UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM10-K

(Mark One)

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

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

For the fiscal year ended December 31 2017, 2023

OR

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

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:001-35429

BRIGHTCOVE INC.INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware

20-1579162

Delaware20-1579162

(State or other jurisdiction

of incorporation)

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

290 Congress Street
Boston, Massachusetts

02210

281 Summer Street
Boston, Massachusetts

02210

(Address of principal executive offices)

(Zip Code)

(888)(888) 882-1880

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

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

Title of Each Class

Trading Symbol(s)

Name of Exchange on Which Registered

Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share

BCOV

The NASDAQ Global Market

Securities Registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:

None

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The aggregate market value of common stock held bynon-affiliates of the registrant based on the closing price of the registrant’s common stock as reported on the NASDAQ Global Market on June 30, 2017,2023, was $130,976,463. Shares of voting andnon-voting stock held by executive officers, directors and holders of more than 5% of the outstanding stock have been excluded from this calculation because such persons or institutions may be deemed affiliates. This determination of affiliate status is not a conclusive determination for other purposes.$170,229,500.

As of February 23, 201816, 2024, there were 34,952,14043,705,444 shares of the registrant’s common stock, $0.001 par value per share, outstanding.

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Portions of the registrant’s definitive Proxy Statement relating to its 20182023 Annual Meeting of Stockholders are incorporated by reference into Part III of this Annual Report on Form10-K where indicated. Such Proxy Statement will be filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission within 120 days after the end of the fiscal year to which this report relates.


BRIGHTCOVE INC.

Table of Contents

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PART I.

Item 1.

Business

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Item 1A.

Risk Factors

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Item 1B.

Unresolved Staff Comments

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Item 2.1C.

PropertiesCybersecurity

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Item 3.2.

Legal ProceedingsProperties

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Item 4.3.

Legal Proceedings

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Item 4.

Mine Safety Disclosures

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PART II.

PART II.

Item 5.

Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

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Item 6.

Selected Consolidated Financial Data[Reserved]

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Item 7.

Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

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Item 7A.

Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk

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Financial Statements and Supplementary Data

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Item 9.

Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure

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Item 9A.

Controls and Procedures

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Item 9B.

Other Information

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PART IIIItem 9C.

Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections

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PART III

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Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance

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Item 11.

Executive Compensation

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Item 12.

Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters

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Item 13.

Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence

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Item 14.

Principal Accountant Fees and Services

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PART IV

PART IV

Item 15.

Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules

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Form10-K Summary

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Signatures

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SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This Annual Report on Form10-K contains “forward-looking statements” that involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions that, if they never materialize or prove incorrect, could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The statements contained in this Annual Report on Form10-K that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or Securities Act, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or Exchange Act. Such forward-looking statements include any expectation of earnings, revenue or other financial items; any statements of the plans, strategies and objectives of management for future operations; factors that may affect our operating results; statements related to adding employees; statements related to potential benefits of the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Unicorn Media, Inc. and certain of its subsidiaries;acquisitions; statements related to future capital expenditures; statements related to future economic conditions or performance; statements as to industry trends and other matters that do not relate strictly to historical facts or statements of assumptions underlying any of the foregoing. Forward-looking statements are often identified by the use of words such as, but not limited to, “anticipate,” “believe,” “can,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “will,” “plan,” “project,” “seek,” “should,” “target,” “will,” “would,” and similar expressions or variations intended to identify forward-looking statements. These statements are based on the beliefs and assumptions of our management based on information currently available to management. Such forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and other important factors that could cause actual results and the timing of certain events to differ materially from future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, those identified below, and those discussed in the section titled “Risk Factors” included in Item 1A of Part I of this Annual Report on Form10-K, and the risks discussed in our other Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, filings. Furthermore, such forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this report. Except as required by law, we undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of such statements. Forward-looking statements in this Annual Report on Form10-K may include statements about:

our ability to achieve profitability;

our competitive position and the effect of competition in our industry;

our ability to retain and attract new customers;

our ability to penetrate existing markets and develop new markets for our services;offerings;

our ability to retain orand hire qualified accounting and other personnel;

our ability to successfully integrate acquired businesses;
our ability to protect our intellectual property and operate our business without infringing upon the intellectual property rights of others;

our ability to maintain the security and reliability of our systems;

our estimates with regard to our future performance and total potential market opportunity;

our estimates regarding our anticipated results of operations, future revenue, bookings growth, capital requirements and our needs for additional financing; and

our goals and strategies, including those related to revenue and bookings growth.

This Annual Report on Form 10-K contains statistical data, estimates, and forecasts from various sources, including independent industry publications and other information from our internal sources. This information is based upon a number of assumptions and limitations, and you are cautioned not to give undue weight to such information. While we believe the market and industry data included in this prospectus are reliable and are based on reasonable assumptions, we have not independently verified any of the data from third-party sources nor have we ascertained the underlying economic assumptions relied on therein. The industry in which we operate is subject to a high degree of uncertainty and risk due to a variety of factors, including those described in the section titled “Risk Factors” that could cause results to differ materially.

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SUMMARY OF THE MATERIAL RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH OUR BUSINESS

Our business is subject to numerous risks and uncertainties that you should be aware of in evaluating our business, including those described in the “Risk Factors” section in Part I, Item 1A. of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the following:

We have a history of losses, we may continue to incur losses and we may not achieve or sustain profitability in the future.
Substantially all of our revenue has historically come from a single product, Video Cloud.
If we are unable to retain our existing customers, our revenue and results of operations will be adversely affected.
Our long-term financial targets are predicated on bookings and revenue growth and operating margin improvements that we may fail to achieve, which could reduce our expected earnings and cause us to fail to meet the expectations of analysts or investors and cause the price of our securities to decline.
The actual market for our products and solutions could be significantly smaller than our estimates of our total potential market opportunity, and if customer demand for our offerings does not meet expectations, our ability to generate revenue and meet our financial targets could be adversely affected.
Our business is substantially dependent upon the continued growth of the market for on-demand software solutions.
Our operating results may fluctuate from quarter to quarter, which could make them difficult to predict.
We operate in a rapidly developing market, which makes it difficult to evaluate our business and future prospects.
Our long-term success depends, in part, on our ability to expand the sales of our products to customers located outside of the United States, and thus our business is susceptible to risks associated with international sales and operations.
We are impacted by constantly-evolving government and industry regulation of the Internet, data privacy, and cybersecurity, which could directly restrict our business or indirectly affect our business by limiting the growth of our markets.
We use cloud computing services facilities to deliver our services, and disruption of service at these facilities could harm our business.

The summary risk factors described above should be read together with the text of the full risk factors below, in the section entitled “Risk Factors” and in the other information set forth in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, including our financial statements and the related notes, as well as in other documents that we file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, or the SEC. If any such risks and uncertainties actually occur, our business, prospects, financial condition and results of operations could be materially and adversely affected. The risks summarized above or described in full below are not the only risks that we face. Additional risks and uncertainties not currently known to us, or that we currently deem to be immaterial may also materially adversely affect our business, prospects, financial condition and results of operations.

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PART I

Item 1.Business

OverviewItem 1. Business

Overview

Brightcove Inc., or Brightcove,Brightcove®, is a leading global provider ofleader in cloud-based streaming technology and services for video. Brightcove was incorporated in Delaware in August 2004with a vision to be the world's most trusted streaming technology company. Brightcove’s software platform and our headquarters are in Boston, Massachusetts. Our suite of solutions include a breadth and depth of offerings that meet the needs of media and enterprise customers in a variety of industries across the globe with their use of streaming video, and serve as a guide in optimizing and maturing their streaming strategies. Leading companies across industries rely on our products, solutions, services, and services reducesindustry expertise to grow their streaming businesses, monetize their content via streaming use-cases, expand and engage their audiences (both external and internal), and reduce the cost and complexity associated with storing, publishing, delivering, distributing, measuring, and monetizing content across streaming channels and devices.

With deep industry expertise and an understanding of how streaming video across devices.

Brightcove Video Cloud, or Video Cloud,helps generate positive business outcomes, our flagship product released in 2006, isproven platform combines functionality designed to meet the world’s leading online video platform. Video Cloud enablesneeds and goals of our customers with the additional flexibility for customers to publish and distribute videocustomize solutions to Internet-connected devices quickly, easily and in a cost-effective and high-quality manner. Brightcove Zencoder, or Zencoder, is a cloud-based video encoding service. Brightcove SSAI, or SSAI (formerly named Once), is an innovative, cloud-based ad insertion and video stitching service that addresses the limitations of traditional online video ad insertion technology. Brightcove Player, or Player (formerly named Perform), is a cloud-based service for creating and managing video player experiences. Brightcove OTT Flow, powered by Accedo, or OTT Flow, is a service for media companies and content owners to rapidly deploy high-quality,direct-to-consumer, live andon-demand video services across platforms. Brightcove Video Marketing Suite, or Video Marketing Suite, is a comprehensive suite of video technologies designed to address the needs of marketers to drive awareness, engagement and conversion. Brightcove Enterprise Video Suite, or Enterprise Video Suite, is an enterprise-class platform for internal communications, employee training, live streaming, marketing and ecommerce videos.meet their own unique requirements

Since 2014, ourgo-to-market approach for our solutions has been focused primarily on (i) media companies and (ii) digital marketers in a wide range of enterprises and organizations.

As of December 31, 2017,2023, we had 4,1682,559 customers in over 7060 countries, including many of the world’s leading media companies, broadcasters, digital publishers, sports and entertainment companies, fashion and hospitality brands, faith-based institutions, retail and corporations,e-commerce businesses, and technology organizations, as well as governments,government agencies, educational institutions andnon-profit organizations.

We primarily generate revenue by offering our productssolutions to customers on a subscription-based, software as a service or SaaS,(SaaS) model. Our revenue grewhas decreased from $150.3$211.0 million in the year ended December 31, 20162022 to $155.9$201.2 million in the year ended December 31, 2017. As of December 31, 2016, we had 4,571 customers, of which 2,564 used our volume offerings and 2,007 used our premium offerings. As of December 31, 2017, we had 4,168 customers, of which 2,001 used our volume offerings and 2,167 used our premium offerings.2023. Substantially all of our revenue has historically been attributable to Brightcove Video Cloud™ (Video Cloud), which is our Video Cloud product,core video streaming platform, and we expect that revenue from our solutions leveraging Video Cloud will continue to comprise a significant portion of our revenue.

The Brightcove Approach

We distill our approach into the following focus areas:

Commitment to Innovation and Customer Success. We continually invest in research and development to deliver cutting-edge technology, improve our platform and expand the use-cases we cover for customers. By staying at the forefront of the ever-evolving streaming industry, we empower our customers to effectively engage their target audiences with streaming technology and services to achieve their business goals. This commitment is evidenced by Brightcove receiving, in 2023, our tenth Support Staff Excellence award from the Technology & Services Industry Association. As we look toward the future, our focus is on driving innovation and exceeding customer expectations while increasing our own business model flexibility and revenue opportunities.
Go-To-Market Strategy. We continue to focus on serving our existing customer base and market, while expanding our array of dedicated resources serving customers at the higher end of the market. We believe many businesses and brands at the higher end of the market are underserved by other vendors in the streaming technology space. We also believe that Brightcove’s technology, broad ecosystem of partnerships, and our professional services team, present differentiated opportunities for businesses and brands to achieve their goals and desired outcomes.
Media Focus. Our legacy of serving leading media companies and our commitment to technology innovation to serve the changing market have resulted in Brightcove services that allow media companies to monetize their content through a variety of strategies. These include, but are not limited to, subscription video on demand (SVOD), transactional video on demand (TVOD), advertising-based video on demand (AVOD), and similar models supporting the delivery of live content, such as sports, news, and events, and simulated live experiences, such as free ad-supported streaming (FAST) channels, as well as hybrid models. Our commitment to helping media companies achieve their objectives is also shown through some of our newer, additional offerings, such as:
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Engagement Insights, which analyzes billions of viewer interactions to identify meaningful engagement drivers. Our customers can pinpoint the most effective ways to reach new viewers, drive audience engagement, and retain viewers. Leveraging advanced algorithms trained by artificial intelligence (AI), and integrations with leading marketing automation platforms (MAP) and customer relationship management (CRM) platforms, our customers are able to correlate content performance with viewing patterns to build audience segments. Our customers can then tailor their outreach to retain their viewers and maximize the value of their content;

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Ad Insights, which measures the impact of ad intensity on viewer engagement, providing detailed reporting on viewer tolerance for ads across dimensions such as player, device, region, and content, and how more frequent or longer duration ad pods are impacting audience engagement. These insights drive optimizations to help our customers maximize ad yields, and works seamlessly with our own Ad Monetization service or any third party ad networks;
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Cloud Playout and FAST channels, which allow Brightcove customers to launch FAST channels and manage content, programming, and monetization from the Brightcove platform;
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Quality of Experience (QoE) Insights, which delivers integrated collection and analysis of critical metrics, at scale, as they change over time. QoE Insights uses an advanced algorithm trained by AI to identify impaired video experiences, help pinpoint root causes, measure the impacts on viewer sessions and draw correlations to audience engagement and long-term viewer satisfaction; and
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Context Aware Encoding (CAE), which is a component within Brightcove’s Zencoder encoding and transcoding product, that uses AI to reduce the cost of storing and streaming video while improving playback quality for viewers.
Enterprise Focus. Our commitment to serving our enterprise customers has resulted in new, use-case-based offerings that deliver bespoke capabilities built on our Video Cloud platform which are designed to help companies leverage video to reach and engage their external and internal audiences, respectively, and drive specific outcomes. We also continue to enhance our offerings and accelerate the breadth of our solutions through integrations that extend the application of video across the enterprise technology ecosystem. Recent examples of this enterprise-focus include:
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Brightcove Marketing Studio™, which is designed to help marketers extend their video strategy by complementing it with their own marketing technology (martech) investments. With Marketing Studio, our customers can not only manage and publish their video using Brightcove functionality, but can also incorporate their Brightcove-hosted video directly into their martech solution to streamline their processes and expand the reach of their video. For example, customers using Shopify can incorporate video from Brightcove into their e-commerce sites; and customers using Sprnklr and/or Hootsuite can publish video content managed within the Brightcove platform to relevant social media properties. Customers can also connect their MAP or CRM solutions to Brightcove to sync video engagement analytics to allow them to create targeted outbound marketing campaigns.
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Brightcove Communications Studio™, which provides marketers and corporate communications professionals with a suite of tools to better engage and communicate with their audiences by streaming video through live and on-demand experiences. Communications Studio also makes it easy for professionals to source, review, and approve for publication, employee-generated content from teams across the company by automatically ingesting content from Google Drive or Dropbox folders. Our customers can also use Brightcove’s Gallery offering to provide audiences a modern live or on-demand streaming video experience while tracking viewer engagement with analytics, insights, and interactive elements.
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Enhancements to Brightcove’s analytics and insights module enables marketers and corporate communications professionals to measure the impact of their streaming video and iterate based on data. Our Essential Insights module enables our customers to gather reporting on usage and content trends across their video library; and Brightcove Interactivity and its analytics capabilities highlight engagement with elements like polls, quizzes, sentiment, and more and provide data on audience engagement and feedback.

Market Trends

Video platform technologies and services continue to impact the enterprise and media industries and bring forth evolving ways for companies to engage and interact with their customers. We believe the following trends provide a strong opportunity for Brightcove in the years ahead:

Market demand for cloud-based SaaS video solutions is growing. According to data from analyst firm IDC, the worldwide video platforms software market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.0% for the 2022–2027 period, attaining $5.0 billion in revenue in 2027. IDC also expects that most of the market growth over the next five years will come from public cloud-based SaaS solutions. We believe this growth will be driven by the need to:
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Deliver more engaging customer experiences via digital channels including the web, mobile apps, connected TVs and social networks;

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Communicate important information to employees, from executive town halls to product/sales training, skills training, and compliance-based training; and
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Deliver personalized and seamless interactive experiences to customers and partners across a variety of platforms from eCommerce to marketing automation, websites, and video-based training platforms.

IDC also believes organizations will continue to invest in video platforms over the coming years — both for internal use (such as workforce readiness, knowledge transfer, enterprise learning and development, course delivery, etc.) and for commercial content that is shared via virtual events or monetized via advertising, subscription, or some other mechanism. (Source: IDC, Worldwide Video Platforms Software Forecast, Doc # US51157923, March 14, 2023)

Monetization initiatives through data and analytics are transforming the media industry. According to IDC, compiling an audience data set with attributes that drive content-type decisioning, production, distribution, and monetization is a key differentiator for content creators and programmers. Data collection, management, and analysis are consistently cited as keys to monetization as the industry moves to a direct-to-consumer business model where data is a key metric of success. (Source: IDC, MarketScape Media and Entertainment, Doc # US49647122, June 22, 2023).
Cost optimization through technology, services, and support in the Big Media Streaming Market. According to IDC, companies should avoid spending time stitching together and maintaining integrations with a multitude of technology vendors. Customers are challenged to lower operating expenses while maintaining or increasing quality content throughput more efficiently through automated processes and the creation of new or augmented revenue streams to reach sustainable profitability goals. With many large media streaming services experiencing declining year-over-year subscriber growth, we see an opportunity to assist these businesses in moving from an internally sourced and managed streaming tech ecosystem to one sourced with best-in-class third-party technologies.

While certain large companies may have the funds to support internal development teams to organically integrate best-of-breed services, others require more support and seek turnkey solutions and even complete managed services for their cloud deployments. (Source: IDC, MarketScape Media and Entertainment, Doc # US49647122, June 22, 2023)

Opportunities In additionthe Competitive Landscape. At Brightcove, we view the ever-changing competitive landscape of video-sharing sites, in-house solutions, streaming platforms and a range of other technology providers as an opportunity to being offeredconstantly evaluate and assess our competitive position and the value of our products and services to the markets we serve. In turn, we push ourselves to innovate to maintain a leading position in our categories.

Key Benefits of Our Solutions

The following key benefits of our solutions are broadly aligned with and responsive to the market trends described above:

Comprehensive, modular and scalable solutions. Our core products and solutions meet a range of streaming video publishing, delivery and distribution needs, and can be integrated with modular technology to create customized workflows that address numerous use cases across a customer’s organization. We offer end-to-end solutions built for media companies, marketers and communicators, as well as modular solutions that customers can license on a stand-alone basis Video Cloudand integrate into their existing workflows. In addition, our multi-tenant architecture enables us to deliver each of our solutions across our customer base with a single version of our software for each product, making it easier to scale our solutions as our customer base and their end user base expands.
Easy to use and efficient total cost of ownership. We designed our products to be intuitive and easy to use. We provide reliable, cost-effective, on-demand solutions to our customers, relieving them of the cost, time and resources associated with in-house solutions and enabling them to be up and running quickly after signing with us.
Open platforms and extensive ecosystem. Our open platform enables developers to easily access our public-facing APIs and build and manage integrations with our products to meet the requirements of their tech ecosystems. With our professional services offerings, award-winning support teams, and our extensive library of documentation, we help our customers obtain as much value from our platform as possible. The Brightcove Marketplace™, which launched in 2021, is a venue for our customers to discover and connect with our technology partners who specialize in areas such as content creation, fanbase engagement, and specialized-monetization of streaming video assets. The Brightcove Marketplace features several dozen integrations, from leading technologies like Google, Wordpress, Oracle and Adobe, to niche emerging technologies. Our global ecosystem of partners also includes companies like Amazon, Akamai, and Fastly, among others.

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Focus on helping customers achieve business objectives with streaming video. Our customers use our products to achieve critical business objectives such as monetizing content, increasing conversion rates for transactions, engaging audiences, increasing brand awareness and expanding their audiences, driving traffic, increasing viewer engagement on their properties, internal communications, employee training and customer support. We believe our customers view us as a core componentstrategic partner in part because our business model is not dependent on building our own audience or generating our own revenue from consumers or end-users. We also take a consultative approach to meet our customers' unique business needs. Our business interests align with our customers' interests, as we each benefit from the success of OTT Flow, Video Marketing Suiteour customers' streaming strategy.
Ongoing customer-driven development. Through our sales engineers, customer success and Enterprise Video Suite.

Our Solutions

Our solutionssupport teams, product teams and regular outreach from senior leadership, we solicit and capture feedback from our customer base to evaluate and incorporate as enhancements to our solutions. We regularly provide our customers with the following key benefits:

Comprehensive, modular and scalable solutions. Video Cloud provides a single, integrated solution to meet a range of video publishing and distribution needs. OTT Flow, Video Marketing Suite and Enterprise Video Suite areend-to-end solutions of video technologies built for media companies, marketers and enterprises, respectively. Each of Zencoder, SSAI and Player are modular solutions that customers can license on a stand-alone basis and integrate into their existing video workflows. In addition, our multi-tenant architecture enables us to deliver each of our solutions across our customer base with a single version of our software for each product, making it easier to scale our solutions as our customer and end user base expands.

Easy to use and low total cost of ownership. Our products were designed to be intuitive and easy to use. We provide reliable, cost-effective,on-demand solutions to our customers, relieving them of the cost, time and resources associated within-house solutions and enabling them to be up and running quickly after signing with us.

Open platforms and extensive ecosystem. Our open and extensible platforms enable our customers to customize standard features and functionality and easily integrate third-party technology to meet their own specific requirements and business objectives. We have an extensive ecosystem of partners, which we refer to as the Brightcove Partner Program. More than 150 members of the Brightcove Partner Program have built solutions that rely upon, or are already integrated with, our platforms. This ecosystem includes leading technology companies such as Akamai, comScore, Google and Oracle and providers of niche technology services. These integrated technologies provide our customers with enhanced flexibility, functionality and ease of use.

Help customers achieve business objectives. Our customers use our products to achieve key business objectives such as driving site traffic, increasing viewer engagement on their sites, monetizing content, increasing conversion rates for transactions, increasing brand awareness and expanding their audiences, internal communications, employee training and customer support. We believe our customers view us as a strategic partner in part because our business model is not dependent on building our own audience or generating our own ad revenue. Our business interests align with our customers’ interests as we each benefit from the success of our customers’ online strategy.

Ongoing customer-driven development. Through our account managers, customer support teams, product teams and regular outreach from senior leadership, we solicit and capture feedback from our customer base for incorporation into ongoing enhancements to our solutions. We regularly provide our customers with enhancements to our products. For example, in 2017, we introduced Brightcove Live, a live streaming service for delivering and monetizing live events and linear channels, we launched Dynamic Delivery, a new media delivery platform that enhances video reach, flexibility and performance while reducing storage requirements, we introduced Context Aware Encoding, an innovative solution for performingper-file encoding, which uses machine learning and deep video analysis to achieve optimum quality for each video with the fewest bits necessary, we addedIn-Page Experiences to our Gallery product, which allows users to incorporatecalls-to-action and dynamic capabilities to deliver different video experiences, and we added a Hubspot integration to Brightcove Audience, which is used to send video engagement data to popular marketing automation platforms. Delivering cloud-based solutions allows us to serve additional customers with little incremental expense and to deploy innovations and best practices quickly and efficiently to our existing customers.

Our Business Strengths

We believe that the following business strengths differentiate us from our competitors and are key to our success:products. Delivering cloud-based solutions allows us to serve additional customers with little incremental expense and to deploy innovations and best practices quickly and efficiently to our existing customers.

Recognition

We are the recognized online video platform market leader. In 2017, our customers used Video Cloud to deliver an average of approximately 3.7 billion video streams per month, which we believe is more video streams per month than any other professional solution. We have in recent years received numerous awards for our market leadership from industry analysts such as Frost & Sullivan, Forrester and Gartner.

We have established a global presence. We have established a global presence, beginning with our firstnon-U.S. customer in 2007, and continuing with the expansion of our operations into Europe, Japan, Asia Pacific, India and the Middle East. Today, we have employees in seven countries. We built our solutions to be localized into almost any language and currently offer 24/7 customer support worldwide. As of December 31, 2017, organizations throughout the world used Video Cloud to reach viewers in approximately 246 countries and territories.
At Brightcove, we are proud of our two Technology and Engineering Emmy® Awards. Furthermore, our products and market strategy are frequently evaluated and recognized in our industry by global industry analyst firms such as Caretta Research, Forrester, Frost and Sullivan, Gartner, and Omdia. In 2023, Brightcove was positioned as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Media and Entertainment 2023 Vendor Assessment (Doc # US49647122, June 22, 2023), and positioned as a Leader in the Aragon Research Globe for Enterprise Video.

We have high visibility and predictability in our business. We sell our subscription and support services through monthly, quarterly or annual contracts and recognize revenue ratably over the committed term. The majority of our revenue comes from annual contracts. Our existing contracts provide us with visibility into revenue that has not yet been recognized. We have also achieved an overall recurring dollar retention rate of at least 85% in each of the last four fiscal quarters, including 85%, 91%, 95% and 87% for the three months ended March 31, 2017, June 30, 2017, September 30, 2017 and December 31, 2017, respectively. Our business model and customer loyalty provide greater levels of recurring revenue and predictability compared to traditional, perpetual-license business models.

We have customers of all sizes across multiple industries. We offer different editions of our products tailored to meet the needs of organizations of various sizes and across industries. Our offerings range from entry-level editions to enterprise-level editions used by multiple departments in a single organization.

Our management team has experience building and scaling software companies. Our senior leadership team has built innovative software platform businesses. Members of our senior leadership team have held senior product, business and technology roles at companies such as Adobe, Allaire, Amazon Web Services, AT&T, Lycos and Macromedia.

Our Customers

As of December 31, 2017, we had 4,168 customers in over 70 countries. We provide our solutions to many of the world’s leading media companies, broadcasters, publishers, brands and corporations, as well as governments, educational institutions andnon-profit organizations. While our solutions are tailored to meet the needs of media companies and digital marketers in a wide range of enterprises and organizations, we believe our solutions can benefit any organization with a website or digital content.

OurPlatform, Solutions, Products and Services

We create technology that helps our customers use streaming video to further their businesses in meaningful ways. We have a core video streaming platform, Video Cloud, and several solutions and products that address particular customer use-cases. We also have a host of additional services which enable Brightcove customers to generate specific outcomes and create their own customized implementations.

Our Platform - Brightcove Video Cloud

Brightcove Video Cloud is the world’s leading online video platform,streaming platform. It enables our customers to publish, deliver and distribute video to Internet-connected devices quickly, easily and in a cost-effective and high-quality manner. Our innovative technology and intuitive user interface give customers control over a wide range of features and functionality needed to publish and deliver a compelling user experience, including the following:ability to:

Uploading and Encoding. Using Video Cloud, customers may upload videos in various formats for adaptive encoding that maximizes quality and minimizes file size. Video Cloud then automatically enables the content to be delivered to end users via a third-party content delivery network, or CDN, such as Akamai Technologies, Inc., or Akamai, Limelight Networks, Inc., or Limelight, or Fastly, Inc., or Fastly.
upload videos in various formats for adaptive AI encoding solutions, which maximizes quality and minimizes file size, and deliver videos to myriad operating systems, including web-based experiences, smartphones, tablets, media streaming devices and connected TVs;

Content Management. Whether a customer has a few short video clips or thousands of full-length episodes, Video Cloud makes it easy to organize a media library. Videos can be grouped together withdrag-and-drop controls or smart playlists that automatically organize content. Customers can set rules for geographic access and schedules to define where and when their videos can be viewed.
organize, enhance, and manage their media library by adding in metadata, creating playlists, using AI to enhance content with automated transcription in over 25 languages, and setting rules to define where and when videos can be viewed;

Video Players. Video Cloud includes leading video player technology, with fast load times and fast video starts. Video Cloud allows forpoint-and-click styling and configuration of video players that can reflect the brand or design of the customer. Our video players also includebuilt-in support for advertising, analytics and content protection, and provide a consistent cross-platform playback experience. Developers can also take advantage of a set of tools to create completely custom video player experiences.
rely on fast load times, fast video starts, and easily-configured players, which include built-in support for advertising, analytics and content protection, and provide a consistent cross-platform playback experience;

Multi-platform video experiences. We have built Video Cloud to support numerous operating systems, formats and devices. In addition toweb-based experiences, Video Cloud provides publishing and

broadcast live video with multiple live streams at different quality levels and renditions that best match each viewer’s available bandwidth, processor utilization and player size;

expand audience reach by leveraging the social network of their viewers, including sharing complete videos or video clips through Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube, Twitter (X), LinkedIn, Hootsuite, and other social destinations;

grow and monetize their audience with video ad features such as tools for ad insertions and built-in ad server and network integrations;

optimize and support online video publishing and distribution strategy through video analytics, which aggregate analytics from owned and operated platforms and distribution platforms, and transform them into insights that drive actionable results using our advanced AI-trained algorithms;

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customize, extend and integrate with our platform through playback, APIs and SDKs to myriad platforms including iOS, tvOS, Android and AndroidTV, Amazon Fire TV, Roku, Samsung, LG, and beyond; and

securely stream corporate live and on-demand video communications to audiences on a multitude of devices.

delivery services for cross-platform devices including smartphones, tablets, media streaming devices and Connected TVs. Our solution includes automated device detection and manages multiple renditions of the same video encoded in different forms with optimized delivery protocols for different target formats.

Live Video Streaming. In addition toon-demand video distribution, Video Cloud includes support for live video broadcasts. Video Cloud accepts multiple live streams at different quality levels and delivers the rendition that best matches each viewer’s available bandwidth, processor utilization and player size.

Distribution and Syndication. Video Cloud supports a blended distribution strategy across the Internet, allowing customers to distribute videos on their own website, partner websites or video-sharing sites such as YouTube. These tools help content owners to drive site traffic, increase brand awareness and expand their audience.

Social Media. Customers can expand their audience by leveraging the social network of their viewers. Through integrated Video Cloud capabilities, users can share complete videos or video clips through Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and other social media destinations. Brightcove Social allows customers to manage their video presence across social networks from a single interface. With Brightcove Social, customers can clip and publish videos to the native playback environments of Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, as well as their own websites, from Video Cloud and track performance in a single location.

Advertising and Monetization. Video Cloud can help customers grow and monetize their audience with video ad features such as tools for ad insertions andbuilt-in ad server and network integrations. Video Cloud includes tools to support synchronizedin-player ads with embedded link functionality and overlays for persistent branding.

Analytics. Video Cloud’s integrated video analytics present information to optimize and support customers’ online video publishing and distribution strategy. Online publishers can also choose to integrate web analytics solutions such as Adobe Omniture or Google Analytics with Video Cloud.

APIs, SDKs and Developer Resources. Video Cloud includes comprehensive APIs to customize, extend and integrate with our platform. Our SDKs for iOS, tvOS, Android and AndroidTV offer customers tools to jump-start projects and deliver high quality mobile video applications and connected TV experiences. Our developer center gives customers unlimited access to comprehensive product documentation, sample code, developer articles and technical videos, making it easy for them to access additional information.

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Solutions & Products

With our ongoing customer-driven development, and informed by the market trends described above, we invest in solutions and products to meet the streaming use cases representative of the industries we serve, including:

Brightcove Marketing Studio™, is the streaming video solution designed to accelerate business growth by bridging teams and technology to deliver premium viewing experiences, increase conversions and drive measurable marketing outcomes by increasing brand awareness, engagement and conversion across all aspects of the customer or audience journey;
Brightcove Communications Studio™, is for marketers and corporate communications professionals who need tools to deliver information in an engaging, secure and scalable manner through live and on-demand content. Our communications solution combines the power of enterprise-leading streaming technology with the interactivity and data capabilities that modern organizations need to get the most out of their content. With this solution, teams can be confident that audiences understand and engage with their content while tracking that engagement to do more of what is effective;
Brightcove Media Studio™, is a comprehensive solution for over-the-top (OTT) video services, media publishers and leading broadcasters looking to monetize their media, live stream at scale and nurture their audience lifecycle. Leveraging programmatic content ingestion, live and VOD workflows, integrated cloud-based encoding, cost-optimized distribution across all devices and platforms, and flexible monetization models such as SVOD, TVOD, AVOD and hybrid, including similar monetization models supporting live content, Brightcove’s end-to-end OTT streaming video platform and modular architecture makes it easy to quickly integrate, onboard and deploy beautiful experiences that engage audiences;
Brightcove Audience Insights™, is a customer data platform specifically designed for video streaming businesses. With Brightcove Audience Insights our customers have a unified view into their viewers and subscribers with various out-of-the-box reporting and insights to better understand their viewers' and subscribers' engagement. Brightcove Audience Insights makes it easy for our customers to take action on their video data by using audience segment functionality to improve acquisition and service engagement, and reduce churn;
Zencoder® is a cloud-based video encoding service. Zencoder provides our customers withservice, providing extremely fast, high-quality, and reliable encoding of live andon-demand video and access to highly scalable encoding power without having to pay for, managethe expense, management, and scale expensivescalability limitations of traditional hardware and software. Customers are able to integrate Zencoder with a simple API, and manage accounts and encoding jobs from an intuitive online dashboard. Zencoder accepts files in an extensive range of formats and codecs, supports video output to a multitude of devices, and includes tools to support high-quality video output and to adjust and edit video. It is globally distributed and includes advanced security features; and
Brightcove Beacon®, is a purpose-built app platform that enables our customers to launch premium OTT video streaming experiences quickly and cost-effectively across mobile, web, smart TVs and connected TVs, with the following principal featuresflexibility of multiple monetization models. It allows customers to curate and functionality:deliver content to their audience segments, automate the curation of playlists and carousels, securely store and deliver content with DRM protection, automate content availability windows, and configure VOD and live content offerings for any demographic changes that occur throughout the day or week. Customers can also manage viewers with a frictionless viewer registration experience, and offer viewer profiles to maintain watch history and preferences and manage stream concurrency and account sharing. Through Brightcove Beacon, customers can also gather insights on viewer behavior to inform their decisions about programming, layout, and monetization.

Services to support Brightcove customers

File Support. Zencoder accepts files in an extensive range of formats and codecs and supports video output to a multitude of devices.

Quality and Control. Zencoder includes tools to support high quality video output and to adjust and edit video.

Speed and Reliability. Zencoder provides extremely fast transcoding and industry leading reliability.

Platform and Security. Zencoder is scalable, globally distributed and includes advanced security features designed to protect content.

Account and Integration. Zencoder provides a simple API for streamlined integration, supports most major transfer protocols and accelerated file transfers and allows users to manage their accounts and encoding jobs from an intuitive, online dashboard.
Ad Monetization. Brightcove Ad Monetization is our monetization service for organizations that want to generate revenue with an advertising strategy. Using the latest yield optimization tools, we support both live and on-demand monetization through strategic integrations, industry expertise, and insights that combine both player and ad data. For all VOD, live and FAST content, the flexibility of our Ad Monetization supports organizations throughout their

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SSAI is an innovative, cloud-based ad insertion and video stitching service that addresses the limitations

advertising initiatives whether they have Brightcove take on full stack of traditional online video ad insertion technology. SSAI reducesinventory or eliminates the need for platform-specific ad technology and makes it possibleare interested in having us supplement unsold inventory.
Professional Services. While our products are easy for customers to reliably deliver liveuse and deploy without any additional specialized services, we offer a range of professional services for customers who seek customization of our products, need assistance with their implementations, require assistance with the integration of our products with in-house oron-demand third-party applications, or need managed services where we would operate streaming technology and/or content operations on their behalf. These professional services are priced on a retainer, time and materials, or a per project basis and include projects such as content migrations from other vendors or in-house solutions, video with dynamically customized programmingplayer enhancements, mobile and targeted adsconnected TV app development, the creation of web pages optimized for streaming, and customization of virtual event experiences.
Brightcove Marketplace. The Brightcove Marketplace™ features several dozen integrations to leading technology providers that support the myriad use cases of our customers and prospects. Our teams continuously explore new integration opportunities to ensure our customers have access to the maximum rangelatest technology tools that help them maximize their use of devices. SSAI includes the following principal featuresBrightcove platform by connecting it across the tools and functionality:systems they use to run their businesses.
Customer Success, Support, and Documentation. Our customer success and customer support teams are involved from the very beginning of a customer’s journey with Brightcove, leveraging our teams’ global presence to engage with customers through multiple touchpoints and develop close customer relationships that have led to best-in-class CSAT scores. Our dedicated customer success team offers customized onboarding and related services to new and existing customers to help with technology setup and adoption, and maximizing the value of our products and services to help customers reach their business goals. This team is focused on ongoing customer success with our platform as well as maintaining consistent, positive engagement.

Reach. SSAI features cloud-based ad monetization of video on demand across devices, appsCustomer support from our TSIA-certified team is included for all of our products, and websites.

Integrations. SSAI ispre-integrated with ad networks and ad decision systems.

Server-Side Solution. SSAI is a server-side solution, requiring no SDKs,plug-ins or client-side code.

Simplicity. SSAI uses a single URL with automatic device detection to deliver highbit-rate broadcast quality video ads.

Player

Player is a cloud-based service for creating and managing video player experiences. This service provides customers access to our support team via a web portal. Customers who upgrade to premium editions of our support packages gain additional features such as faster response times, access to a dedicated Customer Success representative, additional contact options, dedicated live event support, live channel monitoring, and 24x7x365 support.

Customers also have access to our library of support documentation spanning our entire portfolio of products, which is updated regularly in connection with leadingfeature enhancements, new releases, and other product updates.

Training. We offer free basic online training to registered users of our products. We also offer customized, onsite training for customers that is priced on a per engagement basis.
Video.js and Developer Solutions. Brightcove is the corporate shepherd of the Video.js community. Video.js has been a staple of the open-source video player technology space and has seen substantial adoption across hundreds of thousands of websites and tens of thousands of organizations spanning the globe. With numerous APIs, SDKs and a robust setecosystem of management APIsopen-source plugins, developers can customize Video.js players to deliver the multi-platform stability and performance optimization services. Player delivers cross-platform playback experiences and includesbuilt-in support for advertising, analytics and content protection. Player includes the following principal features and functionality:

Leading Video Player Technology. Player includes a fast HTML5-first video player, responsive design, social sharing and integration tools and support for adaptive bitrate streaming across all major mobile and desktop platforms.

Speed. Player is designed to have the fastest load times and the fastest video starts. Player’s precompiled plugins, skinned assets and thumbnails minimize download size. Player is optimized to reduce network traffic. Player also allows customers to deploy changes to thousands of player embeds with batch publishing to acceleratetime-to-market.

Wide Reach. Player allows customers to reach the maximum range of Internet-connected devices and operating systems with consistent playback across desktop and mobile devices.

Powerful APIs, Plugins and SDKs. The developer-friendly, HTML5 video player is easily customized with CSS and JavaScript APIs. Player’s Management APIs also allow customers to easily control player configurations. Player has a robust ecosystem of plugins and integrations, includingbuilt-in support for advertising, analytics and content protection, as well as numerous open-source plugins from the Video.js community. Player also includes native player SDKs for easy development and deployment of native applications.

OTT Flow

OTT Flow is a service for mediacustomizability that companies and content owners to rapidly deploy high-quality,direct-to-consumer, live andon-demand video services across platforms. OTT Flow enables video content delivery with a consistent user interface across multiple platforms, including desktop, Apple and Android smartphones and tablets, and Google Chromecast. OTT Flow also includes support forad-supported and subscriptionvideo-on-demand models with ecommerce, customer relationship management, or CRM, and billing engine interfaces. This product also features a flexible and intuitiveweb-based administrative console for user interface and user experience configuration, rules-based content packaging and scheduling capabilities, robust analytics and subtitle and caption support.

their developers rely on.

Video Marketing SuiteEditions

Video Marketing Suite is a comprehensive suite of video technologies designed to address the needs of marketers to drive awareness, engagement and conversion. Video Marketing Suite is a bundled offering of Video Cloud, Brightcove Gallery, or Gallery, and Brightcove Social. Gallery is a cloud-based service that enables customers to create and publish video portals. This service combines portal templates with best practices for search engine optimization, responsive design, social sharing and conversion in a single solution that can be implemented and updated with ease. Gallery allows customers to create engaging video experiences such as video channels, product showcases, event microsites and video support centers. Brightcove Social allows customers to manage their video presence across social networks from a single interface. With Brightcove Social, customers can edit, publish and track their videos in the native playback environments of Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, as well as their own websites, from Video Cloud.

Enterprise Video Suite

Enterprise Video Suite is an enterprise-class platform for internal communications, employee training, live streaming, marketing and ecommerce videos. Enterprise Video Suite is a bundled offering of Video Cloud, Gallery, and Brightcove Live. Brightcove Live is an optionaladd-on to Video Cloud designed to enablenon-technical users to set up live events and deliver multi-bitrate streams to multiple devices, without the need for hardware encoders or development work.

Editions

Each of ourOur products isare generally offered to customers on a subscription-based SaaS model, with varying levels of usage entitlements, support and in certain cases, functionality.functionality that depend on the business use case of our customers. Our customers generally pay us a monthly quarterly or annual subscription fee for access to our products. This model allows our customers to scale their level of investment and usage based on the size and complexity of their needs.

Our Video Cloud is offered in two product lines. The first product line is comprised ofExpress edition, which targets small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and our premium product editions.Zencoder customers on month-to-month contracts or pay-as-you-go contracts, are considered volume customers. All premium editions include functionality to publish and distribute video to Internet-connected devices, with higher levels of the premium editions providing additional features and functionality. The second product line is comprised of our volume product edition. Our volume editions target small andmedium-sized businesses, or SMBs. The volume editions provide customers with the same basic functionality that is offered in our premium product editions but have been designed for customers who have lower usage requirements and do not typically require advanced features and functionality.

Video Marketing Suite and Enterprise Video Suite are each generally available in Starter, Pro and Enterprise editions. The Starter edition for each provides customers with the same basic functionality that is offered in the Pro and Enterprise editions but has been designed for customers who have lower usage requirements and do not typically require advanced features and functionality. All Video Marketing Suite and Enterprise Video Suiteother customers are considered premium customers.

Zencoder customers are considered premium customers other than Zencoder customers onmonth-to-month contracts orpay-as-you-go contracts, which are considered volume customers.

All SSAI, Player,Sales and OTT Flow customers are considered premium customers.Marketing

Account Management

An important component of our sales strategy is our account management organization. This organization is focused on ongoing customer success and engagement, as well as contract renewals and upsells to our customer base.

Professional Services

While our products are easy for customers to use and deploy without any additional specialized services, we offer a range of professional services for customers who seek customization of our products or assistance with their implementations. These professional services are priced on a time and materials basis or a per project basis and include projects such as content migrations from other vendors orin-house solutions, video player enhancements, mobile and connected TV app development and the creation of web pages optimized for video.

Support

Our products generally include basic support for technical and operational issues from our support team viaweb-based submission or email. The premium editions of our products generally include additional support options such as phone support, live chat, dedicated live event support, 24x7x365 support and more. Our award-winning, TSIA certified team supports our customers from our offices in Boston, London, Sydney, Tokyo, South Korea and Tempe. We also have a dedicated customer success team that offers various onboarding and related services to new and existing customers looking to get the most out ofsell our products and services.

Training

We offer free basic online training to registered users of our products. We also offer customized, onsite training for customers that is priced on a per engagement basis.

Sales and Marketing

We sell our productsservices primarily through our global direct sales organization. Our sales team is organized by the following geographic regions: Americas, Europe, and the Middle East, Asia Pacific, and Japan. In the Middle East and India, we generate sales primarily through partner channels. We further organize ourgo-to-market approach by focusing our sales and marketing teams on selling primarily to (i) media companies, who generally want to distribute video content to a broad audience and (ii) digital marketersorganizations in a wide range of enterprises andindustries: Enterprise organizations who generally use video for marketing to sell their products and services and/or enterprise communication purposes. A small amount ofengage with their employees and other stakeholders, and Media organizations who use our platform and solutions to monetize their content.

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We also generate sales are generated through a comprehensive channel partner program that includes: referral partners, solution partners, managed service providers, and resellers. Our ability to grow and maintain a global, diverse set of quality channel partners extends our market reach, which allows us to meet the specific nuances of local markets around the world, and resellers. We alsoreduces our overall cost of sales.

Additionally, we sell some of our Zencoder products online through our website.

We generate customer leads, accelerate sales opportunities and build brand awareness through our marketing programs. Our marketing programs target executives, technology professionals and senior business leaders. Like our sales teams, ourOur marketing team and programs are organized by geographytypically target specific geographies and industry segment.segments. Our principal marketing programs include:

public relations and social media;

online event marketing activities, direct email, search engine marketing and display ads and blogs;

field marketing events for customers and prospects;

participation in, and sponsorship of, user conferences, trade shows and industry events;

use of our website to provide product and organization information, as well as learning opportunities for potential customers;

cooperative marketing efforts with partners, including joint press announcements, joint trade show activities, channel marketing campaigns and joint seminars;

telemarketing and lead generation representatives who respond to incoming leads to convert them into new sales opportunities; and

customer programs, including user meetings and our online customer community.

