Squarespace, Inc. (NYSE:SQSP) Q4 2022 Earnings Call Transcript

Anthony Casalena: For sure, I think that the strategy there can be summarized in basically that we’re focusing on Bio sites. So, Unfold is a great product. It’s been in market for a number of years now, lot of competition in that space. Nothing really new to my dialog there, but what seems really exciting you don’t see it in any of the numbers — the subscription numbers we have because these are not necessarily paid subscriptions yet. But there has been over hundreds of thousands of Bio sites that have been created. We recently launched the ability to create a Bio site from the web in addition to being able to create one in the Unfold app. And we think there is a huge amount of opportunity there from monetization. I mean considering our numbers and due to the hundreds of thousands of sites created and spreading virally with very, very little marketing spend just due to the nature of the product, I am really excited about future monetization opportunities there.

And that dovetails very nicely with things we would do in the future on Squarespace payment, upsell to the main — upsell to perhaps a larger Web site, everything we are doing for services-based sellers. So, that’s really the crux of where we see the future within that product in addition to continuing investing in Unfold products and making sure we are updating it, but there is not really a world I see where we have some macro strategy that triples the amount of Unfold subscribers or anything like that. So, it’s a great deployment — it’s a great product, solid revenue stream for us, and a really really great deployment mechanism for Bio sites.

Matthew Pfau: Got it. Thank you. Appreciate it.

Operator: Thank you. Our next question comes from Gabriela Borges from Goldman Sachs. Gabriela, your line is now open, and please go ahead.

Gabriela Borges: Good morning. Congrats on the quarter. Anthony, I wanted to ask are you seeing any macro impact on the business, the KPIs across the board, studies are improving, clearly the number of company-specific drivers at play here, but given your unique line to the installed base, what are you seeing in the terms of the health of the service of the economy? Thanks.

Anthony Casalena: Well, we continue to see strength across our product lines. I think lot of the questions that we are kind of always getting is around if the economy goes to more of a decline that is recession, what happens to Squarespace. And we have run some internal analysis and also lived through a past recession, anyway so much smaller at that time, but it would seem to us that we still have some co-relation to small business formation that is not as strong as it was pre-pandemic for whatever reason, maybe due to the diversity of services or a move towards to create our economy. So, we think we are well-positioned there. I think if you look at even the results from the price increase, I really think it shows the power of the product and the importance of the product even in times of uncertainty, right?

Churn was much lower than we expected. It was definitely full-forward in churn as opposed to a lot of net new. And so, we think it’s well-positioned. I think I am less able to comment on things like what was brought up in the prior question around GMV and macro flows related ecommerce cyclicality or what’s happening with our service-based sellers which are sort of just getting started. But for the core business, I think it’s well-positioned in a downturn. And, I don’t think we will be able to show a lot of what we showed in Q4 and continue in the Q1 if that wasn’t true, hopefully.