Hello everyone and welcome to the Digital Turbine reports Fiscal Q3 Results Conference Call. All participants will be in a listen-only mode. [Operator Instructions] After today’s presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. [Operator Instructions] Please note, this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Brian Bartholomew, Senior Vice President of Capital Markets and Strategy. Please go ahead.

Thank you, Steven. Good afternoon and welcome to the Digital Turbine fiscal third quarter 2018 earnings conference call. Joining me on the call today to discuss our results are Bill Stone, CEO; and Barrett Garrison, our CFO. Before we get started, I would like to take this opportunity to remind you that our remarks today will include forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on our current assumptions, expectations and beliefs, including projected operating metrics, future products and services, anticipated market demand and other forward-looking topics. Although we believe that our assumptions are reasonable, they are not guarantees of future performance and some will inevitably prove to be incorrect. Except as required by law, we undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statements. For a discussion of the risk factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those contemplated by our forward-looking statements, please refer to the documents we file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Also, during this call, we will discuss certain non-GAAP measures of our performance. Non-GAAP measures are not substitutes for GAAP measures. Please refer to today’s press release for important information about the limitations of using non-GAAP measures as well as reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial results to the most comparable GAAP measures. Now, it is my pleasure to turn the call over to Mr. Bill Stone.

Thanks Brian, and thanks to all for joining today. I want to start my remarks with our progress against our stated goal. Our goal has been to build a sustainable and profitable business, while demonstrating solid execution against our strategy. I am pleased to report that we continued our momentum in the December quarter as we delivered our third consecutive quarter of positive adjusted EBITDA, while also delivering $1.4 million of positive free cash flow. We expect continued positive adjusted EBITDA and free cash flow growth into the current March quarter. I'll break out my prepared remarks [in short] revealing the past December quarter, some operational updates on the present March quarter and conclude with some strategic comments about future quarters. First on the operational performance, our overall revenues were $38 million, which compares to $27.9 million in the September quarter and $22.3 million in December, a year ago. In particular, our operator and OEM for O&O business finished at $22.7 million for the quarter, which was up 93% from the December quarter last year. This was primarily driven by success with our North American operators and a successful launch of the Samsung Galaxy Note 8. We got very good momentum with our O&O business and expect that momentum to continue into the current quarter. We also finished with more than 130 million devices now having Ignite on them, an increase of more than 23 million devices during the quarter. This is an important metric to demonstrate scale and network effects from our platform. Our Advertising and Publisher business, or A&P, finished at $1.5 million or now is only 4% of our total revenues. As I said on prior calls, there's been an intentional refocusing of our resources away from our lower margin A&P business to the higher-margin O&O business.…

Thanks Bill and good afternoon, everyone. We are pleased with the solid results delivered in Q3. I will briefly review our quarterly results and then finish with guidance for the fiscal year. In pursuit of our stated objectives of delivering sustainable profitability and positive free cash flow, we're pleased to report we achieved several important milestones this quarter. To start, the company reported it's third consecutive profitable adjusted EBITDA quarter, delivered $1.4 million in positive free cash flow and reported non-GAAP net income of $0.5 million, marking the company's first positive non-GAAP net income quarter. We're excited by the pace and trajectory of the company's performance and especially pleased with the progress of strengthening our financial position. Turning now to the financials, all of our comparisons are on a year-on-year basis, unless otherwise noted. Total revenue of $38 million in the quarter was up 71%, advertising revenue of $24.2 million grew 49% and within advertising, O&O revenue of $22.7 million grew 93%. O&O revenue growth in the quarter stems from a successful holiday season, primarily driven from our North American operators. Within advertising our A&P revenue was $1.5 million in the quarter, down 67% and represented less than 4% of total revenue mix. Content revenue of $13.8 million in the quarter grew 128% and as Bill mentioned, we experienced some headwinds on our lower margin pay revenue in the quarter as Telstra and Australian operating partner discontinued its subscription services and while Telstra represents less than 5% of gross profits, we do expect future pay revenues to be further impacted as Telstra is expected to exit the direct carrier billing business in the March quarter. Turning to margins, non-GAAP gross margin expanded to 27% in the quarter as compared to 24% for the same quarter in the prior year. While…

Thank you. We will now begin the question-and-answer session. [Operator instructions] And our first question comes from Mike Malouf with Craig-Hallum Capital Group. Please go ahead.

