Robert Ellin
Analyst · Spartan Capital Securities. Please go ahead
Thank you, Mike. Good afternoon everyone and thank you for joining us today for fiscal 2022 first quarter business update. We continue to focus on the long-term objective of building and owning sustainable valuable franchises, IP and transformative technologies. Three years ago we took the company public to $7 million in revenues. I'm proud to say my team has delivered for the 13th straight quarter record revenues of $38.8 million by far the biggest quarter in history. Amazingly, we now have six TAMs each with multi-billion dollar upsides and are all growing together a perfect storm. We are building a brand recognition in using music subscription live events, live streams, OTT, merchandise both digital and hoard and podcasts to drive our flywheel. Today LiveXLive is grown and evolved into the leading talent-first platform focused on their super talents. Almost $39 million in revenues with none of our live events other than social ones, we had to push back our main event Spring Awakening due to COVID to October as well as our 40 to 50 live events and we're seeing telltale signs that this is starting to open up. As we're getting close to the end of COVID and the opening of events we were able to use our first live event to prove a flywheel. Our first in-person and global live screening pay per view event post-COVID-19 social gloves battle platforms cemented our flywheels a true zygotes of modern media fan interaction. Listen watch attend engage and transact. Social Gloves reached over 3.5 billion engagements and it continues to grow by the day. LiveXLive social media platforms garnered a triple digit year-over-year increase with total engagements over 671% and average engagement's post up 1493%. Social Gloves is a landmark 136,000 pay per views, that's equivalent to selling out Madison Square Garden six times. That's a tremendous feat for some of that. This in addition to the thousands of fans who attends Hard Rock Stadium. In addition Social Gloves drove a staggering 9,300 new paid subscribers for the night which represents a conversion rate of nearly 7% that bodes very well for us as live events return. We're very proud of the phenomenal music lineup featuring some of the biggest names in hip hop Lotto DJ Calvert, Fat Joe, Amigos, and a Lil Baby. Music is in our DNA bringing together these explosive performers with pop culture stars showcase slide as the Trailboy Blazer and producing and creating this new form of entertainment connecting sports, music, social media as well as NFTS. Proving our model showcase from selling merchandise in the stadium packaging NFTs pay per view live streaming. Having our podcast in town of the even and bringing our key franchises to life LiveXLive presents LiveZone, Music Lives and Self Made is all about us leveraging events to build long-term franchise. Partnerships grew with two-year, two multiyear multi-million dollar deals with Hard Rock International and NFT leader Sabbatino. The strategic partnership with Rock with Hard Rock International will provide us with a new platform to bring exclusive and original wide pop culture events together we can amplify and distribute these. The pay per view events to select an integrated resorts and Hard Rock Cafes properties nationwide. The new alliance will directly tap into LiveXLive’s Flywheel business. Again listen, watch, attend, engage and transact now with a global partner as Hard Rock. Our wholly owned subsidiary PodcastOne had over 2.38 billion podcast downloads in the trailing 12 months period ending June 30th and its franchise of exclusive shows has grown to more than 235 with 35 new podcasts now productions more than 300 podcast episodes per week. There’re a series of acquisitions both buy and bill. We have created improved our flywheel of wholly owned businesses that work together in complementary and synergistic fashion. In subscription radio, we have our Slacker radio, livestreaming, LiveXLive through our incredibly robust platform. LiveXLive events which we act entertaining podcasting with PodcastOne, merchandise to custom personalize solutions, and a growing roster of original content franchise that is distributed through LiveXLive 24-hour OTT channel that now reaches about 294 million people a month. As we describe, our audience can listen, watch, attend, engage, and transact. I’m pleased to report that the first quarter ended June 30, 2021, revenue increased 269% to a record $38.8 million, while consecutive quarter of record revenues 13th consecutive along with 175% increase in contribution margin which is a record $7.8 million. Given the momentum we see in nearly all of our business verticals, we are excited to increase our previous revenue guidance for the current fiscal year March 31 to between a $115 million and a $125 million and increase our - increased $5 million for a priorities guidance with adjusted operating income with our operations segment to between $6 million and $12 million. As of June 30, 2021 our cash and cash equivalents was the highest in the history of the company at $24.7 million. Over the past 12 months, we de-risk the business by diversifying our revenue streams with the launch of paper view the addition of substantial advertising sponsored revenue component as a result of acquisition of PodcastOne and the acquisition of e-commerce company CPS and our acquisition in the early 2020 is a live music event business react presents. In fact the past year, we have successfully diversified our revenue streams and reduced our concentration of subscription from 84% revenue to just 23% of our revenue in this quarter. We recently announced one of the most iconic live music event Spring Awakening Music Festival, which is the Midwest's largest all electronic music festival is scheduled to return in Chicago October 02 and 03. The festival will feature 70-plus artists across unique stages. The event is already officially sold out the first year of its general admission and its VIP and only limited quantities of tier 2 tickets are still available. We'll expand this Spring Awakening franchises to four events this year. LiveXLive Reacts Presents returned to live events currently includes a fully stocked lineup of over 100-plus live shows, featuring over 200 artists performing over the course of fiscal 2022. Through our distribution and partnerships, including our nine year partnership with Tesla Cars, we are able to grow our paid subscribers to 1.196 million, just under 1.2 million active monthly users. The acquisition of PodcastOne in July continues to be meaningful and accretive to LiveXLive. PodcastOne was ramped up as an IP development and production with its recent partnership with award winning top creator such as Patrick Wachsberger led Picture Perfect Federation, the producer of some of the biggest movies in the world, Dylan Howard's Empire Media Group, Barbara Schroeder, Melissa McCarty, Kelly McLear. PodcastOne continues to broaden its platform offerings with scripted and non-scripted content across multi-genres with an eye towards a package, resulting audio IP for television, film and streaming platforms. PodcastOne's entire network of podcast probably is one of the most exclusive streaming selections of podcast being made available for the first time. We had the Facebook app in the United States. Additionally we are planning to bring our podcast into the realm of live events, which celebrated social influencers and PodcastOne's talent Jordyn Jones. Since launching our pay per view platform in May 2020 LiveXLive has now generated $21 million in pay per view sponsorship merch sales. LiveXLive has produced over a hundred pay per view events and its recent announced K-pops Joy Ruckus Club 4, the largest global Asian Music Festival establishing LiveXLive as a premiere destination for K-pop. LiveXLive pay per views continues to drive new revenues sharing models for both artists and LiveXLive digital ticket sales and tipping digital meet and greets merchandise sales NFTs sponsorships enabling artists to go directly to consumers using LiveXLive platform. In our last call I spoke about a significant investment commitment to original programming content. I would now like to introduce my Partner and President of the company Dermot McCormack to provide few more details on original programming efforts.