DIGITALBOX PLC (DBOX) — Results for the six months to June 2026

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Good morning. Welcome to the DIGITALBOX PLC investor presentation. Before we begin, I'd like to submit the following poll. And I'd to hand you over to James Carter, CEO. Good morning, sir. Good morning. Thank you for coming along to the 2026 DIGITALBOX interim results. I'm joined by Jim Douglas, chief operating officer, and Richard Spillsbury, our chief financial officer. We've got a presentation that will take about thirty to forty minutes to run through, and we'll then be taking questions at the end. So I think our cameras are gonna go down now, and I will push the presentation to full screen. Firstly, introduction to DIGITALBOX who for those who aren't fully versed in what we do, but this is the composition of the board. We're very well versed in PLC existence with experiences across EMAP PLC, future PLC, REACH PLC, Bauer Media, and including the Daily Mail within that significant list of of media operators within the public space. In a nutshell, DIGITALBOX is a pure play digital media company that focuses very much on digital delivery. And we have a strategy to create and grow products through our existing model that I'll explain later and transform properties that we acquire. At the moment, we have 11 assets that we operate, owned operated digital brands. We started off in the market with one, which was Entertainment Daily, and have grown out into quite well defined areas, which we've labeled recently as our vertical strategy. And in a simple sense, we publish great content that attracts audiences to go and visit our websites and consume that content, And we then monetize those visits through advertising impressions, typically through programmatic solutions. So just to run through what we're gonna cover today, we've got the first section, I'll take you through r...