COO, Wix

I think that if you go back two slides, right, and look at the cohort value, I think, which is the more important part, you can actually see that it is still ahead of any cohort before that in terms of years.

Nat Schindler
Analyst, Bank of America

That brings up another question. When you say you're billing, you're getting customers that are 1,000x more valuable or many times more valuable than previous ones, I assume you mean agencies. Are you billing the agencies on a per website basis or just as they probably were prior to 2019? Are you changing it to bill them a kind of more enterprise pricing?

Lior Shemesh
CFO, Wix

Agencies are just part of it. Yes, then this can be a very different pricing model. Also, we have customers that through payment and through buying enterprise packages and buying huge amount of applications, are just paying us a substantially higher amount than the lower-end customer, right? That is part of the reason that we felt that subscription alone does not necessarily reflect the value of customers. As you just showed, right, with your question, which is the Q1 cohort to 2019, on absolute number looks smaller, but if you look at the dollar amount, it is higher. That just show that. We believe that this discrepancy and this difference will continue to grow going forward. It's important to be able to establish the right metrics.

Nat Schindler
Analyst, Bank of America

Great. Thank you.

Maggie O'Donnell
Director of Investor Relations, Wix

Thanks. Can we have the next question, please?

Operator

Your next question is from Brent Thill, from Jefferies. Please go ahead.

Brent Thill
Analyst, Jefferies

Thanks. In the U.S., the growth rate was really consistent throughout the year. You did see a pretty material deceleration in the Europe business starting at 32% growth, ending at 21%. Can you just maybe talk through some of the reasons why you're seeing such a major deceleration in what's about a quarter of your business?

Lior Shemesh
CFO, Wix

Sure. I think that, if you look at the charts, obviously, North America was extremely strong for us. As we mentioned many times in the past, we do the TOY based on channel and geography or even country. The fact is that, for example, many of our new initiatives were launched in the U.S., so obviously helped the TOY and therefore we can see that in terms of the marketing, it was more efficient for us than other places. I think that the rest of the regions were pretty much consistent. The only place where in the fourth quarter we saw a kind of a decrease compared to last time was actually in Asia Pacific, and it was mostly because of Australia. I guess that it's got to do with the fires and everything that happened over there in the fourth quarter.

Avishai Abrahami
CEO and Co-founder, Wix

In regards to Europe, again, I think that as Lior said, a lot of the new initiatives were launched first in the U.S., but also things like Brexit and instability in Russia, it slowed down business, and we can see already that it's picking up back. Luckily, Brexit finally has been decided on.

Brent Thill
Analyst, Jefferies

Okay, great. Just a quick Thanks for the color. Just a quick follow-up. I know you mentioned you're moving away from subs as a metric. You'd originally held a view that premium subs should accelerate in 2020. Are you still holding that view or not? Thank you.

Lior Shemesh
CFO, Wix

Yeah, of course. We actually even feel much more bullish about it when we're starting the year. I think that Q4 is a great indication for that. We actually managed to beat our own expectations in terms of net ups. By the way, we are going to still provide subscription in 2020 and later on an annual basis. Again, I must say that, from our point of view, after everything that we discussed about the evolution of our business and what Avishai mentioned before, ARR, the way that we presented it, explain and show the business and the way that we actually look at our business in a much, much better way.

Brent Thill
Analyst, Jefferies

Thank you.

Maggie O'Donnell
Director of Investor Relations, Wix

Thank you, Brent. Can we have the next question, please?

Operator

Your next question comes from Lloyd Walmsley from Deutsche Bank. Please go ahead.

Speaker 19

Thanks. This is Chris on for Lloyd. Could you just talk about how you guys are thinking about the attach rate of some of these new functions, associated with Editor X, the functions you guys talked about in the letter related to collaboration, management, and growth? Then maybe second, could you just talk a little bit about how you guys are thinking about the value of these additional functions versus the value that the core Editor X product would provide on a standalone basis? Thanks.