Great. Thanks for taking my questions and nice job this quarter. Very impressive. I wondered if we could just talk a little bit about the Single-Tap. Can you give us at least a little bit of insight on to the model and how we should be thinking about monetization of the Single-Tap as we go into fiscal '19?

Yeah sure Mike, this is Bill. Our model basically be done in two different ways. One way will be a transaction fee that we'll get from the advertising partner that we do a deal with and so those advertiser partners that see improved conversion from Single-Tap. So, in other words, they show 100 ads and get 10 installs. Now they show 100 ads and get 20 installs. We'll be getting paid on the transaction fee for those installs. So, it pays for itself in their perspective because of obviously more efficient spend and it will receive that transaction fee will likely vary by geography. So, for example it would be a little higher here in the United States and we may see in some developing market in Asia for example. And so that's one way that we'll seize the model work. The other way is in the case I touched on the custom integration we did with a large operator and a large social media platform and in that case, the operators may have their own relationships with March social media platforms that we're integrated into and in that case, what you'll see is the mobile operator sharing their revenues back with us. So, in that case, it would be 100% gross margin for the revenues that will result from that, that will come back our way. In the long term I think we see the former model being the predominant but I think in the short term you'll see the latter one being.

Okay. Great. And then as far as rollout, how does this rollout, can you give us a little bit of color on that, for example you have carriers obviously and you have publishers. So, do you have to convince the publishers first or do you get the carriers on board and how do you see that plan out?

Yeah so, we'll talk about the operators and OEMs first. This has obviously sound revenue for them and so to be able to go to an operator and OEM and say that any application that gets put on the device, you should be getting a cut of the revenue. It's something that obviously would resonate with them because today that's not the case. So, with them, what we do for the rollout is we take our existing Ignite software that's now been updated for Single-Tap and then we'll integrated into their environment. So, we do have to go operator-by-operator and OEM by OEM to do that hence the comments in my commentary about that taking us few quarters to do. But it's the same software in effect that we don't want. So, we don't have to keep rebuilding it, but just have to go through a lot of integration and testing. So that's the operator side. And then the advertiser and publisher side, we've really made this turnkey for them to support different ad formats whether it's video, interstitial banners, whatever it happens to be and really very little lifting required by them. Basically, they upload the campaign and then the device is digital turbine software on it. If yes, deliver the app. If no, then take it to the Google Play Store. So, it's a pretty low lift from their perspective. What they're looking for is just to ensure they can get the reach and as we talked about over 130 million devices, that's something that gets them excited.

And then just a quick question on guidance, you guided to about $31 million roughly for the March quarter, just given your yearly guidance. Can you give us a sense with regards to your comments on your content business, roughly what the content business is going to come down to given what's going on with Telstra?

We disclosed in the Q, the amount of revenue in the quarter. Telstra made up about $5 million of total revenue but on a margin basis obviously on a pay revenue has a modest, has a much more modest margin and therefore, lesser contribution. We think we still have other impressive operators that will contribute in the pay space and we're watching that very closely Mike and we've considered that in our guidance obviously for the quarter, but we'll be monitoring that over the next few months here.

So, $5 million of Telstra will go ways over this quarter. So maybe that $13 million roughly goes to $10 million or $11 million this quarter and then in the June quarter goes down to $8 million. That's how I should think about it?

Well there is a few parts in there, few moving parts with the timing of which some of these, some of the changes they've made or coming into place, but we think that revenue certainly especially for Telstra is removed and we don't see that as necessarily a growth area for us. But given the lower margins we don't think will be impactful to our objectives of free cash flow and EBITDA growth obviously.

Got it. Okay. Thanks for taking my questions. Appreciate it.

Thanks Mike.

Our next question comes from Darren Aftahi with ROTH Capital Partners. Please go ahead.

