YouGov plc (YOU) Q4 2024 Earnings Call

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you very much everybody for joining us this morning and thanks as ever to our panelists and how on every minute of every day around the world they're sharing their opinions to help us fulfill our mission and to help us create great value for the businesses that we work with this morning we published our results for the 12 months to the 31st of july 2024. i'll give a quick recap in a second and obviously we'll go into more depth over the next half hour and then be open to questions And FY24 itself has been a year of transition, it's been a year of challenge, and it's been a year of change for the industry and with us here at YouGov, with the businesses experiencing a number of successes and a number of challenges throughout the year. Now, today we report revenue and operating profits slightly ahead of our revised guidance. Across the year, we made significant strategic progress, including the acquisition, the conclusion of the acquisition of CPS and KnowledgeHound, enabling us to bring new technologies and new offerings to clients, as well as just, I think technically everybody counts FY24, FY25, bringing Yavel into the organization as well, together with a number of senior hirings to help us be even more competitive in the year ahead than the year before. The execution of our cost optimization plan is on track and we're confident we've got the right plans in place. We're focused on the long-term growth and our SP3 delivery. Overall, we expect YouGov to return and achieve growth in FY25 in line with the current market expectations and a margin more aligned to those that YouGov has historically delivered. and remain confident we're going to deliver on the long-term ambitions for the company. Now, quick click on the disclaimer, please. Great, I hope everybody has that. ...