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Rubicon Project Announces Record Second Quarter Financial ResultsLOS ANGELES --(Business Wire)-- The Rubicon Project, Inc. (NYSE: RUBI), a leader in advertising automation with one of the industry's largest independent real-time trading platforms for the buying and selling of advertising, today reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2014. "We closed another record quarter, exceeding expectations with revenue growth accelerating to 49% and reporting a positive adjusted EBITDA," said Frank Addante, CEO and Chief Product Architect of Rubicon Project. "Our managed revenue from RTB grew 75% year-over-year, we released video into private beta and took a huge leap in mobile. With the addition of InMobi, we now power the world's largest mobile native advertising exchange." Q2 2014 Financial Results:
Key Operational Measures:
Guidance: As of July 29, 2014, the Company is providing guidance as follows: For the third quarter of 2014, the Company expects:
For the full year ending December 31, 2014, the Company expects:
The non-GAAP weighted-average shares outstanding used in the guidance for the third quarter and full year non-GAAP loss per share include the 6.4 million shares issued in the initial public offering from April 7, the date the IPO closed. __________________________________________________________________ 1 Managed revenue and take rate are operational measures. Managed revenue represents advertising spending transacted on our platform and would represent our revenue if we were to record our revenue on a gross basis instead of a net basis. Take rate represents our share of managed revenue. 2 Adjusted EBITDA and non-GAAP earnings (loss) per share are non-GAAP financial measures. Please see the discussion in the section called "Key Operational and Non-GAAP Financial Measures" and the reconciliations included at the end of this earnings release. Conference Call Information: The company will host a conference call on July 29, 2014 at 2:00 PM (PT) / 5:00 PM (ET) to discuss the second quarter, 2014 financial results of operations. The conference call can be accessed at (877) 201-0168 (U.S.) or (647) 788-4901 (International), conference ID# 71843116. The call will also be broadcast simultaneously at http://investor.rubiconproject.com. Following completion of the call, a recorded replay of the webcast will be available on Rubicon Project's website. Additional investor information can be accessed at http://investor.rubiconproject.com. About The Rubicon Project, Inc. Rubicon Project pioneered advertising automation. Its technology platform provides leading user reach and is used by hundreds of the world's premium publishers and applications to connect with top brands around the globe. A company driven by innovation, Rubicon Project has engineered the Advertising Automation Cloud, one of the largest real-time cloud and Big Data computing systems, processing trillions of transactions within milliseconds each month. Headquartered in Los Angeles, Rubicon Project has offices worldwide. Learn more at RubiconProject.com, Twitter: @RubiconProject. Note: The Rubicon Project and the Rubicon Project logo are registered service marks of The Rubicon Project, Inc. All other marks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Forward-Looking Statements This press release and management's answers to questions during our earnings call may contain forward-looking statements, including statements based upon or relating to our expectations, assumptions, estimates, and projections. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terms such as "may," "might," "will," "objective," "intend," "should," "could," "can," "would," "expect," "believe," "design," "anticipate," "estimate," "predict," "potential," "plan" or the negative of these terms, and similar expressions. Forward-looking statements may include, but are not limited to, our belief that we took a huge leap into mobile and that we power the world's largest mobile native advertising exchange, our guidance and other statements concerning our anticipated performance, including revenue, margin, cash flow, balance sheet, and profit expectations; development of our technology; introduction of new offerings; scope of client relationships; business mix; sales growth; client utilization of our offerings; market conditions and opportunities; and operational measures including managed revenue, paid impressions, average CPM, and take rate. These statements are not guarantees of future performance; they reflect our current views with respect to future events and are based on assumptions and subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from expectations or results projected or implied by forward-looking statements. These risks include, but are not limited to: our ability to grow rapidly and to manage our growth effectively; our ability to develop innovative new technology and remain a market leader; our ability to attract and retain buyers and sellers and increase our business with them; our ability to use our solution to purchase and sell higher value advertising and to expand the use of our solution by buyers and sellers utilizing evolving digital media platforms, including mobile and video; our ability to introduce new solutions and bring them to market in a timely manner; our ability to maintain a supply of advertising inventory from sellers; our limited operating history and history of losses; our ability to continue to expand into new geographic markets; the effects of increased competition in our market and our ability to compete effectively; the effects of seasonal trends on our results of operations; costs associated with defending intellectual property infringement and other claims; our ability to attract and retain qualified employees and key personnel; our ability to consummate future acquisitions of or investments in complementary companies or technologies; our ability to comply with, and the effect on our business of, evolving legal standards and regulations, particularly concerning data protection and consumer privacy; and our ability to develop and maintain our corporate infrastructure, including our finance and information technology systems and controls. We discuss many of these risks and additional factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated by our forward-looking statements under the captions "Risk Factors" and "Management Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" in our periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Additional information will also be set forth in other filings we make from time to time with the SEC. Also, these forward-looking statements represent our estimates and assumptions only as of the date of this press release. Unless required by federal securities laws, we assume no obligation to update any of these forward-looking statements, or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those