Thank you all for standing by, and welcome to Adevinta's Q3 2021 trading update presentation. Mr. Rolv Erik Ryssdal, CEO of Adevinta, will host today's conference. Mr. Ryssdal, the floor is yours. Thank you, operator. Hello, everyone. Welcome, and thank you for joining today's presentation of our Q3 results. First of all, I hope that wherever you are, you and your close ones are healthy and safe. We see a new surge of COVID cases in many countries, and we need to remain cautious. We just heard before this call that in France they're encouraging people to take their third dose, but are not planning any lockdowns currently. I have the pleasure today to have on this call with me the whole AdEx team of Adevinta. For the first time, we will discuss the last quarter's developments and performance for the new Adevinta, including the full quarter contribution from eBay Classifieds assets. We'll also share with you a preview of our Capital Markets Day, which is taking place Tuesday in London. I will not go through the disclaimer. I invite you to read it. I will start with an overview of the key highlights of the quarter before going into the details of the business review. Uvashni will do a review of the financials, and I will conclude with the outlook. Antoine, Patricia, Gianpaolo, Zac, Renaud, and Nicki will join us for the Q&A session. Starting with the key highlights of the quarter, some major strategic updates. We announced this morning that going forward, we will concentrate our investment capacity on five core markets: Germany, France, Spain, Benelux, and Italy. We are very excited about the significant growth opportunities in those markets where we hold unique leading positions. In line with Adevinta's active portfolio management strategy, we have decided to divest Australia, including Gumtree, Autotrader, and CarsGuide, and South Africa. That will start in early 2022, and we also decided to carry out strategic reviews of other assets. When we announced the acquisition of eCG, we communicated on the synergy target range of EUR 130 million-EUR 165 million on the run-rate EBITDA impact by year 3. That was based on the full portfolio. With the planned divestitures, we confirmed that we're on track for a target of EUR 130 million. We have made good progress since the completion of the acquisition, securing these opportunities. As a result, we are now providing a mid- to long-term outlook for our core markets with approximately 15% annual growth, driving EBITDA margins to 40%-45%. We will go into the details of our long-term opportunity, strategy, and financial targets at our Capital Markets Day next week. Beyond this, the transfer of shares from eBay to Permira took place on November 18. Permira now owns 11% of Adevinta's share capital, and eBay owns 33%. Finally, we're very pleased that Adevinta has been recognized as a sustainability leader within the Dow Jones Sustainability Index Europe, ranking as one of only six companies recognized in the media and entertainment industry group. Now moving on to financial performance, I will start by reminding that the comparative quarter in 2020 was a strong quarter, especially in France, which was leading the recovery trajectory ahead of other markets. In mobile.de, which benefited last year from strong activity levels after the end of the first lockdown. This year, we saw the opposite effect, with soft traffic levels in the summer following the lifting of restrictions in most markets and increasing supply pressure in the motors market as a result of the global chip shortage situation. In that context, we delivered solid revenue growth, with total consolidated revenues up 6% year-on-year, excluding disposals, driven by classifieds in core markets that were up 8%. This was partly offset by lower display advertising. We expect revenue growth to accelerate in Q4, excluding mobile.de. As announced in our Q2 trading update, we accelerated investment in marketing after several quarters of holding back due to the COVID context, and we're ramping up our product development resources to drive for future growth acceleration in line with our long-term targets. As announced in July, our reporting structure has changed to align with our new organization, with four main segments: France, mobile.de, European markets, and international markets. We released three weeks ago the historical performance for the combined group based on this new reporting structure. I know it implies a lot of work for analysts and shareholders to adapt their models and build reliable estimates, but we hope this was helpful. Now, I will quickly run you through the business development for each of those segments. In France, vaccine rollout accelerated significantly in Q3, and macro indicators are going in the right direction. The real estate market remained dynamic, whereas the motors market is facing headwinds with the global supply issue and the impact it has on dealer inventory. In terms of product innovation, we launched face-to-face payments for private users and extended peer-to-peer payments for professionals. We continued to improve our vertical offers. In real estate, we launched virtual visits and pricing by region. In motor, we deployed access to largest vehicle technical information on the apps. We also implement the number of security initiatives to reinforce trust and fight fraud on our platform. In Germany, while macro indicators keep robust, the number of car transactions is declining. It's 4% year-to-date, with dealer supply on all-time low due to the chip shortage and the decline in sales of new cars. The market for new cars is expected to continue to wait for the rest of this year and for the first part of 2022, and we expect a gradual recovery during next year. I would like to stress that mobile.de is a very high quality asset with a clear lead in number of listings, number of dealers, and consumer audience, so I expect mobile.de to come back strongly when the market normalizes. Financing and C2B transactions show the growth of 3% compared to Q2 2021. For the first time since the start of the COVID crisis, we increased our prices in August with no impact on our dealer and listing coverage. I think this demonstrates the strong leading position mobile.de has in the German car market. In the quarter, we continued to successfully roll out new products and improve our solutions for the benefit of our users and clients. Moving on to European