Lior Shemesh
CFO, Wix

I think that in regards to Editor X, the most important thing is that it opens Wix to a completely new market. Things like responsive design, very close to the HTML level, and really powerful editing of CSS enable professional designers to dramatically accelerate their work. We didn't launch the product yet. We just announced it, and we hope to fully release it before summer. We have not yet had the ability to share performance and revenues or anything else. In terms of value, it's a different pricing model. Of course, it's a different product to a different crowd, which we believe is by far the most superior product out there in addressing this market and provide tremendous value, especially combined with Corvid. It's going to have a different price model, and a higher price model, of course.

When we actually release it, we'll be happy to share it.

Maggie O'Donnell
Director of Investor Relations, Wix

Great.

Speaker 19

Got it. Thanks.

Maggie O'Donnell
Director of Investor Relations, Wix

Thanks, Chris. Can we have the next question, please?

Operator

Your next question comes from Jason Helfstein from Oppenheimer. Please go ahead.

Jason Helfstein
Analyst, Oppenheimer

Hey, guys. Thanks, Jason. Two questions. At what quarter this year will all subs be on the new pricing plan? Secondly, is DeviantArt still a margin drag? If so, maybe help us understand how much it was a drag on last year's, however you want to do it, either free cash flow or EBITDA.

Lior Shemesh
CFO, Wix

Sure. With regard to the first question about the price increase. Obviously, we are going to see the end of it or the effects of it in the second quarter. This is with regard to the first question. With regard to DeviantArt, I think that let Nir elaborate about it some more. We basically launch the new product. We see an amazing first result in term of the business metrics. It's part of our guidance. It's yet not big. We believe that we are going to generate much more growth from DeviantArt in the future.

Nir Zohar
President and COO, Wix

Hey, Jason, it's Nir. As Lior mentioned, I think that definitely on the margin side, DeviantArt, the drag is very small, probably not that significant. I think what's more interesting is that throughout 2019, we managed to pretty much overall and release the new product of DeviantArt, which, so to speak, kind of stopped the bleeding in terms of decline in the amount of users and the new registrants.

Lior Shemesh
CFO, Wix

Tripled.

Nir Zohar
President and COO, Wix

Yeah.

Lior Shemesh
CFO, Wix

More than tripled the amount of new registrations.

Nir Zohar
President and COO, Wix

Yeah. As I said, we not only managed to stop that bleeding as we released it, we actually have gone into the path of growth there, which we think is tremendous. Growth is in adoption in terms of new users, but also in the behavioral adoption within the community itself. How much people are uploading new media items and the new art, how much people are communicating with each other and commenting. This is basically, I think, the right time for us to start working on how do we edge value for those users that we can now monetize on. That's definitely what we're going to do throughout 2020.

Jason Helfstein
Analyst, Oppenheimer

Just a quick follow-up. There was just accounting question. There was a non-GAAP sales and marketing, $1.7 million add back. Just what was that related to?

Lior Shemesh
CFO, Wix

Again, $1.7 million of non-GAAP sales and marketing?

Jason Helfstein
Analyst, Oppenheimer

Yeah, it was in the reconciliation tables. It's fine. We can take it offline. When I talk to you later.

Lior Shemesh
CFO, Wix

Okay. It's probably the stock-based compensation expenses, but we can go over it offline.

Maggie O'Donnell
Director of Investor Relations, Wix

All right, thanks. Can we have the next question, please?

Operator

Your next question comes from Mark Mahaney from RBC Capital. Please go ahead.

Mark Mahaney
Analyst, RBC Capital

Thanks. I wanted to ask about gross margin trends in both segments, creative subscriptions and business solutions. They came down this last year. You provided the reasons why, the investments in customer care, and then this mix shift towards G Suite and Wix Payments. It sounds like going forward, you expect creative subscriptions gross margins to kind of stabilize in 2020. Would it then theoretically after 2020 start rising again as you get scale against the customer care organization costs? On the business solution side, it sounds like gross margins could be up or down. It'll just depend on the product mix shift. Is there a way to know at what level those gross margins could stabilize, maybe not in 2020, but at some point in the future? Thank you.

