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| We're confident that our strategy will yield substantial and enduring financial benefits in 2024 and beyond |
| In concert, we have market validation that our technology solution drives value for our e-commerce partners and they represent a new opportunity for world-class brands to reach high-quality consumers at the optimal purchase moment |
| To be clear, we are excited about our strategic course as we believe the road forward will have us clearly differentiate Fluent brands in exciting new markets, where we intend to demonstrate our core capabilities and establish a strong competitive advantage |
| Four, as the new marketplaces continue to grow and Fluent establishes credentials in the markets in which we're playing, we expect to accelerate our growth while expanding our margins |
| The ones that we've -- we have obviously a very strong reputation in gaming and subscription services |
| We are enthusiastic, as we've already delivered proof-of-concept that delight of the brands we partner with and new world-class brands that we are adding to our roster of clients who recognize the unique value proposition |
| AdFlow, our post-transaction e-commerce solution turned to positive gross profit in Q3 ahead of plan |
| But the distinct competitive advantage we have is our ability to attract consumers on to our properties to have a relationship with them and then connect them in a meaningful way to products and services that improve their lives |
| We expect sequential revenue growth in Q4 to drive a return to a positive adjusted EBITDA in Q4 and beyond |
| So our ability to bring consumers to our properties to be able to serve them meaningful experiences and understand things that they're interested in that day, provides fantastic first-party data long-term relationships with the consumers and equally important connect them to world-class brands that we work with |
| It provides us a unique go-to-market capability, while also generating the gross profit dollars that we will invest in our growth initiatives |
| Strictly stated, we have built unparalleled fluent capabilities and competitive advantage vis-à-vis, our core performance marketplaces, primarily our rewards, jobs and content platforms |
| One, Fluent is the industry leader in performance marketing and our core performance marketplace remains a highly differentiated brand equity and competitive advantages within our owned and operated marketplaces |
| Conversely, we were encouraged by sequential revenue growth in the streaming services sector and from other clients within the gaming sector that helped offset the decline |
| Our foundational strategies in this dynamic marketplace have yielded excellent results |
| Our strategic direction is intended to strengthen and modestly grow our core also expanding our margins and in parallel establishing Fluent credentials in new high-volume, high-growth marketplaces that we are already beginning to successfully enter |
| We expect moderate recovery in the gaming sector along with the growth of our other new business initiatives that Don mentioned, to strengthen our marketplace and drive sequential revenue growth in Q4 |
| First, from a modest decline in our owned and operated digital properties with margins improving through our focus on higher-quality consumer engagement, as a result, more existing brand partners are leaning in and major new brands are coming on board |
| So, you can see, why we are bullish on our growth strategies |
| Although early stage, the results of all three of these emerging businesses, AdFlow, Influencer and Call Solutions, continue to validate our strategic course commitment to higher-quality consumer engagement that enhances Fluent's total value proposition for consumers and our clients |
| This vertical market expansion will drive growth in Q4 during the ACA open enrollment period that started on November 1st and is highly sequential growth opportunity where we believe Fluent can differentiate ourselves in the marketplace, also with margin potential that exceeds, the Fluent core |
| We see that as sort of the second biggest piece and a phenomenal opportunity both on -- from a revenue and profit perspective |
| We feel great about that piece |
| And we're in the later part of the year, we expect to begin improving margins as we scale |
| We began seeing other clients increase spending as an offset in late Q3 that we continued seeing into Q4 leading to our margin sequentially improving in Q4 to date |
| And leverage those competitive advantages into exciting new high-growth and high-volume marketplaces and leverage the client partnerships that we already have |
| Progress is also being made in our Influencer business, where we continue to experience significant double-digit growth year-over-year |
| We maintained strong confidence that the groundwork that we're laying out now will yield substantial and evolving strategic and financial benefits for our company |
| We are quite enthusiastic about our major strategic investment we're making in these exciting businesses, based on the longer-term return on investment and inherent impact on enterprise value |
| And we are excited by the prospect of a more level competitive playing field arriving in the later half of fiscal year 2024 that should have some returning to growth at or above industry growth rates with sequential margin improvement as well |
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| Our media margin of $19.3 million was a 25.6% sequential decrease over Q2 at 29.2% of revenue, we saw margin decline sequentially from softer pricing across our performance marketplace |
| Our rewards marketplace margin pressure was driven by two headwinds; first, the impact of post FTC settlement, which drove strategic and financial decisions to forgo certain revenue streams that were no longer strategically compelling where we felt did not meet our evolving quality standards |
| For the quarter, Fluent produced $66.2 million in revenue, down 26% from prior year and down 19% sequentially from Q2 |
| As noted this is due to businesses we are no longer focused against coupled with immediate term pressure on margin, which limit our ability to scale media profitably |
| That said, we do expect economic headwinds as reflected by our clients' consumer acquisition strategies coupled with our efforts to exemplify current regulatory standards to continue to cause quarter over same quarter growth challenges into mid-2024 |
| The sequential decline in media margin, as a percentage of revenue from 31.5% can be attributed to the aforementioned marketplace pressure, created by one of our largest clients |
| Our Q3 adjusted EBITDA summed to negative $1.7 million, representing a negative 2.6% of revenue |
| Adjusted EBITDA of a negative $1.7 million represents negative 2.6% of revenue |
| Media margin in Q3 of $19.3 million represents a 31% year-over-year decline and 29.2% of revenue |
| The sequential decline was driven by the media and entertainment industry, specifically the gaming sector driven by a pricing pullback from one of our largest clients |
| So from a consumer perspective, we believe there's still a lot of distress around the economy |
| Revenue of $66.2 million represents a 19% decline sequentially compared to Q2 |
| For the nine months ended September 30 2023, adjusted EBITDA of $4.3 million represents 1.9% of revenue and a $15.8 million decline from the same period last year |
| Year-to-date our media margin of $67.2 million represents a 22% decline over the same period last year and 29.8% of revenue |
| Year-to-date, our total revenue stands at $225.6 million reflecting an 18% decrease from the same period last year |
| Our Q3 financial results are consistent, with the more cautious near-term business road map, we laid out in previous earnings releases and were driven largely by the decline in our owned and operated rewards marketplace |
| Sacrificing quality for immediate-term revenue is somewhat mainstream for many in a dynamic marketplace, and where we have consciously chosen not to do |
| And was a consequence of the previously noted decline in revenue, coupled with the decreased media margin as a percentage of revenue |
| So for ASC 205-40, right, given that the maturity dates of the debt can be accelerated within the next 12 months, we're required to disclose a significant doubt to remain as a going concern |
| As detailed in our 10-Q filing, the company determined that the drop in our market cap from Q2, coupled with our performance during the quarter, represented a triggering event and an indication of impairment of goodwill |
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