markets, I will focus on the largest assets. In eBay Kleinanzeigen, traffic was down year-on-year compared to an exceptional Q3 2021. Compared to Q3 2019, traffic is still up 80%. We reached the milestone of 21,000 SMB subscribers in September, which is up 37% year-on-year. The number of transactions increased double digits compared to the previous quarter. In real estate, we further grew our subscriber base up 15% year-on-year. In Marktplaats, we saw market recovery in the quarter, but the concerning increase of COVID cases led to further increase in restrictions recently. We continued to work with the SMB and to increase pricing, resulting in a steady growth of B2C monetization. In Spain, we observed good recovery in the jobs market, which was significantly hit by the COVID crisis. We successfully launched also a new pricing and packaging offer in September in real estate. In Italy, we saw positive development compared to very strong Q3 2020. We extended our market share in vertical segments, and we launched our payment and delivery solution to Subito. I will now conclude this section with international markets. In Canada, traffic declined year-on-year overall, but Kijiji Autos was slightly up. Motor inventory shortages resulted in lower net motor dealer acquisitions and feature package cancellations or downgrades. In real estate, we saw continued strength in account growth. In Australia, continued lockdowns and mobility restrictions led to soft traffic development. Strength in motor was driven by continued upselling of dealers to build the Autotrader joint proposition. In Mexico, we saw solid real estate traffic development and growth in real estate agent accounts. I will now hand over to Uvashni for the financial performance section. Thanks, Rolv Erik, and good afternoon, everyone. Before I comment on the quarter financial performance, I'd like to highlight a few elements with respect to the financial information disclosed in the report. As Rolv Erik mentioned, our reporting structure reflects the new organization and the way we are structured to manage the business. To simplify the reporting, we do not include the non-controlled JVs, which is OLX Brazil and willhaben, in our segment reporting anymore. To better understand the year-on-year performance evolution, in the next four quarters, we will provide two references for the comparative periods on segment reporting. Firstly, the IFRS segment reporting that provides for the fully consolidated financial reporting that will not include the eCG numbers for those comparative periods where these markets were not part of the group. The combined view, this will reflect the results of the new Adevinta as if eBay Classifieds were part of the group during those periods, in line with the historical performance we disclosed three weeks ago. These numbers are presented to help facilitate comparability and will be the basis for our year-on-year commentaries. They are unaudited. Now moving on to the results. Again, as Rolv Erik mentioned, revenues on a combined basis were up 6% in the quarter compared to the same period last year. This excluded disposals. This growth is reflective of the post-pandemic recovery we saw in Q3 2020, and the lower level of activities we experienced this summer following the lifting of restrictions in most markets. It also demonstrated the resilience of our markets despite the temporary supply pressure we observe in our motor vehicle verticals. The motor verticals fundamentally remain strong, and all our motor properties maintained leading positions while we successfully implemented price increases associated with product improvement and high value add for our car dealers. Online classifieds improved 6% year-on-year, of which 1% is attributable to transactional services. Core market classifieds grew 8%. Display advertising revenues, however, decreased by 3% year-on-year. This was impacted by decreasing demand. EBITDA was down by 7% compared to the third quarter of 2020. The revenue growth was offset by a previously guided and anticipated increase in marketing investment, notably in Spain and Italy. Personnel costs also increased year-on-year due to the ramp-up in product and technology resources to fuel product development and new business models ahead of revenue generation. With this high level, I will now run through the financial performance by segment. Starting with France. Revenues in France grew by 7% year-on-year, excluding the impact of a change in policy we had this year. Despite a challenging period where there was a cyberattack at L'Argus, they managed to maintain this growth. Compared to the third quarter 2019, underlying growth was 16%. We saw a double-digit growth in classified revenues at 10% compared to last year, and 27% compared to the third quarter of 2019. Motors and real estate verticals were the main contributors of the growth, primarily driven by positive ARPU development. As previously noted, advertising revenue lagged previous year, impacted by the drop in programmatic revenue caused by decreasing demand related to the reopening and lifting of restrictions in the summer months. EBITDA margin improved compared to previous quarters, but decreased compared to the previous year, mainly due to the increasing share of transactional services. These contributed positively to gross profits, albeit at lower margin levels and is still in the ramp-up phase. We also saw an increase in product and tech resources to drive further product development. As we move on to mobile.de. Here we saw revenues decline by 3% in the quarter. It was also up 1% compared to the solid third quarter of 2019. The main drivers of this were the year-on-year decline in listings, down 17% year-on-year. The level of available inventory in the market is low, driven by the low new car production due to the semiconductor shortage with a consequential impact on dealer inventory. The successful listing price increases across dealers in August, while we maintained leading market positions, mitigated some of the impact of the volumes. C2C revenue also declined compared to the third quarter of 2020 due to the supply increases, or supply issues, apologies. Low car production and turnover levels also had a knock-on effect on advertising spend of the OEMs. We therefore saw an advertising revenue decline, 12% year-over-year. The transactional business, which is financing and C2B, both strategically