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Enhanced Group, Inc. Q3 F2026 Earnings Call Transcript
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Good afternoon and welcome to Enhanced Group's third quarter 2026 earnings conference call. All participants are in listen-only mode. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. Please note this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the call over to Susan Elward, General Counsel of Enhanced Group. Please go ahead.
Susan Elward
General Counsel
Thank you and good afternoon. With me today are Maximilian Martin, Chief Executive Officer, and Sidd Banthiya, Chief Financial Officer. This afternoon, we issued our third quarter 2026 results press release and filed our quarterly report on Form 10-Q. Both are available in the investor relations section of our website. Today's call contains forward-looking statements, including statements about our strategy, the proposed combination with Diag, our sports and consumer health businesses, liquidity, and future events and products. These are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. Please refer to the risk factors in our SEC filings. including the materials we filed on November 6 in connection with DIEG. We undertake no obligation to update these statements except as required by law. We will also refer to adjusted EBITDA and adjusted operating costs, which are non-GAAP measures. Reconciliations to the most directly comparable GAAP measures are in our press release. All share and per share figures reflect the 1 for 10 reverse stock split. With that, I'll turn it over to Max.
Maximilian Martin
Chief Executive Officer
Thank you, Susan, and thank you all for joining. Last week, we announced our agreement to acquire a majority stake in DIAC, together with a concurrent $15 million private placement. Today, we're announcing Enhanced OS, the next major step for our consumer health business. Those announcements reflect the company we're building, helping people improve how they feel and perform, and bringing them together through extraordinary live experiences. I want to walk you through three parts of that business. Live Enhanced, the Enhanced Games, and Dayak. What we have built, where we are investing, and how we intend to turn that progress into profitable growth. Let me start with Live Enhanced because we have spent the past several months building the foundation for a much larger consumer business. We recently added cognitive enhancements as a new vertical. alongside metabolic regulation, hormone optimization, and peptides. With the addition of six peptides, including BPC-157, TB-500, MOTC, KPV, Epitalon, and Xemax, we now offer approximately 20 prescription treatments subject to clinical evaluation and prescribing by licensed physicians. Our supplements are also now, since Q3, available in 33 international markets. The launch of these six peptides is a significant expansion for us. Health and performance optimization is central to why people know Enhanced, and we believe we have an opportunity to build a leading consumer brand in this category through personalized care and medical oversight. But the most important announcement today is Enhanced OS. On our last earnings call, we told you we were building it. Today we are opening signups for invitation-based early access ahead of the planned full launch in January 2027. Please read the press release on EnhancedOS that just went out now as well and make sure to sign up for it. EnhancedOS brings your medical history, diagnostics covering more than 100 biomarkers, and wearable data together to generate personalized protocol recommendations for you. It starts with understanding who you are, where your health stands today, and what you specifically want to achieve. Are you 25 and training for a marathon? Or are you 45 and looking for more energy to spend time with your kids after work? The platform is the same. However, the goals and recommendations people receive are personalized. As wearable sync and diagnostics are repeated, the platform proactively recommends adjustments so that your personal protocol can evolve with you. Early access begins with supplement protocols and health insights. Prescription integration is planned for the full launch in January, with every prescription protocol reviewed and decided upon by a licensed clinician together with the consumer. Our work with athletes is an important part of that foundation. In the run-up to the Games, we have made, on average, one protocol adjustment per week per athlete. That work generated a body of medical intellectual property on personalized protocol development, which now trains the enhanced OS algorithm. We believe the combination of that experience, our brand, and an integrated consumer platform can meaningfully differentiate Live Enhanced. Therefore, in Q3, We have deliberately held back on a major increase in paid marketing because we wanted to focus instead on strengthening and further building out this strong foundation. We wanted the product offering and the care experience ready before accelerating customer acquisition. However, even with paid marketing spend held flat this quarter, Live Enhanced gross revenue nearly tripled in its first full quarter. We have made strong hires and we are also developing a refreshed brand that will launch soon. The ambition is to make Enhanced relevant to a much broader audience, particularly women, while keeping the focus on health and performance that make us distinctive. Our goal is to bring Live Enhanced to profitability by the end of this year, then accelerate our commercial push in January as we launch the full Enhanced OS platform. Moving on to sports. Our sports business is where people see the Enhanced brand come to life. It gives us a stage to showcase extraordinary athletes, create compelling content, and reach audiences around the world. The inaugural Enhanced Games demonstrated the reach we can achieve. Our first Enhanced Breakers event, which we