Zillow Group Inc (ZG) 2016 Q2 法說會逐字稿

Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Zillow Group Q2 2016 earnings call.

(Operator Instructions)

As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded. I would now like to introduce your host for today's conference, Mr. RJ Jones, Vice President of Investor Relations. Sir, you may begin.

Thank you, good afternoon and welcome to Zillow Group's second-quarter 2016 earnings conference call. Joining me today to talk about our results are Spencer Rascoff, Chief Executive Officer; and Kathleen Philips, Chief Financial Officer.

During the call, we will make forward-looking statements regarding future financial performance and events. Although we believe the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we can't guarantee these results. We caution you to consider the risk factors described in our SEC filings, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements made on this call. The date off this call is August 4, 2016 and forward-looking statements made today are based on assumptions as of this date. We undertake no obligation to update these statements as a result of new information or future events.

During the call, we will discuss GAAP and non-GAAP measures. We encourage you to read our earnings press release, as it contains important information about our reported and non-GAAP results, including reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures. In our remarks, the non-GAAP financial measure adjusted EBITDA is referred to as EBITDA, which excludes other income, depreciation and amortization expense, share-based compensation expense, acquisition-related costs, restructuring costs, interest expense, and income taxes.

This call is being broadcast on the internet and is available on the Investor Relations section of the Zillow Group website, along with our earnings press release. A copy of management's prepared remarks has already been posted to the quarterly results section of our Investor Relations website. A recording of the call will be available later today.

Today we will open the call with prepared remarks. We will follow prepared remarks with live Q&A. During Q&A, we will answer questions via Twitter, and take questions from those dialed into the call. Individuals may submit questions by tweeting @zillowGroup using Zearnings# I will now turn the call over to Spencer.

Thank you for joining the call today to discuss our second-quarter 2016 financial results. Once again, Zillow Group delivered tremendous results, as we continued to build upon our momentum from the first half of the year.

Total revenue for the quarter grew 31% year over year to a record of more than $208 million and came in at the high end of our guidance range. Premier Agent revenue of more than $147 million also came in at the high end of our outlook.

GAAP net loss was $156.1 million and includes the impact of the $130-million litigation settlement and the $12.5 million in related legal costs. Excluding litigation settlement, Q2 EBITDA was $28.7 million, well ahead of our expectation.

Toward the end of 2014, we said that 2015 would be a transition year for Zillow Group, as we focused on the creation of shared services across Zillow Group in areas such as sales and data management, as well as Trulia's audience turnaround. As the calendar turned into 2016, we said that this year would be the year that we began to reap the benefits of merging our two companies.

Six months into 2016, the acceleration in our business is strong and all of our marketplaces are performing at or above our expectation. We are on track to deliver 2016 year-over-year revenue growth of approximately 30%. With a solid foundation for growth in place, we are excited about the second half of 2016.

We continue to focus on our four strategic priorities: number one, growing our audience size; number two, growing our Premier Agent business; number three, growing our emerging marketplaces; and four, attracting and retaining the best talent in the technology, media, and real estate industries.

I'll start with our audience. Our market share of the category audience continues to expand, and we have a commanding lead in terms of consumer traffic. According to comScore, Zillow Group represented greater than 67% of the total online real estate category in June and 78% of the category on mobile only.

Across all Zillow Group's mobile applications and websites, traffic reached record levels during the quarter. Average monthly unique users for the quarter grew 20% year over year to more than 168 million, hitting a quarterly peak in May with more than 171 million unique users. Traffic on the Zillow brand is at record levels and continues to gain share.

Meanwhile Trulia traffic is also growing nicely year over year and contributing meaningfully to Zillow Group's overall audience leadership. The steady growth of our audience is a testament to the tireless efforts of our product, engineering, and marketing teams. As we've shared over time, everything we do at Zillow Group to attract audience starts with creating immersive products that consumers love and want to share with others. We then amplify those efforts through earned and paid audience acquisition.

Looking at our advertising, for the Zillow brand in particular, we've done an outstanding job over the past few years implementing an effective brand awareness campaign. Our iterative strategy has both positioned Zillow Group's products and services as go-to resources across various stages of the home life cycle and driven efficiencies in our add spend.

