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Adevinta Investor Presentation 2021

Jul 15, 2021

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Q2 2021 Trading Update

Rolv Erik Ryssdal, CEO Uvashni Raman, CFO

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Highlights

Rolv Erik Ryssdal, CEO

Key highlights of the quarter

Market Environment Business Initiatives

Gradual easing of Covid-19 restrictions in the quarter

GDP expected to grow +5.75% in 2021 and +4% in 20221

Double digit growth in traffic, coming back to normal trend in second half of Q2 driven by the end of 3rd lockdown

Motors & Real Estate: weak supply but strong audience

Jobs: progressive recovery

Strong recovery in Holidays rental benefiting from the easing of mobility restrictions

Wide marketing and PR campaigns for the 15th anniversary of LBC with strong positive results

Marketing campaigns to promote transactional services

New features on transactional such as new scoring ranking test on listing, pricing strategy on shipping, user check (SMS), new design on Apps...

Continued verticalization in Real Estate (new listing, land surface indication, local information on maps…) and Motors (new listing, criterias…)

Market Environment Business Initiatives

The state of alarm ended on May 9th

GDP projections for 2021 revised upwards in Q2 (vs January forecast) to 6.4%

Spanish Covid recovery plan to allocate significant share of the funds to digitalization

Encouraging recovery signs with Real Estate Market very close to pre-covid level at the end of May

Jobs underlying market still weak

Increasing competitive landscape in Motors, Generalist and Jobs

Real estate: multiple improvements in user experience (Express Visit feature, Google one tap log-in, Geo advisor...)

Motors: migration of professional client to new responsive site and improved content sharing with Milanuncios

Jobs: launch of multi publishing product between InfoJobs and Milanuncios and improved user experience (salary calculator, curriculum vitae multi format upload enabled...)

Generalist: continued improvement on transactional (opened for big items) and use of machine learning

Investment to further increase in H2 to accelerate recovery and fence-off competition

Market Environment Business Initiatives

Flattening off of covid-related deaths after peak at beginning of Q2, though remaining higher than in most other countries due to slow vaccine roll-out

Gradual release of restrictions on social interactions and business during the quarter

Real Estate market: continued momentum due to low interest rates

Recovery in the Motor market, both in production and car sales, though not at full capacity yet

Strong momentum in Consumer Goods

Real estate: gradual roll-out of the triple bundle ZAP / VR / OLX

Motor: further digitalization of the car journey (vehicle history roll-out and improved car financing and insurance service)

Pay & Ship: Improved scalability, automation and fraud handling set stage for further growth

Significant cost reductions, capturing synergies from merging back-office processes, systems and sales forces

Italy Willhaben Ireland Hungary Shpock
Strong growth in traffic
and content with slight
deceleration in last part
of the quarter
Continued development
of transactional
services: shipping,
one-click buy, user
ratings
Recovery in Motor and
Jobs
Strong performance in all
revenue streams
Paylivery continued to
gain traction and scale
Encouraging
developments in Jobs
Significant improvement
in ARPD in Motors
Good performance in
Real Estate supported by
our mortgage and Multi
Unit Rental businesses
Increasing traffic
numbers in all categories
in Advertising
Strong recovery in Jobs
Mixed performance in
Motors with continued
growth in professionals
while private still not
recovering
Positive P&T
developments resulting
in increased use and
penetration of apps
Sold to Russmedia on
June 2nd

Q2 financial performance Adevinta (excl. eCG)

Uvashni Raman, CFO

Group - Further recovery in Q2

Operational KPIs (100 indexed)

Leads

Revenues EBITDA

Revenues up 36% yoy to €213m

Organic revenues up 36% yoy, supported by a favorable comparison base

Online classifieds revenues up 39% yoy (of which 6% from transactional revenues)

Display advertising revenues up 35% yoy

EBITDA up 24% yoy to €52m

EBITDA margin at 24.7%, or 29.8% excl negative impact of ESOP costs in Brazil

Revenue growth and benefit from divested assets partially offset by ramp-up of marketing spending, increase in personnel costs and increase in transactional costs

All numbers on a proportionate basis incl JVs.

