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Question: Allen Klee - Maxim - Analyst
: Hello. Can you hear me?
Question: Allen Klee - Maxim - Analyst
: Oh, hi, sorry, I'm having phone problems. Congrats. Strong quarter. Good job. Thank you.
The, the jump in revenue this quarter year over year. How well could you kind of rank some of what some of the bigger factors were that, that you
would point to?
Question: Allen Klee - Maxim - Analyst
: Thank you. And, and the digital department. What items I know that this is fourth quarter is going to be the seasonally strong quarter. But, just in
terms of you, you've been doing a lot, there was there any other things you wanted to highlight of kind of new business you're doing and cross
selling?
Question: Allen Klee - Maxim - Analyst
: Thank you. I just wanted to understand a little with the, you said you received a second installment of 2.6 million of content licensing licensing
agreement. Could, could you just back up and explain like how much money you got overall and then that 2.6 million, how that did that get
recognized as revenue or in a different way and going forward is the way to think of it that you'll get revenue from the institutional theaters is that
the, that there shouldn't be any revenue from, from anywhere else or? Thank you.
Question: Allen Klee - Maxim - Analyst
: Okay, thank you. So you, you've spoken in the past of some other ventures or, or new areas like for, for young people. And I was wondering is how
is how that might be progressing?
Question: Allen Klee - Maxim - Analyst
: Okay.
Your partnership, your A I partnership, Lodi that this sounds very compelling. Explain. And you said something interesting in the release of, well,
can I understand how does you, how you get paid in this? But then also you said there's an opportunity to become a venture, kind of make it a
venture investment in this. Could you, could you tell us what, what you're thinking about there, potentially?
Sure. I mean, you know, A I is still so new to everyone, right? With that said though, you know, we do have, we're blessed to have market leading
companies and we have market leading clients. And so that you just can't ignore the potential of H I and you want you want to be market leading
in that space. So we made this partnership with Lodi to coming first, our first entry into A I is actually one to bolster our core services, right? You
know, we're many of our pr firms are in the are when you summarize what they're doing, they're managing the public persona, they're managing
public relations pr at its core for either individuals or brands. And, and you can't manage a public persona today unless you can protect it online.
Question: Allen Klee - Maxim - Analyst
: Thank you. As, as we're getting closer to 2025 what, what would you say kind of your priorities are for, for the next year?
Question: Allen Klee - Maxim - Analyst
: Thank you. And I forgot to ask about always alpha. You have so many things. It's hard to remember everything. But do you see this as kind of or
how, how do you develop? I mean, you have a strong management team but the ability to bring on new, new clients. How, how do you think about
like how you, how you go to market on that?
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