Bill Stone
Analyst · Craig Hallum. Please go ahead
Thanks, Brian. And thanks to all for joining us today. Our stated goal has been to build and sustain a profitable growth business. We grew revenues 50% year-over-year in the September quarter and this growth, along this sequential improvement in gross operating margins, enabled us to generate more than $1.6 million in adjusted EBITDA during the quarter, marking our sixth consecutive quarter of positive adjusted EBITDA. We also generated $1.6 million in free cash flow during September quarter. And as pleased as I am with this financial performance, I'm even more excited about the traction of our platform. We continue to see the strategic value of the platform grow with several new and renewal agreements signed over the past few months with blue-chip names such as Verizon, AT&T, Samsung and Netflix. I'm going to break out my prepared remarks into three areas; first, some commentary about these new agreements; secondly, some operational commentary about both the September quarter and the current December quarter; and finally, some commentary about the growth drivers and progress against them as we enter into 2019. I'm pleased to announce that we recently signed a number of new multiyear deals. First, our new AT&T agreement matches the existing terms of the prior agreement. And in addition, we have some enhanced margin terms for new products that are redundant to this existing agreement. We also anticipate additional enhanced margin opportunities as we get into 2019 as we work with AT&T on various integration opportunities with the Time Warner assets. Secondly, we signed a multiyear global deal with Samsung to integrate our mobile delivery platform on Samsung devices. I'll provide additional details on the agreement later in my remarks. But it's a great validation of both our platform and our long-term strategy. And finally, I am pleased to announce the global agreement with Netflix that will have Digital Turbine distributing the Netflix application with various operators and OEMs around the globe. We've already started this agreement with a large North American operator and it is a revenue share where we did paid a portion of the revenues that Netflix generates from new subscriptions. Combined with our recently announced new four-year Verizon agreement, I am very excited about how the combination of renewing our existing partners plus adding new ones demonstrates the value add we bring to these high-profile companies. Turning to the September quarter, we finished with $23.9 million in revenue, which represents 50% growth compared to the September quarter last year and $1.6 million of adjusted EBITDA. Barrett will provide more color on the financials. But from an operational perspective, I was pleased with the progress we made on growing our product diversification. The contribution of our new products such as Single-Tap, Folders, post install actions and our out of the box set of Wizard are beginning to make a more material impact. A year-ago 97% of our O&O revenues were from our dynamic installed product. And while that dynamic install product grew 30% year-over-year, as a percentage of total revenues, the new products have grown from 3% to 17% of revenues, reflecting incremental contribution being generated from a broader platform. Combined with improvements and advertiser demand this results in improvements in revenue per device or RPD. And while device volumes may fluctuate and are not a 100% in our control, revenue per device is a fundamental health metric of our business as it showcases how much we can earn from each device once we embed the Digital Turbine mobile delivery platform on it. RPD for the quarter was $0.96 compared to $0.73 a year-ago, representing 32% increase. And here in the United States, RPD for the quarter was approximately $2, representing an increase of over 60% from the same period last year. We will continue to encourage investors to pay close attention to this operating metric. Turning to the current December quarter, we are pleased with the opportunities for continued growth in our three growth drivers of devices, products and media. On devices, we are now live with many new partners, such as Track Phone, Panasonic, Karbonn, Intex and others, that are generating growth that was not present in the December quarter last year. The combination of these new devices plus the improvements in revenue per device helped offset any macro U.S. device softness. And also, American Mobile has some technical operational improvements that we anticipate will be implemented during this quarter, that should continue to improve performance in that account. And we are already seeing revenue growth in that account with improved advertiser demand and remain optimistic about the partnership. Our new products, we have launched Single Tap across our large North American partners and our scale with one of them and in progress of getting to scale with the other one. Other new products such as Folders, post install actions and Wizard are also poised for growth. On the Media side, we already have tens of millions of dollars of insertion orders signed for the holiday season. While there are no guarantees that