Rentabiliweb: Continued Acceleration in Growth in Q1 2010: +38%
By Rentabiliweb, PRNEMonday, May 10, 2010
BRUSSELS, May 11, 2010 - 100% organic growth in all of the Group's businesses
- Publishing (B-to-C): +49.3%
- Monetization services (B-to-B): +23.3%
Successful, effective strategic positioning
Consistent with its financial calendar, the Rentabiliweb Group is today
publishing its sales for the first quarter of 2010.
In thousands of Euros Q1 2010 Q1 2009 Change % Sales Q1 19,493 14,123 +38% incl. audience monetization for third parties (B-to-B) 7,545 6,121 +23.3% incl. audience monetization for its own account (B-to-C) 11,947 8,002 +49.3%
"Despite a particularly difficult economic context, the first quarter of
2010 showed a very high level of exclusively organic growth for all of the
Group's businesses, a continuation of the performances achieved in the fourth
quarter of 2009," stated Jean-Baptiste Descroix-Vernier, Chairman of the
Rentabiliweb Group. "These results are consistent with - and even slightly
better than - our strategy and our forecasts. They confirm the success and
effectiveness of our strategic positioning, which is based on a one-stop
combination of monetization services and digital entertainment packages that
generates loyalty and is profitable."
The monetization services business (B-to-B: audience monetization for
third parties) grew 23.3% to EUR7,545 K. The first quarter of the year was
driven by the dynamism of performance-based solutions, namely e-mail and SMS
loyalty solutions and cashback solutions, such as www.mailorama.fr and
www.textorama.fr, with growth of more than 70% over the first three
months of the year.
Alongside this, the company's long-standing micropayment businesses
showed double-digit growth, fueled by contracts with top-name companies
(Libération, Marianne, Planète 51, ConcoursMania, France Télévision and
others), whose effect on the volume of business will mount steadily
throughout the year.
The Interactive Voice Services and Premium SMS businesses, which target
off-line media looking to generate loyalty and communicate on a massive scale
with their audiences, are constantly gaining momentum and their significant
impact should be felt in the second quarter of 2010.
These performances for all of the B-to-B business confirm the trends
shown in the fourth quarter of 2009 with sequential growth of nearly 7%,
amidst a particularly dynamic final quarter of 2009. They also confirm the
Group's strategic positioning as a one-stop provider of monetization
solutions for businesses seeking high performance in order to monetize their
entire audience - in both the digital and non-digital spheres - in all of the
media channels and platforms available.
In thousands of Euros Q1 2010 Q4 2009 Change % Sales 19,493 19,083 +2.1% incl. audience monetization for third parties (B-to-B) 7,545 7,060 +6.9% incl. audience monetization for its own account (B-to-C) 11,947 12,023 (0.6%)
The digital content publishing business (B-to-C: audience monetization
for its own account), boosted by the Dating and Family Games categories,
showed overall growth of 49.3% to EUR 11,947 K, accounting for 61.3% of all
business in the first quarter of 2010.
The building of a comprehensive package and a full range of entertainment
sites, combined with constant control of traffic sources, spurred cross-sales
between the various categories in the portfolio and helped increase
per-customer revenue. Cross-selling between game sites, dating sites and
adult sites was particularly effective and profitable.
As expected, the publishing business showed a growth roughly equivalent
to that in the fourth quarter of 2009; the basis for comparison was
unfavorable given the exclusive special offers given to some partners for
year-end programs and promotional drives.
In addition, the application for accreditation as a Payment Services
Institution by the French Prudential Control Authority (ACP), which has now
replaced the Committee of Credit Institutions and Investment Companies
(CECEI) in supervising accreditation and verification procedures, is
finalized. It should be examined at a coming Management Committee meeting,
whose date has yet to be determined. To date, the ACP has not yet granted any
accreditation for a Payment Services Institution in France since the changes
made to the European Directive in November 2009. Once this accreditation has
been obtained, Rentabiliweb will be able not only to manage its own payment
transactions, but also offer this service and especially bankcard payment
transactions to other publishers and e-merchants in France and abroad.
See this press release at: www.rentabiliweb.org/actualites/?p=2033
About Rentabiliweb
The Rentabiliweb Group offers Internet professionals and webmasters the
largest platform of website traffic monetization services, namely payment and
micropayment solutions. It also runs affiliate programs, offers online
advertising space brokerage and interactive voice services for offline media
and provides renowned expertise in loyalty programs and Direct Marketing.
Rentabiliweb is also one of the premier French-language publishers, with
a package of services spanning the full range of mass-market entertainment,
from community services, family games and services for the general public to
recommendations for Internet users, personal ads, dating services and more.
In 2009, Rentabiliweb's sales topped EUR 65 million, with net profits of
EUR 7.5 million.
For more information, visit: www.rentabiliweb.org
Corporate communications IMAGE SEPT Anne Auchatraire Grégoire Lucas +33(0)1-53-70-74-70 aauchatraire@image7.fr glucas@image7.fr Financial - investor communications CALYPTUS Mathieu Calleux +33(0)1-53-65-37-91 mathieu.calleux@calyptus.net
Corporate communications, IMAGE SEPT, Anne Auchatraire, Grégoire Lucas, +33(0)1-53-70-74-70, aauchatraire at image7.fr, glucas at image7.fr, Financial - investor communications, CALYPTUS, Mathieu Calleux, +33(0)1-53-65-37-91, mathieu.calleux at calyptus.net
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