Earnings Call Transcript - IHRT Q1 2022

Operator, Operator

Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the iHeartMedia First Quarter 2022 Earnings Call. Please be advised today's call is being recorded. I would like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Mr. Michael McGuinness, Deputy CFO. Please go ahead.

Michael McGuinness, Deputy CFO

Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for taking the time to join us for our first quarter 2022 earnings call. Joining me for today's discussion are Bob Pittman, our Chairman and CEO; and Rich Bressler, our President, COO and CFO. At the conclusion of our prepared remarks, management will take your questions. In addition to our press release, we have an investor presentation that you can use to follow along with our remarks. Please note that this call may include forward-looking statements regarding our financial performance and operating results. These statements are based on management's current expectations, and actual results could differ from what is stated as a result of certain factors identified on today's call and in the company's SEC filings. Additionally, this call will include certain non-GAAP financial measures. Reconciliations of non-GAAP financial measures are included in our earnings release, investor presentation and our SEC filings, which are available in the Investor Relations section of our website. And now I'll turn the call over to Bob.

Robert Pittman, CEO

Thanks, Mike, and good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for joining our first quarter 2022 earnings conference call. We're pleased to report another quarter of strong results for iHeart during the quarter when we, like all businesses, faced a unique combination of macroeconomic challenges. We believe our performance this quarter is further evidence of the successful execution of our digital transformation and multi-platform strategy, which delivered solid results while operating in a turbulent macro environment. The digital transformation of the company continues as a priority and the investments we've made and will continue to make in that effort present significant opportunities for the company to participate in exciting new and developing markets. Our recent announcement of the NFT-based Non-Fun Squad Media Franchise and our Super League roadmap partnership are examples of how we think iHeart can leverage our existing non-cash resources to build a position in these exciting new Metaverse and Web3 areas. As you may have seen in March, we announced that Sam Englebardt, Co-Founder and partner of Galaxy Digital, joined our Board of Directors. In addition to a wealth of operating experience, Sam has expertise, key relationships and a deep understanding of Web3 and emerging consumer tech platforms. That experience, coupled with Sam's background in media and entertainment, will be uniquely valuable to the company as this space develops. We are committed to building on the momentum of iHeart's successful transformation into a data-led, digital-driven business with leading consumer platforms like podcasting, all powered by the scale and unparalleled reach of our highly profitable Broadcast radio assets, the largest audio sales force and the only unified ad tech stack in audio advertising. We believe our first quarter performance is further evidence of the resiliency and high growth potential of our business and that we are poised for continued success in 2022 and beyond. In everything we do, we focus on optimizing our earnings and free cash flow. We believe this is the right approach to create equity value for our shareholders, particularly in this current environment. Before Rich takes you through the detailed results of the first quarter, I want to touch on a couple of key points. We continued our strong financial performance in the first quarter. Our first quarter consolidated revenue grew 19.4% compared to the prior year, slightly exceeding the high end of our guidance range we provided of 17% to 19%. One of our strengths as a company is our diverse revenue base. We execute across 160 owned local markets and no single advertising category comprises more than 5% of our revenues and no single advertiser more than 2%, all of which helps to mitigate pockets of advertising category softness. We generated adjusted EBITDA of $145 million for the quarter, an increase of 42% versus the prior year, and we expanded our adjusted EBITDA margin by 275 basis points. Looking at our operating segments individually, we continue to deliver industry-leading growth in our Digital Audio Group. Within the Digital Audio Group, are our podcast revenues, which were up 79% versus the prior year, which outperformed the overall podcast industry growth of 22% according to Magna, and our digital ex-podcast revenues, which were up 22% versus the prior year, which outperformed the industry growth of 16%, according to Magna. We expect to continue increasing our share of both. Included in our digital ex-podcasting business are our streaming products, third-party extension products, social, OTT, and display advertising. This allows us to offer holistic advertising solutions leveraging our deep relationships with our consumers to tens of thousands of our long-term advertisers. All of this is powered by our sales strategy of any