important, showed strong performance despite the high baseline in 2022 that was inflated by catch-up after a lockdown situation in the second quarter. EBITDA dropped by 9% in the third quarter due to an increase in marketing spend, which was up 39% year-over-year. This was as a result of the strong reduction levels we saw in 2022. Although higher, we believe that we needed to spend this to support and strengthen the mobile.de brand in an increasingly competitive market dynamic. Moving on to the European markets, we saw revenue growth of 11% compared to Q3 2020. This was mainly driven by eBay Kleinanzeigen. Spain, Italy and Ireland also contributed significantly with double-digit growth. Most importantly, classified revenues, which includes transactional revenues, were up 13%, and display advertising grew 7% year-on-year. EBITDA reduced by 4% compared to Q3 2020 due to the increased marketing spend in Spain, Italy, and eBay Kleinanzeigen when we compare to last year. Now I will move into giving you a little bit more insight on the revenue development in the four largest markets within the segment. eBay Kleinanzeigen grew 19% compared to Q3 2020 to EUR 48 million and 32% compared to Q3 2019. This was driven by steady performance in both advertising and online classifieds, especially in the consumer goods, where we saw positive listing trends and a good contribution from SMBs. In Spain, underlying growth was 14% compared to the Q3 of 2020, driven by strong performance in classifieds, which was up 14%, 15% year-on-year. In motors, we continued to see double-digit revenue growth fueled by a higher dealer penetration through Milanuncios, this despite the motor market softness. The jobs vertical performed with revenue exceeding 2019 levels towards the end of the quarter. This performance was also fueled by the small and medium business channels. In real estate, revenue recovered significantly, also driven by increased penetration and the launch of the new premium packages. Display advertising also grew year-on-year, driven by direct sales in the main verticals. Marktplaats revenue decreased 2% compared to the third quarter of 2020. Motors remained challenged with the muted supply. General classifieds started to a steady growth, benefiting from transactional services revenue, which was up 36% year-on-year. Advertising revenues were down 4% year-on-year, driven by lower traffic in the post-lockdown context. In Italy, we saw double-digit revenue growth, driven by both motors and a steady recovery in jobs. The international market segment saw a negative growth of 4% compared to the third quarter of 2020, entirely driven by advertising revenue, which contracted 13% year-on-year, mainly in Canada and Australia. Classified revenues were up 2% compared to the third quarter of 2020, led by Australia. EBITDA reduced by 2% compared to the third quarter of 2022, landing at EUR 11 million because of the decrease in advertising revenues and increased marketing spend in Australia and Mexico. Moving on to OLX. I would like to remind you that OLX Brazil is not part of our business segment reporting anymore. However, we believe it is important to continue to provide the markets with visibility on this asset as we exploit the real estate opportunity and drive further growth in transactional. OLX Brazil increased revenue by 116% year-on-year in local currencies, which included contribution from Grupo ZAP. On an organic basis, revenue grew 31% compared to the third quarter of 2020, driven by motors due to both higher penetration and price optimization, and a greater level of development with cross-selling strategies in real estate. EBITDA increased by EUR 4 million compared to the same period last year, fueled by the revenue growth with an EBITDA margin at 23.4%, while we continue to invest in product and tech resources and in marketing to drive new product and the joint proposition in real estate. The next slide is about the segment that we call Other and headquarters, which comprises Adevinta shareholder and central functions, as well as the central product and tech development. The EBITDA of Other and headquarters reduced by EUR 3 million year-on-year to EUR 43 million, mainly due to the higher personnel related costs because of the buildup of capacity to prepare for the eBay TSA exit ahead of some of the synergy expected in later years, and also due to different phasing of third-party services. Now, moving on to other P&L items below EBITDA. On this slide, the Q3 2020 column in the table refers to the IFRS reporting that corresponds to Adevinta's legacy perimeter, as we provided historical combined figures only for the segment information. Depreciation and amortization increased by EUR 50 million year-on-year, and this increase is entirely due to the amortization of the eCG intangible assets related to the purchase price allocation. The main amounts are related to mobile.de, eBay Kleinanzeigen, Marktplaats, and Canada. Other expenses decreased by EUR 7 million compared to the same period last year. This evolution is due to a decrease in acquisition related costs compared to the same period last year, partly offset by an increase of integration related costs. Net finance costs increased by EUR 4 million compared to the same period last year. Now, I would like to conclude this section with our financial position. At the end of the quarter, we had a total cash position of EUR 232 million. This included restricted cash of EUR 8 million. As a reminder, refinancing with senior secured notes and institutional term loans have been effective at closing of the eCG acquisition, and we have drawn down EUR 150 million of the EUR 450 million revolving credit facility in June. Our senior secured net leverage ratio, according to the definitions of our facilities agreement and before synergies, was 4.0x at the end of September. Our leverage target remains unchanged, and it is to get back to 2-3x range in the medium term. This concludes my section on the financials. In summary, overall, a resilient quarter for the business despite the headwinds in motors and display ads. On the long term to medium term targets, we will provide more detail at the CMD on Tuesday next week. I will now hand over to Rolv Erik to conclude with the outlook. Thank you, Uvashni. As I indicated in my introduction, going forward, we will concentrate our investment capacity on five core markets. That is Germany, France, Spain, Benelux, and