Jason Starr - Investor Relations David Yovanno - Chief Executive Officer Catriona Fallon - Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.

Parker Lan - Stifel Nandan Amladi - Deutsche Bank.

Thank you for standing by. This is the conference operator. Welcome to the Marin Software Quarter Two Earnings Conference Call. As a reminder, all participants are in listen-only mode and the conference is being recorded. After the presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask question.

[Operator Instructions] I’d now like to turn the conference over to Jason Starr, Investor Relations for Marin Software. Please go ahead..

Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to Marin Software’s second quarter 2016 earnings conference call. Joining me today are David Yovanno, Marin’s Chief Executive Officer, and Catriona Fallon, Marin’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.

By now, you should have received a copy of earnings release, which crossed the wire a short time ago. If you need a copy of the release, please go to investor.marinsoftware.com to find an electronic version.

Call participants are advised that the audio of this conference call is being recorded for playback purposes, and that a recording of this call will be made available on the Investor Relations section of our website within a few hours.

Before we begin, I’d like to note that our discussion today will include forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

These forward-looking statements include statements about our business outlook and strategy, and statements about historical results that may suggest trends for our Business. We make these statements as of August 4, 2016, and disclaim any duty to update them.

For more information regarding these, and other risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in these forward-looking statements, as well as risks relating to our Business in general, we refer you to the sections entitled risk factors in our most recent report on Form 10-K and our other filings with the SEC.

This presentation contains certain financial performance measures that are different from the financial measures calculated in accordance with GAAP, and may be different from calculations or measures made by other companies.

A quantitative reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures is available on our second quarter 2016 earnings press release. With that, let me turn the call over to Dave.

Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining our call today. I will review some of the highlight for the quarter including an update on some of our recent wins, recent product features that we have introduced and progress in the development of the next generation of our market leading cross channel advertising platform.

Catriona will then provide additional detail on the quarter’s results and our outlook for the third quarter. As announced in today’s release Marin’s second quarter results came in above our guided range with revenue of $25.8 million with non-GAAP gross margins, operating income and adjusted EBITDA all above plan.

This represented a third sequential quarter of positive adjusted EBITDA for Marin and as a strong demonstration of the significant progress we made in improving our operating efficiency and cost structure. Our sales team had several wins in the quarter including American Airlines, Edelman MoneySupermarket, Photobox, and Wargaming.

One other notable win in the quarter was Autodesk a leader in 3D design, engineering and entertainment software, which was a competitive takeaway from the Google Stack. The search marketing team at Autodesk have used Marin’s application in prior roles and was not satisfied with their existing solution.

They upgraded to Marin based on this past experience and our application’s ease of use, non-reporting capabilities and a time savings and efficiency gains are application delivers. Smart Sync is a great example of this which automates cross publisher campaign workflows. Marin’s advance bidding capability is also expected to help improve their ROI.

These core factors have always been important tenants of our value proposition and continue to serve our customers well. Another win in the quarter was LaneTerralever, a full service marketing agency, we brought their customer Gore-Tex on to the Marin display platform to support a major branding effort around their newest SURROUND Footwear line.

The key driver for their selection of Marin was to more heavily brand their product, drive meaningful engagement with their customers and measure brand outcome. This campaign was implemented in Q2 and is expected to drive additional growth in our display channel throughout the remainder of the year.

Finally, Wargaming, an award winning ongoing game developer and publisher selected Marin for their search and display advertising campaigns in North America owning strong reputation, open architecture and unique ability to leverage search and tent data for display retargeting were important in this customers’ decision.

One final note I would like to share regarding sales, over the past few months I have conducted and extensive skills and pipeline assessment with the entire team and develop a better understanding of our strength and opportunities to drive more efficiency and productivity.

Overall, I have been encouraged that the level of resolve and commitment our team has shown during this process. We have made several adjustments to better align resources and have modified elements of our sales incentive programs to drive improved sales productivity. We firmly believe these changes will yield positive results as they take hold.