seller anywhere can sell anything, a unique iHeart capability and is enabled by the unparalleled ad tech we've built and acquired. This quarter, digital revenues represented 25% of total company revenues compared to pre-pandemic Q1 2020 when they represented only 12%. And this quarter, podcasting revenues alone represented almost 10% of total company revenues, clear evidence of the success of our digital transformation. And in March, according to Podtrac, iHeart was again ranked the #1 podcast publisher in the U.S. with more downloads than the next three largest podcast publishers combined. Our Multiplatform Group, which includes our Broadcast radio, Networks and Events businesses, continues to demonstrate that it is also a growth engine for the company in both revenue and earnings as well as powering the creation of our new platforms. We grew Multiplatform Group revenue by 15% year-over-year even though we were operating in a challenging environment, and we believe that the Multiplatform Group will continue its growth trajectory for five important reasons: One, we see evidence that certain key advertising categories like auto, entertainment, and retail will continue their recovery to pre-pandemic levels and others like pharma will continue the strong growth and we also see opportunity in ad platforms as well as new ad categories and accounts like cryptocurrency players in sports betting. Two, according to Miller Kaplan, we continue to take share from and outpace our competitors in the radio advertising space and we expect that to continue as a meaningful vector of growth. Three, looking more broadly across the media landscape, we continue to focus on the TV and digital TAMs, which represent other important growth vectors for us. According to Nielsen, ad-supported TV reach continues to decline. In the month of April, it was down to just 41% reach of American consumers for the largest broadcast TV network and just 24% for the largest cable TV network compared to iHeart's Broadcast radio audience, which again, according to Nielsen, reaches 90% of Americans every month. Broadcast radio in general and iHeartMedia specifically is the most efficient and cost-effective asset an advertiser can utilize to provide the missing reach in any TV-centric advertising campaign at scale. Four, on the digital TAM side, we continue to modernize our advertising capabilities with data-infused solutions, including our SmartAudio product that makes our broadcast inventory compatible with digital planning and buying. Additionally, the recently launched iHeart Audience Network, the first open audio marketplace that brings together broadcast, podcast, and streaming audience at unprecedented scale coupled with the largest sales force in audio provides us the capabilities for our Broadcast radio to further participate in the $160 billion digital TAM. And for all advertising opportunities, we have one more unique characteristic, our on-air personalities. Our recent engagement lab study shows that radio has twice the trust of social media and more trust than even TV, and trust is key to any marketing campaign. Period. And finally, within our multi-platform group, we see the continued recovery of our Events business, which we expect to continue to grow given our ability to build new live and virtual events and the pent-up consumer and advertiser demand for these live events and experiences. Before I turn it over to Rich, I want to spend a moment to give you our general outlook on the advertising marketplace and what we think its impact is on us. Looking at the marketplace, we believe advertising always follows the consumer. And right now, we see a consumer base that wants to spend to travel and to lead full lives again. And importantly for us, they're highly engaged with audio. Yet at the same time, many sectors of the economy are experiencing obstacles, rising inflation, higher interest rates, supply chain issues, and global uncertainty. Even with those headwinds, we believe advertisers are choosing to build for and support returning consumer demand as evidenced by our first quarter advertising revenue, and even with the macro concerns, that balance is encouraging for us for the remainder of the year. As we look ahead to the rest of the year, we expect our revenues to continue to grow, our margin profile to continue to expand, and our free cash flow to grow substantially over the prior year. We'll continue to examine our business for further efficiencies and modernizations. And as we adopt new technologies, we believe we'll find new ways to optimize our expense base, including our previously announced real estate rationalization. We'll also continue to build out capabilities like we did in Q1 for our digital sales service and new audience platforms. We'll continue to invest in areas with high growth potential like our new advertising and data platforms, and we'll remain committed to innovation and being at the forefront of new technologies and digital platforms like Web3 and the Metaverse, like we've done before in podcasting. Audio has never been hotter, and we believe our strong position as the #1 audio company in America across Broadcast radio, podcast publishing, and digital radio is our unique advantage in the media space. And now Rich will take you through more details of our earnings.

