Bill Stone
Analyst · Craig-Hallum. Please go ahead
Thanks Brian and thank you all for joining our call tonight. I’m going to breakout my prepared remarks into three areas. First, we'll close out the December quarter. Secondly, we'll provide some operational real time color on our current growth drivers. And then finally, I want to spend some time discussing why I'm so excited about the acquisition of Mobile Posse. Closing out the December quarter, we finished with $36 million in revenue and $5.6 million in EBITDA and while the top line revenue number fell short of our expectations, largely due to soft device sales with our core U.S. operators in the month of November, we nonetheless managed to exceed expectations for EBITDA as a result of great operational execution in the quarter. I really want to give a shot out to our entire Digital Turbine team. The team's focus and hustle along with our internal command over key business drivers really set a positive tone. And from time to time, we'll experience certain uncontrollable near-term factors, such as weaker Android smartphone sales in a particular quarter but I couldn't be happier with our execution on all aspects of the business within our control. This execution was particularly evident in the December quarter with a record high blended revenue per device or RPD north of $3 with our core U.S. operators, which is an increase from just under $2.50 versus prior-year and also meaningful quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year growth with our international partners. Our revenue per device performance continues to be driven by strong demand among advertisers across numerous categories, including brands, games, and mobile first applications such as Pandora, Disney Plus, Apple Music, Snap, Amazon and others. Barrett will take you through the financials in a few minutes. But for now, I do want to quickly highlight our efficient operating leverage and record cash flows generated during the quarter. This is one of the primary reasons I get so excited about the inherent potential of our business model. Now that we operate is a cloud-based mobile software company at true scale, we’re really starting to harvest the fruits of real operating leverage, as our profitability expands at a far faster clip than our revenues. This was evident in the December quarter, a quarter which we managed to grow our EBITDA at a 47% annual rate and generate an all-time record of more than $7 million of free cash flow, even despite headwinds impacting our top line growth. In addition to our operational products a quarter, I also want to highlight our markedly improved diversification. As you've heard me say many times, we're extremely focused on diversifying our business, diversifying it by partner, by geography, by product. In terms of partner diversification, our total revenue with our initial U.S. partners Verizon, AT&T, Cricket and U.S. Cellular increased year-over-year, despite a decline in the total combined devices sold and represented just over 70% of our total revenues in the December quarter, which compares to approximately 85% in the year-ago December quarter and over 90% in the December quarter two years ago. Helping us in this diversification are our rollouts with newer based U.S. partners such as Tracfone and international partners, such as Samsung, and America Movil. And specifically with respect to Samsung, and given the importance of this partnership, I want to provide an update on our progress. To-date, our software has been installed on more than 7 million unlocked Samsung devices across more than 75 countries. In particular, I want to call out Brazil as a highly strategic market for both us and Samsung. Samsung has the majority OEM market share in Brazil. And we’re focused on growing our business not only with Samsung and Brazil, but also Telefonica, America Movil, and others. We currently believe that we have line of sight to have in our software and the vast majority of devices in the Brazilian market by the end of this calendar year. And with this expectation in mind, we continue to invest on the ground resources in Latin America to best ensure that we optimally capitalize on our wealth of opportunities in the Brazil and the surrounding areas. I'd also like to announce today that we'd have a partnership with AT&T in Mexico that we expect to launch this summer. For context, AT&T Mexico has approximately 20 million subscribers. And we expect this partner diversification trend to continue going forward, as Samsung and other new partner rollouts such as Telefonica continue to progress and as we add additional partners such as LG to the platform We're very excited to formally announce our global partnership with LG today. We've already begun working on integration and go to market plans with LG, and expect this partnership to begin contributing revenues this summer. Similar to our announced partnership with Samsung, we will be focused initially on LG’s open market devices across multiple geographies. In the big picture, our LG partnership is another validation of the value that our solutions can provide Tier-1 OEMs. And on a related note, I also want to continue to reiterate that we have productive ongoing discussions with many other OEMs including several of the leading Chinese ones that we hope will lead to additional form of global partnerships for us in future quarters. In short, we see a tremendous