One area in particular where we have made organizational adjustments is and how we fell to our agency, clients and partners. We have simplified our approach which should enable our field sales team to focus more on direct relationships and further improve our cost structure.

We have also focused on enhancing the customer success organization to not only maintain but also grew revenues and improve cross channel adoption of our offering throughout our customer base. I would like to now provide a quick update regarding a recent product release.

As many of you are maybe aware, Google have recently introduced a significant change to the format of their search text ads called Expanded Text Ads, or ETAs, which enable advertisers to effectively double the amount of text they can place within them.

ETAs are expected to help improve advertising presence, visibility and performance, especially in mobile to drive substantial improvements and advertisers return on ad spent. I’m pleased to report that Marin was one of the first independent providers to successfully release full support for ETAs last month.

Initial results from our customers that have embraced this new ad format indicate a substantial improvement in click through rates, cost per click and overall conversions. In our display segment, we continue to see attractive annual revenue growth driven by several new customers.

While display spending can be highly seasonal, we are encouraged at the steady progress we are making. Finally, I would like to provide an update on our progress in building up the technology infrastructure with the next generation of our search, social and display offerings.

As we have shared on previous calls, we have been executing a strategic initiative to completely transform the underlying technology that delivers our SaaS-based ad management platform.

While this has contributed to some of the headwinds that have impacted our growth shorter term, we remain encouraged that these investments will yield strong results from the unification of our search, social and display applications onto a single state-of-the-art technology platform.

As a reminder, we believe there are three main benefits that we’ll obtain from this initiative. First, it is expected to help reaccelerate our top line, same-store sales and bookings through the new features it enables and enhance platform performance.

As we have noted before, there are more specialized and higher growth areas of search that we expect to more fully address once the new platform is released. Second, it will enable us to more quickly support publisher changes and add new publishers to better meet the needs of our customers and capture more share of our customers online ad spend.

Lastly, it will allow us to further deliver on our cross-channel ad cloud vision by bringing audience, measurement and optimization capabilities to all our channels based on an integrated backend. The first phase of this project was completed at the end of the first quarter with the migration of our social application.

Our social engineering team has since been able to accelerate the feature release cycle to ship new features every two to three weeks. For example, we launched enhanced support for several new Facebook ad formats, including carousel, dynamic and lead ads.

Initial customer feedback on these new features has been positive and we have several more under development. One recently released capability currently in Alpha is Smart Sync for shopping, which enables customers to automatically replicate their existing search shopping campaigns to create Facebook dynamic ads campaigns.

This innovative feature is expected to allow customers to easily launch sophisticated cross channel shopping campaigns with significant time savings and extend their advertising reach.

Smart Sync for shopping is also a great example of our strategy and unique ability to leverage our leadership position in search marketing and extend it into the rapidly evolving social marketing landscape. This improved agility and innovation are a direct result of the increased scale and flexibility of this new platform.

Our remaining objective is to deploy the next generation of our search application onto this new platform. Our technology team has completed a majority of the difficult architectural work which is the critical first step before customer migration and new feature adoption.

Given the work completed, we are starting testing and creating plans to support initial customer migrations towards the end of the fourth quarter. In fact as an aside, I recently sat in on an internal demo of the new search application running on the new technology stack and was very impressed with the speed and scalability improvements I saw.

For instance, complex data query jobs that can take several hours on the existing platform took just minutes on the new platform. The new interface is more integrated and intuitive and supports the ability to seamlessly scroll through millions of rows of large reporting grid.

We expect this to be a game changer and represents an important technical and competitive advantage for our software suite compared to publisher and other independent tools available today. Completion of the new platform remains a key requirement for the development of several important revenue-driving features.

At the same time, we have been analyzing near-term opportunities to develop some revenue producing features on our existing platform that may leverage elements of the new platform technologies.

One recent example of this approach is the enhancement of our shopping offering that we released last month, which includes enhanced bidding and reporting powered by elements of the new platform. We will be looking at additional opportunities to pursue this hybrid approach during this transition.