Italy. In these markets, we remain very excited about the significant growth opportunities and our unique position to capture them. We expect core markets revenue growth of approximately 15% on average per year in the mid to long term, driving the EBITDA margin to 44%-45%. We will also continue to support the development of our fast-growing joint ventures. In line with management's active portfolio management, we have decided to divest Australia and South Africa and to carry out strategic reviews on the other assets. In the fourth quarter of 2021, we expect an acceleration of revenue growth excluding mobile.de. In the short term, our motors vertical is still impacted by lower used cars volumes because of the semiconductor shortage, leading to low production levels of new cars globally. We do expect supply pressure to be a drag on growth until mid-2022, more especially in mobile.de, given that at this stage, the revenue model is largely linked to listing volumes. It is important to note that the fundamentals of the mobile business remain strong, with high demand and lead generation levels. Furthermore, as we maintain leading position across our markets, the supply effect will continue to be partially mitigated by price increases associated with product efficiency. When the semiconductor shortage unwinds and supply pressures relax, we expect an acceleration in growth in the motors vertical, driven by the combination of a normalized listing levels and higher RPUs. In 2022, assuming a gradual recovery in the motors market in the second half, we expect core markets revenue growth to be low double digits. We will also continue to invest in product development to capture future growth opportunities and to support further development of traditional online classifieds and new revenue streams such as transactional services. We will go more into this and outline this in the Capital Markets Day. The integration of the businesses is progressing well, and we remain on track to deliver on the previously announced synergies that will progressively contribute to accelerated growth and margin improvement towards our mid- to long-term targets. I will now open the Q&A session, and my colleagues from the executive committee and myself are available to answer your questions. Operator, please. Thank you. We'll now begin the question and answer session. To ask a question, please press star one on your telephone keypad and wait for your name to be announced. That is star one to ask a question. First question, it's from the line of Christopher Johnen from HSBC. Your line is now open. Yes, thanks for taking my questions. I'd like to do them one by one, if possible. First, on the 15% revenue CAGR and the margin target. I'm just trying to understand if it's possible to get any color on how much of that is driven by transactional services. I mean, I'm asking because France will be there and the European markets are essentially already at 45% margins, so at the upper end, excluding any synergies. I'm just curious if there is any color you can give on the sort of, how you say, makeup of those 15%, if possible. Oh, you're asking me. This is something that we'll cover more in the Capital Markets Day, right? Yeah, for sure. You know, there's quite a bit of differentiating contributors, so I would prefer to hold this over to the Capital Markets day if you can, because there's a lot of context behind it as well. Okay, sure. No problem. Second question. Thinking about 2022, I mean, obviously understand that the, you know, sort of planning assumptions, regarding, the autos space, inventories coming back, et cetera, is kind of difficult. It looks like it's going to be very, very different in H1 versus H2. That's probably a fair assumption. Just in terms of margins, for overall 2022. Obviously, motor space, very high margin, particularly on the mobile side, probably one of the highest margins. A lot of the growth is coming from sort of, you know, transactional services also where the margin is still negative. Is it possible to give us a bit of color on the sort of scope of investments, you know, new product R&D, et cetera, marketing, you know, just to get a flavor on how much this will be in 2022? Because, you know, the range of margin possibilities is potentially quite wide. As you know, we don't really provide forward-looking guidance, especially when it comes to the financials. We did provide the guidance on the revenue in light of the longer-term targets we were providing and knowing the shorter-term implications on the supply within the motors vertical. I wouldn't want to comment at this stage. As you said, it's early stage, anything could move and anything could happen. I'd like to hold that position for now. You know, we will fundamentally, of course, continue to invest in the business, but we will not do it at the detriment of, you know, of a full-scale margin. We'll always balance those views. That's all I can tell you at this point in time. I'd like to disclose at this point in time. Okay, sure. Maybe lastly, on the German car classifieds markets, maybe you could talk a little bit about the competitive dynamics there. I think you said competition was increasing. I'm just curious what you're seeing. I know you just had a price increase there last year, which went into effect earlier in the summer, I think. I'm just curious what you are seeing aside from the sort of inventory issues. Well, I think the inventory issue is really the main factor because apart from that, we're seeing that our position is very strong. We are delivering very good on leads. We are delivering well on our market share in used cars and also in dealer number of dealers. Then I would say when I say competition or we have questions about the new players such as AUTO1, et cetera. What I can tell you is that the levels that they are trading are still very small. The main topic there is really the supply shortage. We are working very hard to develop new services and testing many new services on our sites. I remain very confident about the position that mobile.de has in the German car market, also in the competitive landscape. Okay. Very clear. Thank you. We'll give you even some more detail on that when it comes to positioning within the different segments on Tuesday. Perfect. Look forward. Thank you. Our next question, it's from the line of Joe Barnet-Lamb from Credit Suisse. Your line is now