UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 10-Q

 

(Mark One)

☒ QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

For the quarterly period ended SeptemberJune 30, 20212022

 

or

 

☐ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

For the transition period from __________________ to __________________

 

Commission File Number: 001-38249

 

LIVEONE, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware 98-0657263
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
 (I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
   
269 S. Beverly Dr., Suite #1450
Beverly Hills, California
 90212
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

  

(310) 601-2505

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

LiveXLive Media, Inc.n/a

(Former name, former address and former fiscal year, if changed since last report)

 

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Title of each class Trading Symbol(s) Name of each exchange on which registered
Common stock, $0.001 par value per share LVO The NASDAQ Capital Market

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant is required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes ☒   No ☐

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). Yes ☒   No ☐

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

 

Large accelerated filerAccelerated filer
Non-accelerated filerSmaller reporting company
 Emerging growth company

 

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes ☐ No ☒

 

As of October 25, 2021,August 12, 2022, there were 79,288,96284,287,964 shares of the registrant’s common stock, $0.001 par value per share, issued and outstanding.

 

 

 

 

  

LIVEONE, INC.

(formerly LiveXLive Media, Inc.)

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

  Page
PART I — FINANCIAL INFORMATION1F-1
   
 
Item 1.Financial Statements1F-1
   
 
Item 2.Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations21
   
 
Item 3.Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk2113
   
 
Item 4.Controls and Procedures2213
   
PART II — OTHER INFORMATION2315
   
 
Item 1.Legal Proceedings2315
   
 
Item 1A.Risk Factors2415
   
 
Item 2.Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds3124
   
 
Item 3.Defaults Upon Senior Securities3224
   
 
Item 4.Mine Safety Disclosures3224
   
 
Item 5.Other Information3224
   
 
Item 6.Exhibits3225
   
 Signatures3527

 

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PART I — FINANCIAL INFORMATION

 

Item 1. Financial Statements.

 

 Page
Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets as of SeptemberJune 30, 20212022 and March 31, 20212022 (unaudited)F-1F-2
  
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations for the three and six months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2022 and 2021 and 2020 (unaudited)F-2
Condensed Consolidated Statement of Stockholders’ Equity for the three and six months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020 (unaudited)F-3
  
Condensed Consolidated Statement of Stockholders’ Equity (Deficit) for the three months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021 (unaudited)F-4
 
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the sixthree months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2022 and 2021 and 2020 (unaudited)F-4F-5
  
Notes to the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (unaudited)F-5F-6F-24F-31

 

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LIVEONE, INC.LiveOne, Inc.

(formerly LiveXLive Media, Inc.)

Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets

(Unaudited, in thousands, except share and per share amounts)

  September 30,  March 31, 
  2021  2021 
Assets      
Current Assets        
Cash and cash equivalents $16,478  $18,635 
Restricted cash  260   135 
Accounts receivable, net  15,037   10,567 
Inventories  2,920   2,568 
Prepaid expense and other assets  6,860   3,366 
Total Current Assets  41,555   35,271 
Property and equipment, net  4,703   4,367 
Goodwill  22,920   22,619 
Intangible assets, net  19,530   22,468 
Other assets  873   1,044 
Total Assets $89,581  $85,769 
         
Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity        
Current Liabilities        
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities $38,041  $32,646 
Accrued royalties  11,974   12,349 
Notes payable, current portion  109   2,729 
Deferred revenue  3,980   1,262 
Other current liabilities  2,897   - 
Unsecured convertible notes, net  2,182   1,976 
Total Current Liabilities  59,183   50,962 
Secured convertible notes, net  13,148   13,047 
Unsecured convertible notes, net  5,691   5,501 
Senior secured revolving line of credit  6,965   - 
Notes payable, net  650   885 
Lease liabilities, noncurrent  610   742 
Due to Music Partner  577   3,937 
Other long-term liabilities  -   2,422 
Deferred income taxes  137   137 
Total Liabilities  86,961   77,633 
         
Commitments and Contingencies        
         
Stockholders’ Equity        
Preferred stock, $0.001 par value; 10,000,000 shares authorized; no shares issued or outstanding  -   - 
Common stock, $0.001 par value; 500,000,000 shares authorized; 79,001,821 and 76,807,898 shares issued and outstanding, respectively  79   77 
Additional paid in capital  195,769   178,000 
Accumulated deficit  (193,228)  (169,941)
Total stockholders’ equity  2,620   8,136 
Total Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity $89,581  $85,769 

  June 30,  March 31, 
  2022  2022 
Assets    (Audited) 
Current Assets      
Cash and cash equivalents $11,086  $12,894 
Restricted cash  260   260 
Accounts receivable, net  12,714   13,687 
Inventories  2,718   2,599 
Prepaid expense and other current assets  1,688   1,868 
Total Current Assets  28,466   31,308 
Property and equipment, net  4,555   4,688 
Goodwill  23,379   23,379 
Intangible assets, net  15,321   16,720 
Other assets  655   728 
Total Assets $72,376  $76,823 
         
Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity (Deficit)        
Current Liabilities        
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities $36,301  $45,418 
Accrued royalties  16,897   13,530 
Notes payable, current portion  13   12 
Deferred revenue  981   1,157 
Total Current Liabilities  54,192   60,117 
Senior secured convertible notes, net  13,938   13,650 
Unsecured convertible notes, net – related party  5,968   5,879 
Senior secured line of credit  7,000   6,965 
Notes payable, net  148   148 
Lease liabilities, noncurrent  395   468 
Other long-term liabilities  174   174 
Deferred income taxes  338   338 
Total Liabilities  82,153   87,739 
         
Commitments and Contingencies        
         
Stockholders’ Equity (Deficit)        
Preferred stock, $0.001 par value; 10,000,000 shares authorized; no shares issued or outstanding  -   - 
Common stock, $0.001 par value; 500,000,000 shares authorized; 81,597,738 and 82,546,189 shares issued and outstanding, respectively  83   83 
Additional paid in capital  203,642   202,854 
Treasury stock  (997)  - 
Accumulated deficit  (212,505)  (213,853)
Total stockholders’ equity (deficit)  (9,777)  (10,916)
Total Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity (Deficit) $72,376  $76,823 

  

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.

 

F-1


 

LIVEONE, INC.LiveOne, Inc.

(formerly LiveXLive Media, Inc.)

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations

(Unaudited, in thousands, except share and per share amounts)

 

 Three Months Ended
September 30,
  Six Months Ended
September 30,
 
 2021  2020  2021  2020  Three Months Ended
June 30,
 
          2022  2021 
Revenue: $21,924  $14,559  $60,691  $25,066  $23,222  $38,767 
                        
Operating expenses:                        
Cost of sales  16,051   10,299   46,990   17,960   15,382   30,940 
Sales and marketing  2,599   2,076   7,348   3,422   2,366   4,748 
Product development  2,178   2,288   4,333   4,374   1,617   2,155 
General and administrative  9,246   5,615   18,623   9,600   2,209   9,377 
Amortization of intangible assets  1,517   1,407   3,023   2,658   1,411   1,506 
Total operating expenses  31,591   21,685   80,317   38,014   22,985   48,726 
Loss from operations  (9,667)  (7,126)  (19,626)  (12,948)
Income (loss) from operations  237   (9,959)
                        
Other income (expense):                        
Interest expense, net  (1,068)  (1,021)  (2,128)  (3,099)  (997)  (1,060)
Loss on extinguishment of debt  (4,321)  (1,488)  (4,321)  (1,488)
Forgiveness of PPP loans  -   -   2,511   -   -   2,511 
Other income (expense)  (176)  (552)  284   (182)

Total other expense, net

  (5,565)  (3,061)  (3,654)  (4,769)
Other income  2,105   459 
Total other income (expense), net  1,108   1,910 
                        
Loss before provision for income taxes  (15,232)  (10,187)  (23,280)  (17,717)
Income (loss) before income taxes  1,345   (8,049)
                        
Provision for income taxes  (4)  (2)  (7)  (4)
Net loss $(15,236) $(10,189) $(23,287) $(17,721)
(Benefit from) provision for income taxes  (3)  2 
Net income (loss) $1,348  $(8,051)
                        
Net loss per share – basic and diluted $(0.19) $(0.15) $(0.30) $(0.28)
Weighted average common shares – basic and diluted  78,351,655   69,035,037   77,670,598   64,127,618 
Net income (loss) per share - basic $0.02  $(0.10)
Net income (loss) per share – diluted $0.02  $(0.10)
Weighted average common shares – basic  82,072,822   76,982,057 
Weighted average common shares – diluted  82,126,622   76,982,057 

  

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.

 

F-2


 

LIVEONE, INC.LiveOne, Inc.

(formerly LiveXLive Media, Inc.)

Condensed Consolidated Statement of Stockholders’ Equity (Deficit)

(Unaudited, in thousands, except share and per share amounts)

  Common Stock  Additional
Paid in
  Accumulated  

Common Stock in

Treasury

  Total
Stockholders’
 
  Shares  Amount  Capital  Deficit  Shares  Amount  Deficit 
Balance as of March 31, 2022  82,546,189  $83  $202,854  $(213,853)  -  $-  $(10,916)
Stock-based compensation  135,270   -   788   -   -   -   788 
Shares issued pursuant to restricted stock units  102,500              -   -   -   -   -         - 
Treasury stock purchases  -   -   -   -   (1,186,221)  (997)  (997)
Net income  -   -   -   1,348   -   -   1,348 
Balance as of June 30, 2022  82,783,959  $83  $203,642  $(212,505)  (1,186,221) $(997) $(9,777)

  Common Stock  Additional Paid in  Accumulated  Total Stockholders’ 
  Shares  Amount  Capital  Deficit  Equity 
Balance as of June 30, 2021  77,425,864  $77  $184,427  $(177,992) $6,512 
Stock-based compensation  120,554   -   4,908   -   4,908 
Vested employee restricted stock units  475,351   1   -   -   1 
Interest paid in kind  -   -   9   -   9 
Exercise of employee stock options  155,000   -   279   -   279 
Shares issued for CPS acquisition  791,398   1   1,825   -   1,826 
Unsecured convertible note premium  -   -   4,199   -   4,199 
Shares issued on amendment of unsecured convertible notes  33,654   -   122   -   122 
Net loss  -   -   -   (15,236)  (15,236)
Balance as of September 30, 2021  79,001,821  $79  $195,769  $(193,228) $2,620 
  Common Stock  Additional
Paid in
  Accumulated  Total
Stockholders’
Equity
 
  Shares  Amount  Capital  Deficit  (Deficit) 
Balance as of March 31, 2021  76,807,898  $77  $178,000  $(169,941) $8,136 
Stock-based compensation  416,216   -   5,457   -   5,457 
Interest paid in kind  -   -   26   -   26 
Purchase price adjustment in connection with CPS acquisition  -   -   301   -   301 
Shares issued in connection with Secured Convertible Notes  60,000   -   321   -   321 
Shares issued pursuant to restricted stock units  61,290   -   -   -   - 
Shares issued upon exercise of stock options  80,460   -   322   -   322 
Net loss  -   -   -   (8,051)  (8,051)
Balance as of June 30, 2021  77,425,864  $77  $184,427  $(177,992) $6,512 

  Common Stock  Additional Paid in  Accumulated  Total Stockholders’ 
  Shares  Amount  Capital  Deficit  Equity 
Balance as of March 31, 2021  76,807,898  $77  $178,000  $(169,941) $8,136 
Stock-based compensation  536,770   1   10,365   -   10,366 
Vested employee restricted stock units  536,641   -   -   -   - 
Interest paid in kind  -   -   35   -   35 
Exercise of employee stock options  235,460   -   602   -   602 
Shares issued for CPS acquisition  791,398   1   1,825   -   1,826 
Purchase price adjustment in connection with CPS acquisition  -   -   301   -   301 
Unsecured convertible note premium  -   -   4,199   -   4,199 
Shares issued on amendment of unsecured and secured convertible notes  93,654   -   442   -   442 
Net loss  -   -   -   (23,287)  (23,287)
Balance as of September 30, 2021  79,001,821  $79  $195,769  $(193,228) $2,620 

 Common Stock  Additional Paid in  Accumulated  

Total

Stockholders’
Equity

 
 Shares  Amount  Capital  Deficit  (Deficit) 
Balance as of June 30, 2020  59,575,491  $59  $124,278  $(135,653) $(11,316)
Shares issued for services to consultants and vendors  2,784,173   4   8,962   -   8,966 
Stock-based compensation  -   -   1,703   -   1,703 
Vested employee restricted stock units  1,225,801   1   (1)  -   - 
Interest paid in kind  -   -   9   -   9 
Exercise of employee stock options  120,000   -   481   -   481 
Shares issued in the public offering, net of cost  1,820,000   2   7,129   -   7,131 
Shares issued for PodcastOne acquisition  5,363,636   5   14,547   -   14,552 
Debt issuance shares  800,000   1   1,860   -   1,861 
Net loss  -   -   -   (10,189)  (10,189)
Balance as of September 30, 2020  71,689,101  $72  $158,968  $(145,842) $13,198 

  Common Stock  Additional Paid in  Accumulated  Total Stockholders’
Equity
 
  Shares  Amount  Capital  Deficit  (Deficit) 
Balance as of March 31, 2020  58,984,382  $59  $120,932  $(128,121) $(7,130)
Shares issued for services to consultants and vendors  3,344,030   4   10,459   -   10,463 
Stock-based compensation  -   -   3,552   -   3,552 
Vested employee restricted stock units  1,257,053   1   (1)  -   - 
Interest paid in kind  -   -   9   -   9 
Exercise of employee stock options  120,000   -   481   -   481 
Shares issued in the public offering, net of cost  1,820,000   2   7,129   -   7,131 
Shares issued for PodcastOne acquisition  5,363,636   5   14,547   -   14,552 
Debt issuance shares  800,000   1   1,860   -   1,861 
Net loss  -   -   -   (17,721)  (17,721)
Balance as of September 30, 2020  71,689,101  $72  $158,968  $(145,842) $13,198 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.

F-3


 

LIVEONE, INC.

(formerly LiveXLive Media, Inc.)

LiveOne, Inc.

LiveXLive Media, Inc.

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

(Unaudited, in thousands)

 Six Months Ended
September 30,
  Three Months Ended
June 30,
 
 2021  2020  2022  2021 
Cash Flows from Operating Activities:          
Net loss $(23,287) $(17,721)
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:        
Net income (loss) $1,348  $(8,051)
Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash (used in) provided by operating activities:        
Depreciation and amortization  4,794   4,195   2,316   2,379 
Interest paid in kind  35   9   -   26 
Stock-based compensation  9,931   
5,341
   788   5,086 
Amortization of debt discount  673   691   393   371 
Change in fair value of bifurcated embedded derivatives  (110)  (496)  20   (103)
Change in fair value of contingent consideration liability  (213)  (405)  (2,220)  (357)
Forgiveness of PPP Loans  (2,511)  -   -   (2,511)
Loss on extinguishment of debt  4,321   1,488 
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:                
Accounts receivable  (4,470)  (721)  973   (2,187)
Prepaid expenses and other current assets  (3,793)  (2,165)  177   208 
Inventories  (352)  -   (119)  179 
Other assets  183   -   101   91 
Deferred revenue  2,718   693   (176)  574 
Accrued royalties  3,367   30 
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities  5,100   
4,177
   (6,994)  5,097 
Net cash used in operating activities  (6,981)  (4,914)
Net cash (used in) provided by operating activities  (26)  832 
                
Cash Flows from Investing Activities:                
Increase in cash from the acquisition of PodcastOne  -   1,286 
Purchases of property and equipment  (1,957)  (1,510)  (773)  (1,018)
Purchases of intangible assets  (85)  -   (12)  (85)
Net cash used in investing activities  (2,042)  (224)  (785)  (1,103)
                
Cash Flows from Financing Activities:                
Repayment of secured convertible debentures  -   (10,823)
Repayment of note payable  (351)  - 
Proceeds from secured convertible notes  -   13,139 
Debt issuance costs  -   (190)
Proceeds from issuance of shares of common stock, net  -   8,992 
Payments on capital lease liability  (225)  (64)  -   (112)
Proceeds from exercise of stock options  602   481   -   322 
Proceeds from drawdown on senior secured revolving line of credit  6,965   -   -   6,000 
Proceeds from notes payable  -   2,145 
Net cash provided by financing activities  6,991   13,680 
Purchase of treasury stock  (997)  - 
Net cash (used in) provided by financing activities  (997)  6,210 
                
Net change in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash  (2,032)  8,542   (1,808)  5,939 
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash, beginning of period  18,770   12,437   13,154   18,770 
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash, end of period $16,738  $20,979  $11,346  $24,709 
                
Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information:                
Cash paid for income taxes $-  $-  $-  $- 
Cash paid for interest $695  $651  $320  $319 
                
Supplemental disclosure of non-cash investing and financing activities:                
Fair value of options issued to employees, capitalized as internally-developed software $148  $130  $26  $94 
Fair value of 5,363,636 shares of the Company’s common stock issued in connection with the PodcastOne acquisition  -   14,552 
Fair value of 89,613 shares of the Company’s common stock issuable in connection with the PodcastOne acquisition and included in accrued liabilities  -   243 
Fair value of 60,000 shares of common stock issued in connection with Secured Convertible Notes $320   -  $-  $321 
Fair value of 33,654 shares of common stock issued in connection with Unsecured Convertible Notes  122     
Forgiveness of PPP loan $2,511     
Fair value of 2,679,459 shares of common stock issued upon settlement of accounts payable $-  $8,657 
Fair value of shares issued in connection with CPS acquisition $2,127   -  $-  $301 
Fair value of unsecured convertible note premium  4,199   - 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.

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LIVEONE, INC.LiveOne, Inc.

(formerly LiveXLive Media, Inc.)

Notes to the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited)

For the Three and Six Months Ended SeptemberJune 30, 20212022 and 20202021

 

Note 1 — Organization and Basis of Presentation

 

Organization

 

LiveOne, Inc. (formerly LiveXLive Media, Inc.) (“LiveOne”) together with its subsidiaries (“we,” “us,” “our”, the “Company” or the “Company”“LiveOne”) is a Delaware corporation headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. The Company is a globalcreator-first, music, entertainment and technology platform for livestreamfocused on delivering premium experiences and on-demand audio, videocontent worldwide through memberships, live and podcast content in music, comedy and pop culture.virtual events.

 

The Company was reincorporated in the State of Delaware on August 2, 2017, pursuant to a reincorporation merger of Loton, Corp (“Loton”) with and into LiveXLive Media, Inc., Loton’s wholly owned subsidiary at the time. As a result of the reincorporation merger, Loton ceased to exist as a separate entity, with LiveXLive Media, Inc. being the surviving entity. Effective as of October 5, 2021, the Company changed its name to LiveOne, Inc. On December 29, 2017, LiveOnethe Company acquired Slacker, Inc. (“Slacker”), an Internet music and radio streaming service incorporated in the state of Delaware, and it became a wholly owned subsidiary of LiveOne. On February 5, 2020, the Company acquired (i) React Presents, LLC a Delaware limited liability company (“React Presents”), and it became a wholly owned subsidiary of LiveXLive Events, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company and (ii) indirectly Spring Awakening, LLC, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of React Presents, a producer, promoter and manager of in person live music festivals and events. On July 1, 2020, the Company through its wholly owned subsidiary, LiveXLive PodcastOne, Inc., acquired 100% of the issued and outstanding equity interests of Courtside Group, Inc. (dba PodcastOne) (“PodcastOne”) (see Note 4 – Business Combinations). On December 22, 2020, the Company through its wholly owned subsidiary LiveXLive Merchandising, Inc., acquired 100% of the issued and outstanding equity interests of Custom Personalization Solutions, Inc. (“CPS”) (see Note 4 – Business Combinations). On October 17, 2021, the Company through its wholly owned subsidiary LiveXLive PR, Inc., acquired Gramophone Media, Inc. (“Gramophone”) (see Note 4 – Business Combinations).

 

Basis of Presentation

 

The presented financial information includes the financial information and activities of PodcastOneGramophone for the three and six months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20212022 (91 days and 182 days, respectively) days) and for the three months and six months ended September 30, 2020 (91 days). The presented financial information includes the financial information and activities of CPS for the three and six months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2021 (91 days and 182 days, respectively) and does not include the financial information and activities of CPS for the three and six months ended September 30, 2020 as the acquisition took place subsequent to this period.(0 days).

 

The unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared on the same basis as the Company’s audited consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021,2022, and include all adjustments, which include only normal recurring adjustments, necessary for the fair presentation of the Company’s interim unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements for the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2021.2022. The results for the three and six months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20212022 are not necessarily indicative of the results expected for the full fiscal year ending March 31, 20222023 (“fiscal 2022”2023”). The condensed consolidated balance sheet as of March 31, 20212022 has been derived from the Company’s audited balance sheet included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on July 14, 2021June 29, 2022 (the “2021“2022 Form 10-K”).

 

The interim unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP”) for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X. They do not include all of the information and footnotes required by GAAP for complete audited financial statements. Therefore, these financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Company’s audited consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in the 2021 Form 10-K.

 

Going Concern and Liquidity

 

The Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern, which contemplates continuity of operations, realization of assets, and liquidation of liabilities in the normal course of business.

 

The Company’s principal sources of liquidity have historically been its debt and equity issuances and its cash and cash equivalents (which cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash amounted to $16.7$11.3 million as of SeptemberJune 30, 2021)2022). As reflected in its condensed consolidated financial statements included elsewhere herein, the Company has a history of losses, and incurred awith the exception of net lossincome of $15.2$1.3 million during the quarter ended SeptemberJune 30, 20212022 and had a working capital deficiency of $17.6$25.7 million as of SeptemberJune 30, 2021.2022. These factors, among others, raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern within one year from the date that these financial statements are filed. The Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments related to the recoverability and classification of recorded asset amounts or the amounts and classification of liabilities that might be necessary should the Company be unable to continue as a going concern.

 

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The Company’s ability to continue as a going concern is dependent on its ability to execute its growth strategy and on its ability to raise additional funds. The Company filed a new universal shelf Registration Statement on Form S-3 (the “New Shelf S-3”) with the SEC, which becamewas declared effective in February 2019 pursuant to whichby the SEC on February 17, 2022. Under the New Shelf S-3, the Company has the ability to raise up to $150.0 million in cash from the sale of its equity, debt and/or other financial instruments, of which $121.5 million is remaining as of the date of this Quarterly Report.instruments. The continued spread of COVID-19 and uncertain market conditions may limit the Company’s ability to access capital, may reduce demand for its services and may negatively impact its ability to retain key personnel. During the quarter ended June 30, 2021, the Company entered into a $7.0 million senior secured revolving credit facility (see Note 11 – Senior Secured Revolving Line of Credit ). Management may seek additional funds, primarily through the issuance of equity and/or debt securities for cash to operate the Company’s business. No assurance can be given that any future financing will be available or, if available, that it will be on terms that are satisfactory to it.the Company. Even if the Company is able to obtain additional financing, it may contain terms that result in undue restrictions on its operations, in the case of debt financing or cause substantial dilution for its stockholders, in case of equity and/or convertible debt financing. If the Company is unable to obtain sufficient financing when needed, the Company may also have to reduce certain overhead costs through the reduction of salaries and other means and settle liabilities through negotiation. There can be no assurance that management’s attempts at any or all of these endeavors will be successful.

 

Principles of Consolidation

 

The condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly owned subsidiaries. Acquisitions are included in the Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements from the date of the acquisition. The Company uses purchase accounting for its acquisitions, which results in all assets and liabilities of acquired businesses being recorded at their estimated fair values on the acquisition dates. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

Reclassifications

 

Certain amounts in the Company’s previously issued financial statements have been reclassified to conform to the current year presentation.

 

Note 2 — Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

 

There have been no material changes in the Company’s significant accounting policies from those previously disclosed in the consolidated financial statements included in the 2021 Form2022 10-K, other than those included below.

 

COVID-19

 

In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease (“COVID-19”) as a pandemic. The global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has had a negative effect on the global economy, disrupting the financial markets creating increasing volatility and overall uncertainty. The Company began to experience modest adverse impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in the fourth quarter of fiscal year ended March 31, 2020 and became more adverse throughout the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021.2021 and up to the third quarter of fiscal year ended March 31, 2022. Although the impact has subsided, the Company expects to continue experiencing modest adverse impacts throughout the fiscal year ending March 31, 2022.2023. The Company’s event and programmatic advertising revenues were directly impacted throughout the 2022 and 2021 fiscal yearyears with all on-premise in-person live music festivals and events postponed in 2021 fiscal year and mixed demand from historical advertising partners.partners in 2022 fiscal year. Further, one of the Company’s larger customers also experienced a temporary halt to its production as a result of COVID-19, which negatively impacted the Company’s near-term subscribermember growth in the 2021 fiscal year. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021, the Company enacted several initiatives to counteract these near-term challenges, including salary reductions, obtaining a Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) loan (see Note 8 - Notes Payable) and pivoting its live music production to 100% digital. The Company began producing, curating, and broadcasting digital music festivals and events across its platform which has resulted in the growth in the number of live events streamed, related sponsorship revenue and overall viewership. The Company also launched a new pay-per-view (“PPV)PPV”) offering in May 2020, enabling new forms of artist revenue including digital tickets, tipping, digital meet and greet and merchandise sales. However, there is uncertainty as to the duration and overall impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, which could result in an adverse material change in a future period to the Company’s results of operations, financial position and liquidity.

 

On March 27, 2020, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (the “CARES Act”) was enacted in the United States. The CARES Act provides numerous tax provisions and other stimulus measures, including temporary changes regarding the prior and future utilization of net operating losses and technical corrections from prior tax legislation for tax depreciation of certain qualified improvement property. The Company evaluated the provisions of the CARES Act and determined it is eligible for Employee Retention Credits related to payroll taxes paid withinduring the quarter ended September 30, 2021. In accordance with ASC 105-10-05-02, the Company analogized to International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”), specifically International Accounting Standards (“IAS”) 20, Accounting for Government Grants and Disclosures of Government Assistance, and determined that the payroll tax credit will be recognized as a reduction to the payroll tax expense when it is reasonably assured that the credit will be received. As of September 30, 2021,March 31, 2022, the Company determined that it is reasonably assured thatreceived confirmation the credit willwould be receivedapproved and recognized the credit of $1.2 million as a reduction of payroll tax expense for the quarteryear ended September 30, 2021.March 31, 2022. The Company does not anticipate the associated impacts of the other provisions, if any, will have a material effect on its provision for income taxes.

 

On December 29, 2020, the Consolidated Appropriations Act (“CAA”) was enacted in the United States. The CAA provides numerous tax provisions and most notably for the Company changes the tax treatment of those expenses paid for with a PPP loan from non-deductible to deductible.  The Company has completed its evaluationis in the process of evaluating the provisions of the CAA including obtaining a second draw Paycheck Protection Program loans and applying for the potential eligibility for Employee Retention Credits and does not anticipate the other provisions included will have a material impact on its provision for income taxes.

 

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Use of Estimates

 

The preparation of the Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires the Company’s management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting period. Significant items subject to such estimates and assumptions include revenue, allowance for doubtful accounts, inventory calculations and reserves, the assigned value of acquired assets and assumed and contingent liabilities associated with business combinations and the related purchase price allocation, useful lives and impairment of property and equipment, intangible assets, goodwill and other assets, the fair value of the Company’s equity-based compensation awards and convertible debt and debenture instruments, fair values of derivatives, and contingencies. Actual results could differ materially from those estimates. On an ongoing basis, the Company evaluates its estimates compared to historical experience and trends, which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying value of assets and liabilities. Given the overall uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a reasonable possibility that actual results could differ from those estimates and such differences could be material to the financial position and results of operations, specifically in assessing when the collectability of revenue related consideration is probable, and the impairment assessment of goodwill, indefinite lived assets or long-lived assets that are depreciated or amortized.

 

Revenue Recognition Policy

The Company accounts for a contract with a customer when an approved contract exists, the rights of the parties are identified, payment terms are identified, the contract has commercial substance and the collectability of substantially all of the consideration is probable. Revenue is recognized when the Company satisfies its obligation by transferring control of the goods or services to its customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the Company expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. The Company uses the expected value method to estimate the value of variable consideration on advertising and with original equipment manufacturer contracts to include in the transaction price and reflect changes to such estimates in periods in which they occur. Variable consideration for these services is allocated to and recognized over the related time period such advertising and membership services are rendered as the amounts reflect the consideration the Company is entitled to and relate specifically to the Company’s efforts to satisfy its performance obligation. The amount of variable consideration included in revenue is limited to the extent that it is probable that the amount will not be subject to significant reversal when the uncertainty associated with the variable consideration is subsequently resolved.

Practical Expedients

The Company elected the practical expedient and recognized the incremental costs of obtaining a contract, if any, as an expense when incurred if the amortization period of the asset that would have been recognized is one year or less.

Gross Versus Net Revenue Recognition

The Company reports revenue on a gross or net basis based on management’s assessment of whether the Company acts as a principal or agent in the transaction and is evaluated on a transaction by transaction basis. To the extent the Company acts as the principal, revenue is reported on a gross basis net of any sales tax from customers, when applicable. The determination of whether the Company acts as a principal or an agent in a transaction is based on an evaluation of whether the Company controls the good or service prior to transfer to the customer. Where applicable, the Company has determined that it acts as the principal in all of its membership service, sponsorship, and merchandising streams and may act as principal or agent for its ticketing/live events, advertising and licensing revenue streams.


The Company’s revenue is principally derived from the following services:

Membership Services

Membership services revenue substantially consist of monthly to annual recurring membership fees, which are primarily paid in advance by credit card or through direct billings arrangements. The Company defers the portions of monthly to annual recurring membership fees collected in advance and recognizes them in the period earned. Membership revenue is recognized in the period of services rendered. The Company’s membership revenue consists of performance obligations that are satisfied over time. This has been determined based on the fact that the nature of services offered are membership based where the customer simultaneously receives and consumes the benefit of the services provided regardless of whether the customer uses the services or not. As a result, the Company has concluded that the best measure of progress toward the complete satisfaction of the performance obligation over time is a time-based measure. The Company recognizes membership revenue straight-line through the membership period.

Membership Services consist of:

Direct member, mobile service provider and mobile app services

The Company generates revenue for membership services on both a direct basis and through memberships sold through certain third-party mobile service providers and mobile app services (collectively the “Mobile Providers”). For memberships sold through the Mobile Providers, the member executes an on-line agreement with Slacker outlining the terms and conditions between Slacker and the member upon purchase of the membership. The Mobile Providers promote the Slacker app through their e-store, process payments for memberships, and retain a percentage of revenue as a fee. The Company reports this revenue gross of the fee retained by the Mobile Providers, as the member is Slacker’s customer in the contract and Slacker controls the service prior to the transfer to the member. Membership revenues from monthly memberships sold directly through Mobile Providers are subject to such Mobile Providers’ refund or cancellation terms. Revenues from Mobile Providers are recognized net of any such adjustments for variable consideration, including refunds and other fees. The Company’s payment terms vary based on whether the membership is sold on a direct basis or through Mobile Providers. Memberships sold on a direct basis require payment before the services are delivered to the customer. The payment terms for memberships sold through Mobile Providers vary, but are generally payable within 30 days.