Richard Bressler, CFO

Thanks, Bob. As I take you through our results, you'll notice that, as Bob mentioned, we performed well despite external factors that have been impacting the economy. Our consolidated revenues were up 19.4% year-over-year, slightly exceeding the high end of the revenue guidance range we provided. Our direct operating expenses increased 13% for the quarter, driven primarily by the significant increase in revenue which drives higher content and profit-sharing expenses, third-party digital costs, and expenses related to the return of local and national live events. Our SG&A expenses increased 12% for the quarter, driven by increased compensation expense related to investments in key growth areas and higher sales commissions due to higher revenue. In a moment, I will talk more about the key investments we are making. Our first quarter GAAP operating income was $12.3 million compared to an operating loss of $76.4 million in the prior year quarter. And our first quarter adjusted EBITDA was $145.2 million compared to $102.2 million in the prior year quarter. If you turn back to Slide 4, I will provide you additional color on the performance of our operating segments. And as a note, there are additional slides in the investor presentation on our segment revenue performance. Digital Audio Group revenues were up 36% year-over-year and adjusted EBITDA was up 31% year-over-year. Within the digital audio group is our podcasting business, whose revenues grew 79% year-over-year and our non-podcasting digital revenues grew 22% year-over-year. Podcasting is the fastest-growing area of the media industry today, but we know as a new marketplace, the dynamics can be complex and confusing. So let me take a minute to go through it. On Slide 11 of the investor deck, we provided a view of the podcast value chain. To the left is the high end of the value chain, podcast publishers, and to the right is the low end, podcast distributors. Podcast publishers capture the full financial benefit of the advertising revenue. As an example, iHeart, as the podcast industry's largest publisher develops the content, publishes across multiple distribution platforms, sells the ads, and captures the publisher's high margin. And moving down the value chain, there are sales reps who sell podcasts for publishers who lack a sales force. This is essentially an intermediary function with much lower margins than publishers enjoy. And at the low end of the value chain are distributors who carry the podcast RSS feeds, make no advertising revenue off the podcast itself, and simply distribute podcasts for reasons other than a direct economic benefit. Although some parts of our company participate in other pieces of the value chain, the strong financial performance of our podcasting business comes from the fact that iHeart is the #1 podcast publisher. Although our podcasting business might receive less press than some of our competitors, we do believe it is positioned to generate substantially higher financial returns than others today and in the future. We've also had questions in the past on where our podcast growth comes from. The last podcast content purchase we made was for Stuff Media in 2018, and since then, we have remained committed to developing podcasts with our in-house talent and with our creative and business partners. As you can see on Slide 10, between March 2021 and March 2022, our total podcasting downloads grew from 257 million for the month to 443 million, an increase of 186 million downloads in the month, representing a 72% growth year-over-year. In terms of mix, 65% of the 186 million increase reflects growth in existing podcasts we had launched more than a year ago. The other 35% of that growth in downloads reflected new podcasts that we launched during the period. With this organic-led growth strategy, we emphasize building over buying, which allows us to minimize risk in deploying upfront capital and to maximize focus on leveraging our platform to sustainably grow audience and advertising revenues for each podcast we develop. Looking again to Digital Audio Group as a whole, margins compressed slightly in the first quarter at 24.5%, down from 25.4% in the prior year quarter. This was the result of important high-return investments the company made to support the anticipated growth of the business. Let me explain. Our Q1 expense base included approximately $12 million of incremental year-over-year investments to support the future growth of our business. $6 million of these incremental investments are non-recurring, and $6 million of those are now part of our fixed expense base and primarily related to scaling up our digital sales support, which directly contributes to revenue expansion. We do not expect to make material incremental investments in this fixed cost base for the remainder of the year. Even with these investments in our fixed cost base, we expect margin expansion to resume throughout the remainder of 2022 and remain confident that the long-term full year margin profile for this business is in the mid-30% range. Multiplatform revenues were up 15% year-over-year, and adjusted EBITDA was up 28% year-over-year. Multiplatform Group adjusted EBITDA margins continued their improvement. This quarter, margins were 23%, up 240 basis points compared to Q1 2021. And this margin expansion occurred with more live events than in Q1 2021 whose margins aren't as high as our broadcast assets as well as the benefit of the employee tax credit reflected in our Q1 2021 results. While political revenue in the quarter had an immaterial impact on our year-over-year comparisons, we expect significant political spend in the back half of the year. Audio & Media Services Group revenues were up 10% year-over-year, and adjusted EBITDA was up 7% year-over-year. On Slide 20, there is a summary of our debt. At quarter end, we had approximately $5.5 billion of net debt outstanding, which includes a cash balance of $280 million. We also continue to improve our net debt to adjusted EBITDA leverage. As a reminder, the terms of our debt structure include no material maintenance covenants and there are no material debt maturities prior to 2026. We continue to actively monitor market conditions, and we'll look to improve and optimize our capital structure as opportunities arise. In the first quarter, our free cash flow was a negative $75 million. As a reminder, Q1 has historically been our lowest free cash flow quarter for the year due to seasonally low revenues and the payout of annual cash bonuses. So as expected, our Q1 free cash flow was impacted by our over target bonus and other variable compensation payments earned by the company's employees for our strong over target full year 2021 results. As a reminder, the company proactively eliminated almost all bonuses in 2020 as part of our COVID business response. So free cash flow in Q1 2021 reflected no bonus payments. Additionally, we were also impacted in Q1 by the timing of certain working capital items, specifically within payables that will reverse in Q2 when we will see the working capital benefit. Our negative Q1 free cash flow was anticipated, and we expect to generate positive free cash flow in each quarter moving forward in 2022, and we remain on track to generate a significant amount of free cash flow for the full year, which is always back-half weighted. Looking ahead to the rest of the year, we would like to provide the following specific guidance, even though there are a number of significant external variables at work. Starting with the second quarter, we expect our Q2 2022 revenues to be up approximately 10% to 14% year-over-year. We are still closing the month of April, but our preliminary April consolidated revenues were up 8% compared to 2021. As Bob mentioned, we believe April reflected some short-term concerns around the macroeconomic environment, and our usual comps from the prior year, resulting from a number of COVID-related advertising campaigns that did not repeat in 2022. This alone drove approximately 400 basis points. So normalizing for those, April would have increased 12% on a year-over-year basis. And more importantly, we're seeing positive trends with our May and June advertising currently pacing in the mid- to high teens in terms of year-over-year growth. We also expect to generate $225 million to $245 million of adjusted EBITDA in Q2 2022, which would equate to year-over-year EBITDA growth of 24% to 35%. This guidance includes the impact of investments we're making to build out our digital ad support and ad tech platforms as well as the impact of some wage inflation. We are reaffirming that for the full year 2022, we expect to generate adjusted EBITDA in excess of the pre-COVID full year 2019 level of $1 billion. Further, for the full year, in spite of being a full cash taxpayer, we expect to generate more than 2019's free cash flow of $350 million. And as a reminder, in 2019, the company wasn't a full cash taxpayer, and we have high capital expenditures in 2022 to complete our high ROI real estate consolidation project. Consistent with previous guidance, we expect our capital expenditures to be between $150 million and $165 million. And finally, we continue to make significant progress towards our previously announced leverage target of approximately 4x. Please note, this guidance assumes a continuation of the current U.S. economic environment.