Hey guys. Thanks for taking my questions and let me add my congratulations as well. Just a couple if I may, on your Qualcomm relationship, can you talk a little bit about how we will be pushing mix from a integration perspective this is your own efforts on marketing and then a follow-up on platform?

Yeah sure. So really with our Qualcomm relationship we think about it in two phases. The first phase and what we're starting out with today is really leveraging the Qualcomm strength of relationships in various regions around Asia, particularly in China to help us make progress with many of the Chinese OEMs that are having lot of traction around the globe. And for Qualcomm it offers them obviously additional services, additional revenues, differentiators that they're trying to provide against their competitors. So, it's a nice win-win relationship from a marketing, business development channel perspective. On longer term, our hope would be is that your Qualcomm as a Qualcomm reference design chipset and that chipset has capabilities on it regardless of OEM and there are some things that are on the operating system. So, the long-term ability to have our Ignite software on the Qualcomm reference design would be the goal for both parties, but that's a long-term goal. That's not something that's going to happen in the next few quarters, but obviously something that would be highly strategic for both sides.

Got it. That's helpful. And then on the Single-Tap, so I'm curious collectively in the testing done, what kind of improved ad conversion rates have you see and will you get paid for the incremental i.e. at 50% conversion rate going to 55%. And then secondarily, is the portability of this applicable to IP devices that our mobile handsets like an IP enabled TV or something else where you get that opportunities, thanks?

Yeah sure. So, in terms of the business model as I mentioned to Mike I can see it in two ways. One is we'll do things with our revenue share with the operator and it's their relationship with the social media platform and advertising partner. So that will be done on a retro basis back to us albeit at a 100% gross margin back to us. So that would be one. And then as it relates to our relationships on the Single-Tap platform that we're doing, I really see it being done on a transaction fee but I see the transaction fee being elastic. And what I mean by that is that as we see better conversions and improved performance, we'll be able to charge higher rates. If we don't see the conversion and performance obviously at the lower rates, then that will be matched up against geography and type of device, but nevertheless, it's not a fixed transaction fee. I see that just like our CPI or CPP rates in our current business today have elasticity based upon the performance of them. So, I see the similar thing here for Single-Tap. And then as it relates to other devices, absolutely, we look at smart phones today as just the fastest-growing biggest opportunity. There is roughly a billion of them that gets sold per year in Android. You can stack that up though against televisions, IOT, automobiles, tablets, anything with a screen on it and there's nothing preventing us from exporting that platforms. It's just going to be dependent upon the market opportunity, but it's just software going to different type of screen.

Great. Thanks Bill.

Your next question comes from Sameet Sinha with B. Riley FBR. Please go ahead.

Hi guys. This is actually Lee Krowl filling in for Sameet. Couple of questions, first, could you guys just maybe update us on your average slot counts on a sequential basis and then maybe kind of talk as we look out into the future, how you see that trending?

Yeah sure. So, our average stock count does vary by operator and it also varies by type of device depending upon the memory. It's on the device. As far as the large operators here in the United States we're usually averaging around five or six slots. I don't want to get lulled into an average of the averages here because again that can be much higher in certain devices and lower on other devices or other operators, but on average we see that as five to six and we see opportunities with some operators hear in the United States about a treaty going into the future. But I think there is a law of diminishing returns on that at some point I think as roughly around eight where being able to maintain RPS, maintaining consumer engagement etcetera becomes a little bit of overkill, but that's how we're thinking about it.

Okay. And then just in North America, it seems like you had kind of a quarter driven by outsized performance in a single carrier. I guess is that a right way to categorize it and then maybe beyond that single outperformer, could you maybe just comment on the rest of the carriers that are less in magnitude, but I'm sure, make up a decent chunk of that performance as well?

So, to start with, we saw strong performance across our major North American partners across several of the major. So, there wasn't a particular stand out. You may have been highlighting a point on it. We did see one perform at a high level that reached a revenue share tier at a maximum level that I just commented on that, that influenced the margins in the quarter. But across the Board we saw consistent strength in our North American partners.

Okay. And then one question on content. So, I know you guys mentioned Vodafone is now complete and Telstra will be fully rolled off in the March quarter, but can you just remind us, are there any other existing contracts out there that are also kind of maybe I don't know, I want to call it risk, but will also roll off in the future.