Third-Party Original Equipment Manufacturers

The Company generates revenue for membership services through memberships sold through a third-party Original Equipment Manufacturer (the “OEM”). For memberships sold through the OEM, the OEM executes an agreement with Slacker outlining the terms and conditions between Slacker and the OEM upon purchase of the membership. The OEM installs the Slacker app in their equipment and provides the Slacker service to the OEM’s customers. The monthly fee charged to the OEM is based upon a fixed rate per vehicle, multiplied by the variable number of total vehicles which have signed up for a paid membership. The number of customers, or the variable consideration, is reported by OEMs and resolved on a monthly basis. The Company’s payment terms with OEM are up to 30 days.

Advertising Revenue

Advertising revenue primarily consist of revenues generated from the sale of audio, video, and display advertising space to third-party advertising exchanges. Revenues are recognized based on delivery of impressions over the contract period to the third-party exchanges, either when an ad is placed for listening or viewing by a visitor or when the visitor “clicks through” on the advertisement. The advertising exchange companies report the variable advertising revenue performed on a monthly basis which represents the Company’s efforts to satisfy the performance obligation. Additionally, following the acquisition of PodcastOne, the Company began deriving revenue from podcast advertising. PodcastOne earns advertising revenues primarily for fees earned from advertisement placement purchased by the customer during the time the podcast is delivered to the viewing audience, under the terms and conditions as set forth in the applicable podcasting agreement calculated using impressions.

From time to time the Company enters into barter transactions involving advertising provided in exchange for goods and services. Revenue from barter transactions is recognized based on delivery of impressions and in the same manner as described above. Services received are charged to expense when received or utilized. If services are received prior to the delivery of impressions, a liability is recorded. If delivery of impressions have occurred before the receipt of goods or services, a receivable is recorded. Barter revenue for the three months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021 was $1.3 million and $1.5 million, respectively.


Licensing Revenue

Licensing revenue primarily consists of sales of licensing rights to digitally stream the Company’s live music services. Licensing revenue is recognized when the Company satisfies its performance obligation by transferring control of the goods or services to its customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the Company expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services, which is typically when the live event has aired. Any license fees collected in advance of an event are deferred until the event airs.

Sponsorship Revenue

Sponsorship revenue primarily consists of sales of sponsorship programs that provide sponsors with opportunities to reach the Company’s customers. Sponsorship revenue is recognized as the event airs. Any sponsorship fees collected in advance of the contract term (typically an event) are deferred until the event airs. The Company reports sponsorship revenue on a gross basis as the Company acts as the principal in the underlying transactions.

Merchandising Revenue

Revenue is recognized upon the transfer of control to the customer. The Company recognizes revenue and measures the transaction price net of taxes collected from customers and remitted to governmental authorities. Sales also include shipping and handling charges billed to customers, with the related freight costs included in cost of goods sold. Sales commissions are expensed as incurred and are recorded in sales and marketing expenses in the consolidated statements of operations. The Company’s customer contracts do not have a significant financing component due to their short durations, which are typically effective for one year or less and have payment terms that are generally 30 to 60 days. Wholesale revenue is generally recognized when products are shipped, depending on the applicable contract terms. The Company records a refund liability for expected returns based on prior returns history, recent trends, and projections for returns on sales in the current period. The refund liability at June 30, 2022 and 2021 was less than $0.1 million, respectively.

Ticket/Event Revenue

Ticket/Event revenue is primarily from the sale of tickets and promoter fees earned from venues or other co-promoters under one of several formulas, including a fixed guaranteed amount and/or a percentage of ticket sales or event profits.

Revenue from the promotion or production of an event is recognized at a point in time when the show occurs. Revenue collected in advance of the event is recorded as deferred revenue until the event occurs. Revenue collected from sponsorship agreements, which is not related to a single event, is classified as deferred revenue and recognized over the term of the agreement or operating season as the benefits are provided to the sponsor.

Revenue from the Company’s ticketing operations primarily consists of service fees charged at the time a ticket for an event is sold in either the primary or secondary markets, including both online pay-per-view (“PPV”) tickets as well as ticket physically purchased through a ticket sale vendor. For primary tickets sold to the Company’s PPV and festival events the revenue for the associated ticket service charges collected in advance of the event is recorded as deferred revenue until the event occurs. For PPV arrangements that include multiple performance obligations, i.e. delivery of the online stream, sponsorships, digital meet and greet, or physical merchandise, the Company allocates the total contract consideration to each performance obligation using the standalone selling price. If the standalone selling price is not readily determinable, it is estimated using observable inputs including an adjusted market based approach, expected cost plus margin, or the residual approach.


Net Income (Loss) Per Share

 

Basic earnings (loss) per share is computed using the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding during the period. Diluted earnings (loss) per share is computed using the weighted-average number of common shares and the dilutive effect of contingent shares outstanding during the period. Potentially dilutive contingent shares, which primarily consist of stock options issued to employees, directors and consultants, restricted stock units, warrants issued to third parties and accounted for as equity instruments and convertible notes would be excluded from the diluted earnings per share calculation because their effect is anti-dilutive.

 

At SeptemberJune 30, 20212022 and 2020,2021, the Company had 3,621,1243,152,874 and 4,423,3343,901,124 options outstanding, respectively, 5,212,7322,817,292 and 4,518,1055,836,146 restricted stock units outstanding, respectively, 0 and 167,363 warrants outstanding, respectively,5,960,593 and 5,806,321 and 5,575,2805,764,719 shares of common stock issuable, respectively, underlying the Company’s convertible debt. 

Basic earnings per share is calculated using our weighted-average outstanding common shares. Diluted earnings per share is calculated using our weighted-average outstanding common shares including the dilutive effect of stock awards as determined under the treasury stock method. In periods when we have a net loss, stock awards are excluded from our calculation of earnings per share as their inclusion would have an antidilutive effect.

The following table shows the calculation of diluted shares:

  Three Months Ended
June 30,
 
  2022  2021 
Shares used in computation of basic earnings per share  82,072,822   76,982,057 
Total dilutive effect of outstanding stock awards  53,800    
Shares used in computation of diluted earnings per share  82,126,622   76,982,057 

 

Business Combinations

 

The Company accounts for its business combinations using the acquisition method of accounting where the purchase consideration is allocated to the underlying net tangible and intangible assets acquired, based on their respective fair values. The excess of the purchase consideration over the estimated fair values of the net assets acquired is recorded as goodwill. Identifiable assets acquired, liabilities assumed and any noncontrolling interest in the acquiree are recognized and measured as of the acquisition date at fair value. Additionally, any contingent consideration is recorded at fair value on the acquisition date and classified as a liability. Goodwill is recognized to the extent by which the aggregate of the acquisition-date fair value of the consideration transferred and any noncontrolling interest in the acquiree exceeds the recognized basis of the identifiable assets acquired, net of assumed liabilities. Determining the fair value of assets acquired, liabilities assumed and noncontrolling interests requires management’s judgment and often involves the use of significant estimates and assumptions, including, but not limited to, the selection of appropriate valuation methodology, projected revenue, expenses and cash flows, weighted average cost of capital, discount rates, estimates of customer turnover rates, estimates of terminal values, and royalty rates.

 

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Cash and Cash Equivalents

 

Cash and cash equivalents include all highly liquid investments with original maturities, when purchased, of three months or less.

 

The following table provides amounts included in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash presented in the Company’s condensed consolidated statements of cash flows for the sixthree months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20212022 and 20202021 (in thousands):

 

 2021  2020  2022  2021 
Cash and cash equivalents $16,478  $20,744  $11,086  $24,574 
Restricted cash  260   235   260   135 
Total cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash $16,738  $20,979  $11,346  $24,709 

 


Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents

 

The Company maintains certain letters of credit agreements with its banking provider, which are secured by the Company’s cash for periods of less than one year. As of SeptemberJune 30, 20212022 and March 31, 2021,2022, the Company had restricted cash of $0.3 million and $0.1$0.3 million, respectively.

 

Allowance for Doubtful Accounts

 

The Company evaluates the collectability of its accounts receivable based on a combination of factors. Generally, it records specific reserves to reduce the amounts recorded to what it believes will be collected when a customer’s account ages beyond typical collection patterns, or the Company becomes aware of a customer’s inability to meet its financial obligations.

 

The Company believes that the credit risk with respect to trade receivables is limited due to the large and established nature of its largest customers and the nature of its subscriptionmembership receivables. At SeptemberJune 30, 2021,2022, the Company had one customer that made up 18%23% of the total accounts receivable balance. At March 31, 2021,2022, the Company had two customersone customer that made up 21% and 15%24% of the total accounts receivable balance, respectively.balance. 

 

The Company’s accounts receivable at SeptemberJune 30, 20212022 and March 31, 20212022 is as follows (in thousands):

 

 September 30, March 31,  June 30, March 31, 
 2021  2021  2022  2022 
Accounts receivable, gross $15,176  $10,679  $13,628  $14,404 
Less: Allowance for doubtful accounts  139   112   (914)  (717)
Accounts receivable, net $15,037  $10,567  $12,714  $13,687 

 

Inventories

 

Inventories, principally raw materials awaiting final customization process, are stated at the lower of cost or net realizable value. Inventories are relieved on a first-in, first-out basis.

 

The carrying value of inventories is reduced for any excess and obsolete inventory. Excess and obsolete reductions are determined based on currently available information, including the likely method of disposition, such as through sales to individual customers and liquidations, and the age of inventory.

 

Notes Payable – Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) Loans

 

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the PPP was established under the CARES Act and administered by the U.S. Small Business Administration (“SBA”). Companies who met the eligibility requirements set forth by the PPP could qualify for PPP loans provided by local lenders, which supports payroll, rent and utility expenses (“qualified expenses”). If the loan proceeds are fully utilized to pay qualified expenses over the covered period, as further defined by the PPP, the full principal amount of the PPP loan may qualify for loan forgiveness, subject to potential reduction based on the level of full-time employees maintained by the organization during the covered period as compared to a baseline period. During the quarteryear ended June 30, 2021,March 31, 2022, the Company received confirmation from the SBA that $2.5$3.1 million in PPP loans (see Note 8 – Notes Payable) were forgiven. 

 

As the loans were forgiven and we were released from being the primary obligor, wethe Company recognized income in the amount forgiven in accordance with ASC 470-20. The Company recognized a gain on forgiveness of the PPP loans of none and $2.5 million during the quarterthree months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively, and is included in Other income (expense)total other expense, net in the accompanying condensed consolidated Statementstatement of Operations for the six months ended September 30, 2021.operations.

 

Concentration of Credit Risk

F-8The Company maintains cash balances at commercial banks. Cash balances commonly exceed the $250,000 amount insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The Company has not experienced any losses in such accounts, and management believes that the Company is not exposed to any significant credit risk with respect to such cash and cash equivalents.


 

 

Adoption of New Accounting Pronouncements

In August 2018, the FASB issued ASU No. 2018-15. Intangibles - Goodwill and Other – Internal-Use Software, related to accounting for implementation costs incurred in hosted cloud computing service arrangements. Under the new guidance, implementation costs incurred in a hosting arrangement that is a service contract should be expensed or capitalized based on the nature of the costs and the project stage during which such costs are incurred. If the implementation costs qualify for capitalization, they must be amortized over the term of the hosting arrangement and assessed for impairment. Companies must disclose the nature of any hosted cloud computing service arrangements. This ASU also provides guidance for balance sheet and income statement presentation of capitalized implementation costs and statement of cash flows presentation for the related payments. This ASU was effective beginning in the first quarter of the Company’s fiscal year 2021. The Company prospectively adopted this guidance in the first quarter of fiscal year 2021. The adoption of this standard did not have, and is not expected to have, a material impact to the condensed consolidated financial statements.

In November 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-18 which clarified the interaction between Topic 808 and Topic 606, which makes targeted improvements for collaborative arrangements as follows: (a) clarifies that certain transactions between collaborative arrangement participants are within the scope of ASC 606 when the collaborative arrangement participant is a customer in the context of a unit of account. (b) adds unit-of-account (i.e., distinct good or service) guidance to ASC 808 to align with the guidance in ASC 606 to determine whether the collaborative arrangement, or a part of the arrangement, is within the scope of ASC 606, and c) specifies that in a transaction with a collaborative arrangement participant that is not directly related to sales to third parties, if the collaborative arrangement participant is not a customer, an entity is precluded from presenting the transaction together with revenue recognized under ASC 606. The ASU was effective for public business entities for fiscal years ending after December 15, 2019. For all other entities, the ASU was effective for annual reporting periods ending after December 15, 2020. The Company adopted this guidance in the first quarter of fiscal year 2021. The adoption of this standard did not have, and is not expected to have, a material impact to the condensed consolidated financial statements.

In December 2019, the FASB issued ASU No. 2019-12, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Simplifying the Accounting for Income Taxes. The amendments in this ASU simplify the accounting for income taxes by removing certain exceptions to the general principles in Topic 740. The amendments also improve consistent application of and simplify GAAP for other areas of Topic 740 by clarifying and amending existing guidance. The Company adopted this ASU in the first quarter of fiscal 2022 and has identified no material effect on its financial statements or disclosures. 

Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements

 

In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-13, Financial Instruments-Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments, which requires the measurement and recognition of expected credit losses for financial assets held at amortized cost. It also eliminates the concept of other-than-temporary impairment and requires credit losses related to available-for-sale debt securities to be recorded through an allowance for credit losses rather than as a reduction in the amortized cost basis of the securities. These changes will result in more timely recognition of credit losses. The guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2022 for SEC filers that are eligible to be smaller reporting companies under the SEC’s definition, and interim periods within those fiscal years. The Company is currently evaluating the impact this guidance will have on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

 

In August 2020, the FASB issued ASU 2020-06, Debt—Debt with Conversion and Other Options (Subtopic 470-20) and Derivatives and Hedging— Contracts in Entity’s Own Equity (Subtopic 815-40). The FASB issued this ASU to address issues identified as a result of the complexity associated with GAAP for certain financial instruments with characteristics of liabilities and equity. Complexity associated with the accounting is a significant contributing factor to numerous financial statement restatements and results in complexity for users attempting to understand the results of applying the current guidance. In addressing the complexity, the FASB focused on amending the guidance on convertible instruments and the guidance on the derivatives scope exception for contracts in an entity’s own equity. For convertible instruments, the FASB decided to reduce the number of accounting models for convertible debt instruments and convertible preferred stock. Limiting the accounting models results in fewer embedded conversion features being separately recognized from the host contract as compared with current GAAP. Convertible instruments that continue to be subject to separation models are (1) those with embedded conversion features that are not clearly and closely related to the host contract, that meet the definition of a derivative, and that do not qualify for a scope exception from derivative accounting and (2) convertible debt instruments issued with substantial premiums for which the premiums are recorded as paid-in capital. The FASB concluded that eliminating certain accounting models simplifies the accounting for convertible instruments, reduces complexity for preparers and practitioners, and improves the decision usefulness and relevance of the information provided to financial statement users. In addition to eliminating certain accounting models, the FASB also decided to enhance information transparency by making targeted improvements to the disclosures for convertible instruments and earnings-per-share (EPS) guidance on the basis of feedback from financial statement users. The FASB decided to amend the guidance for the derivatives scope exception for contracts in an entity’s own equity to reduce form-over-substance-based accounting conclusions. The FASB observed that the application of the derivatives scope exception guidance results in accounting for some contracts as derivatives while accounting for economically similar contracts as equity. The FASB also decided to improve and amend the related EPS guidance. The amendments in this ASU are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2021,2023, including interim periods within those fiscal years. Early adoption is permitted, but no earlier than fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2020, including interim periods within those fiscal years. The FASB specified that an entity should adopt the guidance as of the beginning of its annual fiscal year. The FASB decided to allow entities to adopt the guidance through either a modified retrospective method of transition or a fully retrospective method of transition. The Company is currently evaluating the impact this ASU will have on its financial statements and related disclosures, as well as the timing of adoption and the application method.

 

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Other recent accounting pronouncements issued by the FASB, including its Emerging Issues Task Force, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and the SEC did not or are not believed by management to have a material impact on the Company’s present or future consolidated financial statement presentation or disclosures.

 

Note 3 — Revenue

 

The following table represents a disaggregation of revenue from contracts with customers for the three and six months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20212022 and 20202021 (in thousands):

 

 Three Months Ended
September 30,
 Six Months Ended
September 30,
  Three Months Ended
June 30,
 
 2021 2020 2021 2020  2022  2021 
Revenue              
Subscription Services $9,879 $7,732 $18,962 $16,602 
Membership Services $12,082  $9,084 
Advertising 8,808 5,492 16,745 5,743   8,942   7,937 
Merchandising 2,956 - 6,616 -   1,849   3,660 
Sponsorship and Licensing 168 204 5,304 1,379   114   5,136 
Ticket/Event  113  1,131  13,064  1,342   235   12,950 
Total Revenue $21,924 $14,559 $60,691 $25,066  $23,222  $38,767 

  

For some contracts, the Company may invoice up front for services recognized over time or for contracts in which the Company has unsatisfied performance obligations. Payment terms and conditions vary by contract type, although terms generally cover monthly payments. In the circumstances where the timing of invoicing differs from the timing of revenue recognition, the Company has determined its contracts do not include a significant financing component. The Company has elected to apply the practical expedient under ASC 606-10-50-14 and not provide disclosure of the amount and timing of performance obligations as the performance obligations are part of a contract that has an original expected duration of one year or less.

 


For the three months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, one customer accounted for 43% and 18%, and a second customer accounted for none and 16% of the Company’s consolidated revenues, respectively.

The following table summarizes the significant changes in contract liabilitiesthe deferred revenue balances during the sixthree months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20212022 (in thousands):

 

 Contract
Liabilities
  Contract
Liabilities
 
Balance as of March 31, 2021 $1,262 
Balance as of March 31, 2022 $1,157 
Revenue recognized that was included in the contract liability at beginning of period  (456)  (506)
Increase due to cash received, excluding amounts recognized as revenue during the period  3,174   330 
Balance as of September 30, 2021 $3,980 
Balance as of June 30, 2022 $981 

 

Note 4 — Business Combinations 

 

Gramophone

On October 17, 2021, the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary, LiveXLive PR, Inc., acquired 100% of the equity interests of Gramophone for net consideration of $0.4 million consisting of 79,365 shares of the Company’s common stock with a fair value of $0.1 million net of a 25% discount for lack of marketability described below, contingent consideration with a fair value of $0.2 million comprised of shares held in escrow and a cash earnout, and cash of $0.2 million. The shares of the Company’s common stock were subject to a twelve-month lock-up period and remain subject to sales volume restrictions.

Fair Value of Consideration Transferred:   
Cash $150 
Common stock  89 
Contingent consideration  174 
Total $413 

Contingent consideration in the form of a cash earnout of $0.3 million will be paid to the seller of Gramophone if, during the period commencing June 1, 2021 and ending on May 31, 2022 (“First Year Target”), Gramophone reports GAAP revenues of $1.4 million and EBITDA (as defined in the purchase agreement) of $0.3 million. If the First Year Target is not met, the cash earnout will be paid to the seller of Gramophone if, during the period commencing June 1, 2022 and ending on May 31, 2023 (“Second Year Target”), Gramophone reports GAAP revenues of $2 million and EBITDA of $0.5 million. Based on their likelihood of achievement management’s current estimate of the value of the contingent consideration related to the cash earnout was valued at $0.2 million. The contingent consideration liability of $0.2 million is classified within Other Long-Term Liabilities in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheets at March 31, 2022 (see Note 14 – Other Long-Term Liabilities). The remaining contingent consideration included in the purchase price was not material and is included in Other Long-Term Liabilities in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheet at March 31, 2022. There was no change in the contingent liability balance attributed to Gramophone during the three months ended June 30, 2022.

Goodwill resulted from acquisition as it is intended to augment and diversify the Company’s single reportable segment. The Company accounted for the acquisition as a business combination. As a result of the acquisition of the stock of Gramophone, the goodwill is not deductible for tax purposes.


The following table summarizes the fair value of the assets assumed in the Gramophone acquisition (in thousands):

Asset Type Amortization
Period
(Years)
  Fair Value 
Cash and cash equivalents     $4 
Accounts receivable      4 
Trade name  5   73 
Customer list  2   94 
Goodwill      459 
Deferred revenue      (51)
Deferred tax liability      (41)
Accrued liabilities      (129)
Net assets acquired           $413 

The Company incurred less than $0.1 million in transaction costs associated with the Gramophone acquisition, which were expensed and included in General and Administrative in the consolidated statement of operations for fiscal year ended March 31, 2022. No transaction cost were incurred during the three months ended June 30, 2022.

PodcastOne

 

On July 1, 2020, the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary, LiveXLive PodcastOne, Inc., acquired 100% of the equity interests of PodcastOne for net consideration of $16.1 million consisting of 5,363,636 shares of the Company’s common stock with a fair value of $14.6 million net of a 24% discount for lack of marketability described below, contingent consideration with a fair value of $1.1 million and an additional true-up of 203,249 shares during the third quarter of fiscal 2021 valued at $0.4 million, net of a 24% discount for lack of marketability described below, that was issued as part of the final purchase price consideration. The shares of the Company’s common stock were subject to a twelve-month lock-up period and remainremains subject to sales volume restrictions. 

  

Fair Value of Consideration Transferred:   
Common stock $14,991 
Contingent consideration  1,100 
Total $16,091 

 

F-10

If, during the period commencing after May 7, 2020 and ending on July 1, 2022, for five consecutive trading days the closing market price of the Company’s common stock exceeds $5.00 per share, an additional aggregate payment of $3.0 million in cash shall be paid to the sellers of PodcastOne in accordance with their respective pro rata percentage within five business days of the second anniversary of the closing date (July 1, 2022). The fair value of this contingent consideration liability on the closing date of July 1, 2020 was estimated at $1.1 million using a Monte Carlo simulation and the significant unobservable input included a credit yield of 21.9%. During March 2021, the closing price of the Company’s common stock exceeded $5.00 per share for the requisite five consecutive days. TheDuring the three months ended June 30, 2022 the Company settled the contingent liability with the sellers for $0.4 million of cash and committed to issue 414,137 shares with an accounting value of $0.4 million, which was recorded in accrued expenses, therefore a $0.1gain of $2.2 million charge towas recognized in other income (expense) induring the accompanying condensed consolidated statement of operations for the sixthree months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2021. The2022 attributed to the settlement of the contingent consideration liability of $2.9 million is classified within Other Current Liabilities in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheets at September 30, 2021 (see(See Note 1420Other Long-Term Liabilities)Subsequent Events).

 

Supplemental Pro Forma Information (Unaudited)Goodwill resulted from acquisition as it is intended to augment and diversify the Company’s single reportable segment. The Company accounted for the acquisition as a business combination. As a result of the acquisition of the stock of PodcastOne, the goodwill is not deductible for tax purposes.

  

The pro forma financial information as presented below is for informational purposes only and is not indicative of operations that would have been achieved fromfollowing table summarizes the acquisitions had they taken place at the beginningfair value of the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021.assets assumed in the PodcastOne acquisition (in thousands):

 

The following table presents the revenues, net loss and earnings per share of the combined company for the three and six months ended September 30, 2020 as if the acquisition of PodcastOne had been completed on April 1, 2020 (in thousands, except per share data).

Asset Type Weighted
Average
Amortization
Period
(Years)
 Fair Value 
Cash and cash equivalents   $1,286 
Accounts receivable    3,951 
Prepaid expense and other assets    316 
Property and equipment    119 
Content creator relationships 1.6  772 
Trade name 10  1,010 
Goodwill    12,042 
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities    (2,934)
Deferred tax asset    972 
Allowance for deferred tax asset    (972)
Note payable    (471)
Net assets acquired   $16,091 

 

  

Three Months Ended September 30, 2020

(unaudited)

 
Revenues $14,559 
Net loss  (10,189)
Net loss per share – basic and diluted $(0.15)

 

  Six Months Ended September 30, 2020 (unaudited) 
Revenues $29,812 
Net loss  (18,904)
Net loss per share – basic and diluted $(0.29)

The Company’s unaudited pro forma supplemental informationfair value of the assets acquired includes accounts receivable of $4.0 million. The gross amount due under contracts is based on estimates and assumptions$4.2 million, of which the$0.2 million is expected to be uncollectible. The Company believes are reasonable and reflect amortizationdid not acquire any other class of intangible assetsreceivable as a result of the acquisition along with interest expense associated with the promissory note issued as consideration. The pro forma results are not necessarily indicative of the results that would have been realized had the acquisitions been consummated as of the beginning of the periods presented.PodcastOne.

 

CPS

 

On December 22, 2020, the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary, LiveXLive Merchandising, Inc., acquired 100% of the equity interests of CPS for total consideration of 2,230,769 shares of the Company’s restricted common stock with a fair value of $6.4 million net of a 25% discount for lack of marketability described below. The shares of the Company’s common stock issued to the sellers arewere subject to a twelve-month lock-up period from the closing date, such that no such shares can be sold, transferred, assigned, hypothecated, or in any way disposed of, or any right or interest therein, whether voluntarily or by operation of law, or by gift or otherwise prior to the expiration of such period.which expired on December 22, 2021.

 

The Company agreed to also issue up to approximately 577,000 additional shares of its restricted common stock, classified as contingent consideration, as CPS reported GAAP revenue of at least $20.0 million and $1.0 million of EBITDA (as defined in the purchase agreement) for its fiscal year ended December 31, 2020. Based on their likelihood of achievement thesethis number of shares reflectreflected management’s current estimate and were valued at $1.7 million based on the Company’s stock price on the date of acquisition, net of a 25% discount for lack of marketability. On July 7, 2021, the Company issued 576,923 shares of its restricted common stock to the sellers of CPS as consideration for CPS having satisfied such targets. Accordingly, the Company recorded a $0.2 million benefit to other income (expense) which is included in the accompanying condensed consolidated statement of operations for the three monthsyear ended September 30, 2021.March 31, 2022.

 

The Company further agreed to issue up to approximately 214,000 additional shares of its restricted common stock to the extent CPS’ final working capital as determined by the parties exceeds $4.0 million. TheseThis number of shares areis based on actual achievement under the terms of the purchase agreement and mutual agreement with the sellers. These additional shares were valued at $0.6 million based on the Company’s stock price on the date of acquisition, net of a 25% discount for lack of marketability. Included in the total amount of $0.6 million is a purchase price adjustment of $0.3 million related to the resolution of provisional amounts previously recorded based on estimates, which was accounted for as a purchase price adjustment within the measurement period as an increase to goodwill related to the CPS acquisition. On July 7, 2021, the Company issued 214,475 shares of its restricted common stock to the sellers of CPS as consideration for CPS having satisfied such target. These amounts are included in additional paid in capital

Fair Value of Consideration Transferred:   
Common stock $6,391 
Additional paid-in capital – common stock to be issued  615 
Contingent consideration  1,654 
Total $8,660 

Goodwill resulted from acquisition as it is intended to augment and diversify the Company’s single reportable segment. The Company accounted for the acquisition as a business combination. As a result of the acquisition of the stock of CPS, the goodwill is not deductible for tax purposes.

The following table summarizes the fair value of the assets assumed in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheets.CPS acquisition (in thousands):

 

Asset Type Weighted
Average
Amortization
Period
(Years)
  Fair Value 
Cash and cash equivalents     $1,132 
Accounts receivable      6,153 
Inventories      2,600 
Prepaid expense      29 
Property and equipment      585 
Wholesale relationship  6   2,500 
Domain name  10   400 
Customer list  5   172 
Goodwill      1,207 
Other assets      53 
Right of use asset      1,086 
Lease liability      (1,086)
Accounts payable      (5,067)
Deferred tax liability      (388)
Other liabilities      (716)
Net assets acquired     $8,660 

The fair value of the assets acquired includes accounts receivable of $6.2 million. The gross amount due under contracts is $6.5 million, of which $0.3 million is expected to be uncollectible. The Company did not acquire any other class of receivable as a result of the acquisition of CPS. 

F-11


 

Supplemental Pro Forma Information (Unaudited)

The pro forma financial information as presented below is for informational purposes only and is not indicative of the Company’s operations that would have been achieved from the acquisitions had they taken place at the beginning of the fiscal years ended March 31, 2022.

The following table presents the revenues, net loss and earnings per share of the combined company for the three months ended June 30, 2021 as if the acquisition of Gramophone had been completed on April 1, 2021 (in thousands, except per share data).

  

Three Months Ended

June 30,
(unaudited)

 
  2021 
    
Revenues $39,031 
Net loss  (7,974)
Net loss per share – basic and diluted $(0.10)

The Company’s unaudited pro forma supplemental information is based on estimates and assumptions which the Company believes are reasonable and reflect amortization of intangible assets as a result of the acquisition. The pro forma results are not necessarily indicative of the results that would have been realized had the acquisitions been consummated as of the beginning of the periods presented. The pro forma amounts include the historical operating results of the Company, with adjustments directly attributable to the acquisition which included amortization of acquired intangible assets of $0.1 million during the three months ended June 30, 2021.

 

Note 5 — Property and Equipment

 

The Company’s property and equipment at SeptemberJune 30, 20212022 and March 31, 20212022 was as follows (in thousands):

 

 September 30, March 31,  June 30, March 31, 
 2021  2021  2022  2022 
Property and equipment, net          
Computer, machinery, and software equipment $5,393  $5,277  $6,623  $6,609 
Furniture and fixtures  141   141   557   556 
Leasehold improvements  531   531   531   531 
Capitalized internally developed software  12,144   10,154   13,101   12,344 
Total property and equipment  18,209   16,103   20,812   20,040 
Less accumulated depreciation and amortization  (13,506)  (11,736)  (16,257)  (15,352)
Total property and equipment, net $4,703  $4,367  $4,555  $4,688 

 

Depreciation expense was $0.9 million and $1.8$0.9 million for the three and six months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively, and $0.8 million and $1.5 million for the three and six months ended September 2020, respectively.