held in Los Angeles in Q3, demonstrated that we can also create compelling events at a fraction of the cost, designed for digital distribution through our own channels. Breakers 2 is now scheduled for December 19 in Las Vegas, and we are already planning Breakers 3 for the first quarter of next year. We continue to attract exceptional athletes as we build a more consistent calendar of competition and content. For the 2027 Enhanced Games, we are in discussions with potential host cities and we are planning around a budget of approximately $20 million for it. We believe we can deliver an equal or even better live experience and digital experience at that lower cost. Alongside that cost discipline, we are developing a broader revenue base. In addition to sponsorship, which was the only revenue line for 2026, we are pursuing media rights sales, ticket revenue, and host city economic development support. Together, those changes underpin our expectation that the sports business as a whole, including enhanced games and breakers, can break even or better in 2027. Next, let's talk about DIAC. We see a significant opportunity in the flip side of AI, the growing value of shared and in-person experiences. As digital content becomes easier to produce and more of everyday life becomes online, people will continue to seek out experiences that bring them together. A concert with friends, a festival you return to every summer, a sporting performance you remember because you were there. Sports was our first live entertainment vertical. DEAG will substantially expand this offering with many more. It brings concerts, owned festival brands, major artist tours, family entertainment, spoken word events, and more. It also brings the third largest ticketing business in Europe, MyTicket, adding a direct customer relationship alongside the live experiences. Across its business, DEAG stages more than 6,000 events and sells more than 12 million tickets annually. that gives us substantial diversification across event formats, audiences, and markets throughout Europe and the UK. We see opportunities over time to connect that reach with our broader brand, sponsorship offering, and consumer products. DIAC also brings an established business with its own operating strengths and growth opportunities. Just as importantly, it brings experienced leadership. Markus Breitnecker is in the process of joining as CEO, and DIAC's broader management team has substantial expertise Dirk has completed more than 30 acquisitions over the past seven years and has additional opportunities in its pipeline. We intend to build on that experience, invest in the team needed to execute well, and pursue further acquisitions in 2027. The expected financial transformation is pretty substantial. For 2027, we expect combined revenues of approximately $670 million and positive adjusted EBTA of approximately $26 million, subject to completing the transaction. That represents approximately 20% revenue growth and a roughly $65 million improvement in adjusted EBTA compared to the expected combined results for 2026. Enhanced has also hosted a webcast last week that you can access through our investor relations section on our homepage, talking in-depth to the transaction, our rationale, and the strategy going forward. The concurrent $15 million financing is intended to strengthen our balance sheet as we bring the businesses together. Our largest shareholder, Apiron, and myself have also voluntarily extended our respective lockups by six months, reflecting our confidence in the company's future. Our priorities are clear. Thanks Max, and good afternoon everyone. I'll walk through revenue, costs, the balance sheet, and liquidity,
Sidd Banthiya
Chief Financial Officer
and then close with what our recently announced DEG transaction means for 2027. The third quarter was our first full quarter as a public company and in many ways, a quarter of preparation. Given how much has changed over the past year, I think the most meaningful comparison is to the second quarter this year rather than the same period last year. That's also how we've approached the discussion in our 10Q, and I'll provide both comparisons today. The second quarter was transformational for Enhanced. We staged the inaugural Enhanced Games, completed our D-SPAC, and became a publicly traded company. Coming out of that quarter, our focus shifted from executing those milestones to building on what we had accomplished and delivering on those priorities that we outlined during our last earnings call. In the third quarter, we focused on developing enhanced OS, laying the groundwork for the DAG acquisition, and strengthening our financial position. We significantly reduced operating expenses, settled a substantial portion of the obligations remaining from the inaugural games, and completed our $50 million private placement. I'll come back to Diag after reviewing the quarter's results. Revenue. Revenue was 3.3 million compared with 17.7 million in the second quarter and no revenue in the prior year period. Second quarter revenue was driven primarily by the inaugural enhanced games held in May. Third quarter revenue affects the acceleration of live enhanced telehealth sales during the quarter and continued recognition under the company sponsorship agreements. Ahead of the enhanced OS launch, we deliberately limited paid marketing while we continued developing our offering, including diagnostics and personalized protocols. Our priority was to strengthen the platform before accelerating customer acquisition. Even with performance spend approximately flat at one and a half million, gross revenue per dollar of marketing spend tripled in the third quarter, reflecting a meaningful improvement in marketing efficiency. Costs. Total operating expenses in the third quarter were $16.8 million, down approximately 79% from $79.6 million in the second quarter and compared with $6 million in the third quarter of 2025. Let me walk through the pieces. Games, athlete, and