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Otello Corporation ASA

Earnings Release Nov 10, 2016

3704_rns_2016-11-10_7a8debff-59b0-4a28-aa92-4ac3a88696c3.pdf

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3Q 2016

Executive Summary

  • Financials
  • Operations
  • Mobile Advertising
  • Closing

Financial Highlights 3Q16 (Continued Operations)

Financial metric 3Q16 (\$m) 3Q15 (\$m)
Total revenue 141.8 113.4
Adj. EBITDA* 14.2 13.1
  • Consumer deal closed for \$575 million Enterprise Value
  • Solid revenue growth from Mobile Advertising and very strong quarter for Bemobi

Consumer Transaction closed

Consumer Transaction closed

  • \$575 million Enterprise value transaction
  • 5+ times 2016 estimated revenue
  • 20+ times 2016 estimated Adj. EBITDA
  • Creates very strong financial backbone for remaining Opera
  • Enables deleveraging of balance sheet
  • Enables substantial dividends and share repurchases

Where we are now

Focus

  • Organic revenue growth
  • Increase margins
  • Cost control
  • Unique & relevant products
  • Scalable businesses

Drive shareholder value

Agenda

• Executive Summary

Financials

• Operations

  • Mobile Advertising
  • Closing

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Financial Highlights 3Q16

Financial metric (Continued
operations)
3Q16 (\$m) 3Q15 (\$m)
Total revenue 141.8 113.4
Adj. EBITDA* 14.2 13.1
EBIT (3.6) (1.3)

Revenue: Customer Type 3Q16

Customer Type 3Q16 (\$m) Change vs 3Q15 Comments
Mobile Advertising 122.1 +26% In line with
expectations
Apps & Games 13.7 +81% In line with
expectations
Opera TV 5.8 -30% In line with
expectations
Performance & Privacy 2.2 +62% In line with
expectations

Financial Highlights: 3Q15 – 3Q16

Revenue (\$m) Adjusted EBITDA* (\$m)

*Adj EBITDA, excluding stock-based compensation expenses and one-time costs

Balance sheet

Components Size
Continued + Discontinued operations
net cash position 3Q16
(\$190 million)
Estimated net proceed from Consumer
transaction
\$560 million
Continued operations net cash position
post transaction
\$350 million

Earn-out overview

Estimated payments AdColony Bemobi Individually Total
(Numbers in \$ million) immaterial
$Oct-16$ 15.2 15.2
$Jan-17$ 3.1 3.1
Apr-17 8.4 7.9 16.3
Sep-17 9.0 9.0
Apr-18 6.9 7.2 14.1
Sep-18 6.2 6.2
Apr-19 7.8 7.8
Sep-19 6.8 6.8
Apr-20 8.6 8.6
Total 18.3 53.7 15.1 87.1
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The Contract State

Limited cash impact

Use of proceeds

Type Size Timing
Repay debt \$185 million November
Dividend ~\$275
million (15 NOK pr share)
December
Share buyback Up to 10% of shares
outstanding
Now
-
2017 AGM

Neutral net Cash position excluding earnouts

New reporting structure - Segments

Line
item
Components
Mobile Advertising Global brand & performance
advertising
Apps & Games Bemobi
Opera TV Connected TV business
Performance & Privacy SurfEasy and Rocket
Optimizer (Skyfire)
Corporate CEO/Board of Directors, corporate finance
and accounting, legal, HR and IT

3Q16 Segment P&L

Segment (\$
million)
Mobile
Advertisin
g
Apps &
Games
Opera TV Performanc
e & Privacy
Corporate Total*
Revenue 122.1 13.7 5.8 2.2 0.0 141.8
Gross Profit 45.2 8.8 5.8 2.0 0.0 61.8
Adj. EBITDA 8.4 6.4 2.3 (2.1) (0.9) 14.2
EBITDA 4.3 6.4 2.3 (2.3) (0.9) 8.0
Normalized**
EBIT
2.8 6.1 1.6 (2.6) (0.9) 5.2
EBIT (1.7) 2.9 1.6 (3.7) (0.9) (3.6)

*Excluding intercompany transactions

** Excluding amortization of acquired intangible assets

OPEX Development (\$m)

Outlook for 2016

Metric 2016 Outlook (ex
SurfEasy &
Skyfire
Baseline
update
Baseline 2016
Outlook
Surfeasy +
Skyfire impact
Updated 2016
Outlook
Revenue* \$570 -
605m
(\$7-14m) \$563 -
591m
\$7 -
9m
\$570 -
600m
Adj.
EBITDA**
\$75 -
90m
(\$6-12m) \$69 -
78m
\$(9) –
(8)m
\$60 -
70m

Baseline update

  • Corporate cost \$2m higher than assumed in July
  • Negative revenue and adj. EBITDA impact from Mobile Advertising Deal mix changes: SurfEasy & Skyfire
  • Positive revenue contribution from Skyfire/SurfEasy
  • Negative adj. EBITDA contribution from Skyfire

