ZEAL Network SE (0QJQ) Q2 2023 Earnings Call

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Good morning everyone and welcome to SEALs earnings call. I hope you all have access to the presentation but if you don't it's accessible on our home page on the investor relations section as well. On this content slide we will talk about today's agenda and we will start off with a summary of the first six months of the year followed by a business and a financial update We will then reiterate our guidance for the year before we are finishing off with the key takeaways. After the presentation, we will give you the opportunity to ask questions. I will now hand over to our CEO, Helmut Becker. Good morning and welcome. On the summary page for the first half of 2023, we're going to go through some highlights. We continue to grow the business, and we do that by using opportunities for efficient growth investments. As a result, we've been able to significantly increase our billings volumes by 15% compared to last year. We do this in line with our marketing strategy. And what I mean by that is that we are accelerated. We have accelerated customer acquisition, particularly during a high jackpot phase in June. That was a Euro jackpot jackpot phase. And on top of that, another significant highlight for the first six months of the year was the long awaited receipt of the license for virtual slot machine games in Germany that we received from the national regulator. We were well prepared and launched our offering very quickly with an initial portfolio in June. We will now step by step expand our games portfolio. And The final highlight for the third time this year, one of our customers won a very large jackpot that happened very recently in August. And we are very excited to have so many of our customers win big jackpots. I actually have the privilege to talk to these customers. ...