We continue to make structural cost reductions across our legacy operations. Our expense management trend has been improving throughout the year. In first quarter, expenses were up 1% year over year. In second quarter, we improved to flat, as we started to benefit from our initial cost reductions. Now, in third quarter, we achieved a 2% reduction year over year.

Nov 7, 2024 / receipt, needs a key / Julie Heskett, CFO | earnings call 2024-11-07 | transcript a08f75a5-5e0c-4312-9715-8988b6c938a6 | chars 8794-9158 | segment 9

Nearly all categories of advertising trends were positive in the fourth quarter, including automotive, services, retail, home improvement, entertainment, media and telecom, travel and tourism, and packaged goods.

Feb 29, 2024 / receipt, needs a key / Julie, CFO | earnings call 2024-02-29 | transcript b844d4dd-cd13-44a5-8591-11532c456016 | chars 17034-17246 | segment 17

I'll let Victoria take that one. Yeah, I mean, obviously, we're not ready to guide relative to next year. We have a number of initiatives that continue to expense reduction, efficiency, automation kinds of things. I don't know that it would rise to the level of the $50 million annual takeout that we had previously, but a lot of those will continue and they're in the base business. Obviously, offset a little bit by... COVID-related T&E kinds of impacts, which do come back as everyone starts to travel. Some, but we'll never go back to T&E levels we had pre-COVID. So we are, there's definitely, as we mentioned in previous calls, we've got a lot of built-in permanent efficiencies we learned through COVID that will be maintained.

Nov 4, 2021 / receipt, needs a key / Victoria, CFO | earnings call 2021-11-04 | transcript 0c937566-cb05-44e1-8915-aebe6c55995f | chars 40531-41265 | segment 41