 

Note 6 — Goodwill and Intangible Assets

 

Goodwill

 

The Company currently has one reporting unit. The following table presents the changes in the carrying amount of goodwill for the sixthree months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20212022 (in thousands):

 

  Goodwill 
Balance as of March 31, 2021 $22,619 
Acquisitions  - 
Impairment losses  - 
Purchase price adjustment (See Note 4 – Business Combinations)  301 
Balance as of September 30, 2021 $22,920 
  Goodwill 
Balance as of March 31, 2022 $23,379 
Acquisitions  - 
Balance as of June 30, 2022 $23,379 

 

Indefinite-Lived Intangible Assets

 

The following table presents the changes in the carrying amount of indefinite-lived intangible assets in the Company’s reportable segment for the sixthree months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20212022 (in thousands):

 

 Tradenames  Tradenames 
Balance as of March 31, 2021 $4,637 
Balance as of March 31, 2022 $4,637 
Acquisitions  -   - 
Impairment losses  -   - 
Balance as of September 30, 2021 $4,637 
Balance as of June 30, 2022 $4,637 

 

Finite-Lived Intangible Assets

 

The Company’s finite-lived intangible assets were as follows as of SeptemberJune 30, 20212022 (in thousands):

 

 Gross
Carrying
Value
  Accumulated
Amortization
  Net
Carrying
Value
  Gross
Carrying
Value
  Accumulated
Amortization
  Net
Carrying
Value
 
Software $19,281  $14,461  $4,820  $19,281  $17,353  $1,928 
Intellectual property (patents)  5,366   1,341   4,025   5,366   1,610   3,756 
Customer relationships  6,570   5,915   655   6,570   6,308   262 
Content creator relationships  772   607   165   772   772   - 
Domain names  514   52   462   527   101   426 
Brand and trade names  2,571   353   2,218   2,643   506   2,137 
Non-compete agreement  250   139   111   250   201   49 
Customer lists  2,903   466   2,437   2,998   872   2,126 
Total $38,227  $23,334  $14,893  $38,406  $27,722  $10,684 

 

F-12

The Company’s finite-lived intangible assets were as follows as of March 31, 20212022 (in thousands):

 

 Gross
Carrying
Value
  Accumulated
Amortization
  Net
Carrying
Value
  Gross
Carrying
Value
  Accumulated
Amortization
  Net
Carrying
Value
 
Software $19,281  $12,533  $6,748  $19,281  $16,389  $2,892 
Intellectual property (patents)  5,366   1,163   4,203   5,366   1,520   3,846 
Customer relationships  6,570   5,652   918   6,570   6,177   393 
Content creator relationships  772   371   401   772   772   - 
Domain names  429   31   398   514   83   431 
Brand and trade names  2,571   253   2,318   2,643   454   2,189 
Non-compete agreement  250   97   153   250   181   69 
Customer lists  2,903   211   2,692   2,998   735   2,263 
Total $38,142  $20,311  $17,831  $38,394  $26,311  $12,083 

 


The Company’s amortization expense on its finite-lived intangible assets was $1.5$1.4 million and $3.0$1.5 million for the three and six months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2021, respectively,2022 and $1.4 million and $2.7 million for the three and six months ended 2020,2021, respectively.

 

The Company expects to record amortization of intangible assets for fiscal years ending March 31, 20222023 and future fiscal years as follows (in thousands):

  

For Years Ending March 31,      
2022 (remaining six months) $2,988 
2023  4,482 
2023 (remaining nine months) $3,136 
2024  1,024   1,074 
2025  1,058   1,074 
2026  1,084   1,074 
2027  1,074 
Thereafter  4,257   3,252 
 $14,893  $10,684 

 

Note 7 — Accounts Payable and Accrued Liabilities

 

Accounts payable and accrued liabilities at SeptemberJune 30, 20212022 and March 31, 20212022 were as follows (in thousands):

 

 September 30, March 31,  June 30, March 31, 
 2021  2021  2022  2022 
Accounts payable $20,930  $18,541  $23,527  $29,640 
Accrued liabilities  16,838   13,786   12,501   15,505 
Lease liabilities, current  273   319   273   273 
 $38,041  $32,646  $36,301  $45,418 

  

Note 8 — Notes Payable

 

 September 30, March 31,  June 30, March 31, 
 2021  2021  2022  2022 
Senior promissory note $-  $351 
PPP loans  602   3,110 
SBA loan  157   153  $161  $160 
  759   3,614   161   160 
Less: Current portion of Notes payable  (109)  (2,729)  (13)  (12)
Notes payable $650  $885  $148  $148 

  

Senior Promissory Note

As of September 30, 2021 the promissory note and related Delaware and California judgments have been satisfied in full. 

F-13

SBA Loan

 

On June 17, 2020, the Company received the proceeds from a loan in the amount of less than $0.2 million from the U.S. Small Business Administration (the “SBA”).SBA. Installment payments, including principal and interest, begin 12-months from the date of the promissory note. The balance is payable 30-years from the date of the promissory note, and bears interest at a rate of 3.75% per annum. The Company was in compliance with all debt covenants associated with the SBA loan as of June 30, 2022.

 

PPP Loans

 

In April 2020, the Company received proceeds of $2.0 million from a loan under the Paycheck Protection Program (the “PPP”) of the CARES Act. OnPPP loan. In April 22,2021, the Company received confirmation from the SBA that the entire balance of such PPP loan was forgiven as a result of the Company’s application and acceptance under the terms of the CARES act.Act. On July 1, 2020, the Company acquired PodcastOne that had previously obtained a PPP loan, which had a balance of $0.5 million as of March 31, 2021. On May 11, 2021, the Company received confirmation from the SBA that the entire balance of such PPP loan wasloans were forgiven as a result of the Company’s application and acceptance under the terms of the CARES act.

The Company recognized a $2.5 million gain on forgiveness of PPP loans, included in other income (expense) in the accompanying condensed consolidated statement of operations as a result of the balance of PPP loans forgiven during the six months ended September 30, 2021. We have not accrued any liability associated with the risk of an adverse SBA review.Act.

 

On March 20, 2021, the Company received proceeds of $0.6 million from a second loan (the “PPP loan”“Second PPP Loan”) under the PPP of the CARES Act, which the Company intends to use to retain employees and for other qualifying expenses. The Second PPP Loan matures on March 20, 2026 and bears annual interest at a rate of 1.0%. Commencing onIn March 31, 2022, the Company is required to payreceived confirmation from the lender equal monthly paymentsSBA that the entire balance of principal and interest as required to fully amortize by March 20, 2026 any principal amount outstanding on the Second PPP Loan was forgiven as of such date. All or a portion of this loan may be forgiven by the SBA upon application by the Company before the maturity dateresult of the loanCompany’s application and upon documentation of expenditures in accordance withacceptance under the SBA requirements. In the event the loans, or any portion thereof, are forgiven pursuant to the PPP, the amount forgiven is applied to outstanding principal. The application for these funds requires the Company to, in good faith, certify that the current economic uncertainty made the loan request necessary to support the ongoing operationsterms of the Company. This certification further requires theCARES Act.

The Company to consider its current business activity and its ability to access other sources of liquidity sufficient to support ongoing operations inrecognized a manner that is not significantly detrimental to the business. The receipt of these funds, and the$2.5 million gain on forgiveness of PPP loans, included in total other expense, net in the accompanying condensed consolidated statement of operations as a result of the balance of the first PPP loan attendant to these funds, is dependent onbeing forgiven during the Company having initially qualified for the loan and qualifying for the forgiveness of such loan based on its future adherence to the forgiveness criteria.three months ended June 30, 2021.


 

Note 9 — Unsecured Convertible Notes

 

The Company’s unsecured convertible notes payable at SeptemberJune 30, 20212022 and March 31, 20212022 were as follows (in thousands): 

 

  September 30,
2021
  March 31,
2021
 
Unsecured Convertible Notes - Related Party      
8.5% Unsecured Convertible Note - Due May 31, 2023 $4,550  $4,397 
8.5% Unsecured Convertible Notes - Due May 31, 2023  1,141   1,104 
Less: Discount  -   - 
Net  5,691   5,501 
         
Unsecured Convertible Promissory Note $2,000  $2,000 
Accrued Interest  273   186 
Less: Discount  (92)  (223)
Fair Value of Embedded Derivatives  1   13 
Net  2,182   1,976 
Unsecured Convertible Notes, Net  7,873   7,477 
Less: Unsecured Convertible Notes, Current  (2,182)  (1,976)
Unsecured Convertible Notes, Net, Long-term $5,691  $5,501 
  June 30,
2022
  March 31,
2022
 
Unsecured Convertible Notes - Related Party      
8.5% Unsecured Convertible Note - Due June 3, 2024 $4,777  $4,702 
8.5% Unsecured Convertible Notes - Due June 3, 2024  1,191   1,177 
Net  5,968   5,879 
Less: Unsecured Convertible Notes, Current  -   - 
Unsecured Convertible Notes, Net, Long-term $5,968  $5,879 

  

F-14

The Company incurred interest expense of $0.1 million and $0.2 million attributed to its unsecured convertible notes for the three months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively. Total principal maturities of the Company’s long-term borrowings, including the secured convertible notes, unsecured convertible notes senior secured revolving line of credit, and notes payable are $2.2$6.0 million for the year ending March 31, 2022 (remaining six months), $0.1 million for the year ending March 31, 2023, and $26.7 million for the year ending March 31, 2024. For the year ended March 31, 2025 and thereafter, the total principal maturities of $0.4 million consist of obligations to repay the PPP and SBA loans.

 

Unsecured Convertible Notes – Related Party 

 

As of SeptemberJune 30, 20212022 and March 31, 2021,2022, the Company had outstanding 8.5% unsecured convertible notes payable (the “Trinad Notes”) issued to Trinad Capital Master Fund Ltd. (“Trinad Capital”), a fund controlled by Mr. Ellin, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, Chairman, director and principal stockholder, as followsdiscussed below. The Trinad Notes are convertible into shares of the Company’s common stock at a fixed conversion price of $3.00 per share.

 

The first Trinad Note was issued on February 21, 2017, to convert aggregate principal and interest of $3.6 million under the first senior promissory note and second senior promissory note with Trinad Capital previously issued on December 31, 2014 and April 8, 2015, respectively. The first Trinad Note was due on March 31, 2018 and was extended to May 31, 2023, (as discussed below)and in July 2022 the Trinad Notes were extended until July 1, 2024 (See Note 20 – Subsequent Events). At SeptemberJune 30, 2021,2022, the balance due of $4.6$6.0 million, which included $1.0$1.5 million of accrued interest, was outstanding under the first Trinad Note. At March 31, 2021,2022, the balance due of $4.4$5.9 million, which included $1.0$1.4 million of accrued interest, was outstanding under the first Trinad Note.

 

Between October 27, 2017 and December 18, 2017, the Company issued six unsecured convertible notes payable to Trinad Capital for aggregate total principal amount of $1.1 million.million and were charged an 8.5% interest rate. The notes were due on various dates through December 31, 2018 and were extended to May 31, 2023 (as discussed below)and in July 2022 the Trinad Notes were extended until July 1, 2024 (See Note 20 – Subsequent Events). As of SeptemberJune 30, 2021, $0.22022 and March 31, 2022, $0.4 million and $0.3 million of accrued interest was included in the principal balance.balance, respectively. 

 

On August 11, 2021, the Company entered into an Amendment of Notes Agreement (the “Amendment Agreement”) with Trinad Capital pursuant to which the maturity date of all of the Trinad Notes was extended to May 31, 2023, and in consideration of such extension, the Company issued to Trinad Capital 33,654 shares of its common stock. The Company evaluated the Amendment Agreement and the amendment was required to be accounted for as an extinguishment under ASC 470-50, Debt – Modifications and Extinguishment. As a result, we determined that the amendment should be accounted for as an extinguishment and we recorded the amended debt instrument at fair value which included the consideration in common stock transferred. The resulting loss on extinguishment recorded of $4.3 million is included in “Lossloss on extinguishment of debt”debt in the accompanyingCompany’s condensed consolidated statement of operations for the three monthsyear ended September 30, 2021. March 31, 2022. In addition, the Company recorded a $4.2 million benefit to additional paid in capital as a result of the excess of the deemed fair value of the Trinad Notes over the principal and accrued interest outstanding at the time of extinguishment.

 

The Company may not redeem any of the Trinad Notes prior to May 31, 2023maturity without Trinad Capital’s consent.

 

Unsecured Convertible Promissory Note

 

On February 5, 2020, React Presents issued a two-year $2.0$2 million Convertible Promissory Note (the “Note”), bearing annual interest at 8%. The purpose of the Note was to fund the acquisition of React Presents. All unpaid and outstanding principal and any unpaid and accrued interest arewas due on February 5, 2022. TheAt issuance, the Note iswas convertible by the holder at any time prior to maturity in part or in whole with the unpaid interest and principal convertible at a conversion price equal to $4.50 per share of the Company’s common stock, subject to certain protective adjustments. The Note may be prepaid in whole or in part in cash without penalty at any time prior to maturity. Any such prepayment will be applied to accrued interest first and then the principal.

 

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At SeptemberJune 30, 2021, the Company performed a fair value analysis using a binomial lattice calculation on the derivative instruments using the following assumptions: Coupon Rate: 8.0%, Term: 0.40.6 years, Volatility: 63.4%85.2%, Market Rate: 4.7%5.1% and Probability of Default: 6.6%7.1%. The Company determined that as of the assessment date, the fair value of the embedded derivative instrument, including theis $0.1 million. The change in fair value was not material.of less than $0.1 million is recorded in other income (expense) on the Company’s consolidated statements of operations for the three months ended June 30, 2021.

 Effective December 31, 2021, the Note holder converted the Note in whole pursuant to an exchange agreement entered into during the year ended March 31, 2022, which provided for an exchange of the Note into shares of the Company’s common stock at a price of $2.10 per share, resulting in 1,155,143 shares issued upon the exchange. As a result of the effective exchange incentives offered to the Note holder, the Company recorded a $0.8 million expense to Other Income (expense) in the condensed consolidated statement of operations for the year ended March 31, 2022. 

 

Note 10 — Secured Convertible Notes

 

The Company’s senior secured convertible notes at SeptemberJune 30, 20212022 and March 31, 20212022 were as follows (in thousands): 

 

 September 30,
2021
  March 31,
2021
  June 30,
2022
  March 31,
2022
 
Secured Convertible Notes $15,000  $15,000  $15,000  $15,000 
Accrued interest  319   319 
Fair value of embedded derivatives  20   118   38   18 
Less: Discount  (1,872)  (2,071)  (1,100)  (1,368)
Net  13,467   13,366   13,938   13,650 
Less: Current Portion, accrued interest  (319)  (319)  -   - 
Secured Convertible Notes, long-term $13,148  $13,047  $13,938  $13,650 

  

On September 15, 2020 (the “Closing Date”), the Company issued two-year senior secured convertible notes in the aggregate principal amount of $15.0 million (the “Harvest Notes”) to Harvest Small Cap Partners, L.P. and Harvest Small Cap Partners, Ltd. (collectively, the “Purchaser”). The Purchaser are funds affiliated with No Street Capital, a San Francisco-based investment firm.

  

The Harvest Notes, as amended, mature on the second anniversary of the Closing Date,June 3, 2024, accrue interest at 8.5% per year with interest is payable quarterly in cash in arrears, and are convertible into shares of the Company’s common stock at a conversion price of $4.50 per share at the applicable Purchaser’s option, subject to certain customary adjustments such as stock splits, stock dividends and stock combinations (the “Conversion Price”). The Company does not have the right to prepay any or all of the Harvest Notes prior to their maturity.

 

The current portion of accrued interest related to the Harvest Notes is included in Accounts payable and accrued liabilities in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheets.

 

The Company’s obligations under the Harvest Notes may be accelerated upon the occurrence of certain customary events of default (as defined in the Harvest Notes) and are guaranteed under a Subsidiary Guarantee, dated as of the Closing Date (the “Subsidiary Guarantee”), entered into by all of the Company’s subsidiaries (the “Guarantors”) in favor of the Purchaser. The Company’s obligations under the Harvest Notes and the Guarantors’ obligations under the Subsidiary Guarantee are secured under a Security Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date (the “Security Agreement”), and an Intellectual Property Security Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date (the “IP Security Agreement”), by a lien on all of the Company’s and the Guarantors’ assets and intellectual property, subject to certain exceptions. The Harvest Notes require the Company to maintain aggregate cash deposits of $10.0$7.0 million until the Harvest Notes are paid in full. In JuneMay 2021 and in connection with the Company entering into a $7.0$7 million senior secured revolving credit facility, the holders of the Harvest Notes subordinated their security interest to the Senior Lender and extended the maturity date of the notes to June 3, 2023. In consideration of the above, the Company issued 60,000 shares of its restricted common stock valued at $0.3 million to the Purchaser. In July 2022, the holders of the Harvest Notes extended the maturity date of the notes to June 3, 2024.

 

TheIn May 2021, the Company evaluated this agreement and determined that it was required to be accounted for as troubled debt restructuring under ASC 470-60, Troubled Debt Restructurings by Debtors. As a result, the Company recorded the shares of common stock issued to the Purchaser as an increase to Additional Paid In Capital and a corresponding debt discount included in Secured Convertible Notes, net in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheets.

 

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The Company and the Purchaser also entered into a Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date (the “RRA”), which granted the Assignees “demand” and “piggyback” registration rights to register the shares of Common Stock issuable upon the conversion of the Notes and the Shares (collectively, the “Registrable Securities”) with the SEC for resale or other disposition. Pursuant to the RRA, the Company was required to file with the SECfiled a resale Registration Statement on Form S-3 (or another suitable form) as soon as reasonably practical after the Closing Date, but in any event within 30 days after the Closing Date (the “Filing Date”), and have such Registration Statement be declared effective by the SEC on the date (the “Effectiveness Date”) which is the earlier of (i)(x) in the event that the initial Registration Statement is not subject to a full review by the SEC, 45 calendar days after the Filing Date, or (y) in the event that such initial Registration Statement is subject to a full review by the SEC, 90 calendar days after the Filing Date, and (ii) the fifth Business Day after the date the Company is notified by the SEC that such initial Registration Statement will not be reviewed or will not be subject to further review. Upon the occurrence of certain events (each an “Event”), the Company will be required to pay liquidated damages in cash to each of the Assignees in the amount of 2.0% of the purchase price of the Harvest Notes paid by such Assignee upon the date of the Event and then monthly thereafter until the Event is cured. In no event shall the aggregate amount of liquidated damages payable to each of the Assignees exceed in the aggregate 15% of the purchase price of the Harvest Notes paid by such Assignee. We filed such resale Registration Statement on Form S-3 on October 14, 2020, and it was declared effective by the SEC on October 21, 2020. The Company also agreed to keep the initial Registration Statement continuously effective until the earliest to occur of (i) the date on which all of the Registrable Securities registered thereunder have been sold and (ii) the date on which all of the Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement may be sold without volume restriction pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act.Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).

 

In connection with the SPA, and the Harvest Notes subsequent extension, Robert S. Ellin, the Company’s CEO, Chairman, director and principal stockholder, agreed not to dispose of any equity securities of the Company owned by Mr. Ellin or any entity of which he is the beneficial owner and not to cease to be the beneficial owner of any other equity securities of the Company of which Mr. Ellin iswas the beneficial owner as of June 3, 2021 until the Harvest Notes are paid in full (subject to certain customary exceptions), without the Purchaser’s prior written consent.

 

The Harvest Notes and the Shares were issued in private placement transaction that was not registered under the Securities Act, in reliance upon applicable exemptions from registration under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act and/or Rule 506 of Regulation D promulgated thereunder.

The Company recorded $0.3 million and $0.3 million in interest expense associated with the Harvest Notes for the three months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively, of which $0.1 million and $0.1 million was attributed to the accretion of the debt discount associated with the senior secured convertible notes.

The Company was in compliance with all debt covenants associated with their senior secured convertible debt as of June 30, 2022.

 

Note 11 — Senior Secured Revolving Line of Credit

 

On June 7,2, 2021, the Company entered into a Business Loan Agreement with East West Bank (the “Senior Lender”), which provides for a revolving credit facility collateralized by all of the assets of the Company and its subsidiaries. In connection with the Business Loan Agreement, the Company entered into a Promissory Note with the Senior Lender and established the revolving line of credit in the amount of $7.0 million (the “Revolving Credit Facility”), maturing on June 2, 2023. Subsequent to June 30, 2022 the Revolving Credit Facility maturity was extended to June 2024 as described in Note 20 – Subsequent Events. Under the terms of the Promissory Note, the Revolving Credit Facility bears interest at a variable rate equal to the Wall Street Journal Prime Rate, plus 0.5%. The interest rate for the quarterperiod ended SeptemberJune 30, 20212022 was 3.75%.5.25%

 

The principal balance under the Revolving Credit Facility as of SeptemberJune 30, 20212022 was $7.0 million. The Company was in compliance with all debt covenants associated with the senior secured revolving line of credit as of June 30, 2022.

 

Note 12 — Related Party Transactions

 

As of SeptemberJune 30, 20212022 and March 31, 2021,2022, the Company had unsecured convertible Trinad Notes outstanding which were issued to Trinad Capital as described in Note 9 – Unsecured Convertible Notes.


 

Note 13 — Leases

 

The Company leases a space at a location under a non-cancellable operating lease with a remaining lease term of 1 year, expiringwhich originally expired in fiscal year 2022.2022 and was renewed for an additional year. On December 22, 2020, the Company acquired CPS which included the assumption of an operating lease for a 55,120 square foot light manufacturing facility located in Addison Illinois, expiring June 30, 2024.

 

The Company leases several office locations with lease terms that are less than 12 months or are on month to month terms. Rent expense for these leases totaled less than $0.1 million and $0.2 million for the three and six months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively. Operating leases with lease terms of greater than 12 months are capitalized in operating lease right-of-use assets and operating lease liabilities in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheets. Rent expense for these operating leases totaled $0.3 million and $0.5$0.2 million during each of the three and six months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively.

 

Operating lease costs for sixthe three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20212022 and 20202021 consisted of the following (in thousands):

 

 Six Months Ended
September 30,
  Three Months Ended
June 30,
 Three Months Ended
June 30,
 
 2021  2020  2022  2021 
Fixed rent cost $532   46  $106   228 
Short term lease cost  168   282   48   68 
Total operating lease cost $700   328  $154   296 

 

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Supplemental balance sheet information related to leases was as follows (in thousands):

 

Operating leases September 30,
2021
  March 31,
2021
  June 30,
2022
  March 31,
2022
 
Operating lease right-of-use assets $873   1,057  $655   728 
                
Operating lease liability, current $274   319  $273   273 
Operating lease liability, noncurrent  610   742   395   468 
Total operating lease liabilities $884   1,061  $668   741 

   

The operating lease right-of-use assets are included in other assets and current operating lease liabilities are included in accounts payable and accrued liabilities and lease liabilities non-current in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheets.

 

Maturities of operating lease liabilities as of SeptemberJune 30, 20212022 were as follows (in thousands):

 

For Years Ending March 31,      
2022 (remaining six months)  176 
2023  358 
2023 (remaining nine months) $279 
2024  320   320 
2025  93   93 
Total lease payments  947   692 
Less: imputed interest  (63)  (24)
Present value of operating lease liabilities $884  $668 

  

Significant judgments

 

Discount rate – the Company’s lease is discounted using the Company’s incremental borrowing rate of 8.5% as the rate implicit in the lease is not readily determinable.

 

Options – the lease term is the minimum noncancelable period of the lease. The Company does not include option periods unless the Company determined it is reasonably certain of exercising the option at inception or when a triggering event occurs.

 

Lease and non-lease components – Non lease components were considered and determined not to be material 

 

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Note 14 — Other Long-Term Liabilities

 

On October 30, 2020, Slacker entered into an amendment to existing agreements with a certain licensor of music content (the “Music Partner”) which own and license rights to Slacker to certain sound recordings. Pursuant to this amendment, payment terms on $5.9 million of outstanding balances to the Music Partner were extended over periods between 12 and 24 months.

  September 30,
2021
  March 31,
2021
 
Due to Music Partner $577  $3,937 
Other long-term liabilities  -   2,422 

The amount included in Other long-term liabilities at March 31, 2021 is comprised of a contingent consideration liability resulting from the business combination with PodcastOneGramophone (Note 4 - Business Combinations) and is carried at fair value (see Note 19 - Fair Value Measurements). At September 30, 2021 the contingent consideration liability is classified as current in other current liabilities in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheets.

 

Note 15 — Commitments and Contingencies

 

Promotional Rights

 

Certain of the Company’s content acquisition agreements contain minimum guarantees, and require that the Company makes upfront minimum guarantee payments. As of SeptemberJune 30, 2021,2022, the Company has licenses, production and/or distribution agreements to make guaranteed payments as follows: $0.7$0.1 million for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2022 (remaining six months), $0.7 million for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2023, and $0.3 million for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2024.2023. These agreements also provide for a revenue share that ranges between 35% and 50% of net revenues. In addition, there are other licenses, production and/or distribution agreements that provide for a revenue share of 50% on net revenues; however, without a requirement to make future minimum guaranteed payments irrespective to the execution and results of the planned events.

 

Contractual Obligations

 

As of SeptemberJune 30, 2021,2022, the Company is obligated under agreements with Content Providers and other contractual obligations to make guaranteed payments as follows: $4.5 million for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2022 (remaining six months), $6.7$3.7 million for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2023, and $5.7$0.5 million for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2024.2024, $0.3 million for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2025 and $0.2 million for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2026.

 

On a quarterly basis, the Company records the greater of the cumulative actual content acquisition costs incurred or the cumulative minimum guarantee based on forecasted usage for the minimum guarantee period. The minimum guarantee period is the period of time that the minimum guarantee relates to, as specified in each agreement, which may be annual or a longer period. The cumulative minimum guarantee, based on forecasted usage, considers factors such as listening hours, revenue, subscribersmembers and other terms of each agreement that impact the Company’s expected attainment or recoupment of the minimum guarantees based on the relative attribution method.

 

Several of the Company’s content acquisition agreements also include provisions related to the royalty payments and structures of those agreements relative to other content licensing arrangements, which, if triggered, could cause the Company’s payments under those agreements to escalate. In addition, record labels, publishers and performing rights organizations with whom the Company has entered into direct license agreements have the right to audit the Company’s content acquisition payments, and any such audit could result in disputes over whether the Company has paid the proper content acquisition costs. However, as of SeptemberJune 30, 2021,2022, the Company does not believe it is probable that these provisions of its agreements discussed above will, individually or in the aggregate, have a material adverse effect on its business, financial position, results of operations or cash flows.

 

Employment Agreements

F-19As of June 30, 2022, the Company has employment agreements with three named executive officers (“Section 16 Officers”) that provide salary payments of $0.5 million and target bonus compensation of up to $0.5 million on an annual basis. Furthermore, such employment agreements contain severance clauses that could require severance payments in the aggregate amount of $10.5 million (excluding the value of potential payouts of discretionary bonuses, pro-rata bonuses, and potential accelerated vesting of equity awards granted to such executive officers).

 

Legal Proceedings 

In March 2018, Manatt Phelps& Phillips, LLP (“Manatt”) served the Company with a complaint filed on February 22, 2018 in the Supreme Court of the State of California County of Los Angeles against the Company. As of September 30, 2021, the promissory note and related Delaware and California judgments have been satisfied in full.

 

On April 10, 2018, Joseph Schnaier, Danco Enterprises, LLC (an entity solely owned by Mr. Schnaier, “Danco”), Wantmcs Holdings, LLC (Mr. Schnaier is the managing member) and Wantickets (Mr. Schnaier is the 90% beneficial owner) filed a complaint in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York against each of the Company, LiveXLive Tickets, Inc. (“LXL Tickets,Tickets”), Robert S. Ellin Alec Ellin, Blake Indursky and Computershare Trust Company, N.A. (“Computershare”).certain other defendants. Plaintiffs subsequently voluntarily dismissed all claims against Alec Ellin and Blake Indursky.the other defendants. The complaint alleged multiple causes of action arising out of Schnaier’s investment (through Danco) of $1.25 million into the Company in 2016, the Company’sLXL Tickets’ purchase of certain operating assets of Wantickets pursuant to the Asset Purchase Agreement, dated as of May 5, 2017, and Mr. Schnaier’s employment with LXL Tickets, including claims for fraudulent inducement, breach of contract, conversion, and defamation. Plaintiffs seek monetary damages and injunctive relief. Plaintiffs have also sued Computershare for negligence and for injunctive relief relating toBased on the refusal to transfer certain restricted shares of the Company’s common stock owned by the plaintiffs. Plaintiffsremaining claims, plaintiffs are seeking injunctive relief, damages of approximately $26.7$10.0 million as shall be determined at trial, if any, plus interest, attorneys’ fees and costs and other such relief as the court may award. The Company has denied and continue to deny plaintiffs’ claims. The Company believes that the complaint is an intentional act by the plaintiffs to publicly tarnish the Company’s and its senior management’s reputations through the public domain in an effort to obtain by threat of litigation certain results for Mr. Schnaier’s self-serving and improper purposes. The Company is vigorously defending this lawsuit and the Company believes that the allegations are without merit and that it has strong defenses. On June 26, 2018, the Company and LXL Tickets, filed counterclaims against the plaintiffs for breach of contract (including under the Asset Purchase Agreement), fraudulent inducement, and other causes of action, seeking injunctive relief, damages, attorneys’ fees and expenses and such other relief as the court may award. The parties are currently engaged in pre-trial proceedings, including continuing discovery efforts with the trial not expected to commence, if any, until the Company’s fiscal year ending March 31, 2022 (unless further delayed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic). In October 2018, pursuant to the terms of the APA, the Company submitted a formal demand to Wantickets, Mr. Schnaier and Danco to indemnify the Company, among other things, for its costs and expenses incurred in connection with this matter. In November 2021, the court denied the Company’s summary judgment motion to dismiss plaintiffs’ fraudulent inducement claim, and dismissed plaintiff’s breach of the employment agreement claim with respect to the Company. As of March 31, 2021,June 30, 2022, all of plaintiffs’ claims other than fraudulent inducement and breach of the employment agreement were dismissed or addressed by the parties or the court. In March 2021, the Company filed its summary judgement motion, and the plaintiffs filed their opposition to the motion. The oral argument on the summary judgment motion is scheduled for November 4, 2021. While a trial date has not yet been set, if the Company’s summary judgment motion is not successful, the Company expects the trial to commence sometime during the fiscal year endedending March 31, 2023. Trial date is expected to be set by the court on August 30, 2022. The Company intends to continue to vigorously defend all remaining defendants against any liability to the plaintiffs with respect to the remaining claims.claims, and the Company believes that the allegations are without merit and that it has strong defenses. As of SeptemberJune 30, 2021,2022, while the Company has assessed that the likelihood of a loss, if any, is not probable, the outcome of this lawsuit is inherently uncertain and the potential range of loss could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s business, financial condition and results of operations.