Moving on to our Premier Agent business, where growth continues to accelerate, as top-performing agents realize the benefits of advertising on our platform. Year-over-year Premier Agent revenue growth for the second quarter was 28%.

As you know, we are very focused on improving lead conversions, because improvements to lead conversion directly increase the return on investment for our advertisers, as well as enhance the consumer experience. We have many initiatives focused on lead conversion, including working with our brokerage partners to do training events with their agents and working with technology partners to have their lead management software help our shared clients maximize lead conversion.

Our own Premier Agent app also allows agents to manage inbound leads from Zillow Group's mobile applications and websites. We delivered more than 4 million leads to Premier Agent advertisers across our various brands, mobile apps, and websites during the second quarter of 2016, an increase of nearly 50% year over year. We expect continued growth in lead volume, a testament to the ever-growing engagement of our users. The rate of growth will normalize over time, as we'll soon start comparing current lead volume to stronger lead volume that began after Trulia's traffic turnaround in early 2016.

We continue to investor organically and through M&A in software tools that help solve the challenges of our industry partners. From our Premier Agent app, which improves agents' work flow; to dot loop, which provides best-in-class transaction management to brokers and agents; to Retsly, which helps MLSs develop innovative tools for distribution of their data.

Our latest acquisition, announced earlier this week, is Bridge Interactive, a small technology start-up headquartered in Atlanta which empowers brokers and MLSs to address the complex world of listings data management. Bridge offers simple and powerful tools to help brokers and MLSs ensure control, security, and accuracy of their listings.

For example, Bridge's software allows a listing agent to enter a listing and have it simultaneously go into the broker's software platform and into his local MLS. It also enables the single listing to go to more than one MLS, if the agent works in a city with overlapping MLSs. Their technology helps solve challenges facing our thousands of valued broker partners and enhances the important role of the MLS in the real estate industry.

Turning now to our third strategic priority, growing our emerging marketplaces, notably, rentals, mortgages, and New York City, each of which is growing even faster than our Premier Agent business. Our mortgages marketplace excelled once again in the second quarter, with 77% year-over-year revenue growth, on track to do about $70 million in full-year revenue, which is larger than all Zillow revenue at the time of our IPO five years ago.

In our rentals marketplace, we now attract more than 30 million monthly unique users. According to comScore, the Zillow rental network, which includes rental shoppers on Zillow, Trulia, and HotPads, is the largest rental network on the web and attracts nearly twice as many visitors as our nearest competitor.

We'll continue to grow rental traffic by building innovative features for renters while bringing on more inventory from more apartment buildings. Rentals is the fastest growing of our marketplace with over 100% year-over-year revenue growth.

Turning now to our New York City marketplace, where we continue to see significant opportunity. StreetEasy, a brand that we acquired three years ago, continues to be the leading real estate site in New York. Add in Naked Apartments, Zillow, and Trulia, and Zillow Group has a commanding audience lead in New York rentals and for-sale real estate. While StreetEasy continues to grow at the top of its funnel, its leads to real estate agents are growing even faster, similar to trends on Zillow and Trulia.

One of our most important priorities at Zillow Group is attracting and retaining the best talent and maintaining our unique Company culture focused on innovation. We wouldn't be able to celebrate the successes I've mentioned if we didn't have the best people, not only in the real-estate media industry but in all of technology.

We are not experiencing the recruitment and retention issues that many other mid-sized tech companies are reporting. We attribute this to our focus on our culture, which has insulated us from this trend.

Each year, Zillow Group is recognized as a best place to work, winning numerous awards across nearly all our office locations around the country, including San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Lincoln, and Irvine. In just the past few months, Zillow was ranked by Glassdoor as the tenth best Company to work for in America. That ranking is determined solely by employee feedback.

You don't receive these accolades if you have unhappy employees, and we believe engaged employees produce the highest quality work. We regularly conduct employee engagement surveys, and the results show that we have a very energized an engaged employee base.

For example, 94% of our employees say they would recommend working for Zillow Group to a friend, which is chart topping among technology companies. These findings are consistent across all of our eight offices, which is impressive considering we are just a year-and-a-half out from a transformative acquisition of Trulia.