As we move forward, we will be prudent and thoughtful about making tradeoffs between this strategy and resources required to migrate customers to the new platform. In closing, we have made significant progress in transforming Marin’s business with several important milestones now behind us.

While challenging work remains in the coming quarters, we are confident in our prospects. As we emerge from this with a state-of-the-art platform and the robust features it enables, we believe we will extend our market-leading position, setting the foundation to return to growth.

With that, let me turn the call over to Catriona to review our financial results in greater detail..

Thanks Dave. Our second-quarter results for 2016 demonstrate our continued progress in operational efficiency and effectiveness. This is part of our DNA now and we intend to maintain this discipline while we execute our transformation and strengthen our enterprise marketing suite.

In the first half of 2016, we’ve improved our non-GAAP net income by $11 million year-over-year while continuing to invest in innovation of the business.

Our six-month adjusted EBITDA went from negative $8.9 million in 2015 to positive $2 million in 2016 and we have produced $2.2 million in positive operating cash flow in the first six months of this year. As always, our detailed financials as well as a reconciliation of our GAAP to non-GAAP financials can be found in our press release.

For the second quarter 2016, Marin generated revenues of approximately $25.8 million, $200,000 above the high end of our guidance range and down 3.8% year-over-year. We saw relatively stable year-over-year performance in the U.S., which is now 70% of total revenues compared to 67% in the year-ago period.

International revenues across EMEA and APAC represented 30% of total revenues versus 33% during the same period of last year. Revenues from direct advertisers were up slightly year-over-year and now represent 58% of our total revenue. Revenues from our agency clients have been more challenged and are now 42% of total.

As Dave mentioned, we are adjusting our approach to agency relationships to improve our penetration in these larger accounts. For the second quarter, non-GAAP gross margins was 71%, in line sequentially and up from 65% in the second quarter of 2015, due primarily to efficiencies in onboarding and support.

Non-GAAP loss from operations was $1 million compared to a loss of $6.8 million in the second quarter of 2015. This annual improvement of $5.8 million year-over-year is a result of our efforts to optimize operations through more effective use of our resources and leveraging lower-cost regions for administration, customer success and R&D.

This also reflects the significant steps we been taking to optimize our sales and marketing investment. Q2 adjusted EBITDA was approximately $544,000 for the quarter and represented an improvement of $5.7 million versus the year-ago period.

With these results, we are well on our way to meeting our goal of generating positive adjusted EBITDA for the full year of 2016. Non-GAAP net loss was $922,000, resulting in a loss of $0.02 per share based upon a weighted average share count of 38.3 million shares outstanding.

This is an improvement of $6.2 million compared to a loss of $7.1 million, or $0.20 during the second quarter of 2015 and $0.04 above the high end of our guidance of a loss of $0.06. We ended the quarter with $35.4 million in cash and cash equivalents, which represented a decrease of approximately $800,000 sequentially.

I’m pleased with our cash management. However, DSO increased sequentially to 81 days from 76 days in Q1. This was primarily due to seasonal insertion orders on the display side for which we collected payment in July.

Now moving on to guidance, as we discussed last quarter, our focus on developing the new cross channel platform has caused some near-term revenue headwinds, such as reduced sales productivity and customer spending.

As Dave noted, we are revisiting and adjusting some of our product development plans to include enhancements in the near term that may leverage elements of our newer technology in advance of the full release of the new platform and the subsequent customer migration throughout 2017.

With that as context, for the third quarter, we expect revenues to be in the range of $23.4 million to $23.9 million.

Non-GAAP operating income is expected to be in the range of negative $2.9 million to negative $2.4 million and non-GAAP net income per share is expected to be in the range of negative $0.08 to negative $0.07 based upon a weighted average share count of 38.5 million shares.

Again, we have made significant strides from an operational perspective in transforming Marin’s business. With our improved cost structure we are in a position to scale profitably when we returned to revenue growth and our improved margin profile and reduced cash burn provide our team ample runway to execute the remaining elements of our plan.