open. Excellent. Rolv Erik Ryssdal, Uvashni Raman, and team, thank you very much for taking my questions. I've got three. Firstly, again, on Mobile. You've seen significant ARPU increases at Mobile with a lot of this offset by cyclical headwinds in listings. As cyclicality turns and volumes come back, is there any reason why ARPU wouldn't continue to grow? Is there any sort of offsetting factor or blend or anything that you'd say to play that down? Secondly, on transactional. Transactional revenues were slightly weak versus my expectations. Is that cyclicality as per what you've seen in the core with regards to sort of like, you know, post-reopening world? Or is there anything else behind that? When can we expect an acceleration? Then finally, on your portfolio strategy, announced this morning, can you comment on Canada, which I think is the largest business outside of your core? What's your current thinking about its position in your portfolio and what's behind that sort of view at this point? Thank you. Right. I think I'll answer question one and three, and then I'll leave to either Antoine or Uvashni Raman to comment on the transactional volume. On mobile.de. mobile.de has been working well with the car dealers and then did not raise prices last year. What we did was this year in August raise prices with close to 14%. That has not had an impact on our volumes. We remain confident that we can do more also next year. Of course, we have to launch new products in order to justify price increases. I remain confident that as long as we do that and continue to develop, then the revenues and the ARPA should continue to go up when the market normalizes. The good thing is that the dealer economics are quite healthy due to the positive development of car prices and also their margins. On the portfolio-wide question, yes, we're very excited about our five core markets, and then we have decided to sell South Africa and Australia. And then there are a few other markets such as Canada, where we said that we need more time to conclude. I think that Canada is, you know, with Kijiji it's a great asset. So they developed the car vertical. On the other hand, it's also a challenging competitive situation. What we've said is we need to have some more time to really conclude what is the best way forward for Canada. We expect to be able to do that during next year. It's just that we want to spend more time on evaluating the various options that we have there. On the transactional, I don't know which. If you want to comment on that, Antoine. Yes. Do you hear me? Yes. Yes. On transactional, you know that it's a young activity for us, so we don't have a lot of like background on this activity. Globally, what we understand on this business now is that it's completely an e-commerce style. We have some seasonality quarter by quarter. I think we will come back to more information during the CMD, but globally, we say that the end of the year is interesting because of Christmas and the Q3 during the summer. The volume are changing during this period. Yes, you're right. There is some seasonality, and I think we will come back to you on this topic during next week. Excellent. Thank you very much, team. Thank you. Our next question is from the line of Miriam Adisa from Morgan Stanley. Great. Good afternoon, everyone. Thanks for taking my questions. Three from me. First, just to follow up on the 2022 investment, specifically your marketing spend. I think you said marketing spend should essentially normalize to pre-COVID levels. If I look for Adevinta for 2019, I think you were doing about EUR 98 million. So could you talk about what that would look like on a pro forma basis, just so we have an idea of what the right level is for next year? Second, on the mid-term growth outlook, you're guiding for 2022 to be below that 15%. Is it fair to assume that 2023 will be above the 15% level? How should we think about the lead time between investment and seeing that acceleration come through on the revenue growth? If I could just ask about Q4 growth, including Mobile. I think for Mobile, the comp is a bit easier in Q4. Do you think that Mobile will be back in positive territory in Q4? If you could just comment on what you're seeing at the moment with Mobile. Thank you. Do you want to take the first questions, Uvashni? Yeah. Again, Miriam, as you know, I'm not going to give you a pointed answer or direction in terms of the number, but what I can tell you is our marketing investment is going to be really, you know, tactical. We'll do it based on, you know, new product development coming to market, new opportunities that we see, and in terms of some of the competitive positioning we see in our markets. You know, if you look at 2019 levels versus 2020, we really cut back in 2020. What we will do is not, you know, spend marketing for the sake of it, but really because we believe there's lots of new product coming to market, there's different positions and top of mind we want to maintain. That's the opportunities we will use, and then we'll utilize that in order to invest. At this point in time, you know, when we talk about increased marketing spend, we talk about it relative to positioning our revenue going forward as well. You had a question on mobile.de and yes, I think that last year was declining, but still holding a decent level, especially in the first part of that quarter. With the current new car trend, I think that I don't expect them to recover in Q4 compared to last year. Does that answer your question, Lisa? Thanks. There was one more question just on the 2023 growth. Should we expect that to be above 15%? How should we think about how long it takes for that investment to come through in terms of faster top line growth? Again, you know, you're asking me to provide forward guidance in terms of where those numbers are going to go. I mean, I'm not going to do that. What we'll do is we'll provide you some context, you know, on Tuesday on how we see that development come through and where we see those products come through, and services that are driving that revenue, and we'll give you an indication of then the acceleration of growth around there. Okay, great. Thank you. No worries. Thank you. Our next question is on the line of William Packer from BNP Paribas. Hi, Rolv and Uvashni. Thanks a lot for taking my questions. Firstly, just to come back on mobile.de in a bit of detail. Revenue for the