event costs were $2.7 million in the third quarter, down from $52 million in the second quarter and compared with $1.3 million in the third quarter of 2025. These costs included our first Breakers event, athlete stipends in preparation for Breakers 2 on December 19th, as well as about $1.5 million of non-cash share awards to athletes and games-related service providers. SG&A was $12.7 million, down from $16.6 million in the second quarter. A year ago, as a private company, it was $4.2 million. Third quarter SG&A included $3.1 million of non-cash rumble marketing expense, and a $1.5 million of stock-based compensation. We're continuing to manage costs closely and plan to draw on our Rumble marketing credits when we see a return on that spend. On our second quarter call, I pointed to about $5.5 million of quarterly SG&A, excluding non-cash items as representative of our ongoing cost base. In the third quarter, underlying SG&A was approximately $7.8 million after excluding $3.1 million of non-cash rumble marketing expense, $1.5 million of stock-based compensation, and $0.3 million of severance and other one-line items. The increase from the second quarter primarily reflects our first full quarter carrying the costs of a public company, including $2.4 million of professional services for audit, legal, and compliance. Transaction expenses were $1.2 million down from $10.9 million in the second quarter, These were mainly legal fees related to the proposed DIAG acquisition, the reverse split, and remaining D-SPAC activities. As we pursue acquisitions, we will continue to incur transaction costs, but remain disciplined in managing those expenses. Net loss and adjusted EBITDA. Net loss in the third quarter was 13.5 million. That compares with 61.9 million in the second quarter, an improvement of about 78% and 5.9 million in the third quarter of 2025. Adjusted EBITDA was a loss of 8.8 million compared with a loss of 42.7 million in Q2, an improvement of about 79% and 3.8 million a year ago. A reconciliation of adjusted EBITDA to net loss is available in today's press release. Balance sheet and liquidity. We ended the quarter with 12.1 million in cash. During the quarter, the second and third tranches of our pipe were funded, completing the $50 million private placement. Costs of the placement were deducted directly from the proceeds, so they did not impact our operating results. Our first priority for that capital was to settle outstanding obligations from the inaugural games. Accounts payable and accrued expenses fell from $40.1 million at the end of the second quarter to $25.4 million at the end of the third quarter. and much of that remaining balance is subject to negotiated payment terms. Looking ahead, we have several additional sources of liquidity. First, we expect to monetize 10 million and resolve shares after their unlock in December. Second, we announced a $15 million pipe last week, which is expected to close alongside the DEX transaction. And third, we expect 10 million in consideration under our ZOOP arrangement. Together with cash on hand, that is approximately 47 million in liquidity. Looking ahead, the DAG transaction represents a major step toward greater scale and profitability. As Max mentioned, DAG stages more than 6,000 events annually, sells more than 12 million tickets, and owns more than 30 festivals across Europe and the UK. For 2027, we expect the combined company to generate approximately 670 million in revenue and positive adjusted EBITDA of approximately 26 million, a projected improvement of roughly 65 million from 26 on a combined basis. Diag is profitable today and we expect to acquire it at approximately 5.3 times its projected lease adjusted EBITDA with consideration paid entirely in stock. This represents a 63% discount to the listed pure median. On the enhanced side, we're planning the next enhanced games with the goal of achieving breakeven or better event economics through sponsorship, media rights, ticketing, and host city support. And we're also excited about enhanced OS. which moved from concept to live beta today. It brings our protocols, diagnostics, and coaching into a single platform and it's the engine we expect to drive subscription growth and improve acquisition economics and our consumer business through 2027. So while the third quarter reflects enhanced on a standalone basis, we believe the combination with Diag will put us on stronger footing as we enter 2027 with significantly greater scale and new opportunities for growth.
Maximilian Martin
Chief Executive Officer
Thank you, Sid. We're entering a new chapter for Enhanced. We expect to bring together the scale and the profitability of an established live entertainment business with the brand technology and ambitions we have built at Enhanced. We definitely see a significant opportunity at the intersection of sport, entertainment, and health and performance. Our events bring people together around shared experiences. Our athletes inspire people to push the boundaries of what is possible. And through Enhanced OS and Live Enhanced, We are building tools to help people better understand and improve their own health and performance every single day. That is the company we are building and we're only getting started. Thank you as well for all of our shareholders, the team and athletes for being on this journey with that. And with this, let's open it up for questions.
Conference Call Operator
Operator
We will now begin the question and answer session. Please limit yourself to one question and one follow-up. If you would like to ask a question, Please press star 1 to raise your hand. To withdraw your question, press star 1 again. We ask that you pick up your handset when asking a question to allow for optimum sound quality. If you are muted locally, please remember to unmute your device. Please stand by while we compile the Q&A roster. Your first question comes from Susan Anderson with Canaccord Genuity. Your line is open. Please go ahead.