We have already released Marin Social on our new platform and are now on a schedule of features release sprints, including enhancements to Facebook hero [ph] products such as dynamic ads and carousel ads.

We have strengthened our display offering and have developed cornerstone customers necessary to start building scale and we have renewed the investment in search features including further support for Google shopping ahead of the holiday season.

In summary, we believe that we are making good progress in realizing our vision for our cross-channel enterprise marketing suite and with strong focus and execution we will be well positioned to capitalize on the attractive longer-term growth opportunity.

With that, I want to thank you for your time and I’ll turn it back over to the operator to open it up for questions..

Thank you. [Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from Tom Roderick from Stifel. Please go ahead..

It’s actually Parker Lane in for Tom. Considering the revenue contribution from the U.S. versus international, can you just comment on some of the demand trends you are seeing on the international versus the U.S. and then maybe some of the investment plans in those regions? Thanks..

Thanks, Parker. I think you know the trends international versus U.S. we believe a lot of it had to do with some of the revenue trends in our social business.

We did experience some churn in Q1 that was a result of the social migration to the new platform that did create higher than expected churn in that quarter which carried into revenue trends into Q2. Lot of our social business is also based in Europe, so I think those two are somewhat related, you know I think that’s kind of the main trend there..

Got it.

And can you just comment on the progress of your search for new head of sales and how you are feeling about sales leadership in general?.

Yes, so as soon as we made the change with Russell Wirth, I stepped in to that role immediately had one-on-one conversations with everyone in the sales group. Did an assessment of skills, allocation of resources, we made some adjustments there in particular how we are pursuing business with our agency partners and have made some changes there.

We have been in a active search with a number of candidates using an outside recruiting firm. We believe we are close on handful of candidates and would expect to have that position filled soon..

Alright, thank you..

The next question comes from Nandan Amladi from Deutsche Bank. Please go ahead..

Thank you, thanks for taking my question. The revenue guidance for third quarter is still on a year-on-year decline trajectory. I know you said you are planning to launch some of these new features in the fourth quarter, that’s when a lot of the holiday season spending happens.

So should we expect to see you you know return to growth in the fourth quarter heading into next year?.

Thanks, Nandan. This is Catriona. So we provided guidance for Q3 and I think what you will notice is you know some of the trends that we discussed, you saw that we saw in Q3 a decline in agency revenue and a decline on the international side as we look to Q3.

We are still working on the migration of our search application and as you said, we are revisiting some of the ways to leverage some of that technology. We’ve recently released a shopping feature and we are building that out further and do expect you know to expand that into a number of our clients.

But we are still facing the same kind of overall trends that you saw in Q2 and that we are guiding for Q3. So at this point we still expect to see some of those headwinds. We will provide more guidance after our Q3 call..

Fair enough, but on the platform migration and the availability of new features on the new platform not enhancements to the old one, are you comfortable enough that there will be enough of that available in the fourth quarter perhaps if not the fourth quarter, early next year?.

Hi, Nandan, this is Dave. So we’ve accomplished a number of really important milestones with the new platform development. So we have the new stack up and running. As you know we cut over the social application to it.

As I mentioned during my part of our call, we are actually, we were able to demo our core search business running on the new stack and it’s pretty impressive.

Now, we still have a lengthy cutover plan that spans into 2017 for customers migrating to the new platform based on a new features that are developed on the new platform, so that fans our over the year.

But what we have done is we’ve learned some capabilities of the new platform and so what we’re trying to do is revise some of our plans and we’re trying to take advantage of some of the newer technologies earlier than originally planned and on kind of being selective on things that we think we can pull in a little sooner even head of the full cutover throughout next year.

We think that, that could contribute to some higher growth than what our current trend is. We’re kind of busy prioritizing that and adding that in.

So as Catriona mentioned, we’ve already made some enhancements to our overall shopping solution across all products that are leveraging some components of the new platform and we think that, that could add some real value..

Thank you..

At this time, there are no more questions in queue. And this concludes today’s conference call for today. You may now disconnect your lines. Thank you all for participating and have a pleasant day..