quarter declined year-on-year, but if we take out the display ad headwinds, I think mobile.de classified revenue was flat to small up despite the significant decline in inventory. My understanding was that your price increases in August, so you only had the yield increase for two of the three months. It sounds like your tone on mobile.de for Q4 and into the first half of next year is pretty cautious. Could you talk us through why has the inventory headwind materially worsened, or is this some kind of competitive dynamics? Then secondly, on the synergies, rather than focus on synergies as a whole, can we talk to cost synergies? What percentage or what portion of the EUR 130 million are cost synergies, and do we see any savings in FY 2022 or FY 2023? My final question is, I suppose, just a brief update in France. You know, it's been a tough quarter versus recent history and the cyberattack issues were flagged, the transactional slowdown was flagged. How should we think about going forward? Is this a one-off blip and we return to normalized double-digit kind of growth, or is this a more lasting endurance challenge? Thanks. Thank you. I'll answer the first question, and then you'll take the second one, Uvashni, and then Antoine can also comment on the third one. For mobile.de, Will, yes, we're being cautious. It has nothing to do with competitive dynamics. We're confident about our position. The reason we're and you're right also that we got the price increases done in August. The reason why we're cautious is simply due to the chip shortage and the uncertainty around that that we think may affect car sales for some you know still some months and a couple of quarters. That's the clear reason for us being cautious on mobile.de. Yes. Sorry. No worries. I was just going to cover off on the synergies. Well, in terms of the synergies, we'll give you a clear view of some of the phasing of the synergies next week. Yeah, definitely we'd anticipate savings, you know, in 2022 and 2023. We do have some investment as well in 2022 in order to obtain some of that synergies in 2023 and going forward. You definitely will see some of that phasing coming through, and we'll be able to give you a view of what we believe the numbers are next week as well. Yes. Then on France, before you comment too much, Antoine, I would say that, you know, if you look at the France performance during the last few years and also year to date, it's a strong performance. We will show you the ARPU development in the important verticals next week, and it will vary a bit from quarter to quarter. In general, we're optimistic about our situation in France, and we will go into more detail there next week, Will. Rolv, thanks, many thanks for the responses. Just one quick follow-up. When it comes therefore to Q4 mobile.de, we should think that inventory declines are worse in Q4 than Q3, and that's the delta? Yes. Let's go into that next week. Yes, as it looks now, I think the supply shortage will be worse in the fourth quarter than the third quarter. Let me repeat, there's nothing in the fundamentals or in our competitive position that has weakened. Thanks for color. Thank you. Our next question is from Ms. Lisa Yang from Goldman Sachs. Good afternoon. I have three questions as well. Firstly, could you recall back to the autos vertical, and could you help us understand how the relationship between listings and revenue work across the different core markets, especially for mobile.de and point us how the revenue model there differs versus leboncoin? I think that would be just really helpful for us to understand how to model being part of the supply shortage. Secondly, on synergies, you narrowed the guidance to EUR 130 million, given the planned divestiture, which so far I think is just Australia and South Africa, versus the EUR 130 million-EUR 165 million run rate previously. Has there been any change in the way you think about the synergy since the integration? Should we think about that EUR 130 million applying only to the five core markets now, or to the broad portfolio ex-South Africa and Australia? And third question is, could you maybe give us a bit of a color on the trends seen so far in Q4, in terms of traffic and listings and maybe advertising trends as well, especially across France, Germany, and Spain? Thank you. I will start with the autos vertical, and then you asked me if I think the synergies and then perhaps Antoine and Gianpaolo can comment on Spain and France when it comes to traffic developments. Lisa, the auto vertical, yes, we have different pricing models in different countries. In Spain, no, sorry, in Germany, that you're asking specifically about, around 70% of the of the dealer of the total revenues in mobile.de are dealer revenues and dealer listings. Then for larger dealers, it's quite volume dependent. In totality, the German model is more reliant on volume than we have in other countries where we have more package solutions and more brackets. What we're working on is that we will implement more sophisticated packages that are, I think, more value driven rather than volume reliant. The situation today in Germany is that they are more reliant than the other countries because especially the big car dealers, they have a model which is very variable. It's less so in Spain and France, and we can detail it a bit more out next week. I think on synergies, uvashni want to comment on that? Yeah, sure. Yeah, in terms of the synergies, you're right. The EUR 130 million-EUR 160 million was on the whole portfolio. What we've done now is relooked at not just the disposal, those assets under evaluation as well. Therefore, you can then conclude that most of the majority or most of the EUR 130 million will be attributable to the core markets. Right. I don't know if Gianpaolo, you want to comment on some traffic development and then also Antoine for trends in the European markets? Absolutely, I can start. In Europe, as we said, we saw a Q3 that was a bit soft on traffic development, but mostly because of spectacular Q3 2020. We are well above 2018 levels. Going to Germany and eBay Kleinanzeigen, Q3 was -6%, but 18% versus 2019. What we see in Q4 is a gradual recovery of our traffic. Good positive signs there. In Spain, the situation is similar, with the nuance. The verticals are going very well. So Fotocasa is well above 2019 levels already. Coches.net as well. Jobs is doing well and is in