DIGITALBOX PLC (DBOX) — HY Results

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Good morning, and welcome to the DIGITALBOX PLC investor presentation. Throughout this recorded meeting, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and could be submitted any time by the Q and A tab situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Simply type in your questions and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question received during the meeting itself. However, company can review all questions submitted today and publish responses where it's appropriate to do so. Before we begin, we'd like to submit the following poll. I'd now like to hand you over to James Carter, CEO. Good morning, sir. Good morning. Thank you, Mark. And again, welcome to the DIGITALBOX twenty twenty four interim results presentation. We're glad you're able to join us. I'm joined by Jim Douglas, our COO, and David Joseph, our CFO, to go through this presentation this morning. First slide, you may or may not be familiar, but the board brings significant experience to the business through the success really that it's delivered within major institutions across The UK. EMAP, Future PLC, Unilever, Reach, Daily Mail, all covered by the individuals on the board. In addition, the executive has experience of driving editorial strategy at the highest level and delivering VC backed roll ups to exit, and we're well invested with a stake of over 20% of the business. In order to continue to deliver the perfect governance, we're in the process of recruiting a further independent NED to ensure that the best balance to represent the interests of all shareholders exists. So firstly, some highlights from what we hope you will view as a positive set of results. H1 performance was ahead the budget market guidance. Revenues were up 32% year on year. The TAB and ...