 

In July 2021, Simply Greatness Productions, LLC (“SGP”) filed a complaint against the Company and Paul Cazers in the Superior Court of the State of California County of Los Angeles. The complaint seeks damages for an alleged breach of contract by the Company and an alleged breach of contract by Mr. Cazers related to the “Social Gloves: Battle of the Platforms” boxing event (the “Event”), alleges that the Company fraudulently induced SGP to commit to an oversize production budget based upon the Company’s knowing or negligent misrepresentation as to the anticipated pay-per-view sales for the Event, and seeks an accounting on the performance of the Event. The Company intends to file an answer to the complaint and to vigorously defend itself against any liability to the plaintiffs with respect to the claims.

In July 2021, the Company filed a complaint against SGP, Austin McBroom, Catherine Paiz McBroom and Allen McBroom in the Superior Court of the State of California County of Los Angeles. The complaint arises from defamatory statements the defendants made following the Event claiming that the Company lied about the ticket sales. SGP’s financial auditor has validated the Company’s representations. In addition, the complaint alleges a breach of contract based on SGP’s willful failure to collaborate with the Company on marketing the Event resulting in poor ticket sales which, in turn, meant reduced fees to the Company. The complaint further alleges fraud and intentional interference with prospective economic advantage. The Company is asking the court to award no less than $100 million in damages.

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On June 28, 2022, SoundExchange, Inc. (“SX”) filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court, Central District of California, against the Company and Slacker. The complaint alleges that the defendants have failed to make the necessary music royalty payments and corresponding late fees required under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act late allegedly due to SX. SX filed an application for an order to file the complaint under seal. The Company believes it has already adequately reserved for the amounts due to SX in the Company’s financial statements included in this Quarterly Report. The Company is currently negotiating with SX to resolve this matter and if necessary, intends to hire counsel to defend the defendants in this matter.

During each of the six monthsquarters ended SeptemberJune 30, 20212022 and 2020,2021, the Company recorded aggregate legal settlement expenses relating to potential claims arising in connection with litigation brought against the Company by certain third-parties of $0.1 millionwere not material and $0, respectively. During the six months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, the full amounts were expensed and included in general and administrative expenses in the accompanying condensed consolidated statement of operations.

 

From time to time, the Company is involved in legal proceedings and other matters arising in connection with the conduct of its business activities. Many of these proceedings may be at preliminary stages and/or seek an indeterminate amount of damages. In the opinion of management, after consultation with legal counsel, such routine claims and lawsuits are not significant and we do not currently expect them to have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations, or liquidity.

 

Note 16 — Employee Benefit Plan

 

Effective March 2019, theThe Company sponsors a 401(k) plan (the “401(k) Plan”) covering all employees. Prior to March 31, 2019, only Slacker employees were eligible to participate in the 401(k) Plan. Employees are eligible to participate in the 401(k) Plan the first day of the calendar month following their date of hire. The Company may make discretionary matching contributions to the 401(k) Plan on behalf of its employees up to a maximum of 100% of the participant’s elective deferral up to a maximum of 5% of the employees’ annual compensation. The Company’s matching contributions were not material to the financial statements for the three and six month periods ended SeptemberJune 30, 20212022 and 2020.2021.

 

Note 17 — Stockholders’ EquityDeficit 

 

Issuance of Restricted Shares of Common Stock for Services to Consultants and Vendors

 

During the sixthree months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2021,2022, the Company incurred $0.6$0.7 million in accounts payable and accrued liabilities for stock earned by its consultants, but not yet issued. The remaining unrecognized compensation cost of $0.2 million is expected to be recorded over the next year as the shares vest.

During the six months ended September 30, 2020, the Company incurred $0.8 million in accounts payable and accrued liabilities for stock earned by its consultants, but not yet issued.

 

2016 Equity Incentive Plan

 

The Company’s board of directors and stockholders approved the Company’s 2016 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended (the “2016 Plan”) which reserved a total of 12,600,000 shares of the Company’s common stock for issuance. On September 17, 2020, our stockholders approved the amendment to the 2016 Plan to increase the number of shares available for issuance under the plan by 5,000,000 shares increasing the total up to 17,600,000 shares which plan wethe Company formally increased on June 29,30, 2021. Incentive awards authorized under the 2016 Plan include, but are not limited to, nonqualified stock options, incentive stock options, restricted stock awards, restricted stock units, performance grants intended to comply with Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), and stock appreciation rights. If an incentive award granted under the 2016 Plan expires, terminates, is unexercised or is forfeited, or if any shares are surrendered to the Company in connection with the exercise of an incentive award, the shares subject to such award and the surrendered shares will become available for further awards under the 2016 Plan.

 

The Company recognized share-based compensation expense of $9.9$0.8 million and $5.3 million during the six months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, respectively, and $4.8 million and $2.5$5.1 million during the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20212022 and 2020,2021, respectively. The total tax benefit recognized related to share-based compensation expense was $0 for the 3 and 6three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20212022 and 2020, respectively.2021.


 

Authorized Common Stock and Authority to Create Preferred Stock

The Company has the authority to issue up to 510,000,000 shares, consisting of 500,000,000 shares of the Company’s common stock, $0.001 par value per share, and 10,000,000 shares of the Company’s preferred stock, $0.001 par value per share (the “preferred stock”).

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The Company may issue shares of preferred stock from time to time in one or more series, each of which will have such distinctive designation or title as shall be determined by the Company’s board of directors and will have such voting powers, full or limited, or no voting powers, and such preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights and such qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, as shall be stated in the resolution or resolutions providing for the issue of such class or series of preferred stock as may be adopted from time to time by the Company’s board of directors.  The Company’s board of directors will have the power to increase or decrease the number of shares of preferred stock of any series after the issuance of shares of that series, but not below the number of shares of such series then outstanding.  In case the number of shares of any series shall be decreased, the shares constituting such decrease will resume the status of authorized but unissued shares of preferred stock.

 

While the Company does not currently have any plans for the issuance of preferred stock, the issuance of such preferred stock could adversely affect the rights of the holders of common stock and, therefore, reduce the value of the common stock. It is not possible to state the actual effect of the issuance of any shares of preferred stock on the rights of holders of the common stock until and unless the Company’s board of directors determines the specific rights of the holders of the preferred stock; however, these effects may include: restricting dividends on the common stock, diluting the voting power of the common stock, impairing the liquidation rights of the common stock, or delaying or preventing a change in control of the Company without further action by the stockholders.

Stock Repurchase Program

In December 2020, we announced that our board of directors has authorized the repurchase up to 2 million shares of our outstanding common stock from time to time. The timing, price, and quantity of purchases under the program will be at the discretion of our management and will depend upon a variety of factors including share price, general and business market conditions, compliance with applicable laws and regulations, corporate and regulatory requirements, and alternative uses of capital. The program may be expanded, suspended, or discontinued by our board of directors at any time. Although our board of directors has authorized this stock repurchase program, there is no guarantee as to the exact number of shares, if any, that will be repurchased by us, and we may discontinue purchases at any time that management determines additional purchases are not warranted. We cannot guarantee that the program will be consummated, fully or all, or that it will enhance long-term stockholder value. The program could affect the trading price of our common stock and increase volatility, and any announcement of a termination of this program may result in a decrease in the trading price of our common stock. In addition, this program could diminish our cash reserves. The Company purchased 1,186,221 and no shares of its common stock under the stock repurchase program for the three months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, for a total of $1.0 million and none, respectively.

 

Note 18 — Business Segment and Geographic Reporting

The Company determined its operating segments in accordance with ASC 280, “Segment Reporting” (“ASC 280”).

 

Management has determined that the Company has 1 operating segment. The Company’s reporting segment reflects the manner in which its chief operating decision maker (“CODM”) reviews results and allocates resources. The CODM reviews operating segment performance exclusive of: share-based compensation expense, amortization of intangible assets, depreciation, and other expenses (including legal fees, expenses, and accruals) related to acquisitions, associated integration activities, and certain other non-cash charges.

 

The Company’s single operating segment is also consistent with our internal organizational structure, the way we assess operating performance and allocate sources.

 

Customers

 

The Company has 1one and two external customercustomers that accounts for more than 10% of its revenue during the sixthree months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2022 and 2021, and 2020.respectively. Such customer iscustomers included an original equipment manufacturer (the “OEM”) who provides premium Slacker service in all of their new vehicles. Total revenues for thisvehicles and a production customer were 24% and 45% ofin connection with the Company’s consolidated revenues for the six months ended September 30,June 2021 and 2020, respectively. ForSocial Gloves event. In the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2022 and 2021, total revenue from the OEM was $10.0 million and 2020, 1 external$6.9 million, respectively. In the three months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, total revenue from the production customer accounted for 35% of the Company’s consolidated revenues.was none and $6.4 million, respectively.

 


Geographic Information

The Company operates as an internet live music streaming platform based in the United States. All material revenues of the Company are derived from the United States. All long-lived assets of the Company are located in the United States.

 

Note 19 — Fair Value Measurements

 

The following table presents the fair value of the Company’s financial liabilities that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis (in thousands):

 

  September 30,
2021
 
  Fair  Hierarchy Level 
  Value  Level 1  Level 2  Level 3 
Liabilities:            
Contingent consideration liability from PodcastOne acquisition $2,897  $-  $-  $2,897 
Contingent consideration liability from CPS acquisition  -   -   -   - 
Bifurcated embedded derivative on secured convertible notes payable  21   -   -   21 
Bifurcated embedded derivative on unsecured convertible note payable  -   -   -   - 
  June 30, 2022 
  Fair  Hierarchy Level 
  Value  Level 1  Level 2  Level 3 
Liabilities:            
Contingent consideration liability from Gramophone acquisition $174  $    -  $    -  $174 
Bifurcated embedded derivative on senior secured convertible note payable  38   -   -   38 
  $212  $-  $-  $212 

 

  March 31,
2021
 
  Fair  Hierarchy Level 
  Value  Level 1  Level 2  Level 3 
Liabilities:            
Contingent consideration liability from PodcastOne acquisition $2,423  $-  $-  $2,423 
Contingent consideration liability from CPS acquisition  2,513   -   -   2,513 

Bifurcated embedded derivative on secured convertible debentures

  118   -   -   118 
Bifurcated embedded derivative on unsecured convertible note payable  13   -   -   13 
  March 31, 2022 
  Fair  Hierarchy Level 
  Value  Level 1  Level 2  Level 3 
Liabilities:            
Contingent consideration liability from PodcastOne acquisition $2,965  $    -  $     -  $2,965 
Contingent consideration liability from Gramophone acquisition  174   -   -   174 
Bifurcated embedded derivative on senior secured convertible note payable  18   -   -   18 
  $3,157  $-  $-  $3,157 

 

The following table presents a reconciliation of the Company’s financial liabilities that are measured at Level 3 within the fair value hierarchy (in thousands):

 

  Amount 
Balance as of March 31, 2021 $5,067 
Change in fair value of bifurcated embedded derivatives, reported in earnings  (110)
Change in fair value of contingent consideration liabilities, reported in earnings  (213)
Settlement of contingent consideration liability from CPS acquisition  (1,826)
Balance as of September 30, 2021 $2,918 
  Amount 
Balance as of March 31, 2022 $3,157 
Change in fair value of bifurcated embedded derivatives, reported in earnings  20 
Settlement of PodcastOne contingent consideration  (3,000)
Change in fair value of contingent consideration liabilities, reported in earnings  35 
Balance as of June 30, 2022 $212 

 

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The following table presents a reconciliation of the Company’s derivative instruments for the six month period ended September 30, 2020 (in thousands):

  Amount 
Balance as of March 31, 2020 $665 
Initial measurement of contingent consideration from PodcastOne acquisition on July 1, 2020  1,100 
Initial measurement of embedded derivatives on secured convertible notes issued on September 15, 2020  671 
Adjustments reported in loss on extinguishment of debt  (225)
Fair value adjustments reported in earnings  (901)
Balance as of September 30, 2020 $1,310 

Bifurcated embedded derivative on senior secured convertible notes payable and unsecured convertible notes payable

 

The fair value of the bifurcated embedded derivatives on senior secured convertible notes payable and unsecured convertible notes payable was determined using the following significant unobservable inputs:

 

 September 30, March 31,  June 30, March 31, 
 2021  2021  2022  2022 
Bifurcated embedded derivative on secured convertible notes payable:          
Market yield  4.2%  17.0%  11.6%  4.7%
        
Bifurcated embedded derivative on unsecured convertible note payable:        
Market yield  4.7%  26.5%

 

Significant increases or decreases in the inputs noted above in isolation wouldcould result in a significantly lower or higher fair value measurement.

 

The Company determined that as of the assessment date, the fair value of the bifurcated embedded derivatives is less than $0.1 million. The change in fair value of $0.1 million and $0.1 million is recorded in other income (expense) on the Company’s condensed consolidated statements of operations for the six monththree-month period ended SeptemberJune 30, 2021.2022 and 2021, respectively.

 

The Company did not elect the fair value measurement option for the following financial assets or liabilities. The fair values of certain financial instruments measured at amortized cost and the hierarchy level the Company used to estimate the fair values are shown below (in thousands):

 

 September 30,
2021
  June 30, 2022 
 Carrying  Hierarchy Level  Carrying  Hierarchy Level 
 Value  Level 1  Level 2  Level 3  Value  Level 1  Level 2  Level 3 
Liabilities:                  
Secured convertible notes payable, net $13,148  $        -  $          -  $19,421 
Senior secured convertible notes payable, net $13,938  $-  $-  $14,670 
Unsecured convertible notes payable related party, net  5,691   -   -   8,809   5,968   -   -   5,867 
Unsecured convertible note payable  2,182   -   -   2,272 

 

 March 31,
2021
  March 31, 2022 
 Carrying  Hierarchy Level  Carrying  Hierarchy Level 
 Value  Level 1  Level 2  Level 3  Value  Level 1  Level 2  Level 3 
Liabilities:                  
Secured convertible notes payable, net $13,047  $         -  $           -  $20,228 
Senior secured convertible notes payable, net  13,650   -   -   15,448 
Unsecured convertible notes payable related party, net  5,501   -   -   9,216   5,879   -   -   6,084 
Unsecured convertible note payable  1,976   -   -   2,167 

 

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The fair values of financial instruments not included in these tables are estimated to be equal to their carrying values as of SeptemberJune 30, 20212022 and March 31, 2021.2022. The Company’s estimates of the fair values were determined using available market information and appropriate valuation methods. Considerable judgment is necessary to interpret market data and develop the estimated fair values.

 

The fair value of the financial assets and liabilities, where the Company did not elect the fair value measurement option, were determined using the following significant unobservable inputs:

 

 September 30, March 31,  June 30, March 31, 
 2021  2021  2022  2022 
Secured convertible notes payable, net (binomial lattice model):     
Senior secured convertible notes payable, net (binomial lattice model):     
Market yield  4.2%  17.0%  11.6%  6.3%
                
Unsecured convertible notes payable related party, net (yield model with a Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing model):                
Market yield  4.5%  23.0%  12.5%  6.6%
        
Unsecured convertible note payable (yield model with a Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing model):        
Market yield  4.7%  26.5%

 

Significant increases or decreases in the inputs noted above in isolation would result in a significantly lower or higher fair value measurement.

 

Cash equivalents and restricted cash equivalents primarily consisted of short-term interest-bearing money market funds with maturities of less than 90 days and time deposits. The estimated fair values were based on available market pricing information of similar financial instruments.

 

Due to their short maturity, the carrying amounts of the Company’s accounts receivable, accounts payable, accrued expenses and other long-term liabilities approximated their fair values as of SeptemberJune 30, 20212022 and March 31, 2021.2022.

 

The Company’s note payable is not publicly traded and fair value is estimated to equal carrying value. The Company’s debenturessenior secured line of credit, senior secured convertible notes and unsecured convertible notes payable with fixed rates are not publicly traded and the Company has estimated fair values using a variety of valuation models and market rate assumptions detailed above. The senior secured convertible notes payable and unsecured convertible notes are valued using a binomial lattice model and a yield model with a Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing model, respectively. The Company has estimated the fair value of contingent consideration related to the acquisitions of PodcastOne, CPS and CPSGramophone based on the number of shares issuable based on the achievement of certain provisions within the purchase agreement, as detailed in Note 4 – Business Combinations, using the quoted price of the Company’s common stockstock. The inputs used to fair value the contingent consideration on the date of acquisition were also used as of the balance sheet date.

 

Note 20 — Subsequent Events

 

PodcastOne’s Private Placement

On October 17, 2021,July 15, 2022 (the “Closing Date”), Courtside Group, Inc. (dba PodcastOne) (“PodcastOne”), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, completed its acquisitiona private placement offering (the “Financing”) of Gramophone Media Inc. (“Gramophone”PodcastOne’s unsecured convertible notes with an original issue discount of 10% (the “OID”) in the aggregate principal amount of $8,838,500 (the “Notes”) to acquire 100%certain accredited investors and institutional investors (collectively, the “Purchasers”), for gross proceeds of $8,035,000 pursuant to the Subscription Agreements entered into with the Purchasers (the “Subscription Agreements”). In connection with the sale of the equity interestsNotes, the Purchasers received warrants (the “Warrants”) to purchase a number of shares (the “Warrant Shares”) of PodcastOne’s common stock, par value $0.00001 per share, as more fully discussed below. The Notes and the Warrants were issued as restricted securities in Gramophone in exchange for consideration comprising of $150,000 in cash and $250,000 in sharesa private placement transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Company’s restricted common stock. The purchase price consideration shall also include an additional amount in cashSecurities Act. As part of $250,000 if Gramophone achieves agreed upon GAAP revenuethe Financing, the Company purchased $3 million worth of Notes. PodcastOne intends to use the net proceeds of the Financing for working capital and EBITDA (as defined in the purchase agreement) targets. The disclosures required by ASC 805 have not been included for the acquisition as the transaction was recently consummated and the initial purchase accounting is incomplete.general corporate purposes.

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In connection with the Financing, the Company announced that it intends to spin-out PodcastOne as a separate public company before the end of its current fiscal year and plans to dividend a portion of PodcastOne’s common equity to the Company’s stockholders as of a future to be determined record date, in each case subject to obtaining applicable approvals and consents, complying with applicable rules and regulations and satisfying applicable public market trading and listing requirements. Among other things, the Company agreed not to effect any Qualified Financing or Qualified Event (each as defined below), as applicable, unless PodcastOne’s post-money valuation at the time of the Qualified Event is at least $150 million.

The Notes mature one year from the Closing Date, subject to a one-time three-month extension at PodcastOne’s election (the “Maturity Date”). The Notes bear interest at a rate of 10% per annum payable on maturity. The Notes shall automatically convert into the securities of PodcastOne sold in a Qualified Financing or Qualified Event, as applicable, upon the closing of a Qualified Financing or Qualified Event, as applicable, at a price per share equal to the lesser of (i) the price equal to $60,000,000 divided by the aggregate number of shares of PodcastOne’s common stock outstanding immediately prior to the closing of a Qualified Financing or Qualified Event, as applicable (assuming full conversion or exercise of all convertible and exercisable securities then outstanding, subject to certain exceptions), and (ii) 70% of the offering price of the shares (or whole units, as applicable) in the Qualified Financing or 70% of the initial listing price of the shares on a national securities exchange in the Qualified Event, as applicable (the “Conversion Price”). A “Qualified Financing” means an initial public offering of PodcastOne’s securities from which PodcastOne’s trading market at the closing of such offering is a national securities exchange. If the initial public offering relating to the Qualified Financing is of units consisting of shares of PodcastOne’s common stock and warrants, the Notes shall convert into such units. A “Qualified Event” means the direct listing of PodcastOne’s securities on a national securities exchange. If a Qualified Financing or Qualified Event, as applicable, has not occurred on or before prior to the Maturity Date, the Notes shall be convertible, in whole or in part, into shares of common stock of PodcastOne at the option of the holder of the respective Notes at a price per share equal to $60,000,000 divided by the aggregate number of outstanding shares of PodcastOne’s common stock as of the Maturity Date (assuming full conversion or exercise of all convertible and exercisable securities then outstanding, subject to certain exceptions) (the “Voluntary Conversion Date”). Each holder of the Notes (other than the Company) may at such holder’s option require PodcastOne to redeem up to 45% of the principal amount of such holder’s Notes (together with accrued interest thereon, but excluding the OID), in aggregate up to $3,000,000 for all of the Purchasers’ Notes (other than those held by the Company), immediately prior to the completion of the Qualified Financing or Qualified Event, as applicable, with such redemption to be made pro rata to the redeeming holders of the Notes (the “Optional Redemption”).

In connection with the issuance of the Notes, each Purchaser received five-and-one-half-year warrants to purchase such number of Warrant Shares equal to the 100% of the principal amount of such Purchaser’s Note divided by the quotient of (i) $60,000,000 (the “Valuation Cap”) divided by (ii) the Fully Diluted Capitalization (as defined in the Notes) immediately prior to the Qualified Financing or the Qualified Event, as applicable, at a per share exercise price (the “Exercise Price”) equal to (A) if a Qualified Financing or the Qualified Event, as applicable has occurred on or before the Maturity Date, the lower of (x) the quotient of (I) the Valuation Cap divided by (II) the Fully Diluted Capitalization immediately prior to the Qualified Financing or the Qualified Event, as applicable, and (y) the purchase price per share or other whole unit in the Qualified Financing or the Qualified Event, as applicable, or (B) if a Qualified Financing or the Qualified Event, as applicable, has not occurred on or before the Maturity Date, the Voluntary Conversion Price. Subject to certain exceptions, if at any time after the Closing Date and until the earlier of (i) ten days following the Maturity Date or (ii) the date upon which a Qualified Financing or Qualified Event, as applicable, if any, is consummated, PodcastOne issues or sells, or in accordance with the terms of the Warrants is deemed to have issued or sold, any PodcastOne common stock without consideration or for consideration per share less than the Exercise Price in effect immediately prior to such issuance or sale (or deemed issuance or sale), then the Exercise Price in effect immediately prior to such issuance or sale (or deemed issuance or sale) shall be reduced (and in no event increased) to an Exercise Price equal to the lowest price per share at which any such share of PodcastOne’s common stock has been issued or sold (or is deemed to have been issued or sold). Upon a Purchaser’s redemption of any Notes as provided above, then a portion of such Purchaser’s Warrants shall be forfeited and cancelled in accordance with the following formula: for each $1,000 of the principal amount of the Notes redeemed, Warrants to purchase 100% of the Warrant Shares issued per $1,000 of the principal amount of the Notes shall be immediately forfeited and cancelled.

Furthermore, in connection with the closing of the Financing, the Purchasers and PodcastOne’s directors and officers entered into lock-up agreements with PodcastOne pursuant which they agreed, subject to certain exceptions, not to sell any shares of PodcastOne’s common stock beneficially owned by them or securities convertible, exchangeable or exercisable into, shares of common stock of PodcastOne beneficially owned, until the earliest to occur, if any, of (i) the termination of the underwriting agreement with respect to the Qualified Financing before the sale of any securities to the underwriters of the Qualified Financing, (ii) the termination of the Qualified Financing or Qualified Event, as applicable and (iii) with respect to the Purchasers, three months from the date of the consummation of the Qualified Financing or Qualified Event, as applicable, and with respect to PodcastOne’s officers and directors, six months from the date of the consummation of the Qualified Financing or Qualified Event, as applicable.


Secured Convertible Note Amendment

 In July 2022, the Company entered into an amendment of notes agreement (collectively, the “Amendments”) with each of the holders of the Harvest Notes (the “Noteholders”) pursuant to which the parties agreed to (i) extend the maturity date of the Harvest Notes to June 3, 2024, (ii) defer the June 30, 2022 quarterly cash interest payment to July 18, 2022, and defer the quarterly cash interest payment for the fiscal quarter ending September 30, 2022 to be due and payable at the same time as the quarterly cash interest payment due and payable to the Noteholders for the fiscal quarter ending December 31, 2022, (iii) reduce the amount of Free Cash (as defined in the Harvest Notes) as follows (x) $7,000,000 from the Effective Date through December 31, 2022 (inclusive), (y) $8,000,000 from January 1, 2023 and until June 30, 2023 (inclusive), and (z) $10,000,000 from July 1, 2023 and until the Harvest Notes are repaid in full at their new maturity date of June 3, 2024; provided, that in the event that the Harvest Notes are repaid or prepaid by the Company, the amount of required Free Cash shall be then permanently reduced to the amount equal to the product of the aggregate principal amount of the Harvest Notes then outstanding multiplied by 2/3, and (iv) permit the Company to prepay the Harvest Notes at any time without any repayment/prepayment penalties and without the written consent of the Noteholders, subject to approval from the Company’s senior secured lender, which approval was subsequently obtained; provided, that the Company shall give the Noteholders at least five days prior written notice of any such prepayment or repayment (collectively, “Loan Modification”).

The Company and the Noteholders also agreed that if (i) at least $5,000,000 of the original principal amount of the Harvest Notes is not repaid by the Company on or prior to January 1, 2023, the conversion price of the Harvest Notes shall be amended to $3.00 per share, and the Company shall issue to the Noteholders in aggregate an additional 250,000 shares of the Company’s common stock; (ii) at least $7,500,000 of the original principal amount of the Harvest Notes is not repaid by the Company on or prior to June 30, 2023, the conversion price of the Harvest Notes shall be further amended to $2.50 per share, and the Company shall then issue to the Noteholders in aggregate an additional 500,000 shares of the Company’s common stock; and (iii) the entire principal amount of the Harvest Notes then outstanding is not repaid by the Company on or prior to January 1, 2024, the conversion price of the Harvest Notes shall be further amended to $2.25 per share, and the Company shall then issue to the Noteholders in aggregate an additional 750,000 shares of the Company’s common stock. In addition, in consideration of the Loan Modification, the Company issued to the Noteholders in aggregate 500,000 shares of the Company’s common stock. The shares were issued and to the extent applicable, will be issued, to the Noteholders as restricted securities in a private placement transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

The Company and the Noteholders further agreed to certain Harvest Note repayment conditions as provided in the Amendments in the event that the Company or any of its subsidiaries completes an equity or debt financing in the future or if Mr. Ellin ceases to be the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and unless an equally or better qualified CEO, as determined by the majority of the Company’s then-independent directors is appointed within the time provided by the Amendments, in each case prior to the full repayment of the Harvest Notes.

In connection with the Loan Modification, effective as of the Effective Date, the Company entered into the Amendment of Notes Agreement (the “Trinad Amendment”) with Trinad Capital pursuant to which the maturity date of all of the Trinad Notes was extended to July 1, 2024, and in consideration of such extension, the Company issued to Trinad Capital 500,000 shares of the Company’s common stock. The shares were issued to Trinad Capital in a private placement that relies upon an exemption from registration provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act and/or Regulation D promulgated thereunder.

Stock Repurchase

Subsequent to June 30, 2022 and as of August 9, 2022, the Company repurchased 813,779 shares of its common stock at an average price of $1.12 per share.

Revolving Credit Facility Extension

In August 2022, the Company extended the maturity date of its revolving credit facility to June 2024.

Stock Issuances

In August 2022, the Company issued 414,137 shares of its restricted common stock at a price of $2.10 per share to a former stockholder of PodcastOne as full repayment of such party’s pro rata share of the earnout amount due under the Stock Purchase Agreement, dated as of May 7, 2020, entered into by the Company with PodcastOne and the other parties thereto. In addition, as part of the settlement of the earnout amount due the Company paid $0.4 million to the former stockholder of PodcastOne.

On August 4, 2022, Slacker extended for 3 years (the “Extended Term”) its agreement (the “Agreement”) with a certain licensor of sound recordings and music content rights (the “music partner”), and the Company issued 800,000 shares of its common stock to the music partner to be credited against music royalty payments due under the Agreement, subject to the terms thereof, of which approximately $400,000 worth of its shares of common stock were issued at a price of $2.10 per share as full payment of certain outstanding amounts due the original agreement and as full payment of any music royalty payments due during the first year of the Extended Term. The music partner agreed not to sell the shares of the Company’s common stock issued pursuant to the Agreement subject to certain dribble-out limitations. The shares were issued pursuant to an exemption from registration provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act and/or Regulation D promulgated thereunder.


Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

 

As used herein, “LiveOne,” the “Company,” “we,” “our” or “us” and similar terms include LiveOne, Inc. (fka LiveXLive Media, Inc.) and its subsidiaries, unless the context indicates otherwise. The following discussion and analysis of our business and results of operations for the three and six months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2021,2022, and our financial conditions at that date, should be read in conjunction with our condensed consolidated financial statements and the notes thereto included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q (this “Quarterly Report”).

 

Forward-Looking Statements

 

Certain statements contained in this Quarterly Report that are not statements of historical fact constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, notwithstanding that such statements are not specifically identified. These forward-looking statements relate to expectations or forecasts for future events, including without limitation our earnings, revenues, expenses or other future financial or business performance or strategies, or the impact of legal or regulatory matters on our business, results of operations or financial condition. These statements may be preceded by, followed by or include the words “may,” “might,” “will,” “would,” “could,” “should,” “will likely result,” “estimate,” “plan,” “project,” “forecast,” “intend,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “seek,” “continue,” “target” or the negative or other variations thereof or comparable terminology. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are based on information available to us as of the date of this Quarterly Report and on our current expectations, forecasts and assumptions, and involve substantial risks and uncertainties. Actual results may vary materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements herein due to a variety of factors, including: our reliance on one key customer for a substantial percentage of our revenue; our ability to consummate any proposed financing, acquisition, spin-out, distribution or transaction, including the proposed spin-out of PodcastOne or its pay-per-view business, the timing of the closing of such proposed event, including the risks that a condition to closing would not be satisfied within the expected timeframe or at all or that the closing of any proposed financing, acquisition, spin-out, distribution or transaction, the timing of the closing of such proposed event will not occur or whether any such event will enhance shareholder value;occur; PodcastOne's ability to list on a national exchange; our ability to continue as a going concern; our reliance on one key customer for a substantial percentage of our revenue; if and when required, our ability to obtain additional capital, including to fund our current debt obligations and to fund potential acquisitions and capital expenditures; our reliance on one key customer for a substantial percentage of our revenue; our ability to attract, maintain and increase the number of our users and paid subscribers;members; our ability to identify, acquire, secure and develop content; our ability to successfully implement our growth strategy, our ability to acquire and integrate our acquired businesses, the ability of the combined business to grow, including through acquisitions which we are able to successfully integrate, and the ability of our executive officers to manage growth profitably; the outcome(s) of any legal proceedings pending or that may be instituted against us, our subsidiaries, or third parties to whom we owe indemnification obligations; changes in laws or regulations that apply to us or our industry; our ability to recognize and timely implement future technologies in the music and live streaming space; our ability to capitalize on investments in developing our service offerings, including the LiveXLive App to deliver and develop upon current and future technologies; significant product development expenses associated with our technology initiatives; our ability to deliver end-to-end network performance sufficient to meet increasing customer demands; our ability to timely and economically obtain necessary approval(s), releases and or licenses on a timely basis for the use of our music content on our service platform; our ability to obtain and maintain international authorizations to operate our service over the proper foreign jurisdictions our customers utilize; our ability to expand our service offerings and deliver on our service roadmap; our ability to timely and cost-effectively produce, identify and or deliver compelling content that brands will advertise on and or customers will purchase and or subscribe to across our platform; general economic and technological circumstances in the music and live streaming digital markets; our ability to obtain and maintain licenses for content used on legacy music platforms; the loss of, or failure to realize benefits from, agreements with our music labels, publishers and partners; unfavorable economic conditions in the airline industry and economy as a whole; our ability to expand our domestic or international operations, including our ability to grow our business with current and potential future music labels, festivals, publishers, or partners; the effects of service interruptions or delays, technology failures, material defects or errors in our software, damage to our equipment or geopolitical restrictions; costs associated with defending pending or future intellectual property infringement actions and other litigation or claims; increases in our projected capital expenditures due to, among other things, unexpected costs incurred in connection with the roll out of our technology roadmap or our plans of expansion in North America and internationally; fluctuation in our operating results; the demand for live and music streaming services and market acceptance for our products and services; our ability to generate sufficient cash flow to make payments on our indebtedness; our incurrence of additional indebtedness in the future; our ability to repay the convertible notes at maturity; the effect of the conditional conversion feature of the convertible notes; our compliance with the covenants in our line of credit agreement and Harvest Notes;agreement; the effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic; risks and uncertainties applicable to the businesses of our subsidiaries; and other risks and uncertainties set forth herein. Other factors that could cause actual results to differ from those discussed in the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, those set forth below in Part II – Item 1A. Risk Factors of this Quarterly Report and in Part I – Item 1A. Risk Factors of our 20212022 Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on July 14, 2021June 29, 2022 (the “2021“2022 Form 10-K”), as well as other factors and matters described herein or in the annual, quarterly and other reports we file with the SEC. Except as required by law, we do not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements as a result of as a result of new information, future events or developments or otherwise.