France | Strong performance and ramp-up of marketing investment

Revenues

EBITDA margin

Slight margin softening despite revenue growth, mainly attributable to:

  • Strong marketing investment in Q2 (LBC 15th anniversary and delivery services promotion)
  • Increasing share of transactional services
  • Increasing personnel costs due to ramp-up in hiring

Revenues

Revenue up 45% yoy, and 4% vs Q2 2019

Strong growth in Motors led by higher ARPU and number of clients

Continued recovery in Real Estate

Significant recovery in Jobs benefitting from digitalisation of SMBs

Display advertising broadly in line with Q2 2019

EBITDA margin

Slight improvement in margin

Revenues increase partly offset by the reactivation of marketing spending and the increase in personnel costs in order to support and boost market positions

Brazil | Strong organic growth, margin impacted by one-off

Revenues

OLX Brasil up 148% including Grupo ZAP (+47% yoy on a comparable basis and +32% vs Q2 2019)

Strong performance in Motors, Real Estate and Consumer goods

Solid performance in indirect Advertising and continued momentum in transactional services

EBITDA margin

Negative margin due to the one-off impact of ESOP

On a comparable basis (excl. ESOP and Grupo Zap), EBITDA margin up 8pp yoy driven by increased revenues

Continued investment in talent and reactivation of marketing spending

Global Markets | Strong performance in main markets and improved margin

Revenues

Organic revenues up 34% yoy

Excluding disposals, revenues from Classifieds (including transactional revenues) up 29% yoy and Display Advertising up 44% yoy

Strong performance in Ireland, Italy and Willhaben

EBITDA margin

Margin up 0.9pp yoy, benefitting from divestments

Excluding disposals, margin down 6pp yoy, due to:

  • Acceleration of marketing and Product & Tech investment in Italy
  • Higher personnel costs at Willhaben
  • Partly offset by increased margin in Ireland

New Adevinta

Rolv Erik Ryssdal, CEO

Successful closing of the eCG transaction

Acquisition completed on June 25, 2021 Final transaction highlights:

\$2.5bn cash consideration paid to eBay

342,474,251 ordinary shares ("Class A Shares") issued to eBay

€278m cash consideration received from Schibsted

197,520,228 shares of a new class of non-voting shares ("Class B Shares") issued to eBay

Sale process for eCG assets in the UK ongoing as per commitment to UK CMA

Funding of the cash settlement and refinancing of the debt: Adevinta has acceded to the Senior Secured Notes (€1.06bn) and Term Loan B (€900m and \$506m)

New Governance and Shareholding structure

Orla Noonan Board Chair

Fernando Abril-Martorell

Julia Jäkel Sophie

Michael Nilles

Marie Oh Huber

Aleksander Rosinski

Kristin Skogen Lund

Mark Solomons

Javary

NB: 1,367,750 treasury shares held as of July 14th are not excluded 17

Adevinta around the world

New organisational structure

Adevinta Executive Team

mobile.de is the #1 car portal in Germany with ~50% of used cars sold through the platform

mobile.de offers an attractive product suite for all buyer, seller and dealer needs

Attractive growth of ARPD* accelerated through more and differentiated packages

mobile.de operates in a highly attractive space and has 2 attractive growth levers

1

Large opportunity to capture more dealer marketing spend

2 mobile.de already expanded along the value chain to serve unmet customer needs and tap into new revenue pools

C2B: With our partner dealers we offer an easy solution for consumer sellers to sell their car

Financing: attractive Financing Offering for Consumers and Dealers

550K

Online Car Valuations finished/m

90% of Users can select a dealership within 10km radius

400Klistings with dealer financing

9Kdealers in TRX model

130K/m total financing leads

2

Further opportunities as consumers embrace digital retail and new service models, we strive to extend our services and tap into new revenue pools

Digital Retail & Online Buying

Leasing & Car Subscription

Customers embrace online transactions

Online retail of cars have become a viable business model

16% of German car buyers are willing to buy their next car via click & collect or home delivery (27% in UK, 19% in France, 15% in Italy)*

Customer look for alternative financing and ownership models

Rising interest in leasing: 33% of new car buyers and 30% of used car buyers in Germany do not think that owning a car is better than leasing*

Rising interest in subscription models:

In 2020, c. 42K car subscriptions sold in Germany** For 2030, >500k subscriptions are projected

In conclusion,

we are well positioned and see strong opportunities for growth leveraging our brand and continuing our journey towards transactions

German vertical motors champion with strong brand, highest reach, and eBay Kleinanzeigen as partner

Leading position in largest European car market with continued underlying car market growth expected

Exciting continued growth opportunities in our core dealer business to capture more dealer marketing spend...

