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31-Aug-2012
Quarterly Report
You should read the following discussion and analysis in conjunction with the
condensed consolidated financial statements and the accompanying notes included
in this report and our most recent annual report on Form 10-K filed on March 23,
2012, the sections entitled "Risk Factors" in Item 1A of our most recent annual
report on Form 10-K and Part II, Item 1A of this quarterly report, as well as
other cautionary statements and risks described elsewhere in this report and our
most recent annual report on Form 10-K filed on March 23, 2012 before deciding
to purchase, sell or hold our common stock.
Company Overview
We are a leading provider of software, technology, in-home, and
outside-of-the-home cloud-based video solutions, which are included in such
products as DVRs, non-DVR set-top boxes (STBs) and other consumer electronic
applications and devices, such as the tablet. The TiVo service redefines home
entertainment by
providing consumers with an easy intuitive way to record, watch, and control
television and receive videos, pictures, and movies from cable, broadcast, and
broadband sources. We offer features such as Season Pass®™ recordings,
integrated search (including content from both traditional linear television,
cable VOD, and broadband sources in one user interface), WishList® searches,
access cable VOD, the ability to transfer content amongst our DVRs and non-DVR
STBs and to other consumer electronics devices, access to broadband video
content, TiVo Online/Mobile Scheduling and applications on third-party devices
such as tablet computers and smartphones (such as iPads, iPhones, and Android
phones and tablets). As of July 31, 2012, there were approximately 2.7 million
subscriptions to the TiVo service through our TiVo-Owned and MSO businesses. In
our TiVo-Owned business, we distribute the TiVo DVR through consumer electronics
retailers and through our on-line store at TiVo.com. Additionally, in our MSO
business, we generate service and/or hardware revenues by providing the TiVo
service on MSO provisioned DVRs and non-DVR STBs through agreements with leading
satellite and cable television service providers and broadcasters. We also
generate technology revenues through engineering professional services in
connection with the development and deployment of the TiVo service to our MSO
customers.
Additionally, we generate advertising and audience research and measurement
revenues by providing innovative advertising and audience measurement solutions
for the television industry. We recently acquired a data analytics company, TRA
Global, Inc. (or TRA) on July 18, 2012. We believe this acquisition is strategic
for our data analytics business, establishes new revenue enhancing
opportunities, and bolsters our ability to provide unique insights to an
industry increasingly seeking alternative ways to measure audience behavior.
We have and continue to engage in significant intellectual property litigation
with certain television service and technology providers in the United States to
protect our technology from infringement. During the fiscal year ended January
31, 2012, we settled such a lawsuit with DISH for $500 million and with AT&T for
$215 million, with the potential for additional amounts based on the possible
future growth of AT&T's U-verse business. While we have recorded the portion of
these settlements that related to past infringement as litigation proceeds in
the quarter in which the settlements occurred, the amounts related to future use
are recognized by us as technology revenues from the licensing of our technology
over the remaining term of the license. We currently have additional lawsuits
pending against Verizon, Motorola, Cisco, and Time Warner Cable.
Executive Overview
Fiscal year 2013
In the remainder of the fiscal year ending January 31, 2013, we plan to continue
to focus on our efforts to build leading advanced television products, enter
into new distribution agreements, engage in development work for existing
distribution agreements, and continue deployment activities for our existing
distribution agreements. Additionally, we have been and plan to continue to
actively protect our intellectual property. We will continue to focus on the
following priorities:
•We expect to continue our efforts to increase our subscription base by adding
new subscriptions through our TiVo-Owned direct and retail sales with the roll
out of our new products, as well as our mass distribution partnerships both in
the U.S. and internationally. Our installed base of MSO subscriptions had strong
growth in the quarter ended July 31, 2012. We expect this new trend of growth in
our MSO subscription base to continue through rest of fiscal year 2013 and into
next year with the continued contributions from current deployments and the
expected future deployment of additional distribution deals. However, this
growth in our installed base of MSO subscriptions will likely be slightly offset
by further losses in our TiVo-Owned subscription base stemming from continued
competition and our efforts to manage the amount of TiVo-Owned marketing dollars
we are devoting to TiVo-Owned subscription acquisition activities.
•We believe that our investments in research and development are critical to
remaining competitive and being a leader in advanced television solutions that
go beyond the DVR. Therefore, we expect our annual research and development
spending in fiscal year 2013 to be consistent with the fiscal year ended January
31, 2012 as we continue to pursue new technological and product developments
such as the continued development of whole-home and multi-screen offerings which
include non-DVR STBs and software solutions that extend the TiVo experience to
personal computers, tablets, and mobile devices, increasing our operational
capacity to handle increased operator deployments, and gaining more efficiency
in our distribution efforts. However, we do expect our research and development
costs to decrease in the second half of the year as compared to the first half.
