Dan Kleiner

3 weeks ago | fanboyfactor.com | Dan Kleiner

“If you can’t feel any pain, there’s no difference from being dead.”Lazarus is sleek and stylish, cynical and cautionary. It is an ominous cyberpunk portrayal of a possible near-future. Visionary director Shinichirō Watanabe returns to the genre with a new, 13 episode series 27 years after his monumental cyberpunk masterwork, Cowboy Bebop aired in 1998 and upended the field.

1 month ago | fanboyfactor.com | Dan Kleiner

“Everyone is hiding something. We’re all looking for someone to show it to.”Novocaine is a bleak love story. It’s another bloody and black comedy, an action movie that dances on the edges of sadistic torture-porn. It is savage, silly, and definitely not for the squeamish. The movie is full of fight scenes that are inelegant, brutal, brutish, and bloody.

1 month ago | igbaffiliate.com | Dan Kleiner

The affiliate’s new depositing customers (NDCs) fell in Q4 by 5% from 2023 with 43,199 sent through to operator partners while adjusted EBITDA dropped by 16% year-on-year to €1.2 million (£1 million /$1.3 million). For the full year, Acroud’s reduced revenue came in at €38.6 million, while its adjusted EBITDA dropped down by 27% to €4.7 million. Its largest decrease came in the 46% reduction in NDCs to 175,740 across the whole of 2024.

2 months ago | igbaffiliate.com | Dan Kleiner

The affiliate’s end to the year helped to push its revenue for 2024 up 14% from 2023, while organic growth was still negative with a drop of 2% year-on-year. Recurring revenue was also increased in Q4 by 28% year-on-year to €63 million with a full-year up by 14% with a result of €231 million. EBITDA before special items also rose by 14% to €34 million with a margin of 35% in Q4, with the full-year metric up by 2% to €113 million with a 31% margin.

2 months ago | igbaffiliate.com | Dan Kleiner

The affiliate’s revenue for the quarter was €35.9 million (£29.8 million/$37.6 million), up from 2023’s €26.1 million representing 38% growth, 28% of which was organic. EBITDA in the same period amounted to €14.3 million from €10.9 million the year before with 22.9% growth. While revenue for the full year was up 41% to €124.5 million, 17% brought in by organic growth, as EBITDA increased year-on-year by 45% to €57.2 million.