Susan Anderson
Analyst, Canaccord Genuity
Hi, good evening. Thanks for taking my questions. Congrats on the launch of Enhanced OS. I think that's really exciting. I was wondering if maybe you can give us a little bit more color on kind of what this will look like. Will consumers do a blood test and get recommendations? I guess, will there be other types of tests? And if you have any idea of the cost of the personalized test, or will there be more of a monthly subscription that includes, you know, reoccurring tests and then supplements, et cetera? Thanks.
Maximilian Martin
Chief Executive Officer
Hey Susan, thank you so much for your question. So it's awesome, like genuinely it really is. So what it does is it brings together what we have done for the athletes with the offering that we've built for consumers. As you just noted out, it starts with diagnostics. The first step of the diagnostics is actually that we'll be able to pull all of your electronic medical records by you providing the last three addresses of where you have lived. That lets us see all of your doctor's visits, previous testing results, family history, other conditions, etc. The first part of understanding who you are as an individual. Second, you can do blood testing and diagnostics with us. More than 100 biomarkers anywhere literally throughout the country. It's super easily accessible. Like you know it from other companies in this space as well. But it's all integrated into this one platform. What it then does is it Thank you for having me. Thank you for watching. Those add-on purchases can be across a variety of segments. The first is just additional diagnostics throughout the year. There's going to be bundling with more purchases of diagnostics that you buy to bring the cost down. But then also through in-app purchases, both for supplements and prescription drugs. With this first launch now, The protocol recommendations are going to be focused on supplementation strategy for you as an individual, exercise and nutritional recommendations. By January, what's going to be in there is also recommendations for prescription drugs. With the supplements and everything, we actually have built a marketplace inside the app as well through which you can immediately buy the supplements that are recommended to you. Those cover all of the major brands that you know of. and the pricing of those substances or the supplements is actually cheaper than when you would buy it from the manufacturer directly. So we're extremely proud of that. And then the prescription drugs that will be recommended included by January, those are our own Rx products that we offer today.
Susan Anderson
Analyst, Canaccord Genuity
Okay, great. That sounds exciting. And then just on the games, I think you talked about starting to sell tickets for the enhanced games and I believe maybe the breakers as well. I guess what's the timing of that starting? Is it with the acquisition when DL closes? And then do you think that you'll be able to break even on the games with those ticket sales? And then also just curious if you have the next enhanced game scheduled? Thanks.
Maximilian Martin
Chief Executive Officer
Yeah, so the next games, we're planning them probably for Q4 of next year. We feel very, very confident in our ability to execute it by then. What we're doing with the next games, I want to talk quickly on top line with you, like your question, but also then on the cost side. On the top line, sponsorship, we're looking to do similarly, if not better, for next year. But then we have three additional levers on the top line that we're looking to monetize on. The first is media rights sales. We have intentionally not sold our media rights in year one because we fully wanted to own the content and distribute it in whatever way and on which platform we wanted to. We, as you know, were actually on Roku and we had the ability to monetize the partnership with them. But that would have required us for 30 days not to distribute the content other than two 90 second clips. And so we decided against it. However, from Roku, we know actually that we were the most watched sporting event on their platform ever. We actually have, since the first games as well, the agency WME representing us on both sponsorship and media rights sales. What is for these two items specifically different than the first year is that we're not selling a vision anymore. We're not selling anymore a vision and a 3D rendering of a stadium that we're planning to build, but what we're now selling is a reference of what we have achieved, and that includes the billion people around the globe that we have engaged. Those are the first two top line items. Then third is tickets. Tickets will probably differ a little bit depending on one thing. It's like either we build a competition complex in the same fashion that we did for year one, or we're also looking and we're speaking with a couple of arenas across the country. And so if we hosted the arena versus the competition complex, obviously seating will be different, impacting ticket pricing. And the last bit is is because we now, as I said before, have a reference that we can point to, we can also show the economic impact that we have on the city when we host the enhanced games there. This is both economic impact we produce from just building and operating the games there. Like for the first games, I think we had more than 700 people working on making them happen. So massive benefit for Las Vegas of us being there. But then also everything on the tourism side, hotel nights, et cetera, that we have brought to that city. And so that allows us to negotiate with the host cities on economic development financing. So that's how we see the top line developing. On the cost side, as I mentioned before, we're looking to decrease the budget to roughly 20 million. How is that possible? So firstly, we're going to shorten the event. This year, it was six hours long. We're going to shorten it to roughly three hours. Makes it much more palatable for the viewer at home and the people in the stadium. That means less events, less athletes, less prize money, less production cost overall. Additionally, every single line item that we have from the first games, whether that's the rental of the lights, the rental of the sound, hospitality, etc., are now also reference items that we can specifically steer how much we want to spend on them for next year. And so the way that we've designed now the games for 2027, We feel very confident that with a $20 million budget, we can create equally as an amazing life experience, but also on the digital side, make sure that the content that we stream and distribute is equally as exciting. And so from sponsorships remaining the same, if not growing, plus the three additional items on the top line, combined with a $20 million budget, and then breakers events that you throw in there in between, we believe that we're able to break even on the sporting business by next year.
