Hemi Zucker
Analyst · FBR. Please proceed with your question
Thank you, Scott and great afternoon for everybody. Before I start, I want to talk with you or get your attention to the quote when I say Q1 was very strong. It is very hard to explain the initial quote but let me tell you why Q1 is so strongest. There are three main reason. Reason number one. Our growth was planned to be 16% to 17% at our mid-point in our outlook. But actually we have already surpassed the rate of 20%. Reason number two. Media, which is in its weakest point in Q1 and is getting better in Q2 and Q3 and significantly larger in Q4, grew 23% quarter-over-quarter and as we get deeper into the year and we get to Q4, we get the strongest contribution, not only in revenue, but also to the bottom line. And reason number three. When we planned the year and we made our outlook, we were planning also to have some M&A deal. Our M&A deals during the quarter were planned originally to be slower and smaller but actually we achieved all the deals in the first quarter. It happened faster and a great revenue and actually as we talked, to be honest, up to Friday last week, we had already four fine LOIs and four additional LOIs are in signing process. Then on top of it, we have more than $100 million deal in the earlier stage. I would not book on those, but I am just telling you that this is the way we count it. So very hot upside in the beginning of the year. Let's go to page five and talk about the business cloud services -- sorry, page seven and then page eight. Page eight is titled, our revenue mix by services. Our revenue mix, both in media and in cloud services, is increasing. Media is now 27%, it was 25% and our other cloud services, is' actually called the new cloud services, moved from 11% to 20%. Fax and voice which include Cloud Connect, went down in percentage but steady in revenue. Our customer count grew this quarter, or quarter-over-quarter by 240,000 units. 10% of them approximately are fax and voice and 90% of them are mostly backup units that came from a mix of the acquisition including SugarSync. Our first quarter cancel rate is better than it was in Q1 of last year. It was 2.3%, now down to 2.2%. The main reason for our cancel rate improvement is that we have more mix, better mix of corporate customers. They sign for longer contract and we have more premium customer that take the higher priced units and those people also have a longer longevity. Fax is now 45% of our total revenue. Fax is not down in revenue, but mostly it is because the other parts of our business are growing faster than fax. Page number nine, Cloud Connect. As you see, our premium brands of eFax, eFax Corporate, eVoice, eReceptionist and City Numbers are now all consolidated into a new Cloud Connect dedicated team that we have built. We have created this team to focus on our fax and voice services. This dedicated team is led by our newly appointed President, Harmeet, was promoted from the FuseMail business. They will focus on new value creation through organic growth, mainly voice and moving up to the premium brands, enter new connectivity in mobile services, for example, we can enter into collaboration mobile and document management services. M&A, we already done one M&A deal for them in France and we have another one in LOI and improving of margins, most of the improvements of the margins will come through continued consolidation of the infrastructure of this business. Premium fax and voice brand service revenue grew, as I mentioned. And another positive on this quarter, the fix proportion of the revenue continues to increase, which decreased our dependency on usage. Foreign currency, as Scott said, had negative impact on this business and I just checked before the call and it seems that the Euro started to improve and actually it's a little bit higher than our plan at this time which is positive to us. Integration of our Firstway, RTE business has completed at schedule. The RTE CEO James Harvey is visiting us today. He is now heading the entire European organization. And all his team from the other side of Dublin has now moved into our Santry office and they are working together. Page number 10, cloud backup. Cloud backup had very strong quarter-over-quarter growth of 68%. As we said, the revenue is plus, minus $70 million. EBITDA continues to grow. At full integration, which we will reach very soon, it's about 40% EBITDA margin. We have a new Livedrive deal which we signed with Carphone Warehouse U.K. They are basically a company that just merged with Dixons. And they are branding their service as Geek Squad pickup. They have 700 stores which would deploy our services and this business deal has commitment of minimum revenue. So this deal will add to our revenue as they launch it through the year. We have bought