My role, as CEO of Zillow Group, is to recruit, retain, and motivate the more than 2,500 people who work here and to create an environment in which they can do their best work. I'd like to thank all the Zillow Group's hard-working employees for contributing to our ongoing success. We are bringing the same level of innovation and culture of transparency to how we run this Company that we have brought to consumer innovation in the online real estate media space.

Now turning to our outlook for the remainder of 2016. We are raising our revenue outlook for the year by $5 million to a range of $830 million to $840 million. Further, we're also raising our EBITDA outlook range by $10 million to $125 million to $135 million, primarily due to the reduction of legal expenses that we previously expected to incur this year.

This EBITDA outlook range excludes the impact of our $130-million June litigation settlement. We will be reinvesting some of the legal expense savings into talent acquisition, product development, including new initiatives in our emerging marketplaces, and advertising over the remainder of the year.

We are in growth mode, and this is consistent with our long-term strategy to drive audience and revenue growth, along with steady margin expansion as we work towards our target model of more than 40% EBITDA margin at scale. We are focused on growing our audience and delivering more leads to advertisers that convert into transactions, which drives revenue growth for our advertisers and for us.

Importantly, with almost four out of five mobile-only real estate shoppers using our brands, we are the clear mobile audience leader. But we are also the rare mobile first Company that monetizes extraordinarily well on mobile.

We have had great success in establishing the leading presence for home shopping online. As I told you last quarter, more Americans today are searching on Google for Zillow than real estate. This milestone indicates that Zillow is becoming a household name.

We are running the most advanced technology engine in the category, and really, we are just getting it started. The online real estate market already represents multi billions of media ad dollars and is expanding. There's plenty of room for growth in this market, as well as in the various emerging marketplaces we've entered or are assessing today.

Zillow Group is capturing a larger piece of the pie while growing the categories. We are more excited than ever about the massive opportunities in front of us.

To conclude, great people build great products, which attract audience, and as I've said many times, advertisers follow audience.

With that, I'll turn it over to Kathleen.

Thank you, Spencer, and hello to everyone joining us on today's call. Let's dive into our financial results.

Total revenue for the second quarter increased 22% year over year to a record of $208.4 million from $171.3 million in the same period last year. Excluding Market Leader from last year's results, total revenue increased 31% year over year.

Looking at our primary revenue category, marketplace revenue was $191.6 million, representing an increase of 32% year over year. Excluding Market Leader from last year's results, marketplace revenue increased 44% year over year.

Marketplace revenue now accounts for 92% of our total revenue as compared to 85% during the same period last year. As a reminder, our marketplace category includes Premier Agent, other real estate, and mortgages revenue.

Zillow Group Premier Agent revenue increased 28% year over year to a record $147.1 million in the second quarter. The annualized run rate for our agent advertising business reached $586 million at the end of the quarter compared to $456 million at the same time last year.

Our top agents and teams continued to realize the benefits of advertising on Zillow Group's platform and are willing to spend more of their advertising budgets with us. We ended the quarter with 91,184 agent advertisers, in line with our expectations and relatively flat compared to the end of the first quarter of 2016.

For the second quarter of 2016, average revenue per advertiser, or ARPA was $536, increasing 43% year over year. As a reminder, we will no longer report on the number of agent advertisers and ARPA beginning in 2017.

Sales to same agent advertisers, or those who have been on our platform for more than one year, grew by more than 57% compared to the prior year. New sales to existing advertisers made up 70% of total bookings in the second quarter.

Year-over-year growth of the agent advertiser cohort that spends more than $5,000 per month was 73% on a total dollar basis and 68% in advertiser count. Churn in this cohort continues to be minimal.

We continue to support more agent teams, as well as independent broker agents represented by one account who buy advertising at much higher levels than the average. We are accelerating the larger trend across the real estate agent population of higher producing agents gaining market share from those who are less competitive.

Second-quarter revenue for our other real estate sub category grew 254% year over year to $26.1 million. Other real estate revenue includes agent services, dotloop, StreetEasy, Naked Apartments, rentals, and other offerings to our endemic advertisers that are not traditional display advertising.

Moving now to our mortgages marketplace, our revenue reached $18.4 million in the quarter, which represents a 77% increase year over year. Although the number of loan information requests decreased 49% year over year, average revenue per loan-information request increased 247% year over year.

