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| Revenue Recognition | Revenue Recognition The Company derives its revenues from a mix of marketplace activities. Revenue is primarily derived from ticketing fees and payment processing fees. The Company also derives a portion of revenues from organizer fees and advertising services. The Company's customers are event creators who use the Company's platform to sell tickets and market events to consumers. Revenue is recognized when or as control of the promised goods or services is transferred to customers, in an amount that reflects the consideration the Company expects to receive in exchange for those goods or services. Ticketing Revenue For ticketing services, the Company's service provides a platform to the event creator and consumer to transact. The Company's performance obligation is to facilitate and process that transaction and issue the ticket, and ticketing revenue is recognized by the Company when the ticket is sold. The amount that the Company earns for its ticketing services is fixed which typically consists of a flat fee and a percentage-based fee per ticket. As a result, the Company records ticketing revenue on a net basis related to its ticketing service fees. For payment processing services, the Company provides the event creator with the choice of whether to use Eventbrite Payment Processing (EPP) or to use a third-party payment processor, referred to as Facilitated Payment Processing (FPP). Under the EPP option, the Company is the merchant of record and is responsible for processing the transaction and collecting the face value of the ticket and all associated fees at the time the ticket is sold. The Company is also responsible for remitting these amounts collected, less the Company's fees, to the event creator. For EPP services, the Company determined that it is the principal in providing the service as the Company is responsible for fulfilling the promise to process the payment and has discretion in establishing the price of its service. As a result, the Company records revenue on a gross basis related to its EPP service fees. Costs incurred for processing the ticketing transactions are included in cost of net revenues in the condensed consolidated statements of operations. Under the FPP option, the Company is not responsible for processing the transaction or collecting the face value of the ticket and associated fees. In this case, the Company records revenue on a net basis related to its FPP service fees. Revenue is presented net of indirect taxes, customer refunds, payment chargebacks, estimated uncollectible amounts, creator royalties and amortization of creator signing fees. As part of its commercial agreements, the Company offers upfront payments to qualifying creators entering into new or renewed ticketing arrangements in order to incentivize them to organize certain events on the Company's platform or obtain exclusive rights to ticket their events. If an event is canceled by a creator, then any obligations to provide refunds to event attendees are the responsibility of that creator. If a creator is unwilling or unable to fulfill their refund obligations, the Company may, at its discretion, provide attendee refunds. Advertising Revenue Advertising revenue represents services that enable creators to promote featured content on the Eventbrite platform or mobile application. The Company considers that it satisfies its performance obligation as it provides the services to customers and recognizes revenue as advertising impressions are displayed to consumers. Organizer Fee Revenue In the second quarter of 2023, the Company expanded access to its comprehensive suite of event marketing tools to all creators and introduced new pricing plans and subscription packages to creators when publishing events on the Eventbrite marketplace. Under the new pricing plans, the Company charges an organizer fee under two plan options. The Flex plan is charged per event. The Company considers that it satisfies its performance obligation as it provides services to creators to publish their event on the Eventbrite marketplace and recognizes revenue, based on the ticket capacity selected, at that point-in-time. The Pro plan is a monthly or annual subscription to publish unlimited events. The Company considers that it satisfies its performance obligation as it provides the subscribed services under the plan and recognizes revenue ratably over the subscription period. Organizer fees are nonrefundable. Creator Signing Fees, Net Creator signing fees are incentives that are offered and paid by the Company to secure exclusive ticketing and payment processing rights with certain creators. Creator signing fees are presented net of reserves on the condensed consolidated balance sheet. The benefit the Company receives by securing exclusive ticketing and payment processing rights with certain creators from creator signing fees is inseparable from the customer relationship with the creators and accordingly the amortization of these fees is recorded as a reduction of revenue in the condensed consolidated statements of operations. As of June 30, 2024, the balance of creator signing fees, net is being amortized over a weighted-average remaining contract life of 2.6 years on a straight-line basis. The write-offs and other adjustments for the three and six months ended June 30, 2024 include a reserve release to reflect losses recovered from a litigation settlement in June 2024. The following table summarizes the activity in creator signing fees for the periods indicated (in thousands):
Creator signing fees are classified as follows on the condensed consolidated balance sheet as of the dates indicated (in thousands):
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