* Assumes FX rates as of November 9th 2016

Investor Day

March 2017

Agenda

  • Executive Summary
  • Financials

Operations

  • Mobile Advertising
  • Closing

Executive Summary – Core Opera

Key Drivers Size 3Q16 Trend Overall strategy
MOBILE
ADVERTISING
\$122.1m Growing Continued growth,
cost efficiency
opportunities
APPS & GAMES \$13.7m Growing Continued Strong
growth
OPERA TV \$5.8m Flat Sustainable
Profitability
PERFORMANCE
& PRIVACY
\$2.2m Flat Restructure for
2017 profitability

Mobile Advertising

Revenue Growth 3Q Highlights Focus Areas

Record revenue quarter for both
Brand and Performance
businesses
• Cost efficiency opportunities
26%
SDK footprint growth of 112% vs.
Q3'15

Focus on One Platform deployment,
automation and data science to drive

Completed development of our
Next Gen 3.0 SDK –
first step in
our one platform initiative
EBITDA yield

Mobile Advertising

2016

  • 12 different companies, all acquired
  • 12 different management teams and cultures incentiviced by their own earn-outs
  • 5 Different platforms
  • Commercial decisions made at company-level, not always optimized for the OMW group

2017

  • 1 Company
  • 1 Company culture, earnouts ending
  • 1 Platform
  • Employees linked to OMW revenue and profit as well as Opera shareprice
  • Focus on programmatic
  • Focus on data science

Apps & Games

Revenue Growth 3Q Highlights Focus Areas
81%
Very strong revenue growth

Adj. EBITDA margin of 45%+

6 Operator launces in 3Q16

International growth (just ~10% of
revenue today is outside Latam)

Leverage Operator relationships

One year after Bemobi's acquisition, globalization of Opera's AppsClub is at full speed

  • 13.6M subscribers in Latam and 3.1 M AppsClub subscribers in RoW (25% QoQ growth)
  • \$13.7 million in 3Q16 Revenue (total Apps & Games)
  • New launches during 3Q16
  • Globe Philippines
  • Smart Philippines
  • Grameenphone Bangladesh
  • Dialog Shri Lanka
  • Mobifone Vietnam
  • Vodacom Tanzania

Success in Brazil => Now Global Footprint

Apps Club service:

• 43 Carriers, covering 21 emerging countries

4Q16 outlook

  • New Apps Club launches planned with leading mobile carriers in India and Russia expecting to reach close to 100% country coverage
  • Improvement in most operational metrics (subscriber acquisition and monetization) across regions
  • Expect new significant sales channel to be live in selected carriers within CIS and South Asia accelerating growth.

Opera TV

Revenue Growth 3Q Highlights Focus Areas
(28%)
Secured deals to deliver ATH quarter
in 4Q16

~40% Adj. EBITDA margin

Cement global leadership

Continued investment in products

Connected TV Certification Program Launched

The Program

Program to address alignment across multiecosystem, multi-silicon, multi-industry challenges

Launch expected to accelerate core revenue driver- Opera TV SDK in 2017

Targeting tens of millions of Opera TV-powered devices tol solve key challenges faced by Over-The-Top (OTT) content providers and device manufacturers

Will accelerate application development efforts and reduce time-to-market from months to weeks

Major milestone: Over 1000 applications and video services now available in Opera TV Store

Leading the way

Opera TV is truly enabling the transformation of content consumption in the living room

Over 1000 application deployed across 15 leading Connected TV device partners targeting millions of homes

Performance & Privacy

Revenue Growth 3Q Highlights Focus Areas
62%
SurfEasy continues profitable growth

Simplifing Skyfire portfolio

Building Rocket Optimizer pipeline for
2017

Surfeasy to continue growth

Substantial cost cuts for Skyfire

Expecting a profitable 2017 for
Performance & Privacy

Increased market traction for the Rocket platform

Encrypted video optimization deployed live with several operators in various regions, and delivering a huge value for their subscribers. Additional customers trials on-going.

Cloud transformation is happening now. Several RFP/RFQ on-going with a robust pipeline for 2017. First wins already happening with key partners

Monetization capabilities added to the Rocket platform and selected by an operator in Egypt

  • SurfEasy Owned and Operated paying subscriber base grew 16% during Q3
  • Partner products grew 118% in Q3. Strong growth expected to continue through 2017.

Agenda

  • Executive Summary
  • Financials
  • Operations
  • Mobile Advertising
  • Closing

Opera Mediaworks: Growth + R&D

  • 2016 has been a year of balancing growth with our long term vision to align all our acquisitions under one strategy, one aligned leadership team & one platform
  • Growth via Acquisition --------- Organic growth
  • 12 businesses w/opportunistic goals --------- Unified Mission/Vision and strategy
  • 5 tech platforms/27 log ins ---------- Developing One Platform "Apollo" for 2017
  • 2017 will be the transition year to Apollo. Apollo will unify all supply and demand onto one platform leveraging data science driven automation and Artificial Intelligence to drive ad decision-ing in 2017 and beyond
  • 2016 Focus areas:
  • Growth 9 month growth rate = +30% vs first 9 months of 2015
  • New products Instant Play Exchange, Compass, CORE v2 and Aurora SDK
  • 34 • One Platform – Aurora gen SDK release = key building block for Apollo