Lior Shemesh
CFO, Wix

Yeah. I think that you described it quite good. I think that the gross margin for the creative subscription are more or less stable. I think that the more that we actually get the benefits from the customer support, and obviously, from start to monetize on, for example, on Editor X. I think that we might see some upside on the gross margin. With regard to the business solution, you're absolutely right. It really depends on the volume of payments, for example, and volume of new products that we are going to launch that will be part of it. It's really hard to tell, but the most important thing that they are all adding incremental dollars. This is the way that we're actually looking at it.

Mark Mahaney
Analyst, RBC Capital

Okay. Thank you, Lior.

Maggie O'Donnell
Director of Investor Relations, Wix

Thanks, Mark. Can we have the next question, please?

Operator

Your next question comes from Sterling Auty from J.P. Morgan . Please go ahead.

Sterling Auty
Analyst, J.P. Morgan

Yeah, thanks. Hi, guys. I apologize if you covered this, but how do we think about how the FX impacts will kind of unfold through the year, especially around collections?

Lior Shemesh
CFO, Wix

Well, Sterling, it's hard to tell. Most of the impact that we had, actually, when you look at 2019, excluding the FX effect, the growth was 28%. It was about on a year-over-year basis, it was $12 million. Many analysts say that it's going to reverse in 2020, but it's hard to tell, and certainly, we cannot tell that. I hope that we will start to see the benefit of the euro and the British pound versus the dollar, but it's hard to tell.

Sterling Auty
Analyst, J.P. Morgan

Okay, one quick follow-up, if I may. Just when I look at the product roadmap, you've done some vertical solutions through the years and then some horizontal, obviously the new Editor update. How do we think about where the focus of the innovation will be as you look throughout 2020 and into 2021? Is it going to be more of the horizontal broad-based solutions like what you did with Editor? Could we go back and see something that's a little bit more vertically focused?

Avishai Abrahami
CEO and Co-founder, Wix

I think that at this stage, we're going to continue to focus on Editor X and similar initiatives in order to complete our offering to go after the creatives and agencies. That is probably what you're going to see most coming this year. We are playing with a few verticals, but it's not necessarily something that we're going to release this year.

Sterling Auty
Analyst, J.P. Morgan

Got it. Thank you, guys.

Avishai Abrahami
CEO and Co-founder, Wix

Sure.

Maggie O'Donnell
Director of Investor Relations, Wix

Thanks, Sterling. Can we have the next question, please?

Operator

Your next question comes from Josh Beck from KeyBanc. Please go ahead.

Josh Beck
Analyst, KeyBanc

Yeah. Thank you for taking the question. I wanted to ask about the monetization strategy around Editor X and how it impacts Corvid. Are you looking at those things differently now that you have both products? Maybe you could just give us an update. I realize it's an evolving strategy.

Avishai Abrahami
CEO and Co-founder, Wix

Of course. This is Avishai. Corvid and Editor X actually complete each other, right? One of them allow you to design the website in a super professional way, and the other one allow you to program and add all the super advanced functionality on the website. In many ways, they multiply the power of each other. When we look at it, Editor X is of course geared as a monetization would be aligned toward a professional, and then the fact that they are doing the design part of it. Editor X, a lot of it will be geared toward how do we help designers align our business model with their business model. Corvid is when you go deeper.

If you have a large customer, an enterprise customer, you're going to find that Corvid will have more and more tiers of payment in order to be able to scale that in the right way. In a kind of way, it's more of a matrix than a linear line, where Corvid goes deeper into each customer and Editor X is actually allowing designers to work on multiple accounts. That's how we think about the business model.

Josh Beck
Analyst, KeyBanc

Okay. That's helpful. Just to follow up, it seems like one of the benefits of Editor X is that it has richer tie-ins with a lot of CSS platforms. I'm just wondering, it seems like there's an industry shift towards headless commerce and headless websites. Is Editor X in any way benefiting from that trend?

Avishai Abrahami
CEO and Co-founder, Wix

Yeah, well, I do believe so. You can do all that easily with Editor X, and that really simplify the amount of work that and enhance the result that you're probably going to get.

Josh Beck
Analyst, KeyBanc

Very helpful. Thank you.

Avishai Abrahami
CEO and Co-founder, Wix

Yes.