The decrease in the number of loan-information requests and corresponding increase in average revenue per loan information request was driven by our strategic decision to improve the quality of those requests by asking consumers to provide more details before a loan-information request is sent to a lender. These changes have increased consumer and advertiser adoption of mortgage advertising products that yield higher revenue.

In our display category, revenue was $16.8 million, a decrease of approximately 35% over the same period last year and within our expectations. Our intentional shift from traditional display advertising revenue continues, as we focus on providing consumers with personalized experiences that lead to valuable connections for our marketplace advertisers.

Moving now from revenue to our expenses. Total operating expenses were $363.7 million in the second quarter. Taking a closer look at our operating expenses by line item, our cost of revenue during the quarter was $17.2 million, or 8% of revenue. Sales and marketing expense was $99.3 million, or 48% of revenue. Our advertising investments for our brands were executed as planned, and were effective in growing our audience to record levels.

Technology and development costs in the second quarter were $67.4 million, or 32% of revenue, which was higher than internal forecasts due primarily to lower-than-expected capitalized wages. General and administrative costs in the second quarter were $179.6 million, including the impact of a $130-million litigation settlement and $12.5 million in related legal costs.

Moving on to our bottom line, GAAP net loss was $156.1 million, GAAP basic and diluted net loss per share was $0.87. Our EBITDA for the quarter was a loss of $101.3 million. Excluding the $130-million litigation settlement, EBITDA was $28.7 million, or 14% of revenue, and above our outlook range. Zillow Group ended the second quarter with 2,571 employees and over $421 million in cash and investments.

Now turning to our Zillow Group outlook for the third-quarter and full-year 2016. I encourage you to review our press release that was issued this afternoon. It is available on our Investor Relations website and includes detailed Q3 and full-year 2016 guidance and related GAAP reconciliations.

Third-quarter 2016 total revenue is expected to be in the range of $217 million to $222 million. Premier Agent revenue in the third quarter is expected to be in the range of $156 million to $158 million. Display revenue is expected to be in the range of $15 million to $16 million. EBITDA in the third quarter is expected to be in the range of $48 million to $53 million.

For the full-year 2016, as Spencer noted, we are raising our revenue outlook by $5 million to a range of $830 million to $840 million. We are raising our Premier Agent revenue outlook for the year to be in the range of $597 million to $602 million. We also are raising our display revenue outlook to a range of $60 million to $62 million.

EBITDA for the full-year 2016 is expected to be in the range of $125 million to $135 million. For illustrative purposes, this EBITDA outlook range excludes the impact of our $130 million June litigation settlement.

As Spencer alluded to earlier, we avoided approximately $24 million of anticipated legal expenses due to this settlement; about half will flow through to EBITDA. We are investing the remaining half of the savings by accelerating allocations to talent acquisition, product development, initiatives in our emerging marketplaces, and advertising, with about three-quarters of the investment weighted toward hiring and product. We are taking advantage of long-term growth opportunities that we see for our business while also progressing toward our long-term targets of more than 40% EBITDA margin at scale.

One final administrative item: the audit committee of Zillow Group's Board of Directors recently approved the appointment of Deloitte & Touche as our new independent registered public accounting firm for 2017. In addition, the audit committee approved the dismissal of Ernst & Young, which will be effective after the issuance by EY of its reports on Zillow Group's financial statements for 2016.

We've enjoyed a positive and constructive relationship with EY, and thank them for their many years of service to us; however, we continually evaluate our service providers and have elected to make a change for 2017. There have been no unresolved disagreements with EY on any accounting matters. We expect to file our Form 10-Q for the second quarter of 2016 tomorrow morning as scheduled.

In summary, our performance for the second quarter of 2016 was excellent and showcased the strength of our business model across our home-related marketplaces. These are very early days as we pursue the massive market opportunities in front of us. As we enter the second half of 2016, we are excited to extend our audience lead and build upon our foundation for revenue growth and long-term margin expansion.

We will now open up the call for questions.

Thank you.

(Operator Instructions)

Our first question will come from Robert Peck from SunTrust.

Yes, good afternoon, Spencer and Kathleen. This is Rodney for Bob. I just wanted to address the issue on guidance and maybe the decision-making process around how much of the legal savings were decided to be passed through and maybe the gating factors in how you decided where to allocate those funds?