•We will continue our efforts to protect our technological innovations and
intellectual property. As a result, we expect to continue to incur litigation
expenses for our ongoing patent infringement lawsuits,
which include litigation with Verizon, Motorola, Cisco, and Time Warner Cable.
•We expect to continue our development efforts under our existing MSO deployment
agreements. To the extent that our upfront development efforts are not paid for
through development fees from such arrangements, but such development expenses
are recoverable through future guaranteed service fees from these MSOs, we will
defer the cost of the development and start expensing it in our Statement of
Operations later upon deployment with the MSO. As of July 31, 2012, we have
deferred costs of approximately $29.6 million related to development work,
largely related to Virgin, ONO, and Charter. However, despite the deferral of
these development costs, we do incur cash outflows associated with these
development efforts resulting in potentially higher cash usage in the near term.
Also for international MSOs, when related revenues from service fees are
received, they are first recognized as technology revenues until the previously
deferred costs of development of such arrangements are expensed. This
recognition of such associated service fees as technology revenues will
negatively impact the average revenue per subscription ("ARPU") for MSOs' metric
until such service fees are later recognized as service revenues. We expect that
our MSO ARPU will be negatively impacted by the recovery of these previously
incurred development costs in fiscal year 2013. We also face the risk of
unexpected losses if we were forced to recognize these deferred costs early if
we don't successfully complete the developments and deployments with the MSO
partners or these partners default on future guaranteed service fees or are
otherwise able to terminate their contracts with us.
Key Business Metrics
Management periodically reviews certain key business metrics in order to
evaluate our operations, allocate resources, and drive financial performance in
our business. Management monitors these metrics together and not individually as
it does not make business decisions based upon any single metric.
Subscriptions. Management reviews this metric, and believes it may be useful to
investors, in order to evaluate our relative position in the marketplace and to
forecast future potential service revenues. Below is a table that details the
change in our subscription base during the last eight quarters. The TiVo-Owned
lines refer to subscriptions sold directly or indirectly by TiVo to consumers
who have TiVo-enabled DVRs and for which TiVo incurs acquisition costs. The MSO
lines refer to subscriptions sold to consumers by MSOs such as DIRECTV, Virgin
Media, Cableuropa S.A.U. ("ONO"), RCN, Grande, and Suddenlink, among others, and
for which TiVo expects to incur little or no acquisition costs. Additionally, we
provide a breakdown of the percent of TiVo-Owned subscriptions for which
consumers pay recurring fees as opposed to a one-time prepaid product lifetime
fee.
Three Months Ended
Jul 31 Apr 30 Jan 31 Oct 31 Jul 31 Apr 30 Jan 31 Oct 31
(Subscriptions in thousands) 2012 2012 2012 2011 2011 2011 2011 2010
TiVo-Owned Subscription
Gross Additions: 28 24 32 30 25 27 60 35
Subscription Net
Additions/(Losses):
TiVo-Owned (23 ) (29 ) (26 ) (30 ) (43 ) (58 ) (55 ) (45 )
MSOs 253 235 260 147 10 (30 ) (168 ) (67 )
Total Subscription Net
Additions/(Losses) 230 206 234 117 (33 ) (88 ) (223 ) (112 )
Cumulative Subscriptions:
TiVo-Owned 1,057 1,080 1,109 1,135 1,165 1,208 1,266 1,321
MSOs 1,658 1,405 1,170 910 763 753 783 951
Total Cumulative
Subscriptions 2,715 2,485 2,279 2,045 1,928 1,961 2,049 2,272
Fully Amortized Active
Lifetime Subscriptions 221 238 253 270 286 307 310 282
% of TiVo-Owned Cumulative
Subscriptions paying
recurring fees 54 % 55 % 55 % 56 % 57 % 57 % 56 % 56 %
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We define a "subscription" as a contract referencing a TiVo-enabled DVR for which (i) a consumer has committed to pay for the TiVo service and (ii) service is not canceled. We count product lifetime subscriptions in our subscription base until both of the following conditions are met: (i) the period we use to recognize product lifetime subscription revenues ends; and (ii) the related DVR has not made contact to the TiVo service within the prior six month period. Product lifetime subscriptions past this period which have not called into the TiVo service for six months are not counted in this total. Prior to November 1, 2011 we amortized all product lifetime subscriptions over a 60 month period. Effective November 1, 2011, we have extended the period we use to
recognize product lifetime subscription revenues from 60 months to 66 months for
product lifetime subscriptions where we have not recognized all of the related
deferred revenue as of the reassessment date. We are not aware of any uniform
standards for defining subscriptions and caution that our presentation may not
be consistent with that of other companies. Additionally, the subscription fees
that our MSOs pay us are typically based upon a specific contractual definition
of a subscriber or subscription which may not be consistent with how we define a
subscription for our reporting purposes nor be representative of how such
subscription fees are calculated and paid to us by our MSOs. Our MSOs
subscription data is based in part on reporting from our third-party MSO
partners.