Summary of Results – Q3 2016

  • For first 9 months of the year, Opera Mediaworks delivered \$352.5M in Revenues (+30% vs. 9 mos YTD 2015).
  • 30% organic growth vs. only +9% organic growth for 1st 9 months of 2015.
  • In Q3, we delivered \$120.7M* in Revenues (+26% growth vs Q3'15)
  • Q3 highlights include:
  • Record revenue quarter for both Brand and Performance businesses
  • SDK footprint growth of +112% vs. Q3'15
  • Ranked #1 Independent Mobile Advertising Partner by Tune (largest attribution company)
  • 26 global creative awards and nominations
  • Completed development of our Next Gen 3.0 SDK "Aurora"
  • One platform initiative active development; unifies platform in 2017

Solid growth in both Performance & Brand segments

Key Drivers Growth Details
PERFORMANCE 27%
Continued international expansion, with EMEA & APAC driving
growth

Demand for differentiated in-app Instant-Play™ video

Growth of key performance advertiser
accounts

Fewer new entrants into top 25 top grossing
BRAND 24%
Continued investment in Brand Performance campaigns from
outcome-driven marketers

Creative capabilities & innovation are driving dollars

Programmatic deals contributing to growth

Largest ad SDK footprint in mobile after Google

Ahead of Twitter (MoPub), Facebook, AOL (Millennial) & InMobi

Source: MixRank, Q3 2016 SDK penetration within Top 1000 apps per MixRank's overall rankings

32.7% YOY Growth – Platform Reach

Global Reach (in Millions)

Highest Quality Publisher Growth

New publisher relationships in Q3 drove access & reach in the most popular, mobile-first apps worldwide.

Revenue Shift Towards Video

YOY Share of OMW Revenue, Video vs. Non-Video (Actuals)

112% YOY Growth in Programmatic Sales

Adoption of automated buying continues across regions

Performance Advertising

Key Performance Highlights

Solid quarter for global performance advertising business (+27% vs Q3'15)

  • App Install Market: North America continues to be a highly competitive market, while we continue to grow and expand our EMEA and APAC business and generate strong grow rates (81% and 68% respectively).
  • Customers: YTD addition of 100's of new advertisers and 1,000s of new campaigns to the Instant-Play™ platform compared to last year
  • Bookings: Q3 bookings grew by 144% for app install commitments in future quarters
  • Supply: Grew Instant-Play™ performance impressions + 75% (vs. Q3'15)
  • Programmatic: Further expanded Performance business by adding Programmatic demand from multiple performance bidders

AdColony = #1 Independent Mobile Advertising Partner

TUNE Rankings of over 1000 advertising partners — Q3 2016

#1 Google
#2 AdColony
#3 AppLovin
#4 Twitter
#5 IronSource
#6 Vungle
#7 InMobi
#8 Chartboost
#9 AppLift
#10 AdAction
Interactive

Highlight: Brand Performance

Top brands driving performance-focused campaigns

Brand Performance Case Studies

45

Brand Advertising

Key Brand Highlights

  • Average deal size: Deal sizes increased y-o-y, especially for video campaigns. Uptick in video spend from media & entertainment companies like Disney, Amazon, Netflix for feature releases & Fall launches
  • Top verticals (US): CPG, FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods), Entertainment, Automotive, Technology and Consumer Electronics

Key global wins:

  • EMEA: Adidas, Nintendo, Samsung, Sony Pics, Volvo, Warner Brothers
  • APAC: Amazon India, Coca Cola, Idea Cellular, P&G, Samsung, Vodafone
  • LatAm: Cepas Argentinas, Laboratorios Bago, Laboratorios Gramon, Nestlé, Shell, UPS, Visa Regional
  • US: ABC Networks, Disney, Master Foods USA (Mars), Microsoft, Starbucks
  • Programmatic momentum: Increasing number of DSP connections and PMP deals
  • Creative recognition: 26 global mobile award nominations for high-impact brand creative & results

Q3 2016 Takeaways

Organic Growth + New SDK & Apollo R&D to drive yield in 2017 and beyond

  • Our role in the ecosystem continues to grow in a highly competitive marketplace dominated by Facebook and Google as evidenced by both our organic revenue growth, SDK growth and rankings as #1 independent advertiser partner of Tune
  • Q3 was a good quarter on revenues, but we did see some margin and EBITDA decline caused by both a faster mix shift to video and programmatic + some one-time publisher deals that didn't monetize as expected
  • On the development side, big highlight is that we completed our Aurora next gen SDK which is a key building block for Apollo and are positioned to begin rolling out Apollo in 1H'17
  • Q4 focus is on execution big quarter, highly competitive environment, combined with our new SDK release. Facing a large comp (Q4 2015) that had some extra-ordinary spending in Brand and AAA app in Performance, so are planning growth in Q4 more conservatively.
  • Long term, we believe the investments we are making into Apollo and into data science driven automation and AI will strengthen our leadership position by unlock new revenue opportunities and EBITDA expansion for 2017 and beyond.

Agenda

  • Executive Summary
  • Financials
  • Advertising
  • Consumer
  • Closing

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