Operations

We usehave relationships with a number of third-party cloud computing platforms to provideassist in providing our products and services to customers. We use AWS and other third-party platforms to provide cloud-based computing and storage services to our customers. We believe that our agreements with these platforms are based on competitive market terms and conditions, including service level commitments. We take advantage of this geographically dispersed, third-party, cloud computing capacity to improve the responsiveness of our service and lower network latency for our customers. We also operate data center facilities in the greater Boston area and operate our own servers for systems that manage meta-data, business rules and archival storage of media assets.

Media delivery to end users, including video, audio, images and JavaScript components, is served primarily through CDNcontent delivery network (CDN) providers, including Akamai, LimelightFastly, and Fastly.AWS Cloudfront. We believe our agreements with our CDN providers are based on competitive market terms and conditions, including service level commitments from these CDN providers.

We entered into

Intellectual Property

With our agreement with Akamaicontinued investment in July 2010. It enables usinnovation and through the diligent work of our team members, we continue to use Akamai CDN servicesseek protection for our own benefit and to resell Akamai CDN services to our customers in every geographic location in which we offer our products. The current expiration date of the agreement is December 31, 2018.

We entered into our agreement with Limelight in March 2006. It enables us to use Limelight CDN services for our own benefit and to resell Limelight CDN services to our customers in every geographic location in which we offer our products. The agreement is currently renewing on a month to month basis. Either party may terminate the agreement with 60 days’ notice.

We entered into our agreement with Fastly in April 2017. It enables us to use Fastly CDN services for our own benefit and to resell Fastly CDN services to our customers in every geographic location in which we offer our products. The current expiration date of the agreement is January 31, 2019.

Our agreements with Akamai and Limelight contain a service continuation period following expiration of the agreement, which we believe is sufficient to enable transition to an alternative provider to avoid material disruption to our business or to our customers. Our agreement with Akamai provides that, upon termination for any reason, Akamai will continue to provide CDN services to our existing customers for up to twelve months. Our agreement with Limelight provides that, upon termination for any reason, Limelight will continue to provide CDN services for our benefit for up to six months.

Intellectual Property

intellectual property. We rely principallyprimarily on a combination of trademark, patent, copyright and trade secret laws in the United States and other jurisdictions, as well as confidentiality procedures and contractual provisions to protect our proprietary technology, confidential information, business strategies and brands. We also believe that factors such as the technological and creative skills of our employees coupled with the creation of new features, functionality and products are essential to establishing and maintaining a technology leadership position. We enter into confidentiality and invention assignment agreements with our employees and consultants and confidentiality agreements with other third parties, and we rigorously control access to our proprietary technology.

In the United States, we have 3560 issued and/or allowed patents and 82 patent applications pending. Internationally, we have 1756 issued and/or allowed patents and we are currently pursuing 18 patent applications, pending, including twoone patent applicationsapplication undergoing examination at the European Patent Office. We currentlyalso have patent applications pendinga number of registered trademarks in Canada,the United Kingdom, Australia, Hong KongStates and Japan,

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certain non-U.S. jurisdictions, such as “BRIGHTCOVE”, “ZENCODER”, and weour logo. We may seek coverageapply for registrations of other marks, and/or registration in additional jurisdictions, to the extent we determine such coverage is appropriate and cost-effective. Our issued patents cover a variety of technical domains relevant to our business, including aspects of publishing and distributing digital media online, cloud-based stream delivery and ad insertion.

Our registered trademarks in the United States include “BRIGHTCOVE”, “ZENCODER”, ONCEVOD and our logo. These trademarks are also registered in certainnon-U.S. jurisdictions, including the European Union

and Canada. We may apply for registrations for these and other marks in additional jurisdictions to the extent we determine such coverage is appropriate and cost-effective.

Despite our efforts to protect our proprietary rights, unauthorized parties may attempt to copy or obtain and use our technology to develop products with the same functionality as our solutions. Policing unauthorized use of our technology is difficult and expensive. Our competitors could also independently develop technologies equivalent to ours, and our intellectual property rights may not be broad enough for us to prevent competitors from selling products incorporating those technologies.

Competition

Competition

We compete with video-sharing sites, such as YouTube,in-house solutions, online videoother streaming technology platforms and a broad range of other technology providers. Some of our actual and potential competitors may enjoy competitive advantages over us, such as larger marketing budgets and larger sales teams, as well as greater financial, technical and other resources. The overall markets for our products are fragmented, rapidly evolving and highly competitive.

We expect that the competitive landscape will change as our markets continue to consolidate and mature. We believe the principal competitive factors in our industry include the following:

total cost of ownership;

breadth and depth of product functionality;

ability to innovate and respond to customer needs rapidly;

level of resources and investment in sales, marketing, product and technology;

ease of deployment and use of solutions;

level of integration into existing workflows configurability, and configurability;
scalability and reliability;

customer service;

brand awareness and reputation;

ability to integrate with third-party applications and technologies;

size and scale of provider; and

size of customer base and level of user adoption.

The mix of factors relevant in any given situation varies with regard to each prospective customer. We believe we compete favorably with respect to all of these factors.

Some of our competitors have made or may make acquisitions or enter into partnerships or other strategic relationships to offer a more comprehensive service than we do. These combinations may make it more difficult for us to compete effectively, including on the basis of price, sales and marketing programs, technology or service functionality. We expect these trendschallenges to continue as organizations attempt to strengthen or maintain their market positions.

Research and Development

We have focused our research and development efforts on expandingmaintaining a leading streaming platform that is reliable, scalable, and open; cultivating an intelligent cloud-based platform powered by AI; and leveraging our video and audience insights to provide value to our customers in the form of tangible solutions. We have expanded, and will continue to expand the functionality, scalability, and scalabilitysecurity of our products and enhancingenhance their ease of use, as well asand we continue to invest in creating new product offerings. We continue to expand on providing business intelligence regarding our customers' content by focusing on data strategies and insights, while also improving the processing and transcoding of media, and the efficient delivery of media to our customers' viewers. We expect research and development expenses to increase in absolute dollars as we intend to continue to lead in the development of new technologies, regularly release new features and functionality, expand our product offerings continue the localization of our products in various languages,

and upgrade and extend our service offerings, and develop new technologies.offerings. Over the long term, we believe that research and development expenses as a percentage of revenue will decrease, but will vary depending upon the mix of revenue from new and existing products, features and functionality, as well as changes in the technology that our products must support, such as new operating systems or new Internet-connected devices.support.

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Human Capital Resources

Our researchBrightcove employees are a team of smart, passionate and development expenses were $31.9 million, $30.2 million and $29.3 million in 2017, 2016 and 2015, respectively, which included stock-based compensation expense of $1.6 million, $1.3 million and $1.4 million, respectively.innovative people who are revolutionizing the way organizations stream video. As of December 31, 2017,2023, we had 155 employees in research and development.

Employees

As of December 31, 2017, we had 498671 employees, of which 381301 were located in the United States and 117370 were located outside of the United States. None of our United States employees are represented by a labor union or covered by a collective bargaining agreement.agreement and we have not experienced any work stoppages. We have a high degree of employee engagement, as demonstrated through participation in employee surveys, and we consider our relationship with our employees to be good.

Information about SegmentWe have built a culture around three core values, all of which guide us in delivering at the highest level on behalf of our customers: Execution, Innovation, and Geographic RevenueOne Team. We recognize that maintaining our culture and realizing these values depends on our ability to attract, develop, and retain talent. To that end, we offer high quality benefits, including work-from-home flexibility and wellness initiatives, which take into account the diversity of our employees’ lifestyles and needs. Our leadership speaks with transparency at regular all-employee town hall meetings, and we create opportunities for employee feedback, including through engagement surveys. Leveraging the power of our own solutions, we host company-wide virtual events, provide a comprehensive library of training videos to all employees, as well as targeted training to our leadership team.

We are committed to diversity at all levels of our organization, from our Board of Directors, where three of our directors identify as female, to our employees. We have established hiring processes, training, and partnerships with organizations to drive diversity and inclusion among our workforce. Programs such as our employee resource groups provide community and support for our employees.

Government Regulations

Information about segment and geographic revenue is set forth in Note 1015 of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements under Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form10-K.

We are a global company based in the U.S., and are therefore subject to foreign laws governing our foreign operations, as well as U.S. laws that restrict trade and certain practices, such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. We are also subject to domestic and foreign laws that affect companies conducting business on the internet, including laws relating to the liability of providers of online services.

We may also be subject to laws concerning the videos our customers publish using the Brightcove service. In the U.S., we rely on laws that limit the liability of online providers for third-party content, including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA) and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996. Countries outside the U.S. generally do not provide protections that are as robust as those under the DMCA and Section 230.

We process a limited amount of personal information from our customers and those who view the videos they share using our platform. As a result, we are subject to laws and regulations governing privacy and data security in the U.S. and worldwide, such as Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act, the EU’s General Data Protection Law (EU GDPR), the UK General Data Protection Law (UK GDPR), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as amended, and other state privacy laws.

Corporate & Available Information

OurWe were founded in 2004, and our principal executive offices are located at 290 Congress281 Summer Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02210. Our telephone number is(888) 882-1880. Our website address iswww.brightcove.com. www.brightcove.com. Our Annual Reports on Form10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form10-Q, Current Reports on Form8-K and amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 are available free of charge through the investor relations page of our website as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file such material with, or furnish it to, the Securities and Exchange Commission. The information that is posted on or is accessible through our website is not incorporated by reference into this Annual Report on Form 10-K and should not be considered part of this or any other report that we file with or furnish to the SEC. Alternatively, these reports may be accessed at the SEC’s website atwww.sec.gov. www.sec.gov. Inclusions of website addresses in this Annual Report on Form 10-K are inactive textual references only.

Item 1A.Risk Factors

Item 1A. Risk Factors

You should carefully review the risk factors described below and those described in other reports we file with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as the other information contained in this Annual Report on Form10-K, in evaluating our business. Our business, prospects, financial condition, or operating results could be harmed by any of these risks, as well as other risks not currently known to us or that we currently consider immaterial. If any of such risks and uncertainties actually occurs, our business, financial condition or operating results could differ materially from the plans, projections and other forward-looking statements included in the section titled “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and

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Results of Operations” and elsewhere in this report and in our other public filings. The trading price of our common stock could decline due to any of these risks, and, as a result, you may lose all or part of your investment.

Risks related to our business

We have a history of losses, we expect tomay continue to incur losses and we may not achieve or sustain profitability in the future.

We have historically incurred significant losses in each fiscal year since our inception in 2004. We experiencedother than for the year ended December 31, 2021, including a consolidated net loss of $7.6$9.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2015,2022 and a consolidated net loss of $10.0$22.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2016 and a consolidated net loss of $19.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2017.2023. These losses were due to the substantial investments we made to build our products and services, grow and maintain our business and acquire customers. Key elements of our growth strategy include acquiring new customers and continuing to innovate and build our brand. As a result, we expect our operating expenses to increase in the future due to expected increased sales and marketing expenses, operations

costs, research and development costs and general and administrative costs and, therefore, our operating losses will continue or evenincome may potentially increase fordecrease in the foreseeable future. In addition, as a public company we incur significant legal, accounting and other expenses that we did not incur as a private company.expenses. Furthermore, to the extent that we are successful in increasing our customer base, we will also incur increased expenses because costs associated with generating and supporting customer agreements are generally incurred up front, while revenue is generally recognized ratably over the committed term of the agreement. You should not rely upon our recent bookings or revenue growth as indicative of our future performance. We cannot assure you that we will reachsustain profitability in the future or at any specific time in the future or that, if and when we do become profitable, we will sustain profitability.future. If we are ultimately unable to generatecontinue generating sufficient revenue to meet our financial targets, becomeremain profitable and have sustainable positive cash flows, investors could lose their investment.

Substantially all of our revenue has historically come from a single product, Video Cloud.

We have historically been substantially dependent on revenue from a single product, Video Cloud, and we expect that revenue from Video Cloud will continue to comprise a significant portion of our revenue. Our business would be harmed by a decline in the market for Video Cloud, increased competition in the market for online video streaming platforms, or our failure or inability to provide sufficient investment to support Video Cloud as needed to maintain or grow its competitive position.position, including expanding our other solutions and products that address particular customer use-cases.

If we are unable to retain our existing customers, our revenue and results of operations will be adversely affected.

We sell our products pursuant to subscription agreements that are generally for annual terms. Our customers have no obligation to renew their subscriptions after their subscription period expires, and we have experienced losses of customers that elected not to renew, in some cases, for reasons beyond our control. For example, our largest customer during 20162020 faced distressing financial circumstancesbankruptcy and, as a result, we lost substantially all of the revenue we expected to generate from this customer in 2017.2020. In addition, even if subscriptions are renewed, they may not be renewed on the same or on more profitable terms. As a result, our ability to retain our existing customers and grow depends in part on subscription renewals. We may not be able to accurately predict future trends in customer renewals, and our customers’ renewal rates have and may continue to decline or fluctuate because of several factors, including their satisfaction or dissatisfaction with our services, the cost of our services and the cost of services offered by our competitors, a customer’s ability to build a video streaming solution in-house, reductions in our customers’ spending levels or the introduction by competitors of attractive features and functionality. If our customer retention rate decreases, we may need to increase the rate at which we add new customers in order to maintain and grow our revenue, which may require us to incur significantly higher advertisingsales and marketing expenses than we currently anticipate, or our revenue may decline. If our customers do not renew their subscriptions for our services, renew on less favorable terms, or do not purchase additional functionalitysolutions or subscriptions, our revenue may grow more slowly than expected or decline, and our profitability and gross margins may be harmed or affected.

The actual market for our products and solutions could be significantly smaller than our estimates of our total potential market opportunity, and if customer demand for our offerings does not meet expectations, our ability to generate revenue and meet our financial targets could be adversely affected.

While we expect strong growth in the markets for our products and solutions, it is possible that the growth in some or all of these markets may not meet our expectations, or materialize at all. The methodology on which our estimate of our total potential market opportunity is based includes several key assumptions based on our industry knowledge and customer experience. If any of these assumptions proves to be inaccurate, then the actual market for our solutions could be significantly smaller than our estimates of our total potential market opportunity. If the customer demand for our offerings or the adoption rate in our target markets does not meet our expectations, our ability to generate revenue from customers and meet our financial targets could be adversely affected.

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Our long term financial targets are predicated on bookings and revenue growth and operating margin improvements that we may fail to achieve, which could reduce our expected earnings and cause us to fail to meet the expectations of analysts or investors and cause the price of our securities to decline.

We are projecting long-term bookings revenue and earningsrevenue growth. Our projections are based on the expected growth potential in our premium customer base, as well as the market foron-demand software solutions generally. We may not achieve the expected bookings and revenue growth if the markets we serve do not grow at expected rates, if customers do not purchase or renew subscriptions as we expect, and/or if we are not able to deliver products desired by customers and potential customers. Our long-term operating margin improvement targets are predicated on operating leverage as long term revenue increases and improved operating efficiencies from moving to additional cloud-based delivery of services, together with lower cost of goods sold, research and development expenses and general and administrative expenses as a percentage of total revenue. If operating margins do not improve, our earnings could be adversely affected and the price of our securities could decline.

The actual market for our solutions could be significantly smaller than our estimates of our total potential market opportunity, and if customer demand for our services does not meet expectations, our ability to generate revenue and meet our financial targets could be adversely affected.

While we expect strong growth in the markets for our products, it is possible that the growth in some or all of these markets may not meet our expectations, or materialize at all. The methodology on which our estimate of our total potential market opportunity is based includes several key assumptions based on our industry knowledge and customer experience. If any of these assumptions proves to be inaccurate, then the actual market for our solutions could be significantly smaller than our estimates of our total potential market opportunity. If the customer demand for our services or the adoption rate in our target markets does not meet our expectations, our ability to generate revenue from customers and meet our financial targets could be adversely affected.

Our business is substantially dependent upon the continued growth of the market foron-demand software solutions.

We derive, and expect to continue to derive, substantially all of our revenue from the sale of ouron-demand solutions. As a result, widespread acceptance and use of theon-demand business model is critical to our future growth and success. Under the perpetual or periodic license model for software procurement, users of the software would typically install and operate the applications on their hardware. Because many companies are generally predisposed to maintaining control of their information technology, or IT, systems and infrastructure, there may be resistance to the concept of accessing software as a service provided by a third party. In addition, the market foron-demand software solutions is still evolving, and competitive dynamics may cause pricing levels to change as the market matures and as existing and new market participants introduce new types of solutions and different approaches to enable organizations to address their technology needs. As a result, we may be forced to reduce the prices we charge for our products and may be unable to renew existing customer agreements or enter into new customer agreements at the same prices and upon the same terms that we have historically. If the market foron-demand software solutions fails to grow, grows more slowly than we currently anticipate or evolves and forces us to reduce the prices we charge for our products, our bookings growth, revenue, gross margin and other operating results could be materially adversely affected.

Our operating results may fluctuate from quarter to quarter, which could make them difficult to predict.

Our quarterly operating results are tied to certain financial and operational metrics that have fluctuated in the past and may fluctuate significantly in the future. As a result, you should not rely upon our past quarterly operating results as indicators of future performance. Our operating results depend on numerous factors, many of which are outside of our control. In addition to the other risks described in this “Risk Factors” section, the following risks could cause our operating results to fluctuate:

our ability to retain existing customers and attract new customers;

the rates at which our customers renew and the pricing tier at which they renew;

the amount of revenue generated from our customers’ use of our products or services in excess of their committed contractual entitlements;

the timing and amount of costs of new and existing sales and marketing and advertising efforts;

the timing and amount of operating costs and capital expenditures relating to the expansion of our business, operations and infrastructure;

the cost and timing of the development and introduction of new product and service offerings by us or our competitors;
macroeconomic trends, and impacts on the national and global economies due to natural disasters, acts of terrorism, social upheaval, governmental instability, or public health emergencies, such as the COVID-19 pandemic;

system or service failures (including service failures from third party providers on which we rely), security breaches or network downtime.

We have a relatively short operating historyoperate in a relatively new and rapidly developing market, which makes it difficult to evaluate our business and future prospects.

Our business has a relatively short operating history and theThe market for our products and services is relatively new and rapidly developing, which makes it difficult to evaluate our business and future prospects. We have been in existence since 2004, and much of our growth has occurred in recent periods. We have encountered, and will continue to encounter, risks and difficulties frequently experienced by growing companies in rapidly changing industries, including those related to:

market acceptance of our current and future products and services;

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customer renewal rates;

our ability to compete with other companies that are currently in, or may in the future enter, the market for our products;

our ability to compete with customers or prospective customers that develop in-house solutions instead of purchasing our products;
our ability to successfully expand our business, especially internationally;

our ability to control costs, including our operating expenses;

the amount and timing of operating expenses, particularly sales and marketing expenses, related to the maintenance and expansion of our business, operations and infrastructure;

network outages or security breaches and any associated expenses;

foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations;

write-downs, impairment charges or unforeseen liabilities in connection with acquisitions;

our ability to successfully manage acquisitions; and

general economic and political conditions in our domestic and international markets.

If we do not manage these risks successfully, our business will be harmed.

Our long-term success depends, in part, on our ability to expand the sales of our products to customers located outside of the United States, and thus our business is susceptible to risks associated with international sales and operations.

We currently maintain offices and have sales personnel in Australia, France, Germany, India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, the United Arab EmiratesMexico, Portugal, and the United Kingdom, and we intend to expand our international operations. Any international expansion efforts that we may undertake may not be successful. In addition, conducting international operations subjects us to new risks that we have not generally faced in the United States. These risks include:

unexpected costs and errors in the localization of our products, including translation into foreign languages and adaptation for local practices and regulatory requirements;

lack of familiarity with and burdens of complying with foreign laws, legal standards, regulatory requirements, tariffs, and other barriers;

unexpected changes in regulatory requirements, taxes, trade laws, tariffs, export quotas, custom duties or other trade restrictions;

difficulties in managing systems integrators and technology partners;

differing technology standards;

longer accounts receivable payment cycles and difficulties in collecting accounts receivable;

difficulties in managing and staffing international operations and differing employer/employee relationships;

fluctuations in exchange rates that may increase the volatility of our foreign-based revenue;

potentially adverse tax consequences, including the complexities of foreign value added tax (or other tax) systems and restrictions on the repatriation of earnings;

uncertain political and economic climates;climates, international disputes, wars (such as the conflicts between Russia and Ukraine, and in Israel and Gaza), political instability or terrorist activities and resulting economic instability; and

reduced or varied protection for intellectual property rights in some countries.

These factors may cause our costs of doing business in these geographies to exceed our comparable domestic costs. Operating in international markets also requires significant management attention and financial resources. Any negative impact from our international business efforts could negatively impact our business, results of operations and financial condition as a whole.

We must keep up with rapid technological change to remain competitive in a rapidly evolving industry.

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Our markets are characterized by rapid technological change, frequent new product and service introductions and evolving industry standards. Our future success will depend on our ability to adapt quickly to rapidly changing technologies, to adapt our services and products to evolving industry standards and to improve the performance and reliability of our services and products. To achieve market acceptance for our products, we must effectively anticipate and offer products that meet changing customer demands in a timely manner. Customers may require features and functionality that our current products do not have. If we fail to develop products that satisfy customer preferences in a timely and cost-effective manner, our ability to renew our contracts with existing customers and our ability to create or increase demand for our products will be harmed.

We may experience difficulties with software development, industry standards, design or marketing that could delay or prevent our development, introduction or implementation of new products and enhancements. The introduction of new products by competitors, the emergence of new industry standards or the development of entirely new technologies to replace existing offerings could render our existing or future products obsolete.

If we are unable to successfully develop or acquire new features and functionality, enhance our existing products to anticipate and meet customer requirements or sell our products into new markets, our bookings growth, revenue and results of operations will be adversely affected.

We face significant competition and may be unsuccessful against current and future competitors. If we do not compete effectively, our operating results and future growth could be harmed.

We compete with video sharing sites,in-house solutions, online video platforms and certain niche technology providers, as well as larger companies that offer multiple services, including those that may be used as substitute services for our products. Competition is already intense in these markets and, with the introduction of new technologies and market entrants, we expect competition to further intensify in the future. In addition, some of our competitors may make acquisitions, be acquired, or enter into strategic relationships to offer a more comprehensive service than we do. These combinations may make it more difficult for us to compete effectively. We expect these trends to continue as competitors attempt to strengthen or maintain their market positions.

Demand for our services is sensitive to price. Many factors, including our advertising,marketing, customer acquisition and technology costs, commoditization of our products and services and our current and future competitors’ pricing and marketing strategies, can significantly affect our pricing strategies. There can be no assurance that we will not be forced to engage in price-cutting initiatives, or to increase our advertisingmarketing and other expenses to attract and retain customers in response to competitive pressures, either of which could have a material adverse effect on our revenue, operating results and resources.

We will likely encounter significant, growing competition in our business from many sources, including portals and digital media retailers, search engines, social networking and consumer-sharing services companies,

broadband media distribution platforms, technology suppliers, direct broadcast satellite television service companies and digital and traditional cable systems. Many of our present and likely future competitors have substantially greater financial, marketing, technological and other resources than we do. Some of these companies may even choose to offer services competitive with ours at no cost as a strategy to attract or retain customers of their other services. Technological and commercial developments may lead to the increasing commoditization of our products and services, including datacontent delivery and storage, further increasing downward pressure on the prices we can charge. If we are unable to compete successfully with traditional and other emerging providers of competing services, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be adversely affected.

Weakened global economic conditions may harm our industry, business and results of operations.

Our overall performance depends in part on worldwide economic conditions. Global financial developments and downturns seemingly unrelated to us or the software industry may harm us. The U.S. and other key international economies have been affected from time to time by falling demand for a variety of goods and services, restricted credit, poor liquidity, reduced corporate profitability, volatility in credit, equity and foreign exchange markets, bankruptcies, inflation and overall uncertainty with respect to the economy, including with respect to tariff and trade issues. In particular, the economies of countries in Europe have been experiencing weakness associated with high sovereign debt levels, weakness in the banking sector, uncertainty over the future of the Euro zone and volatility in the value of the pound sterling and the Euro, and instability resulting from the ongoing conflicts between Russia and Ukraine and in Israel and Gaza. The effect of the conflicts between Russia and Ukraine, and in Israel and Gaza, including any resulting sanctions, export controls or other restrictive actions that may be imposed against governmental or other entities in, for example, Russia and the Middle East, have in the past contributed and may in the future contribute to disruption, instability and volatility in the global markets. We have operations, as well as current and potential new customers in Europe. If economic conditions in Europe and other key markets for our platform continue to remain uncertain or deteriorate further, it could adversely affect our customers’ ability or willingness to subscribe to our platform, delay prospective

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customers’ purchasing decisions, reduce the value or duration of their subscriptions or affect renewal rates, all of which could harm our operating results.

More recently, inflation rates, particularly in the U.S., have increased and may continue to remain at elevated levels or further rise, which may result in decreased demand for our products and services, increases in our operating costs including our labor costs, constrained credit and liquidity, reduced government spending and volatility in financial markets. Central banks worldwide, including the Federal Reserve in the U.S., have in the past raised, and may again raise, interest rates in response to concerns over inflation rates. There continues to be uncertainty in the changing market and economic conditions, including the possibility of additional measures that could be taken by the Federal Reserve and other domestic and foreign government agencies, related to concerns over inflation risk.

The effects of a pandemic, epidemic, outbreak of an infectious disease or public health crises have in the past and could again, materially affect how we and our customers operate our respective businesses, and impact our future results of operations and overall financial performance.

Our business could be adversely affected by health crises in regions where we operate or otherwise do business. For example, the outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease, or COVID-19, and the policies and regulations implemented in response thereto, had a significant impact, both directly and indirectly, on global business and commerce (including our business and that of our customers and suppliers) such as labor disruptions and supply chain shortages that continued even after the pandemic had subsided and restrictive policies and regulations had been lifted. Other global health concerns could also result in social, economic and labor instability in the countries in which we or the third parties with whom we engage operate. These could adversely affect our customers’ ability or willingness to purchase our offerings, delay prospective customers’ purchasing decisions, increase pressure for pricing discounts, lengthen payment terms, reduce the value or duration of their subscription contracts, increase customer attrition rates, or attend our events, all of which could adversely affect our future sales, operating results and overall financial performance, and heighten the effects of other risk factors described herein.

Risks related to our operations

We depend on the experience and expertise of our executive officers, senior management team and key technical employees, and the loss of any key employee could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Our success depends upon the continued service of our executive officers, senior management team and key technical employees, as well as our ability to continue to attract and retain additional highly qualified personnel. Each of our executive officers, senior management team, key technical personnel and other employees could terminate his or her relationship with us at any time. The loss of any member of our senior management team or key personnel might significantly delay or prevent the achievement of our business objectives and could materially harm our business and our customer relationships. Robert Noreck will step down from his position as our Chief Financial Officer (CFO) effective as of the earlier of May 31, 2024 and the appointment of a successor CFO, and he will thereafter serve as a consultant, assisting with the transition of his responsibilities until September 30, 2024, at which time Mr. Noreck’s services to us will terminate. The Board has an active search process underway to select our next CFO, however, leadership transitions can be inherently difficult to manage, and if we are unable to attract and retain a qualified candidate for the CFO position in a timely manner or we have an inadequate transition of our CFO, it may cause disruption to our business, including to our relationships with customers, vendors and employees. In addition, because of the nature of our business, the loss of any significant number of our existing engineering, project management and sales personnel could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

OurChanges in our business and operations, have experienced rapid growth andas well as organizational change in recent periods, which haschanges, have placed, and may continue to place, significant demands on our management and infrastructure. If we fail to manage our growththese changes effectively and successfully recruit additional highly-qualified employees, we may be unable to execute our business plan, maintain high levels of service or address competitive challenges adequately.

We increased our number of full-time employees from 413 as of December 31, 2015, to 490 as of December 31, 2016 and to 498 as of December 31, 2017, and our revenue grew from $134.7 million in 2015 to $150.3 million in 2016 and to $155.9 million in 2017. Our business, headcount and operations have grown, both domestically and internationally, since our inception. This growth hasIn addition, we have seen organizational changes during that time, including the addition of several new members to our senior leadership team in the past several years, including our CEO. These organizational changes have placed, and will continue to place, a significant strain on our management, administrative, operational and financial infrastructure. While we expect to continue to grow headcount and operations over the long-term, we took an action in March 2023 to restructure certain parts of the Company with the intent of aligning skills with the Company’s strategy and facilitating cost efficiencies and savings, which included certain headcount reductions. Then, on April 28, 2023, we authorized a restructuring that was designed to reduce operating costs, improve operating margins and focus on key growth and strategic priorities (the "Plan") including a reduction of the Company's workforce by approximately 10%. In January 2024, we continued to restructure certain parts of our operations with the intent of

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aligning skills with the Company’s strategy and facilitating cost efficiencies and savings, which also resulted in more limited headcount reductions. We anticipate further growth willmay be requiredunable to addresseffectively manage these organizational changes, or other changes we may make in the future, which could result in difficulty or delays in delivering our products and services to customers, declines in quality or customer satisfaction, increases in costs, difficulties in introducing new products and services or enhancing existing products and services, reputational harm, difficulty in attracting new talent and retaining existing employees, loss of customers, or operational difficulties in executing sales strategies, any of which could adversely affect our productbusiness performance and service offerings and continued international expansion.operating results. Our success will depend in part upon the ability of our senior managementleadership team to manage this growththe Company effectively. To do so, we must continue to recruit, hire, train, manage and integrate a significant number of qualified managers, technical personnel and employees in specialized roles within our company, including in technology, sales and marketing. If our new employees perform poorly, or if we are unsuccessful in recruiting, hiring, training, managing and integrating these new employees, or retaining these or our existing employees, our business may suffer.

In addition, to manage the expected continuedfuture growth of our business, headcount, operations and geographic expansion, we will need to continue to improve our information technology infrastructure, operational, financial and management systems and procedures. Our expected additionalcapital investments and future headcount and capital investmentsincreases will increase our costs, which will make it more difficult for us to address any future revenue shortfalls by reducing expenses in the short term. If we fail to successfully manage ourorganizational changes or future growth we will be unable to successfully execute our business plan, which could have a negative impact on our business, financial condition or results of operations.

Our restructuring efforts and associated organizational changes may not adequately reduce our operating costs or improve operating margins, may lead to additional workforce attrition, and may cause operational disruptions.

We have incurred charges in connection with our restructuring efforts, including $2.4 million in connection with the Plan, and our restructuring efforts may yield unintended consequences and costs, such as the loss of institutional knowledge and expertise, employee attrition beyond our intended reduction in force, a reduction in morale among our remaining employees, greater-than-anticipated costs incurred in connection with implementing the restructuring efforts, and the risk that we may not achieve the benefits from the restructuring efforts to the extent or as quickly as we anticipate, all of which may have a material adverse effect on our results of operations or financial condition. These restructuring initiatives could place substantial demands on our management and employees, which could lead to the diversion of our management’s and employees’ attention from other business priorities. In addition, while certain positions have been eliminated in connection with the restructuring efforts, certain functions necessary to our reduced operations remain, and we may be unsuccessful in distributing the duties and obligations of departed employees among our remaining employees or to external service providers, which could result in disruptions to our operations. We may also discover that the workforce reduction and other restructuring efforts will make it difficult for us to pursue new opportunities and initiatives and require us to hire qualified replacement personnel, which may require us to incur additional and unanticipated costs and expenses. We may further discover that, despite the implementation of our restructuring efforts, we may require additional capital to continue expanding our business, and we may be unable to obtain such capital on acceptable terms, if at all. Our failure to successfully accomplish any of the above activities and goals may have a material adverse impact on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.

Potential future acquisitions could be difficult to integrate, divert the attention of key personnel, disrupt our business, dilute stockholder value and impair our financial results.

As part of our business strategy, we intendmay continue to consider acquisitions of companies, technologies and products that we believe could accelerate our ability to compete in our core markets or allow us to enter new markets. Acquisitions involve numerous risks, any of which could harm our business, including:

difficulties in integrating the technologies, products, operations and existing contracts of a target company and realizing the anticipated benefits of the combined businesses;

difficulties in integrating the personnel of a target company;

difficulties in supporting and transitioning customers, if any, of a target company;

diversion of financial and management resources from existing operations;

the price we pay or other resources that we devote may exceed the value we realize, or the value we could have realized if we had allocated the purchase price or other resources to another opportunity;

risks of entering new markets in which we have limited or no experience;

potential loss of key employees, customers and strategic alliances from either our current business or a target company’s business; and

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inability to generate sufficient revenue to offset acquisition costs.

Acquisitions also frequently result in the recording of goodwill and other intangible assets which are subject to potential impairments in the future that could harm our financial results. In addition, if we finance acquisitions by issuing equity securities, our existing stockholders may be diluted. As a result, if we fail to properly evaluate acquisitions or investments, we may not achieve the anticipated benefits of any such acquisitions, and we may incur costs in excess of what we anticipate. The failure to successfully evaluate and execute acquisitions or investments or otherwise adequately address these risks could materially harm our business and financial results.

We may experience delays in product and service development, including delays beyond our control, which could prevent us from achieving our growth objectives and hurt our business.

Many of the problems, delays and expenses we may encounter may be beyond our control. Such problems may include, but are not limited to, problems related to the technical development of our products and services, problems with the infrastructure for the distribution and delivery of online media, including those from third party providers on which we rely, the competitive environment in which we operate, marketing problems, consumer and advertiser acceptance and costs and expenses that may exceed current estimates. Problems, delays or expenses in any of these areas could have a negative impact on our business, financial conditions or results of operations.

Delays in the timely design, development, deployment and commercial operation of our product and service offerings, and consequently the achievement of our revenue targets and positive cash flow, could result from a variety of causes, including many causes that are beyond our control. Such delays include, but are not limited to, delays in the integration of new offers into our existing offering, changes to our products and services made to correct or enhance their features, performance or marketability or in response to regulatory developments or otherwise, delays encountered in the development, integration or testing of our products and services and the infrastructure for the distribution and delivery of online media and other systems, unsuccessful commercial launches of new products and services, delays in our ability to obtain financing, insufficient or ineffective marketing efforts and slower-than-anticipated consumer acceptance of our products. Delays in any of these matters could hinder or prevent our achievement of our growth objectives and hurt our business.

Risks related to our intellectual property and third-parties

Our business may be adversely affected by third-party claims, including by governmental bodies, regarding the content and advertising distributed through our service.

We rely on our customers to secure the rights to redistribute content over the Internet, and we do not screen the content that is distributed through our service. There is no assurance that our customers have licensed all rights necessary for distribution, including Internet distribution. Other parties may claim certain rights in the content of our customers.

In the event that our customers do not have the necessary distribution or publicity rights related to content, we may be required to cease distributing such content, or we may be subject to lawsuits and claims of damages for infringement of such rights. If these claims arise with frequency, the likelihood of our business being adversely affected would rise significantly. In some cases, we may have rights to indemnification or claims against our customers if they do not have appropriate distribution rights related to specific content items, however there is no assurance that we would be successful in any such claim.

We operate an “open” publishing platform and do not screen the content that is distributed through our service. Content may be distributed through our platform that is illegal or unlawful under international, federal, state or local laws or the laws of other countries. In the event that our customers distribute content that is deemed illegal, we would be required to cease distributing such content. We may face lawsuits, claims or even criminal charges for such distribution, and we may be subject to civil, regulatory or criminal sanctions and damages for such distribution. Any such claims or investigations could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

We could incur substantial costs as a result of any claim of infringement of another party’s intellectual property rights.

In recent years, there has been significant litigation in the United States involving patents and other intellectual property rights. Companies providing Internet-related products and services are increasingly bringing and becoming subject to suits alleging infringement of proprietary rights, particularly patent rights. These risks have been amplified by the increase in third parties whose sole or primary business is to assert such claims, some of whom have sent letters to and/or filed suit alleging infringement against us and some of our customers. From time to time, third parties claim that we are infringing upon their intellectual property rights. We could incur substantial costs in prosecuting or defending any intellectual property litigation.

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Additionally, the defense or prosecution of claims could be time-consuming, and could divert our management’s attention away from the execution of our business plan.

Moreover, any settlement or adverse judgment resulting from a claim could require us to pay substantial amounts or obtain a license to continue to use the technology that is the subject of the claim, or otherwise restrict or prohibit our use of the technology. There can be no assurance that we would be able to obtain a license from the third party asserting the claim on commercially reasonable terms, if at all, that we would be able to develop alternative technology on a timely basis, if at all, or that we would be able to obtain a license to use a suitable alternative technology to permit us to continue offering, and our customers to continue using, our affected product or service. In addition, we may be required to indemnify our customers for third-party intellectual property infringement claims, which would increase the cost to us. An adverse determination could also prevent us from offering our products or services to others. Infringement claims asserted against us may have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Our agreements with customers often include contractual obligations to indemnify them against claims that our products infringe the intellectual property rights of third parties. The results of any intellectual property litigation to which we might become a party, or for which we are required to provide indemnification, may force us to do one or more of the following:

cease selling or using products or services that incorporate the challenged intellectual property;
make substantial payments for costs or damages;
obtain a license, which may not be available on reasonable terms, to sell or use the relevant technology; or
redesign those products or services to avoid infringement.

If we are required to make substantial payments or undertake any of the other actions noted above as a result of any intellectual property infringement claims against us or any obligation to indemnify our customers for such claims, such payments or costs could have a material adverse effect upon our business and financial results.

Failure to adequately protect our intellectual property could substantially harm our business and operating results.

Because our business depends substantially on our intellectual property, the protection of our intellectual property rights is important to the success of our business. We rely upon a combination of trademark, patent, trade secret and copyright law and contractual restrictions to protect our intellectual property. These afford only limited protection. Despite our efforts to protect our property rights, unauthorized parties may attempt to copy aspects of our products, service, software and functionality or obtain and use information that we consider proprietary. Moreover, policing our proprietary rights is difficult and may not always be effective. In addition, we may need to enforce our rights under the laws of countries that do not protect proprietary rights to as great an extent as do the laws of the United States.

Litigation or proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office or other governmental authorities and administrative bodies in the United States and abroad may be necessary in the future to enforce our intellectual property rights, to protect our patent rights, trade secrets, trademarks and domain names, and to determine the validity and scope of the proprietary rights of others. Such litigation or proceedings may be very costly and impact our financial performance. We may also incur substantial costs defending against frivolous litigation or be asked to indemnify our customers against the same. Our efforts to enforce or protect our proprietary rights may prove to be ineffective and could result in substantial costs and diversion of resources and could substantially harm our operating results.

Our exposure to risks associated with the use of intellectual property may increase as a result of acquisitions, as we have less opportunity to have visibility into the development process with respect to acquired technology or the care taken to safeguard against infringement risks. Third parties may make infringement and similar or related claims after we have acquired technology that had not been asserted prior to our acquisition.

Confidentiality agreements with employees and others may not adequately prevent disclosure of trade secrets and other proprietary information.

We have devoted substantial resources to the development of our technology, business operations and business plans. In order to protect our trade secrets and proprietary information, we rely in significant part on confidentiality agreements with our employees, licensees, independent contractors, advisers and customers. These agreements may not be effective to prevent disclosure of confidential information, including trade secrets, and may not provide an adequate remedy in the event of unauthorized disclosure of confidential information. In addition, others may independently discover trade secrets and proprietary information, and in such cases we would not be able to assert trade secret rights against such parties. To the extent that our

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employees and others with whom we do business use intellectual property owned by others in their work for us, disputes may arise as to the rights in related or resulting know-how and inventions. Laws regarding trade secret rights in certain markets in which we operate may afford little or no protection to our trade secrets. The loss of trade secret protection could make it easier for third parties to compete with our products by copying functionality. In addition, any changes in, or unexpected interpretations of, the trade secret and other intellectual property laws in any country in which we operate may compromise our ability to enforce our trade secret and intellectual property rights. Costly and time-consuming litigation could be necessary to enforce and determine the scope of our proprietary rights, and failure to obtain or maintain trade secret protection could adversely affect our competitive business position.

Our use of “open source” software could negatively affect our ability to sell our services and subject us to possible litigation.

A portion of the technology licensed by us incorporates “open source” software, and we may incorporate or use open source software in the future. Such open source software is generally licensed by its authors or other third parties under open source licenses. If we fail to comply with these licenses, we may be subject to certain conditions, including requirements that we offer our services that incorporate the open source software for no cost, that we make available source code for modifications or derivative works we create based upon, incorporating or using the open source software and that we license such modifications or alterations under the terms of the particular open source license. If an author or other third party that distributes such open source software were to allege that we had not complied with the conditions of one or more of these licenses, we could be required to incur significant legal expenses defending against such allegations and could be subject to significant damages, enjoined from the sale of our services that contained the open source software and required to comply with the foregoing conditions, which could disrupt the distribution and sale of some of our services.

There is no assurance that the current cost of Internet connectivity and network access will not rise with the increasing popularity of online media services.

We rely on third-party service providers for our principal connections to the Internet and network access, and to deliver media to consumers. As demand for online media increases, there can be no assurance that Internet

and network service providers will continue to price their network access services on reasonable terms. The distribution of online media requires delivery of digital content files and providers of network access and distribution may change their business models and increase their prices significantly, which could slow the widespread adoption of such services. In order for our services to be successful, there must be a reasonable price model in place to allow for the continuous distribution of digital media files. We have limited or no control over the extent to which any of these circumstances may occur, and if network access or distribution prices rise, our business, financial condition and results of operations would likely be adversely affected.

Failure of our infrastructure for the distribution and delivery of online media could adversely affect our business.

Our success as a business depends, in large part, on our ability to provide a consistently high-quality digital experience to consumers via our relationships and infrastructure for the distribution and delivery of online media generally. There is no guarantee that our relationships and infrastructure will not experience problems or other performance issues, which could seriously impair the quality and reliability of our delivery of digital media to end users. For example, we primarily use three content delivery networks, or CDNs, to deliver content to end users. If one or more of these CDNs were to experience sustained technical failures or other significant disruptions, it could cause delays in our service and we could lose customers. If we do not accurately predict our infrastructure capacity requirements, our customers could experience service outages or service degradation that may subject us to financial penalties and liabilities and result in customer losses. In the past we have, on limited occasions, suffered temporary interruptions of certain aspects of our service, including our customers’ ability to upload new content into our system, our customers’ ability to access administrative control of their accounts, and our ability to deliver content to end users in certain geographic locations. These service interruptions were the results of human error, hardware and software failures or failures of third-party networks. On a limited number of occasions, these service interruptions have required us to provide service credits to customers. We cannot guarantee that service interruptions will not occur again or predict the duration of interruptions of our service or the impact of such interruptions on our customers. Failures and interruptions of our service may impact our reputation, result in our payment of compensation or service credits to our customers, result in loss of customers and adversely affect our financial results and ability to grow our business. In addition, if AWS or our hosting infrastructure capacity fails to keep pace with increased sales or if our delivery capabilities fail, customers may experience delays as we seek to obtain additional capacity or enable alternative delivery capability, which could harm our reputation and adversely affect our revenue growth.

We may have difficulty scaling and adapting our existing infrastructure to accommodate increased traffic and storage, technology advances or customer requirements.

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In the future, advances in technology, increases in traffic and storage, and new customer requirements may require us to change our infrastructure, expand our infrastructure or replace our infrastructure entirely. Scaling and adapting our infrastructure is likely to be complex and require additional technical expertise. If we are required to make any changes to our infrastructure, we may incur substantial costs and experience delays or interruptions in our service. These delays or interruptions may cause customers and partners to become dissatisfied with our service and move to competing service providers. Our failure to accommodate increased traffic and storage, increased costs, inefficiencies or failures to adapt to new technologies or customer requirements and the associated adjustments to our infrastructure could harm our business, financial condition and results of operations.

We rely on software and services licensed from other parties. The loss of software or services from third parties could increase our costs and limit the features available in our products and services.

Components of our service and product offerings include various types of software and services licensed from unaffiliated parties. If any of the software or services we license from others or functional equivalents thereof were either no longer available to us or no longer offered on commercially reasonable terms, we would be

required to either redesign our services and products to function with software or services available from other parties or develop these components ourselves. In either case, the transition to a new service provider or an internally-developed solution could result in increased costs and could result in delays in our product launches and the release of new service and product offerings. Furthermore, we might be forced to temporarily limit the features available in our current or future products and services. If we fail to maintain or renegotiate any of these software or service licenses, we could face significant delays and diversion of resources in attempting to license and integrate functional equivalents.

If our software products contain serious errors or defects, then we may lose revenue and market acceptance and may incur costs to defend or settle claims.

Complex software applications such as ours often contain errors or defects, particularly when first introduced or when new versions or enhancements are released. Despite internal testing and testing by our customers, our current and future products may contain serious defects, which could result in lost revenue, lost customers, slower growth or a delay in market acceptance.

Since our customers use our products for critical business applications, such as online video, errors, defects or other performance problems could result in damage to our customers. They could seek significant compensation from us for the losses they suffer. Although our customer agreements typically contain provisions designed to limit our exposure to claims, existing or future laws or unfavorable judicial decisions could negate these limitations. Even if not successful, a claim brought against us would likely be time-consuming and costly and could seriously damage our reputation in the marketplace, making it harder for us to sell our products.