And then perhaps taking that then out into the future, how should we think about that as it applies to your leverage going forward and reaching that ultimate 40% goal at scale? How should we think about those buckets of allocation of expenses going forward and maybe where the leverage will really come from? Thanks so much.

Great, thank you Rodney. As we looked at the anticipated savings from the legal expenses, we look at it through the lens we look at all investments, which is it's early days and we're in growth mode. As you know and as we say on every call, we continue to prioritize revenue growth over margins, and we want slow and steady growth on the margins while still aiming for the 40% target at scale.

So we looked to see where we could make investments that we believed would pay dividends in the long term and those were talent, product development, new initiatives in our emerging marketplaces, and advertising. As we said, it was about half and half, at the end of the day, and we made this assessment in the same way that we always do.

In terms of impact on the longer term, for next year, I think you can see us making these same tradeoffs between investing in long-term growth and slow and steady progress against the margin expansion.

Thank you. Our next question comes from Mark Mahaney from RBC Capital.

Thanks. Spencer, a question for you in terms of thinking about where your brand awareness is now, how you think about the toggling your overall advertising brand spend. And do you feel like -- I know that it's something that's been increasing focus in a ramp up of the Company over the last year. Do you want to keep it at these levels? Is there a reason to accelerate that brand spend? Any way you can quantify for us how much you think the brand awareness has improved over the last 12 months. Thanks a lot.

Sure, thanks, Mark, good question. Brand awareness for Zillow brand has improved a lot since we started advertising, and a good proof point there is, of course, the Google trend stat that I cited where more people are searching Google for the Zillow than search for the term real estate.

That having been said, we still think there's a long way to go to get Zillow to the level of brand awareness that we aspire to, where at true household brand status on par with other tech giants like Netflix and Google, in terms of brand awareness. So we have a long way to go, and certainly, our other brands have an even longer way to go.

In terms of how we think about what the right level of advertising is for overall Zillow Group or allocated to individual brands, as Kathleen mentioned, we really think about revenue growth and EBITDA margin expansion as two peas in a pod. So we try to solve for the sum of revenue growth and EBITDA margin. So for example, for full-year 2016 our guidance has around 30%-ish year-over-year revenue growth and around 16%-ish EBITDA margin. So that's, call it 46% is the sum of those two.

As we look towards 2017 and beyond, we are going to continue to try to increase the combination of those two. So it's a tradeoff between revenue growth and EBITDA. We could have a lot higher margin but lower revenue growth; we could have higher revenue growth and lower margin, and we look at the two in concert with one another.

Thank you, Spencer.

Next question please, operator?

Thank you. Our next question comes from Michael Graham from Canaccord.

Yes, thank you, quick clarification on that question. Just Spencer, did you mean to say like 46% is a good target for that or that you want that revenue growth plus EBITDA margin to expand over time? And then I also just wanted to ask about pricing for the inventory. Just wondering -- I think over the long term we should see pricing go up on Zillow over time, and I'm just wondering where you think we are in that evolution?

Sure. The sum of the two should go up. So in 2015 revenue growth was I think 24% year over year and EBITDA margin was 14%, so that's 38% for the sum of the two. In 2016, the sum of those two is around 47%, so we're focused on raising the combined sum of those two numbers, revenue growth and EBITDA margin.

On pricing, this is a long-term opportunity for us. It' still really early days; we're helping agents form teams, scale their business, gain share, build bread in their local markets, and grow. And so, we're priced on the Premier Agent business for adoption, and therefore we're delivering, in most cases, outsized ROIs so that these agents can build their businesses.

Meantime, we're investing heavily in tools like dotloop and tools like our own PA app to improve their lead conversion. And as this marketplace matures over time and more successful agents are at greater scale, we'll find ways for agents to still drive meaningful profit to themselves, even as our marketplace is much larger and more efficient.

Okay, thanks.

Sure. Thanks, Mike, next question please?

Thank you. Our next question comes from Ron Josey from JMP Securities.

Great, thanks for taking the question. Last quarter you talked about, I think your self-service products, launching your self-service products and the adoption of like the shopping cart. So I wanted to ask a little more about the rollout process. Maybe on a region-by-region basis, is it aligned to your salesforce and any early learning from this self-service process? I think it's still early days. And then really how it sets the stage for 2017, thanks.