SugarSync backup, sync and collaboration, all integration in one service. SugarSync's office is in San Mateo. We are integrating them already. The R&D teams of both Livedrive and SugarSync will be one and the product for Livedrive, SugarSync and KeepItSafe will be headed by management that we brought up into J2 from SugarSync. Page 11, email security update. As we talked about promoting Harmeet, we brought a new managing director, [indiscernible], to join us in March. Aryan is already traveling to all of the offices that are related to the FuseMail business. The near-term focus is to integrate the recent acquisitions, Stay Secure from Sweden and Comendo from Denmark and to continue to integrate the acquisition for Excel Micro. This business represents approximately $50 million. Of those $25 million are the Excel Micro and $25 million is the rest. Most of the newly acquired revenue from Stay Secure and Comendo. [indiscernible] is non profitable business or unprofitable business and was reflected in the low price that we paid for it. The EBITDA of the total business is 25%, but it is 40% without the Nordics and once we integrate Stay Secure and Comendo, we expect it to go 40% level plus. Next page, Campaigner email marketing update. Campaigner has accelerated growth. They grew 63% quarterly year-over-year and 20% for Q4 2014. We just acquired email marketing company called Email Direct. Email direct has brought to us besides the revenue and everything else also a strong lead generation team which impacts the organic growth of Campaigner and Campaigner is growing now in double digit growth. We have started to integrate the new acquisition for Excel Micro, which is called Nuvotera and we continue to integrate all the other acquired businesses. We launch Campaigner White Label, added new feature for email. And the main focus that I want you to focus on when you think about Campaigner, email marketing is typified by rarely the company's buy and integrate other company into the infrastructure. It is not an easy task. We have developed Campaigner strong engineering team and product team that are capable to buy companies and integrate them. Why I am excited about it? This can become a rollup machine, because there are many companies with relatively low revenues of $5 million, $10 million and $20 million that are not big shop and we don't see a lot of competition when we buy them because of the hardship of integrating them, but we are able to integrate all of them when integrating them also all to one system. So we are not like buying with it and running with the persistence. We are integrating it into one system. So very exciting here. Let's go and talk about digital media, page 14. Here the highlight, as I said, Q1 is one of the weakest in the media business, but still we had a very strong quarter revenue of $43 million,.30% percent quarter-over-quarter. EBITDA of approximately $40 million, up significantly 61% higher than Q1 of 2014. EBITDA margin grew to 32% versus 26% last year. And revenue per thousand visits of $45 versus $56 before the acquisition of Ookla. Ookla is the most profitable part of Ziff Davis business, but a different mix of customers and they brought the revenue per thousand to $45, a significant improvement due to the profitability to the bottom line. The visits to our owned and operated site are up 61% year-over-year with 956 million visits. Now IGN. IGN too continues to expand into and invest in video. IGN video views are up 30%. IGN YouTube channel saw biggest growth reaching 6.5 million subscribers. IGN launched new apps for Xbox one and FireTV. IGN app installs across all the consoles and over-the-top devices now are at 12 million unique, which is 52% year-over-year growth. IGN, AskMen and PC Magazine passed 15.6 million social follower mark, which is 99% or 100% almost year-over-year growth. Let's go to the next page 16. When I will talk about the Speedtest or Ookla. We acquired Ookla only in December. The integration of Ookla is going on as planned. Total speed test hit a new all time high of 463 million test, which is 20% year-over-year. Since inception, there were seven billion test created on the infrastructure of Ookla. For those of you who do not understand, Ookla is a business of testing the speed of Internet speed. The opportunity is very big because those people that test, they test for a reason. Usually because they are not happy and if they are not happy, it's great opportunity for us to introduce competition and be paid for advertising them. Ookla mobile surpassed 135 million installation, which is 51% year-over-year growth. And lastly, international expansion of our media division, we expand PC Magazine into Asia, IGN into Hungary IGN into Spain and IGN to Brazil. With that, I will pass it to Scott who will discuss our outlook.