UnauthorizedOur internal computer systems, or those of our strategic partners, vendors or other contractors or consultants, may fail or suffer from the unauthorized disclosure of data, unauthorized access to ourthe service and misuse of the service, which could result in a material disruption of our product development programs and our business.

Our internal computer systems and those of our current and any future strategic collaborators, vendors, and other contractors or consultants are vulnerable to damage from cyber-attacks, computer viruses, unauthorized access, natural disasters, cybersecurity threats, terrorism, war and telecommunication and electrical failures, and have experienced cyber-attacks in the past. Cyber incidents have been increasing in sophistication and frequency and can include third parties gaining access to employee or customer data using stolen or inferred credentials, computer malware, viruses, spamming, phishing attacks, ransomware, business email compromise, card skimming code, and other deliberate attacks and attempts to gain unauthorized access or cause disruption. Because the techniques used by attackers who may attempt to penetrate and sabotage our network security, infrastructure, or our website change frequently and may not be recognized until launched against a target, we may be unable to anticipate these techniques or implement adequate preventative or mitigating measures. If an actual or perceived security incident or breach occurs, the market perception of our security measures could be harmed and we could lose sales and customers. Any significant violations of data privacy or security obligations or unauthorized disclosure of or access to information could result in the loss of business, litigation and regulatory investigations and penalties that could damage our reputation and adversely impact our results of operations and financial condition. Moreover, if a security breach or compromise occurs with respect to another software as a service, or SaaS, provider, our customers and potential customers may lose trust in the security of the SaaS business model generally, which could adversely affectimpact our business.ability to retain existing customers or attract new ones.

It is also possible that unauthorized access to customer or employee data or our systems or infrastructure may be obtained through inadequate use of security controls by customers, suppliers or other vendors.

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If any such computer system failure, accident or security incident or breach were to occur and cause interruptions in our operations, it could result in a material disruption of our development programs and our business operations, whether due to a loss of our trade secrets or other proprietary or protected information or other disruptions. These cyber-attacks could be carried out by threat actors of all types (including but not limited to nation states, organized crime, other criminal enterprises, individual actors and/or advanced persistent threat groups). In addition, we may experience intrusions on our physical premises by any of these threat actors.

Any security breaches, unauthorized access, unauthorized usage, virus or similar security incident or disruption, or any perceived security breach or disruptionother incident could result in loss of confidential information, personal data and customer content, damage to our reputation, early termination of our contracts, litigation, regulatory investigations, increased costs or other liabilities. If our security measures, or those of our partners or service providers, are breached as a result of third-party action, employee error, malfeasance or otherwise and, as a result, someone obtains unauthorized access to confidential information, personal data or customer content, our reputation will be damaged, our business may suffer or we could incur significant liability. If the measures we have put in place to limit or restrict access to and use of functionality, usage entitlements and support for customers or prospective customers are breached, circumvented or ineffective as a result of third-party action, employee error, malfeasance or otherwise and, as a result, someone obtains unauthorized access to and use of functionality, usage entitlements and support, our business may suffer or we could incur significant liability and/or costs.

Techniques used to obtain unauthorized access or use or to sabotage systems change frequently and generally are not recognized until launched against a target. As a result, we mayThere can be unable to anticipate these techniques or to implement adequate preventative measures. If an actual or perceived security breach occurs, the market perceptionno assurance that any limitations of liability provisions in our security measures could be harmed and we could lose sales and customers. Any significant violations of data privacy or unauthorized disclosure of information could result in the loss of business, litigation and regulatory investigations and penalties that could damage our reputation and adversely impact our results of operations and financial condition. Moreover, ifcontracts for a security breach occursor incident would be enforceable or adequate or would otherwise protect us from any such liabilities or damages with respect to another softwareany particular claim. We also cannot be sure that our existing general liability insurance coverage and coverage for errors or omissions will continue to be available on acceptable terms or will be available in sufficient amounts to cover one or more large claims, or that the insurer will not deny coverage as to any future claim. The successful assertion of one or more large claims against us that exceed available insurance coverage, or the occurrence of changes in our insurance policies, including premium increases or the imposition of large deductible or co-insurance requirements, could have a service, or SaaS, provider,material adverse effect on our customersbusiness, financial condition and potential customers may lose trust in the security of the SaaS business model generally, which could adversely impact our ability to retain existing customers or attract new ones.operating results.

We use a limited number of data centers and cloud computing servicesservice facilities to deliver our services. Any disruption of service at these facilities could harm our business.

We manage our services and serve all of our customers from a limited number of third-party data center facilities and cloud computing services facilities.facilities, primarily Amazon Web Services. While we control the actual computer and storage systems upon

which our software runs, and deploy them to the data centerthese facilities, we do not control the operation or availability of these facilities.

The contracts with our cloud computing service providers and CDNs are for fixed terms expiring between May 2024 and June 2025. The owners of these facilities have no obligation to renew their agreements with us on commercially reasonable terms, or at all. Ifall, and although the contracts provide for a period of service continuation after termination, transition to new providers, if we could find suitable replacements, would require significant time and expense and could disrupt or degrade delivery of our offerings. Further, if we are unable to renew these agreements on commercially reasonable terms, or if a provider increases pricing terms, terminates or seeks to terminate our contractual relationship, establishes more favorable relationships with our competitors, or changes or interprets its terms of service in a manner that is unfavorable with respect to us, we may be required to transfer to new facilities, if we are able to find suitable replacements, and we may incur significant costs and possible service interruption in connection with doing so.

Any changes in third-party service levels at these facilities or any errors, defects, disruptions or other performance problems at or related to these facilities that affect our services could harm our reputation and may damage our customers’ businesses. Interruptions in our services might reduce our revenue, cause us to issue credits to customers, subject us to potential liability, and cause customers to terminate their subscriptions or harm our renewal rates.

These facilities are vulnerable to damage or service interruption resulting from human error, intentional bad acts, security breaches, earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, fires, war, terrorist attacks, power losses, hardware failures, systems failures, telecommunications failures, global health emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic, and similar events. For example, on September 18, 2014, we suffered a service disruption resulting from a distributeddenial-of-service attack at third-party data center facilities used by us. By September 20, 2014, we had restored the services impacted by the attack. We contacted federal law enforcement authorities regarding thedenial-of-service attack and cooperated with them. We also conducted an assessment of our internet service providers and data center providers, potential future vulnerability to malicious activity, and the sufficiency of our infrastructure to withstand and recover rapidly from such attacks. While this matter did not have a material adverse effect on our operating results, there can be no assurance that such incidents will not occur again, and they could occur more frequently and on a more significant scale. The occurrence of a natural disaster or an act of terrorism, or vandalism or other misconduct, or a decision to close the facilities without adequate notice or other unanticipated problems could result in lengthy interruptions in our services.

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Artificial intelligence presents risks and challenges that can impact our business may be adversely affected by third-party claims, including by governmental bodies, regarding the contentposing security risks to our confidential information, proprietary information, and advertising distributed through our service.personal data.

We rely on our customers to secure the rights to redistribute content over the Internet, and we do not screen the content that is distributed through our service. There is no assurance that our customers have licensed all rights necessary for distribution, including Internet distribution. Other parties may claim certain rightsIssues in the contentdevelopment and use of our customers.

In the event that our customers do not have the necessary distribution rights relatedartificial intelligence, combined with an uncertain regulatory environment, may result in reputational harm, liability, or other adverse consequences to content, we may be required to cease distributing such content, or we may be subject to lawsuits and claims of damages for infringement of such rights. If these claims arise with frequency, the likelihood of our business being adversely affected would rise significantly. In some cases, we mayoperations. As with many technological innovations, artificial intelligence presents risks and challenges that could impact our business. We have rights to indemnification or claims againstincorporated artificial intelligence into our customers if they do not have appropriate distribution rights related to specific content items, however there is no assurance that we would be successful in any such claim.

We operate an “open” publishing platform and do not screen the content that is distributed through our service. Content may be distributed through our platform that is illegal or unlawful under international, federal, state or local laws or the laws of other countries. We may face lawsuits, claims or even criminal charges for such distribution,products, and we may be subjectin the future adopt and integrate generative artificial intelligence tools into our systems for specific use cases reviewed formally on a per use case basis by legal and information security. Despite contractually requiring them to civil,do so, our vendors may incorporate generative artificial intelligence tools into their offerings without disclosing this use to us, and the providers of these generative artificial intelligence tools may not meet existing or rapidly evolving regulatory or criminal sanctionsindustry standards with respect to privacy and damagesdata protection and may inhibit our or our vendors’ ability to maintain an adequate level of service and experience. If we, our vendors, or our third-party partners experience an actual or perceived breach or privacy or security incident because of the use of generative artificial intelligence, we may lose valuable intellectual property and confidential information and our reputation and the public perception of the effectiveness of our security measures could be harmed. Further, bad actors around the world use increasingly sophisticated methods, including the use of artificial intelligence, to engage in illegal activities involving the theft and misuse of personal information, confidential information, and intellectual property. Any of these outcomes could damage our reputation, result in the loss of valuable property and information, and adversely impact our business. In addition, as the regulatory framework for such distribution. Any such claimsmachine learning technology and artificial intelligence evolves, it is possible that new laws and regulations will be adopted, or investigations could adverselythat existing laws and regulations may be interpreted in ways that would affect our business and the ways in which we use artificial intelligence and machine learning technology, our financial condition and our results of operations.

We could incur substantial costsoperations, including as a result of any claim of infringement of another party’s intellectual property rights.

In recent years, there has been significant litigation in the United States involving patents and other intellectual property rights. Companies providing Internet-related products and services are increasingly bringing and becoming subject to suits alleging infringement of proprietary rights, particularly patent rights. These risks have been amplified by the increase in third parties whose sole or primary business is to assert such claims, some of whom have sent letters to and/or filed suit alleging infringement against some of our customers. From time to time, third parties claim that we are infringing upon their intellectual property rights. For information regarding these claims, see Part I, Item 3, “Legal Proceedings.” We could incur substantial costs in prosecuting or defending any intellectual property litigation. Additionally, the defense or prosecution of claims could be time-consuming, and could divert our management’s attention away from the execution of our business plan.

Moreover, any settlement or adverse judgment resulting from a claim could require us to pay substantial amounts or obtain a license to continue to use the technology that is the subject of the claim, or otherwise restrict or prohibit our use of the technology. There can be no assurance that we would be able to obtain a license from the third party asserting the claim on commercially reasonable terms, if at all, that we would be able to develop alternative technology on a timely basis, if at all, or that we would be able to obtain a license to use a suitable alternative technology to permit us to continue offering, and our customers to continue using, our affected product or service. In addition, we may be required to indemnify our customers for third-party intellectual property infringement claims, which would increase the cost to us. An adverse determination could also prevent us from offering our productscomply with such laws or services to others. Infringement claims asserted against us may have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.regulations.

Our agreements with customers often include contractual obligations to indemnify them against claims that our products infringe the intellectual property rights of third parties. The results of any intellectual property litigation to which we might become a party, or for which we are required to provide indemnification, may force us to do one or more of the following:

cease selling or using products or services that incorporate the challenged intellectual property;

make substantial payments for costs or damages;

obtain a license, which may not be available on reasonable terms, to sell or use the relevant technology; or

redesign those products or services to avoid infringement.

If we are required to make substantial payments or undertake any of the other actions noted above as a result of any intellectual property infringement claims against us or any obligation to indemnify our customers for such claims, such payments or costs could have a material adverse effect upon our business and financial results.

Failure to adequately protect our intellectual property could substantially harm our business and operating results.

Because our business depends substantially on our intellectual property, the protection of our intellectual property rights is important to the success of our business. We rely upon a combination of trademark, patent, trade secret and copyright law and contractual restrictions to protect our intellectual property. These afford only limited protection. Despite our efforts to protect our property rights, unauthorized parties may attempt to copy aspects of our products, service, software and functionality or obtain and use information that we consider proprietary. Moreover, policing our proprietary rights is difficult and may not always be effective. In addition, we may need to enforce our rights under the laws of countries that do not protect proprietary rights to as great an extent as do the laws of the United States.

Litigation or proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office or other governmental authorities and administrative bodies in the United States and abroad may be necessary in the future to enforce our

intellectual property rights, to protect our patent rights, trade secrets, trademarks and domain names, and to determine the validity and scope of the proprietary rights of others. Such litigation or proceedings may be very costly and impact our financial performance. We may also incur substantial costs defending against frivolous litigation or be asked to indemnify our customers against the same. Our efforts to enforce or protect our proprietary rights may prove to be ineffective and could result in substantial costs and diversion of resources and could substantially harm our operating results.

Our exposure to risks associated with the use of intellectual property may increase as a result of acquisitions, as we have less opportunity to have visibility into the development process with respect to acquired technology or the care taken to safeguard against infringement risks. Third parties may make infringement and similar orRisks related claims after we have acquired technology that had not been asserted prior to our acquisition.finances

Confidentiality agreements with employees and others may not adequately prevent disclosure of trade secrets and other proprietary information.

We have devoted substantial resources to the development of our technology, business operations and business plans. In order to protect our trade secrets and proprietary information, we rely in significant part on confidentiality agreements with our employees, licensees, independent contractors, advisers and customers. These agreements may not be effective to prevent disclosure of confidential information, including trade secrets, and may not provide an adequate remedy in the event of unauthorized disclosure of confidential information. In addition, others may independently discover trade secrets and proprietary information, and in such cases we would not be able to assert trade secret rights against such parties. To the extent that our employees and others with whom we do business use intellectual property owned by others in their work for us, disputes may arise as to the rights in related or resultingknow-how and inventions. Laws regarding trade secret rights in certain markets in which we operate may afford little or no protection to our trade secrets. The loss of trade secret protection could make it easier for third parties to compete with our products by copying functionality. In addition, any changes in, or unexpected interpretations of, the trade secret and other intellectual property laws in any country in which we operate may compromise our ability to enforce our trade secret and intellectual property rights. Costly and time-consuming litigation could be necessary to enforce and determine the scope of our proprietary rights, and failure to obtain or maintain trade secret protection could adversely affect our competitive business position.

Our use of “open source” software could negatively affect our ability to sell our services and subject us to possible litigation.

A portion of the technology licensed by us incorporates “open source” software, and we may incorporate open source software in the future. Such open source software is generally licensed by its authors or other third parties under open source licenses. If we fail to comply with these licenses, we may be subject to certain conditions, including requirements that we offer our services that incorporate the open source software for no cost, that we make available source code for modifications or derivative works we create based upon, incorporating or using the open source software and that we license such modifications or alterations under the terms of the particular open source license. If an author or other third party that distributes such open source software were to allege that we had not complied with the conditions of one or more of these licenses, we could be required to incur significant legal expenses defending against such allegations and could be subject to significant damages, enjoined from the sale of our services that contained the open source software and required to comply with the foregoing conditions, which could disrupt the distribution and sale of some of our services.

Fluctuations in the exchange rate of foreign currencies could result in currency translation losses.

We currently have foreign sales denominated in Australian dollars, British poundpounds sterling, Euros, Japanese yen and New Zealand dollars and may, in the future, have sales denominated in the currencies of additional countries in which we establish or have established sales offices. In addition, we incur a portion of our operating

expenses in British poundpounds sterling, Mexican Pesos, Euros, Japanese yen and, to a lesser extent, other foreign currencies. Any fluctuation in the exchange rate of these foreign currencies may negatively impact our business, financial condition and operating results. Global economic events have and may continue to significantly impact local economies and the foreign exchange markets, which may increase the risks associated with sales denominated in foreign currencies. We have not previously engaged in foreign currency hedging. If we decide to hedge our foreign currency exposure, we may not be able to hedge effectively due to lack of experience, unreasonable costs or illiquid markets.

Failure of our customers to pay the amounts owed to us, or to pay such amounts in a timely manner, may adversely affect our financial condition and operating results.

If any of our significant customers have insufficient liquidity, we could encounter significant delays or defaults in payments owed to us by such customers, and we may need to extend our payment terms or restructure the receivables owed to us, which could have a significant adverse effect on our financial condition, including impacting the timing of revenue recognition. Any deterioration in the financial condition of our customers will increase the risk of uncollectible receivables. Global economic uncertainty could also affect our customers’ ability to pay our receivables in a timely manner or at all or result in customers going into bankruptcy or reorganization proceedings, which could also affect our ability to collect our receivables.

We may be required to collect sales and use taxes on the services we sell in additional jurisdictions in the future, which may decrease sales, and we may be subject to liability for sales and use taxes and related interest and penalties on prior sales.

State and local taxing jurisdictions have differing rules and regulations governing sales and use taxes and these rules and regulations are subject to varying interpretations that may change over time. In particular,On June 21, 2018, the applicability ofUnited States Supreme Court ruled in South Dakota v. Wayfair that states can impose sales and use taxes on transactions made with out-of-state sellers. Following this ruling, certain states have enforced tax laws requiring taxation of out-of-state purchases. We have performed an assessment of sales taxes owed under the new court ruling, determined that we need to our subscription servicesremit sales taxes to certain states, and we have remitted such taxes. There is a risk that states which do not currently impose taxes on out-of-state purchases will do so in various jurisdictions is unclear.the future. We cannot assure you that we will not be subject to sales and use taxes or related penalties for past sales in states where we presently believe sales and use taxes are not due. We reserve estimated sales and use taxes in our financial statements but we cannot be certain that we have made sufficient reserves to cover all taxes that might be assessed.

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If one or more taxing authorities determinesdetermine that taxes should have, but have not, been paid with respect to our services, we may be liable for past taxes in addition to being required to collect sales or similar taxes in respect of our services going forward. Liability for past taxes may also include substantial interest and penalty charges. Our client contracts typically provide that our clients must pay all applicable sales and similar taxes. Nevertheless, clients may be reluctant to pay back taxes and may refuse responsibility for interest or penalties associated with those taxes or we may determine that it would not be feasible to seek reimbursement. If we are required to collect and pay back taxes and the associated interest and penalties and if our clients do not reimburse us for all or a portion of these amounts, we will incur unplanned expenses that may be substantial. Moreover, imposition of such taxes on our services going forward will effectively increase the cost of such services to our clients and may adversely affect our ability to retain existing clients or to gain new clients in the areas in which such taxes are imposed.

If our goodwill or intangible assets become impaired, we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings.

We review our intangible assets for impairment when events or changes in circumstances indicate the carrying value may not be recoverable. Goodwill is required to be tested for impairment at least annually. As of December 31, 2023, we carried a net $81.2 million of goodwill and intangible assets. An adverse change in market conditions or significant changes in accounting conclusions, particularly if such changes have the effect of changing one of our critical assumptions or estimates, could result in a change to the estimation of fair value that could result in an impairment charge to our goodwill or intangible assets. Any such charges may adversely affect our results of operations.

Risks related to governmental regulation

Government and industry regulation of the Internet is evolving and could directly restrict our business or indirectly affect our business by limiting the growth of our markets. Unfavorable changes in government regulation or our failure to comply with regulations could harm our business and operating results.

Federal, state and foreign governments and agencies have adopted and could in the future adopt regulations covering issues such as user privacy, content, and taxation of products and services. Government regulations could limit the market for our products and services or impose burdensome requirements that render our business unprofitable. Our products enable our customers to collect, manage and store a wide range of data. The United States and various state governments have adopted or proposed limitations on the collection, distribution and use of personal information. Several foreign jurisdictions, including the European Union and the United Kingdom, have adopted legislation (including directives or regulations) that increase or change the requirements governing data collection and storage in these jurisdictions. If our privacy or data security measures fail to comply with current or future laws and regulations, we may be subject to litigation, regulatory investigations or other liabilities, or our customers may terminate their relationships with us.

In addition, although many regulations might not apply to our business directly, we expect that laws regulating the solicitation, collection or processing of personal and consumer information could affect our customers’ ability to use and share data, potentially reducing demand for our services. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 and the European UnionEU General Data Protection DirectiveRegulation 2016/679, the California Consumer Privacy Act, along with other similar laws and regulations prohibit certain types of information and content from being transmitted over the Internet. The scope of this prohibitionthese types of prohibitions in jurisdictions around the world and the liability associated with a violation are currently unsettled.evolving. In addition, although substantial portions of the Communications Decency Act were held to be unconstitutional, we cannot be certain that similar

legislation will not be enacted and upheld in the future. Legislation like the Telecommunications Act and the Communications Decency Act could dampen the growth in web usage and decrease its acceptance as a medium of communications and commerce. Moreover, if future laws and regulations limit our customers’ ability to use and share consumer data or our ability to store, process and share data with our customers over the Internet, demand for our products could decrease, our costs could increase, and our results of operations and financial condition could be harmed.

In addition, taxation of services provided over the Internet or other charges imposed by government agencies or by private organizations for accessing the Internet may be imposed. Any regulation imposing greater fees for Internet use or restricting information exchange over the Internet could result in a decline in the use of the Internet and the viability of Internet-based services, which could harm our business and operating results.

Ourbusinessissubjecttoavarietyof U.S. federal and state, as well as internationallawsandregulations, includingthoseregardingprivacy, dataprotectionandinformationsecurity, andourcustomersmaybesubjecttoregulationsrelatedtothehandlingandtransferofcertaintypesofpersonal,sensitive, orconfidentialinformation. Anyfailuretocomplywithapplicablelawsandregulationswouldharmourbusiness, resultsofoperationsandfinancialcondition.

We and our customers may be subject to privacy and data protection-related laws and regulations that impose obligations in connection with the collection, use, storage, transfer, dissemination, security, and/or other processing (“Processing”) of

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personally identifiable information (such personally identifiable information collectively with all information defined or described by applicable law as “personal data,” “personal information,” “PII” or any similar term, “Personally Identifiable Information”) or other sensitive data. Existing U.S. federal and various state and foreign privacy and data protection-related laws and regulations are evolving and subject to potentially differing interpretations, and various legislative and regulatory bodies may expand current or enact new laws and regulations regarding privacy and data protection-related matters. International jurisdictions in which we have customers or employees have established data security and privacy frameworks with which we or our customers must comply. In addition, our business may be impacted by new regulations and guidance over machine learning and automated processing. In the United States, certain state laws may be more stringent or broader in scope, or offer greater individual rights, with respect to sensitive and personal information than federal or other state laws, and such laws may differ from each other, which may complicate compliance efforts. New laws, amendments to or re-interpretations of existing laws and regulations, rules of self-regulatory bodies, industry standards and contractual obligations may impact our business and practices, and we may be required to expend significant resources to adapt to these changes, or stop offering our products in certain countries. These developments could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.

We may be subject to additional, more stringent privacy laws in other jurisdiction, such as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (“EU GDPR”). The EU GDPR, effective since May 25, 2018, imposes strict regulations and establishes a series of requirements regarding the collection, transfer, storage and processing of personal data. The EU GDPR has extra-territorial application and applies where a company, based outside the European Union, processes personal data of individuals based in the European Union as a result of offering goods or services to individuals based in the EU and/or monitoring their behavior. The EU GDPR governs the collection, use, disclosure, transfer or other processing of personal data of individuals in the EEA. Among other things, the EU GDPR imposes strict requirements regarding the security of personal data and notification of data breaches to the competent national data protection authorities, imposes limitations on retention of personal data, imposes stringent requirements relating to the consent of data subjects or ensuring another appropriate legal basis applies to the processing of personal data, requires us to maintain records of our processing activities and to document data protection impact assessments where there is high risk processing, ensuring certain measures are in place with third-party processors. The EU GDPR also confers a private right of action on data subjects and consumer associations to lodge complaints with competent national data protection authorities, seek judicial remedies, and obtain compensation for damages resulting from violations of the EU GDPR. Non-compliance could also result in the imposition of orders to stop data processing activities.

The EU GDPR enhances data protection obligations for businesses and provides direct legal obligations for service providers processing personal data on behalf of customers, including with respect to cooperation with European data protection authorities, implementation of security measures and keeping records of personal data processing activities. Moreover, the EU GDPR requirements apply not only to third-party transactions, but also to transfers of information between us and our subsidiaries, including employee information. Noncompliance with the EU GDPR can trigger steep fines of up to €20 million or 4% of global annual revenues, whichever is higher. In addition, further to the UK’s exit from the EU on January 31, 2020, the GDPR ceased to apply in the UK at the end of the transition period on December 31, 2020; however, the UK’s European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 incorporated the EU GDPR (as it existed on December 31, 2020 but subject to certain UK specific amendments) into UK law, referred to as the UK GDPR. The UK GDPR and the UK Data Protection Act 2018 set out the UK’s data protection regime, which is independent from but aligned to the EU’s data protection regime. The UK has announced plans to reform the country’s data protection legal framework in its Data Reform Bill, which will introduce significant changes from the EU GDPR. This may lead to additional compliance costs and could increase our overall risk exposure as we may no longer be able to take a unified approach across the EU and the UK. Non-compliance with the UK GDPR may result in monetary penalties of up to £17.5 million or 4% of worldwide revenue, whichever is higher. Although the UK is regarded as a third country under the EU’s GDPR, the European Commission (“EC”) has issued a decision recognizing the UK as providing adequate protection under the EU GDPR and, therefore, transfers of personal data originating in the EU to the UK remain unrestricted. Like the EU GDPR, the UK GDPR restricts personal data transfers outside the UK to countries not regarded by the UK as providing adequate protection. The UK government has confirmed that personal data transfers from the UK to the EEA remain free flowing.

In addition to the EU GDPR, the European Union is also in the process of replacing the e-Privacy Directive (2002/58/EC) with a new set of rules taking the form of the ePrivacy Regulation, which will be directly implemented in the laws of each European member state, without the need for further enactment. Certain jurisdictions are actively applying the ePrivacy Directive to enforce cookie consent and consent requirements generally under the EU GDPR. Originally planned to be adopted and implemented at the same time as the EU GDPR, the ePrivacy Regulation is still going through the European legislative process. Any passed Regulation would go into effect two years from the twentieth day after its publication. In the meantime, the Directive is still in effect, and will continue to be in effect for the UK even after the Regulation has passed. Preparing for and complying with the EU GDPR, UK GDPR and the ePrivacy Regulation (if and when it becomes effective) has required and will continue to require us to incur substantial operational costs and may require us to change our business practices. Despite our efforts to bring practices into compliance with the EU GDPR and before the effective date of the ePrivacy Regulation, we may not be successful either due to internal or external factors such as resource allocation limitations and in inconsistency in interpretation of the law

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across EU regulatory bodies. Non-compliance could result in proceedings against us by governmental entities, customers, data subjects, consumer associations or others.

The European Union has also passed regulations, such as the Digital Services Act (DSA), specific to intermediaries, cloud service providers and hosting services, including those that permit for user-generated content. These laws provide for specific requirements for removal of content, disclosures about the means used to generate targeted advertising and decisions made via automated decision making, and timelines for reporting compliance metrics. Given the scope of the responsibilities and specificity of the steps that apply respectively in different ways to portions of our business, compliance will require development and monitoring of processes, which increases costs beyond potential fines, such as human resources, investment in technology and potential losses from lost revenue from advertising.

To enable the transfer of personal data outside of the EEA or the UK, adequate safeguards must be implemented in compliance with European and UK data protection laws, such as the Standard Contractual Clauses (“SCCs”) published by the European Commission, binding corporate rules or certification to the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework that the European Commission adopted on July 10, 2023. The UK is not subject to the EC’s new standard contractual clauses. The UK Information Commissioner's Office has published a version of a UK-specific transfer mechanism (the International Data Transfer Agreement), which came into effect on March 21, 2022, that enables transfers from the UK. The ICO has also permitted exporters to rely on the current version of the EU SCC's by implementing a UK Addendum stating as such. Moreover, on September 21, 2023, the UK Government adopted the Data Protection (Adequacy) Regulations 2023, also referred to as the “UK-U.S. Data Bridge”, which will allow companies to transfer personal data from the UK to the US on the basis of the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. We have implemented safeguards when conducting restricted data transfers under the EU and UK GDPR, and establishing and maintaining compliance will require significant effort and cost.

While we have taken steps to mitigate the impact, such as implementing the new standard contractual clauses, certifying under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and UK Extension and creating a risk assessment for transfers of personal information from our customers to the US, recent decisions indicate that the longevity of these mechanisms remains uncertain and may continue to evolve. Further action in this area could increase the risk of continued transfers or create costs for engaging a EU-based processor or cloud-service provider. Compliance obligations could cause us to incur costs or negatively affect the operations of our products and services in ways that harm our business.

In the United States, many state legislatures have adopted or are considering legislation that regulates how businesses operate online, including measures relating to privacy. California enacted the California Consumer Privacy Act, or “CCPA,” which creates new individual privacy rights for California consumers (as defined in the law) and places increased privacy and security obligations on entities handling personal data of consumers or households. The CCPA, effective since January 1, 2020, requires covered businesses, such as our company, to provide certain disclosures to consumers about its data collection, use and sharing practices, and to provide affected California residents with ways to opt-out of certain sales or transfers of personal information, in particular sharing for the purposes of targeted advertising. The California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”), an amendment expanding the rights of the CCPA to other types of California residents went into effect on January 1, 2023, creating a separate agency charged with enforcement and promulgating compliance guidelines and removing the 30-day cure period for alleged violations available under the CCPA. The CCPA provides for civil penalties for violations, as well as a private right of action for certain data breaches that result in the loss of personal information. This private right of action may increase the likelihood of, and risks associated with, data breach litigation. There continues to be uncertainty surrounding the enforcement and implementation of the CCPA exemplifying the vulnerability of our business to the evolving regulatory environment related to personal data and protected information. These penalties have been unchanged by the CPRA, but businesses no longer have a guaranteed 30-day cure period.

Similar laws have been passed in numerous other states and other states have proposed similar new privacy laws. Such proposed legislation, if enacted, may add additional complexity, variation in requirements, restrictions and potential legal risk, require additional investment of resources in compliance programs, impact strategies and the availability of previously useful data and could result in increased compliance costs and/or changes in business practices and policies. The existence of comprehensive privacy laws in different states in the country would make our compliance obligations more complex and costly and may increase the likelihood that we may be subject to enforcement actions, rely on vendors for portions of our compliance obligations or otherwise incur liability for noncompliance. In addition, other states have proposed and/or passed legislation that regulates the privacy and/or security of certain specific types of information like controllers of health-related information. These various privacy and security laws may impact our business activities, including our identification of research subjects, relationships with business partners and ultimately the marketing and distribution of our products. State laws are changing rapidly and there is discussion in the U.S. Congress of a new comprehensive federal data privacy law to which we may likely become subject, if enacted.

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With respect to all of the foregoing, any failure or perceived failure by us to comply with U.S. federal or state, EU or other foreign privacy or data security laws, policies, industry standards or legal obligations, or any security incident that results in the unauthorized Processing of Personally Identifiable Information or other customer data may result in governmental investigations, inquiries, enforcement actions and prosecutions, private litigation, fines and penalties or adverse publicity. Efforts to ensure that our business arrangements will comply with applicable information privacy laws may involve substantial costs. Various jurisdictions around the world continue to propose new laws that regulate the privacy and/or security of certain types of personal data. Complying with these laws, if enacted, would require significant resources and leave us vulnerable to possible fines and penalties if we are unable to comply. It is possible that governmental and enforcement authorities will conclude that our business practices may not comply with current or future statutes, regulations or case law. If we are unable to comply, or have not fully complied, with such laws, we could face penalties, including, without limitation, civil, criminal, and administrative penalties, damages, fines, individual imprisonment, or restructuring of our operations.

Our business and operations may be adversely affected by variety of U.S. federal and state, as well as international laws and regulations regarding climate change.

In addition, changes in federal and state legislation and regulation on climate change could result in increased capital expenditures to improve the energy efficiency of our existing office leases in order to comply with such regulations. Numerous treaties, laws and regulations have been enacted or proposed in an effort to regulate climate change, including regulations aimed at limiting greenhouse gas emissions and the implementation of “green” building codes. These laws and regulations may require us or our landlords to make improvements to our existing office spaces that result in increased operating costs that we may not be able to effectively pass on to our landlords under the terms of our leases. We may also incur costs associated with increased regulations or investor requirements for increased environmental and social disclosures and reporting. The cost of compliance with, or failure to comply with, such laws and regulations could impact our financial condition, and our ability to meet our lease obligations.

Risk related to owning our common stock

Our stock price has been volatile and is likely to be volatile in the future.

The market price of our common stock has been and is likely to be highly volatile and could be subject to significant fluctuations in response to, among other things, the risk factors described in this report and other factors beyond our control. Market prices for securities of early stage companies have historically been particularly volatile. Some, but not all, of the factors that may cause the market price of our common stock to fluctuate include:

fluctuations in our quarterly or annual financial results or the quarterly or annual financial results of companies perceived to be similar to us or relevant for our business;

changes in estimates of our financial results or recommendations by securities analysts;

failure of our products to achieve or maintain market acceptance;

changes in market valuations of similar or relevant companies;

success of competitive service offerings or technologies;

changes in our capital structure, such as the issuance of securities or the incurrence of debt;

announcements by us or by our competitors of significant services, contracts, acquisitions or strategic alliances;

regulatory developments in the United States, foreign countries, or both;

market volatility resulting from a public health emergency, such as the COVID-19 pandemic;
litigation;

additions or departures of key personnel;

investors’ general perceptions; and

changes in general economic, industry or market conditions.

In addition, if the market for technology stocks, or the stock market in general, experiences a loss of investor confidence, the trading price of our common stock could decline for reasons unrelated to our business, financial condition, or results of operations. If any of the foregoing occurs, it could cause our stock price to fall and may expose us to lawsuits that, even if unsuccessful, could be costly to defend and a distraction to management.

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Our business and operations could be adversely affected if we are subject to stockholder activism, which could cause us to incur significant expense and impact the market price of our common stock.

In recent years, proxy contests and other forms of stockholder activism have been directed against numerous public companies. Stockholder activism, including potential proxy contests, could result in substantial costs and divert the attention of our management and our board of directors and resources from our business. Activist

campaigns can create perceived uncertainties as to our future direction, strategy or leadership and may result in the loss of potential business opportunities and harm our ability to attract new customers, employees and investors. In addition, we may be required to incur significant legal fees and other expenses related to any activist stockholder matters. Further, the market price of our common stock could be subject to significant fluctuation or otherwise be adversely affected by the events, risks, and uncertainties of any stockholder activism.

If securities or industry analysts do not publish, or cease publishing, research or reports about us, our business or our market, or if they adversely change their recommendations regarding our stock, our stock price and trading volume could decline.

The trading market for our common stock willcould be influenced by research and reports that industry or security analysts may publish about us, our business, our market or our competitors. If any of the analysts who may cover us adversely change their recommendations regarding our stock, or provide more favorable relative recommendations about our competitors, our stock price would likely decline. If any analyst who may cover us were to cease coverage of our company or fail to regularly publish reports on us, we could lose visibility in the financial markets, which in turn could cause our stock price or trading volume to decline.

We are an “emerging growth company” and we cannot be certain if the reduced disclosure requirements applicable to emerging growth companies will make our common stock less attractive to investors.

We are an “emerging growth company,” as defined in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012, or the JOBS Act, and we may take advantage of certain exemptions from various reporting requirements that are applicable to other public companies that are not “emerging growth companies” including, but not limited to, reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in our periodic reports and proxy statements and exemptions from the requirements of holding a nonbinding advisory vote on executive compensation and shareholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved. We cannot predict if investors will find our common stock less attractive because we may rely on these exemptions. If some investors find our common stock less attractive as a result, there may be a less active trading market for our common stock and our stock price may be more volatile. We may take advantage of these reporting exemptions until we are no longer an “emerging growth company.”

In addition, Section 107 of the JOBS Act also provides that an “emerging growth company” can take advantage of the extended transition period provided in Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act for complying with new or revised accounting standards. In other words, an “emerging growth company” can delay the adoption of certain accounting standards until those standards would otherwise apply to private companies. However, we chose to “opt out” of such extended transition period, and as a result, we will comply with new or revised accounting standards on the relevant dates on which adoption of such standards is required fornon-emerging growth companies. Section 107 of the JOBS Act provides that our decision to opt out of the extended transition period for complying with new or revised accounting standards is irrevocable.

We do not expect to declare any dividends in the foreseeable future.

We do not anticipate declaring any dividends to holders of our common stock in the foreseeable future. Consequently, investors may need to rely on sales of their common stock after price appreciation, which may never occur, as the only way to realize any future gains on their investment. Investors seeking dividends should not purchase our common stock.

We may be unable to meet our future capital requirements, which could limit our ability to grow.

We believe our existing cash and cash equivalents will be sufficient to meet our anticipated working capital and capital expenditure needs over at least the next 12 months. We may, however, need, or could elect to seek, additional funding at any time. To the extent that existing resources are insufficient to fund our business

operations, our future activities for the expansion of our service and our product offerings, developing and sustaining our relationships and infrastructure for the distribution and delivery of digital media online, marketing, and supporting our office facilities, we may need to raise additional funds through equity or debt financing. Additional funds may not be available on terms favorable to us or our stockholders. Furthermore, if we issue equity securities, our stockholders may experience additional dilution or the new equity securities may have rights, preferences and privileges senior to those of our existing classes of stock. If we cannot raise funds on acceptable terms, we may not be able to develop or enhance our products, take advantage of future opportunities or respond to competitive pressures or unanticipated requirements.

Failure to maintain effective internal control over financial reporting could result in our failure to accurately report our financial results. Any inability to report and file our financial results accurately and timely could harm our business and adversely impact investor confidence in our company and, as a result, the value of our common stock.

We are required to evaluate our internal control over financial reporting in connection with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and our independent registered public accounting firm is required to attest to the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting. This assessment includes the disclosure of any material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting identified by our management, as well as our independent registered public accounting firm’s attestation report on our internal control over financial reporting. During the evaluation and testing process, if we identify one or more material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting, we will be unable to assert that our internal control over financial reporting is effective. If we are unable to assert that our internal control over financial reporting is effective, or if our independent registered public accounting firm is unable to express an opinion on the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting, we could lose investor confidence in the accuracy and completeness of our financial reports, which could have a material adverse effect on the price of our common stock.

Anti-takeover provisions contained in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws, as well as provisions of Delaware law, could impair a takeover attempt.

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Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and bylaws, and Delaware law, contain provisions that could have the effect of rendering more difficult or discouraging an acquisition deemed undesirable by our board of directors. Our corporate governance documents include provisions:

authorizing blank check preferred stock, which could be issued with voting, liquidation, dividend, and other rights superior to our common stock;

limiting the liability of, and providing indemnification to, our directors and officers;

limiting the ability of our stockholders to call and bring business before special meetings and to take action by written consent in lieu of a meeting;

requiring advance notice of stockholder proposals for business to be conducted at meetings of our stockholders and for nominations of candidates for election to our board of directors;

controlling the procedures for the conduct and scheduling of board of directors and stockholder meetings;

providing our board of directors with the express power to postpone previously scheduled annual meetings and to cancel previously scheduled special meetings;

establishing a classified board of directors so that not all members of our board are selected at one time;

limiting the determination of the number of directors on our board of directors and the filling of vacancies or newly created seats on the board to our board of directors then in office; and

providing that directors may be removed by stockholders only for cause.

These provisions, alone or together, could delay hostile takeovers and changes in control of our company or changes in our management.

As a Delaware corporation, we are also subject to provisions of Delaware law, including Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, which prevents some stockholders holding more than 15% of our outstanding common stock from engaging in certain business combinations without approval of the holders of substantially all of our outstanding common stock. Any provision of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation or bylaws or Delaware law that has the effect of delaying or deterring a change in control could limit the opportunity for our stockholders to receive a premium for their shares of our common stock, and could also affect the price that some investors are willing to pay for our common stock.

We record substantial expenses related to our issuance of equity awards that may have a material adverse impact on our operating results for the foreseeable future.

We expect our stock-based compensation expenses will continue to be significant in future periods, which will have an adverse impact on our operating results. The model used by us to value stock options requires the input of highly subjective assumptions, including the price volatility of the option’s underlying stock.stock, the expected life of the options and the risk-free interest rate. This model does not include RSUs. If facts and circumstances change and we employ different assumptions for estimating stock-based compensation expense in future periods, or if we decide to use a different valuation model, the future period expenses may differ significantly from what we have recorded in the current period and could materially affect the fair value estimate of stock-based payments, our operating income, net income and net income per share.

Failure of our customers to pay the amounts owed to us, or to pay such amounts in a timely manner, may adversely affect our financial condition and operating results.

If any of our significant customers have insufficient liquidity, we could encounter significant delays or defaults in payments owed to us by such customers, and we may need to extend our payment terms or restructure the receivables owed to us, which could have a significant adverse effect on our financial condition, including impacting the timing of revenue recognition. Any deterioration in the financial condition of our customers will increase the risk of uncollectible receivables. Global economic uncertainty could also affect our customers’ ability to pay our receivables in a timely manner or at all or result in customers going into bankruptcy or reorganization proceedings, which could also affect our ability to collect our receivables.

If we do not successfully manage the transition associated with the resignation of our former Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) and the appointment of a new CEO, it could be viewed negatively by our customers and shareholders and could have an adverse impact on our business.

David Mendels resigned from his position as the Company’s CEO and resigned from the Board effective July 24, 2017. Andrew Feinberg, formerly the Company’s President and Chief Operations Officer, is serving as the Company’s acting CEO. The Board has an active search process underway to select the next CEO from internal and external candidates. Such leadership transitions can be inherently difficult to manage, and an inadequate transition of our CEO may cause disruption to our business, including to our relationships with customers, vendors and employees. In addition, if we are unable to attract and retain a qualified candidate to become our permanent CEO in a timely manner, our ability to meet our financial and operational goals and strategic plans may be adversely impacted, as well as our financial performance. It may also make it more difficult to retain and hire key employees.

Changes in interpretations of financial accounting standards may cause an adverse impact to our reported results of operations.

In May 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued new revenue recognition rules under Accounting Standards Codification 606,Revenue from Contracts with Customers, or ASC 606, which is effective

for interim and annual periods beginning after December 31, 2017. We have elected to adopt the new standard effective January 1, 2018 using the modified retrospective method.

In order to comply with the requirements of ASC 606 on January 1, 2018, we are continuing to update and enhance our internal accounting systems and our internal controls over financial reporting. If we are not successful in updating our policies, procedures, information systems and internal controls over financial reporting, the revenue that we recognize and the related disclosures that we provide under ASC 606 may not be complete or accurate, which could harm our operating results or cause us to fail to meet our reporting obligations.

The effect of comprehensive U.S. tax reform legislation on the Company and its affiliates, whether adverse or favorable, is uncertain.

On December 22, 2017, President Trump signed into law H.R. 1, “An Act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018” (informally titled the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act”). Among a number of significant changes to the U.S. federal income tax rules, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act reduces the marginal U.S. corporate income tax rate from 35% to 21%, limits the deduction for net interest expense, shifts the United States toward a more territorial tax system, and imposes new taxes to combat erosion of the U.S. federal income tax base. The effect of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on the Company and its affiliates, whether adverse or favorable, is uncertain, and may not become evident for some period of time.

Item 1B.

Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments

Not applicable.

Item 1C.

Cybersecurity

Not applicable.Processes for Assessing, Identifying, and Managing Material Risks from Cybersecurity Threats; Board of Directors Oversight of Risks from Cybersecurity Threats and Management’s Role and Expertise in Assessing and Managing Material Risks from Cybersecurity Threats.

Cyber Risk Management and Strategy

Our Board and management team recognize the importance of assessing, identifying, and managing risks from cybersecurity threats. Our process for assessing, identifying and managing risks from cybersecurity threats is informed by

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industry standards and includes internal cybersecurity risk assessments across our environment, and is supported by cybersecurity technologies, including automated tools, designed to monitor, identify, and address cybersecurity risks. We also have a process to assess and review the cybersecurity practices of new third-party vendors and service providers, including through established vendor requirements and risk assessments. This process also includes an annual re-assessment of critical third-party vendors and service providers.

This risk management program addresses, for example, risks identified by internal audits and assessments, external testing, threat intelligence providers, internal stakeholders, vulnerability management programs, and security tools and alerting. An internal business security team manages and maintains remediation strategies for identified risks and reports on them regularly to senior leadership.

We also regularly monitor the systems that contain personal data for internal and external threats to ensure confidentiality, availability, and integrity, and our incident response program contains controls to identify threats and alert us to suspicious activity. Internally, we prioritize proactivity as a critical component of our security practices and require that Brightcove employees participate in security training at least annually. We also distribute up-to-date information about the cybersecurity environment to increase awareness among employees. Additionally, as a public company, we evaluate our internal control over financial reporting in connection with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and our independent registered public accounting firm is required to attest to the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting.