Susan Anderson
Analyst, Canaccord Genuity
Okay, great. And if I could just add one more, just on the six new peptides, it does look like they're available on your site now. I know it's very early, but are there any early reads on how consumers have responded and how these are trending on the site? Thanks.
Maximilian Martin
Chief Executive Officer
Apologies, I was just coughing. So the consumers were very excited about this, right? We have a ton of consumers that already in the months leading up to this, since July, since the PK came out with the recommendation, adding those peptides, that have asked whether they can buy it from us. Similarly, quite frankly, the athletes. The athletes were always curious on getting them from us. So we're now very happy that we have a pathway to it. Thank you so much for having me. deals for the substances that we're acquiring for them. So I think our pricing is extremely strong and consumers have been very excited about it. Like even with day one, we are still waiting on guidance, particularly from Meta around the marketing of those peptides. There is certain guidance that has been out by another platform, LegitScript, but we've been a little bit cautious because we want to do everything by the book. So we're waiting for Meta's guidance and Google's. But like, yeah, so far the organic interest has been very, very good for us.
Susan Anderson
Analyst, Canaccord Genuity
Okay, great. Good to hear. Maybe one thing to add on that. It's very similar.
Maximilian Martin
Chief Executive Officer
One thing to add on that, which is very similar to our other prescription drugs that we had in the past, people not just come to us for one substance, also in peptides, but really for bundles. And so what's going to be launched next is bundles for three stacks. Those are the Wolverine, the Glow, and the Glow stack, which we're bundling certain peptides that are part of these stacks together and make the pricing for those even more competitive for our consumers. And so we're very happy to see that people, when they come to us, the average order values are not just for one product that they're buying, but multiplied together. from the first order onwards.
Susan Anderson
Analyst, Canaccord Genuity
Okay, great. That's something exciting. Thanks for all the details here.
Conference Call Operator
Operator
You're welcome. Your next question comes from Ian Zaffino with Oppenheimer. Your line is open. Please go ahead.
Ian Zaffino
Analyst, Oppenheimer
Hi, great. Thank you very much. Great call on the gains that you provided. Thank you for that. And I guess as you think about the economics of the gains, you know, the fact that we're moving towards being potentially breakeven and even a profit. What should we expect as far as what the market could bear as far as number of games per year and how many breakers per year you think you could do? Is it limited by the market or is it limited by your appetite or the necessity of you doing a certain number of games? So give us any color there. That'd be helpful. Thanks.
Maximilian Martin
Chief Executive Officer
This is actually a great question because alongside of everything that you mentioned, what is really important to consider as well is the athletes and their training regimens to train to peak. So we've thought about this. I think what we can probably expect in a couple of years from now is or target as a company is to have games twice a year. You could do it then also geographically, extremely diversified, where you have one in what we know as the European summers or the Europeans, sorry, I'm European. or like in America in the more warmer states in the winter and the colder states in summer. And then you can have the second games, for example, South Africa, Australia, markets that are extremely interested from the viewership numbers that we've seen from the games. I think two times a year is sustainable for the athletes when you think about the protocols and the training regimens to build up to absolute peak, right? What is very important to consider with the sports that we have, very similar in the Olympics where championships and everything else is that compared to like, for example, football, where people are much more used to more games throughout the year or like baseball more than 150 games a season, our athletes are very, very dialed in on this peak performance. And so it takes some time to build up and then be ready and perform. So I think twice a year is probably very palatable for the athletes. And then in terms of breakers, now the cadence that we have is we did one in Q3, Thank you for joining us. Look into 2027, though, in terms of more sports that we can offer. One thing that we've talked about in a webcast actually encourage really everyone to have a look at it where we talk about the deal transaction is also the expansion from spectator sports to participatory sports. That's really important for us because we want to give our fans the opportunity to become part of the enhanced ecosystem and participate in events. So what we're planning on doing as of next year is co-brand events with existing sporting events. that have a loyal participant base to say, for example, hey, we're doing the Miami Enhanced College Triathlon in April of next year. And why is that specifically important for us? And there we can get a much greater velocity of events in because we don't own the production, but we just bring our most valuable asset, the brand, to a already successful production. Why is that so cool? Because if we have those touch points with the people that are participating in those events, we can start cross-selling product to them already months in advance. So now with Enhanced OS, say for example, in April of next year, you're doing this triathlon in Miami. When you get delivered your ticket and you sign up for it, you can get a discount, for example, to your block work testing through EnhancedOS. And then Enhanced OS understands, hey, you're doing that triathlon in Miami. This is what your baseline is. How about consider a protocol of XYZ supplements and ABC prescription drugs to help you get in the best shape possible for that event so you can maximize your experience as you're in that event? And that's really the key point and also why DIAG is such an important acquisition for us, because it's all about maximizing our human experience. and so we can do that by on the sporting side offering our sporting offering from spectator to participatory but then also festivals, concerts, family events, spoken word events etc and create this kind of consumer flywheel of this vast offering of experience that we can offer to them and then preparing their bodies to get the maximum out of those experiences.