...focus on expanding along the value chain to serve unmet customer needs and tap into new revenue pools

Increased combined Adevinta scale and expertise in Motors with strong European position creating benefits in the mid-term

Paul Heimann, CEO eBay Kleinanzeigen

eBay Kleinanzeigen: The #1 generalist portal in Germany

Connecting German buyers & sellers at very large scale

Kleinanzeigen driving growth with a strong product culture

Kleinanzeigen with large monetization potential ahead

Kleinanzeigen with unique horizontal growth opportunities

  • • out of these 52k live on Kleinanzeigen
  • • out of these, ~20k active SMB subscribers

Kleinanzeigen with exciting momentum in key verticals

Further verticalize Real Estate Evolve joint motors offering
Commission pool €6,5 Bn1 &
Real-estate advertising €750m1
Agent classifieds spend €480m2 leverage horizontal

Leveraging on our strong traffic and listings base...

Listings3 Agents3 Visits4
157k 1x 108m
327k 2.3x 110m
170k 1.7x 75m
J

leverage horizontal flywheel

Existing Joint marketing activities
Cross-listing of inventory
Planned Cross-platform promotional activities
Mobile.de C2B offering on Kleinanzeigen

1/2 USD estimates converted at fix exchange rate 1 EUR = 1.176806 USD Sources: 1OC&C Strategy Consultants 2019, 2Adevinta estimates, 3Autobiz May 2021, 4Similarweb, IVW 2021, IS24 & IW Company websites & reports

eBay Kleinanzeigen best positioned to create value

German champion with highest reach & engagement

Track-record of growth through innovating the product

Unique horizontal growth opportunity through e.g. SMB and Transactional

Exciting growth opportunity in key verticals Real-estate and Motors

Expected benefit from expertise in driving monetization from other Adevinta platforms like Leboncoin

Zac Candelario, EVP International Markets

Leveraging eCG's strengths – Advertising

Complementary revenue mix highlight eCG strengths

Advertising complements classifieds

Extends TAM beyond Classifieds Solutions for more advertisers and budgets

eCG offers a comprehensive suite of advertiser products

36%* of advertising revenues

55%* of advertising revenues 8%* of advertising revenues

eCG has expertise, proprietary capabilities and strong relations with key industry partners that can be leveraged

Outlook

Rolv Erik Ryssdal, CEO

Long-term value creation opportunity ahead of us

Acceleration of digital trends and emergence of new models

Uniquely positioned to benefit from ongoing transformation

Positive momentum expected to continue albeit that volumes remain soft and uncertain in some markets in the short term

Now entering execution phase following completion of the eCG transaction: key priority to deliver on synergy target (estimated €130-165m run-rate annual EBITDA impact in year 3* )

While keeping strong focus on operations

Further investment in the business to reinforce our positions and seize market opportunities in classifieds, acceleration in markets where we face increasing competition

*Based on initial portfolio

Next steps: more color to come in H2

August 30 Early November November 25 November 30
Q2 Financial report Historical quarterly
information
Q3 Results Capital Markets Day
Release of historical like-for-like
quarterly information for 2019,
2020 and 2021
Results to be published under
the new reporting structure:

France

Mobile.de

European Markets

International Markets
Focus on combined group
strategic and financial objectives
45

Basic information

Ticker
Oslo Stock Exchange
Reuters
Bloomberg
ADE
ADE.OL
ADE:NO
Number of shares 1,224,942,981
Of which:
Class A shares 1,027,422,753
Class B shares (non-voting, not listed shares) 197,520,228
Treasury shares (July 14, 2021) 1,367,750
Number of shares outstanding 1,223,575,231
Free float* 22.7%
Share price (July 14, 2021) NOK 185
Average daily trading volume (shares)** 540,504
Market Cap total (July 14, 2021) NOK 226.4bn (USD 25.9bn)

* Total number of shares excluding treasury shares and shares owned by Schibsted ASA and eBay Inc

** Past hundred days on the Oslo Stock Exchange

Marie de Scorbiac, Head of Investor Relations | +33 6 1465 7740 Anne-Sophie Jugean, Investor Relations Manager | +33 6 7419 2281 [email protected]

Adevinta ASA, Akersgata 55, P.O. Box 490 Sentrum