Yes, thanks, Ron. You're right, it's still early days. We approach things like the shopping cart and pricing and all of our other product initiatives, whether they be designed for consumers or agents, in an iterative way and we learn along the way. We don't have anything to report at this time about the rollout of self-service or any related initiatives. But as Spencer just highlighted, we are well positioned to continue to help agents to grow their business and they can increase their profits, which we believe ultimately will increase our revenue.

For 2017, I think you can expect more of the same in terms of the continuing evolution of pricing and all of our other products. We continue to invest heavily in all of these development efforts, as we still view our business as early days in growth mode.

That makes perfect sense and maybe I can follow-up with, to Michael's question on pricing. I think you talked about we were seeing tremendous growth in ARPA. I just want to ask if you can highlight or give some sort of sense on Premier Agent adoption of newer products like the pack or the foreclosures tools, just to maybe have a better understanding of perhaps what's driving pricing higher. Is it the new products that you're launching? Thanks, guys.

I would say that the primary driver of increasing ARPA, at this point, is the team-agent dynamic that we talk about. And essentially, the best characterization of that is we have teams of agents who simply buy more because they are building teams, creating leverage, and increasing their own profits, so they're willing to invest more.

We think this is an exceptional foundation moving forward, as we continue to develop products for them, give them more visibility into where their leads are coming from, greater ability to increase the velocity of their closings and make more commission. And from there, we think ultimately, that scale will yield great revenue for us.

Ron, just to add our ARPA growth is not coming from ancillary product. It's coming from the changing composition of our advertiser base.

Right sorry. I skipped that.

And next question I'll take from Twitter. Neil Doshi cleverly skips the conference line queue by coming in through Twitter with his Yoda avatar. On Twitter, he writes, if a broker can't handle leads, he might give those leads to another broker. If the broker makes the sale, he then shares the commission with the original referring broker. So there seems to be a big market on broker referrals. Will ZG potentially move more into this market?

Neil is right; that definitely a dynamic is agents by impressions from us generate leads, and then either refer those leads out to agents on their team or agents in their office or other agents that they have some sort of a partnership with. We welcome that dynamic. We think that the consumer actually gets a high level of service and response in situations like that, because the referring agent is highly motivated to make sure that it's handled by somebody that will treat the consumer well. And so yes, that certainly happens and we welcome that. Next question, operator, from the call please?

Our next question comes from Brian Nowak from Morgan Stanley.

I think I was trying to tweet it in. Question is on lead growth. How should we think about, Spencer, your comments on lead growth normalizing? Can you just talk to the pace of deceleration that you expect throughout the back half of the year.

And it looks like leads per unique visitor were down a little bit year on year on the first quarter. Just talk on the second quarter, just talk about some of the drivers you're seeing to get the leads per UB up over time, thanks.

Sure. The point I was trying to make on the script is that you've seen two or three quarters of exceptionally high year-over-year lead volumes in the 50% plus range. And that's because of easier comps, comparing current lead volumes to relatively lower Trulia traffic numbers from a year or more ago. And now that we're starting to lap tougher comps where Trulia traffic, starting next quarter for the traffic a year ago, was stronger, that makes the year over year lead volumes harder to comp to. So we desire for lead volumes to grow faster than traffic.

I think unique to this quarter, we're up 20% year over year. Leads were up 50% odd year over year, and so clearly, leads are growing faster than traffic. But the point I was trying to make is that they won't grow that much faster than traffic going forward.

The initiatives that we do to try to improve leads per [UU] are myriad, everything around product development, whether it be personalization or AB testing or our brand advertising campaign that positions Zillow or Trulia as a great place to shop for a home, or our improvements in listings quality, which mean that the listings are fresher and more accurate for home shoppers on the site. All of those initiatives and many more are focused on improving leads per unique user.

Thank you, Brian, next question please, operator?

Thank you our next question comes from John Campbell from Stephens.

Hi guys, this is Hayden Blair sitting in for John. So Project Upstream has lost some of its headline impact recently, but I know they're still gathering their forces, so to speak. So does this Bridge Interactive acquisition provide an answer to some of the risk faced by that upstream movement, or is that more of a complementary technology to what they're trying to do? Thanks for taking my question.