 

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Overview of the Company

 

We are a pioneer in the acquisition, distribution and monetization of live music, Internet radio, podcasting and music-related streaming and video content. Our principal operations and decision-making functions are located in North America. We manage and report our businesses as a single operating segment. Our chief operating decision makersenior management regularly reviews our operating results, principally to make decisions about how we allocate our resources and to measure our segment and consolidated operating performance. We previouslyIn prior fiscal years we generated a majority of our revenue primarily through subscriptionmembership services from our streaming radio and music services, and to a lesser extent through advertising and licensing across our music platform. In the fourth quarter of our fiscal year ended March 31, 2020, we began generating ticketing, sponsorship, and promotion-related revenue from live music events through our February 2020 acquisition of React Presents. In May 2020, we launched a new pay-per-view (“PPV”) offering enabling new forms of artist revenue including digital tickets, tipping, digital meet and greets, merchandise sales and sponsorship. In July 2020, we entered the podcasting business with the acquisition of PodcastOne and in December 2020, we entered the merchandising business with the acquisition of CPS. In October 2021, we entered artist and brand development and music-related press relations business through our acquisition of Gramophone.

 

For the three months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, we reported revenue of $23.2 million and $38.8 million, respectively. We have one and two external customercustomers that accountsaccounted for more than 10% of ourits revenue during the sixthree months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20212022 and 2020.2021. Such customer is ancustomers original equipment manufacturer (the “OEM”) who provides premium Slacker service in all of their new vehicles. Total revenues for thisvehicles and a production customer were 24% and 45% of our consolidated revenues forin connection with the six months ended September 30,June 2021 and 2020, respectively. ForSocial Gloves event. In the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2022 and 2021, total revenue from the OEM was $10.0 million and 2020, one external$6.9 million, respectively. In the three months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, total revenue from the production customer accounted for 35% of our consolidated revenues.was none and $6.4 million, respectively.

 

Key Corporate Developments for the Quarter Ended SeptemberJune 30, 20212022

 

During the quarter ended SeptemberJune 30, 2021,2022, we successfully livestreamed 2620 live events with 27935 artists livestreamed and 200 hours of live programming.livestreamed.

 

We ended the SeptemberJune 30, 20212022 quarter with approximately 1,257,0001,594,000 paid subscribersmembers on our music platform, up from approximately 936,0001,162,000 at September 30, 2020, representing 34% annual growth. Included in the total number as of SeptemberJune 30, 2021, and 2020 are certain subscribers which are the subject of a contractual dispute. We are currently not recognizing revenue related to these subscribers.representing 37% annual growth.

 

Basis of Presentation

 

The following discussion and analysis of our business and results of operations and our financial conditions is presented on a consolidated basis. In addition, a brief description is provided of significant transactions and events that have an impact on the comparability of the results being analyzed.

 

Opportunities, Challenges and Risks

 

For the three months ended September 30, 2020, we derived 53% of our revenue from paid customers’ subscriptions and the remainder from advertising, ticketing, sponsorship and licensing. During our fiscal year ended March 31, 2021,2022, we (i) acquired PodcastOneGramophone (effective July 1, 2020) and CPS (effective December 22, 2020),October 2021) (ii) accelerated the number of live events digitally live streamed across our platform, and (iii) increased our sponsorship revenue from live events when compared to prior fiscal years and (iv) successfully launched our PPV platform, allowing us to charge customers directly to access and watch certain live events digitally on our music platform.years. As a result of these actions, our revenue for the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20212022 was comprised of 45%52% from paid customers’ subscriptions, 40%membership, 39% from advertising (which includes PodcastOne), 13%8% from merchandise (which includes CPS), 1% from ticketing and events, and 1% from sponsorship and licensing. Conversely, the COVID-19 pandemic adversely impacted our on-premise live events, concerts and festivals through React Presents and our programmatic advertising as more fully discussed below. As the impact of COVID-19 eases around the world and related government actions are relaxed in the markets in which we operate, we expect to gradually increase our production of on-premise live music events and generate revenue through co-promotion fees, sponsorships, food and beverage and ticket sales of on-premise live events in the near term. On October 17, 2021, we acquired Gramophone Media Inc. (“Gramophone), an artist and brand development company.

 

We believe there is substantial near and long-term value in our live music content. We believe the monetary value of broadcasting live music will follow a similar evolution to live sporting events such as the National Football League, Major League Baseball and the National Basketball Association, whereby sports broadcasting rights became more valuable as the demand for live sporting events increased over the past 20 years. As a thought leader in live music, we plan to acquire the broadcasting rights to as many of the top live music events and festivals that are available to us. During the three months ended September 30, 2021, we livestreamed 26  major festivals and live music events compared to 29 during the three months ended September 30, 2020. With the acceleration in livestreamed events, we also experienced increases in monetization of these events from paid sponsorships and PPV ticket purchases. In the near term, we will continue aggregating our digital traffic across these festivals and monetizing the live broadcasting of these events through advertising, brand sponsorships and licensing of certain broadcasting rights outside of North America. The long-term economics of any future agreement involving festivals, programming, production, broadcasting, streaming, advertising, sponsorships, and licensing could positively or negatively impact our liquidity, growth, margins, relationships, and ability to deploy and grow our future services with current or future customers, and are heavily dependent upon the easing and elimination of the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

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With the acceleration of our live events, we have also begun to package, produce and broadcast our live music content on a 24/7/365 basis across our music platform and grow our paid subscribers. Wemembers. Recently, we have entered into distribution relationships with a variety of platforms, including Roku, AppleTV, Amazon Fire, linear OTT platforms such as STIRR Sling and XUMO. As we continue to have more distribution channels, rights and viewership and expand our original programming capabilities, we believe there is a substantial opportunity to increase our brand, advertising, viewership and subscriptionmembership capabilities and corresponding revenue, domestically and globally.

 

We believe our operating results and performance are, and will continue to be, driven by various factors that affect the music industry. Our ability to attract, grow and retain users to our platform is highly sensitive to rapidly changing public music preferences and technology and is dependent on our ability to maintain the attractiveness of our platform, content and reputation to our customers. Beyond fiscal year 2022,2023, the future revenue and operating growth across our music platform will rely heavily on our ability to grow our subscribermember base in a cost effective manner, continue to develop and deploy quality and innovative new music services, provide unique and attractive content to our customers, continue to grow the number of listeners on our platform and live music festivals we stream, grow and retain customers and secure sponsorships to facilitate future revenue growth from advertising and e-commerce across our platform.

 

As our music platform continues to evolve, we believe there are opportunities to expand our services by adding more content in a greater variety of formats such as podcasts and video podcasts (“vodcasts”), extending our distribution to include pay television, OTT and social channels, deploying new services for our subscribers,members, artist merchandise and live music event ticket sales, and licensing user data across our platform. Our acquisitions of PodcastOne, CPS and Gramophone are reflective of our flywheel operating model. Conversely, the evolution of technology presents an inherent risk to our business. Today, we see large opportunities to expand our music services within North America and other parts of the world where we will need to make substantial investments to improve our current service offerings. As a result, and during the fiscal year endedending March 31, 2022,2023, we will continue to invest in product and engineering to further develop our future music apps and services, and we expect to continue making significant product development investments to our existing technology solutions over the next 12 to 24 months to address these opportunities.

 

As our platform matures, we also expect our contribution margins*Contribution Margins*, adjusted earnings before income tax, depreciation and amortization (“Adjusted EBITDA”)* and Adjusted Operating Loss*EBITDA Margins* to improve in the near and long term, which are non-GAAP measures as defined in section following below titled, “Non-GAAP Measures”. Historically, our live events business has not generated enough direct revenue to cover the costs to produce such events, and as a result generated negative contribution margins*Contribution Margins*, Adjusted EBITDA* Adjusted EBITDA Margins* and operating losses. Beginning in late March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic had an adverse impact on on-premise live music events and festivals. Historically, we produced and digitally distributed the live music performances of many of these large global music events to fans all around the world. With the elimination of any fan-attended music events, festivals and concerts, we shifted our operating model beginning in April 2020 towards self-producing live music events that were 100% digital (e.g., artists not performing in front of live fans and solely for digital distribution). In April 2020, we also launched our first all-digital music festival, Music Lives, which aired continuously for over 48 straight hours, with nearly 100 artists and generated over 50 million livestreams and over 6.5 billion video views of the of hashtag #musiclives across TikTok. Music Lives was simulcast across our platform and on TikTok’s platform, who also sponsored the event. In March 2021, we held our second annual Music Lives festival, which featured 130 artists performing over 72 continuous hours generating nearly 28 million livestreams. In June 2021, we produced and livestreamed Social Gloves: Battle of the Platforms, a multifaced event featuring top social influencers from TikTok and You Tube in boxing matches and musical performances from DJ Khaled, Lil Baby, Migos, and Trippie Redd, among others.

 

Growth in our music services is also dependent upon the number of customers that use and pay for our services, the attractiveness of our music platform to sponsors and advertisers and our ability to negotiate favorable economic terms with music labels, publishers, artists and/or festival owners, and the number of consumers who use our services. Growth in our margins is heavily dependent on our ability to grow the subscribermembership base in a cost-efficient manner, coupled with the managing the costs associated with implementing and operating our services, including the costs of licensing music with the music labels, producing, streaming and distributing video and audio content and sourcing and distributing personalized products and gifts. Our ability to attract and retain new and existing customers will be highly dependent on our abilities to implement and continually improve upon our technology and services on a timely basis and continually improve our network and operations as technology changes and as we experience increased network capacity constraints as we continue to grow.

 


For the majority of our agreements with festival owners, we acquire the global broadcast rights. Moreover, the digital rights we acquire principally include any format and screen, and future rights to VR and AR. For the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20212022 and 2020,2021, all material amounts of our revenue were derived from customers located in the United States. We haveStates and moreover, one external customer that accounts for more than 10% of our revenue during the six months ended September 30, 2021customers accounted for 43% and 2020. Such customer is an original equipment manufacturer (the “OEM”) who provides premium Slacker service in all of their new vehicles. Total revenues for this customer were 24% and 45%18% of our consolidated revenues for the six months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, respectively. For the three months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, one external customer accounted for 35% of our consolidated revenues.

revenue. This significant concentration of revenue from one customer poses risks to our operating results, and any change in the means this customer utilizes our services beyond SeptemberJune 30, 20212022 could cause our revenue to fluctuate significantly.

Moreover, and with the addition of PodcastOne and CPS in July and December 2020, respectively, the percentage of this customer revenue concentration decreased substantially and this trend is expected to continue in the future. In the long term, we plan to expand our business further internationally in places such as Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America, and as a result will continue to incur significant incremental upfront expenses associated with these growth opportunities.

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Effects of COVID-19

 

An outbreak of a novel strain of coronavirus, COVID-19 in December 2019 subsequently became a pandemic after spreading globally, including the United States. WhileThe global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic did not materially adversely affect our financial results and business operations during the three months ended September 30, 2020, it did adversely impact parts of our business, namely our live events and programmatic advertising. Due tohas had a negative effect on the global pandemiceconomy, disrupting the financial markets creating increasing volatility and government actions taking in response, since March 2020, all in person festivals, concerts and events have either been canceled or suspended,overall uncertainty. We began to experience modest adverse impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic had anin the fourth quarter of fiscal year ended March 31, 2020 and became more adverse impact on on-premise live music festivals, concerts and events. Most major global music festivals have been postponed until 2021 or indefinitely. With our acquisition of React Presents in February 2020, we were unable to produce and promote more than 200 forecasted live events inthroughout the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021 and up to the three months ended September 30, 2021, including our flagship live event Spring Awakening festival, which is typically annually produced in June. In January 2021, we announced our first-ever expansionthird quarter of Spring Awakening music festival (“SAMF”) outside of Chicago with its first edition of “Spring Awakening Excursions” Cancun Awakening music festival which is a live event that was scheduled from April 28 to May 2, 2021. However, further outbreaks of COVID-19 have caused the postponement of this event to January 2022. Moreover, our programmatic advertising is presently adversely impacted as COVID-19 caused a subset of our legacy advertising mix and demand to decline and as a result, overall advertising cost per thousand impressions/rates across our platform were subsequently reduced. Further, as of the date of this Quarterly Report, we are not livestreaming any fan attended live festivals, concerts or other in-person live events on our platform or channels and it is unclear when streaming of fan attended live festivals, concerts or other in-person live events will again become regularly available to us. Conversely, while the economic and health conditions in the United States and across the globe have changed rapidly since the end of our fiscal year ended March 31, 2020,2022. Although the impact has subsided, we are presentlyexpect to continue experiencing modest adverse impacts throughout the fiscal year ending March 31, 2023. Our event and programmatic advertising revenues were directly impacted throughout the 2021 fiscal year and mid-way through the 2022 fiscal year with all on-premise in-person live music festivals and events postponed and mixed demand from historical advertising partners. Further, one of our larger customers also experienced a temporary halt to its production as a result of COVID-19, which negatively impacted our near-term member growth in certain parts of our core business,the 2021 fiscal year. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021, we enacted several initiatives to counteract these near-term challenges, including (i)salary reductions, obtaining a Paycheck Protection Program loan and pivoting its live music production to 100% digital. The Company began producing, curating, and broadcasting digital music festivals and events across its platform which has resulted in the growth in the number of live music events produced digitallystreamed, related sponsorship revenue and livestreamed during fiscal year ended March 31, 2021 (146 live events)overall viewership. We also launched a new PPV offering in May 2020, enabling new forms of artist revenue including digital tickets, tipping, digital meet and greet and merchandise sales. However, there is uncertainty as compared to fiscal year March 31, 2020 (42 live events), (ii) improvement in the monetization of these digital livestreams, which exceeded prior fiscal year by over 1,188%duration and (iii) new growth opportunities across our music platform, including podcasts, vodcasts, merchandising and PPV. In addition, the outbreak and any preventative or protective actions that governments, other third parties or we may take in respectoverall impact of the coronavirus mayCOVID-19 pandemic, which could result in an adverse material change in a future period to our results of business disruptionoperations, financial position and reduced operations. For example, our largest customer was ordered to keep its main U.S. factory closed for a substantial amount of time during the quarter ended June 30, 2020.liquidity. 

 

The extent to which COVID-19 impacts our results will depend on future developments, including new information which may emerge concerning the severity of the coronavirus and the actions taken by us and our partners to contain the coronavirus or treat its impact, among others. The impact of the suspension or cancellation of in-person live festivals, concerts or other live events, and any other continuing effects of COVID-19 on our business operations (such as general economic conditions and impacts on the advertising, sponsorship and ticketing marketplace and our partners), may result in a decrease in our revenues, and if the global COVID-19 epidemic continues for an extended period, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be materially adversely affected.

 


Consolidated Results of Operations

Three Months Ended June 30, 2022, as compared to Three Months Ended June 30, 2021

The following tables set forth our results of operations for the periods presented. The period-to-period comparison of financial results is not necessarily indicative of future results (in thousands):

  Three Months Ended
June 30,
 
  2022  2021 
Revenue: $23,222  $38,767 
         
Operating expenses:        
Cost of sales  15,382   30,940 
Sales and marketing  2,366   4,748 
Product development  1,617   2,155 
General and administrative  2,209   9,377 
Amortization of intangible assets  1,411   1,506 
Total operating expenses  22,985   48,726 
Income (loss) from operations  237   (9,959)
         
Other income (expense):        
Interest expense, net  (997)  (1,060)
Forgiveness of PPP loans  -   2,511 
Other income  2,105   459 
Total other income (expense), net  1,108   1,910 
         
Income (loss) before income taxes  1,345   (8,049)
         
(Benefit from) provision for income taxes  (3)  2 
Net income (loss) $1,348  $(8,051)
         
Net income (loss) per share - basic $0.02  $(0.10)
Net income (loss) per share – diluted $0.02  $(0.10)
Weighted average common shares – basic  82,072,822   76,982,057 
Weighted average common shares – diluted  82,126,622   76,982,057 

The following table sets forth the depreciation expense included in the above line items (in thousands):

  Three Months Ended
June 30,
    
  2022  2021  % Change 
Depreciation expense         
Cost of sales $25  $11   136%
Sales and marketing  47   32   44%
Product development  705   599   18%
General and administrative  127   231   -45%
Total depreciation expense $904  $873   4%


The following table sets forth the stock-based compensation expense included in the above line items (in thousands):

  Three Months Ended
June 30,
    
  2022  2021  % Change 
Stock-based compensation expense         
Cost of sales $78  $303   -74%
Sales and marketing  74   1,453   -95%
Product development  124   159   -22%
General and administrative  512   3,171   -84%
Total stock-based compensation expense $788  $5,086   -85%

The following table sets forth our results of operations, as a percentage of revenue, for the periods presented:

  Three Months Ended
June 30,
 
  2022  2021 
Revenue  100%  100%
Operating expenses        
Cost of sales  60%  80%
Sales and marketing  10%  12%
Product development  7%  6%
General and administrative  10%  24%
Amortization of intangible assets  6%  4%
Total operating expenses  99%  126%
Income (loss) from operations  1%  -26%
Other income (expense), net  5%  5%
Income (loss) before income taxes  6%  -21%
Income tax provision  0%  0%
Net income (loss)  6%  -21%

Revenue

Revenue was as follows (in thousands):

  Three Months Ended
June 30,
    
  2022  2021  % Change 
Membership services $12,082  $9,084   33%
Advertising  8,942   7,937   13%
Merchandising  1,848   3,660   -49%
Sponsorship and licensing  114   5,136   -98%
Ticket/Event  235   12,950   -98%
Total Revenue $23,222  $38,767   -40%

Membership Revenue

Membership revenue increased $3.0 million, or 33%, to $12.1 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022, as compared to $9.1 million for the months ended June 30, 2021. The increase was primarily as a result of member growth with our largest OEM customer.


Advertising Revenue

Advertising revenue increased $1.0 million, or 13%, to $8.9 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022, as compared to $7.9 million for the three months ended June 30, 2021, which is primarily attributable to an increase in the number of advertising content sold.

Merchandising

Merchandising revenue decreased to $1.8 million, or 49%, for the three months ended June 30, 2022, as compared to $3.7 million the three months ended June 30, 2021 due to a reduction in marketing spending by retail partners, a significant partner being offline for the quarter and reduced customer demand.

Sponsorship and Licensing

Sponsorship and licensing revenue decreased by $5.0 million, or 98%, to $0.1 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022, as compared to $5.1 million for the three months ended June 30, 2021. The decrease was primarily due to the sponsorship and licensing revenues earned related to the Social Gloves event held during the three months ended June 30, 2021 with no comparable event held during the current year period.

Ticket/Event

Ticket/Event revenue decreased by $12.7 million, or 98%, to $0.2 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022, as compared to $13.0 million for the three months ended June 30, 2021, driven by PPV ticket fees and production revenues earned related to the Social Gloves event held during the three months ended June 30, 2021, with no comparable event held during the current year period.

Cost of Sales

Cost of sales was as follows (in thousands):

  Three Months Ended
June 30,
    
  2022  2021  % Change 
Membership $7,155   6,456   11%
Advertising  7,202   7,460   -3%
Production and Ticketing  (255)  14,510   -102%
Merchandising  1,280   2,514   -49%
Total Cost of Sales $15,382  $30,940   -50%

Membership

Membership cost of sales increased by $0.7 million, or 11%, to $7.2 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022, as compared to $6.5 million for the three months ended June 30, 2021. The increase in costs during the current quarter due to a growth in membership.

Advertising

Advertising cost of sales decreased by $0.3 million, or 3%, to $7.2 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022, as compared to $7.5 million for the three months ended June 30, 2021. The decrease was primarily due to an improvement in revenue share agreements compared to the prior year period.

Production and Ticketing

Production cost of sales decreased by $14.8 million, or 102%, to a credit of $0.3 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022, as compared to $14.5 million for the three months ended June 30, 2021. The decrease was primarily due to production costs of approximately $12.3 million related to the Social Gloves event held during the prior year quarter. In addition, the Company was able to negotiate credits with some vendors on amounts previously owed during the three months ended June 30, 2022.

Merchandising

Merchandising cost of sales decreased by $1.2 million, or 49%, to $2.5 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022, as compared to $2.5 million for the three months ended June 30, 2021 due to a reduction in sales.


Other Operating Expenses

Other operating expenses were as follows (in thousands):

  Three Months Ended
June 30,
    
  2022  2021  % Change 
Sales and marketing expenses $2,366  $4,748   -50%
Product development  1,617   2,155   -25%
General and administrative  2,209   9,377   -76%
Amortization of intangible assets  1,411   1,506   -6%
Total Other Operating Expenses $7,603  $17,786   -57%

Sales and Marketing Expenses

Sales and Marketing expenses decreased by $2.4 million, or 50%, to $2.4 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022, as compared to $4.7 million for the three months ended June 30, 2021, primarily driven by a decrease of $1.5 million in stock compensation expense and a reduction in advertising of $0.9 million.

Product Development

Product development expenses decreased by $0.5 million, or 25%, to $1.6 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022, as compared to $2.2 million for the three months ended June 30, 2021, which was driven by temporary salary reductions and a decrease in employees.

General and Administrative

General and administrative expenses decreased by $7.2 million, or 76%, to $2.2 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022, as compared to $8.4 million for the three months ended June 30, 2021, largely due to a decrease in share-based compensation of $2.8 million, legal fees of $1.9 million, salaries and benefits of $1.3 million and a $1.2 million reduction in overhead costs.

Amortization of Intangible Assets

Amortization of intangible assets decreased $0.1 million, or 6%, to $1.4 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022, as compared to $1.5 million for the three months ended June 30, 2021. There were no significant additions of intangibles during the three months ended June 30, 2022.

Total Other Income (Expense)

Total other income (expense) was as follows (in thousands):

  Three Months Ended
June 30,
    
  2022  2021  % Change 
Total other income (expense), net $1,128  $1,910   -41%

Total other income (expense) decreased by $0.8 million, or 41%, to $1.1 million of income for the three months ended June 30, 2022, as compared to $1.9 million of income for the three months ended June 30, 2021. The decrease is primarily driven by the $2.5 million gain on forgiveness of our PPP loans during the quarter ended June 30, 2021 compared to a gain of $2.2 million attributed to the settlement of the PodcastOne contingent liability.


Non-GAAP Measures

 

Contribution Margin

 

Contribution Margin is a non-GAAP financial measure defined as Revenue less Cost of Sales.

 

Reconciliation of Adjusted Operating LossEBITDA

 

Adjusted Operating Income (“AOI”) and Adjusted Operating Loss (“AOL”)EBITDA is a non-GAAP financial measure that we define as operatingnet income (loss) before (a) non-cash GAAP purchase accounting adjustments for certain deferred revenue and costs, (b) legal, accounting and other professional fees directly attributable to acquisition activity, (c) employee severance payments and third party professional fees directly attributable to acquisition or corporate realignment activities, (d) certain non-recurring expenses associated with legal settlements or reserves for legal settlements in the period that pertain to historical matters that existed at acquired companies prior to their purchase date, (e) depreciation and amortization (including goodwill impairment, if any), and (f) certain stock-based compensation expense. We use AOI/(AOL)Adjusted EBITDA to evaluate the performance of our operating segment. We believe that information about AOI/(AOL)Adjusted EBITDA assists investors by allowing them to evaluate changes in the operating results of our business separate from non-operational factors that affect net income (loss), thus providing insights into both operations and the other factors that affect reported results. AOI/(AOL)Adjusted EBITDA is not calculated or presented in accordance with GAAP. A limitation of the use of AOI/(AOL)Adjusted EBITDA as a performance measure is that it does not reflect the periodic costs of certain amortizing assets used in generating revenue in our business. Accordingly, AOI/(AOL)Adjusted EBITDA should be considered in addition to, and not as a substitute for, operating income (loss), net income (loss), and other measures of financial performance reported in accordance with GAAP. Furthermore, this measure may vary among other companies; thus, AOI/(AOL)Adjusted EBITDA as presented herein may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies.

 

Adjusted EBITDA Margin

5Adjusted EBITDA Margin is a non-GAAP financial measure that we define as the ratio of Adjusted EBITDA to Revenue.

 

The following table sets forth the reconciliation of AOI and AOLAdjusted EBITDA to Operating Income (loss),net loss, the most comparable GAAP financial measure for the three months ended June 30, 2022 (in thousands):

  Net Income
(Loss)
  Depreciation and
Amortization
  Stock-Based
Compensation
  Non-
Recurring
Acquisition and
Realignment
Costs
  Other
(Income)
Expense
  (Benefit)
Provision
for Taxes
  Adjusted
EBITDA
 
Three Months Ended June 30, 2022                     
Operations $2,239  $2,309  $375  $192  $(1,915) $-  $3,200 
Corporate  (891)  6   413   (1,563)  807   (3)  (1,231)
Total $1,348  $2,315  $788  $(1,371) $(1,108) $(3) $1,969 
                             
Three Months Ended June 30, 2021                            
Operations $(3,013) $2,371  $2,144  $237  $(542) $-  $1,197 
Corporate  (5,038)  8   2,942   505   (1,368)  2   (2,949)
Total $(8,051) $2,379  $5,086  $742  $(1,910) $2  $(1,752)

The following table sets forth the reconciliation of Contribution Margin to Revenue, the most comparable GAAP financial measure (in thousands):

 

  Contribution
Margin
  Loss
from
Operations
  Depreciation
and
Amortization
  Stock-Based
Compensation
  Non-
Recurring
Acquisition and
Realignment
Costs
  

Other Non-
Operating

Costs

  Adjusted
Operating
Loss
 
Three Months Ended September 30, 2021                     
Operations $5,873  $(2,533) $2,406  $1,185  $109  $-  $1,167 
Corporate  -   (7,134)  9   3,660   227   -   (3,238)
Total $5,873  $(9,667) $2,415  $4,845  $336  $-  $(2,071)
                             
Three Months Ended September 30, 2020                            
Operations $4,260  $(3,968) $2,221  $1,167  $-  $453  $(127)
Corporate  -   (3,158)  -   1,292   81   522   (1,263)
Total $4,260  $(7,126) $2,221  $2,459  $81  $975  $(1,390)

  Contribution
Margin
  Loss
from Operations
  Depreciation and
Amortization
  Stock-Based
Compensation
  Non-Recurring
Acquisition and
Realignment Costs
  Other Non-
Operating Costs
  Adjusted
Operating
Income (Loss)
 
Six months Ended September 30, 2021                     
Operations $13,701  $(6,088) $4,778  $3,328  $346  $-  $2,364 
Corporate  -   (13,538)  16   6,603   733   -   (6,186)
Total $13,701  $(19,626) $4,794  $9,931  $1,079  $-  $(3,822)
                             
Six months Ended September 30, 2020                            
Operations $7,106  $(6,433) $4,195  $2,518  $-  $707  $987 
Corporate  -   (6,515)  -   2,823   371   889   (2,432)
Total $7,106  $(12,948) $4,195  $5,341  $371  $1,596  $(1,445)
  Three Months Ended
June 30,
 
  2022  2021 
       
Revenue: $23,222  $38,767 
Less:        
Cost of sales  (15,382)  (30,940)
Amortization of developed technology  (777)  (772)
Gross Profit  7,063   7,055 
         
Add back amortization of developed technology:  777   772 
Contribution Margin $7,840  $7,827 

 

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Consolidated Results of Operations

Three Months Ended September 30, 2021, as compared to Three Months Ended September 30, 2020

The following tables set forth our results of operations for the periods presented. The period-to-period comparison of financial results is not necessarily indicative of future results (in thousands):

  Three Months
Ended
September 30,
  Three Months
Ended
September 30,
 
  2021  2020 
Revenue: $21,924  $14,559 
         
Operating expenses:        
Cost of sales  16,051   10,299 
Sales and marketing  2,599   2,076 
Product development  2,178   2,288 
General and administrative  9,246   5,615 
Amortization of intangible assets  1,517   1,407 
Total operating expenses  31,591   21,685 
Loss from operations  (9,667)  (7,126)
         
Other income (expense):        
Interest expense, net  (1,068)  (1,021)
Loss on extinguishment of debt  (4,321)  (1,488)
Other expense  (176)  (552)
Total other expense  (5,565)  (3,061)
         
Loss before provision for income taxes  (15,232)  (10,187)
         
Provision for income taxes  (4)  (2)
         
Net loss $(15,236) $(10,189)
         
Net loss per share – basic and diluted $(0.19) $(0.15)
         
Weighted average common shares – basic and diluted  78,351,655   69,035,037 

The following table sets forth the depreciation expense included in the above line items (in thousands):

  Three Months Ended
September 30,
    
  2021  2020  % Change 
Depreciation expense         
Cost of sales $14  $-   - 
Sales and marketing  41   47   -13%
Product development  688   452   52%
General and administrative  155   289   -46%
Total depreciation expense $898  $788   14%

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The following table sets forth the stock-based compensation expense included in the above line items (in thousands):

  Three Months Ended
September 30,
    
  2021  2020  % Change 
Stock-based compensation expense         
Cost of sales $191  $71   169%
Sales and marketing  223   591   -62%
Product development  473   312   52%
General and administrative  3,958   1,485   167%
Total stock-based compensation expense $4,845  $2,459   97%

The following table sets forth our results of operations, as a percentage of revenue, for the periods presented:

  Three Months Ended
September 30,
 
  2021  2020 
Revenue  100%  100%
Operating expenses        
Cost of sales  73%  71%
Sales and marketing  12%  14%
Product development  10%  16%
General and administrative  42%  39%
Amortization of intangible assets  7%  10%
Total operating expenses  144%  149%
Loss from operations  -44%  -49%
Other income (expense)  -25%  -21%
Loss before income taxes  -69%  -70%
Income tax provision  -%  -%
Net loss  -69%  -70%

Revenue

Revenue was as follows (in thousands):

  Three Months Ended
September 30,
    
  2021  2020  % Change 
Subscription services $9,879  $7,732   28%
Advertising  8,808   5,492   60%
Merchandising  2,956   -   - 
Sponsorship and licensing  168   204   -18%
Ticket/Event  113   1,131   -90%
Total Revenue $21,924  $14,559   51%

Subscription Revenue

Subscription revenue increased $2.1 million, or 28%, to $9.9 million for the three months ended September 30, 2021, as compared to $7.7 million for the three months ended September 30, 2020. The increase was primarily as a result of subscriber growth with our largest OEM customer.

