Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to Digital Media Solutions fourth-quarter and full-year 2020 earnings call. [Operator instructions]Please be advised that today s call is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Thomas Bock, executive vice president of investor relations. Please go ahead.
Thomas Bock
Executive Vice President of Investor Relations
Thank you for joining us to discuss DMS financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2020. With me on the call are; Joe Marinucci, co-founder and CEO; and Randy Koubek, CFO. We posted our earnings announcement this morning in a press release and also on our investor relations website. By now everyone should have access.
snow anyway. so you have two authoritarian governments that don t have to worry quite as much about what the people feel, quite as much about the mix-up of priorities between building olympic venues or taking care of education and social and medical needs. so those are the two countries left for 2022. so thomas bock saw this train wreck comingment as soon as he was nominated president back in september of 2013, he started globe trotting trying to convince cities to bid. he introduced the program called the 2020 agenda which has some reform efforts, and will save the host country, maybe 400 or $500,000. but we re talking about bidding costs here that go into the billions of dollars. so it s a very very small amount. in any amount bach has succeededed in drumming up the interests again. we ll see what happens. speaking from personal experience. i moved to salt lake city a year after the the olympics.
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