Revenue growth of 19%; Net Income of $0.8 million; Adjusted EBITDA¹ of $2.9 million
Closed transformational GuruShots acquisition in mid-April

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / June 13, 2022 / Zedge, Inc. (NYSE AMERICAN:ZDGE), a leader in building marketplaces and games around digital content that enable self-expression, today announced results for its third-quarter fiscal year 2022 ended April 30, 2022.

"The highlight of our third quarter was the transformational acquisition of GuruShots, ‘The World's Greatest Photography Game,' which closed on April 12," said Jonathan Reich, chief executive officer. "We believe that GuruShots has the ability to materially accelerate revenue growth as a stand-alone asset, and if we are successful in realizing the abundant synergies from the acquisition, the potential is truly beyond exciting for the combined company.

"Looking at our financial performance, GuruShots' revenue contribution was minimal this quarter in light of the timing of the closing and, as expected, it reported losses. Despite this, our consolidated Adjusted EBITDA grew faster than revenue and Zedge Premium's Gross Transaction Value (GTV)² increased by 63% on the heels of steadily increasing NFT sales in the marketplace.

"Additionally, we successfully navigated several headwinds during the quarter, many of which we believe are transitory in nature. These included MAU² declines which impacted advertising and subscription revenue growth rates and active subscription² numbers, as well as the push out of the introduction of important social and community features for the Zedge app, which we believe will stem the tide of declining MAU, especially in well-developed markets. On a positive note, we benefitted from the $2 million payment from AppLovin tied to our transition to its Max platform and are pleased to report that it is outperforming our previous vendor's solution."

Fiscal Third-Quarter Highlights (Fiscal 2022 versus Fiscal 2021)

• Revenue increased 18.6% to $6.2 million versus $5.3 million;
• Subscription revenue increased 1.2% and active subscriptions decreased 5.3%;
• Operating income and operating margin of $1.3 million and 21.5% versus $2.0 million and 37.7%, respectively;
• Net income and diluted EPS of $0.8 million and $0.05 versus $2.4 million and $0.17, respectively;
• Cash flow from operations was $5.6 million, including the one-time $2 million integration payment from AppLovin, versus $4.0 million;
• Adjusted EBITDA increased 21.8% to $2.9 million versus $2.4 million;
• MAU decreased by 7.0%;
• Zedge Premium GTV increased 62.7% to $0.41 million.

¹ Throughout this release, Adjusted EBITDA is a Non-GAAP financial measure intended to provide useful information that supplements Zedge's results in accordance with GAAP. Please refer to the Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measure at the end of this release for an explanation of Zedge's formulation of Adjusted EBITDA and reconciliations to the most directly comparable GAAP measure.

²We use the following business metrics in this release because we believe they are useful in evaluating Zedge as an investment.

• Monthly active users, or MAU, captures the number of unique users that used our Zedge App during the previous 30-days of the relevant period, is useful for evaluating consumer engagement with our app which correlates to advertising revenue as more users drive more ad impressions for sale. It also allows readers and potential advertisers to evaluate the size of our user base.
• Zedge Premium Gross Transaction Value, or GTV, is the total dollar amount of transactions conducted through the Zedge Premium Marketplace. As Zedge Premium is an internal focus for growth, we believe that this metric will help investors evaluate the progress we are making in growing this part of our business.
• Average Revenue Per Monthly Active User for our Zedge app, or ARPMAU, is a useful statistic in evaluating how well we are monetizing our user base.
• An Active Subscription is a subscription that has commenced and not been canceled, including paused subscriptions, and subscriptions in free trials, grace periods, or account hold.
• Total Installs - Cumulative is a measure of the cumulative number of times our Zedge app has been downloaded since inception.

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Fiscal 2022 Commentary

"We remain cautiously optimistic about our fourth quarter as MAU trends have been moving in the right direction to date. We also expect a number of product enhancements to be released in June including most of the new social and community features for the Zedge app that were delayed by the AppLovin transition; new NFT features and capabilities, including adding wallpapers as a content category, adding audio functionality to video wallpaper NFTs and allowing numbered editions of up to 100 copies of the same NFT versus one today; and finally the launch of the new Emojipedia website, with localized support in five languages beyond English. Given the timing of these introductions, and the consolidation of a full quarter of GuruShots results, we are adjusting our revenue guidance for fiscal year 2022 to over 30% growth as we expect to realize the bulk of these benefits in fiscal 2023. Additionally, despite a full-quarter of GuruShots losses, we still expect to see growth in Adjusted EBITDA and cash flow from operations for fiscal 2022," concluded Reich.

Earnings Announcement and Supplemental Information

Zedge's earnings release will be filed on Form 8-K and posted on the Zedge investor relations website (https://investor.zedge.net) at approximately 4:10 p.m. Eastern on June 13, 2022. Management will host an earnings conference call beginning at 4:30 p.m. Eastern. Management's presentation of the results, outlook and strategy will be followed by Q&A with investors.

To participate in the call, please dial Toll Free: 888-506-0062 or International: 973-528-0011, at least five minutes before the 4:30PM Eastern start. Please ask for the Zedge earnings conference call with Participant Access Code: 971862

The call will also be webcast through the Zedge investor relations website: https://investor.zedge.net and will be available through Tuesday, June 13, 2023.

Following the call and continuing through Monday, June 27, 2022, a call replay will be available by dialing Toll Free: 877-481-4010 or International: 919-882-2331 and entering the replay access code: 45764

About Zedge

Zedge builds marketplaces and games around digital content that people use to express themselves. We monetize our user base through advertising, subscriptions, and a virtual token-based economy. Our leading products are the GuruShots photography game and Zedge's freemium digital content marketplace, which today offers mobile phone wallpapers, video wallpapers, ringtones, and notification sounds. The synergy between the game and the marketplace unlocks additional engagement and enables our community to earn money from their artwork. We also own Emojipedia, a website that is the leading source of information about emojis. In May 2022, we served more than 40 million users. For more information, visit https://www.investors.zedge.net

Forward-Looking Statements

All statements above that are not purely about historical facts, including, but not limited to, those in which we use the words "believe," "anticipate," "expect," "plan," "intend," "estimate," "target" and similar expressions, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. While these forward-looking statements represent our current judgment of what may happen in the future, actual results may differ materially from the results expressed or implied by these statements due to numerous important factors. Our filings with the SEC provide detailed information on such statements and risks and should be consulted along with this release. To the extent permitted under applicable law, we assume no obligation to update any forward-looking statements.

Contact:

Brian Siegel IRC, MBA
Senior Managing Director
Hayden IR
(346) 396-8696
ir@zedge.net

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Adjusted EBITDA is defined as earnings (loss) before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, stock compensation expense, transaction-related expenses and other non-recurring expenses. Adjusted EBITDA Margin is calculated by dividing Adjusted EBITDA into reported revenue. These metrics represent measures that we believe are customarily used by investors and analysts to evaluate the financial performance of companies in addition to the GAAP measures that we present. Our management also believes that these measures are useful in evaluating our core operating results. However, Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA margin are not measures of financial performance under accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America and should not be considered an alternative to net income or operating income as an indicator of our operating performance or to net cash provided by operating activities as a measure of our liquidity.

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SOURCE: Zedge, Inc.