Ian Zaffino
Analyst, Oppenheimer
Okay, great. Thank you. And then, you know, just about the deal from last week, Diag, I was wondering if you could maybe, I mean, clearly this is a good deal, the multiple, et cetera, but from like a top-line perspective, from revenues, how do these two businesses, when you put them together, you know, what are the synergies on the revenue side and and how do we think about maybe the magnitude of those as well? Thank you.
Maximilian Martin
Chief Executive Officer
So from a synergy perspective on the revenue side, apologies, I think it will take a little bit of time for those to truly come to place. I think where you'll see synergies quicker is on the cost side. On the cost side, just because we can utilize MyTicket, for example, to take it out of the Enhanced Games event, we can produce the breakers now very easily with in-house capabilities across Europe. So there's a lot of immediate cost synergies that can be realized. From a top line synergy perspective, I see specifically two synergies. One is on shared sponsorship. This means, for example, same sponsorship for the enhanced games that can also sponsor events across Europe. A lot of sponsors that we see are very much interested in culture, not just in one specific element, but really what is culturally relevant. And so if you culturally relevant, for example, with the enhanced games, and what we do in culture, you maybe also want to sponsor the best techno festival in Germany, which DIAG has a monopoly on the biggest and best EDM and techno festivals in Germany. So there's a lot of variety across that. Another one is, for example, within the artist and talent universe. What we're doing with Enhanced is, particularly for Live Enhanced, We're expanding from athletes being our only brand ambassadors. What you will see coming more up is people in other industries. So for example, artists as brand ambassadors for Live Enhanced. Why? Because actually when you go on tour as an artist, that's quite taxing on the body as well. And rather than rock stars, say 50 years ago, and so on. but that I think takes a little bit of time, is really cross-selling our consumer offering to the 12 million ticket sales that Diag does in Europe throughout the year. Think about it like this. You go to a festival. A festival in Europe, we'll call it Air Beat One in Germany. Four-day festival, more than 200,000 people a year, 350 DJs, nine stages, insanely cool festival. I'm actually super pumped to go next year. But whatever, if you go to a festival for four days, you're likely going to drink a lot of alcohol. You're likely going to drink less and you're likely going to eat a lot of junk food. And so how about, because we own the customer relationship by selling them the ticket, we know from people what their behavior is. Like I said, then, hey, in two weeks, you're going to Airbnb one. How about you bring this XYZ supplement stack with you to help your body be better while you're four days in the festival? And then how does your recovery look like once you get home from a festival? So that I think is more like, out there in terms of time it would take to be able to realize that, but definitely a huge top line synergy that we see coming over the years to come.
Sidd Banthiya
Chief Financial Officer
Also, Ian and Sid, just so you know, in terms of the financials that we put out with our deck when we announced the acquisition of Diag, we didn't include any synergies in the forecast that we made, either on the cost side or on the top line side. So everything that Max is talking about, isn't included in what we actually forecasted. But we think all of those could be very interesting for us. And I think it's going to be a really interesting year as we start to think about how we put all of those and operationalize them.
Ian Zaffino
Analyst, Oppenheimer
All right. Thank you very much. Sounds very exciting. Looking forward to seeing it all come together. Thank you. Thanks, Ian.
Conference Call Operator
Operator
Your next question comes from Gabby Ingoglia with Cantor Fitzgerald. Your line is open. Please go ahead.
