In that game, we ran two 60-second advertisements highlighting that "certain" is better when it comes to buying a home.
I'm pretty sure the majority of you were among the nearly 100 million fans who watched the Super Bowl a couple of weeks ago. Supporting our platform is our strong national brand that consumers and partners know and trust.Īs we grow, we continue to invest and find new ways to extend our reach and expand our marketing channels we leverage, allowing us to connect with more and more clients. We've continued to strengthen our digital products and infrastructure in 2020, deploying nearly 4,500 product features throughout the year and delivering improvements to our platform every 28 minutes on average. For more than two decades, we've been quietly building our technology platform right here in Detroit to transform the way our clients experience life's most important events. He spotted the potential to take the most complex transaction in a consumer's life, the buying and financing of a new home, and leverage technology to make it accessible online to consumers across the country. Most of the Internet companies of that era focused on problems like search, advertising, or basic e-commerce. His vision was simple, but decades ahead of its time. This mission began in 1998 when our founder and Chairman, Dan Gilbert, wrote an email committing all of the company's resources to moving online. Whether those transactions are mortgage, real estate, auto sales, or any number of new initiatives we're currently incubating, we provide a simple digital process, exceptional client experience, and certainty. Our mission over the last several decades has been to take the most complicated and stressful transactions in life and simplify them with technology. I'll finish today's remarks by talking about how our platform allows us to continue to grow and become more efficient in our existing lines of business while also launching and rapidly scaling new businesses. In walking through our results, I'll provide updates on each of the key pillars of the Rocket Platform, our technology, the strength of our brand, the Rocket Cloud Force, which I'll discuss later, and our data science foundation. If you were to ask us what our most important product is, we'd say it's the platform itself. Over the next few minutes, you'll see how the technology that we've built and refined over decades will continue to drive success, not only in the products that you're familiar with today, but also in product extensions and entirely new verticals in the future. The platform continues to be the key to our long-term success in the verticals where we operate as well as the record results that we've achieved in 2020. On today's call, I'll be speaking to a very important topic here at Rocket companies, our platform. Your contributions to our clients and communities were a shining example of how successful our for-more-than-profit mindset can truly be. The excellent results that we're about to discuss and the innovations that drove them are a testament to your focus and dedication in what was an incredibly difficult year for the world. Before we discuss another incredible quarter, I'd like to thank our 24,000 team members, many of whom are listening now. Good afternoon, and welcome to the fourth-quarter earnings call for Rocket companies.