Tony Zhao
Analyst · Morgan Stanley. Your line is now open
Thank you, Fionna. First, I'd like to thank you and welcome all of you for joining us today for our first earnings announcement as a public company. Before walking through our Q2 performance and highlights, please let me spend a few moments describing our business. As more aspects of our lives are mainly online, there is tremendous demand for real-time engagement. Historically, user would need to install a dedicated path to use real engagement such as, Skype, FaceTime or Zoom. However, in more and more cases, users are looking for contextual real-time video engagement that is directly embedded in the application they are already using, whether that is for execution, dating or game purpose. Enabling greater context and more seamlessly - more seamless and immersive user experience with no need switching between apps. This is exactly what we do. The Agora platform provides developers simple, flexible and powerful application programming interfaces or APIs to embed real-time video engagement experience into any application. Ultimately, our mission is to make real-time engagement ubiquitous, allowing everyone to interact with anyone in an app anytime and anywhere. The key components of our platform are our Software-Defined Real-Time Network or SD-RTN and our Software Development Kit or SDK. On top of the SD-RTN and SDK, we offer developers products such as real-time video, real-time voice, real-time messaging, real-time recording and many other user - many other use case especially products. All of these products can be accessed through simple APIs and are fully programmable. Our technology makes developers work more efficient and effective, helping them bringing new apps to market and deliver a better end user experience, resulting in speedier user relationships. Traditionally, it takes a team of multiple developers several months to build real-time video engagement functionalities with high upfront infrastructure costs and without a guarantee on quality and compatibility. With Agora APIs, you just need one or two developers. For most cases only one week of coding and testing no server to be deployed or infrastructure to be built and you get global coverage with stable quality and wide range of functionalities and port compatibility cross platform. This is why tens of thousands of developers around the globe have chosen Agora. We are focused on building developer committee enthusiasm and innovation. We designed our platform so that it's easy to adopt and enables self-serve, ensuring a flexible no touch experience for developers. We offer more than - we offer 10,000 free minutes per app per month, so that developers can experiment with our platform. We have a transparent pay-as-you-go pricing model, so that we can grow with our developers as we grow and scale their offerings. For large customers, we deploy our own engineers to help them integrated and customize our products, creating differentiated user experience for them. As you can see this business model is very efficient and scalable and has allowed us to deliver very strong financial result in this quarter. Now, let me tell you about our Q2 performance and a few key business highlights. I'm pleased to report that we delivered revenue of $34 million for the second quarter, an increase of 128% year-over-year. This was driven by significant usage growth across geographies and verticals, as the demand for real-time video and voice engagement increased significantly in light of the COVID-19. And overall, we are proud to see our platform was used by developers around the world to help people collaborate, learn, play, have fun or just stay connected across business during this challenging times. In addition to tremendous revenue growth, our high-efficient business model contributed to positive GAAP net income, operating cash flow and free cash flow, our active customers reached nearly 1,500 at end of second quarter, up 86% year-over-year and our constant-currency dollar-based net expansion rate was 183% for the trailing 12-month period. In this quarter, our platform continued to track developers with more than 30,000 new apps registered on our platform, bringing cumulative registrations to more than 200 - more than 210 solvent. Working with our developers around the world, we have seen many innovative and promising use case emerging across various verticals. For example, we recently announced our partnership with Scener, a Watch Party Platform that enables anyone to connect and interact or video chat, while watching streaming content together. User can host either public or private, co-working sessions or which party, where our content is synchronized with participants. With real-time video, text followed by Agora. Scener has seen 100 times growth since March because of the know-how, our shared experience that it creates to bring people together in the thing virtual theater at the comfort of their own homes. Another example is a co-listening service launched by a leading online music and entertainment platform. After creating a public or private virtual room, the host becomes a DJ and chose what music to play. On top of the original HD soundtrack streaming to all members in the virtual room. Overlays, our real-time voice engagement layer powered by Agora. It brings user a intimate experience of listening to music, shared songs together with friends without any compromising - without any compromise on new the quality. Online exam and proctoring also emerged in this quarter as a promising use case. Here candidates are monitored online during the pass duration through a real-time video connection and access the screen of the candidate both powered by our technology. This kind of online proctoring and remote invigilation is expanding at a fast pace in both education and corporate training. Those are just three out of 100 contractual engagement use case that are possible to achieve results that at Agora platform. I'm also excited to announce that we are in the process of launching the first-ever experienced level agreement or XLA in real-time engagement. Without industry standard or benchmarks of service quality customers used to be operating in the dark, not knowing how good or bad the quality of service are. A lot of times we have to care the experience of their end-users and their overall results being impacted by the experience. While our XLA covers metrics such successful lock on rate, tera rate and latency that focus on not only service availability, but also on end-user experience. Now with XLA the key metrics associated within we can provide transparency on service quality down to every minute. In average engagement session we will also provide future platform using - usage credit to our customers if they fail to deliver the level of XLA quality we have guaranteed. The XLA will help our developers better serve their end user, understand the quality they are experiencing and also further differentiate our products from the competition. It will be a must-have for any real-time engagement API provider going forward. Finally, I'd like to thank our 600 plus Agorians around the globe for their exceptional performance in our first quarter as a public company and thank you to our developers and partners for their unwavering trust in us. We will continue to create value for our developers and the customers through innovation - through innovation and together, I believe we will one day make real-time engagement ubiquitous. Now let me turn things over to Jingbo.