Cts Eventim Ag & Co Kgaa (CEVMF) Q4 2025 Earnings Call

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Good evening, everybody, and a very good morning to all of you dining in today from the U.S. Welcome to CTS Eventim's earnings call for the full year 2025. Thank you very much for joining in today's call. I'm William Wilms, the new Chief Financial Officer of CTS Eventim since Jan 2026, and I'm delighted to take you through our results, but also our strategic priorities today. From our side is further on this call, Marco Heckermann, our Head of Investor Relations and Business Development. Marco, hello everyone. Thanks for joining. For today's agenda, I will guide you through our promising full year 2025 results, but also our strategic priorities for 2026 and beyond. and provide you with our guidance for 2026 and our new approach towards capital market communication. I look forward to the discussion with you on our 2025 results and 2026 guidance and will be happy to open the floor for your questions at the end of the earnings presentation. Let's begin. Let me start with a detailed look at our 2025 full-year outturn and achievements. Before I, however, turn to a more detailed review, I would like to set the stage for today's call. 2025 has been a year of continued momentum for Eventim. a year in which we crossed for the first time in our history the 3 billion revenue threshold and further consolidated our position as Europe's leading live entertainment and ticketing platform. At the same time, we achieved an adjusted EBITDA of €584 million, demonstrating not only strong top-line growth, but also our solid operational execution and profitability. Looking at our operational scale, we marketed more than 1 million events in 2025 in more than 30 countries worldwide. In terms of reach, our ecosystem generated approximately 7.6 billion digital touchpoints, highlighting the sca...