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Earnings Call: Q4 2019

Feb 20, 2020

Speaker 1

Good morning.

Speaker 2

My name is Cindy, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Wickes 2019 4th I will now hand the turn the call over to Maggie O'Donnell, Director of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Speaker 1

Thanks, Cindy. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Wix's Q4 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 update 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 18 in New York.

Please email us at irwix dotcom if you are interested in receiving an invitation. Now I will hand it over to Avishai, who is going to say a couple of words about the quarter.

Speaker 3

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 $1,000,000,000 in collection. It is a great symbolic milestone for our business and what I think of as the beginning of Wix 2nd act. It is a symbol of how we'll become so much more than a website builder. WixToday is the home of over 165,000,000 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 huge opportunity in this market of larger businesses and global brands. We believe that we have coming launch of Editor X combined with COVID 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. And I believe it will accelerate our growth in the next couple of years. With that, we can now take your questions.

Speaker 1

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

Speaker 2

Your first question is from Ron Jaozi from JPMorgan.

Speaker 4

Great. Thanks from JMP. And I just wanted to ask a little more about the new disclosures in the quarter around Creative Subscriptions and Business Solutions. Maybe Abhisheiner and Lear. I think 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 within solutions?

I know G Suite and payments are included. So any insights there would be helpful. And then maybe taking a step back as we think about, as obviously 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.

Speaker 3

So I'm going to it's Kevin to ask you all to describe what is included, and then I'll take the second question.

Speaker 5

Sure. So first of all, with regard to the in general to the changes that we've made, we feel that those changes actually serve and provide much more transparency into our business. And 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. And I think that the breakdown of the revenue of the top line into those 2 separate segments actually provide the right transparency in order to really to understand the business and the changes that we went through.

With regard to the content of each of them, the greatest 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 would be a great contribution to the creative subscription in the future and to its growth. And 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.

Speaker 3

So 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, right, grows we now have customers that are paying $5 a month and then people that pay 1,000 times that on Wix. And 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.

Speaker 4

Great. Thank you very much.

Speaker 1

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

Speaker 2

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

Speaker 6

Great, great. Thanks for taking my question. So 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 reaccelerating, customer support contributing.

I think you guys had mentioned 5 points of growth. And then 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.

Speaker 5

Hi, Ken. This is Lior. Sure. So I think that let me start with the Q4. We managed to beat our own expectation during the Q4 and that was and by the way also in term of the net addition in term of subscriptions.

And that was for us a great indication for the strength of our business and especially the new initiatives like going into the creators markets and also with COVID 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 new markets 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 higher growth in the second half of the year, once we will 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 start 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 coming in the near future.

Speaker 6

Great. And then 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?

Speaker 5

So obviously, what we provided the guidance is just one number. And I think that 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 subscription creative subscription is actually acting especially together with the ARR that we provided for the first time, which is going to provide you much more color and transparency about how to try to predict it. But at this point of time, we feel very comfortable in providing just one number with regard to the guidance.

Speaker 6

Great. Thanks a lot guys.

Speaker 1

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

Speaker 2

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

Speaker 7

Hey, good morning, guys. Maybe I'll try the guidance question a little bit more directly with the agency push. And you guys are clearly excited about the agency, your 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? And then 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 help 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 that they were really able to make meaningful headway in that market? Thanks.

Speaker 3

I think this is Aush. I'll try the first part. So what we do see is that we have really good growth on the professional creators and agencies and which exceeds 50% growth in Rovi. 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, terms of what is 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. And I think that this is a time where we have really a massive opportunity. Obviously, like everything else, we provide guidance to the things that we do know that we're able to achieve and other things that we hope we will achieve. So 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.

Speaker 1

Question please?

Speaker 2

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

Speaker 8

Hey, guys. Thanks for taking the questions. Two quick ones from us. So 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.

But are you facing constraints on ad or 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? And then the second question is for Ravi Shah. 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.