Although risks from cybersecurity threats have to date not materially affected, and we do not believe they are reasonably likely to materially affect, us, our business strategy, results of operations or financial condition, we have, from time to time, experienced threats and security incidents relating to our and our third party vendors’ information systems. For more information, please see the section titled “Risk Factors” included under Item 1A of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Governance Related to Cybersecurity Risks

Brightcove’s cyber risk management program, incident response process, and related operations are directed by the Vice President of Business Security (“VP, Business Security”). Currently, the VP, Business Security role is held by an individual who has over ten years of experience in cybersecurity, infrastructure, and cloud security and holds CISA, CISM, CIPM, and CDPSE certifications. The VP, Business Security reports to the Chief Legal Officer and is a member of the Brightcove Business Security working group, which has overall responsibility for establishing and implementing Brightcove’s cybersecurity strategy. Other members of the Brightcove Business Security working group include representatives from the product, security engineering, information technology, enterprise architecture and legal teams, who collectively have experience in cybersecurity, risk management, and compliance.

The Board is involved in the oversight of risks that could affect the company and receives updates at least quarterly from senior management, and periodically from outside advisors, regarding the various risks that the company faces.The audit committee assists the Board in its review and assessment of our cybersecurity, data privacy, and data security policies, practices, and procedures protecting our information technology systems, data, products, and services across all business functions, and reports its findings to the Board.

The audit committee has oversight over cybersecurity and related risks and concerns, and is responsible for interfacing with management and discussing with management the company’s principal risk exposures and the steps management has taken to monitor and control risk exposures, including cybersecurity and data protection policies. The audit committee is also responsible for, and reports to the Board on, (i) obtaining and reviewing reports on data management, security initiatives, and significant existing and emerging cybersecurity risks, including material cybersecurity incidents, (ii) assessing the impact on Brightcove and its stakeholders of any significant cybersecurity incident, and (iii) any disclosure obligations arising from any such incidents. The VP, Business Security reports to the audit committee to review the organizational cybersecurity program, risks, and status through quarterly updates and biannual meetings.

Item 2.

Properties

Our corporate headquarters areis located at 281 Summer Street in Boston, Massachusetts. We relocated to our current office space in June 2022, and occupy approximately 40,000 square feet.

The initial term of the lease 82,184 square feet pursuantis for ten years. In connection with the office lease, the Company provided a security deposit, in the form of a letter of credit, in the amount of $823,998 in January 2022. This letter of credit will be auto-renewed annually, unless a 60 day notice is received from the landlord. An automatic extension can only be implemented through November 30, 2032. This letter of credit is irrevocable and does not have a cash requirement other than the amount already set forth. In the event

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of a default, the landlord must provide written notice of default before drawing from the letter of credit as a security deposit, or to a lease that terminates March 31, 2022. remedy the amount owed.

We have sales and marketing offices in Boston, Massachusetts; London, England; Tokyo, Japan; Sydney, Australia; and Seoul, South Korea; and Singapore.Korea. Our offices in New York, New York; London, England; Seattle, Washington; San Francisco, California;Chennai, India, Guadalajara, Mexico, Funchal, Portugal and Tempe, ArizonaCovilha, Portugal are primarily used for sales and marketing as well as research and development. We believe our facilities are adequate for our current needs.

Item 3.

Legal Proceedings

On May 22, 2017, a lawsuit was filed against us and two individuals by Ooyala, Inc. (“Ooyala”) and Ooyala Mexico S. de R.L. de C.V. (“Ooyala Mexico”). The lawsuit, which was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, concerns allegations that the two individuals, who are former employees of Ooyala Mexico, misappropriated customer information and other trade secrets and used that information in working for Brightcove. The complaint was amended on June 1, 2017 to remove claims against the two former employees of Ooyala Mexico. The remaining claims against us are for violation of the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (18 U.S.C. §1836), violation of the Massachusetts trade secret statute (M.G.L. c. 93, §42), violation of Massachusetts Chapter 93A (M.G.L. c. 93A, §11), and tortious interference with advantageous business relationships. Ooyala and Ooyala Mexico also filed a motion for preliminary injunction (amended at the same time the complaint was amended), seeking to enjoin us from using any of the allegedly misappropriated information or communicating with customers whose information was taken, and seeking the return of any information that was allegedly taken. On June 16, 2017, we filed an opposition to the motion for preliminary injunction, and also moved to dismiss the lawsuit. Brightcove’s motion to dismiss was denied on September 6, 2017. The court has not ruled on Ooyala’s motion for preliminary injunction. We expect the court to issue a schedule order in the near term. We cannot yet determine whether it is probable that a loss will be incurred in connection with this complaint, nor can we reasonably estimate the potential loss, if any.

On October 26, 2017, Realtime Adaptive Streaming LLC filed a complaint against us and our subsidiary Brightcove Holdings, Inc. in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. The complaint alleges that Brightcove infringed five patents related to file compression technology. The complaint seeks monetary damages and injunctive relief. On December 1, 2017, Realtime filed an amended complaint, adding two additional patents to its claims. Brightcove filed a motion to dismiss on January 26, 2018. The plaintiff filed an opposition to the motion to dismiss on February 9, 2018 and Brightcove filed a reply on February 16, 2018. A ruling on the motion to dismiss has not yet been issued by the court. We cannot yet determine whether it is probable that a loss will be incurred in connection with this complaint, nor can the Company, reasonably estimate the potential loss, if any.

In addition, we are, from time to time, is party to litigation arising in the ordinary course of our business. Management does not believe that the outcome of these claims will have a material adverse effect on ourthe consolidated financial position, results of operations or cash flows of the Company based on the status of proceedings at this time.

Item 4.

Mine Safety Disclosures

Not applicable.

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PART II

Item 5.Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

Our common stock has been traded on the NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol “BCOV” since our initial public offering on February 17, 2012. Prior to this time, there was no public market for our common stock. The following table shows the high and low sale prices per share of our common stock as reported on the NASDAQ Global Market for the periods indicated:

   High   Low 

2016

    

First Quarter 2016

   6.31    4.82 

Second Quarter 2016

   8.88    5.97 

Third Quarter 2016

   13.29    8.77 

Fourth Quarter 2016

   13.60    7.65 

2017

    

First Quarter 2017

   9.05    6.95 

Second Quarter 2017

   8.80    5.85 

Third Quarter 2017

   7.25    6.15 

Fourth Quarter 2017

   8.00    6.75 

On February 23, 2018, the last reported sale price for our common stock on the NASDAQ Global Market was $7.15 per share.

Dividend Policy

We have never paid or declared any cash dividends on our common stock. We currently intend to retain any cash flow to finance the growth and development of our business, and we do not expect to pay any cash dividends on our common stock in the foreseeable future. Payment of future dividends, if any, will be at the discretion of our board of directors and will depend on our financial condition, results of operations, capital requirements, restrictions contained in current or future financing instruments and other factors our board of directors deems relevant.

Stockholders

As of February 23, 2018,16, 2024, there were approximately 10977 holders of record of our common stock (not including beneficial holders of stock held in street name).

Stock Performance Graph

The graph set forth below compares the cumulative total stockholder return on our common stock between February 17, 2012 (the date of our initial public offering) andfor the five years ended December 31, 2017,2023, with the cumulative total return of (a) the NASDAQ Computer & Data Processing Index and (b) the NASDAQ Composite Index, over the same period. This graph assumes the investment of $100 on February 17, 2012 in our common stock, the NASDAQ Computer & Data Processing Index and the NASDAQ Composite Index and assumes the reinvestment of dividends, if any. The graph assumes our closing sales price on February 17, 2012January 2, 2019 of $14.30$7.05 per share as the initial value of our common stock and not the initial offering price to the public of $11.00 per share.stock.

The comparisons shown in the graph below are based upon historical data. We caution that the stock price performance shown in the graph below is not necessarily indicative of, nor is it intended to forecast, the potential future performance of our common stock. Information used in the graph was obtained from the NASDAQ Stock Market LLC, a financial data provider and a source believed to be reliable. The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC is not responsible for any errors or omissions in such information.

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1/2/2019

 

 

12/31/2019

 

 

12/31/2020

 

 

12/31/2021

 

 

12/31/2022

 

 

12/31/2023

 

Brightcove Inc.

 

 

100.0

 

 

 

123.3

 

 

 

261.0

 

 

 

145.0

 

 

 

74.2

 

 

 

36.7

 

NASDAQ Composite Index

 

 

100.0

 

 

 

134.6

 

 

 

193.3

 

 

 

234.7

 

 

 

157.0

 

 

 

225.2

 

NASDAQ Computer & Data Processing Index

 

 

100.0

 

 

 

149.6

 

 

 

224.4

 

 

 

309.4

 

 

 

198.7

 

 

 

330.7

 

   2/17/2012   12/31/2012   12/31/2013   12/31/2014   12/31/2015   12/31/2016   12/31/2017 

Brightcove Inc.

   100.0    63.2    98.9    54.4    43.4    56.3    49.7 

NASDAQ Composite Index

   100.0    102.3    141.5    160.4    169.6    182.4    233.9 

NASDAQ Computer & Data Processing Index

   100.0    97.4    128.5    154.0    163.6    183.7    254.9 

Sales of Unregistered Securities

Not applicable.

Use of Proceeds from Public Offering of Common Stock

On February 16, 2012, our registration statement on FormS-1 (FileNo. 333-176444) was declared effective for our initial public offering. On February 23, 2012, we closed our initial public offering of 5,750,000 shares of common stock, including 750,000 shares pursuant to the underwriters’ overallotment option, at an offering price of $11.00 per share. The managing underwriters of the offering were Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, and Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated. Following the sale of the shares in connection with the closing of our initial public offering, the offering terminated.

As a result of the offering, including the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares, we received net proceeds of approximately $54.5 million, after deducting total expenses of approximately $8.7 million, consisting of underwriting discounts and commissions of $4.4 million and offering-related expenses reasonably estimated to be $4.3 million. None of such payments were direct or indirect payments to any of our directors or officers or their associates, to persons owning 10% or more of our common stock, or to any of our affiliates.

We have used $7.0 million of the net proceeds from our initial public offering to repay certain indebtedness. None of such payments were direct or indirect payments to any of our directors or officers or their associates, to persons owning 10% or more of our common stock, or to any of our affiliates. We also used approximately $27.4 million of the net proceeds from our initial public offering as consideration for the purchase of Zencoder in

August 2012. On January 31, 2014, we acquired substantially all of the assets of Unicorn for total consideration of approximately $39.7 million, which was funded by approximately $9.1 million of the net proceeds from our initial public offering and 2,850,547 shares of our common stock.

There has been no material change in the planned use of proceeds from our initial public offering as described in our final prospectus filed with the SEC on February 17, 2012 pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act.

Purchases of Equity Securities by the Issuer or Affiliated Purchasers

There were no repurchases of shares of common stock made during the year ended December 31, 2017.2023.

Item 6. [Reserved]

Not applicable.

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Item 6.Selected Consolidated Financial Data

The following selected consolidated financial data should be read in conjunction with “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”, the consolidated financial statements and related notes, and other financial information included in this Annual Report on Form10-K.

We derived the consolidated financial data for the years ended December 31, 2017, 2016 and 2015 and as of December 31, 2017 and 2016 from our audited consolidated financial statements, which are included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form10-K. We derived the consolidated financial data for the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2013 and as of December 31, 2015, 2014 and 2013 from our audited consolidated financial statements, which are not included in this Annual Report on Form10-K. Historical results are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected in future periods.

   Year Ended December 31, 
   2017  2016  2015  2014(1)  2013 
   (in thousands, except per share data) 

Consolidated statements of operations data:

      

Revenue:

      

Subscription and support revenue

  $143,159  $142,022  $131,010  $120,324  $103,116 

Professional services and other revenue

   12,754   8,244   3,696   4,693   6,779 
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total revenue

   155,913   150,266   134,706   125,017   109,895 

Cost of revenue:(3) (4)

      

Cost of subscription and support revenue

   50,664   48,011   41,735   38,015   29,205 

Cost of professional services and other revenue

   13,954   7,836   4,742   5,718   7,585 
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total cost of revenue

   64,618   55,847   46,477   43,733   36,790 
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Gross profit

   91,295   94,419   88,229   81,284   73,105 

Operating expenses:(3) (4)

      

Research and development

   31,850   30,171   29,302   28,252   21,052 

Sales and marketing

   57,294   54,038   45,795   46,014   41,000 

General and administrative

   21,847   19,167   19,862   19,136   18,478 

Merger-related

   —     21   201   3,075   2,069 
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total operating expenses

   110,991   103,397   95,160   96,477   82,599 
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Loss from operations

   (19,696  (8,978  (6,931  (15,193  (9,494

Other income (expense):

      

Interest income

   124   99   6   11   58 

Interest expense

   (26  (63  (96  (96  —   

Other expense, net

   449   (634  (168  (1,355  (594
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total other expense, net

   547   (598  (258  (1,440  (536
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Loss before income taxes andnon-controlling interest in consolidated subsidiary

   (19,149  (9,576  (7,189  (16,633  (10,030

Provision for (benefit from) income taxes

   370   410   391   260   212 
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Consolidated net loss

   (19,519  (9,986  (7,580  (16,893  (10,242

Net income attributable tonon-controlling interest in consolidated subsidiary

   —     —     —     —     (20
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net loss attributable to common stockholders

  $(19,519 $(9,986 $(7,580 $(16,893 $(10,262
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net loss per share attributable to common stockholders — basic and diluted

  $(0.57 $(0.30 $(0.23 $(0.53 $(0.36
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Weighted-average number of common shares used in computing net loss per share attributable to common stockholders — basic and diluted

   34,376   33,189   32,598   31,949   28,351 
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

(1)The results of operations for Unicorn have been included in our consolidated financial statements since the date of acquisition on January 31, 2014.

   Year Ended December 31, 
   2017   2016   2015   2014   2013 
   (in thousands) 

(3)   Stock-based compensation included in above line items:

          

Cost of subscription and support revenue

  $439   $324   $181   $218   $248 

Cost of professional services and other revenue

   251    217    181    141    149 

Research and development

   1,563    1,275    1,392    1,399    1,191 

Sales and marketing

   2,750    2,320    2,155    2,193    2,225 

General and administrative

   2,240    1,876    2,105    2,436    2,588 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total stock-based compensation

  $7,243   $6,012   $6,014   $6,387   $6,401 

(4)   Amortization of acquired intangible assets included in above line items:

          

Cost of subscription and support revenue

  $2,031   $2,031   $2,031   $1,946   $1,013 

Research and development

   11    126    126    140    39 

Sales and marketing

   692    959    955    1,114    667 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total amortization of acquired intangible assets

  $2,734   $3,116   $3,112   $3,200   $1,719 

   As of December 31, 
   2017  2016   2015   2014   2013 
   (in thousands) 

Consolidated Balance Sheet Data:

         

Cash and cash equivalents

  $26,132  $36,813   $27,637   $22,916   $36,108 

Accounts receivable, net

   25,236   21,575    21,213    21,463    21,560 

Property and equipment, net

   9,143   9,264    8,689    10,372    8,795 

Working capital

   (983  7,792    6,592    4,582    20,634 

Total assets

   127,615   136,424    127,668    127,584    103,126 

Current and long-term deferred revenue

   39,614   34,756    29,931    29,704    23,818 

Total stockholders’ equity

   66,756   78,196    78,135    80,763    60,380 

Item 7.

Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and related notes appearing elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form10-K. The following discussion contains forward-looking statements that reflect our plans, estimates, and beliefs. Our actual results could differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to these differences include those discussed below and elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form10-K, particularly in “Risk Factors.”

Overview

We are a leading global provider ofleader in cloud-based streaming technology and services for video. We were incorporated in Delaware in August 2004with a vision to be the world's most trusted streaming technology company. Brightcove’s software platform and our headquarters are in Boston, Massachusetts. Our suite of solutions include a breadth and depth of offerings that meet the needs of media and enterprise customers in a variety of industries across the globe with their use of streaming video, and serve as a guide in optimizing and maturing their streaming strategies. Leading companies across industries rely on our products, solutions, services, and servicesindustry expertise to grow their streaming businesses, monetize their content via streaming use-cases, expand and engage their audiences (both external and internal), and reduce the cost and complexity associated with storing, publishing, delivering, distributing, measuring, and monetizing content across streaming channels and devices.

With deep industry expertise and an understanding of how streaming video across devices.

Brightcove Video Cloud, or Video Cloud,helps generate positive business outcomes, our flagship product released in 2006, isproven platform combines functionality designed to meet the world’s leading online video platform. Video Cloud enablesneeds and goals of our customers with the additional flexibility for customers to publish and distribute videocustomize solutions to Internet-connected devices quickly, easily and in a cost-effective and high-quality manner. Brightcove Zencoder, or Zencoder, is a cloud-based video encoding service. Brightcove SSAI, or SSAI, is an innovative, cloud-based ad insertion and video stitching service that addresses the limitations of traditional online video ad insertion technology. Brightcove Player, or Player, is a cloud-based service for creating and managing video player experiences. Brightcove OTT Flow, powered by Accedo, or OTT Flow, is a service for media companies and content owners to rapidly deploy high-quality,direct-to-consumer, live andon-demand video services across platforms. Brightcove Video Marketing Suite, or Video Marketing Suite, is a comprehensive suite of video technologies designed to address the needs of marketers to drive awareness, engagement and conversion. Brightcove Enterprise Video Suite, or Enterprise Video Suite, is an enterprise-class platform for internal communications, employee training, live streaming, marketing and ecommerce videos.meet their own unique requirements.

Our philosophy for the next few years will continue to be to invest in our product strategy and development, sales,and go-to-market activities to support our long-term revenue growth. We believe these investments will help us address some of the challenges facing our business such as demand for our products by existing and potential customers, rapid technological change in our industry, increased competition and resulting price sensitivity. These investments include support for the expansion of our infrastructure within our hosting facilities, the hiring of additional technical and sales personnel, the innovation of new features for existing products and the development of new products. We believe this strategy will help us retain our existing customers, increase our average annual subscription revenue per premium customer and lead to the acquisition of new customers. Additionally, we believe customer growth will enable us to achieve economies of scale which will reduce our cost of goods sold, research and development and general and administrative expenses as a percentage of total revenue.

As of December 31, 2017,2023, and 2022 we had 498671 and 725 employees, and 4,168 customers, of which 2,001 used our volume offerings and 2,167 used our premium offerings. As of December 31, 2016, we had 490 employees and 4,571 customers, of which 2,564 used our volume offerings and 2,007 used our premium offerings.respectively.

We generate revenue by offering our products to customers on a subscription-based, software as a service, or SaaS, model. Our revenue grew from $150.3was $201.2 million in the year ended December 31, 20162023 compared to $155.9$211.0 million in the year ended December 31, 2017, primarily related to an increase in revenue from2022. Though we increased our professional services engagementsrevenue compared to the prior year, this increase was offset by a decrease in subscription and to a lesser extent our subscription-based SaaS.support revenue. Our consolidated net loss was $19.5 million and $10.0$22.9 million for the yearsyear ended December 31, 2017 and 2016, respectively.2023, compared to $9.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2022. Included in consolidated net loss for the year ended December 31, 20172023 was merger-related expenses, stock-based compensation expense and amortization of acquired intangible assets of $7.2$0.3 million, $13.9 million and $2.7$3.9 million, respectively. Included in consolidated net loss for the year ended December 31, 20162022 was merger-related expenses, stock-based compensation expense and amortization of acquired intangible assets of $6.0$0.7 million, $13.5 million, and $3.1$3.4 million, respectively.

For the years ended December 31, 20172023 and 2016,2022, our revenue derived from customers located outside North America was 41% and 38%44%, respectively. We expect the percentage of total net revenue derived from outside North America to increaseremain relatively unchanged or decrease in future periods as we continuedue to expand our international operations.fluctuations in exchange rates and a decrease in usage-based fees.

Key Metrics

We regularly review a number of metrics, including the following key metrics, to evaluate our business, measure our performance, identify trends affecting our business, formulate financial projections and make strategic decisions.

Number of Customers. We define our number of customers at the end of a particular quarter as the number of customers generating subscription revenue at the end of the quarter. We believe the number of customers is a key indicator of our market penetration, the productivity of our sales organization and the value that our products bring to our customers. We classify our customers by including them in either premium or volume offerings. Our premium offerings include our premium Video Cloud customers (Enterprise and Pro editions), our Zencoder customers (other than Zencoder customers onmonth-to-month contracts andpay-as-you-go contracts), our SSAI customers, our Player customers, our OTT Flow customers, our Video Marketing Suite customers and our Enterprise Video Suite customers. Our volume offerings include our Video Cloud Express customers and our Zencoder customers onmonth-to-month contracts andpay-as-you-go contracts.

As of A discussion regarding our key metrics for the year ended December 31, 2017, we had 4,1682023 compared to 2022 is presented below. A discussion regarding our key metrics for the year ended December 31, 2022 compared to 2021 can be found under Part II -Item 7 of our Annual Report

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on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on February 23, 2023.

The following table includes our key metrics for the periods presented:

 

 

Year Ended December 31,

 

 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

Customers (at period end)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Premium

 

 

2,028

 

 

 

2,235

 

Volume

 

 

531

 

 

 

610

 

Total customers (at period end)

 

 

2,559

 

 

 

2,845

 

Net revenue retention rate

 

 

95

%

 

 

95

%

Recurring dollar retention rate

 

 

94

%

 

 

89

%

Average annual subscription revenue per premium customer, excluding Starter edition customers (in thousands)

 

$

97.0

 

 

$

95.2

 

Average annual subscription revenue per premium customer for Starter edition customers only (in thousands)

 

$

4.6

 

 

$

4.5

 

Total backlog, excluding professional services engagements (in millions)

 

$

183.0

 

 

$

153.3

 

Total backlog to be recognized over next 12 months, excluding professional services engagements (in millions)

 

$

127.3

 

 

$

120.1

 

Number of Customers. We define our number of customers at the end of which 2,001 useda particular quarter as the number of customers generating subscription revenue at the end of the quarter. We believe the number of customers is a key indicator of our market penetration, the productivity of our sales organization and the value that our products bring to our customers. We classify our customers by including them in either premium or volume offerings. Our volume offerings include our Video Cloud Express customers and 2,167 used our premium offerings. As of December 31, 2016, we had 4,571Zencoder customers of which 2,564 used our volumeon month-to-month contracts and pay-as-you-go contracts. All other offerings and 2,007 used our premium offerings. During 2013, we shifted ourare considered premium.

Our go-to-market focus and growth strategy is to expandingexpand our premium customer base, as we believe our premium customers represent a greater opportunity for our solutions. Premium customers decreased compared to the prior period, which we believe was due primarily to customer consolidation through mergers and acquisitions, customer business failures and customers deciding to switch to in-house solutions or other third-party solutions. Volume customers decreased in recent periods primarily due to our discontinuation of the promotional Video Cloud Express offering. As a result, we have experienced attrition of this base level offering without a corresponding addition of customers. We expect customers using our volume offerings to continue to decrease in 20182023 and beyond as we continue to focus on the market for our premium solutions.

Recurring Dollar Retention Rate. We assess our ability to retain customers using a metric we refer to as our recurring dollar
Net Revenue Retention Rate. We assess our ability to retain and expand customers using a metric we refer to as our net revenue retention rate. We calculate the net revenue retention rate by dividing: (a) the current annualized recurring revenue for premium customers that existed twelve months prior by (b) the annualized recurring revenue for all premium customers that existed twelve months prior. We define annualized recurring revenue for premium customers as the aggregate annualized contract value from our premium customer base, measured as of the end of a given period. We typically calculate our net revenue retention rate on a quarterly basis. For annual periods, we report net revenue retention rate as the average of the net revenue retention rate for all fiscal quarters included in the period. By dividing the retained recurring revenue by the base recurring revenue, we measure our success in retaining and growing installed revenue from the specific cohort of customers we served at the beginning of the recurring dollar retention rate by dividing the retained recurring value of subscription revenue for a period by the previous recurring value of subscription revenue for the same period. We define retained recurring value of subscription revenue as the committed subscription fees for all contracts that renew in a given period, including any increase or decrease in contract value. We define previous recurring value of subscription revenue as the recurring value from committed subscription fees for all contracts that expire in that same period. We typically calculate our recurring dollar retention rate on a monthly basis. Recurring dollar retention rate provides visibility into our ongoing revenue. During the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016, the recurring dollar retention rate was 89% and 96%, respectively. The decrease is primarily due to the loss of certain customers as well as a reduction in contract value for certain recurring customers, based on certain commodity elements being repriced within our media market.

Average Annual Subscription Revenue Per Premium Customer. We define average annual subscription revenue per premium customer as the total subscription revenue from premium customers for an annual period, excluding professional services revenue, divided by the average number of premium customers for that period. We believe that this metric is important in understanding subscription revenue for our premium offerings in addition to the relative size of premium customer arrangements. We began selling our Starter edition to customers in the second quarter of 2016. We consider Starter to be a premium offering and thus include Starter customers as premium customers. Our Starter edition has a price point of $199 or $499 per month, and as of the first quarter of 2017, sales of our Starter edition reached such a level that we determined that the overall average annual subscription revenue per premium customer is a more meaningful metric if we exclude revenue from Starter edition customers.

As such, we now disclose the average annual subscription revenue per premium customer separately for Starter edition customers and all other premium customers.

The following table includes our key metricsrecurring dollar retention rate focuses on contracts up for renewal in a given quarter, and only captures expansion/upsells at time of renewal, and is more susceptible to swings than the net revenue retention rate. Accordingly, we plan to continue to report the net revenue retention rate in addition to reporting recurring dollar retention rate after this Annual Report on Form 10-K for the periods presented:year ended December 31, 2023.

Recurring Dollar Retention Rate. We assess our ability to retain customers using a metric we refer to as our recurring dollar retention rate. We calculate the recurring dollar retention rate by dividing the retained recurring value of subscription revenue for a period by the previous recurring value of subscription revenue for the same period. We define retained recurring value of subscription revenue as the committed subscription fees for all contracts that renew in a given period, including any increase or decrease in contract value. We define previous recurring value of subscription revenue as the recurring value from committed subscription fees for all contracts that expire in that same period. We typically calculate our

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recurring dollar retention rate on a monthly basis. Recurring dollar retention rate provides visibility into our ongoing revenue.
Average Annual Subscription Revenue Per Premium Customer. We define average annual subscription revenue per premium customer as the total subscription revenue from premium customers for an annual period, excluding professional services revenue, divided by the average number of premium customers for that period. We believe that this metric is important in understanding subscription revenue for our premium offerings in addition to the relative size of premium customer arrangements. As our Starter edition has a price point of $199 or $499 per month, we disclose the average annual subscription revenue per premium customer separately for Starter edition customers and all other premium customers.
Backlog. We define backlog as the aggregate amount of transaction price that is allocated to performance obligations that have not yet been satisfied, excluding professional service engagements. We believe that this metric is important in understanding future business performance.

Restructuring

In March 2023, we took a restructuring action with the intent of aligning skills with the Company’s strategy and facilitating cost efficiencies and savings. As a result, certain headcount reductions were necessary. The Company incurred approximately $0.4 million in restructuring charges during the year ended December 31, 2023 in connection with this action. The restructuring charges reflect post-employment benefits, and the Company does not expect to incur any additional restructuring charges related to this action. The restructuring charges are reflected in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations as follows: $0.2 million - General and Administrative; $0.1 million – Research and Development; and $0.1 million – Sales and Marketing. The Company paid the entire amount by March 31, 2023.

   Year Ended
December 31,
 
       2017          2016     

Customers (at period end)

   

Volume

   2,001   2,564 

Premium

   2,167   2,007 
  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total customers (at period end)

   4,168   4,571 
  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Recurring dollar retention rate

   89  96

Average annual subscription revenue per premium customer, excluding Starter edition customers (in thousands)

  $70.1  $70.7 

Average annual subscription revenue per premium customer for Starter edition customers only (in thousands)

  $4.3  $4.9 

On April 28, 2023, we authorized a restructuring that was designed to reduce operating costs, improve operating margins and focus on key growth and strategic priorities (the "Plan"). The Plan included a reduction of our workforce by approximately 10%. The $2.4 million in restructuring charges recorded in the year ended December 31, 2023 reflect post-employment benefits. The restructuring charges are reflected in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations as follows: $1.2 million in Sales and Marketing; $0.9 million in Research and Development; $0.2 million in General and Administrative and $0.1 million in Cost of Revenue.

In January 2024, we continued to restructure certain parts of our operations with the intent of aligning skills with the Company’s strategy and facilitating cost efficiencies and savings, which also resulted in more limited headcount reductions. We estimate that we will incur between $1.6 million and $1.8 million in restructuring charges in the three months ended March 31, 2024 in connection with this action, which is described in further detail in the notes to the consolidated financial statements.

Geopolitical Events

Worldwide economic uncertainties and negative trends, including financial and credit market fluctuations, uncertainty in the banking sector, rising interest rates, political unrest and social strife, such as continued Russian military action against Ukraine, and the current armed conflict in Israel and the Gaza Strip, a potential U.S. federal government shutdown, and other impacts from the macroeconomic environment have, and could continue to, affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. While we have continued to invest in business growth, our business is dependent on many factors and these macroeconomic conditions have caused and may in the future affect the rate of spending on software products and the demand for video to support virtual events.

See the section titled “Risk Factors” included under Item 1A for further discussion of the possible impact of these geopolitical events on our business.

Components of Consolidated Statements of Operations

Revenue

Subscription and Support Revenue — We generate subscription and support revenue from the sale of our products.

Video Cloud isOur products are generally offered in two product lines. The first product line is comprisedto customers on a subscription-based SaaS model, with varying levels of functionality, support, and usage entitlements that depend on the use case of our premium product editions. All premium editions include functionality to publish and distribute video to Internet-connected devices, with higher levels of premium editions providing additional features and functionality.customers. Customer arrangements are typically one yearone-year contracts, which include a subscription to Video Cloud,our software, access to basic support and apre-determined amount of video streams, bandwidth, transcoding and storage. We also offer gold support or platinum support to our premium customers for an additional fee, which includes extended phone support.usage entitlements. The pricing for our premium editions is based on the value of our software, as well as the numberlevel of users, accountssupport, and the amount of usage which is comprised of video streams, bandwidth, transcoding and storage.entitlements. Should a customer’s usage exceed the contractual entitlements, the contract will provide the rate at which the customer must pay for actual usage above the contractual entitlements. We believe that our bundled pricing approach has made it easieralso offer enhanced support packages for our customers to purchase all of the elements required to manage, store and deliver their video assets to their viewers. Pricing for some of thenon-software elements of our products, however—such as bandwidth and storage—has been subject to moderate but consistent pricing pressure as a result of competition among bandwidth and cloud infrastructure providers. This pricing pressure has not historically had a meaningful impact on our results of operations. During the year ended December 31, 2017, we experienced an unexpected, significant increase in the impact of the price competition among bandwidth and cloud infrastructure providers in the markets for these increasingly commoditizednon-software services. As a result, our recurring dollar retention rate decreased in the year ended December 31, 2017. We have taken steps to reduce the portion of our revenue that is subject to such pricing pressure by bringing new solutions, such as Dynamic Delivery (formerly known as Bolt), to market. We believe that these new solutions increase the value of our software platform to customers and allow us to retain a larger portion of the customers’ total contract value while reducing the revenue related tonon-software elements. However, as a result of the impact of the commoditization of thenon-software elements, we now expect that our subscription revenue growth rate will be impacted through the first quarter of 2018.additional fee.

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Our volume editions target small andmedium-sized businesses, or SMBs. The volume editions provide customers with the same basic functionality that is offered in our premium product editions but have been designed for customers who have lower usage

requirements and do not typically require advanced features and functionality. We discontinued the lower level pricing options for theVideo Cloud Express edition, ofwhich targets SMBs, and our volume offering and expect the total number of customers using the Express edition to continue to decrease. Customers who purchase the volume editions generally enter intomonth-to-month agreements. Volume customers are generally billed on a monthly basis and pay via a credit card.

Zencoder is offered to customers on a subscription basis, with either committedmonth-to-month contracts orpay-as-you-go contracts. The pricing is based on usage, which is comprised of minutes of video processed. The committed contracts, include a fixed number of minutes of video processed. Should a customer’s usage exceed the contractual entitlements, the contract will provide the rate at which the customer must pay for actual usage above the contractual entitlements. Zencoderare considered volume customers. All other customers are considered premium customers other than Zencoder customerson month-to-month contractsor pay-as-you-go contracts, which are considered volume customers.

SSAI is offered to customers on a subscription basis, with varying levels of functionality, usage entitlements and support based on the size and complexity of a customer’s needs.

Player is offered to customers on a subscription basis. Customer arrangements aretypically one-year contracts, which include a subscription to Player, basic support anda pre-determined amount of video streams. We also offer gold support or platinum support to our Player customers for an additional fee, which includes extended phone support. The pricing for Player is based on the number of users, accounts and usage, which is comprised of video streams. Should a customer’s usage exceed the contractual entitlements, the contract will provide the rate at which the customer must pay for actual usage above the contractual entitlements.

OTT Flow is offered to customers on a subscription basis, with varying levels of functionality, usage entitlements and support based on the size and complexity of a customer’s needs. Customer arrangements are typicallyone-year contracts.

Video Marketing Suite and Enterprise Video Suite are offered to customers on a subscription basis in Starter, Pro and Enterprise editions. The Pro and Enterprise customer arrangements are typicallyone-year contracts, which typically include a subscription to Video Cloud, Gallery, Brightcove Social (for Video Marketing Suite customers) or Brightcove Live (for Enterprise Video Suite customers), basic support and apre-determined amount of video streams or plays (for Video Marketing Suite customers), viewers (for Enterprise Video Suite customers), bandwidth and storage or videos. We also generally offer gold support or platinum support to these customers for an additional fee, which includes extended phone support. The pricing for our Pro and Enterprise editions is based on the number of users, accounts and usage, which is comprised of video streams or plays, viewers, bandwidth and storage or videos. Should a customer’s usage exceed the contractual entitlements, the contract will provide the rate at which the customer must pay for actual usage above the contractual entitlements. The Starter edition provides customers with the same basic functionality that is offered in our Pro and Enterprise editions but has been designed for customers who have lower usage requirements and do not typically seek advanced features and functionality. Customers who purchase the Starter edition may enter intoone-year agreements ormonth-to-month agreements. Starter customers withmonth-to-month agreements are generally billed on a monthly basis and pay via a credit card.

All SSAI, Player, OTT Flow, Video Marketing Suite and Enterprise Video Suite customers are considered premium customers.

Professional Services and Other Revenue — Professional services and other revenue consists of services such as implementation, software customizations and project management for customers who subscribe to our premium editions. These arrangements are priced either on a fixed fee basis with a portion due upon contract signing and the remainder due when the related services have been completed, or on a time and materials basis.

Our backlog consists of the total future value of our committed customer contracts, whether billed or unbilled. As of December 31, 2017, we had backlog of approximately $106 million compared to backlog of

approximately $99 million as of December 31, 2016. Of the approximately $106 million in backlog as of December 31, 2017, between $83 million and $85 million is expected to be recognized as revenue during the year ended December 31, 2018. During the year ended December 31, 2017, approximately $73 million of revenue was recognized from backlog as of December 31, 2016. Because revenue for any period is a function of revenue recognized from backlog at the beginning of the period as well as from contract renewals and new customer contracts executed during the period, backlog at the beginning of any period is not necessarily indicative of future performance. Our presentation of backlog may differ from that of other companies in our industry.

Cost of Revenue

Cost of subscription, support and professional services revenue primarily consists of costs related to supporting and hosting our product offerings and delivering our professional services. These costs include salaries, benefits, incentive compensation and stock-based compensation, expenseexpenses related to the management of our data centers, our customer support team and our professional services staff. In addition to these expenses, we incur third-party service provider costs such as data center and content delivery network, or CDN, expenses, allocated overhead, depreciation expense and amortization of capitalizedinternal-use software development costs and acquired intangible assets. We allocate overhead costs such as rent, utilities and supplies to all departments based on relative headcount. As such, general overhead expenses are reflected in cost of revenue in addition to each operating expense category. The costs associated with providing professional services are significantly higher as a percentage of related revenue than the costs associated with delivering our subscription and support services due to the labor costs of providing professional services.

Cost of revenue increased in absolute dollars from 20162022 to 2017.2023. In future periods we expect our cost of revenue will increase in absolute dollars as our revenue increases. Cost of revenue as a percentage of revenue could fluctuate from period to period depending on the growthnumber of our professional services businessengagements and any associated costs relating to the delivery of subscription services and the timing of significant expenditures. To the extent that our customer base grows, we intend to continue to invest additional resources in expanding the delivery capability of our products and other services. The timing of these additional expenses could affect our cost of revenue, both in terms of absolute dollars and as a percentage of revenue, in any particular quarterly or annual period.

Operating Expenses

We classify our operating expenses as follows:

Research and Development. Research and development expenses consist primarily of personnel and related expenses for our research and development staff, including salaries, benefits, incentive compensation and stock-based compensation, in addition to the costs associated with contractors and allocated overhead. We have focused our research and development efforts on expanding the functionality and scalability of our products and enhancing their ease of use, as well as creating new product offerings. We expect research and development expenses to increase in absolute dollars as we intend to continue to periodically release new features and functionality, expand our product offerings, continue the localization of our products in various languages, upgrade and extend our service offerings, and develop new technologies. Over the long term, we believe that research and development expenses as a percentage of revenue will decrease, but will vary depending upon the mix of revenue from new and existing products, features and functionality, as well as changes in the technology that our products must support, such as new operating systems or new Internet-connected devices.

Sales and Marketing. Sales and marketing expenses consist primarily of personnel and related expenses for our sales and marketing staff, including salaries, benefits, incentive compensation, commissions, stock-based compensation and travel costs, amortization of acquired intangible assets, in addition to costs associated with marketing and promotional events, corporate communications, advertising, other brand building and product marketing expenses and allocated overhead. Our sales and marketing expenses have increased in absolute dollars in each ofdecreased for the last three years.year ended December 31, 2023 compared to the prior year due to restructuring actions taken. We intend to continue to invest in sales and marketing and increase the number of

sales representatives to add new customers and expand the sale of our product offerings within our existing customer base, build brand awareness and sponsor additional marketing events. Accordingly, in future periods we expect sales and marketing expenseexpenses to increase in absolute dollars and continue to be our most significant operating expense.expense in future periods. Over the long term, we believe that sales and marketing expense as a percentage of revenue will decrease, but will vary depending upon the mix of revenue from new and existing customers and fromsmall, medium-sized and enterprise customers, as well as changes in the productivity of our sales and marketing programs.

General and Administrative. General and administrative expenses consist primarily of personnel and related expenses for executive, legal, finance, information technology and human resources functions, including salaries, benefits, incentive compensation and stock-based compensation, in addition tocompensation. General and administrative expenses also include the costs associated with

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professional fees, insurance premiums, other corporate expenses and allocated overhead. In future periods we expect general and administrative expenses to increase in absolute dollars as we continue to incur additional personnel and professional services costs in order to support the growth of our business. Over the long term, we believe that general and administrative expenses as a percentage of revenue will decrease.

Merger-related. Merger-related costs consistedconsist of transaction expenses incurred as part of the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Unicorn Media, Inc. and certain of its subsidiaries, or Unicorn, as well as costs associated with the retention of key employees of Unicorn. Approximately $1.5 million was required to be paid to retain certain key employees from the Unicorn acquisition. The period in which these services were performed varies by employee. Given that the retention amount was related to a future service requirement,mergers and acquisitions, integration costs and general corporate development activities.

Other Expense (Benefit). Reflects other operating benefits, costs that do not directly relate to the related expense was recorded as merger-related compensation expense in the consolidated statements of operations over the expected service period.operating activities listed above.

Other Expense(Expense) Income, net

Other expense(expense) income consists primarily of interest income earned on our cash, cash equivalents, and foreign exchange gains and losses and interest expense payable on our debt.losses.

Income Taxes

As part of the process of preparing our consolidated financial statements, we are required to estimate our taxes in each of the jurisdictions in which we operate. We account for income taxes in accordance with the asset and liability method. Under this method, deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized based on temporary differences between the financial reporting and income tax bases of assets and liabilities using statutory rates. In addition, this method requires a valuation allowance against net deferred tax assets if, based upon the available evidence, it is more likely than not that some or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized. We have provided a valuation allowance against our existing U.S. and foreign net deferred tax assets and deferred tax assets at December 31, 2017, with the exception of the deferred tax assets related to Brightcove KK.2023.

On December 22, 2017, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was enacted in the United States. Refer to Note 7,Income Taxes, for additional information regarding this new tax legislation.

Stock-Based Compensation Expense

Our cost of revenue, research and development, sales and marketing, and general and administrative expenses include stock-based compensation expense. Stock-based compensation expense represents the fair value of outstanding stock options and restricted stock awards, which is recognized as expense over the respective stock option and restricted stock award service periods. For the years ended December 31, 2017, 20162023, 2022 and 2015,2021, we recorded stock-based compensation expense of $7.2$13.9 million, $6.0$13.5 million, and $6.0$10.0 million, respectively. We expect stock-based compensation expense to increase in absolute dollars in future periods.

Foreign Currency Translation

With regard to our international operations, we frequently enter into transactions in currencies other than the U.S. dollar. As a result, our revenue, expenses and cash flows are subject to fluctuations due to changes in foreign currency exchange rates, particularly changes in the euro, British pound, Australian dollar, and Japanese yen. For the years ended December 31, 2017, 2016 and 2015, 45%, 42% and 40%, respectively, of our revenue was generated in locations outside the United States. During the same periods, 29%, 28% and 27%, respectively, of our revenue was in currencies other than the U.S. dollar, as were some of the associated expenses. In periods when the U.S. dollar declines in value as compared to the foreign currencies in which we conduct business, our foreign currency-based revenue and expenses generally increase in value when translated into U.S. dollars. During the year ended December 31, 2023, the U.S. dollar increased in value as compared to the Japanese Yen, and our Japanese Yen-based revenues decreased in value when translated into U.S. dollars. We expect the percentage of total net revenue derived from outside North America to increase in future periods as we continue to expand our foreign currency-basedinternational operations. Should the U.S. dollar continue to increase in value, our future percentage of total net revenue toderived from outside North America may remain relatively unchanged in absolute dollars and as a percentage of total revenue.or decrease.

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

Our consolidated financial statements are prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States. The preparation of these financial statements requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and 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 periods. We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Our actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions.

We believe that the following significant accounting policies, which are more fully described in the notes to our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form10-K, involve a greater degree of judgment and complexity. Accordingly, these are the policies we believe are the most critical to aid in fully understanding and evaluating our financial condition and results of operations.

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Revenue Recognition

We primarily derive revenue from the sale of our online video platform, which enables our customers to publish and distribute video to Internet-connected devices quickly, easily and in a cost-effective and high-quality manner. Revenue is derived from three primary sources: (1) the subscription to our technology and related support; (2) hosting, bandwidth and encoding services; and (3) professional services, which include customization services.

Under ASC 606, when the transaction price includes a variable amount of consideration, an entity is required to estimate the consideration that is expected to be received for a particular customer arrangement. We recognize revenue when allevaluate variable consideration for usage-based fees at contract inception and re-evaluate quarterly over the course of the following conditions are satisfied: (1) therecontract. Specifically, we estimate the revenue pertaining to a customer’s usage that is persuasive evidence of an arrangement; (2)expected to exceed the service has been providedcontractual entitlement allowance and allocate such revenue to the customer; (3)distinct service within the collectionrelated contract that gives rise to the variable payment. Estimates of feesvariable consideration include analyzing customer usage against the applicable entitlement limit at the end of each reporting period and estimating the amount and timing of additional amounts to be invoiced in connection with projected usage. Estimates of variable consideration relating to customer usage do not include amounts for which it is probable; and (4)probable that a significant reversal will occur. Determining the amount of feesvariable consideration to be paid by the customer is fixed or determinable.

Our subscription arrangements provide customers the right to access our hosted software applications. Customers do not have the right to take possession of our software during the hosting arrangement. Accordingly, we recognize revenue in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) 605,Revenue Recognition. Contracts for premium customers generally have a term of one year and arenon-cancellable. These contracts generally provide the customer with an annual level of usage, and provide the rate at which the customer must pay for actual usage above the annual allowable usage. For these services, we recognize the annual fee ratably as revenue each month. Shouldinvolves significant judgment on the part of management and it is possible that actual revenue will deviate from estimates over the course of a customer’s usage of our services exceed the annual allowable level, revenue is recognized for such excess in the period of the usage. Contracts for volume customers are generallymonth-to-month arrangements, have a maximum monthly level of usage and provide the rate at which the customer must pay for actual usage above the monthly allowable usage. The monthly volume subscription and support and usage fees are recognized as revenue during the period in which the related cash is collected.

committed contract term.

Revenue recognition commences upon the later of when the application is placed in a production environment, or when all revenue recognition criteria have been met.

Professional services and other revenue sold on a stand-alone basis are recognized as the services are performed, subject to any refund or other obligation.

Deferred revenue includes amounts billed to customers for which revenue has not been recognized, and primarily consists of the unearned portion of annual software subscription and support fees, and deferred professional service fees.

Revenue is presented net of any taxes collected from customers.

Multiple-Element Arrangements

We periodically enter into multiple-element service arrangements that include platform subscription fees, support fees, and, in certain cases, other professional services.