Operator, Operator

Our first question comes from Jessica Reif Ehrlich with BofA Securities.

Jessica Reif Ehrlich, Analyst

I have a couple of questions. To start, can we discuss the trajectory of costs? You mentioned $12 million in incremental costs. What is the timeline for that? How should we consider the overall cost progression throughout the year? You provided your outlook for revenue, and is there anything we need to keep in mind regarding the timing of podcast content?

Richard Bressler, CFO

Thanks for the question, Jess. We didn't specifically mention the $12 million in Q2, but you can view it as $6 million in ongoing fixed costs and another $6 million as one-time expenses. Regarding costs, we have guided that we aim to return to mid-30s margins in our digital segment, and we've consistently maintained this expectation since we established it as a separate segment. We anticipate the business to operate in the mid-30s range. To clarify on the costs, we have invested in the business to support the significant growth we've experienced in digital, which we believe will continue to be strong, both with and without podcasting. This includes resources for digital ad sales. In the first quarter, these investments resulted in a noticeable impact on our costs, which is why we highlighted what was one-time versus ongoing.

Michael McGuinness, Deputy CFO

I think to put a fine point on that, too, Rich, is talking about fixed cost on that, which is why as the revenue grows, that becomes more and more efficient as we get our operating leverage. And your point on podcasting is we continue to have a podcast margin that's greater than our overall margin. We watch very carefully the cost on podcasting, especially whatever revenue shares we do with anybody with partners, etc. And I think being as big as we are, we have the luxury of being pretty picky on economic deals for podcasting. And we have the courage to walk away from something that sounds big, but if we can make money on it, we're not interested.

Jessica Reif Ehrlich, Analyst

And then just one follow-up on an indiscernible point. Regarding the revenue, the guidance indicates that the revenue growth is in double digits, particularly when you adjust for April. This remains very strong, especially in the current environment. Can you provide us with some insights on what you're observing in the marketplace across different categories, particularly since it seems there are areas of weakness while newer segments are compensating for that. You're in the market every day; what are your observations?

Robert Pittman, CEO

It's interesting to observe the current dynamic because consumers are eager for the pandemic to end. They have money to spend and want to make up for lost time. However, there are macroeconomic challenges as well. The savvy advertisers recognize that there are consumers ready to spend, and they want to attract those consumers while demand is high. I believe the consumer ultimately has the upper hand, and advertisers will follow their lead. We're noticing this even in sectors facing supply chain issues. Surprisingly, many advertisers are maintaining their advertising efforts, understanding that it's cheaper to keep engaging customers now rather than trying to regain them later once products are available. We are effectively leveraging this situation as well.

