Met or Exceeded Guidance for All Metrics

Updates Full-Year Guidance; Maintains Guidance for Bookings and for
Positive Adjusted Free Cash Flow

Avid Everywhere Momentum Continues to Build with MediaCentral Platform Licenses up
47% and Cloud-Enabled Subscriptions up 3.9x Year-over-Year

BURLINGTON, Mass., Aug. 03, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --  Avid® (Nasdaq:AVID) announced its second quarter 2016 financial results today, provided third quarter 2016 financial guidance and updated its guidance for full year 2016.

Second Quarter 2016 Financial Highlights

• GAAP Revenue was $134.1 million, up 22.1% year-over-year; non-GAAP Revenue was $134.4 million, above the guidance range and up 22.4% year-over-year
• GAAP Gross Margin of 65.5% increased 5.1 percentage points over Q2 2015; non-GAAP Gross Margin of 67.1% increased 6.4 percentage points over Q2 2015
• GAAP Net Income was $13.0 million, up $17.0 million year-over-year; Adjusted EBITDA was $29.4 million, above the guidance range and up about 20x year-over-year
• GAAP Net Cash used in Operating Activities was $33.8 million, a decrease of 9.6% year-over-year; Adjusted Free Cash Flow was $(30.2) million, in line with guidance and an improvement of 3.3% year-over-year
• Bookings were $102.2 million, in line with guidance and up 10.5% quarter-over-quarter, and as expected down 13.1% year-over-year

Avid Everywhere Momentum Continues

• More than 38,000 enterprise users on the MediaCentral platform at the end of Q2 2016, an increase of 47% year-over-year
• More than 40,000 paying individual, cloud-enabled subscribers, a substantial majority of whom are new users, at the end of Q2 2016, an increase of 62% since the beginning of the year and 3.9x from Q2 2015
• Bookings attributable to recurring revenue represented approximately 32% of total Q2 2016 bookings, up from 26% in Q2 2015

“We delivered bookings, adjusted free cash flow and non-GAAP operating expenses in line with guidance, and non-GAAP revenue and adjusted EBITDA above the guidance range,” said Louis Hernandez, Jr, Chairman, President, and CEO of Avid. “Performance was driven by recurring revenue growth as well as improved conversion of bookings and revenue backlog to revenue, partly driven by new software releases. We also benefited from tight cost control and low material costs. We continue to build on the momentum of Avid Everywhere, our strategic vision for the industry, with the number of users of the Media Central platform now surpassing 38,000 as our global customer base embraces the efficiency and flexibility of our platform. We are also encouraged by the continued upward trajectory of our Alliance business, which benefits from cross-selling third-party applications into our expanded user base, and our Tier 3 business, focused on independent professionals, which generated double-digit growth in digital bookings and triple-digit growth in cloud-enabled subscriber bookings.

“We are raising our full-year guidance range for non-GAAP revenue and adjusted EBITDA. We are also improving our guidance range for non-GAAP operating expenses because we are increasing our annualized run-rate cost savings target to $76 million. We are on track to be cash flow positive for the full year as we continue to execute our efficiency program and growth initiatives. We are reaffirming guidance for bookings, although we expect to be at the lower end of the range, due to higher than expected volatility in the media enterprise market.

“Our financial results and operational performance this quarter underscore the progress we are making to transform our company into a service-platform business with strong positions in higher-growth categories and a greater proportion of recurring revenue. We have a clear path to complete this transformation by our target of mid-2017, which will enable us to accelerate growth, realize a more efficient cost structure, increase revenue visibility, and generate enhanced value for our shareholders over the long-term,” Mr. Hernandez concluded. 

The Company also updated its full-year 2016 guidance, as originally provided on March 15, 2016. The Company is increasing its full-year guidance for non-GAAP Revenue and Adjusted EBITDA, as a result of higher conversion of bookings and revenue backlog to revenue, partly driven by new software releases, as well as tighter cost control. The Company is also improving its guidance range for non-GAAP operating expenses, as a result of increasing the target for its efficiency program to up to $76 million of annualized run-rate cost savings, most of which will be achieved in 2016. The Company is reaffirming its guidance for Adjusted Free Cash Flow and Bookings, but expects to be in the lower end of the range for Bookings due to higher than expected volatility in the media enterprise market.

All guidance presented by the Company is inherently uncertain and subject to numerous risks and uncertainties. Avid’s actual future results of operations and cash flows could differ materially from those shown in the tables above. For a discussion of some of the key assumptions underlying the guidance, as well as the key risks and uncertainties associated with these forward-looking statements, please see “Forward Looking Statements” below as well as the Avid Technology Q2 2016 Business Update presentation posted on Avid’s investor relations website.

Avid includes non-GAAP financial measures in this press release, including non-GAAP Revenue, Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted Free Cash Flow, non-GAAP Operating Income (loss), non-GAAP operating expenses and non-GAAP Gross Margin. The Company also includes the operational metric of bookings, revenue backlog and recurring revenue bookings in this release. The earnings release also includes forward-looking non-GAAP financial measures, including non-GAAP Revenue, Adjusted EBITDA, non-GAAP operating expenses and Adjusted Free Cash Flow. Reconciliations of these forward-looking non-GAAP financial measures were not included in the Earnings Release due to the high variability and difficulty in making accurate forecasts and projections of some of the excluded information, together with some of the excluded information not being ascertainable or accessible at this time. As a result, the Company is unable to quantify certain amounts that would be required to be included in the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure without unreasonable efforts. Avid believes the non-GAAP financial measures and operational metrics provided in this release provide helpful information to investors with respect to evaluating the Company’s performance. Unless noted, all financial information is reported based on actual exchange rates.  Definitions of the non-GAAP financial measures are included in our Form 8-K filed today. Reconciliations of the non-GAAP financial measures in this release to the Company's comparable GAAP financial measures for the periods presented are set forth below and are also included in the supplemental financial and operational data sheet available on our investor relations webpage at ir.avid.com, which also includes definitions of the operational metrics.

Conference Call

A conference call to discuss Avid's financial results for the second quarter of 2016 will be held on Wednesday, August 3, 2016 at 5:00 p.m. ET. The call will be open to the public and can be accessed by dialing 719-325-2463 and referencing confirmation code 4563906. You may also listen to the call on the Avid Investor Relations website. To listen via the website, go to the events tab at ir.avid.com for complete details prior to the start of the conference call. A replay of the call will also be available on the Avid Investor Relations website shortly after the completion of the call. 

Forward-Looking Statements

Certain information provided in this press release, including the tables attached hereto, include forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including projections and statements about our anticipated plans, objectives, expectations and intentions. Among other things, this press release includes estimated results of operations for 2016, which estimates are based on a variety of assumptions about key factors and metrics that will determine our future results of operations, including, for example, overall market growth rates in the range of 3.0-3.3%, realization of identified efficiency programs and market based cost inflation.  Other forward-looking statements include, without limitation, statements based upon or otherwise incorporating judgments or estimates relating to future performance such as future operating results and expenses; earnings; bookings; backlog; revenue backlog conversion rate; product mix and free cash flow; our long-term and recent cost savings initiatives and the anticipated benefits therefrom; our future strategy and business plans; our product plans, including products under development, such as cloud and subscription based offerings; our liquidity and ability to raise capital; the anticipated benefits of the Orad acquisition, including estimated synergies, including effects on future financial and operating results; and our liquidity. The projected future results of operations, and the other forward-looking statements in this release are based on current expectations as of the date of this release and subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements, including but not limited to the effect on our sales, operations and financial performance resulting from: our liquidity; our ability to execute our strategic plan, including cost savings initiatives, and meet customer needs; our ability to retain and hire key personnel; our ability to produce innovative products in response to changing market demand, particularly in the media industry; our ability to successfully accomplish our product development plans; competitive factors; history of losses; fluctuations in our revenue, based on, among other things, our performance and risks in particular geographies or markets; our higher indebtedness and ability to service it and meet the obligations thereunder; restrictions in our credit facilities; our move to a subscription model and related effect on our revenues and ability to predict future revenues; elongated sales cycles; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; seasonal factors; adverse changes in economic conditions; variances in our revenue backlog and the realization thereof; the identified material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting; and the possibility of legal proceedings adverse to our company. Moreover, the business may be adversely affected by future legislative, regulatory or changes, including tax law changes, as well as other economic, business and/or competitive factors. The risks included above are not exhaustive. Other factors that could adversely affect our business and prospects are set forth in our public filings with the SEC.  Forward-looking statements contained herein are made only as to the date of this press release and we undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.

About Avid

Through Avid Everywhere™, Avid delivers the industry's most open, innovative and comprehensive media platform connecting content creation with collaboration, asset protection, distribution and consumption. Media organizations and creative professionals use Avid solutions to create the most listened to, most watched and most loved media in the world—from the most prestigious and award-winning feature films, to the most popular television shows, news programs and televised sporting events, as well as a majority of today’s most celebrated music recordings and live concerts. Industry leading solutions include Pro Tools®, Media Composer®, ISIS®, Avid NEXIS™, Interplay®, ProSet and RealSet, Maestro, PlayMaker, and Sibelius®. For more information about Avid solutions and services, visit www.avid.com, connect with Avid on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, or subscribe to Avid Blogs.

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Media Contact                                                    
Sara Griggs                                                         
Avid                                                                     
310.821.0801                                                     
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Avid
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