We assess arrangements with These contracts include multiple deliverables under Accounting Standards Update (ASU)No. 2009-13,Revenue Recognition (Topic 605), Multiple-Deliverable Revenue Arrangements —promises that we evaluate to determine if the promises are separate performance obligations. Performance obligations are identified based on services to be transferred to a Consensuscustomer that are both capable of being distinct and are distinct within the context of the FASB Emerging Issues Task Force . Arrangementcontract. Once we determine the performance obligations, we determine the transaction price, which includes estimating the amount of variable consideration is allocated to deliverables based on their relative selling price.

In order to treat deliverables in a multiple-element arrangement as separate units of accounting, the deliverables must have stand-alone value upon delivery. If the deliverables have stand-alone value upon delivery, we account for each deliverable separately. Subscription services have stand-alone value as such services are often sold separately. In determining whether professional services have stand-alone value, we consider the following factors for each professional services agreement: availability of the services from other vendors, the nature of the professional services, the timing of when the professional services contract was signed in comparison to the subscription service start date, and the contractual dependence of the subscription service on the customer’s satisfaction with the professional services work. To date, we have concluded that all of the professional servicesbe included in multiple-element arrangements executed have stand-alone value.

When multiple deliverables includedthe transaction price, if any. We then allocate the transaction price to each performance obligation in an arrangement are separated into different units of accounting, the arrangement consideration is allocated to the identified separate unitscontract based on a relative stand-alone selling price hierarchy. We determine the relative sellingmethod. The transaction price for a deliverable based on its vendor-specific objective evidence of fair value (VSOE), if available, or its best estimate of selling price (BESP), if VSOEpost allocation is not available. We have determined that third-party evidence of selling price is not a practical alternative due to differences in our service offerings compared to other parties and the availability of relevant third party pricing information. The amount ofrecognized as revenue allocated to delivered items is limited by contingent revenue, if any.

We have not established VSOE for our offerings due to the lack of pricing consistency, the introduction of new services and other factors. Accordingly, we use our BESP to determine the relative selling price. We determine BESP by considering our overall pricing objectives and market conditions. Significant pricing practices taken into consideration include our discounting practices, the size and volume of our transactions, the geographic area where services are sold, price lists, ourgo-to-market strategy, historical contractually stated prices and prior relationships and future subscription service sales with certain classes of customers.

The determination of BESP is made through consultation with and approval by our management, taking into consideration thego-to-market strategy. As ourgo-to-market strategies evolve, we may modify our pricing practices in the future, which could result in changes in selling prices, including both VSOE and BESP. We analyze the selling prices used in our allocation of arrangement consideration, at a minimum, on an annual basis. Selling prices are analyzed on a more frequent basis if a significant change in our business necessitates a more timely analysis or if we experience significant variances in our selling prices.

Allowance for Doubtful Accounts

We offset gross trade accounts receivable with an allowance for doubtful accounts. The allowance for doubtful accounts is our best estimate of the amount of probable credit losses in our existing accounts receivable and is based upon historical loss patterns, the number of days that billings are past due and an evaluation of the potential risk of loss associated with specific accounts. Provisions for allowances for doubtful accounts are recorded in general and administrative expense. If, upon signing a customer arrangement,as the related account receivableperformance obligation is not considered collectable, we will defer the associated revenue until we collect the cash. To date, we have not incurred any significant write-offs of accounts receivable and have not been required to revise any of our assumptions or estimates used in determining our allowance for doubtful accounts. As of December 31, 2017, our allowance for doubtful accounts was $146,000.satisfied.

Software Development Costs

Costs incurred to develop software applications used in ouron-demand application services consist of (a) certain external direct costs of materials and services incurred in developing or obtaininginternal-use computer software and (b) payroll and payroll-related costs for employees who are directly associated with, and who devote time to, the project. These costs generally consist of internal labor during configuration, coding and testing activities. Research and development costs incurred during the preliminary project stage or costs incurred for data conversion activities, training, maintenance and general and administrative or overhead costs are expensed as incurred. Capitalization begins when the preliminary project stage is complete, management with the relevant authority authorizes and commits to the funding of the software project, it is probable the project will be completed, and the software will be used to perform the functions intended and certain functional and quality standards have been met. Qualified costs incurred during the operating stage of our software applications relating to upgrades and enhancements are capitalized to the extent it is probable that they will result in added functionality, while costs that cannot be separated between maintenance of, and minor upgrades and enhancements to,internal-use software are expensed as incurred. These capitalized costs are amortized on a straight-line basis over the expected useful life of the software, which is three years. We capitalized $3.2 million in 2017, $4.0 million in 2016 and $1.5 million in 2015, respectively, ofinternal-use software development costs. Amortization ofinternal-use software development costs was $1.9 million in 2017, $690,000 in 2016 and $469,000 in 2015, respectively.

Income Taxes

We are subject to income taxes in both the United States and international jurisdictions, and we use estimates in determining our provision for income taxes. We account for income taxes under the asset and liability method for accounting and reporting for income taxes. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized based on temporary differences between the financial reporting and income tax basis of assets and liabilities using statutory rates. This process requires us to project our current tax liability and estimate our deferred tax assets and liabilities, including net operating losses and tax credit carryforwards. In assessing the need for a valuation allowance, we considered our recent operating results, future taxable income projections and feasible tax planning strategies. We have provided a valuation allowance against substantially all of our net U.S. and foreign deferred tax assets at December 31, 2017 with the exception of the2023. We recognized a deferred tax assets related to Brightcove KK.liability in the U.S. for a portion of our indefinite lived intangibles and other deferred tax liabilities that would not be offset against deferred tax assets. Due to the evolving nature and complexity of tax regulations combined with the number of jurisdictions in which we operate, it is possible that our estimates of our tax liability could change in the future, which may result in additional tax liabilities and adversely affect our results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.

As of December 31, 20172023 and 2016,2022, we had no material unrecognized tax benefits.

Business Combinations

We record tangible and intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed in business combinations under the purchase method of accounting. Amounts paid for each acquisition are allocated to the assets acquired and

liabilities assumed based on their fair values at the date of acquisition. We then allocate the purchase price in excess of net tangible assets acquired to identifiable intangible assets based on detailed valuations that use information and assumptions provided by management. We allocate any excess purchase price over the fair value of the net tangible and intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed to goodwill. If the fair value of the assets acquired exceeds our purchase price, the excess is recognized as a gain.

Significant management judgments and assumptions are required in determining the fair value of acquired assets and liabilities, particularly acquired intangible assets. The valuation of purchased intangible assets is based upon estimates of the future performance and cash flows from the acquired business. Each asset is measured at fair value from the perspective of a market participant. Critical estimates in valuing purchased technology and customer lists include future cash flows that we expect to generate from the acquired assets. If the subsequent actual results and updated projections of the underlying business activity change compared with the assumptions and projections used to develop these values, we could experience impairment charges which could be material. In addition, we have estimated the economic lives of certain acquired assets and these lives are used to

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calculate depreciation and amortization expense. If our estimates of the economic lives change, depreciation or amortization expenses could be accelerated or slowed.

If different assumptions are used, it could materially impact the purchase price allocation and adversely affect our results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.

Goodwill and Acquired Intangible Assets and Goodwill

We record goodwill when consideration paid in a purchase acquisition exceedsIntangible assets that have finite lives are amortized over their estimated useful lives based on the fair valuepattern of consumption of the net assets acquired. economic benefit or, if that pattern cannot be readily determined, on a straight-line basis and are reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable, as discussed above.

Goodwill is not amortized, but rather is testedevaluated for impairment annually, or more frequently if facts andwhenever events or changes in circumstances warrant a review.indicate that the carrying value may not be recoverable. Conditions that could trigger a more frequent impairment assessment include, but are not limited to, a significant adverse change in certain agreements, significant underperformance relative to historical or projected future operating results, an economic downturn in customers’ industries, increased competition, a significant reduction in our stock price for a sustained period or a reduction of our market capitalization relative to net book value. If there is an impairment, the amount of the impairment is on the excess of a reporting unit’s carrying amount over its fair value.

We have determined, based on our organizational structure, that we have one reporting unit as of December 31, 2023 and 2022. We evaluate impairment by comparing the estimated fair value of eachour reporting unit to its carrying value. We estimate fair value primarily utilizing the market approach, which calculates fair value based on the market values of comparable companies or comparable transactions. Actual results may differ materially from these estimates. The estimates we make in determining the fair value of our reporting unit involve the application of judgment, which could affect the timing and size of any future impairment charges. Impairment of our goodwill could significantly affect our operating results and financial position.

Intangible assets are recorded at their estimated fair value at the date of acquisition. We amortize our intangible assets over their estimated useful lives based on the pattern of consumptionPlease see Note 7 for a discussion of the economic benefit or, if that pattern cannot be readily determined, on a straight-line basis. Amortization is recorded over the estimated useful lives ranging from two to fourteen years.our evaluation of impairment as of December 31, 2023

We review our intangible assets subject to amortization to determine if any adverse conditions exist or a change in circumstances has occurred that would indicate impairment or a change in the remaining useful life. If the carrying value of an asset exceeds its undiscounted cash flows, we will write down the carrying value of the intangible asset to its fair value in the period identified. In assessing recoverability, we must make assumptions regarding estimated future cash flows and discount rates. If these estimates or related assumptions change in the future, we may be required to record impairment charges. We generally calculate fair value as the present value of estimated future cash flows to be generated by the asset using a risk adjusted discount rate. If the estimate of an intangible asset’s remaining useful life is changed, we will amortize the remaining carrying value of the intangible asset prospectively over the revised remaining useful life.

We adopted ASUNo. 2011-08,Intangibles — Goodwill and Other (Topic 350) Testing Goodwill for Impairment. Under ASU2011-08, we have the option to assess qualitative factors to determine whether the existence of events or circumstances leads to a determination that it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount to determine whether further impairment testing is necessary. Based on the assessment of these qualitative factors, we determined that no impairment indicators were noted, allowing us to forego the quantitative analysis.43


Stock-based Compensation

We value our shares of common stock in connection with the issuance of stock-based equity awards using the closing price of our shares of common stock on the NASDAQ Global Market on the date of the grant. Accounting guidance requires employee stock-based payments to be accounted for under the fair value method. Under this method, we are required to record compensation cost based on the estimated fair value for stock-based awards granted over the requisite service periods for the individual awards, which generally equals the vesting periods. We use the straight-line amortization method for recognizing stock-based compensation expense associated with equity awards to employees. Upon the adoption ofASU 2016-09 on January 1, 2017, we have elected to recognize prospectively gross share based compensation expense with actual forfeitures recognized as they occur. Prior to the adoption of ASU2016-09, we estimated forfeitures at the time of grant and revised those estimates in subsequent periods if actual forfeitures differed from estimates.

We estimate the fair value of employee stock options on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model, which requires the use of highly subjective estimates and assumptions. For restricted stock awards issued we estimate the fair value of each grant based on the stock price of our common stock on the date of grant. The expected volatility of options granted has been determined using a weighted average of the historical volatility measures of a peer group of companies that issued options with substantially similar terms as well as the historical volatility of our own common stock. The expected life assumption is based on the “simplified method” for estimating expected term as we do not have sufficient stock option exercise experience to support a reasonable estimate of the expected term. The risk-free interest rate is based on a treasury instrument whose term is consistent with the expected life of the stock options. We use an expected dividend rate of zero as we currently have no history or expectation of paying dividends on our common stock.

The relevant data used to determine the value of the stock option grants is as follows:

   Year Ended December 31, 
     2017      2016      2015   

Risk-free interest rate

   2.08  1.75  1.96

Expected volatility

   42  45  46

Expected life (in years)

   6.1   6.2   6.2 

Expected dividend yield

   —     —     —   

Results of Operations

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

  Year Ended December 31, 

 

Year Ended December 31,

 

  2017 2016 2015 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

  (in thousands, except share and per share
data)
 

 

(in thousands, except share and per share data)

 

Revenue:

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Subscription and support revenue

  $143,159  $142,022  $131,010 

 

$

192,461

 

 

$

204,091

 

 

$

198,929

 

Professional services and other revenue

   12,754  8,244  3,696 

 

 

8,726

 

 

 

6,917

 

 

 

12,164

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Total revenue

   155,913  150,266  134,706 

 

 

201,187

 

 

 

211,008

 

 

 

211,093

 

Cost of revenue:

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cost of subscription and support revenue

   50,664  48,011  41,735 

 

 

68,244

 

 

 

69,935

 

 

 

62,773

 

Cost of professional services and other revenue

   13,954  7,836  4,742 

 

 

9,109

 

 

 

7,138

 

 

 

10,255

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Total cost of revenue

   64,618  55,847  46,477 

 

 

77,353

 

 

 

77,073

 

 

 

73,028

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Gross profit

   91,295  94,419  88,229 

 

 

123,834

 

 

 

133,935

 

 

 

138,065

 

Operating expenses:

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Research and development

   31,850  30,171  29,302 

 

 

37,202

 

 

 

33,524

 

 

 

31,718

 

Sales and marketing

   57,294  54,038  45,795 

 

 

72,410

 

 

 

73,997

 

 

 

71,177

 

General and administrative

   21,847  19,167  19,862 

 

 

35,556

 

 

 

32,550

 

 

 

29,261

 

Merger-related

   —    21  201 

 

 

307

 

 

 

747

 

 

 

300

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Other expense (benefit)

 

 

 

 

 

1,149

 

 

 

(1,965

)

Total operating expenses

   110,991  103,397  95,160 

 

 

145,475

 

 

 

141,967

 

 

 

130,491

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Loss from operations

   (19,696 (8,978 (6,931

(Loss) income from operations

 

 

(21,641

)

 

 

(8,032

)

 

 

7,574

 

Other expense, net

   547  (598 (258

 

 

(80

)

 

 

(1,035

)

 

 

(1,375

)

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Loss before income taxes

   (19,149 (9,576 (7,189

Provision for income taxes

   370  410  391 
  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Net loss

  $(19,519 $(9,986 $(7,580
  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Net loss per share - basic and diluted

  $(0.57 $(0.30 $(0.23
  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Weighted-average number of common shares used in computing net loss per share - basic and diluted

   34,376  33,189  32,598 
  

 

  

 

  

 

 

(Loss) income before income taxes

 

 

(21,721

)

 

 

(9,067

)

 

 

6,199

 

Provision (benefit) for income taxes

 

 

1,165

 

 

 

(52

)

 

 

802

 

Net (loss) income

 

$

(22,886

)

 

$

(9,015

)

 

$

5,397

 

Net (loss) income per share

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic

 

$

(0.53

)

 

$

(0.22

)

 

$

0.13

 

Diluted

 

$

(0.53

)

 

$

(0.22

)

 

$

0.13

 

Weighted-average number of common shares used in computing net (loss) income per share

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic

 

 

43,128

 

 

 

41,831

 

 

 

40,717

 

Diluted

 

 

43,128

 

 

 

41,831

 

 

 

42,200

 

Overview of Results of Operations for the Years Ended December 31, 20172023 and 20162022

Total revenue increased by 4%, or $5.6 million,decreased in 20172023 compared to 20162022 due to an increasea decrease in subscription and support revenue of 1%6%, or $1.1$11.6 million, offset by an increase in professional services and other revenue of 26%, or $1.8 million. The decrease in subscription and support revenue of 6%, or $11.6 million, was primarily related to the continued growth of our customer base fora decrease in revenue from our premium offerings including sales to both new and existing customers.offerings. The increase in professional services and other revenue of 55%26%, or $4.5$1.8 million, was primarily related to the size and number of professional services engagements in 20172023 compared to 2016. The increases2022. Professional services and other revenue will vary from period to period depending on the number of implementations and other projects that are offset by the loss of a major customer, during the first quarter of 2017, and a $1.5 million reduction in revenue due to changes in foreign exchange rates compared to the exchange rates that were in effect during 2016. In addition, our revenue from premium offerings grew by $7.5 million, or 5%, in 2017 compared to 2016.process. Our ability to continue to provide the product functionality and performance that our customers require will be a major factor in our ability to continue to increase revenue.

Our gross profit decreased by $3.1$10.1 million, or 3%8%, in 20172023 compared to 2016,2022, primarily due to increasesa decrease in the cost of subscription and support revenue, and the cost of professional services revenue without corresponding increasesas well as an increase in revenue. Cost of subscription and support revenue increased dueamortization expense related to additional content delivery network expenses and network hosting services incurred in order to support the launch of a major customer. Cost

of professional services revenue increased due to a higher level of contractor costs and project hours during the year ended December 31, 2017.our capitalized internal-use software. Our ability to continue to maintain our overall gross profit will depend primarily on our ability to continue controlling our costs of delivery. delivery and our revenue from premium offerings.

Loss from operations was $19.7$21.6 million in 20172023 compared to $9.0a loss from operations of $8.0 million in 2016. Loss from operations in 2017 included stock-based compensation expense and amortization of acquired intangible assets of $7.2 million and $2.7 million, respectively. Loss from operations in 2016 included stock-based compensation expense and amortization of acquired intangible assets of $6.0 million and $3.1 million, respectively. We expect operating income to improve from increased sales to both new and existing customers and from improved efficiencies throughout our organization as we continue to grow and scale our operations.

As of December 31, 2017, we had $26.1 million of unrestricted cash and cash equivalents, a decrease of $10.7 million from $36.8 million at December 31, 2016, due primarily to $6.4 million of cash used in operating activities, $3.0 million in capitalizedinternal-use software costs, and $1.1 million in capital expenditures. There were also cash outflows of $489,000 in payments under capital lease obligations, $307,000 for payments on equipment financing and $268,000 in payments of withholding tax on RSU vesting.

Revenue

   Year Ended December 31,    
   2017  2016  Change 

Revenue by Product Line

  Amount   Percentage of
Revenue
  Amount   Percentage of
Revenue
  Amount  % 
   (in thousands, except percentages) 

Premium

  $150,304    96 $142,840    95 $7,464   5

Volume

   5,609    4   7,426    5   (1,817  (24
  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total

  $155,913    100 $150,266    100 $5,647   4
  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

During 2017, revenue increased by $5.6 million, or 4%, compared to 2016,2022. This is primarily due to an increase in operating expenses of 2%, or $3.5 million, including restructuring expenses of $2.8 million, as well as a decrease in our gross profit of 8%, or $10.1 million.

44


Revenue

 

 

Year Ended December 31,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

Change

 

Revenue by Product Line

 

Amount

 

 

Percentage of
Revenue

 

 

Amount

 

 

Percentage of
Revenue

 

 

Amount

 

 

%

 

 

 

(in thousands, except percentages)

 

Premium

 

$

199,908

 

 

 

99

%

 

$

208,777

 

 

 

98

%

 

$

(8,869

)

 

 

(4

)%

Volume

 

 

1,279

 

 

 

1

 

 

 

2,231

 

 

 

2

 

 

 

(952

)

 

 

(43

)

Total

 

$

201,187

 

 

 

100

%

 

$

211,008

 

 

 

100

%

 

$

(9,821

)

 

 

(5

)%

During 2023, revenue decreased by $9.8 million, or 5%, compared to 2022, primarily due to a decrease in revenue from our premium offerings, which consist of subscription and support revenue, as well as professional services and other revenue.offerings. The increasedecrease in premium revenue of $7.5$8.9 million, or 5%4%, is partially the result of an 8% increasea decrease in the number of premiumour customers from 2,007 at December 31, 2016 to 2,167 at December 31, 2017, in addition to a $4.5 million, or 55%, increase in professional services revenue. The increases are offset by the loss of a major customer and a $1.5 million reductiondecrease in revenue due to changes in foreign exchange rates compared to the exchange rates that were in effect during 2016.usage-based fees outside of North America. During 2017,2023, volume revenue decreased by $1.8 million,$952,000, or 24%43%, compared to 2016, as we2022. We continue to focus on the market for our premium solutions.

  Year Ended December 31,   

 

Year Ended December 31,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  2017 2016 Change 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

Change

 

Revenue by Type

  Amount   Percentage of
Revenue
 Amount   Percentage of
Revenue
 Amount   % 

 

Amount

 

 

Percentage of
Revenue

 

 

Amount

 

 

Percentage of
Revenue

 

 

Amount

 

 

%

 

  (in thousands, except percentages) 

 

(in thousands, except percentages)

 

Subscription and support

  $143,159    92 $142,022    95 $1,137    1

 

$

192,461

 

 

 

96

%

 

$

204,091

 

 

 

97

%

 

$

(11,630

)

 

 

(6

)%

Professional services and other

   12,754    8  8,244    5  4,510    55 

 

 

8,726

 

 

 

4

 

 

 

6,917

 

 

 

3

 

 

 

1,809

 

 

 

26

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

 

Total

  $155,913    100 $150,266    100 $5,647    4

 

$

201,187

 

 

 

100

%

 

$

211,008

 

 

 

100

%

 

$

(9,821

)

 

 

(5

)%

  

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

 

During 2017,2023, subscription and support revenue increaseddecreased by $1.1$11.6 million, or 1%6%, compared to 2016.2022. The increasedecrease was primarily relateddue to the continued growth of our customer base for ouraforementioned decrease in revenue from premium offerings including sales to both new and existing customers during 2017. The increases are offset by the lossoutside of a major customerNorth America during the first quarter of 2017. In addition, professionalyear ended December 31, 2023. Professional services and other revenue increased by $4.5$1.8 million, or 55%26%, primarily related to the size and number of professional services engagements during 2017comparedcompared to the prior year. During 2017, the increase in professional services revenue was primarily related to an increase in OTT

application development projects. Professional services and other revenue will vary from period to period depending on the number of implementations and other projects that are in process.

  Year Ended December 31,   

 

Year Ended December 31,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  2017 2016 Change 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

Change

 

Revenue by Geography

  Amount   Percentage of
Revenue
 Amount   Percentage of
Revenue
 Amount % 

 

Amount

 

 

Percentage of
Revenue

 

 

Amount

 

 

Percentage of
Revenue

 

 

Amount

 

 

%

 

  (in thousands, except percentages) 

 

(in thousands, except percentages)

 

North America

  $91,358    59 $92,912    62 $(1,554 (2)% 

 

$

120,378

 

 

 

60

%

 

$

118,755

 

 

 

56

%

 

$

1,623

 

 

 

1

%

  

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

 

Europe

   24,425    16  25,196    17  (771 (3

 

 

32,922

 

 

 

16

 

 

 

36,177

 

 

 

18

 

 

 

(3,255

)

 

 

(9

)

Japan

   16,881    11  15,230    10  1,651  11 

 

 

20,080

 

 

 

11

 

 

 

21,988

 

 

 

13

 

 

 

(1,908

)

 

 

(9

)

Asia Pacific

   22,539    14  15,617    10  6,922  44 

 

 

27,421

 

 

 

14

 

 

 

33,645

 

 

 

13

 

 

 

(6,224

)

 

 

(18

)

Other

   710    0  1,311    1  (601 (46

 

 

386

 

 

 

 

 

 

443

 

 

 

 

 

 

(57

)

 

 

(13

)

  

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

 

International subtotal

   64,555    41  57,354    38  7,201  13 

 

 

80,809

 

 

 

41

 

 

 

92,253

 

 

 

44

 

 

 

(11,444

)

 

 

(12

)

  

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

 

Total

  $155,913    100 $150,266    100 $5,647  4

 

$

201,187

 

 

 

100

%

 

$

211,008

 

 

 

100

%

 

$

(9,821

)

 

 

(5

)%

  

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

 

For purposes of this section, we designate revenue by geographic regions based upon the locations of our customers. North America is comprised of revenue from the United States, Canada and Mexico. International is comprised of revenue from locations outside of North America. Depending on the timing of new customer contracts, revenue mix from a geographic region can vary from period to period.

During 2017,2023, total revenue for North America decreasedincreased by $1.6 million, or 2%1%, compared to 2016. The reduction in revenue for North America is primarily related to the loss of a major customer in the first quarter of 2017 partially offset by increases in sales to new and existing customers.2022. During 2017,2023, total revenue outside of North America increased $7.2decreased by $11.4 million, or 13%12%, compared to 2016.2022. The increasedecrease in revenue from international regions isin Japan was primarily relateddriven by a decrease in average revenue per premium customer as customer usage-based fees were less in the current period and, to an increasea lesser extent, non-recurring customer events that occurred in revenuethe prior period. The decreases in Asia Pacific and Japan. The increase in revenue from Asia Pacific and Japan is primarily related to an increase in revenue from professional services engagements related to OTT application development projects. These increasesEurope were partially offset by a $1.5 million reduction in revenue due to changesa decrease in foreign exchange rates compared to the exchange rates that werecustomers and a decrease in effect during 2016.average revenue per premium customer as usage-based fees decreased.

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Cost of Revenue

  Year Ended December 31,   

 

Year Ended December 31,

 

 

 

 

 

 

  2017 2016 Change 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

Change

 

Cost of Revenue

  Amount   Percentage of
Related
Revenue
 Amount   Percentage of
Related
Revenue
 Amount   % 

 

Amount

 

 

Percentage of
Related
Revenue

 

 

Amount

 

 

Percentage of
Related
Revenue

 

 

Amount

 

 

%

 

  (in thousands, except percentages) 

 

(in thousands, except percentages)

 

Subscription and support

  $50,664    35 $48,011    34 $2,653    6

 

$

68,244

 

 

 

35

%

 

$

69,935

 

 

 

34

%

 

$

(1,691

)

 

 

(2

)%

Professional services and other

   13,954    109  7,836    95  6,118    78 

 

 

9,109

 

 

 

104

 

 

 

7,138

 

 

 

103

 

 

 

1,971

 

 

 

28

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

 

Total

  $64,618    41 $55,847    37 $8,771    16

 

$

77,353

 

 

 

38

%

 

$

77,073

 

 

 

37

%

 

$

280

 

 

 

0

%

  

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

 

During 2017,2023, cost of subscription and support revenue increased $2.7decreased $1.7 million, or 6%2%, compared to 2016. The increase resulted primarily from increases2022. This decrease corresponds to a decrease in our network hosting services and content delivery network expenses amortization of capitalizedinternal-use software development costs, partner commission expense and network hosting services of $1.2 million, $1.2and $5.1 million, $799,000 and $791,000, respectively. Partner commission expense primarily relatesrespectively, as we continue to payments to third parties for the useoptimize our costs of technology that is integrated with our Video Cloud product. Theregoods sold. These decreases were also increases in maintenance expense, employee-related expense, costs associated with third-party software integrated with our service offering and stock-based compensation expense of $474,000, $316,000, $248,000 and $115,000, respectively. These increases were partially offset by decreasesan increase in depreciation expense, costs

amortization of capitalized internal-use software development of $4.6 million.

associated with the closure of certain facilities, and bandwidth costs, of $1.2 million, $843,000 and $426,000, respectively.

During 2017,2023, cost of professional services and other revenue increased $6.1$2.0 million, or 78%28%, compared to 2016.2022. This increase corresponds to the increase in professional services revenue and resulted primarily from increases in contractor and employee-related expenses of $4.4 million and $1.4 million, respectively. There was an increase in the mix of contractor expenses versus internal expenses in orderof $2.8 million due to support varioushigher levels of implementation and professional services projects.provided. This increase was offset by a decrease in employee-related expenses and rent and utilities expenses of $647,000 and $104,000, respectively.

Gross Profit

  Year Ended December 31,   

 

Year Ended December 31,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  2017 2016 Change 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

Change

 

Gross Profit

  Amount Percentage of
Related
Revenue
 Amount   Percentage of
Related
Revenue
 Amount % 

 

Amount

 

 

Percentage of
Related
Revenue

 

 

Amount

 

 

Percentage of
Related
Revenue

 

 

Amount

 

 

%

 

  (in thousands, except percentages) 

 

(in thousands, except percentages)

 

Subscription and support

  $92,495  65 $94,011    66 $(1,516 (2)% 

 

$

124,217

 

 

 

65

%

 

$

134,156

 

 

 

66

%

 

$

(9,939

)

 

 

(7

)%

Professional services and other

   (1,200 (9 408    5  (1,608 nm 

 

 

(383

)

 

 

(4

)

 

 

(221

)

 

 

(3

)

 

 

(162

)

 

 

(73

)

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

 

Total

  $91,295  59 $94,419    63 $(3,124 (3)% 

 

$

123,834

 

 

 

62

%

 

$

133,935

 

 

 

63

%

 

$

(10,101

)

 

 

(8

)%

  

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

 

nm – not meaningful

The overall gross profit percentage was 59%62% and 63% for the years ended December 31, 20172023 and 2016,2022, respectively. The decrease is primarily due to an increase in revenue from professional services engagements, which has a lower gross margin as compared to subscription and support revenue. Subscription and support gross profit decreased $1.5$9.9 million, or 2%7%, compared to 2016 due to additional content delivery network expenses and network hosting services incurred in order to support the launch of a major customer.2022. In addition, professional services and other gross profit decreased $1.6 million compared to 2016 due to the increase in contractor expenses in order to support various professional services projects.

Operating Expenses

   Year Ended December 31,    
   2017  2016  Change 

Operating Expenses

  Amount   Percentage of
Revenue
  Amount   Percentage of
Revenue
  Amount  % 
   (in thousands, except percentages) 

Research and development

  $31,850    20 $30,171    20 $1,679   6

Sales and marketing

   57,294    37   54,038    36   3,256   6 

General and administrative

   21,847    14   19,167    13   2,680   14 

Merger-related

   —      —     21    —     (21  (100
  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total

  $110,991    71 $103,397    69 $7,594   7
  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Research and Development. During 2017, research and development expense increased by $1.7 million,$162,000, or 6%73%, compared to 2016 primarily due to increases in employee-related, computer maintenance and support, stock-based compensation and contractor expenses of $1.7 million, $465,000, $288,000 and $246,000, respectively. These increases were partially offset by decreases in recruiting and relocation expense, travel expense, and amortization of acquired intangible assets of $382,000, $299,000 and $116,000, respectively. In future periods, we expect that our research and development expense will increase in absolute dollars as we continue to add employees, develop new features and functionality for our products, introduce additional software solutions and expand our product and service offerings.

Sales and Marketing. During 2017, sales and marketing expense increased by $3.3 million, or 6%, compared to 2016 primarily due to employee-related expense, commission expense, marketing programs and stock-based compensation expense of $2.2 million, $825,000, $565,000 and $430,000, respectively. There were also increases in computer maintenance and support and rent expense of $361,000 and $168,000, respectively. These increases were partially offset by decreases in travel expense, amortization of acquired intangible assets, contractor expense, and recruiting and relocation expense of $508,000, $267,000, $258,000 and $244,000, respectively. We expect that our sales and marketing expense will increase in absolute dollars along with our revenue, as we continue to expand sales coverage and build brand awareness through what we believe are cost-effective channels. We expect that such increases may fluctuate from period to period, however, due to the timing of marketing programs.

General and Administrative. During 2017, general and administrative expense increased by $2.7 million, or 14%, compared to 2016 primarily due to increases in outside accounting and legal fees, employee-related expense, and stock-based compensation expense of $2.2 million, $929,000 and $364,000, respectively. There were also increases in commission and travel expenses of $209,000 and $109,000, respectively. These increases were offset by decreases in contractor and recruiting and relocation expenses of $241,000 and $182,000, respectively, and the reversal of a sales tax accrual of $635,000. In future periods, we expect general and administrative expense to remain relatively unchanged.

Merger-related. During 2017, merger-related expenses decreased $21,000, or 100%, when compared to 2016 due to a $21,000 decrease in costs associated with the retention of certain employees of Unicorn.

Other Expense, Net

   Year Ended December 31,    
   2017  2016  Change 

Other Expense

  Amount  Percentage of
Revenue
  Amount  Percentage of
Revenue
  Amount   % 
   (in thousands, except percentages) 

Interest income, net

  $124   —   $99   —   $25    25

Interest expense

   (26  —     (63  —     37    (59

Other expense, net

   449   —     (634  —     1,083    (171
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

  $547   —   $(598  —   $1,145    (191)% 
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

The interest expense during 2017 is primarily comprised of interest paid on capital leases and an equipment financing. The increase in other expenses, net was primarily due to foreign currency exchange gains recorded during 2017 upon collection of foreign denominated accounts receivable, compared to losses recorded in the corresponding period of the prior year.

Provision for Income Taxes

   Year Ended December 31,    
   2017  2016  Change 

Provision for Income Taxes

  Amount   Percentage of
Revenue
  Amount   Percentage of
Revenue
  Amount  % 
   (in thousands, except percentages) 

Provision for income taxes

  $370    —   $410    —   $(40  (10)% 
  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

During 2017 and 2016, the provision for income taxes was primarily comprised of income tax expenses related to foreign jurisdictions.

Overview of Results of Operations for the Years Ended December 31, 2016 and 2015

Total revenue increased by 12%, or $15.6 million, in 2016 compared to 2015 due to an increase in subscription and support revenue of 8%, or $11.0 million. The increase in professional services and other revenue of 123%, or $4.5 million primarily related to the size and number of professional services engagements, in 2016 compared to 2015. The increase in subscription and support revenue resulted primarily from an increase in revenue from new and existing customers. In addition, our revenue from premium offerings grew by $17.1million, or 14%, in 2016 compared to 2015. Our ability to continue to provide the product functionality and performance that our customers require will be a major factor in our ability to continue to increase revenue.

Our gross profit increased by $6.2 million, or 7%, in 2016 compared to 2015, primarily due to an increase in revenue. Our ability to continue to maintain our overall gross profit will depend primarily on our ability to continue controlling our costs of delivery. Loss from operations was $9.0 million in 2016 compared to $6.9 million in 2015. Loss from operations in 2016 included stock-based compensation expense and amortization of acquired intangible assets of $6.0 million and $3.1 million, respectively. Loss from operations in 2015 included stock-based compensation expense and amortization of acquired intangible assets of $6.0 million and $3.1 million, respectively. We expect operating income to improve from increased sales to both new and existing customers and from improved efficiencies throughout our organization as we continue to grow and scale our operations.

As of December 31, 2016, we had $36.8 million of unrestricted cash and cash equivalents, an increase of $9.2 million from $27.6 million at December 31, 2015, due primarily to $11.1 million of cash provided by operating activities, $4.6 million in proceeds from exercises of stock options and $604,000 in proceeds from an equipment financing. These increases were offset in part by $3.9 million in capitalization ofinternal-use software costs, $1.3 million in capital expenditures and $850,000 in payments under capital lease obligations.

Revenue

   Year Ended December 31,    
   2016  2015  Change 

Revenue by

Product Line

  Amount   Percentage of
Revenue
  Amount   Percentage of
Revenue
  Amount  % 
   (in thousands, except percentages) 

Premium

  $142,840    95 $125,767    93 $17,073   14

Volume

   7,426    5   8,939    7   (1,513  (17
  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total

  $150,266    100 $134,706    100 $15,560   12
  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

During 2016, revenue increased by $15.6 million, or 12%, compared to 2015, primarily due to an increase in revenue from our premium offerings, which consist of subscription and support revenue, as well as professional services and other revenue. The increase in premium revenue of $17.1million, or 14%, is partially the result of an 8% increase in the number of premium customers from 1,863 at December 31, 2015 to 2,007 at December 31, 2016 and a 6% increase in the average annual subscription revenue per premium customer during 2016. In addition, during 2016, professional services and other revenue increased by $4.5 million compared to 2015. During 2016, volume revenue decreased by $1.5 million, or 17%, compared to 2015, as we continue to focus on the market for our premium solutions.

   Year Ended December 31,    
   2016  2015  Change 

Revenue by Type

  Amount   Percentage of
Revenue
  Amount   Percentage of
Revenue
  Amount   % 
   (in thousands, except percentages) 

Subscription and support

  $142,022    95 $131,010    97 $11,012    8

Professional services and other

   8,244    5   3,696    3   4,548    123 
  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

  $150,266    100 $134,706    100 $15,560    12
  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

During 2016, subscription and support revenue increased by $11.0 million, or 8%, compared to 2015. The increase was primarily related to the continued growth of our customer base for our premium offerings, including sales to both new and existing customers, and a 6% increase in the average annual subscription revenue per premium customer during 2016. In addition, professional services and other revenue increased by $4.5 million, or 123%, primarily related to the size and number of professional services engagements during 2016 compared to the prior year. We engaged in several large professional services engagements in 2016 to support our various subscription sales, including $4.7 million of revenue recognized from customers in Japan compared to $1.4 million in the prior year. Professional services and other revenue will vary from period to period depending on the number of implementations and other projects that are in process.

   Year Ended December 31,    
   2016  2015  Change 

Revenue by Geography

  Amount   Percentage of
Revenue
  Amount   Percentage of
Revenue
  Amount  % 
   (in thousands, except percentages) 

North America

  $92,912    62 $86,106    64 $6,806   8

Europe

   25,196    17   25,380    19   (184  (1

Japan

   15,230    10   9,061    7   6,169   68 

Asia Pacific

   15,617    10   12,380    9   3,237   26 

Other

   1,311    1   1,779    1   (468  (26
  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

International subtotal

   57,354    38   48,600    36   8,754   18 
  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total

  $150,266    100 $134,706    100 $15,560   12
  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

For purposes of this section, we designate revenue by geographic regions based upon the locations of our customers. North America is comprised of revenue from the United States, Canada and Mexico. International is comprised of revenue from locations outside of North America. Depending on the timing of new customer contracts, revenue mix from a geographic region can vary from period to period.

During 2016, total revenue for North America increased $6.8 million, or 8%, compared to 2015. The increase in revenue for North America resulted primarily from an increase in subscription and support revenue from our premium offerings. During 2016, total revenue outside of North America increased $8.8 million, or 18%, compared to 2015. The increase in revenue from international regions is primarily related to an increase in revenue in Japan and Asia Pacific. Revenue from customers in Japan increased by $6.2 million of which $3.3 million was from professional service arrangements. This increase is partially offset by a $1.1 million

reduction in revenue due to changes in foreign exchange rates compared to the exchange rates that were in effect during 2015.

Cost of Revenue

   Year Ended December 31,  Change 
   2016  2015        

Cost of Revenue

  Amount   Percentage of
Related
Revenue
  Amount   Percentage of
Related
Revenue
  Amount   % 
   (in thousands, except percentages) 

Subscription and support

  $48,011    34 $41,735    32 $6,276    15

Professional services and other

   7,836    95   4,742    128   3,094    65 
  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

  $55,847    37 $46,477    35 $9,370    20
  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

During 2016, cost of subscription and support revenue increased $6.3 million, or 15%, compared to 2015. The increase resulted primarily from increases in content delivery network expenses, network hosting service expenses, employee-related expenses, and costs associated with the closure of certain facilities of $3.2 million, $2.4 million, $738,000 and $696,000, respectively. There were also increases in bandwidth, third-party software integrated with our service offerings and stock-based compensation expenses of $239,000, $208,000 and $143,000, respectively. These increases were partially offset by a decrease in depreciation expense of $1.2 million.

During 2016, cost of professional services and other revenue increased $3.1 million, or 65%, compared to 2015. The increase resulted primarily from increases in contractor and employee-related expenses of $2.3 million and $605,000, respectively. The increase primarily related to an increase in professional services projects in 2016.

Gross Profit

   Year Ended December 31,  Change 
   2016  2015        

Gross Profit

  Amount   Percentage of
Related
Revenue
  Amount  Percentage of
Related
Revenue
  Amount   % 
   (in thousands, except percentages) 

Subscription and support

  $94,011    66 $89,275   68 $4,736    5

Professional services and other

   408    5   (1,046  (28  1,454    139 
  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

  $94,419    63 $88,229   65 $6,190    7
  

 

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

The overall gross profit percentage was 63% and 65% for the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015, respectively. Subscription and support gross profit increased $4.7 million, or 5%, compared to 2015. Professional services and other gross profit increased $1.5 million, or 139% compared to 2015. The increase in the number of professional service engagements has allowed for greater leverage of fixed costs, which has resulted in margin expansion for this revenue stream. The decrease in subscription and support gross margin is primarily related to additional costs incurred in delivering our subscription service in addition to the costs incurred to close certain facilities. During 2016 we moved certain operating activities to cloud-based services while maintaining existing data centers until the fourth quarter at which time we closed certain facilities and incurred an additional expense of $845,000. We expect to continue to seek opportunities to move operating activities to additional cloud-based services, and as a result, to achieve a moderate increase in subscription and support gross margin.2022. It is likely that gross profit, as a percentage of revenue, will fluctuate quarter by quarter due to the timing and mix of subscription and support revenue and professional services and other revenue, and the type, timing and duration of service required in delivering certain projects.

Operating Expenses

  Year Ended December 31, Change 

 

Year Ended December 31,

 

 

 

 

 

 

  2016 2015     

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

Change

 

Operating Expenses

  Amount   Percentage of
Revenue
 Amount   Percentage of
Revenue
 Amount % 

 

Amount

 

 

Percentage of
Revenue

 

 

Amount

 

 

Percentage of
Revenue

 

 

Amount

 

 

%

 

  (in thousands, except percentages) 

 

(in thousands, except percentages)

 

Research and development

  $30,171    20 $29,302    22 $869  3

 

$

37,202

 

 

 

18

%

 

$

33,524

 

 

 

16

%

 

$

3,678

 

 

 

11

%

Sales and marketing

   54,038    36  45,795    34  8,243  18 

 

 

72,410

 

 

 

36

%

 

 

73,997

 

 

 

35

%

 

 

(1,587

)

 

 

(2

)%

General and administrative

   19,167    13  19,862    15  (695 (3

 

 

35,556

 

 

 

18

%

 

 

32,550

 

 

 

15

%

 

 

3,006

 

 

 

9

%

Merger-related

   21    —    201    —    (180 (90

 

 

307

 

 

 

 

 

 

747

 

 

 

 

 

 

(440

)

 

 

(59

)%

  

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

 

Other

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1,149

 

 

 

 

 

 

(1,149

)

 

 

(1

)

Total

  $103,397    69 $95,160    71 $8,237  9

 

$

145,475

 

 

 

72

%

 

$

141,967

 

 

 

66

%

 

$

3,508

 

 

 

2

%

  

 

   

 

  

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

 

Research and Development. During 2016,2023, research and development expense increased by $869,000,$3.7 million, or 3%11%, compared to 20152022. This increase was primarily due to increases in employee-related and contractor expenses of $4.1 million, which included $1.1 million and $248,000 respectively. These increases were partially offset by decreases in rent, travel and stock-based compensation expenses of $186,000, $149,000 and $117,000, respectively. In future periods, we expect that our research and development expense willrestructuring expenses. This increase in absolute dollars as we continue to add employees, develop new features and functionality for our products, introduce additional software solutions and expand our product and service offerings.

Sales and Marketing. During 2016, sales and marketing expense increased by $8.2 million, or 18%, compared to 2015 primarily due to employee-related, commission and travel expenses of $4.5 million, $2.2 million and $652,000 respectively. There were also increases in computer maintenance and support, marketing programs and stock-based compensation expenses of $388,000, $364,000 and $165,000, respectively. These increases were partiallywas offset by a decrease in contractor expenses of $479,000. We expect our research and development expense, as percentage of $283,000.revenue, to remain relatively unchanged in future periods.

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Sales and Marketing. During 2023, sales and marketing expense decreased by $1.6 million, or 2%, compared to 2022 primarily due to decreases in marketing programs expenses, contractor expenses and rent and utilities expenses of $2.7 million, $745,000 and $615,000, respectively. These decreases were offset by an increase in employee-related expenses of $2.2 million, which included $1.3 million of restructuring expenses, and various other expenses that, in aggregate, increased by $274,000. We expect that our sales and marketing expense will increasedecrease in absolute dollars along with our revenue,in the short term as a result of the restructuring actions we continue to expand sales coveragetook in 2023 and build brand awareness through what we believe are cost-effective channels. We expect that such increases may fluctuate from period to period, however, due to the timing of marketing programs.January 2024.

General and Administrative.During 2016,2023, general and administrative expense decreasedincreased by 695,000,$3.0 million, or 3%9%, compared to 20152022 primarily due to decreasesan increase in outside accounting and legal fees, stock-based compensation expense, bad debt expense, and rent expenseemployee-related expenses of $1.3 million, $229,000, $179,000 and $109,000, respectively. These decreases were offset by increases in employee-related, recruiting and amortizationwhich included $412,000 ofinternal-use software development expenses restructuring expenses. The remainder of $700,000, $247,000 and $165,000, respectively. There were alsothe increase was due to increases in computer maintenance and support expenses, outside accounting and commissionlegal fees, and stock based compensation expense of $799,000, $565,000 and $745,000, respectively. These increases were offset by decreases in recruiting and relocation expenses and insurance expenses of $148,000$221,000 and $131,000, respectively.$126,000, respectively, and other various expenses that, in aggregate, decreased by approximately $112,000. In future periods, we expect general and administrative expense, will increase in absolute dollars as we add personnel and incur additional costs relateda percentage of revenue, to the growth of our business and operations.remain relatively unchanged.

Merger-relatedMerger-Related. During 2016,2023, merger-related expensesexpense decreased $180,000,by $440,000, or 90%59%, when compared to 20152022 primarily due to costs incurred in connection with the acquisition of Wicket Labs in 2022 which did not recur in 2023.

Other expense. On March 28, 2022 our CEO retired. Pursuant to a Transition Agreement that was entered into by the previous CEO and the Company in October 2021, the CEO, upon retirement, would be paid his annual base compensation through December 31, 2022 and his 2022 annual bonus, the bonus amount to be determined by the Company’s 2022 performance. In accordance with generally accepted accounting principles we determined that the remaining base compensation and the current estimate of the 2022 annual bonus should be accrued and the expense was recognized as of March 28, 2022. The total expense of $1.1 million reflected $0.2 million of stock-based compensation expense as a result of the modification of certain awards pursuant to the Transition Agreement. Of the total annual base compensation and bonus accrued, the entire balance was paid as of December 31, 2023. During the year ended December 31, 2023, we did not incur additional other expenses.

Overview of Results of Operations for the Years Ended December 31, 2022 and 2021

A discussion regarding an $182,000overview of our results of operations for the year ended December 31, 2023 compared to 2022 is presented below. A discussion regarding an overview of our results of operations for the year ended December 31, 2022 compared to 2021 can be found under Part II -Item 7 of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022, which was filed with the SEC on February 23, 2023.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

Cash and cash equivalents.

We had cash and cash equivalents totaling $18.6 million at December 31, 2023 compared to $31.9 million at December 31, 2022. The decrease in costs associated with the retention of certain employees of Unicorn.

Other Expense, Net

   Year Ended December 31,  

 

 
   2016  2015  Change 

Other Expense

  Amount  Percentage of
Revenue
  Amount  Percentage of
Revenue
  Amount  % 
   (in thousands, except percentages) 

Interest income, net

  $99   —   $6   —   $93   nm

Interest expense

   (63  —     (96  —     33   (34

Other expense, net

   (634  —     (168  —     (466  277 
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total

  $(598  —   $(258  —   $(340  132
  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

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During 2016, interest income, net, increased by $93,000 compared to 2015. The increase iscash in 2023 was primarily due to a higher average cash balance as interestthe decrease in net income, is generated fromwhich was the investment of our cash balances, less related bank fees.

The interest expense during 2016 is primarily comprised of interest paid on capital leases and an equipment financing. The increase in other expenses, net is primarily due to a gain of $871,000 in 2015 upon the return of shares from escrow in connection with a business combination. This increase is offset in part by a decrease of $413,000 in foreign currency exchange losses that are recorded upon collection of foreign denominated accounts receivable.

Provision for Income Taxes

  Year Ended December 31,    
  2016  2015  Change 

Provision for Income Taxes

 Amount  Percentage of
Revenue
  Amount  Percentage of
Revenue
  Amount  % 
  (in thousands, except percentages) 

Provision for income taxes

 $410   —   $391   —   $19   5
 

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

During 2016 and 2015, the provision for income taxes was primarily comprised of income tax expenses related to foreign jurisdictions.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

In connection with our initial public offering in February 2012, we received aggregate proceeds of approximately $58.8 million, including the proceeds from the underwriters’ exercise of their overallotment option, net of underwriters’ discounts and commissions, but before deducting offering expenses of approximately $4.3 million. Prior to our initial public offering, we funded our operations primarily through private placements of preferred and common stock, as well as through borrowings of $7.0 million under our bank credit facilities. In February 2012, we repaid the $7.0 million balance under our bank credit facilities. Allresult of the preferred stock was converted into shares of our common stockdecrease in connection with our initial public offering.

   Year Ended December 31, 

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flow Data

  2017   2016   2015 
   (in thousands) 

Purchases of property and equipment

  $(1,102  $(1,307  $(1,390

Depreciation and amortization

   7,257    7,796    8,687 

Cash flows (used in) provided by operating activities

   (6,441   11,077    9,081 

Cash flows used in investing activities

   (4,112   (5,293   (2,846

Cash flows (used in) provided by financing activities

   (544   3,633    (1,412

Cash and cash equivalents.

total revenue compared to 2022. Our cash and cash equivalents at December 31, 20172023 were held for working capital purposes and were invested primarily in money market funds. We do not enter into investments for trading or speculative purposes. At December 31, 20172023 and 2016,2022, we had $7.8$8.3 million and $5.9$12.1 million, respectively, of cash and cash equivalents held by subsidiaries in international locations, including subsidiaries located in Japan and the United Kingdom. As a result of changes in tax law, these earnings can be repatriated to the United Statestax-free but willcould still be subject to foreign withholding taxes. The Company is stillDuring the year ended December 31, 2023, we paid $1.7 million of cash consideration held back to sellers for the satisfaction of certain representations and warranties in relation to the processacquisition of analyzing the impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on its indefinite reinvestment assertion.Wicket Labs. We believe that our existing cash and cash equivalents will be sufficient to meet our anticipated working capital and capital expenditure needs over at least the next 12 months.

 

 

Year Ended December 31,

 

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flow Data

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

 

 

(in thousands)

 

Cash flows provided by operating activities

 

 

4,505

 

 

 

25,421

 

 

 

19,563

 

Cash flows used in investing activities

 

 

(15,650

)

 

 

(37,767

)

 

 

(10,842

)

Cash flows (used in) provided by financing activities

 

 

(2,030

)

 

 

(83

)

 

 

702

 

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Accounts receivable, net.

Our accounts receivable balance fluctuates from period to period, which affects our cash flow from operating activities. The fluctuations vary depending on the timing of our billing activity, cash collections, and changes to our allowance for doubtful accounts. In many instances we receive cash payment from a customer prior to the time we are able to recognize revenue on a transaction. We record these payments as deferred revenue, which has a positive effect on our accounts receivable balances. We use days’ sales outstanding, or DSO, calculated on a quarterly basis, as a measurement of the quality and status of our receivables. We define DSO as (a) accounts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts, divided by total revenue for the most recent quarter, multiplied by (b) the number of days in that quarter. DSO was 59 days at December 31, 2017 and 53 days at December 31, 2016.

Cash flows (used in) provided by operating activities.

Cash used inprovided by operating activities consists primarily of net lossincome adjusted for certainnon-cash items including depreciation and amortization, stock-based compensation expense, the provision for bad debts and the effect of changes in working capital and other activities. Cash used inprovided by operating activities during the year ended December 31, 20172023 was $6.4$4.5 million. The cash flows used inflow provided by operating activities primarily resulted from net lossesnon-cash charges of $19.5$30.6 million andoffset by changes in our operating assets and liabilities of $1.6 million, partially offset by netnon-cash charges of $14.7 million. Uses of cash included increases in accounts receivable and prepaid expenses of $3.8$3.2 million and $1.5 million, respectively, and a decrease in accrued expensenet loss of $2.9$22.9 million. These outflows were offset in part by increases in deferred revenue and accounts payable of $4.7 million and $1.8 million, respectively. Netnon-cash expenses consisted primarily of $7.3$13.9 million for stock-based compensation, $16.5 million for depreciation and amortization, expense and $7.2$162,000 for provision for reserves on accounts receivable. Cash inflows from changes in our operating assets and liabilities consisted primarily of a decrease in prepaid expenses and other current assets of $1.6 million, for stock-based compensation expense.a decrease in other assets of $1.3 million, an increase in accounts payable of $3.3 million, and an increase in deferred revenue of $6.7 million. These inflows were offset by an increase in accounts receivable of $7.7 million, a decrease in accrued expenses of $8.0 million, and operating leases of $409,000. The decrease in cash flow provided by operating activities during the year ended December 31, 2023 compared to the prior period is primarily due to the increase in net loss.

Cash flows used in investing activities.

Cash used in investing activities during the year ended December 31, 20172023 was $4.1$15.7 million, consisting primarily of $3.0$12.5 million for the capitalization ofinternal-use software costs and $1.1$3.1 million in capital expenditures to support the business. The decrease in cash flows used in investing activities is primarily due to the acquisition of Wicket Labs in 2022.

Cash flows (used in) provided byused in financing activities.

Cash used in financing activities for the year ended December 31, 20172023 was $545,000, consisting of$2.0 million, primarily from deferred acquisition payments under capital lease obligation, equipmentand other financing and withholding tax on RSU vesting of $489,000, $307,000 and $269,000, respectively, offset in part by the proceeds received on the exercise of common stock options of $520,000.

activities.

Credit facility borrowings.facility.

On November 19, 2015,1, 2023, we entered into ana loan modification agreement to our existing amended and restated loan and security agreement with a lender (the “Loan Agreement”), for the extension of the maturity date of amounts due under the Second Restated Loan Agreement until three years from the date of the Loan Agreement, providing for up to a $20.0$30.0 million asset basedasset-based line of credit (the “Line of Credit”). Under the Line of Credit, we can borrow up to $20.0 million. Borrowings under the Line of Credit are secured by substantially all of our assets, excluding our intellectual property. Outstanding amounts under the Line of Credit accrue interest at a rate equal to the prime rate or the LIBOR rate plus 2.5%. Under the Loan Agreement, we must comply with certain financial covenants, including maintaining a minimum asset coverage ratio. If the outstanding principal during any month is at least $15.0 million, the Company must also maintain a minimum net income threshold basedon non-GAAP operating measures. Failure to comply with these covenants, or the occurrence of an event of default, could permit the Lenders under the Line of Credit to declare all amounts borrowed under the Line of Credit, together with accrued interest and fees, to be immediately due and payable. We were in compliance with all covenants under the Line of Credit as of December 31, 2017.

On December 31, 2015,2023. As we have not drawn on the Company entered into an equipment financing agreement with a lender (the “December 2015 Equipment Financing Agreement”) to finance the purchaseLine of $604,000 in computer equipment. In February 2016, the Company drew down $604,000 under the December 2015 Equipment Financing Agreement, and the liability was recorded at fair value using a market interest rate. The Company repaid its obligation over a two year period through January 2018, and the amountCredit, there are no amounts outstanding was $26,000 as of December 31, 2017.2023.

Net operating loss carryforwards.

As of December 31, 2017, we2023, the Company had federal and state net operating losses of approximately $161.9$154.0 million, and $66.7of which $108.3 million respectively, which are available to offset future taxable income, if any, through 2037. We2037 and $45.7 million which are available to offset future taxable income indefinitely. As of December 31, 2023, the Company had state net operating losses of approximately $76.5 million, of which $73.4 million are available to offset future taxable income, if any, through 2041 and $3.1 million which are available to offset future taxable income indefinitely. The Company also had federal and state research and development tax credits of $6.1$10.7 million and $3.9$6.3 million, respectively, which expire in various amounts through 2037. Our2043. The net operating loss and tax credit amounts are subject to annual limitations under Section 382 change of ownership rules ofunder the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. We completed an assessment to determine whether there may have been a Section 382 ownership change and determined that it is more likely than not that our net operating and tax credit amounts as disclosed are not subject to any material Section 382 limitations.

In assessing our ability to utilize our net deferred tax assets, we considered whether it is more likely than not that some portion or all of our net deferred tax assets will not be realized. Based upon the level of our historical U.S. losses and future projections over the period in which the net deferred tax assets are deductible, at this time, we believe it is more likely than not that we will not realize the benefits of these deductible differences. Accordingly, we have provided a valuation allowance against our U.S. deferred tax assets as of December 31, 20172023 and 2016.2022.

Based upon the level of historical income in Japan and future projections, we believe it is probable that we will realize the benefits of our future deductible differences. As such, we have not provided a valuation allowance against out net deferred tax assets as of December 31, 2017 and 2016.48


Contractual Obligations and Commitments

Our principal commitments consist primarily of obligations under our leases for our office space and contractual commitments for capital leases and equipment financing as well as content delivery network services, hosting and other support services. During 2022 and 2023 we renewed and amended agreements with our primary providers of content delivery network services, hosting and other support services. The terms of the agreements comprised, respectively: 1) a minimum commitment of $93.2 million over three years and 2) a minimum commitment of $6.6 million over two years. As of December 31, 2023, we had operating lease obligations of $21.8 million, with $3.3 million payable within 12 months. As of December 31, 2023, we had outstanding purchase obligations of $55.2 million, with $37.9 payable within 12 months. Other than these lease obligations and contractual commitments, we do not have commercial commitments under lines of credit, standby repurchase obligations or other such debt arrangements. The following table summarizes these contractual obligations at December 31, 2017:2023:

  Payment Due by Period 

 

Payment Due by Period

 

  Total   Less than
1 Year
   1- 3
Years
   3 - 5
Years
   More than
5 Years
 

(in thousands)

 

Total

 

 

Less than 1 Year

 

 

More than 1 Year

 

Operating lease obligations

  $29,597   $8,384   $12,155   $6,964   $2,094 

 

$

21,844

 

 

$

3,302

 

 

$

18,542

 

Capital lease obligations

   231    231    —      —      —   

Outstanding purchase obligations

   23,829    15,833    7,996    —      —   

 

 

55,239

 

 

 

37,891

 

 

 

17,348

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

Total

  $53,657   $24,448   $20,151   $6,964   $2,094 

 

$

77,083

 

 

$

41,193

 

 

$

35,890

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

   

 

 

Anticipated Cash Flows

We expect to incur significant operating costs, particularly related to services delivery costs, sales and marketing and research and development, for the foreseeable future in order to execute our business plan. We anticipate that such operating costs, as well as planned capital expenditures will constitute a material use of our cash resources. As a result, our net cash flows will depend heavily on the level of future sales, changes in deferred revenue and our ability to manage infrastructure costs.

We believe our existing cash and cash equivalents will be sufficient to meet our working capital and capital expenditures for at least the next 12 months. Our future working capital requirements will depend on many factors, including the rate of our revenue growth, our introduction of new products and enhancements, and our expansion of sales and marketing and product development activities. To the extent that our cash and cash equivalents, short and long-term investments and cash flow from operating activities are insufficient to fund our future activities, we may need to raise additional funds through bank credit arrangements or public or private equity or debt financings. We also may need to raise additional funds in the event we determine in the future to acquire businesses, technologies and products that will complement our existing operations. We have an existing loan and security agreement with a lender which provides for up to a $30.0 million asset-backed line of credit which expires on November 1, 2026. In the event funding is required, we may not be able to obtain additional bank credit arrangements or equity or debt financing on terms acceptable to us or at all.

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

We do not have any special purpose entities oroff-balance sheet arrangements.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

For information on recent accounting pronouncements, see Recently Issued and Adopted Accounting Standards in the notes to the condensed consolidated financial statements appearing elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form10-K.

ITEM 7A.QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK

ITEM 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK

Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

We have operations both within the United States and internationally, and we are exposed to market risks in the ordinary course of our business. These risks include primarily foreign exchange risks, interest rate and inflation.

Financial instruments

Financial instruments meeting fair value disclosure requirements consist of cash equivalents, accounts receivable and accounts payable. The fair value of these financial instruments approximates their carrying amount.

Foreign currency exchange risk

Our results of operations and cash flows are subject to fluctuations due to changes in foreign currency exchange rates, particularly changes in the euro, British pound, Australian dollar and Japanese yen. Except for revenue transactions in Japan, we enter into transactions directly with substantially all of our foreign customers.

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Percentage of revenues and expenses in foreign currency is as follows:

  Twelve Months Ended December 31, 

 

Twelve Months Ended December 31,

 

  2017 2016 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

Revenues generated in locations outside the United States

   45 42

 

 

45

%

 

 

47

%

Revenues in currencies other than the United States dollar (1)

   29 28

 

 

25

%

 

 

27

%

Expenses in currencies other than the United States dollar (1)

   15 15

 

 

17

%

 

 

16

%

(1)Percentage of revenues and expenses denominated in foreign currency for the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016:
(1)
Percentage of revenues and expenses denominated in foreign currency for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022:

  Twelve Months Ended
December 31, 2017
 

 

Twelve Months Ended
 December 31, 2023

 

  Revenues Expenses 

 

Revenues

 

 

Expenses

 

Euro

   6 1

 

 

6

%

 

 

1

%

British pound

   7  6 

 

 

6

%

 

 

6

%

Japanese Yen

   11  4 

 

 

10

%

 

 

2

%

Other

   5  4 

 

 

3

%

 

 

8

%

  

 

  

 

 

Total

   29 15

 

 

25

%

 

 

17

%

  Twelve Months Ended
December 31, 2016
 

 

Twelve Months Ended
 December 31, 2022

 

  Revenues Expenses 

 

Revenues

 

 

Expenses

 

Euro

   7 2

 

 

8

%

 

 

1

%

British pound

   7  6 

 

 

6

%

 

 

5

%

Japanese Yen

   10  4 

 

 

10

%

 

 

2

%

Other

   4  3 

 

 

3

%

 

 

8

%

  

 

  

 

 

Total

   28 15

 

 

27

%

 

 

16

%

As of December 31, 20172023 and 2016,2022, we had $7.3$6.6 million and $5.6$6.9 million, respectively, of receivables denominated in currencies other than the U.S. dollar. We also maintain cash accounts denominated in currencies other than the local currency, which exposes us to foreign exchange rate movements.

In addition, although our foreign subsidiaries have intercompany accounts that are eliminated upon consolidation, these accounts expose us to foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations. Exchange rate fluctuations on short-term intercompany accounts are recorded in our consolidated statements of operations under “other (expense) income, (expense), net”, while exchange rate fluctuations on long-term intercompany accounts are recorded in our consolidated balance sheets under “accumulatedas a component of other comprehensive income” in stockholders’ equity,(loss) income, as they are considered part of our net investment and hence do not give rise to gains or losses.

investment.

Currently, our largest foreign currency exposures are the euro and British pound primarily because our European operations have a higher proportion of our local currency denominated expenses.expenses, in addition to the Japanese Yen as result of our ongoing operations in Japan. Relative to foreign currency exposures existing at December 31, 2017,2023, a 10%20% unfavorable movement in foreign currency exchange rates would expose us to significant losses in earnings or cash flows or significantly diminish the fair value of our foreign currency financial instruments. For the year ended December 31, 2017,2023, we estimated that a 10%20% unfavorable movement in foreign currency exchange rates would have decreased revenues by $4.5$9.9 million, decreased expenses by $2.6$7.7 million and decreasedincreased operating incomelosses by $1.9$2.2 million. The estimates used assume that all currencies move in the same direction at the same time and the ratio ofnon-U.S. dollar denominated revenue and expenses to U.S. dollar denominated revenue and expenses does not change from current levels. Since a portion of our revenue is deferred revenue that is recorded at different foreign currency exchange rates, the impact to revenue of a change in foreign currency exchange rates is recognized over time, and the impact to expenses is more immediate, as expenses are recognized at the current foreign currency exchange rate in effect at the time the expense is incurred. All of the potential changes noted above are based on sensitivity analyses performed on our financial results as of December 31, 2017 and 2016.2023.

Interest rate risk

We had unrestricted cash and cash equivalents totaling $26.1$18.6 million at December 31, 2017.2023. Cash and cash equivalents were invested primarily in money market funds and are held for working capital purposes. We do not use derivative financial instruments in our investment portfolio. Declines in interest rates, however, would reduce future interest income. We incurred $26,000 and $63,000 of interest expense during the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016, respectively, related to interest paid on capital leases and an equipment financing. While we continue to incur interest expense in connection with our capital leases and equipment financing, the interest expense is fixed and not subject to changes in market interest rates. In the event that we borrow under our line of credit, which bears interest at the prime rate or the LIBOR rate plus the LIBOR rate margin, the related interest expense recorded would be subject to changes in the rate of interest.

Inflation risk

We do not believe that inflation has had a material effect on our business, financial condition or results of operations. If our costs were to become subject to significant inflationary pressures, we may not be able to fully offset such higher costs through price increases. Our inability or failure to do so could harm our business, financial condition and results of operations.50


F-1


Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the ShareholdersStockholders and the

Board of Directors of Brightcove Inc.

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Brightcove Inc. (the Company) as of December 31, 20172023 and 2016,2022, the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive loss,(loss) income, stockholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2017,2023, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “consolidated financial statements”). In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company at December 31, 20172023 and 2016,2022, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2017,2023, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.principles

We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2017,2023, based on criteria established in Internal Control-Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (2013 framework), and our report dated February 28, 201822, 2024 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

Critical Audit Matter

The critical audit matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current period audit of the financial statements that was communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that: (1) relates to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective or complex judgments. The communication of the critical audit matter does not alter in any way our opinion on the consolidated financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are nerot, by communicating the critical audit matter below, providing a separate opinion on the critical audit matter or on the accounts or disclosures to which it relates.

Revenue Recognition – Variable Consideration

Description of the Matter

As described in the footnotes of the consolidated financial statements, specifically, “Summary of Significant Accounting Policies,” the Company’s contracts contain transaction prices with variable amounts of consideration related to usage-based fees. The Company estimates the revenue pertaining to a customer’s usage that is expected to exceed the contractual entitlement allowance, after consideration of any constraints, which is recognized ratably over the service period.

Auditing the Company's measurement of variable consideration is especially challenging and subjective because estimating customers usage involves assessing a large volume of contracts and subjective management assumptions related to estimated future usage. Changes in assumptions of estimated future usage can have a material effect on the amount of revenue recognized in the period.

How We Addressed the Matter in Our Audit

We obtained an understanding, evaluated the design, and tested the operating effectiveness of the Company’s internal controls over the assessment and recording of variable consideration including the Company’s evaluation of potential estimated future usage at the contract level including the impacts of any constraints. We identified and tested controls used for the accumulation of the actual usage to date as well as the assessment of the estimated forecasted usage and related impacts of any constraints.

F-2


To test variable consideration, our audit procedures included, amongst others, testing the completeness and accuracy of the underlying data used in the Company’s calculation. This included, for a sample of contracts, agreeing the entitlement allowances to the underlying contracts and agreeing the actual usage to the underlying system of record. To assess management’s variable consideration assumptions, for a sample of contracts, we tested management’s estimated usage over the contractual entitlement allowance by comparing the entitlement and usage rates to actual customer experience, interviewed account managers to understand the actual and expected usage, and evaluated the impacts of any related constraints. We also tested the Company’s historical lookback analysis on a sample basis. Lastly, we performed sensitivity analyses to evaluate how the changes in management’s assumptions of future usage based on historical trends could affect revenue recognized.

/s/ Ernst & Young LLP

We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2010.

Boston, Massachusetts

February 28, 201822, 2024

F-3


Brightcove Inc.

Consolidated Balance Sheets

  December 31, 

 

December 31,

 

  2017 2016 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

  

(in thousands, except share

and per share data)

 

 

(in thousands, except share
 and per share data)

 

Assets

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current assets:

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents

  $26,132  $36,813 

 

$

18,615

 

 

$

31,894

 

Accounts receivable, net of allowance of $146 and $154 at December 31, 2017 and December 31, 2016, respectively

   25,236  21,575 

Accounts receivable, net of allowance of $210 and $294 at December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively

 

 

33,451

 

 

 

26,004

 

Prepaid expenses

   3,991  3,729 

 

 

6,569

 

 

 

8,700

 

Other current assets

   3,045  2,168 

 

 

11,764

 

 

 

10,722

 

  

 

  

 

 

Total current assets

   58,404  64,285 

 

 

70,399

 

 

 

77,320

 

Property and equipment, net

   9,143  9,264 

 

 

42,476

 

 

 

39,677

 

Operating lease right-of-use asset

 

 

16,233

 

 

 

18,671

 

Intangible assets, net

   8,236  10,970 

 

 

6,368

 

 

 

10,279

 

Goodwill

   50,776  50,776 

 

 

74,859

 

 

 

74,859

 

Deferred tax asset

   87  121 

Other assets

   969  1,008 

 

 

5,772

 

 

 

7,007

 

  

 

  

 

 

Total assets

  $127,615  $136,424 

 

$

216,107

 

 

$

227,813

 

  

 

  

 

 

Liabilities and stockholders’ equity

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current liabilities:

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accounts payable

  $6,142  $5,327 

 

$

14,422

 

 

$

11,326

 

Accrued expenses

   13,621  15,705 

 

 

17,566

 

 

 

26,877

 

Capital lease liability

   228  489 

Equipment financing

   26  307 

Operating lease liability

 

 

4,486

 

 

 

4,157

 

Deferred revenue

   39,370  34,665 

 

 

68,155

 

 

 

61,597

 

  

 

  

 

 

Total current liabilities

   59,387  56,493 

 

 

104,629

 

 

 

103,957

 

Deferred revenue, net of current portion

   244  91 

Operating lease liability, net of current portion

 

 

17,358

 

 

 

20,528

 

Other liabilities

   1,228  1,644 

 

 

207

 

 

 

981

 

  

 

  

 

 

Total liabilities

   60,859  58,228 

 

 

122,194

 

 

 

125,466

 

Commitments and contingencies(Note 5)

   

Commitments and contingencies (Note 9)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stockholders’ equity:

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Undesignated preferred stock, $0.001 par value; 5,000,000 shares authorized; no shares issued

   —     —   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Common stock, $0.001 par value; 100,000,000 shares authorized; 34,933,408 and 34,143,148 shares issued at December 31, 2017 and 2016, respectively

   35  34 

Common stock, $0.001 par value; 100,000,000 shares authorized; 43,833,919 and 42,449,677 shares issued at December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively

 

 

44

 

 

 

42

 

Additionalpaid-in capital

   238,700  230,788 

 

 

328,918

 

 

 

314,825

 

Treasury stock, at cost; 135,000 shares

   (871 (871

 

 

(871

)

 

 

(871

)

Accumulated other comprehensive loss

   (809 (1,172

 

 

(1,236

)

 

 

(1,593

)

Accumulated deficit

   (170,299 (150,583

 

 

(232,942

)

 

 

(210,056

)

  

 

  

 

 

Total stockholders’ equity

   66,756  78,196 

 

 

93,913

 

 

 

102,347

 

  

 

  

 

 

Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity

  $127,615  $136,424 

 

$

216,107

 

 

$

227,813

 

  

 

  

 

 

See accompanying notes.

F-4


Brightcove Inc.

Consolidated Statements of Operations

  Year Ended December 31, 

 

Year Ended December 31,

 

  2017 2016 2015 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

  (in thousands, except per share data) 

 

(in thousands, except per share data)

 

Revenue:

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Subscription and support revenue

  $143,159  $142,022  $131,010 

 

$

192,461

 

 

$

204,091

 

 

$

198,929

 

Professional services and other revenue

   12,754  8,244  3,696 

 

 

8,726

 

 

 

6,917

 

 

 

12,164

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Total revenue

   155,913  150,266  134,706 

 

 

201,187

 

 

 

211,008

 

 

 

211,093

 

Cost of revenue:(1) (2)

    

Cost of revenue:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cost of subscription and support revenue

   50,664  48,011  41,735 

 

 

68,244

 

 

 

69,935

 

 

 

62,773

 

Cost of professional services and other revenue

   13,954  7,836  4,742 

 

 

9,109

 

 

 

7,138

 

 

 

10,255

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Total cost of revenue

   64,618  55,847  46,477 

 

 

77,353

 

 

 

77,073

 

 

 

73,028

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Gross profit

   91,295  94,419  88,229 

 

 

123,834

 

 

 

133,935

 

 

 

138,065

 

Operating expenses:(1) (2)

    

Operating expenses:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Research and development

   31,850  30,171  29,302 

 

 

37,202

 

 

 

33,524

 

 

 

31,718

 

Sales and marketing

   57,294  54,038  45,795 

 

 

72,410

 

 

 

73,997

 

 

 

71,177

 

General and administrative

   21,847  19,167  19,862 

 

 

35,556

 

 

 

32,550

 

 

 

29,261

 

Merger-related

   —    21  201 

 

 

307

 

 

 

747

 

 

 

300

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Other expense (benefit)

 

 

 

 

 

1,149

 

 

 

(1,965

)

Total operating expenses

   110,991  103,397  95,160 

 

 

145,475

 

 

 

141,967

 

 

 

130,491

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Loss from operations

   (19,696 (8,978 (6,931

Other income (expense):

    

(Loss) income from operations

 

 

(21,641

)

 

 

(8,032

)

 

 

7,574

 

Other (expense) income, net

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest income

   124  99  6 

 

 

176

 

 

 

103

 

 

 

5

 

Interest expense

   (26 (63 (96

 

 

(26

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other income (expense), net

   449  (634 (168

Other expense, net

 

 

(230

)

 

 

(1,138

)

 

 

(1,380

)

Total other (expense) income, net

 

 

(80

)

 

 

(1,035

)

 

 

(1,375

)

(Loss) income before income taxes

 

 

(21,721

)

 

 

(9,067

)

 

 

6,199

 

Provision (benefit) for income taxes

 

 

1,165

 

 

 

(52

)

 

 

802

 

Net (loss) income

 

$

(22,886

)

 

$

(9,015

)

 

$

5,397

 

Net (loss) income per share

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic

 

$

(0.53

)

 

$

(0.22

)

 

$

0.13

 

Diluted

 

$

(0.53

)

 

$

(0.22

)

 

$

0.13

 

Weighted-average number of common shares used in computing net (loss) income per share

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic

 

 

43,128

 

 

 

41,831

 

 

 

40,717

 

Diluted

 

 

43,128

 

 

 

41,831

 

 

 

42,200

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total other income (expense), net

   547  (598 (258
  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Loss before income taxes

   (19,149 (9,576 (7,189

Provision for income taxes

   370  410  391 
  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Net loss

  $(19,519 $(9,986 $(7,580
  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Net loss per share — basic and diluted

  $(0.57 $(0.30 $(0.23
  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Weighted-average number of common shares used in computing net loss per share — basic and diluted

   34,376  33,189  32,598 
  

 

  

 

  

 

 

(1) Stock-based compensation included in above line items:

    

Cost of subscription and support revenue

  $439  $324  $181 

Cost of professional services and other revenue

   251  217  181 

Research and development

   1,563  1,275  1,392 

Sales and marketing

   2,750  2,320  2,155 

General and administrative

   2,240  1,876  2,105 

(2) Amortization of acquired intangible assets included in above line items:

    

Cost of subscription and support revenue

  $2,031  $2,031  $2,031 

Research and development

   11  126  126 

Sales and marketing

   692  959  955 

See accompanying notes.

F-5


Brightcove Inc.

Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Loss(Loss) Income

  Year Ended December 31, 

 

Year Ended December 31,

 

  2017 2016 2015 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

  (in thousands) 

 

(in thousands)

 

Net loss

  $(19,519 $(9,986 $(7,580

Net (loss) income

 

$

(22,886

)

 

$

(9,015

)

 

$

5,397

 

Other comprehensive (loss) income:

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Foreign currency translation adjustments

   363  (284 (112

 

 

357

 

 

 

(931

)

 

 

(474

)

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Comprehensive loss

  $(19,156 $(10,270 $(7,692
  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Comprehensive (loss) income

 

$

(22,529

)

 

$

(9,946

)

 

$

4,923

 

See accompanying notes.

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Brightcove Inc.

Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity

(in thousands, except share data)

     Additional
Paid-in
Capital
     Accumulated
Other
Comprehensive
Income
  Accumulated
Deficit
  Total
Stockholders’
Equity
 
      
      
 Common Stock   Treasury Stock    
 Shares  Par Value     Shares  Value          

Balance at December 31, 2014

  32,424,554  $32  $214,524   —    $—    $(776 $(133,017 $80,763 

Issuance of common stock upon exercise of stock options

  58,449   —     129   —     —     —     —     129 

Issuance of common stock pursuant to restricted stock units

  327,628   1   —     —     —     —     —     1 

Return of common stock issued pursuant to settlement agreement

  —     —      (135,000  (871  —     —     (871

Withholding tax on restricted stock units vesting

  —     —     (209  —     —     —     —     (209

Stock-based compensation expense

  —     —     6,014   —     —     —     —     6,014 

Foreign currency translation adjustment

  —     —     —     —     —     (112  —     (112

Net loss

  —     —     —     —     —     —     (7,580  (7,580
 

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Balance at December 31, 2015

  32,810,631   33   220,458   (135,000  (871  (888  (140,597  78,135 

Issuance of common stock upon exercise of stock options

  886,085   1   4,554   —     —     —     —     4,555 

Issuance of common stock pursuant to restricted stock units

  425,904   —     —     —     —     —     —     —   

Withholding tax on restricted stock units vesting

  —     —     (405  —     —     —     —     (405

Stock-based compensation expense

  —     —     6,181   —     —     —     —     6,181 

Issuance of common stock upon net exercise of stock warrants

  20,528         —   

Foreign currency translation adjustment

  —     —     —     —     —     (284  —     (284

Net loss

  —     —     —     —     —     —     (9,986  (9,986
 

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Balance at December 31, 2016

  34,143,148   34   230,788   (135,000  (871  (1,172  (150,583  78,196 

Issuance of common stock upon exercise of stock options

  229,127   —     520   —     —     —     —     520 

Issuance of common stock pursuant to restricted stock units

  561,133   1   (1  —     —     —     —     —   

Withholding tax on restricted stock units vesting

  —     —     (268  —     —     —     —     (268

Stock-based compensation expense

  —     —     7,464   —     —     —     —     7,464 

Impact of adoption of ASU2016-09 as of January 1, 2017

  —     —     197   —     —     —     (197  —   

Foreign currency translation adjustment

  —     —     —     —     —     363   —     363 

Net loss

  —     —     —     —     —     —     (19,519  (19,519
 

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Balance at December 31, 2017

  34,933,408  $35  $238,700   (135,000 $(871 $(809 $(170,299 $66,756 

 

 

Year Ended December 31,

 

 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

 

 

(in thousands, except share data)

 

Shares of common stock issued

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balance, beginning of period

 

 

42,449,677

 

 

 

41,384,643

 

 

 

40,152,021

 

Common stock issued upon acquisition

 

 

 

 

 

212,507

 

 

 

 

Issuance of common stock upon exercise of stock options and pursuant to restricted stock units

 

 

1,384,242

 

 

 

852,527

 

 

 

1,232,622

 

Balance, end of period

 

 

43,833,919

 

 

 

42,449,677

 

 

 

41,384,643

 

Shares of treasury stock

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balance, beginning of period

 

 

(135,000

)

 

 

(135,000

)

 

 

(135,000

)

Balance, end of period

 

 

(135,000

)

 

 

(135,000

)

 

 

(135,000

)

Par value of common stock issued

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balance, beginning of period

 

$

42

 

 

$

41

 

 

$

40

 

Common stock issued upon acquisition

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Issuance of common stock upon exercise of stock options and pursuant to restricted stock units

 

 

2

 

 

 

1

 

 

 

1

 

Balance, end of period

 

$

44

 

 

$

42

 

 

$

41

 

Value of treasury stock

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balance, beginning of period

 

$

(871

)

 

$

(871

)

 

$

(871

)

Balance, end of period

 

$

(871

)

 

$

(871

)

 

$

(871

)

Additional paid-in capital

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balance, beginning of period

 

$

314,825

 

 

$

298,793

 

 

$

287,059

 

Issuance of common stock upon exercise of stock options and pursuant to restricted stock units, net of tax

 

 

(1

)

 

 

(84

)

 

 

1,175

 

Stock-based compensation expense

 

 

14,425

 

 

 

14,129

 

 

 

10,559

 

Withholding tax on restricted stock

 

 

(331

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Common stock issued upon acquisition

 

 

 

 

 

1,987

 

 

 

 

Balance, end of period

 

$

328,918

 

 

$

314,825

 

 

$

298,793

 

Accumulated deficit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balance, beginning of period

 

$

(210,056

)

 

$

(201,041

)

 

$

(206,438

)

Net (loss) income

 

 

(22,886

)

 

 

(9,015

)

 

 

5,397

 

Balance, end of period

 

$

(232,942

)

 

$

(210,056

)

 

$

(201,041

)

Accumulated other comprehensive loss

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balance, beginning of period

 

$

(1,593

)

 

$

(662

)

 

$

(188

)

Foreign currency translation adjustment

 

 

357

 

 

 

(931

)

 

 

(474

)

Balance, end of period

 

$

(1,236

)

 

$

(1,593

)

 

$

(662

)

Total stockholders’ equity

 

$

93,913

 

 

$

102,347

 

 

$

96,260

 

See accompanying notes.

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Brightcove Inc.

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

  Year Ended December 31, 

 

Year Ended December 31,

 

  2017 2016 2015 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

  (in thousands) 

 

(in thousands)

 

Operating activities

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net loss

  $(19,519 $(9,986 $(7,580

Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash (used in) provided by operating activities:

    

Net (loss) income

 

$

(22,886

)

 

$

(9,015

)

 

$

5,397

 

Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash provided by operating activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Depreciation and amortization

   7,257  7,796  8,687 

 

 

16,536

 

 

 

10,696

 

 

 

8,322

 

Stock-based compensation

   7,243  6,012  6,014 

 

 

13,899

 

 

 

13,548

 

 

 

9,968

 

Deferred income taxes

   38  (47 (27

Provision for reserves on accounts receivable

   203  230  408 

 

 

162

 

 

 

118

 

 

 

159

 

Loss on disposal of equipment

   —    155  68 

Gain from settlement of escrow claim

   —     —    (871

Changes in assets and liabilities:

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accounts receivable

   (3,811 (559 (157

 

 

(7,707

)

 

 

4,227

 

 

 

(846

)

Prepaid expenses and other current assets

   (1,484 (894 680 

 

 

1,565

 

 

 

(1,216

)

 

 

1,281

 

Other assets

   56  (299 (256

 

 

1,328

 

 

 

(348

)

 

 

(1,437

)

Accounts payable

   1,758  733  1,751 

 

 

3,294

 

 

 

120

 

 

 

(683

)

Accrued expenses

   (2,930 3,172  137 

 

 

(7,950

)

 

 

2,397

 

 

 

(5,209

)

Operating leases

 

 

(409

)

 

 

5,503

 

 

 

(634

)

Deferred revenue

   4,748  4,764  227 

 

 

6,673

 

 

 

(609

)

 

 

3,245

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Net cash (used in) provided by operating activities

   (6,441 11,077  9,081 

Net cash provided by operating activities

 

 

4,505

 

 

 

25,421

 

 

 

19,563

 

Investing activities

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash paid for purchase of intangible asset

   —    (300  —   

Purchases of property and equipment, net of returns(Note 2)

   (1,102 (1,307 (1,390

Cash paid for acquisition, net of cash acquired

 

 

 

 

 

(13,215

)

 

 

(2,000

)

Purchases of property and equipment

 

 

(3,120

)

 

 

(10,727

)

 

 

(2,205

)

Capitalizedinternal-use software costs

   (3,010 (3,887 (1,456

 

 

(12,530

)

 

 

(13,825

)

 

 

(6,637

)

Decrease in restricted cash

   —    201   —   
  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Net cash used in investing activities

   (4,112 (5,293 (2,846

 

 

(15,650

)

 

 

(37,767

)

 

 

(10,842

)

Financing activities

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Proceeds from exercise of stock options

   520  4,555  129 

 

 

 

 

 

177

 

 

 

2,846

 

Payments of withholding tax on RSU vesting

   (268 (405 (209

Proceeds from equipment financing

   —    604  1,704 

Payments on equipment financing(Note 8)

   (307 (271 (1,704

Payments under capital lease obligation

   (489 (850 (1,332
  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Deferred acquisitions payments

 

 

(1,700

)

 

 

 

 

 

(475

)

Other financing activities

 

 

(330

)

 

 

(260

)

 

 

(1,669

)

Net cash (used in) provided by financing activities

   (544 3,633  (1,412

 

 

(2,030

)

 

 

(83

)

 

 

702

 

Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents

   416  (241 (102

 

 

(104

)

 

 

(1,416

)

 

 

(1,156

)

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Net (decrease) increase in cash and cash equivalents

   (10,681 9,176  4,721 

Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents

 

 

(13,279

)

 

 

(13,845

)

 

 

8,267

 

Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period

   36,813  27,637  22,916 

 

 

31,894

 

 

 

45,739

 

 

 

37,472

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents at end of period

  $26,132  $36,813  $27,637 

 

$

18,615

 

 

$

31,894

 

 

$

45,739

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash paid for operating lease liabilities

 

$

3,686

 

 

$

1,842

 

 

$

4,277

 

Cash paid for income taxes

  $500  $351  $263 

 

$

1,372

 

 

$

671

 

 

$

737

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Cash paid for interest

  $26  $63  $96 

 

$

23

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Supplemental disclosure ofnon-cash operating activities

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Capitalization of stock-based compensation related to internal use software

  $221  $169  $—   

 

$

527

 

 

$

580

 

 

$

593

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Supplemental disclosure ofnon-cash investing and financing activities

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unpaidinternal-use software costs

  $28  $20  $38 

 

$

210

 

 

$

1,213

 

 

$

446

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Fair value of shares issued for acquisition of a business

 

$

 

 

$

1,987

 

 

$

 

Unpaid purchases of property and equipment

  $138  $83  $1,177 

 

$

714

 

 

$

267

 

 

$

25

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

See accompanying notes.

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Brightcove Inc.

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

Years Ended December 31, 2017, 20162023, 2022 and 20152021

(in thousands, except share and per share data, unless otherwise noted)

1.
Business Description

Brightcove Inc. (the Company) is a leading global provider of cloud services for video which enable its customers to publish and distribute video to Internet-connected devices quickly, easily and in a cost-effective and high-quality manner.

The Company is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts and was incorporated in the state of Delaware on August 24, 2004. At December 31, 2017, the Company had nine wholly-owned subsidiaries: Brightcove UK Ltd, Brightcove Singapore Pte. Ltd., Brightcove Korea, Brightcove Australia Pty Ltd, Brightcove Holdings, Inc., Brightcove Kabushiki Kaisha (Brightcove KK), Zencoder Inc. (Zencoder), BrightcoveFZ-LLC, and Cacti Acquisition LLC.

2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

The accompanying consolidated financial statements reflect the application of certain significant accounting policies as described below and elsewhere in these notes to the consolidated financial statements.

The Company believes that a significant accounting policy is one that is both important to the portrayal of the Company’s financial condition and results, and requires management’s most difficult, subjective, or complex judgments, often as the result of the need to make estimates about the effect of matters that are inherently uncertain.

Basis of Presentation

The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (GAAP). Any reference in these notes to applicable guidance is meant to refer to the authoritative United States generally accepted accounting principles as found in the Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) and Accounting Standards Update (ASU) of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB).

Use of Estimates and Uncertainties

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, and the reported amounts expensed during the reporting period.

Significant estimates relied upon in preparing these consolidated financial statements include revenue recognition and revenue reserves, allowances for doubtful accounts,variable consideration, contingent liabilities, the expensing and capitalization of research and development costs forinternal-use software, intangible asset valuations, amortization periods, expected future cash flows used to evaluate the recoverability of long-lived assets, the determination of the fair value of stock awards issued, stock-based compensation expense, and the recoverabilityrealizability of the Company’s net deferred tax assets and related valuation allowance.assets.

Although the Company regularly assesses these estimates, actual results could differ materially from these estimates. Changes in estimates are recorded in the period in which they become known. The Company bases its estimates on historical experience and various other assumptions that it believes to be reasonable under the

circumstances. Actual results may differ from management’s estimates if these results differ from historical experience, or other assumptions do not turn out to be substantially accurate, even if such assumptions are reasonable when made.

The Company is subject to a number of risks and uncertainties common to companies in similar industries and stages of development including, but not limited to, rapid technological changes, competition from substitute products and services from larger companies, customers switching to in-house solutions, customer concentration, management of international activities, protection of proprietary rights, patent litigation, and dependence on key individuals.

Principles of Consolidation

The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiaries. All significant intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

Subsequent Events Considerations

The Company considers events or transactions that occur after the balance sheet date but prior to the issuance of the financial statements to provide additional evidence for certain estimates or to identify matters that require additional disclosure. Subsequent events have been evaluated as required. The Company has evaluated all subsequent events and determined that there are no material recognized or unrecognized subsequent events.

Foreign Currency Translation

The reporting currency of the Company is the U.S. dollar. The functional currency of the Company’s foreign subsidiaries is the local currency of each subsidiary. All assets and liabilities in the balance sheets of entities whose functional currency is a

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currency other than the U.S. dollar are translated into U.S. dollar equivalents at exchange rates as follows: (1) asset and liability accounts atperiod-end rates, (2) income statement accounts at weighted-average exchange rates for the period, and (3) stockholders’ equity accounts at historical exchange rates. The resulting translation adjustments are excluded from income (loss) and reflected as a separate component of stockholders’ equity. Foreign currency transaction gains and losses are included in net loss for the period. The Company may periodically have certain intercompany foreign currency transactions that are deemed to be of a long-term investment nature; exchange adjustments related to those transactions are made directly to other comprehensive loss, a separate component of stockholders’ equity.

Cash and Cash Equivalents

The Company considers all highly liquid investments with an original maturity of three months or less at the date of purchase to be cash equivalents. Management determines the appropriate classification of investments at the time of purchase, andre-evaluates such determination at each balance sheet date. The Company did notnot have any short-term or long-term investments at December 31, 20172023 or 2016.

2022. Cash and cash equivalents primarily consist of cash on deposit with banks and amounts held in interest-bearing money market accounts. Cash equivalents are carried at cost, which approximates their fair market value.

Property and Equipment

CashProperty and cash equivalents as of December 31, 2017equipment are recorded at cost and 2016 consistdepreciated over their estimated useful lives using the straight-line method. Leasehold improvements are amortized over the shorter of the following:lease term or the estimated useful life of the related asset. Upon retirement or sale, the cost of assets disposed of, and the related accumulated depreciation, are removed from the accounts, and any resulting gain or loss is included in the determination of net income or loss in the period of retirement. Expenditures for maintenance and repairs are charged to expense as incurred, whereas major improvements are capitalized as additions to property and equipment.

The Company estimates the useful life of property and equipment as follows:

   December 31, 2017 

Description

  Contracted
Maturity
   Amortized Cost   Fair Market
Value
   Balance Per
Balance
Sheet
 

Cash

   Demand   $17,972   $17,972   $17,972 

Money market funds

   Demand    8,160    8,160    8,160 
    

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total cash and cash equivalents

    $26,132   $26,132   $26,132 
    

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

   December 31, 2016 

Description

  Contracted
Maturity
   Amortized Cost   Fair Market
Value
   Balance Per
Balance
Sheet
 

Cash

   Demand   $23,942   $23,942   $23,942 

Money market funds

   Demand    12,871    12,871    12,871 
    

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total cash and cash equivalents

    $36,813   $36,813   $36,813 
    

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Disclosure

Estimated Useful Life
(in Years)

Computer equipment

3

Software

3 - 6

Furniture and fixtures

5

Leasehold improvements

Shorter of lease term or the estimated useful life

Fair Value of Financial Instruments

ASC 820, Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures, establishes a three-level valuation hierarchy for instruments measured at fair value that distinguishes between assumptions based on market data (observable inputs) and the Company’s own assumptions (unobservable inputs). Observable inputs are inputs that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on market data obtained from sources independent of the Company. Unobservable inputs are inputs that reflect the Company’s assumptions about the inputs that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability, and are developed based on the best information available in the circumstances.

ASC 820 identifies fair value as an exit price, representing the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants based on the highest and best use of the asset or liability. As such, fair value is a market-based measurement that should be determined based on assumptions that market participants would use in pricing an asset or liability. The Company uses valuation techniques to measure fair value that maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs. These inputs are prioritized as follows:

Level 1: Observable inputs, such as quoted prices for identical assets or liabilities in active markets;
Level 2: Inputs, other than the quoted prices in active markets, that are observable either directly or indirectly, such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities, or market-corroborated inputs; and
Level 3: Unobservable inputs for which there is little or no market data which require the reporting entity to develop its own assumptions about how market participants would price the assets or liabilities.

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The valuation techniques that may be used to measure fair value are as follows:

A. Market approach — Uses prices and other relevant information generated by market transactions involving identical or comparable assets or liabilities.

B. Income approach — Uses valuation techniques to convert future amounts to a single present amount based on current market expectations about those future amounts, including present value techniques, option-pricing models, and excess earnings method.

C. Cost approach — Based on the amount that currently would be required to replace the service capacity of an asset (replacement cost).

The Company measures eligible assets and liabilities at fair value, with changes in value recognized in earnings. Fair value treatment may be elected either upon initial recognition of an eligible asset or liability or, for an existing asset or liability, if an event triggers a new basis of accounting. The Company did not elect to remeasure any of its existing financial assets or liabilities, and did not elect the fair value option for any financial assets and liabilities transacted in the years ended December 31, 2023 or 2022. Realized gains and losses from sales of the Company’s investments are included in “Other (expense) income, net”.

The carrying amounts of the Company’s financial instruments, which include cash, cash equivalents, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and accrued expenses, capital lease liabilities and equipment financing, approximated their fair values at December 31, 20172023 and 2016,2022, due to the short-term nature of these instruments.

The Company has evaluated the estimated fair value of financial instruments using available market information and management’s estimates. The use of different market assumptions and/or estimation methodologies could have a significant impact on the estimated fair value amounts. See Note 4

The Company’s financial instruments carried at fair value were less than $0.1 million as of December 31, 2023 and 2022.

Revenue

ASC 606 outlines a comprehensive five-step revenue recognition model based on the principle that an entity should recognize revenue to depict the transfer of promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled in exchange for further discussion.those goods or services.

Revenue Recognition1) Identify the contract with a customer

2) Identify the performance obligations in the contract

3) Determine the transaction price

4) Allocate the transaction price to performance obligations in the contract

5) Recognize revenue when or as the Company satisfies a performance obligation

The Company primarily derives revenuesatisfies performance obligations as discussed in further detail below. Revenue is recognized at the time the related performance obligation is satisfied by transferring a promised service to a customer. The transaction price is the total amount of consideration to which the Company expects to be entitled in exchange for transferring the promised services to the customer. The Company has elected to exclude from the sale of its online video platform, which enables its customers to publish and distribute video to Internet-connected devices quickly, easily and in a cost-effective and high-quality manner. Revenue is derived from three primary sources: (1) the subscription to its technology and related support; (2) hosting, bandwidth and encoding services; and (3) professional services, which include initiation,set-up and customization services.

The Company recognizes revenue when allmeasurement of the following conditionstransaction price all taxes assessed by a governmental authority that are satisfied: (1) there is persuasive evidence of an arrangement; (2) the service has been provided to the customer; (3) the collection of fees is probable;both imposed on and (4) the amount of fees to be paidconcurrent with a specific revenue-producing transaction and collected by the Company from a customer is fixed or determinable.(e.g. sales and use tax).

Disaggregation of Revenue

Subscription and Support

The Company’s subscription arrangements provide customers the right to access its hosted software applications. Customers do not have the right to take possession of the Company’s software during the hosting arrangement. Accordingly, the Company recognizes revenue in accordance with ASC 605,Revenue Recognition. Contracts for premium customers generally have a term of one year and arenon-cancellable. These contracts generally provide the customer with a maximum annualcontractual level of usage,entitlement, and provide the rate at which the customer must paypays for actual usage above the annual allowable usage. Forcontractual entitlement allowance. These subscription arrangements are considered stand ready obligations that are providing a series of distinct services that are substantially the same and are transferred with the same pattern to the customer. As such, these services,

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subscription arrangements are treated as a single performance obligation and the related fees are recognized as revenue ratably over the term of the underlying arrangement.

When the transaction price includes a variable amount of consideration, an entity is required to estimate the consideration that is expected to be received for a particular customer arrangement. The Company evaluates variable consideration for usage-based fees at contract inception and re-evaluates quarterly over the course of the contract. Specifically, the Company recognizesestimates the annual fee ratably as revenue each month. Shouldpertaining to a customer’s usage of the Company’s servicesthat is expected to exceed the annual allowable level,contractual entitlement allowance and allocates such revenue to the distinct service within the related contract that gives rise to the variable payment. Estimates of variable consideration include analyzing customer usage against the applicable entitlement limit at the end of each reporting period and estimating the amount and timing of additional amounts to be invoiced in connection with projected usage. Estimates of variable consideration relating to customer usage do not include amounts for which it is recognized for such excess inprobable that a significant reversal will occur. Determining the periodamount of variable consideration to recognize as revenue involves significant judgment on the usage. part of management and it is possible that actual revenue will deviate from estimates over the course of a customer’s committed contract term.

Contracts for volumewith customers that are generallymonth-to-month arrangements (volume customers) have a maximum monthly level of usage and provide the rate at which the customer must pay for actual usage above the monthly allowable usage. The monthly volume subscription and support and usage fees are recognized as revenue during the related period inof performance. Contracts with customers that are invoiced on a pay-as-you-go basis, where there is no monthly or annual commitment for usage, provide the rate at which the related cash is collected.

customer must pay for actual usage for a particular period. Fees that are invoiced on a pay-as-you-go basis are recognized as revenue during the period of performance.

Professional Services and Other Revenue

Revenue recognition commencesProfessional services and other revenue consist of services such as implementation, software customizations and project management for customers who subscribe to our premium editions. These arrangements are priced either on a fixed fee basis with a portion due upon contract signing and the later ofremainder due when the application is placed in a production environment, or when all revenue recognition criteriarelated services have been met.

completed, or on a time and materials basis. Professional services and other revenue is recognized on a percent complete basis based on the input method. Professional services and other revenue sold on a stand-alone basis are recognized as the services are performed, subject to any refund or other obligation.

Deferred revenue includes amounts billed to customers for which revenue has not been recognized, and primarily consists of the unearned portion of annual software subscription and support fees, and deferred professional service fees.Contracts with Multiple Performance Obligations

Revenue is presented net of any taxes collected from customers.

Multiple-Element Arrangements

The Company periodically enters into multiple-element service arrangements that include platform subscription fees, support fees, and, in certain cases, other professional services.

These contracts include multiple promises that the Company evaluates to determine if the promises are separate performance obligations. Performance obligations are identified based on services to be transferred to a customer that are both capable of being distinct and are distinct within the context of the contract. Once the Company determines the performance obligations, the Company determines the transaction price, which includes estimating the amount of variable consideration to be included in the transaction price, if any. The Company assesses arrangements with multiple deliverables under ASUNo. 2009-13,Revenue Recognition (Topic 605), Multiple-Deliverable Revenue Arrangements — a Consensus ofthen allocates the FASB Emerging Issues Task Force, which amendedtransaction price to each performance obligation in the previous multiple-element arrangements accounting guidance. Pursuant to ASU2009-13, objective and reliable evidence of fair value of the undelivered elements is no longer required in order to account for deliverables in a multiple-element arrangement separately. Instead, arrangement consideration is allocated to deliverables based on their relative selling price. The guidance also eliminated the use of the residual method.

In order to treat deliverables in a multiple-element arrangement as separate units of accounting, the deliverables must have stand-alone value upon delivery. If the deliverables have stand-alone value upon delivery, the Company accounts for each deliverable separately. Subscription services have stand-alone value as such services are often sold separately. In determining whether professional services have stand-alone value, the Company considers the following factors for each professional services agreement: availability of the services from other vendors, the nature of the professional services, the timing of when the professional services contract was signed in comparison to the subscription service start date, and the contractual dependence of the subscription service on the customer’s satisfaction with the professional services work. To date, the Company has concluded that all of the professional services included in multiple-element arrangements executed have stand-alone value.

When multiple deliverables included in an arrangement are separated into different units of accounting, the arrangement consideration is allocated to the identified separate units based on a relative stand-alone selling price hierarchy.method. The transaction price post allocation is recognized as revenue as the related performance obligation is satisfied.

Costs to Obtain a Contract

Commissions are paid to internal sales representatives as compensation for obtaining contracts. Under ASC 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, the Company determinescapitalizes commissions that are incremental, as a result of costs incurred to obtain a customer contract, if those costs are not within the relative selling pricescope of another topic within the accounting literature and meet the specified criteria. Assets recognized for costs to obtain a deliverable basedcontract are amortized over the period of performance for the underlying customer contracts. The commission expense on its vendor-specific objective evidencecontracts with new customers is recorded over the average life of fair value (VSOE), if available, or its best estimate of selling price (BESP), if VSOEa customer given the commission amount associated with sales to new customers is not available.commensurate with the commission amount associated with the contract renewal for those same customers. The Company has determined that third-party evidencecommission amount associated with the renewal of selling price (TPE) is not a practical alternative duecontract in addition to differences in its service offerings comparedany commission amount related to other parties andincremental sales are recorded as expense over the availability of relevant third-party pricing information. The amount of revenue allocated to delivered items is limited by contingent revenue, if any.

The Company has not established VSOE for its offerings due to the lack of pricing consistency, the introduction of new services and other factors. Accordingly, the Company uses its BESP to determine the relative selling price. The Company determines BESP by considering its overall pricing objectives and market conditions. Significant pricing practices taken into consideration include the Company’s discounting practices, the size and volumeterm of the Company’s transactions, the geographic area where servicesrenewed contract. These assets are sold, price lists, historical contractually stated prices and prior relationships and future subscription service sales with certain classes of customers.periodically assessed for impairment.

The determination of BESP is made through consultation with and approval by the Company’s management, taking into consideration thego-to-market strategy. As the Company’sgo-to-market strategies evolve, the Company may modify its pricing practices in the future, which could result in changes in selling prices, including both VSOE and BESP. The Company analyzes the selling prices used in its allocation of arrangement consideration, at a minimum, on an annual basis. Selling prices are analyzed on a more frequent basis if a significant change in the Company’s business necessitates a more timely analysis or if the Company experiences significant variances in its selling prices.

Cost of Revenue

Cost of revenue primarily consists of costs related to supporting and hosting the Company’s product offerings and delivering professional services. These costs include salaries, benefits, incentive compensation and stock-based compensation expense related to the management of the Company’s data centers, customer support team and the Company’s professional

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services staff, in addition to third-party service provider costs such as data center and networking expenses, allocated overhead, amortization of capitalizedinternal-use software development costs and intangible assets and depreciation expense.

Allowance for Doubtful Accounts

The Company offsets gross trade accounts receivable with an allowance for doubtful accounts. The allowance for doubtful accounts is the Company’s best estimate of the amount of probable credit losses in the Company’s existing accounts receivable and is based upon historical loss patterns, the number of days that billings are past due, and an evaluation of the potential risk of loss associated with specific accounts. Account balances are charged against the allowance after all means of collection have been exhausted and the potential for recovery is considered remote. Provisions for allowances for doubtful accounts are recorded in general and administrative expense.

Effective January 1, 2020, the Company adopted ASC 326, which requires measurement and recognition of expected credit losses for financial assets held. Estimating credit losses based on risk characteristics requires significant judgment by the Company. Significant judgments include, but are not limited to: assessing current economic conditions and the extent to which they would be relevant to the existing characteristics of the Company’s financial assets, the estimated life of financial assets, and the level of reliance on historical experience in light of economic conditions. The Company reviews and updates, when necessary, its historical risk characteristics that are meaningful to estimating credit losses, any new risk characteristics that arise in the natural course of business, and the estimated life of its financial assets.

The Company uses the aging method to estimate its expected credit losses on trade accounts receivable (“AR”) and unbilled trade accounts receivable (“UAR”). As of December 31, 2023, the financial assets of the Company within the scope of the assessment comprised AR and UAR. UAR is reflected in Other current assets on the Company’s Consolidated Balance Sheets and was $1.8 million and $1.8 million as of December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively. Estimated credit losses for UAR were not material.

The information obtained from assessing historical experience, current economic conditions and reasonable and supportable forecasts were used to identify risk characteristics that can affect future credit loss experience. The historical analysis yielded one material risk factor, the geographical location of the customer. Specifically, historical experience showed that AR that was due from customers in the Asia Pacific region had experienced more credit losses than the other geographic areas listed in Note 15. Europe and Japan had significantly less credit loss experience when compared to Asia Pacific while North America’s credit loss experience was commensurate with the proportion of total AR that North America’s AR comprised. There were no other significant risk characteristics identified in the review of historical experience.

Below is a summary of the changes in the Company’s allowance for doubtful accounts for the years ended December 31, 2017, 20162023, 2022 and 2015:2021:

   Balance at
Beginning
of Period
   Provision   Write-offs   Balance at
End of
Period
 

Year ended December 31, 2017

  $154   $203   $(211  $146 

Year ended December 31, 2016

   332    230    (408   154 

Year ended December 31, 2015

   181    408    (257   332 

 

 

Balance at Beginning of Period

 

 

Provision

 

 

Write-offs

 

 

Balance at End of Period

 

Year ended December 31, 2023

 

$

294

 

 

$

162

 

 

$

(246

)

 

$

210

 

Year ended December 31, 2022

 

 

353

 

 

 

118

 

 

 

(177

)

 

 

294

 

Year ended December 31, 2021

 

 

648

 

 

 

159

 

 

 

(454

)

 

 

353

 

Off-Balance Sheet Risk and Concentration of Credit Risk

The Company has no significantoff-balance sheet risk, such as foreign exchange contracts, option contracts, or other foreign hedging arrangements. Financial instruments that potentially expose the Company to concentrations of credit risk consist primarily of cash, cash equivalents and trade accounts receivable. The Company maintains its cash and cash equivalents principally with accredited financial institutions of high credit standing. Although the Company deposits its cash with multiple financial institutions, its deposits, at times, may exceed federally insured limits. The Company routinely assesses the creditworthiness of its customers. The Company generally has not experienced any material losses related to receivables from individual customers, or groups of customers. The Company does not require collateral. Due to these factors, no additional credit risk beyond amounts provided for collection losses is believed by management to be probable in the Company’s accounts receivable.

For the years ended December 31, 2017, 20162023, 2022 and 2015, 2021, no individual customer accounted for more than 10% of total revenue. As of December 31, 2023 and 2022, no individual customer accounted for more than 10% of total revenue.accounts receivable, net.

As of December 31, 2017 and 2016, no individual customer accounted for more than 10% of net accounts receivable.

Concentration of Other Risks

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The Company is dependent on certain content delivery network providers who provide digital media delivery functionality enabling the Company’son-demand application service to function as intended for the Company’s customers and ultimateend-users. The disruption of these services could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s business, financial position, and results of operations.

Software Development Costs

Costs incurred to develop software applications used in the Company’son-demand application services consist of (a) certain external direct costs of materials and services incurred in developing or obtaininginternal-use computer software, and (b) payroll and payroll-related costs for employees who are directly associated with, and who devote time to, the project. These costs generally consist of internal labor during configuration, coding, and testing activities. Research and development costs incurred during the preliminary project stage or costs incurred for data conversion activities, training, maintenance and general and administrative or overhead costs are expensed as incurred. Capitalization begins when the preliminary project stage is complete, management, with the relevant authority, authorizes and commits to the funding of the software project, it is probable the project will be completed, the software will be used to perform the functions intended and certain functional and quality standards have been met. Qualified costs incurred during the operating stage of the Company’s software applications relating to upgrades and enhancements are capitalized to the extent it is probable that they will result in added functionality, while costs that cannot be separated between maintenance of, and minor upgrades and enhancements to,internal-use software are expensed as incurred. These capitalized costs are amortized on a straight-line basis over the expected useful life of the software, which is estimated to be three years.years. Capitalizedinternal-use software development costs are classified as “Software” within “Property and Equipment, net” in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets.

During the years ended December 31, 2017, 20162023, 2022 and 2015,2021, the Company capitalized $3,239, $4,038$11.7 million, $15.5 million, and $1,488,$7.7 million, respectively, ofinternal-use software development costs. The Company recorded amortization expense associated with its capitalizedinternal-use software development costs of $1,867, $690$9.9 million, $5.2 million and $469$3.6 million for the years ended December 31, 2017, 20162023, 2022 and 2015,2021, respectively.

Leases

PropertyUnder ASC 842, a right-of-use asset and Equipmentlease liability is recorded for all leases and the statement of operations reflects the lease expense for operating leases and amortization/interest expense for financing leases. The Company does not apply the recognition requirements in the standard to a lease that at commencement date has a lease term of twelve months or less and does not contain a purchase option that it is reasonably certain to exercise and to not separate lease and related non-lease components.

Property and equipment are recorded at cost and depreciated over their estimated useful lives usingThe Company leases its facilities under non-cancelable operating leases. Right-of-use assets represent the straight-line method. Leasehold improvements are amortized over the shorter ofright to use an underlying asset for the lease term, orand lease liabilities represent the estimated useful lifeobligation to make lease payments arising from the lease. Right-of-use assets and lease liabilities are recognized at the commencement date based on the present value of lease payments over the lease term. As most of the related asset. Upon retirement or sale,Company’s leases do not provide an implicit rate, the costCompany uses its incremental borrowing rate based on the information available at commencement date in determining the present value of assets disposedlease payments. Many of and the related accumulated depreciation,Company’s lessee agreements include options to extend the lease, which are removed from the accounts, and any resulting gain or loss isnot included in the determination of net income or loss in the period of retirement.minimum lease terms unless they are reasonably certain to be exercised.

Property and equipment consists of the following:

   Estimated Useful Life
(in Years)
   December 31, 
       2017   2016 

Computer equipment

   3    17,157   $18,750 

Software

   3 - 6    17,996    14,648 

Furniture and fixtures

   5    2,396    1,995 

Leasehold improvements

   

Shorter of lease
term or the
estimated useful life
 
 
 
   1,366    1,202 
    

 

 

   

 

 

 
     38,915    36,595 

Less accumulated depreciation and amortization

     29,772    27,331 
    

 

 

   

 

 

 
    $9,143   $9,264 
    

 

 

   

 

 

 

Depreciation and amortization expense, which includes amortization expense associated with capitalizedinternal-use software development costs, for the years ended December 31, 2017, 2016 and 2015 was $4,523, $4,860 and $5,575, respectively.

Expenditures for maintenance and repairs are charged to expense as incurred, whereas major improvements are capitalized as additions to property and equipment.

On December 31, 2015, the Company entered into an equipment financing agreement with a lender (the “December 2015 Equipment Financing Agreement”) to finance the purchase of $604 in computer equipment. In February 2016, the Company drew down $604 under the December 2015 Equipment Financing Agreement. Refer to Note 8 for a discussion of the equipment financing.

On December 31, 2016, the Company disposed of a cost value of $1.9 million in computer equipment in connection with the closure of certain facilities for the purpose of consolidating its data centers. The Company recorded cost of revenue of $845, of which $695 represented the settlement amount due upon signing a termination agreement relating to the facilities and $150 represented a loss on disposal of assets in connection with the closure of the facilities.

Long-Lived Assets

The Company reviews long-lived assets and certain identifiable intangible assets for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable. During this review, the Companyre-evaluates the significant assumptions used in determining the original cost and estimated lives of long-lived assets. Although the assumptions may vary from asset to asset, they generally include operating results, changes in the use of the asset, cash flows, and other indicators of value. Management then determines whether the remaining useful life continues to be appropriate, or whether there has been an impairment of long-lived assets based primarily upon whether expected future undiscounted cash flows are sufficient to support the assets’ recovery. If impairment exists, the Company adjusts the carrying value of the asset to fair value, generally determined by a discounted cash flow analysis.

For the years ended December 31, 2017, 20162023, 2022 and 2015,2021, the Company has not identified any impairment of its long-lived assets.

Business Combinations

The Company records tangible and intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed in business combinations under the purchase method of accounting. Amounts paid for each acquisition are allocated to the

assets acquired and liabilities assumed

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based on their fair values at the date of acquisition. The Company then allocates the purchase price in excess of net tangible assets acquired to identifiable intangible assets based on detailed valuations that use information and assumptions provided by management. Any excess purchase price over the fair value of the net tangible and intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed is allocated to goodwill. If the fair value of the assets acquired exceeds the purchase price, the excess is recognized as a gain.

Significant management judgments and assumptions are required in determining the fair value of acquired assets and liabilities, particularly acquired intangible assets. The valuation of purchased intangible assets is based upon estimates of the future performance and cash flows from the acquired business. Each asset is measured at fair value from the perspective of a market participant.

If different assumptions are used, it could materially impact the purchase price allocation and adversely affect our results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.

For further discussion of the Company’s accounting policies related to business combinations, see Note 3.

Intangible Assets and Goodwill

Intangible assets that have finite lives are amortized over their estimated useful lives based on the pattern of consumption of the economic benefit or, if that pattern cannot be readily determined, on a straight-line basis and are reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable, as discussed above.

Goodwill is not amortized, but is evaluated for impairment annually, or whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying value may not be recoverable.

In assessing the recoverability of goodwill, the Company must make assumptions regarding the estimated future cash flows, and other factors, Conditions that could trigger a more frequent impairment assessment include, but are not limited to, determine the fair value of these assets. If these estimates or their related assumptionsa significant adverse change in certain agreements, significant underperformance relative to historical or projected future operating results, an economic downturn in customers’ industries, increased competition, a significant reduction in our stock price for a sustained period or a reduction of our market capitalization relative to net book value. If there is an impairment, the future, the Company may be required to record impairment charges against these assets in the reporting period in whichamount of the impairment is determined. on the excess of a reporting unit’s carrying amount over its fair value.

The Company has determined, based on its organizational structure, that it had one reporting unit as of December 31, 20172023 and 2016.

For goodwill,2022. The Company evaluates impairment by comparing the impairment evaluation includes a comparison of the carryingestimated fair value of theits reporting unit to the fair valueits carrying value. Please see Note 7 for a discussion of the reporting unit. If the reporting unit’s estimated fair value exceeds the reporting unit’s carrying value, noCompany's evaluation of impairment of goodwill exists. If the fair value of the reporting unit does not exceed its carrying value, then further analysis would be required to determine the amount of the impairment, if any.

In accordance with ASUNo. 2011-08,Intangibles — Goodwill and Other (Topic 350) Testing Goodwill for Impairment, the Company has the option to assess qualitative factors to determine whether the existence of events or circumstances leads to a determination that it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount to determine whether further impairment testing is necessary. Based on the results of the qualitative review of goodwill performed as of December 31, 2017 and 2016, the Company did not identify any indicators of impairment. As such, thetwo-phase process described above was not necessary.2023

Comprehensive (Loss) Income

Comprehensive Income (Loss)

Comprehensive(loss) income (loss) is defined as the change in equity of a business enterprise during a period from transactions, other events, and circumstances fromnon-owner sources. Accumulated other comprehensive loss is presented separately on the consolidated balance sheets and consists entirely of cumulative foreign translation adjustments as of December 31, 20172023 and 2016.2022.

Net Loss(Loss) Income per Share

The Company calculates basic and diluted net loss(loss) earnings per common share by dividing the net loss(loss) earnings amount by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding during the period. The Company has excluded (a) allcalculation of diluted earnings per common share includes the

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unvested restricted shares that are subject to repurchase and (b)

effects of the Company’s other potentially dilutive shares, which include warrants to purchase common stock andassumed exercise of any outstanding common stock options and unvestedthe assumed vesting of shares of restricted stock units, from the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding as their inclusion in the computation for all periods would be anti-dilutive due to net losses incurred.awards, where dilutive.

The following potentially dilutivetable set forth the computations of basic and diluted (loss) earnings per share:

 

 

Year Ended December 31,

 

(in thousands, except per share data)

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

Net (loss) income

 

$

(22,886

)

 

$

(9,015

)

 

$

5,397

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weighted average shares used in computing basic earnings per share

 

 

43,128

 

 

 

41,831

 

 

 

40,717

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Effect of weighted average dilutive stock-based awards

 

 

-

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

1,483

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weighted average shares used in computing diluted earnings per share

 

 

43,128

 

 

 

41,831

 

 

 

42,200

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net (loss) income per share—basic and diluted

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

         Basic

 

$

(0.53

)

 

$

(0.22

)

 

$

0.13

 

         Diluted

 

$

(0.53

)

 

$

(0.22

)

 

$

0.13

 

The following outstanding common shares have been excluded from the computation of dilutive net loss(loss) earnings per share as of December 31, 2017, 2016 and 2015, as their effect would have been antidilutive:the periods indicated because such securities are anti-dilutive:

  Year Ended December 31, 

 

Year Ended December 31,

 

  2017   2016   2015 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

Options outstanding

   4,127    4,291    4,139 

 

 

2,248

 

 

 

1,420

 

 

 

1,681

 

Restricted stock units outstanding

   2,050    1,668    1,043 

 

 

5,620

 

 

 

5,212

 

 

 

3,937

 

Warrants

   —      19    28 

Total options and restricted stock units outstanding

 

 

7,868

 

 

 

6,632

 

 

 

5,618

 

Income Taxes

The Company accounts for income taxes in accordance with the asset and liability method. Under this method, deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized based on temporary differences between the financial reporting and income tax bases of assets and liabilities using statutory rates. In addition, this method requires a valuation allowance against net deferred tax assets if, based upon the available evidence, it is more likely than not that some or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized.

The Company accounts for uncertain tax positions recognized in the consolidated financial statements by prescribing amore-likely-than-not threshold for financial statement recognition and measurement of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. Interest and penalties, if applicable, related to uncertain tax positions would be recognized as a component of income tax expense. The Company has no recorded liabilities for uncertain tax positions as of December 31, 20172023 or 2016.2022.

Stock-Based Compensation

At December 31, 2017,2023, the Company had fourseven stock-based compensation plans, which are more fully described in Note 6.11.

The Company values its shares of common stock in connection with the issuance of stock-based equity awards using the closing price of the Company’s shares of common stock on the NASDAQ Global Market on the date of the grant. Accounting guidance requires stock-based payments to be accounted for under the fair value method. Under this method, the Company is required to record compensation cost based on the estimated fair value for stock-based awards granted over the requisite service periods for the individual awards, which generally equals the vesting periods.

For stock options issued under the Company’s stock-based compensation plans, the fair value of each option grant is estimated on the date of grant. For service-based options, the Company recognizes compensation expense on a straight-line basis over the requisite service period of the award. For restricted stock units issued under the Company’s stock-based compensation plans, the

The fair value of each grant is calculated based on the Company’s stock price on the date of grant.

The fair value of eachservice-based option grant issued under the Company’s stock-based compensation plans was estimated using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model. The expected volatility of options granted has been determined using a weighted-average of the historical volatility measures of a peer group of companies that issued options with substantially similar terms as well as the historical volatility of the Company’s own common stock. The expected life of options has been determined utilizing the “simplified

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“simplified method”. The simplified method is based on the average of the vesting tranches and the contractual life of each grant. The risk-free interest rate is based on a treasury instrument whose term is consistent with the expected life of the stock options. The Company has not paid, and does not anticipate paying, cash dividends on its common stock; therefore, the expected dividend yield is assumed to be zero.

The weighted-average fair value ofFor premium-priced options granted duringissued under the years ended December 31, 2017, 2016 and 2015, was $3.08, $4.01 and $3.10 per share, respectively. The weighted-average assumptions utilized to determine such values are presented in the following table:

   Year Ended December 31, 
   2017  2016  2015 

Risk-free interest rate

   2.08  1.75  1.96

Expected volatility

   42  45  46

Expected life (in years)

   6.1   6.2   6.2 

Expected dividend yield

   —     —     —   

For the years ended December 31, 2017, 2016 and 2015, totalCompany's stock-based compensation expense was $7,243, $6,012 and $6,014, respectively. As of December 31, 2017, there was $18,232 of total unrecognized stock-based compensation expense related to stock based awards that is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 2.06 years.

In July 2017, the Company entered into a separation agreement with its former Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”), which accelerated the vesting schedule of certain existing stock-based awards held by the CEO. The incremental stock-based compensation expense as a result of the modification of these stock-based awards was $186 for the year ended December 31, 2017. Further, the vesting schedule of certain other stock-based awards held by the CEO accelerates upon a change in control of the Company on or prior to December 31, 2017, which would result in an additional $220 of stock-based compensation expense upon such change in control. As there was not a change in control of the Company, the additional stock-based compensation was not recognized.

On January 1, 2017, the Company adoptedASU 2016-09. ASU 2016-09 identifies areas for simplification involving several aspects of accounting for share based payments, including income tax consequences, classification of awards as either equity or liabilities, an option to make a policy election to recognize gross share based compensation expense with actual forfeitures recognized as they occur as well as certain classification changes on the statement of cash flows. In connection with the adoption of this standard, the Company changed its accounting policy to record actual forfeitures as they occur, rather than estimating forfeitures by applying a forfeiture rate. As this policy change was applied prospectively, prior periods have not been adjusted. The Company recorded a cumulative effect adjustment in the three months ended March 31, 2017, which increased accumulated deficit andadditional paid-in-capital by $197.

Prior to the adoption of ASU2016-09 on January 1, 2017, the Company estimated forfeitures at the time of grant and revised those estimates in subsequent periods if actual forfeitures differed from estimates. The Company used historical data to estimatepre-vesting option forfeitures to the extent that actual forfeitures differed from our estimates, and the difference was recorded as a cumulative adjustment in the period the estimates were revised. Stock-based compensation expense recognized in the consolidated financial statements is based on awards that are ultimately expected to vest. For the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015, the Company applied an estimated forfeiture rate of approximately 17%, and 17%, respectively.

The Company accounts for transactions in which services are received fromnon-employees in exchange for equity instruments based onplans, the fair value of such services received, or of the equity instrumentseach option issued whichever is more reliably measured. The Company determines the total stock-based compensation expense related tonon-employee awardsdetermined using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model. Additionally, in accordance with ASC 505,Equity-Based Payments toNon-Employees, the Company accountsbinomial lattice model, which calculates multiple potential outcomes for awards tonon-employees prospectively, such that theoption exercises and establishes a fair value based on the most likely outcome. Key assumptions for the binomial lattice model include share price, volatility, the early exercise multiple, risk-free rate, expected dividends, and number of the awards is remeasured at each reporting date until the earlier of (a) the performance commitment date or (b) the date the services required under the arrangement have been completed.time steps.

For the years ended December 31, 2017, 2016 and 2015, stock-based compensation expense for stock options granted tonon-employees in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations was not material.

See Note 6 for a summary of the stock option and restricted stock activityunits issued under the Company’s stock-based compensation plans, the fair value of each grant is calculated based on the Company’s stock price on the date of grant. For performance-based awards with service-based vesting conditions, the Company recognizes compensation expense based upon a review of the Company’s expected achievement against the specified targets. For performance-based awards with market-based vesting, the Company recognizes compensation expense as the requisite service is rendered by the employee, regardless of when, if ever, the market-based performance conditions are satisfied. The Monte-Carlo simulation model is used to estimate fair value of market-based performance restricted stock units. The Monte-Carlo simulation model calculates multiple potential outcomes for an award and establishes a fair value based on the most likely outcome. Key assumptions for the year ended December 31, 2017.Monte-Carlo simulation model include the risk-free rate, expected volatility, expected dividends and the correlation coefficient.

Forfeitures are recognized as they occur.

Advertising Costs

Advertising costs are charged to operations as incurred. The Company incurred advertising costs of $2,485, $2,137$2.7 million, $4.8 million and $2,081$6.0 million for the years ended December 31, 2017, 20162023, 2022 and 2015,2021, respectively.

Merger-related Costs

Merger-related costs consist of expenses related to mergers and acquisitions, integration costs and general corporate development activities. In 2022, merger-related costs incurred were primarily related to the acquisition of Wicket Labs and, to a lesser extent, general merger and related activities. In 2023 and 2021, merger-related costs incurred were primarily related to general merger and related activities.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements and Standards

Revenue RecognitionRecently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements

ASU No. 2023-09

In May 2014,December 2023, the FinancialFASB issued ASU No. 2023-09, which improves the transparency and decision usefulness of income tax disclosures, specifically to enhance investors's ability to: (1) understand an entity’s exposure to potential changes in jurisdictional tax legislation and the ensuing risks and opportunities, (2) assess income tax information that affects cash flow forecasts and capital allocation decisions, and (3) identify potential opportunities to increase future cash flows. This guidance will be effective for the Company on January 1, 2025. The Company does not expect application of this guidance to have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.

3. Business Combinations

On February 1, 2022, the Company acquired 100% of the outstanding shares of Wicket Labs, Inc. (“Wicket Labs”) a provider of subscriber and content insights, in exchange for common stock of the Company and cash, (“Wicket Acquisition”). At the closing, the Company issued 212,507 unregistered shares of common stock of the Company valued at approximately $2.0 million and approximately $15.0 million in cash, of which approximately $1.8 million of the cash consideration was held back to secure payment of any claims of indemnification for breaches or inaccuracies in the sellers’ representations and warranties, covenants and agreements. During the year ended December 31, 2022, the Company paid $0.1 million of cash consideration held back to the sellers for the satisfaction of certain representations and warranties. The remaining cash consideration held back was included in Accrued Expenses at December 31, 2022 and released in full on February 8, 2023.

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The Wicket Acquisition was accounted for using the purchase method of accounting in accordance with Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issuedASU No. 2014-09,Codification 805 — Business Combinations. Accordingly, the results of operations of the acquired company have been included in the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements since the date of acquisition. The purchase price has been allocated to the tangible and intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed based upon the respective estimates of fair value as of the date of the Wicket Acquisition, and using assumptions that the Company’s management believes are reasonable given the information currently available. The Company completed its valuation of its intangible assets, accounts receivable, deferred revenue and the valuation of the acquired deferred tax assets and liabilities during the year ended December 31, 2022. The final allocations of the purchase price to intangible assets, accounts receivable, deferred revenue, goodwill and any deferred tax assets and liabilities are included in these consolidated financial statements.

During the year ended December 31, 2022, the Company incurred $0.7 million of merger-related costs related to the Wicket Acquisition.

The excess of the purchase price over the estimated amounts of net assets as of the effective date of the acquisition was allocated to goodwill in accordance with the accounting guidance. The factors contributing to the recognition of the amount of goodwill are based on several strategic and synergistic benefits that are expected to be realized from the Wicket Acquisition. These benefits include the acquired workforce and opportunities to expand the Company’s offerings in target market segments that use subscriber and content insights to make decisions. The goodwill is non-deductible for tax purposes.

The total purchase price for the Wicket Acquisition has been allocated as follows:

Cash

 

$

53

 

Accounts receivable and other assets

 

 

782

 

Identifiable intangible assets

 

 

4,382

 

Goodwill

 

 

13,957

 

Deferred revenue

 

 

(1,033

)

Deferred tax liabilities

 

 

(1,009

)

Other liabilities

 

 

(95

)

Total estimated purchase price

 

$

17,037

 

The following are the identifiable intangible assets acquired and their respective useful lives, as determined based on valuations:

 

 

Amount

 

 

Useful Life
(in years)

 

Developed technology

 

$

4,200

 

 

 

6

 

Customer relationships

 

 

182

 

 

 

5

 

Total

 

$

4,382

 

 

 

 

The fair value of the intangible assets has been estimated using the income approach in which the after-tax cash flows are discounted to present value. The cash flows are based on estimates used to price the transaction, and the discount rates applied were benchmarked with reference to the implied rate of return from the transaction model as well as the weighted average cost of capital.

Pro forma results of operations for the Wicket Acquisition have not been presented because the effect of the acquisition is not material to the Company's consolidated financial results. Revenue and earnings attributable to acquired operations since the date of the acquisition are included in the Company's consolidated statements of operations.

4. Cash and Cash Equivalents

Cash and cash equivalents as of December 31, 2023 and 2022 consist of the following:

 

 

December 31, 2023

 

Description

 

Contracted
Maturity

 

Amortized Cost

 

 

Fair Market
Value

 

Cash

 

Demand

 

$

18,571

 

 

$

18,571

 

Money market funds

 

Demand

 

 

44

 

 

 

44

 

Total cash and cash equivalents

 

 

 

$

18,615

 

 

$

18,615

 

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December 31, 2022

 

Description

 

Contracted
Maturity

 

Amortized Cost

 

 

Fair Market
Value

 

Cash

 

Demand

 

$

31,852

 

 

$

31,852

 

Money market funds

 

Demand

 

 

42

 

 

 

42

 

Total cash and cash equivalents

 

 

 

$

31,894

 

 

$

31,894

 

5. Property and Equipment

Property and equipment consist of the following:

 

 

December 31,

 

 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

Computer equipment

 

$

16,027

 

 

$

15,516

 

Software

 

 

75,311

 

 

 

60,534

 

Furniture and fixtures

 

 

4,895

 

 

 

4,775

 

Leasehold improvements

 

 

9,001

 

 

 

8,839

 

 

 

 

105,234

 

 

 

89,664

 

Less accumulated depreciation and amortization

 

 

62,758

 

 

 

49,987

 

 

 

$

42,476

 

 

$

39,677

 

Depreciation and amortization expense, which includes amortization expense associated with capitalized internal-use software development costs, for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021 was $12.6 million, $7.3 million and $5.3 million, respectively.

6. Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606),

The Company primarily derives revenue from the sale of its online video platform, which modifies how all entities recognize revenue,enables its customers to publish and consolidates into one ASC Topic (ASC Topic 606,distribute video to Internet-connected devices quickly, easily and in a cost-effective and high-quality manner. Revenue is derived from Contractsthree primary sources: (1) the subscription to its technology and related support; (2) hosting, bandwidth and encoding services; and (3) professional services, which include initiation, set-up and customization services.

The following summarizes the opening and closing balances of receivables, contract assets and contract liabilities from contracts with Customers) (“ASC 606”),customers.

 

 

Accounts Receivable, net

 

 

Contract Assets (current)

 

 

Deferred Revenue (current)

 

 

Deferred Revenue (non-current)

 

 

Total Deferred Revenue

 

Balance at December 31, 2023

 

 

33,451

 

 

 

1,785

 

 

 

68,155

 

 

 

185

 

 

 

68,340

 

Balance at December 31, 2022

 

 

26,004

 

 

 

1,786

 

 

 

61,597

 

 

 

360

 

 

 

61,957

 

Balance at December 31, 2021

 

 

29,866

 

 

 

2,375

 

 

 

62,057

 

 

 

114

 

 

 

62,171

 

Balance at December 31, 2020

 

 

29,305

 

 

 

2,078

 

 

 

58,741

 

 

 

811

 

 

 

59,552

 

Revenue recognized during the current guidance found in ASC Topic 605, and various other revenue accounting standards for specialized transactions and industries. ASC 606 outlines a comprehensive five-step revenue recognition model based on the principle that an entity should recognize revenue to depict the transfer of promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. ASC 606 may be applied using either a full retrospective approach, under which all yearsyear ended December 31, 2023 from amounts included in deferred revenue at the financial statements will be presented underbeginning of the revised guidance, or a modified retrospective approach, under which financial statements will be prepared under the revised guidance forperiod was approximately $61.0 million. During the year of adoption, but not for prior years. Under the latter method, entities will recognize acumulative catch-up adjustment to the opening balance of retained earnings at the effective date for contracts that still require performance by the entity at the date of adoption. In August 2015, the FASB issuedASU 2015-14, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606): Deferral of Effective Date, which defers the effective date of ASC 606 by one year. ASC 606 is now effective for annual reporting periods beginning afterended December 15, 2017, including interim periods within those annual reporting periods.

The Company will adopt ASC 606 on January 1, 2018. The Company has elected to apply the modified retrospective method of adoption. The adoption of ASC 606 is expected to have a material effect on the Company’s consolidated financial statements. In addition to the enhanced footnote disclosures related to customer contracts,31, 2023, the Company anticipates that the most significant impact of the new standard will relate to variable consideration and costs to obtain a contract. In order to complete this assessment, the Company is continuing to update and enhance its internal accounting systems and internal controls over financial reporting.did not recognize any material revenue from performance obligations satisfied or partially satisfied in previous periods.

Variable Consideration

Contracts for premium customers generally provide the customer with a maximum annual level of entitlements and provide the rate at which the customer must pay for actual usage above the annual entitlement allowance. Under ASC 605, if usage exceeds the annual allowance level for a particular customer arrangement, the associated revenue is recognized in the period that the additional usage occurs. Under ASC 606, when the transaction price includes a variable amount, an entity is required to estimate the consideration that is expected to be received for a particular customer arrangement. The Company will evaluate variable consideration for usage based fees at contract inception andre-evaluate quarterly over the course of the contract. Specifically, the Company will estimate the revenue pertaining to a customer’s usage that is expected to exceed the annual entitlement allowance and allocate such revenue to the distinct service within the related contract that gives rise to the variable payment. Estimates of variable consideration relating to customer usage should not include amounts for which it is probable that a significant reversal will occur. Determining the amount of variable consideration to recognize as revenue involves significant judgment on the part of management and it is possible that actual revenue will deviate from estimates over the course of a customer’s committed contract term. The Company has not yet completed its assessment of variable consideration relating to customer usage under ASC 606 and is still evaluating the impact on its results of operations. However, the Company’s preliminary assessment is that there will be a material impact to retained earnings upon adoption.

Costs to Obtain a Contract

Commissions are paid to internal sales representatives as compensation for obtaining contracts. Under ASC 606, the Company will capitalize commissions that are incremental as a result of costs incurred to obtain a customer contract if those costs are not within the scope of another topic within the accounting literature and meet the specified criteria. Assetsassets recognized for costs to obtain a contract will be amortized over the periodwere $13.1 million and $12.4 million as of performanceDecember 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively. Amortization expense recognized for the underlying customer contracts. The commission expense on contracts with new customers was previously recorded over the respective contract term. Under ASC 606, the commission expense on contracts with new customers will be recorded over the average life of a customer given the commission amount associated with sales to new customers is not commensurate with the commission amount associated with the contract renewal for those same customers. The commission amount associated with the renewal of a contract in addition to any related incremental sale was previously recorded as expense in the quarter the commission was earned; however, under ASC 606 these commission amounts will be recorded as expense over the term of the renewed contract. These assets will be periodically assessed for impairment. The Company has not yet completed its assessment of costs to obtain a contract under ASC 606was $10.9 million, $10.4 million and is still evaluating$12.7 million during the impact on its results of operations. However, the Company’s preliminary assessment is that there will be a material impactyears ended December 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021, respectively.