TiVo-Owned subscriptions declined by 23,000 subscriptions during the three
months ended July 31, 2012, as compared to a decrease of 43,000 in the same
prior year period. This improvement was primarily driven by decreased churn.
TiVo-Owned installed subscription base decreased to approximately 1.1 million
subscriptions as of July 31, 2012 as compared to approximately 1.2 million as of
July 31, 2011. We believe this decrease in total TiVo-Owned subscriptions was
largely due to continued pressure on subscription gross additions resulting from
increased competition from DVRs distributed by cable and satellite companies as
we continued to have fewer TiVo-Owned subscription gross additions than we had
TiVo-Owned subscription cancellations. Despite our efforts to improve TiVo-Owned
net additions, we expect current trends will likely continue and that we will
experience further net losses in our TiVo-Owned subscription base in fiscal year
2013.
Our MSO installed subscription base increased by 253,000 subscriptions to
approximately 1.7 million subscriptions as of July 31, 2012. The increase in
subscriptions is due to subscription growth from partners such as Virgin Media,
RCN, Suddenlink, ONO, Grande, and others.
TiVo-Owned Churn Rate per Month. Management reviews this metric, and believes it
may be useful to investors, in order to evaluate our ability to retain existing
TiVo-Owned subscriptions (including both monthly and product lifetime
subscriptions) by providing services that are competitive in the market.
Management believes factors such as service enhancements, service commitments,
higher customer satisfaction, and improved customer support may improve this
metric. Conversely, management believes factors such as increased competition,
lack of competitive service features such as high definition television
recording capabilities in our older model DVRs or access to certain digital
television channels or MSO Video On Demand services, as well as increased price
sensitivity and installation and CableCARDTM technology limitations, may cause
our TiVo-Owned Churn Rate per month to increase.
We define the TiVo-Owned Churn Rate per month as the total TiVo-Owned
subscription cancellations in the period divided by the Average TiVo-Owned
subscriptions for the period (including both monthly and product lifetime
subscriptions), which then is divided by the number of months in the period. We
calculate Average TiVo-Owned subscriptions for the period by adding the average
TiVo-Owned subscriptions for each month and dividing by the number of months in
the period. We calculate the average TiVo-Owned subscriptions for each month by
adding the beginning and ending subscriptions for the month and dividing by two.
We are not aware of any uniform standards for calculating churn and caution that
our presentation may not be consistent with that of other companies.
The following table presents our TiVo-Owned Churn Rate per month information:
Three Months Ended
(Subscriptions in Jul 31, Apr 30, Jan 31, Oct 31, Jul 31, Apr 30, Oct 31,
thousands) 2012 2012 2012 2011 2011 2011 Jan 31, 2011 2010
Average TiVo-Owned
subscriptions 1,068 1,095 1,122 1,149 1,188 1,238 1,296 1,345
TiVo-Owned
subscription
cancellations (51 ) (53 ) (58 ) (60 ) (68 ) (85 ) (115 ) (80 )
TiVo-Owned churn rate
per month (1.6 )% (1.6 )% (1.7 )% (1.7 )% (1.9 )% (2.3 )% (3.0 )% (2.0 )%
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Included in our TiVo-Owned Churn Rate per month are those product lifetime
subscriptions that have both reached the end of the revenue recognition period
and whose DVRs have not contacted the TiVo service within the prior six months.
Conversely, we do not count as churn product lifetime subscriptions that have
not reached the end of the revenue recognition period, regardless of whether
such subscriptions continue to contact the TiVo service. TiVo-Owned Churn Rate
per month was (1.6)% and (1.9)% for the quarters ended July 31, 2012 and 2011,
respectively.