amount of opportunities to grow our global device count, which is all of you know is one of our three key growth drivers for our business. Product diversification is another primary growth driver for the business. And in terms of product diversification for the December quarter, our newer products beyond Dynamic Installs nearly doubled year-over-year and reached an all-time high of 20% of our total revenues during the quarter as compared to 13% in the year-ago December quarter and 2% in the December quarter two years ago. We saw encouraging performance metrics and heightened demand for many of our newer products during the quarter. Our Notification and Wizard products were the largest aggregate contributors of revenue growth. But other products such as Media Hub and Single-Tap continue to show promise. In particular, our media products worth the call out here. The recurring revenue nature of that business and our early positive returns were a catalyst for our pursuit of Mobile Posse, which I'll discuss later in my remarks. We are now live with our initial Single-Tap with our first mobile measurement partner branch. And although it's taken us longer than expected to integrate with them, we still believe this integration is a catalyst for growth going forward. We continue to work with many other high profile partners on Single-Tab including names such as Pinterest, Twitter, Epic Games, which owns the fortnight franchise to name a few. And lastly, I want to mention that we’re continuing to make meaningful progress in discussions with select strategic partners regarding expansion into televisions, and expect this new product and device category to be a growth driver for our overall business in the future. I want to now turn to our Mobile Posse acquisition. First, I want to call out and recognize Founder and CEO, Jon Jackson, and the Mobile Posse team. Jon and I’ve talked a number of times over the years and we've been admiring their process. They've done an amazing job building their business from scratch. Six years ago, this was a business doing less than $10 million in revenue. Today it's doing over $55 million annually with all of the revenues of a recurring nature and as such less sensitive to fluctuations in new smartphone sales from quarter-to-quarter. Jon's brought a great entrepreneurial spirit to his team and building the business. We believe we can now leverage their success and take it to a true global level with our scale relationships and operating expertise. Culturally, the Moxie of the Mobile Posse team is something we really like well, and resonate with. They not only understand the mobile ecosystem, and share our vision of connecting the dots between mobile operators and OEMs to customers and advertisers that want to be on the home screen, but they do with amazing hustle, professionalism and a real attention to the details. Mobile Posse has many different mobile products that are complementary to our App install products. They have a minus one screen that you swipe left off the home screen for content, a product that powers the mobile operators content portals, home screen products, and also a product similar to our Media Hub product that curates news, weather, sports, and other content through an application and or a widget on the home screen. They monetize these products by way of programmatic advertising. And their platform works with the largest advertisers such as highly recognized recognizable names like Google, The Trade Desk and Rubicon to name a few. That is their demand and their source of revenues. And similar to us, they then to pay their supply partners via revenue share, such as T-Mobile, MetroPCS, Boost, AT&T, Blue and Cricket. We're excited about this transaction for many reasons. First it is immediately accretive and being fully funded with our existing cash and debt resources. There is no dilution to Digital Turbine’s shareholders. Secondly 100% of Mobile Posse’s revenue are recurring, and therefore will dramatically increase the overall percentage of our combined revenues that we derive from more predictably recurring revenue sources. Third, we're excited about the revenue synergies. Specifically, we believe our ability to cross market their differentiated products to our vast set of distribution partners and conversely cross-sell our DT products to their unique distribution partners, along with the opportunity to establish the combined entity as more of an advertising powerhouse with more products, and more partners can improve the revenue per device on Mobile Posse’s existing business. This acquisition fits hand in glove with our core diversification strategy. Post close, we expect the combined entity to generate more than one-third of total revenue from recurring sources and expect no single mobile operator or OEM distribution partner should be responsible for more than one-third of our total company revenues. At close, CEO, Jon Jackson will join our team as General Manager of the Mobile Posse business to ensure we don't miss a beat on execution. And together we'll work to facilitate a smooth integration process for working to unlock revenue and cost synergies wherever possible. The bottom line is this will be a transformative acquisition for Digital Turbine and will significantly move the needle for a top line and bottom line growth trajectory. And with that, let me turn it over to Barrett Garrison to take it to the numbers.