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Advertising Revenue

Advertising revenue increased $3.3 million, or 60%, to $8.8 million for the three months ended September 30, 2021, as compared to $5.5 million for the three months ended September 30, 2020, which is primarily attributable to growth in advertising at PodcastOne.

Merchandising Revenue

Merchandising revenue increased to $3.0 million from $0 for the three months ended September 30, 2021, as compared to the three months ended September 30, 2020 due to the acquisition of CPS.

Sponsorship and Licensing

Sponsorship and licensing revenue decreased less than $0.1 million, or 18%, to $0.2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2021, as compared to $0.2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2020. The decrease was primarily due to the lower number of live events held during the three months ended September 30, 2021 relative to the prior year comparable period.

Ticket/Event

Ticket/Event revenue decreased $1.0 million, or 90%, to $0.1 million for the three months ended September 30, 2021, as compared to $1.1 million for the three months ended September 30, 2020, driven by PPV events held in the prior year quarter such as Wonho and Modern Drummer Festival, with no comparable events in the current year quarter.

Cost of Sales

Cost of sales was as follows (in thousands):

  Three Months Ended
September 30,
    
  2021  2020  % Change 
Subscription $6,193  $5,169   20%
Advertising  7,184   4,248   69%
Production and Ticketing  995   882   13%
Merchandising  1,679   -   -%
Total Cost of Sales $16,051  $10,299   56%

Subscription

Subscription cost of sales increased $1.0 million, or 20%, to $6.2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2021, as compared to $5.2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2020. The increase was in line with the higher subscription revenues noted above.

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Advertising

Advertising cost of sales increased $2.9 million, or 69%, to $7.2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2021, as compared to $4.2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2020. The increase was in line with the higher advertising revenues noted above.

Production and Ticketing

Production cost of sales increased $0.1 million, or 13%, to $1.0 million for the three months ended September 30, 2021, as compared to $0.9 million for the three months ended September 30, 2020. The increase was primarily due to an increase in licensing fees related to live streamed events. 

Merchandising

Merchandising cost of sales increased to $1.7 million from $0 for the three months ended September 30, 2021, as compared to the three months ended September 30, 2021 due to the acquisition of CPS.

Other Operating Expenses

Other operating expenses were as follows (in thousands):

  Three Months Ended
September 30,
    
  2021  2020  % Change 
Sales and marketing expenses $2,599  $2,076   25%
Product development  2,178   2,288   -5%
General and administrative  9,246   5,615   65%
Amortization of intangible assets  1,517   1,407   8%
Total Other Operating Expenses $15,540  $11,386   36%

Sales and Marketing Expenses

Sales and Marketing expenses increased $0.5 million, or 25%, to $2.6 million for the three months ended September 30, 2021, as compared to $2.1 million for the three months ended September 30, 2020, primarily driven by increased CPS marketing of $0.4 million which was acquired subsequent to September 30, 2020.

Product Development

Product development expenses decreased $0.1 million, or 5%, to $2.2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2021, as compared to $2.3 million for the three months ended September 30, 2020, partially driven by increased capitalized software costs as more time was spent on internal software development in the current quarter as compared to the same period in the prior year.

General and Administrative

General and administrative expenses increased $3.6 million, or 65%, to $9.2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2021, as compared to $5.6 million for the three months ended September 30, 2020, largely due to an increase in share-based compensation of $2.5 million and salaries of $1.2 million, partially driven by the addition of corporate personnel to support future growth.

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Amortization of Intangible Assets

Amortization of intangible assets increased $0.1 million, or 8%, to $1.5 million for the three months ended September 30, 2021, as compared to $1.4 million for the three months ended September 30, 2020, due to intangible assets acquired in the acquisition CPS, which was acquired subsequent to September 30, 2020.

Total Other Expense

Total other expense was as follows (in thousands):

  Three Months Ended
September 30,
    
  2021  2020  % Change 
Total other expense $(5,565) $(3,061)  82%

Total other expense increased $2.5 million, or 82%, to $5.6 million expense for the three months ended September 30, 2021, as compared to $3.1 million expense for the three months ended September 30, 2020. The increase is primarily driven by the $4.3 million loss on extinguishment of debt during the quarter ended September 30, 2021, which was approximately $2.8 million higher than the loss on extinguishment of debt recorded during the quarter ended September 30, 2020.

Six Months Ended September 30, 2021, as compared to Six Months Ended September 30, 2020

The following tables set forth our results of operations for the periods presented. The period-to-period comparison of financial results is not necessarily indicative of future results (in thousands):

  Six Months
Ended
September 30,
  Six Months
Ended
September 30,
 
  2021  2020 
       
Revenue: $60,691  $25,066 
         
Operating expenses:        
Cost of sales  46,990   17,960 
Sales and marketing  7,348   3,422 
Product development  4,333   4,374 
General and administrative  18,623   9,600 
Amortization of intangible assets  3,023   2,658 
Total operating expenses  80,317   38,014 
Loss from operations  (19,626)  (12,948)
         
Other income (expense):        
Interest expense, net  (2,128)  (3,099)
Forgiveness of PPP loans  2,511   - 
Loss on extinguishment of debt  (4,321)  (1,488)
Other income (expense)  284   (182)
Total other expense, net  (3,654)  (4,769)
         
Loss before provision for income taxes  (23,280)  (17,717)
         
Provision for income taxes  (7)  (4)
Net loss $(23,287) $(17,721)
         
Net loss per share – basic and diluted $(0.30) $(0.28)
         
Weighted average common shares – basic and diluted  77,670,598   64,127,618 

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The following table provides the depreciation expense included in the above line items (in thousands):

  Six Months Ended
September 30,
    
  2021  2020  % Change 
Depreciation expense         
Cost of sales $25  $-   - 
Sales and marketing  74   106   -30%
Product development  1,287   1,059   22%
General and administrative  385   346   11%
Total depreciation expense $1,771  $1,511   17%

The following table provides the stock-based compensation expense included in the above line items (in thousands):

  Six Months Ended
September 30,
    
  2021  2020  % Change 
Stock-based compensation expense         
Cost of sales $494  $122   305%
Sales and marketing  1,676   1,202   39%
Product development  632   754   -16%
General and administrative  7,129   3,263   118%
Total stock-based compensation expense $9,931  $5,341   86%

The following table provides our results of operations, as a percentage of revenue, for the periods presented:

  Six Months Ended
September 30,
 
  2021  2020 
Revenue  100%  100%
Operating expenses        
Cost of sales  77%  72%
Sales and marketing  12%  14%
Product development  7%  17%
General and administrative  31%  38%
Amortization of intangible assets  5%  11%
Total operating expenses  132%  152%
Loss from operations  -32%  -52%
Other income (expense)  -6%  -19%
Loss before income taxes  -38%  -71%
Income tax provision  -%  -%
Net loss  -38%  -71%

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Revenue

Revenue was as follows (in thousands):

  Six Months Ended
September 30,
    
  2021  2020  % Change 
Subscription services $18,962  $16,602   14%
Advertising  16,745   5,743   192%
Merchandising  6,616   -   -%
Sponsorship and licensing  5,304   1,379   285%
Ticket/Event  13,064   1,342   873%
Total Revenue $60,691  $25,066   142%

Subscription Services Revenue

Subscription services revenue increased to $19.0 million during the six months ended September 30, 2021, as compared to $16.6 million during the six months ended September 30, 2020, an increase of $2.4 million or 14% primarily as a result of subscriber growth with our largest OEM customer.

Advertising Revenue

Advertising revenue increased to $16.7 million during the six months ended September 30, 2021, as compared to $5.7 million during the six months ended September 30, 2020, an increase of $11.0 million or 192% due to growth in advertising at PodcastOne year over year.

Sponsorship and licensing

Sponsorship and licensing revenue increased to $5.3 million during the six months ended September 30, 2021, as compared to $1.4 million for the six months ended September 30, 2020, an increase of $3.9 million or 285%, primarily driven by the sponsorship and licensing revenues earned related to the Social Gloves event held during the three months ended June 30, 2021 with no comparable event held during the prior year.

Merchandising Revenue

Merchandising revenue increased to $6.6 million from $0 for the six months ended September 30, 2021, as compared to the six months ended September 30, 2020 due to the acquisition of CPS in December 2020.

Ticket/Event Revenue

Ticket/Event revenue increased $11.7 million to $13.1 million for the six months ended September 30, 2021, as compared to $1.3 million for the six months ended September 30, 2020. The increase was due to PPV ticket fees and production revenues earned related to the Social Gloves event held during the six months ended September 30, 2021 with no comparable event held during the prior year comparable period.

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Cost of Sales

Cost of sales was as follows (in thousands):

  Six Months Ended
September 30,
    
  2021  2020  % Change 
Subscription $12,649  $11,239   13%
Advertising  16,613   4,248   291%
Production and Ticketing  13,536   2,473   447%
Merchandising  4,192   -   -%
Total Cost of Sales $46,990  $17,960   162%

Subscription

Subscription cost of sales increased $1.4 million, or 13%, to $12.6 million for the six months ended September 30, 2021, as compared to $11.2 million for the six months ended September 30, 2020. The increase was in line with the higher subscription revenues noted above.

Advertising

Advertising cost of sales increased $12.4 million, or 291%, to $16.6 million for the six months ended September 30, 2021, as compared to $4.2 million for the six months ended September 30, 2020. The increase was in line with the higher advertising revenues noted above.

Production and Ticketing

Production cost of sales increased $11.1 million, or 447%, to $13.5 million for the six months ended September 30, 2021, as compared to $2.5 million for the six months ended September 30, 2020. The increase was primarily due to production costs of approximately $6.2 million related to the Social Gloves event held during the six months ended September 30, 2021.

Merchandising

Merchandising cost of sales increased to $4.2 million from $0 for the six months ended September 30, 2021, as compared to the six months ended September 30, 2021 due to the acquisition of CPS in December 2020.

Other Operating Expenses

Other operating expenses were as follows (in thousands):

  Six Months Ended
September 30,
    
  2021  2020  % Change 
Sales and marketing expenses $7,348  $3,422   115%
Product development  4,333   4,374   -1%
General and administrative  18,623   9,600   94%
Amortization of intangible assets  3,023   2,658   14%
Total Other Operating Expenses $33,327  $20,054   66%

Sales and Marketing Expenses

Sales and marketing expenses increased $3.9 million, or 115%, to $7.3 million for the six months ended September 30, 2021, as compared to $3.4 million for the six months ended September 30, 2020. The $3.9 million increase was largely due higher salaries and wages of $1.6 million and stock-based compensation of $0.2 million driven by the addition of sales and marketing personnel, as well as increased CPS marketing of $0.4 million which was acquired subsequent to September 30, 2020.

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Product Development

Product development expenses remained consistent year over year at $4.3 million for the six months ended September 30, 2021, as compared to $4.4 million for the six months ended September 30, 2020.

General and Administrative

General and administrative expenses increased $9.0 million, or 94%, to $18.6 million for the six months ended September 30, 2021, as compared to $9.6 million for the six months ended September 30, 2020. The increase was largely due to an increase in share-based compensation of $3.9 million and salaries and benefits of $2.7 million, partially driven by the addition of corporate personnel to support future growth and the timing of vesting of share-based awards.

Amortization of Intangible Assets

Amortization of intangible assets increased by $0.4 million, or 14%, to $3.0 million for the six months ended September 30, 2021, as compared to $2.7 million for the six months ended September 30, 2020. The increase was due to intangible assets acquired in the acquisition CPS, which was acquired subsequent to September 30, 2020.

Total Other Expense, net

Total other expense. net was as follows (in thousands):

  Six Months Ended
September 30,
    
  2021  2020  % Change 
Total other expense, net $(3,654) $(4,769)  -23%

Total other expense, net decreased $1.1 million to $3.7 million for the six months ended September 30, 2021, as compared to $4.8 million expense for the six months ended September 30, 2020. The decrease was primarily due a result of lower interest expense primarily driven by the interest rate on the Harvest Notes of 8.5% during the quarter ended September 30, 2021, when compared to the interest rate on the senior secured debentures of 12.5% which were outstanding during the quarter ended September 30, 2020.

Business Segment Results

Three Months Ended September 30, 2021, as compared to Three Months Ended September 30, 2020

 

Operations

 

Our Operations operating results were, and discussions of significant variances are, as follows (in thousands):

 

 Three Months Ended
September 30,
     Three Months Ended
June 30,
    
 2021  2020  % Change  2022  2021  % Change 
Revenue $21,924  $14,559   51% $23,222  $38,767   -40%
                        
Cost of Sales  16,051   10,299   56%  15,382   30,940   -50%
Sales & Marketing, Product Development and G&A  6,889   6,821   1%  5,943   9,876   -40%
Intangible Asset Amortization  1,517   1,407   8%  1,411   1,506   -6%
Operating Loss  (2,533)  (3,968)  -36%
Operating Income (Loss)  486   (3,555)  -114%
Operating Margin  -12%  -27%  -%  2%  -9%  11%
AOI (AOL)* $1,167  $(127)  1,019%
AOI (AOL) Margin*  5%  -1%  -%
Adjusted EBITDA* $3,200  $1,197   167%
Adjusted EBITDA Margin*  14%  3%  11%

 

*See “—Non-GAAP Measures” above for the definition and reconciliation of AOI.Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA Margin.

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Revenue

 

Revenue increased $7.4decreased by $15.5 million, or 51%40%, $23.2 million during the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2021,2022, as compared to $14.6$38.8 million for the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2020,2021, primarily due to increased subscriptiona decrease of $12.7 million in ticket and event revenue of $2.1primarily due to PPV ticket fees and production revenues earned related to the Social Gloves event held during the prior year quarter which did not occur in the current quarter. In addition, sponsorship revenue decreased $5.0 million asand merchandising decreased by $1.8 million due to the Social Gloves event not occurring in the current quarter and a result of subscriber growth with our largest OEM customer, increased advertising revenue of $3.3 million as a result of growthdecrease in advertising at PodcastOne, and merchandisingdemand for merchandise. The decrease was offset by an increase in membership revenue of $3.0 million during the three months ended September 30, 2021 with no revenues in the comparable prior year periodand advertising revenue of $1.0 million due to the acquisition of CPS subsequent to September 30, 2020.growth in our PodcastOne sales.

 

Operating LossIncome (Loss)

 

Operating loss decreased $1.4income (loss) increased by $4.0 million, or 36%114%, to $2.5income of $0.4 million for the three months ended September 31, 2021,June 30, 2022, as compared to $4.0a loss of $3.6 million for the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2020,2021, as a result of the $1.6a decrease in stock compensation expense of $4.3 million, increase in contribution margin primarily due to the CPS in addition to the increasesdecreases in revenues described above. operating costs primarily driven by a $15.6 decrease in cost of sales. These decreases were offset by a decrease in revenue of $15.5 million.

 

Adjusted Operating IncomeEBITDA

 

Operations AOIAdjusted EBITDA increased by $1.3$2.0 million, or 1,019%167%, to $3.2 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022, as compared to $1.2 million for the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2021, as compared to $0.1 million loss for the three months ended September 30, 2020.2021. This was largely due to the increased contribution margin and partially offset by higherlower operating expenses, described above.

 

Corporate expense

 

Our Corporate expense results were, and discussions of significant variances are, as follows (in thousands):

 

 Three Months Ended
September 30,
     Three Months Ended
June 30,
   
 2021  2020  % Change  2022 2021 % Change 
Sales & Marketing, Product Development and G&A $7,134  $3,158   126%
Sales & Marketing, Product Development, and G&A $83 $6,404 -99%
Operating Loss $(7,134) $(3,158)  126% $(83) $(6,404) 99%
Operating Margin  N/A   N/A   -% N/A N/A        - %
AOL* $(3,238) $(1,263)  156%
Adjusted EBITDA* $(1,231) $(2,949) -58%

 

*See “—Non-GAAP Measures” above for the definition and reconciliation of AOL.Adjusted EBITDA.

 

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Operating Loss

Operating loss increased $3.9 million, or 126%, to $7.1 million for the three months ended September 30, 2021, as compared to $3.2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2020 largely as a result of increased salaries and wages of $1.1 million due to the addition of corporate personnel and increased stock-based compensation of $2.1 million.

Adjusted Operating Loss

Corporate AOL increased $2.0 million, or 156%, to $3.2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2021, as compared to $1.3 million for three months ended September 30, 2020. The increase was largely due to the increase in cash based operating costs described above related to salaries and wages.

Six Months Ended September 30, 2021 as compared to Six Months Ended September 30, 2020

Operations

Our Operations operating results were, and discussions of significant variances are, as follows (in thousands):

  Six Months Ended
September 30,
    
  2021  2020  % Change 
Revenue $60,691  $25,066   142%
             
Cost of Sales  46,990   17,960   162%
Sales & Marketing, Product Development and G&A  16,766   10,881   54%
Intangible Asset Amortization  3,023   2,658   14%
Operating Loss $(6,088) $(6,433)  -5%
Operating Margin  -10%  -26%  -%
AOI $2,364  $987   140%
AOI Margin*  4%  4%  -%

*See “—Non-GAAP Measures” above for the definition and reconciliation of AOI.

Revenue

Revenue increased $35.6 million, or 142%, during the six months ended September 30, 2021, as compared to $25.1 million for the six months ended September 30, 2020, primarily due to increased subscription revenue of $2.4 million as a result of subscriber growth with our largest OEM customer, increased advertising revenue due to advertising growth at PodcastOne, increased sponsorship and licensing revenue of $3.9 million driven by the Social Gloves event held during the three months ended June 30, 2021, and merchandising revenue of $6.6 million with no revenues in the comparable prior year period due to the acquisition of CPS subsequent to September 30, 2020.

 

Operating Loss

 

Operating loss decreased $0.3$6.1 million, or 5%99%, to $6.1$0.1 million for the sixthree months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2020,2022, as compared to $6.4 million for the sixthree months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2020, primarily as a result of a $6.6 million improvement in contribution margins* from operations primarily2021 due to the Social Gloves event heldcost reduction initiatives instituted during the six monthsquarter ended SeptemberJune 30, 2021 which were continued into the quarter ended June 30, 2022. In addition, the Company recorded $1.6 million in credits due to settling previous amounts owed with no comparable event in the prior year comparable period, partially offset by a $5.9 million increase in sales & marketing, product development and G&A during the six months ended September 30, 2020, as compared to the same period in the prior year. This was primarily driven by the addition of corporate personnel, the timing of vesting of share-based awards, and operating costs associated with the Social Gloves event.vendors.

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Adjusted Operating Income (Loss)EBITDA

 

AOI* increased $1.4Corporate Adjusted EBITDA* decreased $1.7 million, or 140%58%, from a $1.0to $(1.2) million AOI* for the six months ended September 30, 2020, to a $2.4 million AOI* for the six months ended September 30, 2021, primarily as a result of a $6.6 million improvement in contribution margins* from operations primarily due to the Social Gloves event held during the three months ended June 30, 2021, with no comparable event in the prior year comparable period, offset by a $5.92022, as compared to $(2.9) million increase in sales & marketing, product development and G&A described above. Additionally, the increase in AOI*for three months ended June 30, 2021. The decrease was driven by increased contribution margins from the Social Gloves event duringdecrease in the six months ended September 30, 2021, offset by increased recurring cash based operating costs related to sales and marketing, product development and G&A.

Corporate

Our Corporate results were, and discussions of significant variances are, as follows (in thousands):

  Six Months Ended
September 30,
    
  2021  2020  % Change 
Sales & Marketing, Product Development and G&A $13,538  $6,515   108%
Operating Loss $(13,538) $(6,515)  108%
Operating Margin  -100%  -100%  -%
AOL* $(6,186) $(2,432)  154%

*See “—Non-GAAP Measures” above for the definition and reconciliation of AOL.

Corporate Operating Loss

Corporate operating loss increased $7.0 million, or 108%, from a $6.5 millionnet loss for the six months ended September 30, 2020, to a $13.5 million losscorporate segment along with settling amounts owed with vendors for the six months ended September 30, 2021. The increase was primarily due to a $6.2 million increase in G&A expenses as the result of addition of corporate personnel and the timing of vesting of share-based awards.

Adjusted Operating Loss

Corporate AOL* increased $3.8 million, or 154%, from a $2.4 million AOL* for the six months ended September 30, 2020, to a $6.2 million AOL* for the six months ended September 30, 2020. The increase was largely due to increased recurring cash based operating costs related to sales and marketing, product development and G&A.an amount less than originally billed.

 

Liquidity and Capital Resources

 

Current Financial Condition

 

As of SeptemberJune 30, 2021,2022, our principal sources of liquidity were our cash and cash equivalents, including restricted cash balances in the amount of $16.7$11.3 million, which primarily are invested in cash in banking institutions in the U.S. In April 2020, we received approximately $2.0 million under the U.S. Government’s Paycheck Protection Plan (“PPP”) of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”), which was subsequently forgiven in April 2021. The vast majority of our cash proceeds were received as a result of the issuance of our convertible notes since 2014, public offerings, bank debt financing in fiscal year 2018 and the secured convertible debentures financing in June 2018 and February 2019. In June 2021 we entered into a Revolving Credit Facility (See Note 11 – Senior Secured Revolving Line of Credit to our condensed consolidated financial statements) and drew down aggregate advance amounts of $6.0 million. As of SeptemberJune 30, 2021,2022, we had notes payable balance of $0.8$0.2 million, $7.7$5.9 million in aggregate principal amount of unsecured convertible notes, secured convertible notes with aggregate principal balances of $15.0 million, and Revolving Credit Facilitya senior secured revolving credit facility with a principal balance of $7.0 million.

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As reflected in our condensed consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report, we have a historyan accumulated deficit of losses and incurred a net loss of $15.2$212.5 million and cash used cash of $7.0 million in$26,000 from operating activities for the sixthree months Septemberended June 30, 20212022 and had a working capital deficiency of $17.6$25.7 million as of SeptemberJune 30, 2021.2022. These factors, among others, raise substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern within one year from the date that the financial statements are issued. Our condensed consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments related to the recoverability and classification of recorded asset amounts or the amounts and classification of liabilities that might be necessary should we be unable to continue as a going concern. Our ability to continue as a going concern is dependent on our ability to execute our strategy and on our ability to raise additional funds through the sale of equity and/or debt securities via public and/or private offerings.

 

Our long-term ability to continue as a going concern is dependent upon our ability to increase revenue, reduce costs, achieve a satisfactory level of profitable operations, and obtain additional sources of suitable and adequate financing. Our ability to continue as a going concern is also dependent its ability to further develop and execute on our business plan. We may also have to reduce certain overhead costs through the reduction of salaries and other means and settle liabilities through negotiation. There can be no assurance that management’s attempts at any or all of these endeavors will be successful.

 

In February 2020, we acquired React Presents in exchange for $2.0 million in convertible debt issued by React Presents. The convertible debt has a termSources of 2 years, bears interest at 8% per year and has a conversion price of $4.50 per share of our common stock. As of September 30, 2021, the outstanding balance, including principal and interest, was $2.3 million.

In April 2020, we received proceeds of $2.0 million from a loan under the PPP of the CARES Act. On April 22, we received confirmation from the SBA that the entire balance of such PPP loan was forgiven as a result of our application and acceptance under the terms of the CARES Act. On July 1, 2020, we acquired PodcastOne that had previously obtained a PPP loan, which had a balance of $0.5 million as of March 31, 2021. On May 11, 2021, we received confirmation from the lender that the entire balance of such PPP loan was forgiven as a result of our application and acceptance under the terms of the CARES act.

In June 2020, we entered into a new two-year license agreement with a certain music partner which owns and license rights to Slacker to certain sound recordings. Pursuant to this agreement, we agreed to certain minimum yearly guarantee payments and issued 264,000 shares of our common stock so such music partner in consideration of all payments due to the music partner prior the date of the agreement.Liquidity

  

In July 2020, we2022, PodcastOne completed a registeredprivate placement offering (the “Financing”) of its unsecured convertible notes with an existing institutional investor, another investor and a music partner pursuant to which we sold 1,820,000 sharesoriginal issue discount of our common stock to10% in the investors for net proceeds of $7.3 million and issued 2,415,459 shares of our common stock to satisfy a $10.0 million vendor payment obligation to such music partner, each at a price of $3.28 per share (the “July 2020 Offering”). The July 2020 Offering was made pursuant to our existing shelf Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-228909).

In September 2020, we entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement with a certain existing institutional investor pursuant to which we sold our 8.5% Subordinated Secured Convertible Note in theaggregate principal amount of $15.0 million.$8,838,500 (the “Notes”) to certain accredited investors and institutional investors (collectively, the “Purchasers”), for gross proceeds of $8,035,000 pursuant to the Subscription Agreements entered into with the Purchasers (the “Subscription Agreements”). In connection with such financing, we agreed to issue to such investor’s designees 800,000 shares of our common stock. The notes mature on June 3, 2023 (as a resultthe sale of the June 2021 note extension, we also agreedNotes, the Purchasers received warrants (the “Warrants”) to issue 60,000purchase a number of shares (the “Warrant Shares”) of ourPodcastOne’s common stock, topar value $0.00001 per share (See Note 20 – Subsequent Events). The Notes and the holdersWarrants were issued as restricted securities in a private placement transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Harvest Notes), accrue interest at 8.5% per year, payable quarterly in cash in arrears, and are convertible into sharesSecurities Act of our common stock at a conversion price of $4.50 per share at the investor’s option, subject to certain customary adjustments such1933, as stock splits, stock dividends and stock combinations.

On January 11, 2021, we entered into an Amendment of Notes Agreement with Trinad Capital, a related party, pursuant to which the maturity date of allamended (the “Securities Act”). As part of the Trinad Notes issued to Trinad Capital was extended to May 31, 2022, and in considerationFinancing, we purchased $3 million worth of such extension, the interest rate payable under such notes increased to 8.5%, and we issued to Trinad Capital 280,000 shares of our common stock. Notes.

 

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On August 11, 2021, we entered into an Amendment of the Notes Agreement with Trinad Capital pursuant to which the maturity date of all of the Trinad Notes issued to Trinad Capital was extended to May 31, 2023, and in consideration of such extension, we issued to Trinad Capital 33,654 shares of our common stock.  

As of September 30, 2021 and March 31, 2021, we had an outstanding unsecured convertible notes (the “Trinad Notes”) of $5.7 million and $5.5 million, respectively, in principal and accrued interest, issued to Trinad Capital.

 

Our cash flows from operating activities are significantly affected by our cash-based investments in our operations, including acquiring live music events and festivals rights, our working capital, and corporate infrastructure to support our ability to generate revenue and conduct operations through cost of services, product development, sales and marketing and general and administrative activities. Cash used in investing activities has historically been, and is expected to be, impacted significantly by our investments in business combinations, our platform, and our infrastructure and equipment for our business offerings, and sale of our investments. We expect to make additional strategic acquisitions to further grow our business, which may require significant investments, capital raising and/or acquisition of additional debt in the near and long term. Over the next twelve to eighteen months, our net use of our working capital could be substantially higher or lower depending on the number and timing of new live festivals and paid subscribersmembers that we add to our businesses.

 

Subject to applicable limitations in the instruments governing our outstanding indebtedness, we may from time to time repurchase our debt, including the unsecured convertible notes, in the open market, through tender offers, through exchanges for debt or equity securities, in privately negotiated transactions or otherwise.

 

In the future, we may utilize additional commercial financings, bonds, debentures, lines of credit and term loans with a syndicate of commercial banks or other bank syndicates and/or issue equity securities (publicly or privately) for general corporate purposes, including acquisitions and investing in our intangible assets, music equipment, platform and technologies. We may also use our current cash and cash equivalents to repurchase some or all of our unsecured and/or secured convertible notes, and pay down our debt, in part or in full, subject to repayment limitation set forth in the credit agreement. Management plans to fund ourits operations over the next twelve months through the combination of improved operating results, spending rationalization, and the ability to access sources of capital such as through the issuance of equity and/or debt securities. No assurance can be given that any future financing will be available or, if available, that it will be on terms that are satisfactory to us. We filed a new universal shelf Registration Statement on Form S-3 (the “New Shelf S-3”) with the SEC, which becamewas declared effective by the SEC on February 7, 2019, allowing us17, 2022. Under the New Shelf S-3, we have the ability to issue various types of securities, including common stock, preferred stock, warrants, debt securities, units, or any combination of such securities,raise up to an aggregate amount of $150.0 million in cash from the sale of which $121.5 million is remaining as of the date of this Quarterly Report.our equity, debt and/or other financial instruments.

 

Sources and Uses of Cash

 

The following table provides information regarding our cash flows for the sixthree months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20212022 and 20202021 (in thousands):

 

  Six Months Ended
September 30,
 
  2021  2020 
Net cash used in operating activities $(6,981) $(4,914)
Net cash used in investing activities  (2,042)  (224)
Net cash provided by financing activities  6,991   13,680 
Net change in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash $(2,032) $8,542 

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  Three Months Ended
June 30,
 
  2022  2021 
Net cash (used in) provided by operating activities $(26) $832 
Net cash used in investing activities  (785)  (1,103)
Net cash (used in) provided by financing activities  (997)  6,210 
Net change in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash $(1,808) $5,939 

 

Cash Flows Used InProvided by Operating Activities 

 

For the sixthree months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20212022

 

Net cash used in our operating activities of $7.0$26,000 primarily resulted from our net income during the period of $1.3 million, which included non-cash charges of $1.3 million largely comprised of depreciation and amortization, stock-based compensation, change in fair value of contingent consideration and amortization of debt discount. The remainder of our sources of cash used in operating activities of $(2.7) million was from changes in our working capital, primarily from timing of accounts receivable, accounts payable and accrued liabilities, accrued royalties, and deferred revenue.

For the three months ended June 30, 2021

Net cash provided by our operating activities of $0.8 million primarily resulted from our net loss during the period of ($23.3)8.1) million, which included non-cash charges of $16.9$4.9 million largely comprised of depreciation and amortization, stock-based compensation, and loss on extinguishmentamortization of debt.debt discount. In addition, our net loss during the period included non-cash income comprised of $2.5$(2.5) million as a resultcomprised of a gain on forgiveness of PPP loans. The remainder of our sources of cash used inprovided by operating activities of $0.6$4.0 million was from changes in our working capital, primarily from timing of accounts receivable, accounts payable, and deferred revenue.

For the six months ended September 30, 2020

 

Net cash used in our operating activities of $4.9 million primarily resulted from our net loss during the period of ($17.7) million, which included non-cash charges of $10.8 million largely comprised of the accretion of our debt discount on our unsecured convertible notes, depreciation and amortization, change in fair value of embedded derivatives, loss on extinguishment of debt and stock-based compensation. The remainder of our sources of cash used in operating activities of $2.0 million was from changes in our working capital, primarily from timing of accounts payable, accrued expenses, prepaid expenses and other current assets, long term liabilities and accounts receivable.


 

Cash Flows Used In Investing Activities

 

For the sixthree months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20212022

 

Net cash used in investing activities of ($2.0)$0.8 million was primarily due to the ($2.0) million cash used for the purchase of capitalized internally developed software costs during the six months ended September 30, 2021.

For the six months ended September 30, 2020

Net cash used in investing activities of ($0.2) million was primarily due to the ($1.5)$0.8 million cash used for the purchase of capitalized internally developed software costs during the quarter ended SeptemberJune 30, 2020 net2022.

For the three months ended June 30, 2021

Net cash used in investing activities of $1.1 million was primarily due to the $1.3$1.0 million acquired incash used for the acquisitionpurchase of PodcastOne.capitalized internally developed software costs during the quarter ended June 30, 2021.

 

Cash Flows Provided by Financing Activities 

 

For the sixthree months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2022

Net cash used in financing activities of $1.0 million was due to the repurchase of common stock under the Company’s share repurchase program of $1.0 million.

For the three months ended June 30, 2021

 

Net cash provided by financing activities of $7.0$6.2 million was primarily due to proceeds from the drawdown on the revolving line of credit of $7.0$6.0 million and proceeds from employee stock options of $0.6$0.3 million, partially offset by payments on capital lease liabilities of ($0.2) million and the repayment of a note payable of ($0.4)0.1) million.

For the six months ended September 30, 2020

Net cash provided by financing activities of $13.7 million was primarily due to $13.1 million of proceeds from secured convertible notes net of ($10.8) million to repay the secured convertible debentures, $9.0 million proceeds from the issuance of shares of common stock, $2.1 million proceeds from notes payable and $0.5 million proceeds from exercises of stock options.

 

Debt Covenants

 

As of SeptemberJune 30, 2021,2022, we were in full compliance with all covenants. 

 

Contractual Obligations and Commitments

During the six months ended September 30, 2021, we have entered into new licenses, production and/or distribution agreements for digital broadcast rights across certain events. These new agreements have not added any future minimum commitments for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2022, or for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2023.

Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk

 

Not required for smaller reporting companies.

 

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Item 4. Controls and Procedures

 

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

 

We maintain disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Exchange Act) that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in SEC rules and forms and that such information is accumulated and communicated to management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Interim Chief Financial Officer, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosures.

 

As of the end of the period covered by this Quarterly Report, we carried out an evaluation (the “Evaluation”), under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Interim Chief Financial Officer, of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) of the Exchange Act) pursuant to Rule 13a-15 of the Exchange Act. Based upon that evaluation, as a result of the material weaknesses identified in our 20212022 Form 10-K, our Chief Executive Officer and Interim Chief Financial Officer concluded that as of the end of the period covered by this Quarterly Report, our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective.


 

Limitations of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

 

Our disclosure controls and procedures are designed to reasonably ensure that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is (i) recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms and (ii) accumulated and communicated to management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosures. A control system, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance that it will detect or uncover failures within the Company to disclose material information otherwise required to be set forth in our periodic reports. Inherent limitations to any system of disclosure controls and procedures include, but are not limited to, the possibility of human error and the circumvention or overriding of such controls by one or more persons. In addition, we have designed our system of controls based on certain assumptions, which we believe are reasonable, about the likelihood of future events, and our system of controls may therefore not achieve its desired objectives under all possible future events.

 

Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

Management is actively engaged and committed to taking the steps necessary to remediate the control deficiencies that constituted material weaknesses as described in our 2021 Form 10-K. During FY 2022, we have made the following enhancements to our internal control over financial reporting:

We added finance and accounting personnel to the organization to strengthen our finance and accounting teams. The additional personnel are expected to provide oversight, structure, reporting lines, and additional review over our disclosures; and

We implemented new policies and procedures relevant to the preparation of our financial statements to improve communication of key areas across the different departments to provide adequate structure, accountability, and segregation of duties;

Our remediation activities are continuing during FY 2022. In addition to the above actions, we expect to engage in additional activities, including, but not limited to:

Designing and implementing formal processes, accounting policies, procedures, and controls supporting our financial close process, including standardization of financial reporting data

Continuing to implement additional controls within existing IT systems relevant to the preparation of our financial statements and controls over financial reporting to improve communication of key areas across departments and to provide adequate structure, accountability, and segregation of duties.

 

We continue to enhance corporate oversight over process-level controls and structuresbe in the process of implementing changes, as more fully described in our 2022 Form 10-K, to ensure that there is appropriate assignment of authority, responsibility, and accountability to enable remediation of our material weaknesses.

While we have made progress, our material weaknesses will not be considered remediated until we complete the design and implementation of the enhanced controls, the controls operate for a sufficient period of time, and we have concluded, through testing, that these controls are effective. We believe that our remediation plan will be sufficient to remediate the identified material weaknesses and strengthen our internal control over financial reporting.

As management continues to evaluate and work to improve our internal control over financial reporting we may determine that additional measures or modifications to remediate the remediation plan are necessary.material weaknesses as described in our 2022 Form 10-K.

 

Other than as described above, thereThere have been no changes in our internal control over financial reporting, during the quarter ended SeptemberJune 30, 20212022 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

 

CEO and CFO Certifications

 

Exhibits 31.1 and 31.2 to this Quarterly Report are the Certifications of our Chief Executive Officer and theInterim Chief Financial Officer, respectively. These Certifications are required in accordance with Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (the “Section 302 Certifications”). This Item 4 of this Quarterly Report, which you are currently reading, is the information concerning the Evaluation referred to above and in the Section 302 Certifications and this information should be read in conjunction with the Section 302 Certifications for a more complete understanding of the topics presented.

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PART II. OTHER INFORMATION

 

Item 1. Legal Proceedings.

 

In March 2018, Manatt Phelps& Phillips, LLP (“Manatt”) served our Company with a complaint filed on February 22, 2018 in the Supreme Court of the State of California County of Los Angeles against us. The complaint alleges, among other things, breach of contract and breach of promissory note. Plaintiff is seeking damages of $0.2 million, plus interest, attorneys’ fees and costs and other such relief as the court may award. On April 12, 2018, we filed an answer that generally denied all the claims in the complaint. On February 19, 2019, in connection with the settlement of the plaintiff’s Delaware action (as discussed below), the parties settled this matter agreeing that we would repay this note and accrued interest in full by June 30, 2019. Such settlement was approved by the court on March 4, 2019, and the plaintiff dismissed this action against the Company without prejudice. No additional consideration was paid by us to the plaintiff related to this settlement. As of September 30, 2021 the promissory note and related Delaware and California judgments have been satisfied in full.

On April 10, 2018, Joseph Schnaier, Danco Enterprises, LLC (an entity solely owned by Mr. Schnaier, “Danco”), Wantmcs Holdings, LLC (Mr. Schnaier is the managing member) and Wantickets (Mr. Schnaier is the 90% beneficial owner) filed a complaint in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York against each of the Company, LXL Tickets, Robert S. Ellin, Alec Ellin, Blake Indursky and Computershare Trust Company, N.A. (“Computershare”). Plaintiffs subsequently voluntarily dismissed all claims against Alec Ellin and Blake Indursky. The complaint alleged multiple causes of actionWe are from time to time, party to various legal proceedings arising out of Schnaier’s investment (through Danco) of $1.25 million into our Companybusiness. Certain legal proceedings in 2016, our purchase of certain operating assets of Wantickets pursuantwhich we are involved are discussed in Note 15 - Commitments and Contingencies, to the Asset Purchase Agreement, dated as of May 5, 2017,condensed consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report, and Mr. Schnaier’s employment with LXL Tickets, including claims for fraudulent inducement, breach of contract, conversion,are incorporated herein by reference. Litigation is subject to inherent uncertainties, and defamation. Plaintiffs seek monetary damages and injunctive relief. Plaintiffs also sued Computershare for negligence and for injunctive relief relating toan adverse result in these or other matters may have, individually or in the refusal to transfer certain restricted shares of the Company’s common stock owned by the plaintiffs, and as a result of a subsequent mutual settlement, the claims against Computershare were dismissed. Plaintiffs are seeking injunctive relief, damages of approximately $26.7 million, plus interest, attorneys’ fees and costs and other such relief as the court may award. We have denied and continue to deny plaintiffs’ claims. We believe that the complaint is an intentional act by the plaintiffs to publicly tarnish our and our senior management’s reputations through the public domain in an effort to obtain by threat of litigation certain results for Mr. Schnaier’s self-serving and improper purposes. On June 26, 2018, we and LXL Tickets, filed counterclaims against the plaintiffs for breach of contract (including under the Asset Purchase Agreement), fraudulent inducement, and other causes of action, seeking injunctive relief, damages, attorneys’ fees and expenses and such other relief as the court may award.  In October 2018, pursuant to the terms of the APA, we submitted a formal demand to Wantickets, Mr. Schnaier and Danco to indemnify us, among other things, for its costs and expenses incurred in connection with this matter. The parties are currently engaged in pre-trial proceedings, including continuing discovery efforts with the trial not expected to commence, if any, until our fiscal year ending March 31, 2022 (unless further delayed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic). As of March 31, 2021, all of plaintiffs’ claims other than fraudulent inducement and breach of the employment agreement were dismissed or addressed by the parties or the court. In March 2021, we filed our summary judgement motion, and the plaintiffs filed their opposition to the motion. The oral argument on the summary judgment motion is scheduled for November 4, 2021. While a trial date has not yet been set, if our summary judgment motion is not successful, we expect the trial to commence sometime during the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022. We intend to continue to vigorously defend all defendants against any liability to the plaintiffs with respect to the remaining claims, and we believe that the allegations are without merit and that we have strong defenses. As of September 30, 2021, while we have assessed the likelihood of a loss, if any, is not probable, the outcome of this lawsuit is inherently uncertain and the potential range of loss could haveaggregate, a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

In July 2021, Simply Greatness Productions, LLC (“SGP”) served our Company with a complaint filed on July 21, 2021 in the Superior Court of the State of California County of Los Angeles against us and Paul Cazers. The complaint seeks damages for an alleged breach of contract by us and an alleged breach of contract by Mr. Cazers related to the “Social Gloves: Battle of the Platforms” boxing event (the “Event”), alleges that we fraudulently induced SGP to commit to an oversize production budget based upon us knowing or negligent misrepresentation as to the anticipated pay-per-view sales for the Event, and seeks an accounting on the performance of the Event. We intend to file an answer to the complaint and to vigorously defend ourselves against any liability to the plaintiffs with respect to the claims.

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On July 22, 2022, we filed a complaint against SGP, Austin McBroom, Catherine Paiz McBroom and Allen McBroom in the Superior Court of the State of California County of Los Angeles. The complaint arises from defamatory statements the defendants made following the Event claiming that we lied about the ticket sales. SGP’s financial auditor has validated our representations. In addition, the complaint alleges a breach of contract based on SGP’s willful failure to collaborate with us on marketing the Event resulting in poor ticket sales which, in turn, meant reduced fees to us. The complaint further alleges fraud and intentional interference with prospective economic advantage. We are asking the court to award no less than $100 million in damages.

During each of the quarters ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, we recorded aggregate legal settlement expenses relating to potential claims arising in connection with litigation brought against the Company by certain third-parties of $0, respectively. During the years ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, the full amounts were expensed and included in general and administrative expenses.

From time to time, we are involved in legal proceedings and other matters arising in connection with the conduct of our business activities. Many of these proceedings may be at preliminary stages and/or seek an indeterminate amount of damages. In the opinion of management, after consultation with legal counsel, such routine claims and lawsuits are not significant and we do not currently expect them to have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations, or liquidity. Other than as set forth below, we are not aware of any other pending material legal proceedings.operating results. 

 

Item 1A. Risk Factors.

 

We have set forth in Item 1A. Risk Factors in our 20212022 Form 10-K, risk factors relating to our business and industry, our acquisition strategy, our company, our subsidiaries, our technology and intellectual property, and our common stock. Readers of this Quarterly Report are referred to such Item 1A. Risk Factors in our 20212022 Form 10-K for a more complete understanding of risks concerning us. Except as set forth below, there have been no material changes in our risk factors since those published in our 20212022 Form 10-K.

 

Risks Related to Our Business and Industry

 

We rely on one key customer for a substantial percentage of our revenue. The loss of our largest customer or the significant reduction of business or growth of business from our largest customer could significantly adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

 

Our business is dependent, and we believe that it will continue to depend, on our customer relationship with Tesla, which accounted for 24%43% of our consolidated revenue for the sixthree months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2021,2022, and 45%18% of our consolidated revenue for the sixthree months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2020.2021. Our existing agreement with Tesla governs our music services to its car user base in North America, including our audio music streaming services. If we fail to maintain certain minimum service level requirements related to our service with Tesla or other obligations related to our technology or services, Tesla may terminate our agreement to provide them with such service. Tesla may also terminate our agreement for convenience at any time. If Tesla terminates our agreement, requires us to renegotiate the terms of our existing agreement or we are unable to renew such agreement on mutually agreeable terms, no longer makes our music services available to Tesla’s car user base, becomes a native music service provider, replaces our music services with one or more of our competitors and/or we experience a significant reduction of business from Tesla, our business, financial condition and results of operations would be materially adversely affected.

  

In addition, a significant amount of the subscription revenue we generate from Tesla is indirectly subsidized by Tesla to its customers, which Tesla is not committed to carry indefinitely, including the ability to terminate and/or change our music services for convenience at any time. Should our subscription revenue services no longer be subsidized by and/or made available by Tesla to its customers or if Tesla reclassifies or renegotiates with us the definition of a paid subscriber or demands credit for past subscribers that no longer meet such requirement, there can be no assurance that we will continue to maintain the same number of paid subscribers or receive the same levels of subscription service revenue and subscription revenue may substantially fluctuate accordingly. There is no assurance that we would be able to replace Tesla or lost business with Tesla with one or more customers that generate comparable revenue. Furthermore, there could be no assurance that our revenue from Tesla continues to grow at the same rate or at all. Any revenue growth will depend on our success in growing such customer’s revenues on our platform and expanding our customer base to include additional customers.

   

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Tesla has also integrated Spotify Premium to the car’s in-dash touchscreen for its Model S, Model X and Model 3 vehicles. Tesla owners now have access to our music streaming services, Spotify and TuneIn natively. There is no assurance that our music streaming services will be available in every current and/or future Tesla model. Furthermore, our current and future competitors like Spotify, Apple Music, Tesla (if it becomes a native music service provider) and others may have more well-established brand recognition, more established relationships with, and superior access to content providers and other industry stakeholders, greater financial, technical and other resources, more sophisticated technologies or more experience in the markets in which we compete. If we are unable to compete successfully for users against our competitors by maintaining and increasing our presence and visibility, the number of users of our network may fail to increase as expected or decline and our advertising sales, subscription fees and other revenue streams will suffer.


In addition, we have derived, and we believe that we will continue to derive, a substantial portion of our revenues from a limited number of other customers. Any revenue growth will depend on our success in growing our customers’ revenues on our platform and expanding our customer base to include additional customers. If we were to lose one or more of our key customers, there is no assurance that we would be able to replace such customers or lost business with new customers that generate comparable revenue, which would significantly adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

We have incurred significant operating and net losses since our inception and anticipate that we will continue to incur significant losses for the foreseeable future.

As reflected in our accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements included elsewhereelsewhere herein, we have a history of losses, incurred significant operating and net losses in each year since our inception, including net losses of $23.3 million and $17.7 million for the six months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, respectively, and cash used in operating activities of $7.0 million and $4.9 million for the six months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, respectively.inception. As of SeptemberJune 30, 2021,2022, we had an accumulated deficit of $193.2$212.5 million and a working capital deficiency of $17.6$25.7 million. We anticipate incurring additional losses until such time that we can generate significant increases to our revenues, and/or reduce our operating costs and losses. To date, we have financed our operations exclusively through the sale of equity and/or debt securities (including convertible securities). The size of our future net losses will depend, in part, on the rate of future expenditures and our ability to significantly grow our business and increase our revenues. We expect to continue to incur substantial and increased expenses as we grow our business. We also expect a continued increase in our expenses associated with our operations as a publicly-traded company. We may incur significant losses in the future for a number of other reasons, including unsuccessful acquisitions, costs of integrating new businesses, expenses, difficulties, complications, delays and other unknown events. As a result of the foregoing, we expect to continue to incur significant losses for the foreseeable future and we may not be able to achieve or sustain profitability.

Our ability to meet our total liabilities, as reported in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheets, and to continue as a going concern, is dependent on our ability to increase revenue, reduce costs, achieve a satisfactory level of profitable operations, obtain additional sources of suitable and adequate financing and further develop and execute on our business plan. We may never achieve profitability, and even if we do, we may not be able to sustain being profitable. As a result of the going concern uncertainty, there is an increased risk that you could lose the entire amount of your investment in our company, which assumes the realization of our assets and the satisfaction of our liabilities and commitments in the normal course of business. 

We generate a substantial portion of our revenues from podcast and advertising sales. If we fail to maintain or grow podcasting and advertising revenue, our financial results may be adversely affected.

Our financial results could be adversely affected if we fail to maintain or grow our podcasting and advertising revenue in the future. In addition, if we fail to collect our receivable balance from our key customers in our podcasting and advertising business, our financial results may be adversely affected.

We generate a substantial portion of our revenues from ecommerce merchandise sales. If we fail to maintain or grow ecommerce merchandise sales revenue, our financial results may be adversely affected.

Our financial results could be adversely affected if we fail to maintain or grow our ecommerce merchandise revenue in the future. In addition, if we fail to collect our receivables balance from our customers in our ecommerce merchandising business, our financial results may be adversely affected.

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The COVID-19 pandemic is adversely impacting our ability to produce on-premise live events, and to a lesser extent portions of our programmatic advertising revenue; the pandemic is also adversely affecting our global economy, which could adversely impact other parts of our business, including our ability to access capital markets, if and when required. Additional factors could exacerbate such negative consequences and/or cause other and potentially materially adverse effects.

An outbreak of a novel strain of coronavirus, COVID-19 in December 2019 subsequently became a pandemic after spreading globally, including the United States, and continues as of the date of this Quarterly Report. While the COVID-19 pandemic did not materially adversely affect our financial results and business operations during the fiscal year ended March 31, 2020, it did adversely impact parts of our business during the first quarter of fiscal March 31, 2021, namely our live events and programmatic advertising. We began to experience modest adverse impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in the fourth quarter of fiscal year ended March 31, 2020 and this impact is expected to continue throughout at least the fiscal year ending March 31, 2022, and possibly longer. Due to the global pandemic and government actions taking in response, since March 2020, all in person festivals, concerts and events have either been canceled or suspended, and it is uncertain when they will be permitted to resume. Some in person festivals, concerts and events have resumed in the quarter ended June 30, 2021. With our acquisition of React Presents in February 2020, we were unable to produce and promote more than 200 forecasted live events in fiscal year ended March 31, 2021, including our flagship live event Spring Awakening festival which is typically annually produced in June. With our Spring Awakening - Autumn Equinox festival held on October 2 and 3, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois, we have resumed producing certain live events; however, there can be no assurance that we will continue to be able to produce our flagship live event Spring Awakening festival or other live events due to the uncertainties surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, or that the number of paid festival and live event attendees will reach the same levels as pre pandemic. Moreover, our programmatic advertising is presently adversely impacted as COVID-19 caused advertising demand to decline and as a result, overall advertising cost per thousand impressions rates across our platform were subsequently reduced. Furthermore, as of the date of this Quarterly Report, we are not livestreaming any fan attended live festivals, concerts or other in-person live events on our platform or channels and it is unclear when streaming of fan attended live festivals, concerts or other in-person live events will again become available to us. In addition, the outbreak and any preventative or protective actions that governments, other third parties or we may take in respect of the coronavirus may result in a continued or periodic business disruption and reduced operations. For example, our largest customer was ordered to keep its main U.S. factory closed for a substantial amount of time in 2020.

The extent to which the coronavirus impacts our results will depend on future developments, including new information which may emerge concerning the severity of the coronavirus and the actions taken by us and our partners to contain the coronavirus or treat its impact, among others. The impact of the suspension or cancellation of in-person live festivals, concerts or other live events, and any other continuing effects of COVID-19 on our business operations (such as general economic conditions and impacts on the advertising, sponsorship and ticketing marketplace and our partners), may result in a decrease in our revenues, and if the global COVID-19 epidemic continues for an extended period, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be materially adversely affected.

Our new distribution agreements are dependent upon our compliance with their contractual obligations. Our distribution agreements generally require us to meet certain content criteria, such as availability of a minimum threshold for event content streaming throughout the year for our distributors. If we were unable to meet these criteria due to the suspension of in person festivals and live events, we could become subject to remedies available to the distributors. In addition, the absence of in person festivals and live events could impact our ability to renew expiring agreements on terms as attractive as our existing terms or at all. We may also be forced develop a significant number of additional digital events and festivals and/or more rapidly than we originally anticipated to fill the content requirements on our platform, including those required by our distributors. Furthermore, government actions or regulations applicable to our business or our distributors in response to COVID-19 could have an adverse effect on our revenues.

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Our estimate of the ultimate impact of the coronavirus pandemic, including the extent of any adverse impacts on our business, revenues, results of operations, cash flows and financial condition, which will depend on, among other things, the duration and spread of coronavirus, the impact of federal and local government actions that have been and continue to be taken in response, and the effectiveness of actions taken to contain or mitigate the pandemic and economic conditions is subject to significant uncertainty.

Depending on the duration and severity of the current COVID-19 pandemic, it may also have the effect of heightening many of the other risks described in this Quarterly Report and our other filings with the SEC, such as risks relating to our ability to further develop and execute on our business plan; our ability to access capital markets to obtain additional sources of suitable and adequate financing; restricted access to capital and increased borrowing costs; our ability to fund our current debt obligations and complying with the covenants contained in the agreements that govern our existing indebtedness; our ability to fund potential acquisitions and capital expenditures; and our ability to maintain adequate internal controls in the event that our employees are restricted from accessing our regular offices for a significant period of time.

We cannot reasonably estimate the ultimate impact and duration of the coronavirus pandemic, including the extent of any adverse impacts on our business, revenues, results of operations, cash flows and financial condition, which cannot currently be predicted and will depend on, among other things, the duration and spread of coronavirus, the impact of federal and local government actions that have been and continue to be taken in response, and the effectiveness of actions taken to contain or mitigate the pandemic and economic conditions.

Our quarterly operating results may be volatile and are difficult to predict in the future, and our stock price may decline if we fail to meet the expectations of securities analysts or investors.

Our revenue, margins and other operating results could vary significantly in the future from quarter-to-quarter and year-to-year and may fail to match our past performance due to a variety of factors, including many factors that are outside of our control, including, as a result of our acquisition of React Presents in February 2020, PodcastOne in July 2020 and CPS in December 2020, and our entry into holding, promoting and managing our live festivals and events, podcasting and the merchandise personalization industry. Factors that may contribute to the variability of our operating results and cause the market price of our common stock to fluctuate include:

the entrance of new competitors or competitive products in our market, whether by established or new companies;
our ability to retain and grow the number of our active user base and increase engagement among new and existing users;
our ability to maintain effective pricing practices, in response to the competitive markets in which we operate or other macroeconomic factors, such as inflation or increased product taxes;
our revenue mix, which drives gross profit;
seasonal or other shifts in festival, event, advertising and CPS revenue;
the timing of the launch of our new or updated festivals, events, products, platforms, channels, podcasts or features;
the addition or loss of popular content or talent;
the popularity of EDM and EDM festivals, events, concerts and clubs;
the popularity of podcasts and specifically our podcast content;
continued impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our quarterly and annual results;
an increase in costs associated with protecting our intellectual property, defending against third-party intellectual property infringement allegations or procuring rights to third-party intellectual property.

Our gross margins are expected to vary across our offerings. Festival and event revenue have a lower gross margin compared to platform revenue derived through our arrangements with advertising, content distribution, billing and licensing activities. In addition, our gross margin and operating margin percentages, as well as overall profitability, may be adversely impacted as a result of a shift in music taste, geographic or sales mix, price competition, or the introduction of new technology and EDM festivals and events. We may in the future strategically reduce our Slacker gross margin in an effort to increase our active accounts and/or maintain our OEM relationships and agreements. As a result, our subscription revenue may not increase as consistently as it has historically, or at all, and, unless we are able to adequately increase our other revenues, including festival and event revenue through RP, and grow our active user base, we may be unable to maintain or grow our margins and revenues and our business will be harmed. If a reduction in margins does not result in an increase in our active user base and revenues, our financial results may suffer, and our business may be harmed.

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Risks Related to Our Indebtedness

We may not have the ability to repay the amounts then due under the Revolving Credit Facility,senior credit facility, Harvest Notes and/or convertible notes at maturity.

At maturity, the entire outstanding principal amount of the Revolving Credit Facility, thesenior secured notes, Harvest Notes and the unsecured convertible notes will become due and payable by us. As of SeptemberJune 30, 2021, $2.22022, $26.9 million of our total indebtedness (excluding interest and unamortized debt discount and debt issuance costs) is due in in fiscal 2022,2025, and $0.1 million is due in in fiscal 2023 and $27.1 million thereafter.


Our failure to repay any outstanding amount of the Harvest Notes or convertible notes would constitute a default under such indentures. A default would increase the interest rate to the default rate under the Harvest Notes or the maximum rate permitted by applicable law until such amount is paid in full. A default under the Harvest Notes or the fundamental change itself could also lead to a default under agreements governing our future indebtedness. If the repayment of the related indebtedness were to be accelerated after any applicable notice or grace periods, we may not have sufficient funds to repay the Harvest Notes or convertible notes or make cash payments thereon. Furthermore, upon the occurrence and during the continuation of any event of default, the agent, for the benefit of the holders of the Harvest Notes, shall have the right to, among other things, take possession of our and our subsidiaries’ assets and property constituting the collateral thereunder and the right to assign, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of the collateral. We do not have the right to prepay the Harvest Notes prior to their maturity.

Our debt agreements contain restrictive and financial covenants that may limit our operating flexibility, and our substantial indebtedness may limit cash flow available to invest in the ongoing needs of our business.

We have a significant amount of indebtedness. Our total outstanding consolidated indebtedness as of SeptemberJune 30, 20212022 was $28.7$27.1 million, net of fees and discounts. While we have certain restrictions and covenants with our current indebtedness, we could in the future incur additional indebtedness beyond such amount. Our existing debt agreements with Revolving Credit Facilitysenior facility lender and the holders of the Harvest Notes contain certain restrictive covenants that limit our ability to merge with other companies or consummate certain changes of control, make certain investments, pay dividends or repurchase shares of our common stock, transfer or dispose of assets, or enter into various specified transactions. We therefore may not be able to engage in any of the foregoing transactions unless we obtain the consent of the holders of the Harvest Notes or terminate our existing debt agreements.  Our debt agreements also contain certain financial covenants, including maintaining a minimum cash amount at all times and achieving certain financial covenants and are secured by substantially all of our assets.  There is no guarantee that we will be able to generate sufficient cash flow or sales to meet the financial covenants or pay the principal and interest under our debt agreements or to satisfy all of the financial covenants. We may also incur significant additional indebtedness in the future.

Our substantial debt combined with our other financial obligations and contractual commitments could have other significant adverse consequences, including:

requiring us to dedicate a substantial portion of cash flow from operations to the payment of interest on, and principal of, our debt, which will reduce the amounts available to fund working capital, capital expenditures, product development efforts and other general corporate purposes;

increasing our vulnerability to adverse changes in general economic, industry and market conditions;

obligating us to restrictive covenants that may reduce our ability to take certain corporate actions or obtain further debt or equity financing;


limiting our flexibility in planning for, or reacting to, changes in our business and the industry in which we compete; and

placing us at a competitive disadvantage compared to our competitors that have less debt or better debt servicing options.

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We intend to satisfy our current and future debt service obligations with our existing cash and cash equivalents and marketable securities and funds from external sources, including equity and/or debt financing. However, we may not have sufficient funds or may be unable to arrange for additional financing to pay the amounts due under our existing debt. Funds from external sources may not be available on acceptable terms, if at all. In the event of an acceleration of amounts due under our debt instruments as a result of an event of default, including upon the occurrence of an event that would reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on our business, operations, properties, assets or condition or a failure to pay any amount due, we may not have sufficient funds or may be unable to arrange for additional financing to repay our indebtedness or to make any accelerated payments.

If we do not comply with the provisions of the Revolving Credit Facilitysenior credit facility and the Harvest Notes, our lenders may terminate their obligations to us and require us to repay all outstanding amounts owed thereunder.

The Revolving Credit Facilitysenior credit facility and the Harvest Notes contain provisions that limit our operating activities, including covenant relating to the requirement to maintain a certain amount cash (as provided in the senior credit facility loan agreement) and of Free Cash (as defined in the Harvest Notes). If an event of default occurs and is continuing, the lenders may among other things, terminate their obligations thereunder and require us to repay all amounts thereunder. As of SeptemberJune 30, 2021,2022, we were in full compliance with these covenants.