Speaker 5

Yes. Let me start with the marketing. Today, we are still under the 7 to 9 months TRY. 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 terms of the number of users that we are getting and we can actually see that as part of the numbers. And 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. But let's remember that as part of the 2,000,000 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 7 to 9 months to change in the near future.

Speaker 3

And this is Avishai. In respect to regarding who's using payment today. And so when we release this product, we assume that the majority of the new users will adopt it and we do see that happening. And we estimate there's 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 old customers into payments.

I think because of the quality of the way that you can actually track transactions. And so as a result, we see both of them growing very well. The majority of new users today on Wix, choosing Wix Payment and pretty much everybody who change or add a payment solution on an old store or an old any kind of a transactional base product on Wix is moving to Wix Payment. So we're very proud of the product and obviously it's already returned a lot of the value that we expected and I think that it will continue to do so.

Speaker 1

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

Speaker 2

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

Speaker 9

Thanks a lot. So I think previously you guys talked about at least a 3x return on this expanded customer support. Is that still the expectation for 2020? And then in your prepared commentary, you talked about implementing a more proactive approach to support. Can you just maybe discuss that in more detail?

And then secondarily, can you maybe give us some more color on what drove the acceleration in revenue in collections for business solutions in the Q4?

Speaker 5

Sure. So this is Leroy. We'll start with the first part and Nirav will share some more light about the progress. So we still feel very strong about the opportunity in 2020 with regard 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.

So I think that we might get some upside during this year and certainly next year. But Nir will elaborate more about it.

Speaker 10

Yes. So I think generally it's for a company our size, doing such a change for the customer experience is really a big it's a huge undertaking. And I think we moved forward a lot and then we had to align ourselves a little bit, but we were making some mistakes on the way. But all in all, I think that we're heading in a very positive direction. We've been 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 will finish all of the training program. But the good news is that since this is a cadence that in which we do it in groups, we already start seeing some of the agents that have been trained to who are taking phone calls. And there, I can say that we're seeing extremely positive signs. 1st and foremost, by just much higher satisfaction, the customers that talk with those agents significantly more satisfied than the ones who are still getting people who haven't had the training. And also, I would say on the financial side of the potential, because we see a much higher conversion rate for the free users that calls in and will 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. So I think that we have very, very high conviction that this is going to be a very successful undertaking in 2020 and then years to come.

Speaker 5

Yes. With regard to the second question about the business solution growth, so we see obviously and this is what we indicated also last quarter is about the payments growth. So 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.

Speaker 9

Got it. Thank you.

Speaker 1

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

Speaker 2

Your next question comes from Nate Schindler from Bank of America.

Speaker 11

Yes. Hi, guys. So 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. And is that because of the cutoff of Connect?

Speaker 12

And do

Speaker 11

you expect that to lead going forward?

Speaker 3

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

Speaker 10

But I think that if you go back to slides to slides and look at the core value, I think which is the more important part, you can actually see that it is still ahead of any quarter before that in terms of the year.

Speaker 11

And that brings up another question. When you say you're billing, you're getting customers that are 1,000 times more valuable or many times more valuable than previous I assume you mean agencies, but

Speaker 12

are you billing the agencies

Speaker 11

on a per website basis or as you just as they probably were prior to 2019? Or are you changing it to build them a kind of more enterprise pricing?

Speaker 3

So, it's AGCs are just part of it. And yes, then it can be a very different pricing model. But also, we have customers that for payment and for buying enterprise packages and buying huge amount of applications are just paying us a substantially higher amount than the lower

Speaker 12

the value of customers.

Speaker 3

And as you just the value of customers. And 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. So and that just show that. And this we believe that this discrepancy and this difference will continue to grow going forward. And so it's important to be able to establish the right metrics.

Speaker 11

Great. Thank you.

Speaker 1

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

Speaker 2

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

Speaker 12

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

Speaker 5

Sure. So I think that if you look at the chart, so obviously, the North America was extremely strong for us. And as we mentioned many time in the past, we do the TRY based on channel and geography or even country. So the fact is that, for example, many of our new initiatives were launched in the U. S.

