TiVo Reports Results for the Third Quarter Ended October 31, 2014
Total TiVo Subscriptions Jump Past 5 Million; Up 32%
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Rogers continued, "The 337,000 MSO subscription additions in the quarter are on top of the approximately 624,000 we added during the first two quarters of the fiscal year. We have now reached over four million total MSO subscriptions, proof that our operator relationships are thriving. The 37% increase in MSO revenue in the third quarter sets us on a course to almost double our MSO service revenue in Fiscal 2015 compared to where we were just two years ago. We expect that this positive momentum will continue as existing relationships scale, many of which are still in the early phases of deployment, and as we anticipate forming new distribution relationships.
"In terms of existing distribution relationships, this quarter we showed how quickly TiVo can be deployed to an operator's customer base. In just a little more than three months after announcing our agreement, Cogeco Cable Canada began the rollout of TiVo to its customers in Canada. This is in addition to Wave and Blue Ridge which both launched TiVo during the third quarter.
"In our Digitalsmiths business, we drove 21% sequential quarter-over-quarter revenue growth as we continued to roll out our industry leading video discovery platform to current operator partners. We expect this growth to continue as we drive further penetration within existing distribution partners, sign additional distribution deals in the future, both in emerging lower ARPU international markets and with consumer electronics manufacturers, and through new Digitalsmiths' products which we expect to launch over the course of the next year.
"On the TiVo-Owned front, TiVo Roamio continues to receive strong critical acclaim from both consumers and industry experts. In the quarter, we delivered a 9% year-over-year increase in TiVo-Owned gross additions and were net positive in October, the first time in seven years, which we believe is an indication of the improving dynamics in our retail business. Further, our focus on addressing additional market segments such as the 15 million home Over-the-Air (OTA) market through TiVo Roamio OTA, and the high end home installation market through TiVo Mega, should help drive incremental improvements in our TiVo-Owned business. To this point, we're seeing positive initial interest for the TiVo OTA offering and are hopeful that this will meaningfully contribute to our fourth quarter gross subscription additions.
"Additionally, we recently announced the new Amazon Instant Video app to give subscribers access to Amazon's entire Prime Instant Video library. That was in addition to the launch of Vudu, Walmart's subscription-free, video-on-demand movie service, which is now available on TiVo devices. And we announced that TiVo subscribers can now use the Home Shopping Network: Shop by Remote application to purchase products using their TiVo remotes.
Total TiVo Subscriptions Jump Past 5 Million; Up 32%
http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/tivo...971740.htm
Rogers continued, "The 337,000 MSO subscription additions in the quarter are on top of the approximately 624,000 we added during the first two quarters of the fiscal year. We have now reached over four million total MSO subscriptions, proof that our operator relationships are thriving. The 37% increase in MSO revenue in the third quarter sets us on a course to almost double our MSO service revenue in Fiscal 2015 compared to where we were just two years ago. We expect that this positive momentum will continue as existing relationships scale, many of which are still in the early phases of deployment, and as we anticipate forming new distribution relationships.
"In terms of existing distribution relationships, this quarter we showed how quickly TiVo can be deployed to an operator's customer base. In just a little more than three months after announcing our agreement, Cogeco Cable Canada began the rollout of TiVo to its customers in Canada. This is in addition to Wave and Blue Ridge which both launched TiVo during the third quarter.
"In our Digitalsmiths business, we drove 21% sequential quarter-over-quarter revenue growth as we continued to roll out our industry leading video discovery platform to current operator partners. We expect this growth to continue as we drive further penetration within existing distribution partners, sign additional distribution deals in the future, both in emerging lower ARPU international markets and with consumer electronics manufacturers, and through new Digitalsmiths' products which we expect to launch over the course of the next year.
"On the TiVo-Owned front, TiVo Roamio continues to receive strong critical acclaim from both consumers and industry experts. In the quarter, we delivered a 9% year-over-year increase in TiVo-Owned gross additions and were net positive in October, the first time in seven years, which we believe is an indication of the improving dynamics in our retail business. Further, our focus on addressing additional market segments such as the 15 million home Over-the-Air (OTA) market through TiVo Roamio OTA, and the high end home installation market through TiVo Mega, should help drive incremental improvements in our TiVo-Owned business. To this point, we're seeing positive initial interest for the TiVo OTA offering and are hopeful that this will meaningfully contribute to our fourth quarter gross subscription additions.
"Additionally, we recently announced the new Amazon Instant Video app to give subscribers access to Amazon's entire Prime Instant Video library. That was in addition to the launch of Vudu, Walmart's subscription-free, video-on-demand movie service, which is now available on TiVo devices. And we announced that TiVo subscribers can now use the Home Shopping Network: Shop by Remote application to purchase products using their TiVo remotes.