We expect churn to be lower on a percentage basis and on an absolute basis in
the fiscal year ending January 31, 2013 as compared to the fiscal year ended
January 31, 2012 as a result of a decrease in inactive product lifetime
subscriptions and as high definition subscriptions, which tend to have a lower
churn rate than standard
definition subscriptions, become a larger portion of our base. Subscription Acquisition Cost or SAC. Management reviews this metric, and believes it may be useful to investors, in order to evaluate trends in the efficiency of our marketing programs and subscription acquisition strategies. We define SAC as our total TiVo-Owned acquisition costs for a given period divided by TiVo-Owned subscription gross additions for the same period. We define total acquisition costs as sales and marketing, subscription acquisition costs less net TiVo-Owned related hardware revenues (defined as TiVo-Owned related gross hardware revenues less rebates, revenue share and market development funds paid to retailers) plus TiVo-Owned related cost of hardware revenues. The sales and marketing, subscription acquisition costs line item includes advertising expenses and promotion-related expenses directly related to subscription acquisition activities, but does not include expenses related to advertising sales. We do not include third-parties' subscription gross additions, such as MSOs' gross additions with TiVo subscriptions, in our calculation of SAC because we typically incur limited or no acquisition costs for these new subscriptions, and so we also do not include MSOs' sales and marketing, subscription acquisition costs, hardware revenues, or cost of hardware revenues in our calculation of TiVo-Owned SAC. We are not aware of any uniform standards for calculating total acquisition costs or SAC and caution that our presentation may not be consistent with that of other companies.
Three Months Ended
Jul 31, Apr 30, Jan 31, Oct 31, Jul 31, Apr 30, Jan 31, Oct 31,
2012 2012 2012 2011 2011 2011 2011 2010
(In thousands, except SAC)
Subscription Acquisition Costs
Sales and marketing, subscription
acquisition costs $ 2,372 $ 1,257 $ 1,320 $ 2,398 $ 2,441 $ 1,233 $ 2,214 $ 1,398
Hardware revenues (11,129 ) (13,261 ) (16,428 ) (12,970 ) (11,580 ) (6,915 ) (14,436 ) (9,532 )
Less: MSOs'-related hardware
revenues 6,696 9,268 11,641 8,998 8,079 2,765 4,431 3,416
Cost of hardware revenues 14,431 18,471 20,368 16,817 13,401 8,853 24,702 13,566
Less: MSOs'-related cost of
hardware revenues (5,399 ) (10,159 ) (9,412 ) (6,351 ) (6,019 ) (1,795 ) (3,298 ) (2,618 )
Total Acquisition Costs 6,971 5,576 7,489 8,892 6,322 4,141 13,613 6,230
TiVo-Owned Subscription Gross
Additions 28 24 32 30 25 27 60 35
Subscription Acquisition Costs
(SAC) $ 249 $ 232 $ 234 $ 296 $ 253 $ 153 $ 227 $ 178
Twelve Months Ended
Jul 31, Apr 30, Jan 31, Oct 31, Jul 31, Apr 30, Jan 31, Oct 31,
2012 2012 2012 2011 2011 2011 2011 2010
(In thousands, except SAC)
Subscription Acquisition Costs
Sales and marketing,
subscription acquisition costs $ 7,347 $ 7,416 $ 7,392 $ 8,286 $ 7,286 $ 6,211 $ 8,169 $ 7,977
Hardware revenues (53,788 ) (54,239 ) (47,893 ) (45,901 ) (42,463 ) (40,364 ) (51,618 ) (60,571 )
Less: MSOs'-related hardware
revenues 36,603 37,986 31,483 24,273 18,691 12,213 14,885 23,272
Cost of hardware revenues 70,087 69,057 59,439 63,773 60,522 58,667 69,033 72,293
Less: MSOs'-related cost of
hardware revenues (31,321 ) (31,941 ) (23,577 ) (17,463 ) (13,730 ) (8,933 ) (11,296 ) (20,062 )
Total Acquisition Costs 28,928 28,279 26,844 32,968 30,306 27,794 29,173 22,909
TiVo-Owned Subscription Gross
Additions 114 111 114 142 147 154 160 146
Subscription Acquisition Costs
(SAC) $ 254 $ 255 $ 235 $ 232 $ 206 $ 180 $ 182 $ 157
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As a result of the seasonal nature of our subscription growth in the past, total acquisition costs have varied significantly during the year. Management primarily reviews the SAC metric on an annual basis due to the timing difference between our recognition of promotional program expense and the subsequent addition of the related subscriptions. For example, we have historically experienced increased TiVo-Owned subscription gross additions during the fourth quarter; however, sales and marketing, subscription acquisition activities occur throughout the year.
During the three months ended July 31, 2012, our total acquisition costs were
$7.0 million, an increase of $649,000, as compared to the same prior year period
primarily due to higher manufacturing cost of our DVRs which was largely driven
by the higher cost of hard drives due to the 2011 flooding in Thailand. The
decrease in SAC of $4 for the three months ended July 31, 2012 as compared to
the same prior year period was largely a result of the increase in total
subscription gross additions during the three month period as compared to the
same prior year period.