this recovery, not only in terms of traffic, but in terms of listings and also in terms of leads. The vertical development is very positive. While we see more softness on the generalist on Milanuncios, also as an effect of a new algorithm of Google that penalized a bit our SEO traffic, knowing that in Milanuncios SEO is an important traffic source. Overall, eBay Kleinanzeigen recovering well above 2019 already now, and the same for the verticals in Spain. Same thing for Marktplaats in the Netherlands. Decline in Q3, well above 2019 already and improving in Q4. For France, quite the same situation for the traffic. Just to remember back to Q3 2020 was the recovery quarter in France. We had a strong rebound during this quarter last year. This year was also a good quarter in terms of traffic, well above if we compare to Q3 2019. In terms of listings, you saw a big increase of our listings during the last month. It's continuing far above 2019 and in a bigger increase regarding 2020. Globally, the liquidity KPIs are positive in France on the consumer goods categories, but also on the rest of the portfolio, except the motors and real estate category, which are suffering a little bit, as we said before. Great. Thank you. That's very helpful. Thank you. Our next question is from the line of Adrien de Saint Hilaire from Bank of America. Good morning, sir. This is Adrien from Bank of America. I've got a couple of questions, please, if I may. First of all, short-term, Q3 EBITDA was, I believe, down year-over-year. Given the pressures you mentioned around mobile.de for Q4 and the investments you're making pre synergies, is there any reason why the Q4 EBITDA trends would be any different? Second, perhaps to come back on what William was asking. I believe that primarily the synergies were revenue driven, so is it fair to assume that EBITDA margins should be sliding again in 2022, given the things we mentioned and the things that are happening in Q3 and Q4? Maybe last question around mobile.de. I saw a video interview with one of your executives, where she was talking about mobile revenues doubling in the next five years. Is that something you can confirm? Or perhaps did I misunderstand something in this interview? Thank you very much. Well, if you wanna start with the first two questions, Uvashni. Yeah. I'll take- Patricia, you're on the line. Yeah. Sorry. No worries, Rolv Erik. Yeah. I'll take the first two questions. Again, you know, on Q4 and EBITDA, I'm not gonna provide any guidance on that in the sense that where it's heading towards. You know, at the end of the day, we are seeing some revenue acceleration in Q4. You know, and but we will continue to do some of that investment that we set because we really wanna see a ramp-up in some of our other product lines for the new year. On the synergy targets, the majority of the synergy targets or almost two-thirds of that is actually cost synergies, not revenue synergies. Most of the revenue synergies come later. If you know, in terms of the theory that 2022 will not be impacted, there will be some synergy impacts in, or positive impacts in 2022. If you want more flavor on that, we'll give it next week as well as to some of the run rate and on that, those savings on cost and revenue. Right. I think, you know, let me start, Patricia, on the Mobile development. What I can say is that Mobile is a very strong asset, and we think that, with the current development going on in the classifieds industry, where you see more and more transactional opportunities coming, we see the ability to do new things. That is helping the dealers becoming better at online buying and selling. We think we can look into how we can help them with sourcing. We think we can do more on the financing side. In addition to delivering better basic products, we are in general optimistic about their position there, and we have we'd like to have stretch targets, but we'll get more into that also on Tuesday. I don't know, Patricia, is that a fair summary of what you said? Yes, Rolv. I would agree. Could you hear me? Yes. Fine. Yeah. Thank you. I think, you know, we will leave it at that, and we'll hope that you will come and listen to us with Patricia from... because we're going to talk more about this next week. In general, we like mobile.de franchise very much. Thank you. Thank you. We'll take our next question. It's on the line of Silvia Cuneo from Deutsche Bank. Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone. My first question is about the strategic review of the portfolio. Can you please share some background as to whether this was a plan from the beginning, that you were only interested in the European assets of eBay Classifieds Group, but to secure the acquisition with eBay, you had to acquire the whole Classifieds Group? Second question related to that, can you please discuss if you already see demand for the assets that you are looking to divest in early 2022, so that you will be able to secure an attractive valuation for Australia and South Africa? What do you intend to do with these proceeds? Third, about the progressing transactions, can you please talk about the take-up in Italy with TuttoSubito following the marketing campaign last summer, and how that take-up compares with what you've experienced in France? Also, I see you've signed different agreements with local logistics providers, so just wondering what are the next steps. Thank you. Okay, thank you. Let me answer the first two questions, and then I think the next one is for you, Gianpaolo. No, it was not the plan from the outset when we started to look at the ECG portfolio. We always liked ECG, and that was our dream partner. Remember, there's almost two years since this process started. What we've done the last half year is to do a very thorough review of the competitive dynamics and our own competitive situation of the economics, and I would say not least, our ability to execute. I think that it's fair to say that if you look at Australia and South Africa, I think they will benefit from having another owner. Because we as Adevinta, we're quite far away from these markets, and they're quite far away from our technical hubs. We believe that with the opportunities that we're seeing in Europe, we should focus our business and try to do our very best to be the best owner for these businesses. Then we can see that in other investments we've done, that we found better homes for