Well, we don't -- upstream, we're not affected by Upstream, at least at the present time. Upstream is still figuring out what it is and what it's going to be, and I don't suspect it will have much, if any, impact on us. So we're just going about our business trying to solve the problems that face the industry.

And there are significant problems that face agents and brokers around listings quality and listings security, and there are significant challenges faced by MLSs trying to assure that they have a role in the future real estate ecosystem. And Bridge helps address all of the problems facing those three constituencies, or many problems facing those three constituencies.

So we're excited about Bridge. It's a very small Company, just to set the stage of -- to manage expectations here around its potential impact. It has very powerful technology and solves a very important problem for listing agents, their brokers, and for MLSs. But it has very minimal adoption at the present time. So I'm excited about it, and we'll see how -- we'll see what progress it makes over the next couple of quarters.

Thanks, Spencer.

Sure. Next question please, operator?

Thank you, our next question comes from Mark May from Citi.

Thanks for taking my questions. A follow-up on the one earlier on the lead volume growth commentary in the prepared remarks. Just wondering if you could give us a sense again of how much did the merger and integration benefit lead growth? And just trying to get a better sense of as we do comp those issues, how we should be thinking about the growth going forward.

And then on the reinvesting side, I think you mentioned three-quarters of that is related to hiring and product development. Wondering, Spencer, if you could just comment a little bit on specifically some of the areas that you're hiring and products that you're developing or reinvesting in there. Thanks.

Great, so I'll go ahead and take the first part of that on lead growth and the impacts that the Trulia merger had on lead growth, and then I'll turn it back to Spencer. Obviously, we're benefiting from the scale of Trulia and Zillow together. We are twice the size of our nearest competitor, and Spencer shared the nice share numbers that we have now with two out of three total online and four out of five mobile. So obviously with traffic growth comes lead growth.

But the other thing that we've seen is that Trulia actually delivers a disproportionately high lead volume as compared to the Zillow brand. Their bottom of the funnel is the best among the portfolio, so we're learning from them and benefiting from their awesome performance in terms of lead development and growth.

And Mark, I started writing down some of the areas that we are investing in and I realized that I basically was writing down every part of the Company. So I'm not sure how helpful it will be, but here is how far I got. At the group level, so at Zillow Group, we're investing in, for example, people in marketing, performance marketing, which we do cross-brand centrally. So we do our performance marketing for all brands at the group level.

Premier Agent sales at the group level, rental sales team at the group level, mortgage sales at the group level. Product development at the Zillow brand level and the Trulia brand level. StreetEasy sales team, Naked Apartments sales team, Naked Apartments product development, dotloop product development and on and on. So it's really across the board, no specific areas that I want to discuss in more detail right now. It's pretty broad.

Thanks.

Next question please.

Thank you, our next question comes from Lloyd Walmsley from Deutsche Bank.

Hi, this is (inaudible) stepping in for Lloyd. Thanks for taking the question. So just wondering if you can talk about how you changed your segment piece of the business between display and marketplace. And anything you can do to quantify the impact or the magnitude of those changes? Thank you.

Yes, so as we've been saying I think going on now a couple of years, we've never viewed display as strategic to our business, and we feel actually pretty privileged that we're in a place where we can deemphasize the display revenue in favor of other placements and other revenue sources across our portfolio of brands. We believe ultimately, this benefits the consumer, which is consistent with our mission all along. And we think it just is a far better long-term strategy.

As we noted in the script, display revenue is now, I think, 8% of our total revenue, which is year over year down from I think about 15% the prior year, maybe even a little bit more. So things are going according to plan and we're happy with the outcome.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you. Our next question comes from Aaron Kessler from Raymond James.

Great, a couple questions. Just on the other real estate revenues, could you help us understand maybe the magnitude of the components there? Also, sequentially, I believe revenues were up about 45%. What was driving such a strong growth sequentially? Thank you.

Yes, so the components of the other revenue category, essentially it's our emerging marketplaces, and we see a ton of strength there. As Spencer noted, taking the New York properties all together, StreetEasy, Naked Apartments, we're seeing nearly 80% year-over-year growth there.