During the twelve months ended July 31, 2012 our total acquisition costs were
$28.9 million, a decrease of $1.4 million compared to the same prior year
period. TiVo's sales and marketing, subscription acquisition costs remained
relatively flat, as compared to the same prior year period due to lower
incentives for some of our retailers and less aggressive upfront pricing on TiVo
boxes to consumers, which was slightly offset by the higher manufacturing cost
of our DVRs. The increase in SAC of $48 for the twelve months ended July 31,
2012 as compared to the same prior year period was largely a result of decreases
in TiVo-Owned subscription gross additions.
Average Revenue Per Subscription or ARPU. Management reviews this metric, and
believes it may be useful to investors, in order to evaluate the potential of
our subscription base to generate revenues from a variety of sources, including
service fees, advertising, and audience research measurement. You should not use
ARPU as a substitute for measures of financial performance calculated in
accordance with GAAP. Management believes it is useful to consider this metric
excluding the costs associated with rebates, revenue share, and other payments
to channel because of the discretionary and varying nature of these expenses and
because management believes these expenses, which are included in hardware
revenues, net, are more appropriately monitored as part of SAC. We are not aware
of any uniform standards for calculating ARPU and caution that our presentation
may not be consistent with that of other companies. Furthermore, ARPU for our
MSOs may not be directly comparable to the service fees we may receive from
these partners on a per subscription basis as the fees that our MSOs pay us may
be based upon a specific contractual definition of a subscriber or subscription
which may not be consistent with how we define a subscription for our reporting
purposes or be representative of how such subscription fees are calculated and
paid to us by our MSOs. For example, an agreement that includes contractual
minimums may result in a higher than expected MSOs ARPU if such fixed minimum
fee is spread over a small number of subscriptions. Additionally, ARPU for our
MSO subscriptions may not be reflective of revenues received by TiVo as in
certain cases the cost of development for such MSO customer may be deferred on
our condensed consolidated balance sheet until later when related revenues from
service fees are received and are first recognized as Technology revenues by us
until the previously deferred costs of development are fully expensed. This
recognition of service fees as Technology revenues will have the effect of
lowering ARPU for certain of our MSO subscriptions until such costs of
development are fully expensed.
We calculate ARPU per month for TiVo-Owned subscriptions by subtracting
MSOs'-related service revenues (which includes MSOs' subscription service
revenues and MSOs'-related advertising revenues) from our total reported net
service revenues and dividing the result by the number of months in the period.
We then divide the resulting average service revenue by Average TiVo-Owned
subscriptions for the period, calculated as described above for churn rate. The
following table shows this calculation:
Three Months Ended
TiVo-Owned Average Revenue Jul 31, Apr 30, Jan 31, Oct 31, Jul 31, Apr 30, Jan 31, Oct 31,
per Subscription 2012 2012 2012 2011 2011 2011 2011 2010
(In thousands, except ARPU)
Total service revenues 32,302 30,621 31,578 32,413 34,016 33,334 34,453 34,298
Less: MSOs'-related service
revenues (5,326 ) (3,929 ) (4,472 ) (4,087 ) (4,371 ) (3,962 ) (4,294 ) (3,670 )
TiVo-Owned-related service
revenues 26,976 26,692 27,106 28,326 29,645 29,372 30,159 30,628
Average TiVo-Owned revenues
per month 8,992 8,897 9,035 9,442 9,882 9,791 10,053 10,209
Average TiVo-Owned
subscriptions per month 1,068 1,095 1,122 1,149 1,188 1,238 1,296 1,345
TiVo-Owned ARPU per month $ 8.42 $ 8.13 $ 8.05 $ 8.22 $ 8.31 $ 7.91 $ 7.76 $ 7.59
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The increase in TiVo-Owned ARPU per month for the three months ended July 31,
2012 as compared to the same prior year period was largely due to a greater
amount of our TiVo-Owned subscription base paying higher subscription fees as a
result of the higher monthly subscription pricing that we initiated during the
fourth quarter of the fiscal year ended January 31, 2011 which ended in the
first quarter of fiscal year 2013.
We calculate ARPU per month for MSOs' subscriptions by first subtracting
TiVo-Owned-related service revenues (which includes TiVo-Owned subscription
service revenues and TiVo-Owned related advertising
revenues) from our total reported service revenues. Then we divide average revenues per month for MSOs'-related service revenues by the average MSOs' subscriptions for the period. The following table shows this calculation: . . .
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