Maggie O'Donnell
Director of Investor Relations, Wix

Thanks, Josh. Can we have the next question, please?

Operator

Your next question comes from Nick Jones from Citigroup. Please go ahead.

Nick Jones
Analyst, Citi

Yeah. Thank you. I just have one question. In the shareholder letter, you pointed to partners with more than 10 subs growing, I think, more than 50% year-over-year, which is great growth. With Editor X and ADI and a lot of the tools you've created that kind of increase speed, can you talk about the opportunities to maybe partner with higher volume professionals who are doing a lot more than 10, maybe 100 sites a month? Is that out of reach today?

Avishai Abrahami
CEO and Co-founder, Wix

This is exactly what we started to do in 2019, and we hope to continue to do as successfully in 2020. I think that it's a big milestone for Wix, that for us, a company, to be able to work with the top agencies out there and to see the excitement they get from our products. Editor X, I believe, will continue to enhance exactly this trend. As you said, it's already at 50%, and it's big numbers, so we're very excited about it.

Nir Zohar
President and COO, Wix

I just want to add here, in terms of what we want to offer in Editor X, and Ran also discussed that at the launch event two weeks ago. Around Editor X is going to be a whole suite of functionality that is geared exactly towards those more bigger kind of professional designers and agencies. I think that through 2020, we will definitely be able to cater for their needs even better than we did in 2019.

Nick Jones
Analyst, Citi

Great. Thank you.

Maggie O'Donnell
Director of Investor Relations, Wix

Thanks, Nick. I think we have time for just one more question. Operator, can we have the last one?

Operator

Your last question comes from Matt Pfau from William Blair. Please go ahead, sir.

Matt Pfau
Analyst, William Blair

Hey, thanks guys for taking my question. Just another one on the partner program. Maybe you can discuss which geographies you've seen the most success with the partner program in. As you look at where you're allocating your investments, are there certain geographies that are better suited for the partner program than others? Thanks.

Nir Zohar
President and COO, Wix

Absolutely. It's Nir, and I think currently, I would say the key geography is the U.S. and North America. Not solely. We do have people from across the globe, as we're a global company. Definitely in terms of how we've launched it and focused our first efforts, we're garnering more attention in North America.

Definitely in the future and part of, I think, the potential here is that we're going to expand it to other geographies, and I think that it should be extremely successful all across the globe.

Matt Pfau
Analyst, William Blair

Great. Thanks, guys.

Maggie O'Donnell
Director of Investor Relations, Wix

Thanks, Matt. Operator, I think we actually might have time for one last question, if you don't mind.

Operator

We have a question from Ron Josey from JMP Securities. Please go ahead.

Ron Josey
Analyst, JMP Securities

Great. Thanks for sneaking me back in, guys. I was just thinking maybe out loud as we're listening to the call and thinking about the broader landscape, and as Wix increasingly goes upmarket, can you just talk more broadly about the competitive landscape, both on the DIY and do it for me business? I think we're seeing just newer products launched across the, call it, landscape, and just wanted to get your thoughts overall. Thank you.

Avishai Abrahami
CEO and Co-founder, Wix

Well, of course. I think that, as you said, we now have two kind of competitive landscapes. The first one is the do it yourself, and I think that as time passes, it's become clear that the gap between us to our competitor is growing every year, and we launch new products, it's becoming always bigger. I think that the news from the recent days just emphasized again the difference between open source, being hosted on a domain-selling company with generic hosting, right? The lack of security where everybody can just hack into your website, and it's so hard to maintain it compared to a fully integrated and secured platform like Wix. We see that, and I think a lot of that is just making it easier for us to explain the value, the tremendous value that we're bringing to our customers.

If you look at the designers and professional market, there are not really too many solutions in this market, and which is, I think, what allow us to actually be so bullish about it. Most of the offerings are old offerings made by old companies, and very little that is actually exciting there, which I think give us a tremendous opportunity to innovate and continue to capture a big portion of this market.

Maggie O'Donnell
Director of Investor Relations, Wix

Great. Thank you, Ron. I think that's all the questions we have today. Thanks, everyone, for joining.

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes today's conference. You may now disconnect. Thank you for participating.