Bill Stone
Analyst · Craig-Hallum Capital Group. Please go ahead
Thanks, Brian and thanks to all for joining us today. I want to start my remarks with our progress against our stated goal. Our goal has been to build a sustainable and profitable business, while demonstrating solid execution against our strategy. I am pleased to report that we continued our momentum in the March quarter as we delivered $5 million of free cash flow and $2.6 million of adjusted EBITDA for the full fiscal year. This compares to a negative free cash flow of $13 million and an adjusted EBITDA loss of nearly $9 million for the prior fiscal year. I will break out my remarks into four areas: first are some comments about our divestitures; second, we will be closing out the March quarter; thirdly will be some strategic comments about our three growth levers of devices, new products and media; and then we will close out with some current quarter operational updates against those growth levers. First on the divestitures. We announced last month the sale of our advertiser and publisher business and our content pay business in two separate transactions. These transactions were done for two primary purposes. First and most importantly, we did these transactions for strategic focus. We are now 100% focused on one business, not three and our business has strong top line growth, better margins, better operating leverage and fits perfectly with our strategic vision. Second was capital allocation. Specifically, our ability to leverage the proceeds we receive on future gross profits from those transactions will be invested back into our mobile delivery platform business. Barrett will take you through the numbers in his remarks to ensure there is no confusion on how we report, account and communicate the discontinued operations from our continued operations. But what I am excited about is that we are already seeing benefits in our focus as many in our team that we are sharing time managing multiple projects and activities across multiple businesses are now laser focused on our mobile delivery platform business that generates faster growth, better margins and greater operating leverage. Now, to close out March on the operational performance, please note all of my comments will be on our continuing operations, not including any results from our discontinued operations. Our overall revenues were $21 million for the quarter which compares to $11.6 million in the March quarter a year ago or 81% annualized growth. This growth occurred despite disappointing initial sales of a flagship device here in North America against expectations. The growth was driven by improvements in our revenue per device, or RPD, across our base as we have added additional advertisers and slots [indiscernible] devices. In particular, we increased our revenue with our largest carrier partner by 64% year-over-year in the March quarter on a modest 10% year-over-year growth in devices. And in doing so, our quarterly revenue per device with this particular carrier reached an all-time high in the quarter. I believe this speaks strongly to the demand from advertisers and the emergence of contribution from other added platform products that I will discuss later in my remarks. I was also pleased to finish the quarter with $12.7 million of cash on the balance sheet, which compares to $6.9 million in the December quarter, while simultaneously reducing our debt. We always know there is fluctuations in working capital but I am pleased to see our ability to continue to strengthen the balance sheet. I know many want to focus on quarter-to-quarter results, but if we pull the lens back and compare our balance sheet today to our balance sheet both a year ago or even 2 years ago, it is materially improved and I want to give a shout out not just to the full team, but also Barrett and the finance team for doing a great job. Next, let me shift to our growth in the future. The key to exponential growth in any business is the ability to create network effects from a platform. We see this with companies such as Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon and others that are able to harness end-user growth combined with multiple product and revenue streams once users are engaged with their platform. For us, we see the ability to add end-users via more devices, more products and additional advertiser demand as our three growth levers that will have the ability to create network effects once the software is installed on the device. I will spend more detailed time on these levers at our Analyst Day next week, but did want to share some operational updates against our progress we are seeing in the current June quarter. First on devices. At the end of March, we had 155 million devices with Ignite on them. This is an important metric to help demonstrate scale and network effects from our platform. We continue to add more devices with our existing partners and have signed numerous additional deals in Asia-Pacific with new OEM partners that we anticipate will add many millions of incremental devices over this upcoming year. Our pipeline is very robust as we continue to place some major focus into Asia, where OEMs distribute their devices directly versus through operators like here in the United States. I would encourage investors to pay close attention to our progress against this goal. Secondly is on products. Our strategic focus is growing our primary dynamic install product, but also diversifying with others. 2 years ago, we saw our dynamic install product generating 98% of our O&O revenues. Last year, it was 93% and today it is less than 90%. In other words, while the dynamic install revenues continue to show strong growth, additional products are beginning to contribute additional revenues. To-date in 2018, we have added 3 new products that are now contributing revenue. What I am really excited about is that all 3 of these products are recurring revenue streams for the company versus only able to monetize upon activation of the device. Our first new product launch has been Single-Tap. This has been launched in two ways. First, we have launched our Single-Tap installer directly with the large social media platform and integrated it with a large North American operator. It’s now being deployed across all of their new Android devices. We have also expanded Single-Tap with many other media partners, including an additional social media platform. The overall Single-Tap opportunity is one I continue to be excited about as a potential game-changer, but also one I would encourage patients from investors as we work through a variety of last-mile operational issues. I’d also like to call out our smart folders and post-install action products as they also represent a tremendous opportunity, but most likely are not getting as much attention and focus from analysts and investors. Both of these are, live, across multiple operators here in North America and the early results are encouraging. Our smart folders product organizes applications into a folder on the device and then allows us to make app recommendations to end-users based upon what they are showing interest in. Our post-install product allows customers to increase their engagement in applications they have already downloaded. The early returns are also encouraging with this and we are now in the process of scaling it. We will provide more details on early results, demonstrations and additional color on all of these new products at our Analyst Day next week. And finally, our third growth lever is our media business. We measure our success on this growth via revenue per device. Revenue per device continues to improve as a result of our advertising and media relationships. An encouraging trend is that our year-over-year revenue per device increased 27% here in North America. We are starting to see advertisers such as Yelp, AccuWeather, and eBay as specific examples beginning to share their spend and increase it on platforms like ours versus continuing to expand our spend on platforms like Facebook and Google. These types of macro trends are beginning to see churn up in macro results as Facebook and Google actually saw their share of digital advertising decline in the first quarter of 2018 for the first time. This is another thing we will provide additional color at our Analyst Day next week. I want to conclude my remarks in fiscal ‘18, was the year where our business turned the corner with improvements on focus, profitability and growth. Now, at fiscal ‘19, our business is positioned nicely for the future and my excitement and optimism about where it is continues to 52-week highs. And with that, I will turn it over to Barrett to take you through the numbers.