So obviously have the TRY 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 Q4 we saw like a kind of 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 files and everything that's happened over there in the Q4.

Speaker 3

And in regards to Europe, again, I think that as Phil said, a lot of the new initiatives were launched first in the United States, but also things like Brexit and instability in Russia and it slowed our business and we can see already that it's picking up back. And luckily, I mean, Brexit finally has been decided on. I'm not sure

Speaker 12

if you'd like.

Speaker 3

Okay, great.

Speaker 12

And just a quick follow-up. I know you mentioned you're moving away from subs as a metric, but you had originally held a view that premium subs should accelerate in 2020. Are you still holding that view or not? Thank you.

Speaker 5

Yes, yes. Of course, We are actually even feel much more bullish about it when we're starting the year. And I think that Q4 is a great indication for that. We actually managed to beat our own expectations in terms of net adds. And we are going to still by the way, we are going to still provide subscription in 2020 and later on on an annual basis.

But 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.

Speaker 12

Thank you.

Speaker 1

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

Speaker 2

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

Speaker 13

Thanks. This is Chris on for Lloyd. Could you

Speaker 12

just talk about how you

Speaker 13

guys are thinking about the attach rate of some of these new functions associated with Editor X, both functions you guys talked about in the letter related to collaboration, management and growth? And 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.

Speaker 3

I think that in regards to Editor X, the most important thing, right, 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, right? And we just announced it. We hope to fully release it before summer.

And so we have not yet the ability to share performance on 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 addressing this market and provide tremendous value. So especially combined with COVID, So it's going to have a different price model and a higher price model of course. And when we actually release it, we'll be happy to

Speaker 2

share it.

Speaker 1

Great. Thanks, Chris. We have the next question, please.

Speaker 2

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

Speaker 14

Hey guys, thanks Jason. So two questions. What quarter this year will also be on the new pricing plan? And then secondly, is DeviantArt still a margin drag? And if so, maybe help us understand how much it was a drag on last year, however you want to do it either free cash flow or EBITDA?

Thanks.

Speaker 5

Sure. So with regard to the first question about the price increase, so obviously, we are going to see the end of it or the effects of it in the Q2. So this is with regard to the first question. With regard to the IVION out and I think that let Nir elaborate about it some more. We basically launched the new product.

We see an amazing first results in terms of the business metrics. It's part of our guidance. It's yet not big. But we believe that we are going to generate much more growth from DeviantArt in the future.

Speaker 10

A. J. Sven, it's Nir. So as Leo mentioned, I think that definitely on the margin side, the inventory is very small, probably not that significant. But I think what's more interesting is that throughout 20 19, we managed to pretty much overall and released a new product of ViviantArt, which, so to speak, kind of stopped the bleeding in terms of decline in the amount of

Speaker 3

users and new registrants and Tripled. Yes. Or did triple the amount of new registration? Yes.

Speaker 10

So as I said, we not only managed to stop that link as we lifted it actually, regarding into the path of growth there, which we think is tremendous. So 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 then you aren't, how much people are communicating with each other and commenting. And this is basically, I think, the right time for us to start working on how do we add value for those users that we can monetize on. That's definitely what we're going to do throughout 2020.

Speaker 14

And just a quick follow-up. There was just accounting question. There was a non GAAP sales and marketing, dollars 1,700,000 add back. Just what was that related to?

Speaker 5

Again, $1,700,000 of non GAAP sales and marketing?

Speaker 14

Yes. It was in the reconciliation tables, We can take it offline.

Speaker 5

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

Speaker 1

All right. Thanks. Can we have the next question please?

Speaker 2

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

Speaker 6

Thanks. I wanted to ask about gross margin trends in both segments, Creative Subscriptions and Business Solutions. They've been 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 the Wix Payments.