Gabby Ingoglia
Analyst, Cantor Fitzgerald
Hey guys, congratulations on the myriad of exciting stuff happening. I thought I heard Sid say that revenue nearly tripled in the first quarter on the live enhanced platform. Can you talk about how that compared to your expectations and since you did turn off or hold back on paid marketing, where that type of revenue came from? Was it more people who had heard from the games or just any more description on that and your visibility into it would be helpful.
Sidd Banthiya
Chief Financial Officer
Hi, Gabby. So when we thought about Live Enhanced, just sort of like going back to when it started. So we started on a partial basis in Q2. And so Q3 was really our first full quarter of Live Enhanced. In both quarters, we spent about a million and a half in performance marketing. And we moved on a gross revenue basis to 1.1 million in Q3 from about 0.4 million. in Q2. So from our perspective, just from an efficiency perspective, we moved up dramatically from Q2 to Q3. And our expectation as we think about the future, given what we're able to do, I mean, if you think about where we came from, we were expanding our product base. We learned from our customers in terms of What it is they needed in order to make decisions around both prescriptions and supplements, prescriptions being more important for us. And that was the part from our perspective where we started to think about what else can we provide people so that they can learn more about themselves and thus started sort of development of the OS system. So we deliberately kept that performance marketing the same as we moved into Q3 because we wanted to continue to get people oriented to the platform But our expectation going forward, as Max sort of outlined, is we now have the beta version of OS out, so you can start to go out and actually learn more about yourself. And at the same time, we've expanded our product portfolio. So we expect that to really help us both from an efficiency perspective and also sort of a growth in top line as we start to get into the new year, because in January is when we'll be coming out with sort of the second version of OS.
Gabby Ingoglia
Analyst, Cantor Fitzgerald
Okay, awesome. That's really helpful. And then with the enhanced games being in the fourth quarter or plan for being in the fourth quarter, can you help us get comfortable with the level of visibility that you'll have on the sponsorship piece of the revenue and how that relates to where you want to finish the full year? Because I think if I remember correctly, the sponsorship revenue from 2026, you were able to collect throughout the year. So with it being in the fourth quarter, does it look a little bit different? Do you collect it all in the fourth quarter? And any reassurance on visibility would be really helpful.
Maximilian Martin
Chief Executive Officer
Hey Gabby, it's Max. So it's going to be always the quarter that the games are happening in is always going to be the most recognition of sponsorship. What we had for this year is we had sponsors that were only engaged for sponsorship at the games. No representation at Breakers or anywhere else, but really just spot bought sponsorship at the games. But we'll keep for ourselves the ability to negotiate bespoke deals with sponsors as they come in. Some are really just keen on like being there at the games all front and presence and live for that one big moment. And other partners that we had, it might also be like some of the partners that we had for this year, strategically interested and able to work with us in other areas of the business, interested in doing that over time. But the way that I would think about it for next year is that the majority of the sponsorship related items, as well as the other top lines that we are working on, i.e. media rights, ticketing and economic development financing, would come in the fourth quarter of next year.
Gabby Ingoglia
Analyst, Cantor Fitzgerald
Okay, that's really helpful. Thank you.
Conference Call Operator
Operator
Your next question comes from Alex Furman with Lucid Capital Markets. Your line is open. Please go ahead.
Alex Furman
Analyst, Lucid Capital Markets
Hey, guys. Thanks very much for taking my question. Max, can you tell us a little bit about where the telemedicine business is in terms of its growth right now? I mean, from what we can see, on the website. It's been up and running and certainly looking live to consumers for most of the year. But I imagine it's not really going to see big numbers until you start putting a lot of marketing dollars before it. So can you give us kind of a sense of where we are in that inflection now? You mentioned you're envisioning tens of millions of revenue for the telemedicine business next year. So I imagine at some point we're going to see more Hey Alex, thanks for your question. So the initial telehealth business started around the games.