some of the assets that are further away. That is the answer to that question. Yes, I expect there to be good interest for these assets because I think they both have interesting market positions with an untapped growth potential. We'll get back to you on that during the next year. I think the third question was more specifically on Italy. Gianpaolo, I'll hand it over to you. Sure. Silvia Cuneo, thanks for the question. I have to say that I'm very excited about how TuttoSubito is picking up in Italy. I think the team has done an exceptional job to launch all these services before September, so that we could take the back-to-school wave of transactional. That has been very positive. I think it's a bit too early to compare with pickup rate in leboncoin because, you know, our offer in leboncoin was launched more than three years ago, and we're just three months into the journey in Italy. I have to say that, you know, there is a lot of exchange of knowledge sharing. You know, our friends in France are sharing a lot of information and a lot of best practices, and this is really accelerating product development in Italy. Overall, very satisfied with the traction so far. Thank you very much. Thank you. We'll take our next question. It's on the line of Marcus Diebel from JP Morgan. Everyone, it seems a lot of questions will be answered at the Capital Markets Day, but one question still is on the guidance, which I assume is not gonna change next week. What is really the reason that you just guide for core markets and just not at the basic portfolio as we see it, after you gave the new reporting structure? And then secondly, if you could give us a guidance for this, how we should think about it, again, the new reporting structure and the entire portfolio, I think that would be very helpful. And then if you guide on core markets, how should we think then about the 40%-45% EBITDA margin? I'm just asking, does it mean it's the full headquarters included or is it just a pro rata? How should we actually think about it? Thank you. Hey, Marcus. Thanks for the question. You know, in terms of the why we kept it on core markets is because we have some assets that we've announced as disposals, and we've had other assets that we have announced as evaluations. We did not want the, you know, the medium- to long-term targets be variable related to that, where we believe the core markets will be the core elements of where the investments will occur and where we see the value come from. That's why we've concentrated the targets around that. When it comes to the 40%-45%, that's our all-in margin, including our HQ and product and tech central. Yeah, but only for the core markets, I assume, yeah? So you have the cost base. Sorry to interrupt. I just wanted to really understand it, how it works. You can also take it otherwise offline. Yeah, we can take it offline, but it's effectively 40%-45% target is our core markets, including our full HQ and product and tech central costs. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Okay, operator, I think we're actually at the hour now, so I don't know if we should have time for one last question and then refer the next to next week. Okay. Our next question is from Andrew Ross from Barclays. Thank you. Last but not least. I've just got two to finish with, if that's okay. The first one is to follow up on the transactional model and why it slowed in Q3. I hear your answer on seasonality, but it grew 36% year-on-year in Q3, and it was more than 100% year to date. I'm struggling as to why seasonality is all of the answer. I'm just wondering if you can give us any more color. Is it possible there have been some discounts on shipping fees, so the GMV growth is better than the revenue growth or maybe something else? The second question is, can you give us the revenue and the EBITDA of Australia and South Africa? Thank you. Antoine, you want to give some color on the first question and perhaps, Uvashni, you want to comment on the second question? Yes. On the transactional trend, just to remember, we are still investing in all of our countries on this activity, so we are developing new product and we're integrating features step by step. We are not all at the same level, but we continue the investment phase. During this period, you're right, I think you have some volume issues and volume effect based on seasonality. This is the first one. The second thing is, you're right, we are doing some pricing operation to especially on the shipping side, to get more users on these services. We are testing stuff. We are adjusting our pricing strategy because we are investing on this activity because we believe the volume is a most important thing. You're perfectly right. I think next week we'll give you more details on this business model to understand what are the key KPIs and you understand how we are building this e-commerce business model. You're right, during the last month, we continue to invest in our pricing analysis, in our strategy, and this is changing the KPIs and changing, of course, the trend. I think it's fair to say we remain very optimistic about our opportunities in the transactional, in our core markets when we look ahead. That's what we're ready to present to you on Tuesday. With respect to. Uvashni, there was a Yeah. Yeah, sorry. With respect to the share of Australia and South Africa, the total revenues is less than 5% of the total group revenues. In the last 12 months to Q3 2021, it was around EUR 65 million. From an EBITDA contribution perspective, it's just about EUR 7 million. Thank you. Okay, operator. I think we're now past the hours, and we would very much like to invite everyone to attend our Capital Markets Day, where we will shed more light on our plans going forward. We are, as you understand, very excited about the growth prospects in our core markets. That both goes for the transactional and also for the verticals. In the verticals, there is some temporary pressure in motors, but that does not jeopardize the long-term growth opportunities. With our strong and leading positions, we will continue to grow at scale. We're looking forward to telling you more about this on the CMD, which is November 30th in London. Thank you so much for tuning in. I wish you all the very best. Stay well and stay healthy. Thanks for your time, and have a good time. Have a good day. Thank you.
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