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| We're seeing early positive results from these modernization activities with things like our exchange consolidation, our hosting migrations, new ERP systems, and so on now live in the market |
| We saw improving signs of spend levels, particularly within brands, evidenced by greater than 25% sequential revenue increases |
| Improving revenue per device outside of the United States to mirror where we are seeing in the device growth is a top priority for us |
| I am not obviously going to disclose any specific terms of how we're working the revenue with ONE Store other than say that I think it's a good win-win partnership for both sides |
| In other words, improving our present revenues and cash flows are both closely linked to the future strategy |
| And I'm pleased that we're making good progress |
| Those things are the things that are going to return DT to a growth company in the short term while we continue to pursue our very bright, longer term vision |
| We are uniquely positioned with our on-device technology, including our first-party data, our AI machine learning tools, and SingleTap, plus our extensive publisher relationships and our operator and OEM relationships |
| These headwinds were partially offset by continued strength from improved U.S |
| We're encouraged by both the developments of our new partnership that Bill shared and our robust pipeline, providing the opportunity to leverage our existing device footprint and grow revenues on new supply, particularly outside the U.S |
| And as we've highlighted previously, we're encouraged by the future benefits of this integration |
| We are optimistic about the future revenue growth from new partners and the successful execution against our pipeline in FY25 |
| With these enhancements, we are confident in our ability to execute on our growth plans, and we continue to focus on balancing growth opportunities and cash flows to optimize financial performance and long-term enterprise value |
| I'd reiterate Bill's earlier comment that despite the near-term headwinds, we're encouraged by the platform consolidations we're making to bring the businesses together and expect these actions to have a positive return on our future growth |
| I also want to emphasize that the alternative app strategy is not just about new revenues, but perhaps more importantly, will also be a catalyst to return our current business to growth |
| And finally, I want to discuss the progress we're making against the future opportunities, which are very encouraging |
| Within AGP, we saw strength year-on-year in expanding margins of 500 basis points from improvement in overall brand margins and favorable product mix within the segment |
| As a reminder, while gross margin rates can fluctuate from quarter to quarter, we generally anticipate long-term margin expansion as we continue to execute on our gross strategies |
| While the overall decline in AGP year-on-year continues to be impacted in the short term by the consolidation and exiting of certain legacy business lines that we have discussed previously, we're pleased that as of the beginning of this calendar year, the revenue lines have been integrated and fully operational onto our consolidated DT exchange |
| We can take advantage of a pretty attractive competitive environment right now with bringing on new device supply |
| And as we change these things, we are confident that the revenue and cash flow will follow as we know we have demand for our offerings in the marketplace |
| And finally, we made some changes to our AI machine learning models for the holidays to drive improved engagement from our customers |
| During this phase, we remain highly focused on operating efficiency and are encouraged by the savings we're realizing from these platform consolidations |
| Our pipeline remains robust, and we look forward to sharing more device supply opportunities into the future |
| And this has three benefits |
| From a segment perspective, our AGP or ad tech business showed sequential growth driven by improved eCPMs rates from our advertisers, despite our sunsetting of our legacy AdColony exchange |
| Given the inherent operating leverage in our business model, we expect the active focus on expense measures and integration efforts we are taking will strengthen the platform as we return to growth and enable a greater portion of those dollars to fall to the bottom line |
| But anybody that wants to do that, whether it's us direct or whether it's with other mega cap tech companies that have ambitions to go do this, there's a lot of those plumbing and electricity things that have to happen that make us super uniquely positioned to go out and help enable that |
| Bigger picture, we are seeing demand and advertisers return, which is much improved from 12 months ago |
| We are also now seeing growth from our new features, such as SDK bidding, contributing more material revenues to our business |
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| These results were below our expectations we provided on our November earnings call, largely due to further softening in U.S |
| device sales, to continue facing headwinds year-over-year, they were even more disappointing than what our conservative expectations were |
| Turning to profitability, our adjusted EBITDA of $25.4 million in the quarter declined $2.2 million sequentially and was down from $40 million in the prior year, driven primarily from lower revenues and partially offset by a reduction in cash OpEx |
| They were marginally down in the December quarter from the September quarter and that was 100% driven by those two execution issues I mentioned earlier in my remarks |
| The ODS business declined by 2% in the quarter, driven by short-term issues described above |
| We experienced three unique issues in our ODS business late in the quarter that were the difference between coming in below versus above our overall outlook |
| Combined, these three things were the difference between our results being below versus above our outlook |
| Our consolidated gross margin was 45% in Q3, which was down 180 basis points sequentially from Q2 and compares to 50% from Q3 in the prior year |
| While we believe future devices trends should improve, we've seen accelerating declines early in the March quarter, and at this time have limited visibility to the performance of the recent Samsung flagship device launch, and therefore we have further tempered our ODS volume expectations |
| It's been a frustrating stock for some time |
| With one US carrier exception that was only marginally up, our US operators had declined in devices from the prior quarter, which is unusual, given it was the holiday selling season |
| We finished in line with our outlook expectations for our HEP business, but were below our expectations for our ODS business |
| Within our on-device solutions, or ODS segment, revenues of $94.3 million were down 2% to prior year, December quarter |
| Combined with the temporary execution issues, Bill referenced stemming from certain platform integration efforts |
| And while this part of our business has experienced headwinds from the prepaid content media from a year-on-year comparison, this headwind was fully lapped in the December quarter |
| Total revenue of $142.6 million in the quarter was flat sequentially and down 12% year-on-year |
| Within our revenue guidance, we anticipate the headwinds associated with volume device declines to continue into Q4, principally on U.S |
| In our app growth platform, or AGP business, Q3 revenues of $49.2 million, which performed in line with our guidance expectations, grew 6.5% sequentially and declined 27% over prior year |
| So that continues to be an issue for us |
| Most companies facing headwinds suffer from one of those two issues |
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