Yeah, so on the pay side, it remains to be seen what if anything the other Australian operators do as a result of this. We don't have any reason to believe or any information that says any other than they want to, continue to grow the relationship with us. But obviously with the Telstra announcement, we'll keep a very close eye on that, but I want to contrast that with the Ignite contracts that we have that are all multiyear deals in a much more sticky situation with our software in terms us on the phone. So, I think it's important for investors to delineate between the two different types of contracts because they are very different.

Okay. And then I guess you outlined very initial stages and more of a opportunity to leverage the OEMs, but is the Qualcomm relationship I guess, does it generate revenue in the current quarter or is it more of just a way to expand with OEMs and so revenue is a little bit more delayed? Just trying to get a sense on the revenue opportunity from this announcement.

Yeah, so how I think about the revenue opportunity from Qualcomm in the very short term would be de-minimus. It's not really -- don't expect anything in the very short term from that. However, as we go forward in time and as I mentioned one of the key strategic priorities for us in future quarter to really enhance the network effects from the platform is to get more software on more devices. And so, for us to do that and especially in many Asian countries where we want to go to people -- go where people already have strong relationships with OEMs, obviously Qualcomm is one of these companies and can help us from a channel perspective to accelerate our efforts from a business development perspective. So that's it's given the Qualcomm relationship and so our anticipation would be as we look forward later in the year, we will see some contribution from those relationships that Qualcomm brought us, but they keep in mind we're collecting the revenue and paying Qualcomm, not the other way around.

Got it. That's helpful. Thanks guys.

Our next question comes from Jon Hickman with Ladenburg. Please go ahead.

Hi. Can you hear me okay?

Yeah, we got you Jon.

Okay. So, you mentioned that there were two kind of monetization strategies with the Single-Tab and the near-term one was this custom version with operator in a social media company. So, could you tell us when that, how is that rolling out, that appear to be a more near-term opportunity than the other version?

Yeah, sure Jon. So that is just literally recently rolled out in the last -- literally in the last week or so and so we're just in the process of getting our legs on that one on the top I call the top of the first inning with that relationship. It's rolling across a single device. We expect that to roll across the entire device lineup from that operator as we go forward in the upcoming weeks and months. And then that operator will be paying us a revenue share that they're receiving from their deal with a social media platform.

So that's live right now.

I am sorry?

So that's live right now on one device.

Yes, that's live right now.

Okay. All my other questions have been answered. Thanks.

Thanks Jon.

Our next question comes from Ilya Grozovsky with National Securities. Please go ahead.

Thanks guys. Nice quarter. Just on that on the Single-Tap just wanted to clarify. So, with your social media partner, if the user used taps on it and there's a revenue the social media company shares with you, do you have to share anything with the carrier that's performance based on?

Yes. So, we'll turn around in where the origin of the relationship came from. So, if that relationship started with an OEM, then we'll share that revenue with the OEM. If that relationships are with the carrier, then we'll turn around and share that relationship with the carrier.

Is there any scenario where you don't share it with either an OEM or a carrier because you have a relationship directly with social media company?

Yeah, there will be definitely some edge cases that there will be some opportunity for 100% gross margin for us, but right now we're focused on rolling it out through our operator and OEM partners because they're really key in the Single-Tap business, it's going to be scale. And it's a scale business and doing this across one million devices is an interesting 10 million, little bit more or 100 million, 200 million, then things start becoming interesting. So, with the scale economics that go with that. So, we're really focused on getting this to cast widest as possible with this. So hence working with the OEM partners is going to be important.

Got it. And then for Barret, just housekeeping international revenues in the quarter, what was the percentage of overall?

Yeah, we were approximately across all our product lines including pay. Our international business represented just below 40%.

Great. Thanks again, guys.

And this concludes our question-and-answer session. I'd like to turn the conference back over to Bill Stone for any closing remarks.

Great. Thanks everyone for joining the call today. We look forward to reporting on our progress against all the points made on today's call and we'll talk to you again on our fiscal fourth quarter earnings call later this year. Thanks, and have a great night.

The conference has now concluded. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect.