Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, greetings, and welcome to the IZEA First Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference is being recorded.

It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Sandra Carbone, SVP, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of IZEA, Inc. Please go ahead.

Sandra Carbone
Senior VP & General Counsel

Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to IZEA's earnings call covering the first quarter of 2026. I'm Sandra Carbone, SVP, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at IZEA, and joining me on the call are IZEA's Chief Executive Officer, Patrick Venetucci; and IZEA's Chief Financial Officer, Peter Biere. Thank you for being with us today.

Earlier this afternoon, the company issued a press release detailing IZEA's performance during Q1 2026. If you would like to review those details, please visit our Investor Relations website at izea.com/investors. Before we begin, please take note of the safe harbor paragraph included in today's press release covering IZEA's financial results and be advised that some of the statements that we make today regarding our business, operations and financial performance, may be considered forward-looking, and such statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. We encourage you to consider the disclosures contained in our SEC filings for a detailed discussion of these factors.

Our commentary today will also include the non-GAAP financial measures of adjusted EBITDA and revenues excluding divested operations. Reconciliations between GAAP and non-GAAP metrics to our reported results can also be found in our earnings release issued earlier