anticipated, to reflect circumstances or events that occur after the statements are made. Given these uncertainties, investors should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Investors should read this press release and the documents that we reference in this press release and have filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission completely and with the understanding that our actual future results may be materially different from what we expect. We qualify all of our forward-looking statements by these cautionary statements. Key Operational and Non-GAAP Financial Measures Rubicon Project's management evaluates and makes operating decisions using various operational and financial measures. Operational Measures Managed revenue is an operational measure that represents the advertising spending transacted on our platform, and would represent our revenue if we were to record our revenue on a gross basis instead of a net basis. Managed revenue does not represent revenue reported in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States ("GAAP"). We review managed revenue for internal management purposes to assess market share and scale. Many companies in our industry record revenue on a gross basis, so tracking our managed revenue allows us to compare our results to the results of those companies. Our managed revenue is influenced by the volume and characteristics of paid impressions, and average CPM. Take rate is an operational measure that represents our share of managed revenue. We review take rate for internal management purposes to assess the development of our marketplace with buyers and sellers. Our take rate can be affected by a variety of factors, including the terms of our arrangements with buyers and sellers active on our platform in a particular period, the scale of a buyer's or seller's activity on our platform, product mix, the implementation of new products, platforms and solution features, and the overall development of the digital advertising ecosystem. Financial Measures This press release includes information relating to adjusted EBITDA and non-GAAP earnings (loss) per share, which are financial measures that have not been prepared in accordance with GAAP. These non-GAAP financial measures are used by our management and board of directors, in addition to our GAAP results, to understand and evaluate our operating performance and trends, to prepare and approve our annual budget, and to develop short- and long-term operational plans. Management believes that these non-GAAP financial measures provide useful information about our core operating results and thus are appropriate to enhance the overall understanding our past financial performance and our prospects for the future. These non-GAAP financial measures are not intended to be considered in isolation from, as substitutes for, or as superior to, the corresponding financial measures prepared in accordance with GAAP. Adjusted EBITDA and non-GAAP earnings (loss) per share eliminate the impact of items that we do not consider indicative of our core operating performance and operating performance on a per share basis. You are encouraged to evaluate these adjustments, and review the reconciliation of these non-GAAP measures to their most comparable GAAP financial measures, and the reasons we consider them appropriate. It is important to note that the particular items we exclude from, or include in, our non-GAAP financial measures may differ from the items excluded from, or included in, similar non-GAAP financial measures used by other companies. See "Reconciliation of net loss to adjusted EBITDA" and "Calculation of net loss attributable to common stockholders to non-GAAP earnings (loss) per share" included as part of this press release. We define adjusted EBITDA as net loss adjusted for stock-based compensation expense, depreciation and amortization, interest income or expense, change in fair value of pre-IPO convertible preferred stock warrant liabilities, and other income or expense, which mainly consists of foreign exchange gains and losses, certain other non-recurring income or expenses such as acquisition and related costs, and provision for income taxes. We believe adjusted EBITDA is useful to investors in evaluating our operating performance for the following reasons:
Although adjusted EBITDA is frequently used by investors and securities analysts in their evaluations of companies, adjusted EBITDA has limitations as an analytical tool, and you should not consider it in isolation or as a substitute for analysis of our results of operations as reported under GAAP. These limitations include:
Because of these limitations, we also consider other financial measures, including net loss. Non-GAAP earnings (loss) per share is calculated by dividing non-GAAP net income (loss) by non-GAAP weighted-average shares outstanding. Non-GAAP net income (loss) is equal to net loss attributable to common stockholders excluding the change in fair value of preferred stock warrant liabilities, cumulative preferred stock dividends, stock-based compensation, acquisition and related items expense, foreign currency gains and losses, and amortization of intangible assets. The Non-GAAP weighted-average shares outstanding used to calculate non-GAAP earnings (loss) per share assume the net exercise of a preferred stock warrant and the conversion of each share of convertible preferred stock to one half share of common stock in connection with our initial public offering as if they had occurred at the beginning of each respective period presented, include the 6.4 million shares issued in our initial public offering from April 7, 2014, the date our IPO closed, and include the net exercise of a common stock warrant that occurred during the second quarter of 2014. The non-GAAP weighted-average shares outstanding used in our guidance for the third quarter and full year non-GAAP earnings (loss) per share include the 6.4 million shares issued in our initial public offering from April 7, the date our IPO closed. We believe non-GAAP earnings (loss) per share is useful to investors in evaluating our ongoing operational performance and our trends on a per share basis by taking into consideration all preferred stock ownership on an as-converted basis, and also facilitates comparison of our financial results on a per share basis with other companies, many of which present a similar non-GAAP measure. However, a potential limitation of our use of non-GAAP earnings (loss) per share is that other companies may define non-GAAP earnings (loss) per share differently, which may make comparison difficult. This measure may also exclude expenses that may have a material impact on our reported financial results. Because of these limitations, we also consider the comparable GAAP financial measure of net loss attributable to common stockholders.
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