Richard Bressler, CFO

Yes, I'd like to add to what Bob mentioned. He covered it well, but if you look at what we've developed in our company, especially regarding our audio technology, there are some slides in the investor deck that can provide more information. Our market reach is unique as we are the only medium that can connect with over 90% of Americans, with no true alternative in terms of reach. Broadcasters have seen significant declines, with the largest broadcast network dropping to less than 50% and the biggest cable network down to around 20%. This overall decline works to our advantage. Additionally, the capabilities we've established, coupled with advertisers shifting their strategies from one-to-one to other approaches, continue to benefit us. The strength in our numbers reflects this. Occasionally, we might experience fluctuations, as noted in April, but it’s crucial to highlight what's happening in May and June.

Operator, Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Steve Cahall with Wells Fargo.

Steven Cahall, Analyst

Maybe first, just to follow up on Jessica's question to dig a little deeper into the ad market. Could you give a little more just color commentary on maybe where you're seeing categories be real dynamic? We've heard the things like maybe QSR and CPG have slowed down a little bit. It sounds like you're probably seeing that offset by some categories that have picked up, particularly in May and June. And with that, I was wondering if you could tell us what percentage you've sold of May and June that gives you some confidence in the Q2 outlook.

Robert Pittman, CEO

I don't think we've seen or predicted the QSR, CPG category as a whole. It appears to be weak, with some players struggling while others are performing well. Even automotive, which many have deemed weak, hasn't aligned with those expectations because some dealers are focused on maintaining relationships. Additionally, some top-tier manufacturers see this as an opportunity to attract consumers. I believe there is still a strong consumer presence despite supply challenges, and most advertisers understand the importance of tapping into this market. They certainly don't want to miss out when consumers are active. Ultimately, I think the consumer holds the advantage in this situation, influencing advertisers significantly.

Richard Bressler, CFO

And Steve, just one item just to reiterate, I think that we covered during our prepared remarks is, again, no one category for us is bigger than 5% in advertising and no one advertiser for us is bigger than 2% of our overall advertising. So there is no one category that's driving our results either historically or going forward that we talked about.

Steven Cahall, Analyst

Yes. And then, Rich, maybe just to follow up on the EBITDA guide. So you all took out a lot of costs during the pandemic. I know some of that was benchmarked for reinvestment. If I look at the first quarter, revenue exceeded 2019. First quarter margin was about 250 basis points below. Second quarter revenue also is going to be above 2019 margins are even further below where they were. I know some of that is mixed because digital is a little lower than Multiplatform. But it just seems like it's one of these stories where you're making investments. The investments probably make sense internally. It's a little tougher for us on the outside to see when we see that margin start to catch back up to historical levels. So any outlook you could give on how we can think about the margin shape in the medium-term?

Richard Bressler, CFO

Thank you for the question; I understand your perspective. Just a reminder that the first quarter is historically our smallest quarter, which affects the margins due to the smaller numbers. Consequently, we don't see the full benefit of our cost structure in this time frame. Looking ahead to overall margins, while we are investing in high-growth areas, we also anticipate margin expansion throughout the year. We expect to return to our guidance of mid-30s digital margins on a full-year basis.

Robert Pittman, CEO

I would like to add that when you consider this business, it's important to remember that we have a high operating leverage model with significant fixed costs. As we begin to scale and develop our growth platforms, particularly in digital and podcasting, we will need to increase our fixed cost structure to support future revenue streams. The initial months and quarters will not be as efficient as those three or four quarters later on. Rich and I invest considerable time assessing the additional revenue coming in and determining if we need to reinvest it in other areas. The investments we've made in SmartAudio, digital, and especially podcasting have proven to be significant and beneficial for our growth today. Each quarter, we take this perspective into account and remain diligent about costs, while also ensuring we allocate the necessary funds for growth.

Richard Bressler, CFO

Steve, I just wanted to add one more point that I think may be helpful. When considering our company, if you look at the midpoint of our revenue and EBITDA guidance for Q2, you'll see that we are working towards overall margins between 24% and 25%. This reflects a 400 basis point increase from Q2 of 2021. Currently, we are at 17%, up from 14% in Q1 2021. I appreciate your question, and to provide some clarity, think about Q2. If you do the math I mentioned, you'll notice we are poised for significant margin expansion beginning in Q2.