It sounds like going forward, you expect Creative subscriptions gross margins to kind of stabilize in 2020. Is the is it would it then theoretically after 2020 20 start rising again as you get scale against the customer care organization costs? And then on the business solutions side, it sounds like gross margins could be up or down. It will just depend on the product mix shift. Is there a way to know at which at what level those gross margins could stabilize, maybe not in 2020, but at some point in the future?

Thank you.

Speaker 5

Yes. So 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. So 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're all adding incremental dollars. So this is the way that we're actually looking at it.

Speaker 2

Your next question comes from Sterling Auty from JPMorgan.

Speaker 8

I apologize if you covered this, but how do

Speaker 12

we think about how the FX impacts will kind of unfold through the year, especially around collections?

Speaker 5

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 $12,000,000 Many analysts say that it's going to reverse in 2020, but it's hard to tell and certainly we cannot tell that. So 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.

Speaker 12

Okay. And then one quick follow-up, if

Speaker 8

I may. Just when I look at the

Speaker 12

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? Or could we go back and see something that's a little bit more vertically focused?

Speaker 3

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. So that is probably what it's not necessarily something that we're going to release this year.

Speaker 12

Got it. Thank you, guys. Sure.

Speaker 1

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

Speaker 2

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

Speaker 12

Yes. 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 update.

I realize it's an evolving strategy.

Speaker 3

Of course. This is Avishai. So, COVID and Editor X actually complete each other, right? Because one of them allow you to design the website in a superficial way and the other one allow you to program and handle data super advanced functionality that you have on the web side. So in many ways, they multiply the power of each other.

When we look at it, right, so EditoX is of course geared as monetization would be aligned toward professional and then the fact that they are doing the design part of it. On COVID and so, anyways, a lot of it will be geared toward how do we help designers align their business with our business model with their business model. And COVID is when you go deeper, right? So if you have a large customer, right, an enterprise customer, you're going to find that COVID will have more and more tiers of payment in order to be able scale that in the right way. So in kind of way, it's more of a matrix than a linear line, where COVID goes deeper into each customer and Editor X is actually allowing designers to work on multiple accounts and that should that's how we think about the business model.

Okay. That's helpful.

Speaker 12

Model. Okay. That's helpful. And just a 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.

So I'm just wondering, is that benefiting from it seems like there's an industry shift towards headless commerce and headless websites. Is Editor X in any way benefiting from that trend?

Speaker 3

Yes. 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 results that you're probably going to get. Very helpful. Thank you.

Speaker 1

Thanks, Josh. We have the next question, please.

Speaker 2

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

Speaker 15

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

Speaker 3

So 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 which that it's able now to 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. So Editor X, I believe, will continue to enhance exactly this trend. And as you said, it's already at 50%, so and it's a big number. So we're very excited about

Speaker 8

it. And I just want

Speaker 10

to add here, in terms of what we're going to offer in Editorix and kind of discussed that at the launch event 2 weeks ago. Around Editor X, there's going to be a whole suite of functionality that is geared exactly towards those more bigger kind of professional designers and agencies. So I think that through 2020, we will definitely be able to cater for their needs even better than we did in 2019.

Speaker 15

Great. Thank you.

Speaker 1

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

Speaker 2

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

Speaker 15

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? And then 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.

Speaker 10

Absolutely. So it's Nir. And I think currently, I would say the key geography is the United States and North America, not solely. We do have people from across the globe as we were global company. But definitely in terms of how we launched it and focused our first efforts, it's more 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.

Speaker 15

Great. Thanks guys.

Speaker 1

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

Speaker 2

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

Speaker 4

Great. Thanks for sticking 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 up market, 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

Speaker 15

to get your thoughts overall. Thank you.

Speaker 3

Well, of course. So I think that as you said, we now have 2 kind of competitive landscapes. And 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 become and we launch new products, it's becoming always bigger. I think that news from the recent days just emphasize again the difference between open source being hosted on a domain selling company with generic hosting, right?

And 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. And so 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 bring to our customers. As for the 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.

Speaker 1

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

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