Bill Stone
Analyst · Craig-Hallum Capital Group. Please go ahead
Thanks, Brian. And thank you all for joining us today. I want to start with our stated goal which is to build a growing and profitable business. Our June quarter was our fifth consecutive quarter of positive adjusted EBITDA with 46% revenue growth year-over-year despite several headwinds. I am going to break my comments out into three areas. First is some commentary around our new agreement with Verizon. Second is a recap of the June quarter. And final will be some operational commentary around our three growth levers of devices, new products and our media business. First, I’m pleased to announce we’ve reached agreement with Verizon on a new four year deal that will go through August 2022 and are in process of executing the agreement. This new agreement will not only cover our current products but also includes new products that Verizon is interested in, such as Single Tap, Folders, notifications and post-install actions. We expect this deal to be accretive to revenue and gross profit over the term of the contract. There are incentives for us as we achieve higher revenue tiers to improve our revenue share and gross margin percentage. The lowest revenue tiers are identical margins to our prior agreement. In other words, there are no commercial terms that are unfavorable to our prior agreement, only upside opportunities for us. We are also exploring additional product collaboration opportunities at Verizon's request that would be incremental to this agreement. We are processing some minor administrative details on the agreement and anticipate filing an 8-K in advance of the expiration of the current agreement next week. Next, our June quarter finished at $22.1 million in revenue, up 46% over prior year and $0.2 million in positive adjusted EBITDA. If I break out the headwinds and tailwinds from the quarter: on the headwind side, it was disappointed sales of a key flagship device; our higher margin international revenue partners performed below our expectations; and finally, delay by one of our US partners for a one-time expansion of Single Tap capabilities with a major social media platform. On the tailwind side, I was pleased to see our revenue per device or RPD in the United States of $2 which compares to $1.32 for the same quarter last year. This is a fundamental health metric of our business that showcases advertiser demand for our platform and a key driver of growth. Other tailwinds included very positive momentum with AT&T, contribution from other products that was less than 5% of revenue a year ago and now over 15% of revenue, and strong results from our large social media partner and large US operator. Now, turning to the current and future quarters. We see three main growth drivers from our platform: more devices; more products; and more and deeper media relationships. First on devices, we added 24.6 million devices in the June quarter which now brings us to over 175 million devices in our base. We have recently signed contracts with seven OEMs that represent an annual opportunity of 15 million incremental devices. Some of these have already launched in the September quarter, and all will launch this calendar year. I’m excited about these launches as they will be with multiple versus just a single product. The pipeline is also very encouraging with numerous high-profile OEMs very deep in the pipeline process. We've also received greater than expected inbound interest for expansion of our platform into other types of screens and our product and R&D teams are exploring moving beyond just smartphones. Our second growth lever of products, as I mentioned earlier, a year ago, 95% of our revenues from our O&O business were from dynamic preloads. While that product continues to experience revenue growth, its overall contribution has declined now to 85% as we see ramp in our other products. In particular, Single Tap, Folders and post-install actions are showing nice growth. Barrett will comment on the margins in his remarks, but over the longer-term as these products ramp, this should be a benefit to our gross margins. We see this as a growth driver for all partners but in particular a growth driver for our existing US partners where their device growth may be muted. While still early days, we’re seeing conversion list of 50% on Single Tap proving that a better user experience drives better results for advertisers. In particular, we are excited about what we are calling [wrap to app], where consumer can be on a mobile website such as ESPN or Delta or Yelp or alike and get a richer native application driven to their device via Single Tap while staying in the mobile web if they so choose. This drives higher engagement for the app provider while still not disturbing the consumer experience. We also have some encouraging engagement results from our post-install actions where we’re seeing 30% lift in engagement, which in turn drives higher revenue per slot and revenue per device. On our media business, we continue to grow our revenue per device as media partners are seeing positive returns on investments from their Digital Turbine spend. We are seeing encouraging trend with mobile media. As most of you know, the mobile media industry is growing at greater than 30% compound annual growth rate, but we are seeing the law of diminishing returns for advertisers spending on the very large platforms that are now no longer generating the same ROI for them. They’re saying that their incremental dollars are better spent on other platforms such as Digital Turbine versus continuing to spend more dollars on the same platforms. In the United States, Digital Turbine is now the number three distributor of Android applications only behind Facebook and Google. We saw a number of new advertising brands in the quarter begin spending on our platform such as Adidas, The Wall Street Journal, Sirius XM and Kroger just to name a few. Our focus areas in the media business are to continue include scaling our demand outside the United States, leveraging our new inside sales team to help with the long tail of app providers and working on numerous new partnerships that help us scale versus only going direct. In particular, I’ve been excited to see our expansion of our Oath relationship outside of Verizon and is now contributing meaningful revenue with our other global partners. And finally, before I turn it over to Barrett, often times our earnings calls can be just about the numbers, but I wanted to conclude my remarks today with my increasing enthusiasm regarding our improved focus and execution. The past six months have been largely consumed with the content and A&P divestitures, finalizing the European Union GDPR compliance requirements and finalizing our own Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. I want to thank our team for the hustle while completing these things simultaneously as there were material undertakings for small global public tech company. Our organization has now been able to turn its attention a 100% to the growth levers I described earlier and I am excited with the execution improvements over the past 60 days I’ve seen as a result. It’s setting us up nicely as we talk about the numbers for the future. With that, that concludes our prepared remarks and I’ll turn it over to Barrett to take you through the numbers.