Risks Related to Our Company

Slacker dependsWe depend upon third-party licenses for sound recordings and musical compositions and other content and an adverse change to, loss of, or claim that Slackerwe does not hold any necessary licenses may materially adversely affect Slacker’sour business, operating results and financial condition.

To secure the rights to stream sound recordings and the musical compositions embodied therein, Slacker enterswe enter into license agreements to obtain licenses from rights holders such as record labels, aggregators, artists, music publishers, performing rights organizations, collecting societies and other copyright owners or their agents, and payspay substantial royalties or other consideration to such parties or their agents around the world. Though Slacker workswe work diligently in itsour efforts to obtain all necessary licenses to stream sound recordings and the musical compositions embodied therein, there is no guarantee that the licenses available to Slackerus now will continue to be available in the future at rates and on terms that are favorable or commercially reasonable or at all. The terms of these licenses, including the royalty rates that Slacker iswe are required to pay pursuant to them, may change as a result of changes in itsour bargaining power, changes in the industry, changes in the law,laws and regulations, or for other reasons. Increases in royalty rates or changes to other terms of these licenses may materially impact Slacker’sour business, operating results, and financial condition.

Slacker entersWe enter into license agreements to obtain rights to stream sound recordings, including from the major record labels that hold the rights to stream a significant number of sound recordings.recordings, such as Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and SoundExchange, as well as others. If Slacker failswe fail to obtain these licenses, the size and quality of its catalog may be materially impacted and its business, operating results and financial condition could be materially harmed.

SlackerWe generally obtains licenses for two types of rights with respect to musical compositions: mechanical rights and public performance rights.

With respect to mechanical rights, for example, in the United States, the rates Slacker payswe pay are, to a significant degree, a function of a ratemaking proceeding conducted by an administrative agency called the Copyright Royalty Board. The rates that the Copyright Royalty Board set apply both to compositions that we license under the compulsory license in Section 115 of the Copyright Act of 1976 (the “Copyright Act”), and to a number of direct licenses that we have with music publishers for U.S. rights, in which the applicable rate is generally pegged to the statutory rate set by the Copyright Royalty Board. The most recent proceeding before the Copyright Royalty Board (the “Phonorecords III Proceedings”) set the rates for the Section 115 compulsory license for calendar years 2018 to 2022. The Copyright Royalty Board issued its initial written determination on January 26, 2018. The rates set by the Copyright Royalty Board may still be modified if a party appeals the determination and are also subject to further change as part of future Copyright Royalty Board proceedings. If any such rate change increases, our sound recordings and musical compositions license costs may substantially increase and impact our ability to obtain content on pricing terms favorable to us, and it could negatively harm our business, operating results and financial condition and hinder our ability to provide interactive features in our services, or cause one or more of our services not to be economically viable. Based on management’s estimates and forecasts for the next two fiscal years, we currently believe that the proposed rates will not materially impact Slacker’sour business, operating results, and financial condition. However, the proposed rates are based on a variety of factors and inputs which are difficult to predict in the long-term. If Slacker’s business does not perform as expected or if the rates are modified to be higher than the proposed rates, its content acquisition costs could increase and impact its ability to obtain content on pricing terms favorable to us, which could negatively harm Slacker’s business, operating results and financial condition and hinder its ability to provide interactive features in its services, or cause one or more of Slacker’s services not to be economically viable.

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In the United States, public performance rights are generally obtained through intermediaries known as performing rights organizations (“PROs”), which negotiate blanket licenses with copyright users for the public performance of compositions in their repertory, collect royalties under such licenses, and distribute those royalties to copyright owners. The royalty rates available to Slacker today may not be available to it in the future. Licenses provided by two of these PROs, ASCAPthe American Society of Composers, Authors and BMIPublishers (“ASCAP”) and Broadcast Music, Inc. (“BMI”), cover the majority of the music we stream and are governed by consent decrees relating to decades-olddecades old litigations. In 2019, the U.S. Department of Justice indicated that it was formally reviewing the relevance and need of these consent decrees. Changes to the terms of or interpretation of these consent decrees up to and including the dissolution of the consent decrees, could affect Slacker’sour ability to obtain licenses from these PROs on favorablereasonable terms, which could harm its business, operating results, and financial condition. In addition, an increase in the number of compositions that must be licensed from PROs that are not subject to the consent decrees, or from copyright owners that have withdrawn public performance rights from the PROs, could likewise impede Slacker’s ability to license public performance rights on favorable terms. As of June 30, 2022, we owed $16.9 million in aggregate royalty payments to such PROs.

In other parts of the world, including Europe, Asia, and Latin America, Slacker obtainswe obtain mechanical and performance licenses for musical compositions either through local collecting societies representing publishers or from publishers directly, or a combination thereof. SlackerWe cannot guarantee that its licenses with collecting societies and its direct licenses with publishers provide full coverage for all of the musical compositions we make available to Slacker’sour users in such countries. In Asia and Latin America, we are seeing a trend of movement away from blanket licenses from copyright collectives, which is leading to a fragmented copyright licensing landscape. Publishers, songwriters, and other rights holders choosing not to be represented by collecting societies could adversely impact Slacker’sour ability to secure favorable licensing arrangements in connection with musical compositions that such rights holders own or control, including increasing the costs of licensing such musical compositions, or subjecting Slackerus to significant liability for copyright infringement.

With respect to podcasts and other non-music content, we produce or commission the content itself or obtain distribution rights directly from rights holders. In the former scenario, we employ various business models to create original content. In the latter scenario, we and/or PodcastOne negotiates license directly with individuals that enable creators to post content directly to our service after agreeing to comply with the applicable terms and conditions. We are dependent on those who provide content on our service complying with the terms and conditions of our license agreements as well as the PodcastOne Terms and Conditions of Use. However, we cannot guarantee that rights holders or content providers will comply with their obligations, and such failure to do so may materially impact our business, operating results, and financial condition.

There also is no guarantee that Slacker haswe have all of the licenses it needswe need to stream content, as the process of obtaining such licenses involves many rights holders, some of whom are unknown, and myriad complex legal issues across many jurisdictions, including open questions of law as to when and whether particular licenses are needed. Additionally, there is a risk that aspiring rights holders, creators, performers, writers and their agents, or societies, unions, guilds, or legislative or regulatory bodies will create or attempt to create new rights that could require Slackerus to enter into license agreements with, and pay royalties to, newly defined groups of rights holders, some of which may be difficult or impossible to identify.

Even when Slacker iswe are able to enter into license agreements with rights holders, itwe cannot guarantee that such agreements will continue to be renewed indefinitely. For example, from time to time, Slacker’sour license agreements with certain rights holders and/or their agents may expire while Slacker negotiateswe negotiate their renewals and, per industry custom and practice, Slackerwe may enter into brief (for example, month-, week-, or even days-long) extensions of those agreements or provisional licenses and/or continue to operate on an at will basis as if the license agreement had been extended, including by our continuing to make music available. During these periods, Slackerwe may not have assurance of long-term access to such rights holders’ content, which could have a material adverse effect on its business and could lead to potential copyright infringement claims.


It also is possible that such agreements will never be renewed at all. The lack of renewal, or termination, of one or more of Slacker’sour license agreements, or the renewal of a license agreement on less favorable terms, also could have a material adverse effect on its business, financial condition, and results of operations.

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The success of our business and operations depends, in part, on the integrity of our systems and infrastructures, as well as affiliate and third-party computer systems, Wi-Fi and other communication systems. System interruption and the lack of integration and redundancy in these systems and infrastructures may have an adverse impact on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

System interruption and the lack of integration and redundancy in the information systems and infrastructures, both of our own systems and other computer systems and of affiliate and third-party software, Wi-Fi and other communications systems service providers on which we rely, may adversely affect our ability to operate websites, process and fulfill transactions, respond to listener inquiries and generally maintain cost-efficient operations. Such interruptions could occur by virtue of natural disaster, malicious actions such as hacking or acts of terrorism or war, or human error. In addition, the loss of some or all of certain key personnel could require us to expend additional resources to continue to maintain our software and systems and could subject us to systems interruptions.

Although we maintain up to date information technology systems and network infrastructures for the operation of our businesses, techniques used to gain unauthorized access to private networks are constantly evolving, and we may be unable to anticipate or prevent unauthorized access to our systems and data. 

Risks Related to Our PodcastOne Business

Minimum guarantees required under certain of ourPodcastOne’s podcast license agreements may limit our operating flexibility and may adversely affect our business, operating results, and financial condition.

Certain of ourPodcastOne’s podcast license agreements contain minimum guarantees and/or require that we make minimum guarantee payments. Such minimum guarantees related to our content acquisition costs are not always tied to our revenue and/or userlistener growth forecasts (e.g., number of users, active users, premium subscribers)listeners), or the number of podcasts used on our service. We may also be subject to minimum guarantees to rights holders with respect to certain strategic partnerships we enter into that may not produce all of the expected benefits. Accordingly, our ability to achieve and sustain profitability and operating leverage on our service in part depends on our ability to increase our revenue through increased sales of premium service and advertising sales on terms that maintain an adequate gross margin. The duration of our license agreements for podcast content that contain minimum guarantees is frequently between one and two years, but our premium subscribers may cancel their subscriptions at any time.years. If our forecasts of premium subscriber acquisition or retention of listeners consuming our podcast content do not meet our expectations or the number of our premium subscribers or advertising saleslisteners consuming our podcast content decline significantly during the term of our license agreements, our expectations for return on minimum guarantees may not be met and/or our margins may be materially and adversely affected. To the extent we do not maintain or increase the number of listeners consuming our premium service revenue growthpodcast content or advertising sales do not meet our expectations, our business, operating results, and financial condition could also be adversely affected as a result of such minimum guarantees. In addition, the fixed cost nature of these minimum guarantees may limit our flexibility in planning for, or reacting to, changes in our business and the market segments in which we operate.

We rely on estimates of the market share of streaming content owned by each content provider, as well as our own user growth and forecasted advertising revenue, to forecast whether such minimum guarantees could be recouped against our actual content acquisition costs incurred over the duration of the license agreement. To the extent that this revenue and/or market share estimates underperform relative to our expectations, leading to content acquisition costs that do not exceed such minimum guarantees, our margins may be materially and adversely affected.


PodcastOne relies heavily on its Content Management System (“CMS”), and the failure of CMS to operate effectively could adversely affect its business.

PodcastOne relies heavily on its CMS. PodcastOne utilizes a combination of its proprietary CMS technology and third-party technology. Its business substantially depends on its CMS which allows us to manage its podcasts and content offer listeners access to their favorite podcasts. We cannot be sure that PodcastOne’s CMS technology or any enhancements or other modifications it makes in the future to its or accompanying third-party technology or integration of such third-party technology will perform as intended. Future enhancements and modifications to its CMS technology could consume considerable resources. If PodcastOne is unable to successfully develop, maintain and enhance its CMS technology in a timely and efficient manner, its ability to attract and retain listeners may be impaired. In addition, if its CMS technology or that of third parties it utilizes in its operations fails or otherwise operates improperly, its ability to attract and retain listeners may be impaired. Any such inability or failure could have an adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

PodcastOne relies on key members of its management and the loss of their services or investor confidence in them could adversely affect its success, development and financial condition.

PodcastOne’s success depends, to a large degree, upon certain key members of its management, particularly Kit Gray, its President, Aaron Sullivan, its interim Chief Financial Officer, and Sue McNamara, its Head of Sales. Mr. Gray has extensive knowledge about PodcastOne’s business and its operations, and the loss of Mr. Gray, Mr. Sullivan or Ms. McNamara or any other key member of its senior management may have a material adverse effect on its business and operations. PodcastOne does not currently maintain a key-person insurance policy for Mr. Gray or any other member of its management. PodcastOne’s executive team’s expertise and experience in acquiring, integrating and growing businesses, particularly those focused on podcasts and content providers, have been and will continue to be a significant factor in its growth and ability to execute its business strategy. The loss of any of its executive officers could slow the growth of its business or have a material adverse effect on its business, results of operations and financial condition.

PodcastOne’s corporate culture has contributed to its success, and if it cannot successfully maintain its culture as it assimilates new employees, it could lose the innovation, creativity and teamwork fostered by its culture.

PodcastOne is undergoing growth in its business, including in its employee headcount. A significant portion of its management team has been with PodcastOne since inception. We expect that significant additional hiring will be necessary to support its strategic plans. This rapid influx of new team members from different business backgrounds may make it difficult for us to maintain our corporate culture. We believe PodcastOne’s culture has contributed significantly to its ability to attract and retain talent, to acquire podcast content and to innovate and grow successfully. If its culture is negatively affected, its ability to support its growth and innovation may diminish.

PodcastOne relies on integrations with advertising platforms, demand-side platforms (“DSPs”), proprietary platforms and ad servers, over which it exercise very little control.

PodcastOne’s business depends on its ability to integrate its content with a variety of third-party advertising platforms, DSPs, proprietary platforms and ad services. PodcastOne is able to make its podcasts available on other popular podcasting platforms such as Apple, Amazon, Spotify and wherever podcasts are heard, allowing PodcastOne’s listeners to utilize such platforms to listen to its podcasts. PodcastOne has also formed partnerships with advertising platforms to integrate its podcasts with their software and product offerings, allowing its advertisers to utilize its solutions wherever they purchase or place an ad. For example, PodcastOne relies on integration with Apple and Spotify in order to provide its podcasts through their platforms. Apple or Spotify may determine to only host shows that are proprietary to them, which would have a significant effect on PodcastOne’s ability to offer its podcasts to larger group of listeners and would materially adversely affect its business, results of operations and financial condition. Some of these integration partners have significant market share in the segment in which they operate. To date, PodcastOne has relied on written contracts and other arrangements to govern its relationships with these partners. However, these are subject to change by such providers from time to time and in many instances the provider may choose to terminate these contracts without cause and with short notice periods. Many of these agreements are short term with automatic renewal provisions, and there can be no assurances that such providers will agree to renew their agreements with us. Moreover, such providers may choose to stop integrating with PodcastOne’s podcasts and may unilaterally stop providing PodcastOne us with data necessary to its business if they acquire a competitor which provides podcasting services similar to PodcastOne’s or if they begin to deliver podcasts similar to PodcastOne’s on their own. PodcastOne cannot assure you that its existing podcast partners and integration partners will continue to, or that potential new podcast partners or integration partners will agree to, integrate PodcastOne’s podcasts into their podcast offerings or services. Such integrations may not be replaceable, and so loss of any such integrations could materially impact our business and PodcastOne’s results of operations and we may lose listeners.

PodcastOne’s business and revenues could also be affected by social issues or disruptions. For example, if there is public disapproval or boycotting of a specific podcasting platform, such as Spotify or other podcasting platform, PodcastOne’s ability to optimize ad placement or to forecast listener metrics may be impacted based on unforeseen trends or events.


PodcastOne’s revenue model depends in part on high impression volumes, the growth of which may not be sustained.

PodcastOne generates revenue by charging a cost per thousand impressions (“CPM”) based on the volume of purchased digital ads that it measures on behalf of these customers. If the volume of impressions PodcastOne measures does not continue to grow or decreases for any reason, its business will suffer. For example, if digital ad spending remains constant and PodcastOne’s advertiser customers transition to higher CPM ad inventory, overall impression volumes may decrease, which may result in fewer impressions for PodcastOne to verify and a corresponding decline in its revenues. PodcastOne cannot assure you that growth in volume of impressions will be sustained. If PodcastOne’s customers adjust their buying patterns or alter their preference to higher CPM ad inventory, its business, financial condition, and results of operations may be harmed.

PodcastOne’s advertising sales depend on how its listener data is collected and how advertisers select their ad listener targeting in the future.

PodcastOne’s advertising sales depend on how its listener data is collected and how advertisers select their ad listener targeting in the future. Advertiser spending varies based on their desire to target certain categories of listeners and supporting listener data. If PodcastOne’s advertisers determine to target different listeners or shift their ad spending towards different listener categories, PodcastOne’s business, financial condition, and results of operations may be harmed.

Risks Related to Our Intended Spin-Out of PodcastOne as a Separate Public Company

We may be unable to complete the Spin-Out of PodcastOne as a Separate Public Company, and we may be unable to achieve some or all of the benefits that we expect to achieve from the Spin-Out.

We believe that as a result of the intended spin-out of PodcastOne as an independent publicly-traded company (the “Spin-Out”), PodcastOne will be able to, among other things, better focus its financial and operational resources on its specific business, implement and maintain a capital structure designed to meet its specific needs, design and implement corporate strategies and policies that are targeted to its business, more effectively respond to industry dynamics and create effective incentives for its management and employees that are more closely tied to its business performance. We also believe that the Spin-Out will result in significant benefits to our Company and our stockholders as a result of unlocking the value we believe that PodcastOne has as a standalone publicly-traded company. However, we cannot assure you that we will be able to complete the Spin-Out due to many factors outside of our control.

In addition, by separating from LiveOne, PodcastOne may be more susceptible to market fluctuations and have less leverage with its talent, customers, vendors and other service providers, and PodcastOne may experience other adverse events. In addition, we may be unable to achieve some or all of the benefits that we expect PodcastOne to achieve as an independent company in the time we expect, if at all. The completion of the Spin-Out will also require significant amounts of our management’s time and effort, which may divert management’s attention from operating and growing our business.


PodcastOne’s common stock may not be eligible for listing on any national securities exchange.

PodcastOne’s common stock is not currently quoted or listed on any national securities exchange, marketplace or any other over-the-counter market, and may never be quoted or listed in the future. We intend to apply to have PodcastOne’s common stock on a national securities exchange as soon as we are eligible to do so following the preparation, filing and consummation of applicable steps and documents. However, we cannot assure you that PodcastOne will meet the initial listing standards of any other national securities exchange at any time in the future. In addition, even if PodcastOne does obtain such a listing, there can be no assurance that it will be able to maintain such listing in the future. As a result, PodcastOne’s investors may find it difficult to buy or sell or obtain accurate quotations for its common stock, and its shares may be less attractive for margin loans and for investment by larger financial institutions. These factors may have an adverse impact on the trading and price of our common stock.

Our and PodcastOne’s debt agreements contain provisions requiring the consent of third parties and certain conditions to be satisfied in connection with the Spin-Out. If these consents are not obtained or such conditions are not satisfied, we may be in breach of such agreements and we may not be able to consummate the Spin-Out.

Our and PodcastOne’s debt agreements contain provisions that require the consent of third parties and for certain conditions to be satisfied in connection to the Spin-Out. For example, we agreed not to effect any Qualified Financing or Qualified Event (each as defined in PodcastOne’s offering documents with respect to its completed private placement of its unsecured convertible notes), as applicable, unless (i) PodcastOne’s post-money valuation at the time of the Qualified Event is at least $150 million, and (ii) immediately following such event we own no less than 66% of PodcastOne’s equity, unless in either case otherwise permitted by the written consent of the holders of the majority in principal of such notes (excluding our Company) and our senior lenders, as applicable. Failure to obtain such consents on commercially reasonable and satisfactory terms, or at all, may cause us to be in breach of such agreements and we may not be able to consummate the Spin-Out.

The risks described above do not necessarily comprise of all those associated with our intended Spin-Out.

Risks Related to the Ownership of Our Common Stock

Future sales and issuances of our common stock or rights to purchase common stock, including pursuant to our equity incentive plan and any acquisition agreement, could result in additional dilution of the percentage ownership of our stockholders and could cause our stock price to fall.

We expect that significant additional capital will be needed in the future to continue our planned operations. To the extent we raise additional capital by issuing equity and/or convertible securities, our stockholders may experience substantial dilution. We may sell or otherwise issue our common stock, convertible securities or other equity securities in one or more transactions at prices and in a manner we determine from time to time. If we sell or issue our common stock, convertible securities or other equity securities in more than one transaction, investors may be materially diluted by subsequent issuances. These issuances may also result in material dilution to our existing stockholders, and new investors could gain rights superior to our existing stockholders. We may pay for future acquisitions with additional issuances of shares of our common stock as well, which would result in further dilution for existing stockholders.

Pursuant to our 2016 Equity Incentive Plan (as amended, the “2016 Plan”), there are 17,600,000 shares of our common stock reserved for future issuance to our employees, directors and consultants. On September 17, 2020, our stockholders approved the amendment to the 2016 Plan to increase the number of shares available for issuance under the plan by 5,000,000 shares, and we formally increased the size of the 2016 Plan during the quarter ended June 30, 2021. If our board of directors elects to issue additional shares of our common stock, stock options, restricted stock units and/or other equity-based awards under the 2016 Plan, as amended, our stockholders may experience additional dilution, which could cause our stock price to fall.


Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds.

Issuance of Unregistered Securities

Other than as set forth below and as reported in our Current Reports on Form 8-K, there have been no other sales or issuances of unregistered securities during the period covered by this Quarterly Report that were not registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).Act.

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During the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2021,2022, we issued 945,606135,270 shares of our common stock valued at $2.4$0.6 million to our lenders, employees,various consultants. We valued these shares at prices between $1.65$0.76 and $4.94$0.81 per share, the market price of our common stock on the date of issuance.

We believe the offers, sales and issuances of the securities described above were made in reliance on the exemption from registration contained in Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act and/or Rule 506 of Regulation D promulgated thereunder and involved a transaction by an issuer not involving any public offering. Each of the recipients of securities in any transaction exempt from registration either received or had adequate access, through employment, business or other relationships, to information about us.

During the three months ended June 30, 2022, we issued 102,500 restricted stock units to various employees and consultants. We valued these restricted stock units at $0.81 per share, the market price of our common stock on the date of issuance. The shares of our common stock underlying these awards were registered on our Registration Statements on Form S-8, filed with the SEC on August 24, 2021 and November 12, 2019.

Purchases of Equity Securities by the Issuer and Affiliated Purchasers

None.

 

Period

  

(a)
Total number

of shares (or
units)

purchased

  

(b)
Average

price paid
per share (or
unit)

  

(c)
Total number of
shares (or units)
purchased as part

of publicly

announced plans

or programs

  

(d)
Maximum

number (or

approximate

dollar value) of

shares
(or units)
that may yet
be purchased
under the plans
or programs

April 1, 2022 – April 30, 2022   82,899  $0.7388   82,899  1,917,101 shares
May 1, 2022 – May 31, 2022   542,314  $0.6866   542,314  1,374,787 shares
June 1, 2022 – June 30, 2022   561,008  $0.9549   561,008  694,561 shares
Total (April 1, 2022 - June 30, 2022)   1,186,221  $0.8171   1,186,221  694,561 shares

Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities.

None.None

Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures.

Not applicable.

Item 5. Other Information.

None.In August 2022, we issued 414,137 shares of our restricted common stock at a price of $2.10 per share to a former stockholder of PodcastOne as full repayment of such party’s pro rata share of the earnout amount due under the Stock Purchase Agreement, dated as of May 7, 2020, entered into by us with PodcastOne and the other parties thereto.


Item 6. Exhibits.

Exhibit
Number
 Description
1.1Sales Agreement, dated as of August 23, 2021, between the Company and Needham & Company, LLC (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 1.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on August 24, 2021).
3.1 Certificate of Incorporation of the Company (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on August 8, 2017).
3.2 Certificate of Amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, dated as of September 30, 2017 (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1, Amendment No. 3, filed with the SEC on October 6, 2017).
3.3 Bylaws of the Company (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on August 8, 2017).
3.4 Amendment No. 1 to the Bylaws of the Company (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on January 14, 2021).
3.5 Certificate of Merger, dated as of September 30, 2021, between the Company and LiveOne, Inc. ((Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on October 12, 2021).

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4.1Convertible Promissory Note, dated as of February 5, 2020, between React Presents, LLC and LiveStyle NA Live Holdings, Inc. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.3 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed with the SEC on June 26, 2020).
4.2Promissory Note, dated as of April 13, 2020, between the Company and MidFirst Bank (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on April 17, 2020).
4.3 8.5% Senior Secured Convertible Note, dated as of September 15, 2020, issued by the Company to Harvest Small Cap Partners, L.P. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on September 21, 2020).
4.44.2   8.5% Senior Secured Convertible Note, dated as of September 15, 2020, issued by the Company to Harvest Small Cap Partners Master, Ltd. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on September 21, 2020).
4.54.3   Promissory Note, dated as of June 2, 2021, issued by the Company to East West Bank (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on June 11, 2021).
4.5  Form of 10% Original Issue Discount Convertible Promissory Note, dated July 15, 2022, issued by PodcastOne to the purchasers thereof (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on July 20, 2022).
4.6  Form of Warrants, dated July 15, 2022, issued by PodcastOne to the purchasers of PodcastOne’s 10% Original Issue Discount Convertible Promissory Notes, dated July 15, 2022 (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on July 20, 2022).
10.1† Form of Director/Officer Indemnification Agreement (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.14 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on April 30, 2014).
10.2† The Company’s 2016 Equity Incentive Plan (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.23 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, filed with the SEC on November 14, 2016).
10.3† Amendment No. 1 to the LiveOne, Inc.Company’s 2016 Equity Incentive Plan (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.23 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, filed with the SEC on February 13, 2019).
10.4†Amendment No. 2 to the Company’s 2016 Equity Incentive Plan (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on July 6, 2021).
10.5†   Form of Director Option Agreement under 2016 Equity Incentive Plan (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.24 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, filed with the SEC on November 14, 2016).
10.5†10.6†   Form of Employee Option Agreement under 2016 Equity Incentive Plan (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.25 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, filed with the SEC on November 14, 2016).


10.6†10.7† Employment Agreement, dated as of September 7, 2017, between the Company and Robert S. Ellin (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on September 8, 2017).
10.7†10.8† Amendment No. 1 to Employment Agreement, dated as of December 15, 2017, between the Company and Robert Ellin (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on December 15, 2017).
10.8†£Employment Agreement, dated as of January 28, 2019, between the Company and Michael Bebel (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.21 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed with the SEC on June 24, 2019).
10.9† Employment Agreement, dated as of July 15, 2019, between the Company and Dermot McCormack (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on July 19, 2019).
10.1010.10†£ Amendment,Employment Offer Letter, dated as of September 20,March 6, 2019, tobetween the Interactive Radio Agreement between Slacker, Inc.Company and a certain licensor of music contentAaron Sullivan (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.26 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, filed with the SEC on November 8, 2019).
10.11£Amendment, dated as of September 27, 2019, to the Amended and Restated Interactive Radio and Music Services Agreement between Slacker, Inc. and a certain licensor of music content (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.27 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, filed with the SEC on November 8, 2019).
10.12Membership Interest Purchase Agreement, dated as of February 5, 2020, among the Company, LiveXLive Events, LLC and LiveStyle NA Live Holdings, Inc. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2810.10 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed with the SEC on June 26, 2020)29, 2022).
10.1310.11†Amendment No. 1 to Employment Offer Agreement, dated as of dated as of October 26, 2020 and effective as of October 1, 2020, between the Company and Aaron Sullivan. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.11 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed with the SEC on June 29, 2022).
10.12 Stock Purchase Agreement, dated as of May 7, 2020, by and among the Company, Courtside Group, Inc., LiveXLive PodcastOne, Inc., the persons identified as “Sellers” on the signature pages thereto, and Norman Pattiz, as the representative of the Sellers (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on May 8, 2020).
10.14£10.13£ Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of July 2, 2020, between the Company and the Purchaser (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on July 6, 2020).

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10.15£10.14£ Amendment No. 1 to Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of July 30, 2020, between the Company and the Purchaser (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K,8-K/A, filed with the SEC on August 5, 2020).
10.1610.15 Subsidiary Guarantee, dated as of September 15, 2020, made by each of the Guarantors, in favor of the Secured Party (as defined therein) (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on September 21, 2020).
10.1710.16 Security Agreement, dated as of September 15, 2020, among the Company, the Guarantors and the Secured Party (as defined therein) (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on September 21, 2020).
10.1810.17 Intellectual Property Security Agreement, dated as of September 15, 2020, among the Company, the Guarantors and the Secured Party (as defined therein) (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on September 21, 2020).
10.19Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of September 15, 2020, among the Company and the Buyer (as defined therein). (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.6 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on September 21, 2020).
10.2010.18 Amendment of Notes Agreement, dated as of June 3, 2021, between the Company and Harvest Small Cap Partners, L.P. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.20 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed with the SEC on July 14, 2021).
10.2110.19 Amendment of Notes Agreement, dated as of June 3, 2021, between the Company and Harvest Small Cap Partners, Ltd. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.21 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed with the SEC on July 14, 2021).
10.22†10.20 EmploymentAmendment No. 2 of Notes Agreement, dated as of November 16, 2020,July 6, 2022, between the Company and Michael QuartieriHarvest Small Cap Partners, L.P. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on November 20, 2020)July 14, 2022).
10.2310.21Amendment No. 2 of Notes Agreement, dated as of July 6, 2022, between the Company and Harvest Small Cap Partners, Ltd. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on July 14, 2022).
10.22 Stock Purchase Agreement, dated as of December 22, 2020, among the Company, Custom Personalization Solutions, Inc., LiveXLive Merchandising, Inc., the persons identified as “Sellers” on the signature pages thereto, and Scott R. Norman, as the representative of the Sellers (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on December 30, 2020).
10.2410.23 Business Loan Agreement, dated as of June 2, 2021, between the Company and East West Bank (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on June 11, 2021).
10.2510.24 Commercial Security Agreement, dated as of June 2, 2021, between the Company and East West Bank (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on June 11, 2021).
10.26†10.25 Amendment No. 2 toForm of Subscription Agreement, dated as of July 15, 2022, between PodcastOne and the LiveOne, Inc. 2016 Equity Incentive Planpurchasers of PodcastOne’s 10% Original Issue Discount Convertible Promissory Notes, dated July 15, 2022 (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on July 6, 2021)20, 2022).
10.26Placement Agency Agreement, dated July 15, 2022, between PodcastOne and Joseph Gunnar & Co., LLC (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on July 20, 2022).
31.1* Certification of Principal Executive Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
31.2* Certification of Principal Financial Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
32.1** Certification of Principal Executive Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
32.2** Certification of Principal Financial Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
101.INS* Inline XBRL Instance Document
101.SCH* Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document
101.CAL* Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document
101.DEF* Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document
101.LAB* Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document
101.PRE* Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document
104104* Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as(embedded within the Inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101).document)

Management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement.
£Certain confidential information has been omitted or redacted from these exhibits that is not material and would likely cause competitive harm to the Company if publicly disclosed.
*Filed herewith.
**Furnished herewith.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

 LIVEONE INC.
  
Date: October 29, 2021August 15, 2022By:/s/ Robert S. Ellin
  Robert S. Ellin
  Chief Executive Officer and Chairman
  (Principal Executive Officer)
   
Date: October 29, 2021August 15, 2022By:/s/ Michael A. QuartieriAaron Sullivan
  Michael A. QuartieriAaron Sullivan
  

Interim Chief Financial Officer and

Executive Vice President

(Interim Principal Financial Officer and

Interim Principal Accounting Officer)

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