Operator, Operator

The next question comes from the line of Sebastiano Petti with JPMorgan.

Sebastiano Petti, Analyst

Just sticking with the EBITDA and cost commentary, I mean, is there a little bit of mix shift kind of going on underlying here within the EBITDA guidance and perhaps the results in the first quarter that we should be thinking about as perhaps live events comes back and some of these other business lines? And obviously, as political comes on, that will be very high incremental margins. But just as a quick follow-up. Is there anything just revenue mix wise that we should be cognizant of as we model an economic recovery in reopening care?

Robert Pittman, CEO

Well, certainly, Events is a lower margin, as we've said before, than our overall margins. So as we bring back Events, although it contributes to the bottom line, it does so at a lower margin and does pull back a bit. And you're right about a political. Political comes in an extraordinarily good margin, and that is, as you know, almost all a third and fourth quarter impact.

Richard Bressler, CFO

Yes, I appreciate the question because I should have mentioned this earlier. This year, we have returned to live events after having virtually none last year, and this does result in lower margins. I want to emphasize again that when we talk about margins, we are dealing with the smallest numbers of the year. Therefore, small changes can disproportionately affect our margins.

Sebastiano Petti, Analyst

I have a quick follow-up. You have articulated that getting back to getting back to a net debt to adjusted EBITDA target of approximately 4% is kind of where you want to go before you start reevaluating capital return decision. But given what's going on in the macro environment, your confidence in the underlying business, does it make sense to perhaps think about returning capital maybe before you kind of get to that 4x leverage?

Richard Bressler, CFO

Yes. So I would think about it is like, look, we're always evaluating everything with our Board of Directors, right? And so all these decisions are ultimately the Board of Directors' decision out there, but we have to constantly keep challenging ourselves. But sure, but our plan is just to be clear and so there's no ambiguity is to continue using our free cash flow to pay down debt until we get to approximately 4 to 1. And again, you'll see we just continue to make progress on that, both in terms of generation of free cash flow. And there's always another part of a leverage ratio, which is called EBITDA and on the growth of the EBITDA of the company.

Operator, Operator

Our next question comes from Dan Day with B. Riley Securities.

Daniel Day, Analyst

The question I keep hearing about regarding radio names is that people are concerned about entering a recession over the next year or two. Given your experience in this business, could you share what you've historically seen with radio ad spending in such environments and what factors we should be considering?

Robert Pittman, CEO

Well, first and foremost, I think you'll see us today, we gave the percentages and the change in revenue mix since even 2020, pre-pandemic. That continues to give us, I think, comfort that we've got a pretty diversified revenue stream across not only Broadcast radio, but we've got it across digital radio. We've got it across other digital services and podcasting. Podcasting alone is almost 10% or I think it is about 10% of our revenue in this quarter. And so we think that gives us a much different profile than past downturns that you've seen in the economy with just the straight radio business. Additionally, I think being able to transform our Broadcast radio business into digital-like inventory, impressions, data, infused, use data for targeting, attribution, again allows us to play in a different world than traditionally this company or the radio business has played in. So I think all those are strengths in terms of us mitigating any possible negative effects in any sort of downturn.

Richard Bressler, CFO

Yes. And by the way, I just wanted to add one more, and I appreciate that question proactively. I don't know if people have had a chance probably not yet to really go through our investor deck. I would encourage you all to do so. We updated it quite a bit from the last call based on feedback and particularly in the area of digital and podcasting, we get a number of questions about ourselves as a podcaster as a publisher. And what really the difference is from an economic value in terms of the publisher and I covered it on the call, but we have three or four slides in there in terms of how the value chain works on podcasting. So I'd encourage everyone to look at that. And also, we also get a number of questions on what digital ex-podcasting looks like and what the opportunities are whether it's social or streaming audio or websites. So we also put a slide in there to kind of size the market and the TAM out there and our results.

Robert Pittman, CEO

Let me add one more thing to that. I believe audio is currently gaining significant popularity, something that hasn’t happened in the past 25 to 30 years. This moment has the potential to alter the historical trajectory for anyone involved in the audio industry, including radio.

Michael McGuinness, Deputy CFO

Well, thanks, everybody. Thanks for the questions. Thanks for taking the time to listen to the iHeart story. And we're all available to answer any follow-up questions. Thank you.

Operator, Operator

This concludes today's conference call. Thank you for participating. You may now disconnect.