Maximilian Martin
Chief Executive Officer
What we did is we really threw everything we had behind having it live ASAP. What we have done now, particularly this quarter, this is what Sid was talking about. We took this quarter as a little bit of a breathing quarter. And that's the brutal truth about, you know, that we're still a little bit of a startup. I listed on the stock exchange and need to report every three months. So what we decided on doing is actually save marketing dollars to better work out the foundation that we want to market on. What we have now is a foundation that we feel is extremely solid and that we're comfortable in. We now have four categories of prescription drugs. Metabolic regulators, these are your GLP-1s, hormone optimization, hormone replacement therapy for women and TRT for men, cognitive enhancements, and then peptides, with most recently the six new peptides. Now, when you look at this, plus together the two supplements, when you look at this like a storefront, and so what people still have to evaluate themselves is what substance is the right one for me. What we knew that we are always going to do is replicate the approach that we had for athletes for consumers, i.e. guiding the people. Because 80% actually of our existing consumers, we surveyed them, they told us they would prefer if we just told them which drugs to take rather than trying to figure out, hey, what does NAD Plus do for me? Hey, what does Tadalafil do for me? Hey, what does Samorelin do for me? They would much rather give you all of their data and know that the data is in the best hands possible to then tell them specifically what to need. And so what we didn't want to do is blow marketing dollars on this now because we believe that by The January of next year when Enhanced OS has prescription included, that is a much better product to advertise, which is going to yield us more return on every dollar spent on a marketing perspective. And so this is why we've skated, as Sid said before, we've kept it flat and we're much more focused on building out on the product side. What is also important for me to know is that we are planning on moving the entire customer experience from the care portal that you currently have on Enhanced on its homepage. Thank you for watching. Thank you for having me. who like checks my blood, my lifestyle, monitors my improvements, et cetera, and then adjusts my protocol. Now not anymore because I'm switching to Enhanced OS, but from what we now have is Enhanced OS as that kind of guiding hand that's taking you on health journey. And so this is how we thought about it. Then the next big thing, right? I just said this in, I think in the question before, which is that we're looking to differentiate in terms of brand ambassadors from only athletes to others. One thing as well is like, it's super exciting to see our athletes compete, win, break personal best at 34. But for some people, even though they like and find it entertaining to win, that's not enough in terms of like getting them over the finish line to purchase product from us. So we're differentiating our marketing approach to brand ambassadors, affiliates, et cetera, in a very other different areas outside of sports as well. This is longevity influencers, mommy influencers, et cetera, et cetera. And so by January, we'll have this army of people, particularly on the organic side, that are going to push. Lastly, what are they going to push as well? Predominantly OS, but then also OS in different formats. We are, and I mentioned this previously in the opening remarks, we're working on a little bit of a brand redesign. Currently, when you go to our page, if we're just realistic with ourselves, it's very dark, it's very male-led, very science-y, very tech-bro-y. And we found that particularly on a female side, that can sometimes be a little bit of a not as exciting homepage to be on and order product off. So what we have been doing now over the past weeks is to do a brand redesign that is much more appealing to the general masses, but particularly as well women. Thank you so much. Enhancement Habit and really like an exciting experience that you want to share. And so these are all of like, there's a lot more, but like I'm just going to be mindful of time and respectful of people's time on the call. A lot of things that we've been working on to really improve the product offering that we then are going to buy new year, new me in January, spend a lot of marketing dollars behind.
Sidd Banthiya
Chief Financial Officer
One thing I just say as well, Alex, is, you know, you asked about marketing. at the end of the day, I think one of the things we want to achieve is differentiation within marketing, right? And that means that we have a product that's different than everything else that's out there. And what you saw, I think at the very beginning and the genesis of the company, was effectively a pharmacy that was online. And what we learned was that wasn't the thing that was going to connect us, nor was it what we did with the athletes, as Max mentioned. So I think everything that Max said, you're going to start to, and we needed to do in order to put it into the marketing that we planned to get out to people. So it just wouldn't have made any sense for us to start plowing money behind our marketing dollars if we didn't have the messaging in the right place, the product portfolio where we wanted it to be, etc., etc.,
Alex Furman
Analyst, Lucid Capital Markets
Thanks, guys. That's really helpful. Appreciate it.
Conference Call Operator
Operator
There are no further questions at this time. I'll now turn the call back to Maximilian Martin for closing remarks.
Maximilian Martin
Chief Executive Officer
Thank you so much. And thanks, everyone, once again, for joining us. Really super exciting things have happened. If I just recap quickly, Enhanced OS launch, we just talked about it in the Q&A before. We had six peptides that we launched, the first ones to bring all six live at incredibly compelling pricing. We had in record time, you know, like worked on a massive transformative transaction that's significantly changing who we are as a business from next year onwards. We've spoken in the webcast, for example, about further M&A that we're looking to do. We're going to build out an M&A team to look at very exciting other entertainment businesses in the life experiences space. And so really what I want to leave you with as well is like we are still a very young company. and many more. and many more. with the people that they care about, get real entertainment live and experience goosebumps and not just be glued to their monitors. And so really I'm convinced in the ability of this team to execute on this vision. And thank you all who are shareholders already for being part of this journey. So thank you very much and we'll speak to you soon.
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Operator
This concludes today's call. Thank you for attending. You may now disconnect.