all these insertion orders will run as it's dependent upon many factors such as partner, device make and model, performance and so on, the demand is nevertheless strong as Digital Turbine is the number three distributor and android applications in the United States, only trailing Facebook and Google. I've also been pleased at the increasing diversification of the types of applications we are delivering. While we're seeing growth in aggregate gaming revenues, as a percentage of total revenues, we are seeing much faster revenue growth from brands and other non-gaming applications from companies such as LinkedIn, Starbucks, eBay, Yelp and many others. These non-gaming revenues were 46% of revenues in 2016, 60% in 2017 and 68% of our revenues year-to-date in 2018. In particular, brand revenues are now over 50% of our advertising demand. And finally, we are also seeing our efforts from recurring revenue streams on our revenue share applications with companies such as Netflix, The Weather Channel, Yahoo, Amazon and others compared to CPI or CPP models and that’s beginning to make a noticeable impact on our results, which is encouraging. Now turning to the future, I want to provide some commentary on how 2019 is shaping up across our growth levers. First on devices, I want to provide additional details with our new global agreement with Samsung. We are proud to be partnering with Samsung, the largest global supplier of smart phones that sells hundreds of millions of devices per year, including Apple. One in five smart phones sold in the world today is the Samsung device. Our agreement enables our mobile delivery platform to be integrated across Samsung devices. Technically, we are in the process of launching the solution with Tracfone here in United States and are in the planning phases of joining forces with Samsung on pursuing new global operators that do not currently have the Digital Turbine solution, as well as planning geographies to pursue with Samsung’s open market devices. This agreement is validation of our platform and the value-add we bring. And while Samsung is the largest smart phone supplier, there are still more than 700 million android devices that get sold per year from other OEMs. Our pipeline continues to be encouraging with numerous other well-known Asian OEM brands deep in the pipeline process. We also continue to receive inbound interests from operators and OEMs and how we can use the Digital Turbine platform for devices beyond smart phones, and are in the planning phases of how to expand that into other devices in 2019. The overall platform strategy starts with getting our software and device, so this operational progress is a nice executional proof point against the broader company strategy. On products, 2019 will all be about scaling the existing products, while also launching our Bring Your Own Device or BYOD product to the market. Currently, operators don't have a good solution on how to deliver their branded experience to the customers when a device is not directly sold by them. In most of the world, this is how devices are distributed, so it’s a pain point. As we grow our device base now into hundreds of millions, being able to deliver a customized experience out of the box for operator subscribers is a tremendous market opportunity. To that end, I'm pleased that we’ve reached agreement with Reliance Jio in India that will enable us to start monetizing these open market devices with Jio’s applications at first boot. We expect the margins for the BYOD product to be materially better, there’re other products and we’ll be using Jio as the first operator partner for this new product with many more global operators in the pipeline that we anticipate launching in 2019. And finally, on Media, 2019 is all about how we scale our efforts more efficiently within three distinct categories. First is brands, and we have third party partnerships with advertising agencies that allow us to bring their brands and relationships to our O&O partners. We are working on expanding more of these relationships that can accelerate our efforts to bring more partners to the platform. Secondly, we also continue to scale our direct selling force globally that deals with mainstream application companies, such as Yelp, eBay, Amazon, Netflix, Pandora and others that are looking for broader distributional capabilities. And finally, I’ve been pleased with the ramp of our inside sales group that sell 5% of insertion orders, but really helps us efficiently scale the long tail of applications. And as many of you know, there’re millions of applications in the Google play store and using an agency or direct sales approach may not be the best way to facilitate getting those long tail applications to the right subscribers. We’ll look to augment this group with a self service platform for improved automation and efficiency. And finally, before I turn over to Barrett, I want to conclude my remarks that the September quarter was solid and the future growth drivers of devices, products and media, are all coming together nicely to drive continued profitable growth. With that, this concludes my prepared remarks. And I'll turn it over to Barrett to take you through the numbers.