Rentals is a part of that. Rentals we have the highest rentals traffic across the category, as well as 100% year-over-year growth. Other -- and there are some other things in there. Dotloop remains a significant contributor to that, as well as some agent services and other non-display indemic advertising there.

So in terms of magnitude, they are all nascent businesses, We see, as I said, a lot of strength in our rentals and New York City businesses, but we don't break it down specifically.

Thank you.

Operator, I'll take the next question from Twitter. Michael [Strika] asks is Zillow offering or considering offering homeowners ability to list their homes directory on ZG sites?

We do, we always have. So homeowners can post their own listing, if they choose to, on the site, and some small portion of people do. The vast majority of our listings come from brokerage or MLS fees though, not from individual homeowners.

We do also provide a lot of software tools, or I should say analytic tools, for homeowners to track how their listing is performing on the site, regardless of whether they post it themselves or whether their brokers, MLS, or their agent's MLS posted it. And so we increasingly are letting homeowners track and take control of their listing's performance on our sites.

Operator, next question please?

Our next question comes from Tom White from Macquarie.

Great, thanks for taking my question. I had one on the team dynamic that you guys are fostering there with the agents. And I jumped on a little late, so I hope I didn't miss it. But any sense that you guys can provide or any work that you've done to indicate maybe how many agents that Premier Agent business is actually touching that might not be reflected in that paying subscriber number, which as you guys have said is more like number of credit cards you've charged.

And then just any update on what inning you guys are at in terms of pruning off the lower caliber subs off the platform? Thanks.

Hi Tom. Good questions, hard questions to answer. Not sure we know the answer to either of them.

On the first one, which is teams, we don't have good data on that, and it's very hard for us to know. We did launch team profiles, and so now agents can associate themselves as part of a team.

We haven't released data on what -- on how many of our subscribing Premier Agents are parts of teams. But even with the team profile features launched, it's hard to know because of the other dynamic that we mentioned from Neil's question about agents that refer leads to other agents.

On the pruning of agents and making sure that only top agents are spending on the platform, it's a continual work in process. Hard for me to put my finger on how far along it is. It's been, we've been focused on it for two years, maybe three years, but we're constantly trying to up-level the industry and train agents to be better at being great agents.

So it's probably something that's never done; it's a job that's never complete, but we are a couple years into it. So I feel much better today about the consumer experience. When we deliver these approximately 4 million leads a quarter to agents, I feel that those 4 million people or those 4 million leads are being handled with much greater care than they were a couple of years ago. But hard for me to predict what that might look like two or three years from now.

Okay.

Next question please, operator?

Thank you. Our next question comes from Shyam Patil from SIG.

Hi, thank you, guys. I had a couple questions. The first one, Spencer, is there any color you could provide on what percent of ZIP codes are sold out? And then for the agent team dynamic that you're talking about, is that primarily in thee sold-out ZIP codes or is it more broad-base? And then I have a follow-up.

Hi Shyam, we don't disclose what percent of ZIPs are sold out. But the team question is not related to that question. Agents -- to be clear, agents have been joining teams for a lot longer than even Zillow Group has been around.

So agents join teams for all sorts of reasons, one of which is to manage their work/life balance a little bit better so that they can have somebody on their team that's always available to a client. But the Zillow Group business model of selling impressions in a given ZIP code and whether or not it's sold out doesn't have bearing on the team issue.

Did you have another question, Shyam?

One more. There's been a lot of talk in the industry about a Broker Public Portal. Just wanted to get your thoughts on that and what impact it could potentially have.

I don't know much about it, haven't heard much about it lately. It's hard to build a tech company. It's hard to build a tech company that attracts a massive audience through innovation. It's even harder if it's an industry consortium initiative.

I think that I feel very good about our consumer audience and our collection of brands, and there will always be competitors existing and potential future competitors competing for audience. But I feel like we have a good advantage, a good corporate culture, and good audience lead that helps in inoculate us from competitors today and tomorrow.

Great, thank you.

Thank you. Any other questions operator?

I'm showing no further questions from our phone lines. I would now like to turn the conference back over to Spencer Rascoff for any closing remarks.

All right, well with that, I will thank you all for joining us today on the call and I look forward to giving you an update on our progress again in November. Thanks very much.

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for participating in today's conference. This does conclude the program and you may all disconnect. Everyone have a wonderful day.