EBIQUITY PLC (EBQ) — Interim Results

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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the EBQITY PLC half year results investor presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged. They can be submitted at any time via the q and a tab that's just just situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Please just simply type in your questions and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question it receives during the meeting itself. However, the company can review all questions submitted today, and we'll publish those responses where it is appropriate to do so. And before we begin, we would just like to submit the following poll. And if you could give that your kind attention, I'm sure the company would be most grateful. And I would now like to hand you over to the executive management team from EBQITY PLC. Nick, good afternoon, sir. Great. Thank you very much, Jake, and thank you for joining us this afternoon for the call to present the half year results for EBQITY to the year ended or half year ended June 30. I am Nick Waters, the Chief Executive. I'm joined on this call by Brian Porret, who's our Interim CFO. And I will start with a very brief summary before handing the slides to Brian to go through the financial data before returning. So it's been a disappointing first half of the year. There's no getting away from that. Some of that is down to external market circumstances and some of it of our own making, and I'll kind talk about that in a little bit more detail as we go through the presentation. Conditions were most challenging in Continental Europe. And although that was offset to a degree by growth in our Digital Media Solutions, the overall result has been a shortfall in revenue, which has impacted the bot...