Transaction Price Allocated to retained earnings upon adoption.Future Performance Obligations

Other Recent Accounting Pronouncements

In February 2016, the FASB issuedASU 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842), Amendments to the FASB Accounting Standards Codification, which replaces the existing guidance for leases.ASU 2016-02 requires the identification of arrangements that should be accounted for as leases by lessees. In general, lease arrangements exceeding a twelve month term must now be recognized as assets and liabilities on the balance sheet of the lessee. UnderASU 2016-02, a right-of-use asset and lease obligation will be recorded for all leases, whether operating or financing, while the income statement will reflect lease expense for operating leases and amortization/interest expense for financing leases. The balance sheet amount recorded for existing leases at the date of adoption ofASU 2016-02 must be calculated using the applicable incremental borrowing rate at the date of adoption. In addition,ASU 2016-02 requires the use of the modified retrospective method, which will require adjustment to all comparative periods presented in the consolidated financial statements. This guidance is effective for annual and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2018 and requires retrospective application. The Company is currently assessing the impact that adoptingASU 2016-02 will have on its consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.

In June 2016, the FASB issuedASU 2016-15, Statement of Cash Flows (Topic 230): Classification of Certain Cash Receipts and Cash Payments, which reduces the diversity in how certain transactions are classified in the statement of cash flows.ASU 2016-15 is effective for public companies for annual and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2017. Early adoption is permitted. The guidance requires application using a retrospective transition method. The adoption ofASU 2016-15 is not expected to have a material effect on the Company’s consolidated financial statements or disclosures.

In November 2016, the FASB issuedASU 2016-18, Statement of Cash Flows (Topic 230): Restricted Cash, which requires an entity to reconcile and explain the period-over-period change in total cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash within its statement of cash flows.ASU 2016-18 is effective for annual and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2017. Early adoption is permitted. A reporting entity must apply the amendments inASU 2016-18 using a full retrospective approach. The adoption ofASU 2016-18 is not expected to have a material effect on the Company’s consolidated financial statements or disclosures.

In January 2017, the FASB issued ASU2017-04,Intangibles – Goodwill and Other (Topic 350): Simplifying the Test for Goodwill Impairment. The updated guidance eliminates Step 2 of the impairment test, which requires entities to calculate the implied fair value of goodwill to measure a goodwill impairment charge. Instead, entities will record an impairment charge based on the excess of a reporting unit’s carrying amount overF-19


its fair value, determined in Step 1. ASU2017-04 is effective for annual and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2019. Early adoption is permitted for interim or annual goodwill impairment tests performed on testing dates after January 1, 2017. The Company does not plan to early adopt ASU2017-04, and the Company is currently evaluating the impact of this guidance on the Company’s consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.

In May 2017, the FASB issued ASU2017-09,Compensation – Stock Compensation (Topic 718): Scope of Modification Accounting, which clarifies when changes to the terms or conditions of a share-based payment award must be accounted for as modifications. ASU2017-09 will reduce diversity in practice and result in fewer changes to the terms of an award being accounted for as modifications. Under ASU2017-09, an entity will not apply modification accounting to a share-based payment award if the award’s fair value, vesting conditions and classification as an equity or liability instrument are the same immediately before and after the change. ASU2017-09 will be applied prospectively to awards modified on or after the adoption date. The guidance is effective for annual periods, and interim periods within those annual periods, beginning after December 15, 2017. The Company has adopted this guidance effective January 1, 2018 and does not expect this new guidance to have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

On December 22, 2017, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Act”) was enacted in the United States. The Act reduces the U.S. federal corporate tax rate from 34% to 21%, requires companies to pay aone-time transition tax on earnings of certain foreign subsidiaries that were previously tax deferred and creates new taxes on certain foreign sourced earnings. In December 2017, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) issued guidance under Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 118,Income Tax Accounting Implications of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“SAB 118”) directing taxpayers to consider the impact of the U.S. legislation as “provisional” when it does not have the necessary information available, prepared or analyzed (including computations) in reasonable detail to complete its accounting for the change in tax law. As of December 31, 2017,2023, the total aggregate transaction price allocated to the unsatisfied performance obligations for subscription and support contracts was approximately $183.0 million, of which approximately $127.3 million is expected to be recognized over the next 12 months. The Company had not yet completed its accounting forexpects to recognize substantially all of the tax effects of the enactment of the Act; however, the Company has made a reasonable estimate of the effects on our existing deferred tax balances andone-time transition tax. Refer to Note 7,Income Taxes, for additional information regarding this new tax legislation.

In addition to the reduction in the federal corporate tax rate and theone-time transition tax, which the Company has accounted for with provisional estimates atremaining unsatisfied performance obligations by December 31, 2017, the Company continues to analyze the provisions of tax reform that become effective for the Company in 2018 including the provisions related to Global Intangible Low Taxed Income, Foreign Derived Intangible Income, Base Erosion Anti-Abuse Tax, as well as other provisions which would limit the deductibility of future expenses.2028.

3.7. Intangible Assets and Goodwill

Finite-lived intangible assets consist of the following as of December 31, 2017:2023:

Description

  Weighted
Average
Estimated
Useful Life
(in years)
   Gross
Carrying
Value
   Accumulated
Amortization
   Net
Carrying
Value
 

Developed technology

   7   $14,223   $9,431   $4,792 

Customer relationships

   11    6,257    2,813    3,444 

Non-compete agreements

   3    1,912    1,912    —   

Tradename

   3    368    368    —   
    

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

    $22,760   $14,524   $8,236 
    

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 Description

 

Weighted Average Estimated Useful Life (in years)

 

 

Gross Carrying Value

 

 

Accumulated Amortization

 

 

Net Carrying Value

 

Developed technology

 

 

6

 

 

$

22,278

 

 

$

19,663

 

 

$

2,615

 

Customer relationships

 

 

9

 

 

 

15,669

 

 

 

11,916

 

 

 

3,753

 

Non-compete agreements

 

 

3

 

 

 

1,912

 

 

 

1,912

 

 

 

 

Tradename

 

 

3

 

 

 

368

 

 

 

368

 

 

 

 

Total

 

 

 

 

$

40,227

 

 

$

33,859

 

 

$

6,368

 

Finite-lived intangible assets consist of the following as of December 31, 2016:2022:

Description

  Weighted
Average
Estimated
Useful Life
(in years)
   Gross
Carrying
Value
   Accumulated
Amortization
   Net
Carrying
Value
 

 

Weighted Average Estimated Useful Life (in years)

 

 

Gross Carrying Value

 

 

Accumulated Amortization

 

 

Net Carrying Value

 

Developed technology

   7   $14,223   $7,400   $6,823 

 

 

6

 

 

$

22,278

 

 

$

17,393

 

 

$

4,885

 

Customer relationships

   11    6,257    2,147    4,110 

 

 

9

 

 

 

15,669

 

 

 

10,275

 

 

 

5,394

 

Non-compete agreements

   3    1,912    1,875    37 

 

 

3

 

 

 

1,912

 

 

 

1,912

 

 

 

 

Tradename

   3    368    368    —   

 

 

3

 

 

 

368

 

 

 

368

 

 

 

 

    

 

   

 

   

 

 

Total

    $22,760   $11,790   $10,970 

 

 

 

 

$

40,227

 

 

$

29,948

 

 

$

10,279

 

    

 

   

 

   

 

 

Amortization

In the fourth quarter of 2022 the Company assessed the useful life of the acquired Wicket-developed technology and changed its estimate of the expected useful life to 3 years. This change was applied prospectively as of the beginning of the fourth quarter 2022.

The following table summarizes amortization expense related to intangible assets for the years ended December 31, 2017, 20162023, 2022 and 2015 was $2,734, $3,116 and $3,112, respectively.2021:

 

 

Year Ended December 31,

 

 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

Cost of subscription and support revenue

 

$

2,270

 

 

$

1,757

 

 

$

1,420

 

Sales and marketing

 

 

1,641

 

 

 

1,662

 

 

 

1,652

 

 

 

$

3,911

 

 

$

3,419

 

 

$

3,072

 

The estimated remaining amortization expense for each of the five succeeding years and thereafter is as follows:

Year Ending December 31,

  Amount 

2018

  $2,317 

2019

   1,603 

2020

   1,585 

2021

   1,327 

2022

   370 

2023 and thereafter

   1,034 
  

 

 

 

Total

  $8,236 
  

 

 

 

 Year Ending December 31,

 

Amount

 

2024

 

$

3,688

 

2025

 

 

2,141

 

2026

 

 

536

 

2027

 

 

3

 

2028

 

 

 

2029 and thereafter

 

 

 

Total

 

$

6,368

 

The

Goodwill was $74,859 at December 31, 2023 and 2022. There were no changes in the carrying amount of goodwill was $50,776for the year ended December 31, 2023.

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The Company views its operations and manages its business as one reporting unit and tests goodwill and its definite-lived intangible assets annually on October 31. As of October 31, 2023, the Company did not identify an impairment triggering event and assessed impairment for goodwill and other definite-lived intangible assets using a qualitative approach and quantitative approach, respectively.

During the two months ended December 31, 2023 the Company identified a triggering event, the decrease in its stock price as of December 31, 20172023 (the interim testing date), that may indicate impairment.

The Company reviewed its quantitative analysis for its definite-lived intangible assets as of October 31, 2023, that used undiscounted cash flow models, and 2016.

4. Fair Value Measurements

ASC 820, Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures, establishes a three-level valuation hierarchy for instruments measured at fair valuedetermined that distinguishes betweenthe assumptions based on market data (observable inputs) and the Company’s own assumptions (unobservable inputs). Observable inputs are inputs that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on market data obtained from sources independent of the Company. Unobservable inputs are inputs that reflect the Company’s assumptions about the inputs that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability, and are developed based on the best information availableused in the circumstances.

ASC 820 identifies fair value as an exit price, representing the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants based on the highest and best use of the asset or liability. As such, fair value is a market-based measurement that should be determined based on assumptions that market participants would use in pricing an asset or liability. The Company uses valuation techniques to measure fair value that maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs. These inputs are prioritized as follows:

Level 1: Observable inputs, such as quoted prices for identical assets or liabilities in active markets;

Level 2: Inputs, other than the quoted prices in active markets, that are observable either directly or indirectly, such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities, or market-corroborated inputs; and

Level 3: Unobservable inputs for which there is little or no market data which require the reporting entity to develop its own assumptions about how market participants would price the assets or liabilities.

The valuation techniques that may be used to measure fair value are as follows:

A.Market approach — Uses prices and other relevant information generated by market transactions involving identical or comparable assets or liabilities.

B.Income approach — Uses valuation techniques to convert future amounts to a single present amount based on current market expectations about those future amounts, including present value techniques, option-pricing models, and excess earnings method.

C.Cost approach — Based on the amount that currently would be required to replace the service capacity of an asset (replacement cost).

The following tables set forth the Company’s financial instruments carried at fair value using the lowest level of inputundiscounted cash flow model were still applicable as of December 31, 20172023 and 2016:that there was no impairment on our definite-lived intangible assets. The Company's significant assumptions in the undiscounted cash flow models include, but are not limited to, its revenue growth rates assumption.

   December 31, 2017 
   Quoted
Prices in
Active
Markets for
Identical
Items
(Level 1)
   Significant
Other
Observable
Inputs

(Level 2)
   Significant
Unobservable
Inputs
(Level 3)
   Total 

Assets:

        

Money market funds

  $8,160   $—     $—     $8,160 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total assets

  $8,160   $—     $—     $8,160 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 
   December 31, 2016 
   Quoted
Prices in
Active
Markets for
Identical
Items
(Level 1)
   Significant Other
Observable
Inputs

(Level 2)
   Significant
Unobservable
Inputs
(Level 3)
   Total 

Assets:

        

Money market funds

  $12,871   $—     $—     $12,871 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total assets

  $12,871   $—     $—     $12,871 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Realized gainsAs the Company has one reporting unit all of its goodwill was allocated to that unit for the purpose of testing for impairment. To determine fair value of its one reporting unit, the Company engaged a third-party valuation expert and losses from sales ofprovided the Company’s investments are included in “Other income (expense), net”.

valuation expert with projected financial information prepared by management. The Company measures eligible assetstook the income approach and liabilities at fair value, with changes in value recognized in earnings. Fair value treatment may be elected either upon initial recognition of an eligible asset or liability or, for an existing asset or liability, if an event triggersused a new basis of accounting. The Company did not electdiscounted cash flow model as its valuation technique to remeasure any of its existing financial assets or liabilities, and did not electmeasure the fair value option for any financial assets and liabilities transactedof its reporting unit. The discounted cash flow model used forecasted cash flows plus a terminal value based on capitalizing the last period's cash flows using a perpetual growth rate. The Company's significant assumptions in the years ended December 31, 2017discounted cash flow model include, but are not limited to: the weighted average cost of capital ("WACC", the rate at which future cash flows are discounted to present value), revenue growth rates, including the perpetual growth rate for the terminal year, and operating margins of the reporting unit. Lastly, the Company reconciled the aggregate of the discounted cash flows to its market capitalization, which included a reasonable control premium based on observed market conditions. The result of the goodwill impairment test performed indicated that estimated fair value exceeded the carrying value of the reporting unit. As such, the Company feels the reporting unit was not at risk of impairment as of the interim testing date.

Conditions that could trigger future impairment assessment include, but are not limited to, a significant adverse change in certain agreements, significant underperformance relative to historical or 2016.projected future operating results, an economic downturn in customers’ industries, increased competition, a significant reduction in our stock price for a sustained period or a reduction of our market capitalization relative to net book value. These factors could have a negative material impact to the fair value of the Company's reporting unit and could result in a future impairment charge.

5. Commitments and Contingencies8. Leases

Operating Lease Commitments

The Company’s corporate headquarters are located in Boston, Massachusetts, pursuant to a lease of approximately 40,000 square feet that terminates on September 30, 2032. The initial term of the lease is for ten years. The Company leases its facilities undernon-cancelable operating leases. These operating leases expire at various dates through January 2024. Future minimum rental commitments under operating leases at December 31, 2017 are as follows:

Year Ending December 31,

  Operating
Lease
Commitments
 

2018

  $8,384 

2019

   6,990 

2020

   5,165 

2021

   4,952 

2022

   2,013 

2023 and thereafter

   2,094 
  

 

 

 
  $29,598 
  

 

 

 

Certain amounts included in the table above relating toco-location leases for the Company’s servers include usage based charges in addition to base rent.

The Company’s primary office lease has the option to renewextend the lease for two successive periodsfive-year terms which were not recognized in the initial liability and right-of-use asset, as the Company does not expect to exercise the extension. The Company has a right of five years each.first offer to lease additional office space that becomes available within the 281 Summer Street premises. In connection with the office lease, the Company entered intoprovided a security deposit, in the form of a letter of credit, in the amount of $2,404.$0.8 million in January 2022. This letter of credit will be auto-renewed annually, unless a 60 day notice is received from the landlord. An automatic extension can only be implemented through November 30, 2032. This letter of credit is irrevocable and does not have a cash requirement other than the amount already set forth. In the event of a default, the landlord must provide written notice of default before drawing from the letter of credit as a security deposit, or to remedy the amount owed.

Certain of the Company’s operating leases include escalating payment amounts and lease incentives. The Company is recognizing the relatedleases offices in Tokyo, Japan; Sydney, Australia; Chennai, India; Seoul, South Korea; London, England; Guadalajara, Mexico; Funchal, Portugal and Covilha, Portugal.

The Company’s rent expense on a straight-line basis over the term of the lease. The lease incentives are considered an inseparable part of the lease agreement, and are recognized as a reduction of rent expense on a straight-line basis over the term of the lease. As of December 31, 2017 and 2016, the Company had deferred rent and rent incentives of $1,464 and $1,579, respectively, of which $1,102 and $1,320, respectively, is classified as a long-term liability in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. Rent expensewas $4.1 million, $5.1 million, $4.3 million for the years ended December 31, 2017, 20162023, 2022 and 20152023, respectively.

The Company entered into one operating lease agreement in the current year, resulting in the recording of an initial liability and corresponding right-of-use asset of $0.3 million.

The weighted average remaining lease terms and discount rates were as follows:

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December 31,

 

 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

Weighted average remaining lease term (years)

 

7.77

 

 

8.27

 

 

8.81

 

Weighted average discount rate

 

 

5.9

%

 

 

5.8

%

 

 

5.7

%

The weighted-average remaining non-cancelable lease term for the Company’s operating leases was $6,608, $6,3347.77 years at December 31, 2023. The weighted-average discount rate was 5.9% at December 31, 2023.

The Company’s operating leases expire at various dates through 2032. The following shows the undiscounted cash flows for the remaining years under operating leases at December 31, 2023:

 Year Ending December 31,

 

Operating Lease Commitments

 

2024

 

$

4,774

 

2025

 

 

4,235

 

2026

 

 

3,981

 

2027

 

 

4,010

 

2028

 

 

3,802

 

2029 and thereafter

 

 

10,779

 

Total operating lease commitments

 

 

31,581

 

Less imputed interest

 

 

(9,737

)

Total lease liabilities

 

$

21,844

 

The Company’s discounted current operating lease liability and $6,831,discounted non-current lease liability at December 31, 2023 were $4.5 million and $17.4 million, respectively. Income from sublease rental activity amounted to $285, $219 and $185, respectively, for

In the fourth quarter of 2020 the Company subleased 100% of one of its London offices through the remaining lease term. For the years ended December 31, 2017, 20162023, 2022 and 2015.

In addition to the operating obligations noted in the table above, during the year ended December 31, 2017,2021 the Company recorded costrecognized rent income of revenue of $845, $695 of which represented the settlement amount due upon signing a termination agreement$0.8 million, $0.8 million and $0.9 million, respectively, within operating expenses. Lease income relating to variable lease payments was immaterial.

The Company’s London sublease expires in December of 2024. The undiscounted cash inflows from the facilities and $150 represented a loss on disposal of assets in connection with the closure of the facilitiesLondon sublease for the purpose of consolidating data centers.

Capital Lease Commitments

The Company leases certain computer equipment and support undernon-cancelable capital leases. The lease arrangements expire at various dates through September 2018. Future minimum rental commitments under capital leasesremaining year at December 31, 2017 are as follows:2023 was $0.9 million.

Year Ending December 31,

  Capital Lease
Commitments
 

2018

  $231 

Less – interest on capital leases

   3 
  

 

 

 
  $228 
  

 

 

 

At December 31, 2017, total assets under capital leases were $1.2 million

9.
Commitments and related accumulated amortization was $940,000.

Contingencies

In addition to the operating lease and capital lease commitments discussed above, as of December 31, 2017, the Company hadnon-cancelable commitments of $15,833, $7,823 and $173 payable in 2018, 2019 and 2020, respectively, primarily for content delivery network services, hosting and other support services.

Legal Matters

The Company, from time to time, is party to litigation arising in the ordinary course of business. Management does not believe that the outcome of these claims will have a material adverse effect on the consolidated financial position, results of operations or cash flows of the Company based on the status of proceedings at this time.

On May 22, 2017, a lawsuit was filed against Brightcove and two individuals by Ooyala, Inc. (“Ooyala”) and Ooyala Mexico S. de R.L. de C.V. (“Ooyala Mexico”). The lawsuit, which was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, concerns allegations that the two individuals, who are former employees of Ooyala Mexico, misappropriated customer information and other trade secrets and used that information in working for Brightcove. The complaint was amended on June 1, 2017 to remove claims against the two former employees of Ooyala Mexico. The remaining claims against Brightcove are for violation of the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (18 U.S.C. §1836), violation of the Massachusetts trade secret statute (M.G.L. c. 93, §42), violation of Massachusetts Chapter 93A (M.G.L. c. 93A, §11), and tortious interference with advantageous business relationships. Ooyala and Ooyala Mexico also filed a motion for preliminary injunction (amended at the same time the complaint was amended), seeking to enjoin Brightcove from using any of the allegedly misappropriated information or communicating with customers whose information was allegedly taken, and seeking the return of any information that was taken. On June 16, 2017, Brightcove filed an opposition to the motion for preliminary injunction, and also moved to dismiss the lawsuit. Brightcove’s motion to dismiss was denied on September 6, 2017. The court has not ruled on Ooyala’s motion for preliminary injunction. The Company expects the court to issue a schedule order in the near term. The Company cannot yet determine whether it is probable that a loss will be incurred in connection with this complaint, nor can the Company reasonably estimate the potential loss, if any.

On October 26, 2017, Realtime Adaptive Streaming LLC filed a complaint against Brightcove and Brightcove’s subsidiary Brightcove Holdings, Inc. (collectively, in this paragraph, “Brightcove”) in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. The complaint alleges that Brightcove infringed five patents related to file compression technology. The complaint seeks monetary damages and injunctive relief. On December 1, 2017, Realtime filed an amended complaint, adding two additional patents to its claims. Brightcove filed a motion to dismiss on January 26, 2018. Realtime filed an opposition to the motion to dismiss on February 9, 2018 and Brightcove filed a reply on February 16, 2018. A ruling on the motion to dismiss has not yet been issued by the court. We cannot yet determine whether it is probable that a loss will be incurred in connection with this complaint, nor can the Company reasonably estimate the potential loss, if any.

Guarantees and Indemnification Obligations

The Company typically enters into indemnification agreements in the ordinary course of business. Pursuant to these agreements, the Company indemnifies and agrees to reimburse the indemnified party for losses and costs incurred by the indemnified party, generally the Company’s customers, in connection with patent, copyright, trade secret, or other intellectual property or personal right infringement claimclaims by third parties with respect to the Company’s technology. The term of these indemnification agreements is generally perpetual after execution of the agreement. Based on when customers first subscribe for the Company’s service, the maximum potential amount of future payments the Company could be required to make under certain of these indemnification agreements is unlimited, however, more recently theThe Company has typically limited the maximum potential value

of such potential future payments in relation to the value of the contract. Based on historical experience and information known as of December 31, 2017, the Company has not incurred any costs for the above guarantees and indemnities. The Company has received requests for indemnification from customers in connection with patent infringement suits brought against the customer by a third party. To date,Based on historical experience and information known as of December 31, 2023, the Company has not agreed thatincurred minimal costs for the requested indemnification is required by the Company’s contract with any such customer.above guarantees and indemnities.

In certain circumstances, the Company warrants that its products and services will perform in all material respects in accordance with its standard published specification documentation in effect at the time of delivery of the licensed products and services to the customer for the warranty period of the product or service. To date, the Company has not incurred significant expense under its warranties and, as a result, the Company believes the estimated fair value of these agreements is immaterial.

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10. Stockholders’ Equity

Common Stock

Common stockholders are entitled to one vote per share. Holders of common stock are entitled to receive dividends, when and if declared by the Board.

TreasuryCommon Stock Reserved for Future Issuance

The Company has recorded 135,000 shares as treasury stock as of December 31, 2017 and 2016.

Equity Incentive Plans

At December 31, 2017,2023, the Company has reserved the following shares of common stock for future issuance:

December 31, 2023

Common stock options outstanding

2,247,951

Restricted stock unit awards outstanding

5,619,438

Shares available for issuance under all stock-based compensation plans

7,768,241

Total shares of authorized common stock reserved for future issuance

15,635,630

11. Stock-Based Compensation

Stock-Based Compensation Plans

At December 31, 2023, the Company had fourseven stock-based compensation plans,plans:

On February 8, 2022, the Amended and Restated 2004 Stock Option and IncentiveCompany adopted the Brightcove Inc. 2022 Inducement Plan (the 20042022 Plan),. The 2022 Plan provides for the 2012issuance of employment inducement awards to the Company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
On March 25, 2021, the Board adopted, the Brightcove Inc. 2021 Stock Incentive Plan (the 20122021 Plan) which was approved by the shareholders on May 11, 2021. On March 15, 2023, the Board adopted an amendment to the 2021 plan to increase the aggregate number of shares of Stock reserved for issuance under the Plan by 7,000,000, which was approved by the Brightcove Inc. 2012 RSUshareholders on May 10, 2023. The maximum number of shares of stock reserved and available for issuance under the 2021 Plan, as amended, is 13,200,000 shares.

The 2018 Inducement Plan (the RSU Plan),2018 plan). Effective April 11, 2018, the Company adopted the 2018 Plan. The 2018 Plan provides for the issuance of stock options and restricted stock units to the Company’s CEO.

The Brightcove Inc. 2014 Stock Option Inducement Plan (the 2014 Stock Inducement Plan). In 2014, the Company adopted the 2014 Stock Inducement Plan in connection with the Unicorn asset purchase agreement.

The 20042012 RSU Inducement Plan (the 2012 RSU Plan). In 2012, the Company adopted the 2012 RSU Plan in connection with the acquisition of Zencoder. The restricted stock units were settled in shares of the Company’s common stock upon vesting.
The 2012 Stock Incentive Plan (the 2012 Plan). The 2012 Plan provided for the issuance of incentive andnon-qualified stock options, restricted stock, and other equity awards to the Company’s employees, officers, directors, consultants and advisors, up to an aggregate of 7,397,843 sharesadvisors. In conjunction with the effectiveness of the Company’s common stock. 2021 Plan, the Board voted that no further stock options or other equity-based awards may be granted under the 2012 Plan.
The Company also established a UKSub-Plan of theAmended and Restated 2004 Stock Option and Incentive Plan (the 2004 Plan). The 2004 Plan, under whichlike the Company was permitted2012 Plan, provided for the issuance of incentive and non-qualified stock options, restricted stock, and other equity awards to make grants of options tothe Company’s employees, subject to tax in the United Kingdom.officers, directors, consultants and advisors. In conjunction with the effectiveness of the 2012 Plan, the Board voted that no further stock options or other equity-based awards may be granted under the 2004 Plan.

In 2012,The following table summarizes stock-based compensation expense as included in the Board and stockholders adopted the 2012 Plan, which became effective on February 16, 2012. The 2012 Plan providesconsolidated statement of operations for the issuanceyears ended December 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021:

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Year Ended December 31,

 

 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

Cost of subscription and support revenue

 

$

506

 

 

$

508

 

 

$

627

 

Cost of professional services and other revenue

 

 

375

 

 

 

433

 

 

 

401

 

Research and development

 

 

2,453

 

 

 

2,746

 

 

 

1,677

 

Sales and marketing

 

 

4,197

 

 

 

3,990

 

 

 

2,957

 

General and administrative

 

 

6,368

 

 

 

5,622

 

 

 

4,306

 

Other (expense) benefit

 

 

 

 

 

249

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

13,899

 

 

$

13,548

 

 

$

9,968

 

As of incentive andnon-qualified stock options, restricted stock and otherDecember 31, 2023, there was $25.4 million of total unrecognized stock-based compensation expense related to stock-based awards that is expected to the Company’s officers, employees,non-employee directors and certain other key personsbe recognized over a weighted-average period of the Company as are selected by the Board or the compensation committee thereof. In connection with the approval of the 2012 Plan, the Company reserved 1,700,000 shares of common stock for issuance under the 2012 Plan, and 124,703 shares were transferred from the 2004 Plan. The number of shares reserved and available for issuance under the 2012 Plan automatically increases each January 1, beginning in 2013, by 4% of the outstanding number of shares of the Company’s common stock on the immediately preceding December 31 or such lesser number of shares as determined by the Company’s compensation committee subject to an overall overhang limit of 30%. This number is subject to adjustment in the event of a stock split, stock dividend or other change in the Company’s capitalization.2.3 years.

In 2012, the Company adopted the RSU Plan and made awards of restricted stock units pursuant to the RSU Plan to 15 new employees in connection with the acquisition of Zencoder. The awards of restricted stock units cover an aggregate of 77,100 shares of the Company’s common stock and were made as a material inducement to the employees entering into employment with the Company in connection with the acquisition of Zencoder. The restricted stock units were settled in shares of the Company’s common stock upon vesting.Stock Options

In 2014, the Company adopted the 2014 Stock Inducement Plan and made awards of options pursuant to the 2014 Stock Inducement Plan to 61 new employees in connection with the asset purchase agreement. The awards of options cover an aggregate of 578,350 shares of the Company’s common stock in the form of options to purchase shares of the Company’s common stock as an inducement to the employees entering into employment with the Company in connection with the asset purchase agreement.

At December 31, 2017, 1,429,022 shares were available for issuance under all stock-based compensation plans.

The following is a summary of the stock option activity for all stock option plans during the yearyears ended December 31, 2017:2023, 2022 and 2021:

 

 

Number of
Shares

 

 

Weighted-Average
Exercise Price

 

 

Weighted-Average
Remaining
Contractual
Term
(In Years)

 

 

Aggregate
Intrinsic
Value

 

Outstanding at December 31, 2020

 

 

2,110,486

 

 

$

9.19

 

 

 

 

 

$

 

Granted

 

 

114,973

 

 

 

14.88

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exercised

 

 

(333,190

)

 

 

8.53

 

 

 

 

 

$

2,999

 

Cancelled

 

 

(210,792

)

 

 

10.26

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Outstanding at December 31, 2021

 

 

1,681,477

 

 

$

9.59

 

 

 

 

 

$

1,938

 

Granted

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exercised

 

 

(28,400

)

 

 

6.24

 

 

 

 

 

$

40

 

Cancelled

 

 

(233,310

)

 

 

11.11

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Outstanding at December 31, 2022

 

 

1,419,767

 

 

$

9.39

 

 

 

 

 

$

4

 

Granted

 

 

1,563,688

 

 

 

7.00

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exercised

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

 

Cancelled

 

 

(735,504

)

 

 

9.39

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Outstanding at December 31, 2023

 

 

2,247,951

 

 

$

7.73

 

 

 

7.11

 

 

$

 

Exercisable at December 31, 2023

 

 

815,986

 

 

$

8.74

 

 

 

3.50

 

 

$

 

   Number of
Shares
  Weighted-Average
Exercise
Price
   Weighted-Average
Remaining
Contractual
Term
(In Years)
   Aggregate
Intrinsic
Value(1)
 

Outstanding at December 31, 2016

   4,150,584  $7.17     

Granted

   483,727   7.03     

Exercised

   (229,127  2.27     $1,243 

Cancelled

   (480,871  8.05     
  

 

 

      

Outstanding at December 31, 2017

   3,924,313  $7.33    6.30   $3,783 
  

 

 

      

Exercisable at December 31, 2017

   2,430,839  $7.23    5.37   $3,052 
  

 

 

      

(1)

The aggregate intrinsic value was calculated based on the positive difference between the estimated fair value of the Company’s common stock on December 31, 20172023, December 31, 2022, and December 31, 2021 of $7.10$2.59, $5.23, and $10.22 per share, respectively, or the date of exercise, as appropriate, and the exercise price of the underlying options.

On March 20, 2023, the Company granted 1,563,688 premium-priced options to some of its employees under its 2021 Stock Incentive Plan. The aggregate intrinsicoptions have a strike price of $7.00 and vest in equal installments over three years following March 10, 2023. The binomial lattice model is used to estimate the fair value of the premium-priced options. The binomial lattice model calculates multiple potential outcomes for option exercises and establishes a fair value based on the most likely outcome. Key assumptions for the binomial lattice model include share price, volatility, the early exercise multiple, risk-free rate, expected dividends, and number of time steps.

Prior to 2023, the Company had only granted service-based options exercised duringunder its stock compensation plans. The fair value of each option grant issued under the years ended December 31, 2016Company’s stock-based compensation plans prior to 2023 was estimated using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model.

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The weighted-average fair value of options granted and 2015 was $5,159 and $281, respectively.assumptions utilized to determine such values are presented in the following table:

 

 

Year Ended December 31,

 

 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

Weighted-average fair value of options granted during the year

 

$

1.75

 

 

$

 

 

$

6.98

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Risk-free interest rate

 

3.4 - 4.8%

 

 

 

 

 

 

1.22

%

Expected volatility

 

47.9 - 55.5%

 

 

 

 

 

 

48

%

Expected life (in years)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6.2

 

Expected dividend yield

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Restricted Stock Units

The Company has entered into restricted stock unit (RSU) agreements with certain of its employees pursuant to the 2012 Plan, the 2021 Plan, and the RSU2022 Plan. Vesting occurs periodically at specified time intervals, ranging from three months to four years, and in specified percentages. Upon vesting, the holder will receive one share of the Company’s common stock for each unit vested.

Under the 2012 Plan, the Company granted restricted stock units to certain key executives, which contain both performance-based (“P-RSU”) and service-based vesting conditions (“S-RSU”). The Company measures compensation expense for these performance-based awards based upon a review of the Company’s expected achievement against specified financial performance targets. Compensation cost is recognized on a ratable basis over the requisite service period for each series of grants to the extent management has deemed that such awards are probable of vesting based upon the expected achievement against the specified targets. On a periodic basis, management reviews the Company’s expected performance and adjusts the compensation cost, if needed, at such time. The Company determined that the conditions for a portion of the performance-based restricted stock units were achieved in the first quarter of 2020. As such, the Company recognized $0.2 million of stock-based compensation expense relating to performance-based awards for the year ended December 31, 2021. The Company did not recognize stock-based compensation expense relating to the aforementioned performance-based awards in the years ended December 31, 2022, and 2023, respectively, as the Company determined that the conditions for further portions of the performance-based restricted stock units to vest were not achieved.

Under the 2022 Plan, the Company granted 800,000 restricted stock units to the Company's CEO, in connection with the commencement of his employment on March 28, 2022. Of the total restricted stock units granted, 300,000 are subject solely to service-based vesting conditions (the “RSUs”) and 500,000 are subject to both market-based and service-based vesting conditions (the “PSUs”). The RSUs vest in equal annual installments over three years following March 28, 2022. The market-based vesting conditions applicable to the PSUs are achieved only if the volume weighted average price of the Company’s common stock during any 20 consecutive trading day period in the four year performance period following the CEO’s start date, March 28, 2022, equals or exceeds stock price hurdles ranging from $12.50 to $30.00, increasing in seven increments of $2.50. The percentage of the award that is earned upon achievement of each stock price hurdle is 10% of the PSUs for each of the first two achievement tiers, 12.5% for each of the next four achievement tiers and 15% for each of the final two achievement tiers. The PSUs vest 50% upon achievement of a stock price hurdle and 50% upon the earlier of the one-year anniversary of such achievement date or March 28, 2025, subject to the CEO’s continued employment through the applicable vesting date.

For restricted stock units with market-based performance conditions, the cost of the awards is recognized as the requisite service is rendered by the employee, regardless of when, if ever, the market-based performance conditions are satisfied. The Monte-Carlo simulation model is used to estimate fair value of market-based performance restricted stock units. The Monte-Carlo simulation model calculates multiple potential outcomes for an award and establishes a fair value based on the most likely outcome. Key assumptions for the Monte-Carlo simulation model include the risk-free rate, expected volatility, expected dividends and the correlation coefficient.

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The following table summarizes the RSUP-RSU and S-RSU activity during the year ended December 31, 2017:2023, 2022, and 2021:

  Shares   Weighted
Average
Grant
Date Fair
Value
 

 

S-RSU Shares

 

 

Weighted
Average
Grant
Date
Fair Value

 

 

P-RSU Shares

 

 

Weighted
Average
Grant
Date
Fair Value

 

 

Total RSU Shares

 

 

Weighted
Average
Grant
Date
Fair Value

 

Unvested by December 31, 2016

   1,902,577   $7.84 

Unvested by December 31, 2020

 

 

2,000,416

 

 

$

10.30

 

 

 

1,587,801

 

 

$

10.40

 

 

 

3,588,217

 

 

$

10.35

 

Granted

   1,189,973    6.95 

 

 

2,269,341

 

 

 

12.24

 

 

 

64,011

 

 

 

12.65

 

 

 

2,333,352

 

 

 

12.25

 

Vested and issued

   (561,133   7.47 

 

 

(680,769

)

 

 

9.85

 

 

 

(181,910

)

 

 

8.74

 

 

 

(862,679

)

 

 

9.62

 

Cancelled

   (312,713   7.80 

 

 

(673,268

)

 

 

11.67

 

 

 

(448,730

)

 

 

9.59

 

 

 

(1,121,998

)

 

 

10.84

 

Unvested by December 31, 2021

 

 

2,915,720

 

 

$

11.66

 

 

 

1,021,172

 

 

$

11.04

 

 

 

3,936,892

 

 

$

11.50

 

  

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unvested by December 31, 2017

   2,218,704   $7.44 
  

 

   

 

 

 

S-RSU Shares

 

 

Weighted
Average
Grant
Date
Fair Value

 

 

P-RSU Shares

 

 

Weighted
Average
Grant
Date
Fair Value

 

 

Total RSU Shares

 

 

Weighted
Average
Grant
Date
Fair Value

 

Unvested by December 31, 2021

 

 

2,915,720

 

 

$

11.66

 

 

 

1,021,172

 

 

$

11.04

 

 

 

3,936,892

 

 

$

11.50

 

Granted

 

 

3,803,691

 

 

 

6.94

 

 

 

500,000

 

 

 

4.06

 

 

 

4,303,691

 

 

 

6.61

 

Vested and issued

 

 

(824,127

)

 

 

11.63

 

 

 

 

 

 

0.00

 

 

 

(824,127

)

 

 

11.63

 

Cancelled

 

 

(1,356,935

)

 

 

10.09

 

 

 

(848,314

)

 

 

11.06

 

 

 

(2,205,249

)

 

 

10.47

 

Unvested by December 31, 2022

 

 

4,538,349

 

 

$

8.19

 

 

 

672,858

 

 

$

6.54

 

 

 

5,211,207

 

 

$

7.88

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

S-RSU Shares

 

 

Weighted
Average
Grant
Date
Fair Value

 

 

P-RSU Shares

 

 

Weighted
Average
Grant
Date
Fair Value

 

 

Total RSU Shares

 

 

Weighted
Average
Grant
Date
Fair Value

 

Unvested by December 31, 2022

 

 

4,538,349

 

 

$

8.19

 

 

 

672,858

 

 

$

6.54

 

 

 

5,211,207

 

 

$

7.88

 

Granted

 

 

3,102,058

 

 

 

4.51

 

 

 

 

 

 

0.00

 

 

 

3,102,058

 

 

 

4.51

 

Vested and issued

 

 

(1,384,242

)

 

 

8.35

 

 

 

 

 

 

0.00

 

 

 

(1,384,242

)

 

 

8.35

 

Cancelled

 

 

(1,153,897

)

 

 

7.61

 

 

 

(155,688

)

 

 

10.14

 

 

 

(1,309,585

)

 

 

7.91

 

Unvested by December 31, 2023

 

 

5,102,268

 

 

$

6.04

 

 

 

517,170

 

 

$

4.54

 

 

 

5,619,438

 

 

$

5.90

 

Warrants

In September 2006, the Company issued fully vested warrants to purchase an aggregate of 46,713 shares of Series B Preferred Stock, at a purchase price of $3.21 per share, to two lenders in connection with a line of credit

agreement. The warrants were exercisable at any time up until the expiration date of August 31, 2016. The fair value of the warrants was recorded as a discount on the related debt, and was amortized to interest expense over the life of the debt. The debt was fully repaid in March 2007. The warrant liability was reported at fair value until completion of the Company’s IPO in February 2012, whereupon the warrants automatically converted into warrants to purchase shares of the Company’s common stock. At the time of conversion of the warrants in connection with the Company’s IPO, the fair value of the warrants was $395, which was reclassified as a component of additionalpaid-in capital.

During 2012, 18,685 shares exercisable under the warrants were exercised pursuant to a net exercise provision, which resulted in the issuance of 15,781 common shares. In August 2016, the remaining 28,028 shares exercisable under the warrants were exercised pursuant to a net exercise provision, which resulted in the issuance of 20,528 common shares.

Common Stock Reserved for Future Issuance

At December 31, 2017, the Company has reserved the following shares of common stock for future issuance:

December 31,
2017

Common stock options outstanding

3,924,313

Restricted stock unit awards outstanding

2,218,704

Shares available for issuance under all stock-based compensation plans

1,429,022

Total shares of authorized common stock reserved for future issuance

7,572,039

7.12. Income Taxes

Loss before the provision (benefit) for income taxes consists of the following:following jurisdictional (loss) income:

  Year Ended December 31, 

 

Year Ended December 31,

 

  2017   2016   2015 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

Domestic

  $(20,528  $(10,756  $(8,028

 

$

(24,613

)

 

$

(11,391

)

 

$

4,136

 

Foreign

   1,379    1,180    839 

 

 

2,892

 

 

 

2,324

 

 

 

2,063

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

 

Total

  $(19,149  $(9,576  $(7,189

 

$

(21,721

)

 

$

(9,067

)

 

$

6,199

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

 

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The provision (benefit) for income taxes in the accompanying consolidated financial statements consists of the following:

  Year Ended December 31, 

 

Year Ended December 31,

 

  2017   2016   2015 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

Current provision:

      

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Federal

  $—     $—     $—   

 

$

(4

)

 

$

-

 

 

$

-

 

State

   21    33    29 

 

 

117

 

 

 

66

 

 

 

7

 

Foreign

   311    424    389 

 

 

1,122

 

 

 

880

 

 

 

801

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

 

Total current

   332    457    418 

 

 

1,235

 

 

 

946

 

 

 

808

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

 

Deferred (benefit):

      

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Federal

   —      —      —   

 

 

(5

)

 

 

(834

)

 

 

1

 

State

   —      —      —   

 

 

2

 

 

 

(168

)

 

 

2

 

Foreign

   38    (47   (27

 

 

(67

)

 

 

4

 

 

 

(9

)

  

 

   

 

   

 

 

Total deferred

   38    (47   (27

 

 

(70

)

 

 

(998

)

 

 

(6

)

  

 

   

 

   

 

 

Total provision

  $370   $410   $391 
  

 

   

 

   

 

 

Total (benefit) provision

 

$

1,165

 

 

$

(52

)

 

$

802

 

A reconciliation of the U.S. federal statutory rate to the Company’s effective tax rate is as follows:

  Year Ended December 31, 

 

Year Ended December 31,

  2017 2016 2015 

 

2023

 

2022

 

2021

Tax at statutory rates

   (34.0)%  (34.0)%  (34.0)% 

 

(21.0%)

 

(21.0%)

 

(21.0%)

State income taxes

   (4.1 (6.1 3.4 

 

(3.7%)

 

(8.8%)

 

3.4%

Change in tax rate

   103.9  0.1  3.0 

 

1.4%

 

(0.8%)

 

(0.2%)

Permanent differences

   7.1  11.7  34.7 

 

11.4%

 

18.6%

 

4.4%

Global intangible low-taxed income

 

0%

 

19.9%

 

0%

Foreign rate differential

   (0.7 (1.1 (1.2

 

1.0%

 

2.8%

 

(2.6%)

Research and development credits

   (3.7 (6.7 (9.6

 

(4.2%)

 

(9.1%)

 

7.6%

Change in valuation allowance

   (66.3 40.8  7.7 

 

19.8%

 

(1.4%)

 

(3.4%)

Other, net

   (0.3 (0.4 1.4 

 

0.7%

 

(0.7%)

 

(1.1%)

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

Effective tax rate

   1.9 4.3 5.4

 

5.4%

 

(0.5%)

 

(12.9%)

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

The approximate income tax effect of each type of temporary difference and carryforward as of December 31, 20172023 and 20162022 is as follows:

  As of December 31, 

 

As of December 31,

 

  2017   2016 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

Deferred tax assets:

    

 

 

 

 

 

Net operating loss carry-forwards

  $37,964   $45,850 

 

$

36,936

 

 

$

41,239

 

Tax credit carry-forwards

   9,173    7,654 

 

 

15,691

 

 

 

14,588

 

Stock-based compensation

   1,856    2,236 

 

 

1,853

 

 

 

2,127

 

Fixed Assets

   267    154 

 

 

-

 

 

 

134

 

Account receivable reserves

   189    219 

 

 

140

 

 

 

340

 

Accrued compensation

   851    2,232 

 

 

602

 

 

 

1,050

 

Capitalizedstart-up costs

   138    279 

Lease Liability

 

 

4,955

 

 

 

5,524

 

Capitalized research expenditures

 

 

13,234

 

 

 

6,733

 

Other temporary differences

   371    761 

 

 

1,159

 

 

 

829

 

  

 

   

 

 

Total deferred tax assets

   50,809    59,385 

 

 

74,570

 

 

 

72,564

 

Deferred tax liabilities:

    

 

 

 

 

 

Other deferred tax liabilities

 

 

(4,196

)

 

 

(4,046

)

ROU Asset

 

 

(4,101

)

 

 

(4,578

)

Intangible assets

   (3,611   (5,962

 

 

(1,215

)

 

 

(3,305

)

  

 

   

 

 

Total deferred tax liabilities

   (3,611   (5,962

 

 

(9,512

)

 

 

(11,929

)

  

 

   

 

 

Valuation allowance

   (47,111   (53,302

 

 

(65,070

)

 

 

(60,717

)

  

 

   

 

 

Net deferred tax assets

  $87   $121 
  

 

   

 

 

Net deferred tax asset (liability)

 

$

(12

)

 

$

(82

)

The Company is required to compute income tax expense in each jurisdiction in which it operates. This process requires the Company to project its current tax liability and estimate its deferred tax assets and liabilities, including net operating loss (NOL) and tax credit carry-forwards. In assessing the ability to realize the net deferred tax assets, management considers whether it is more likely than not that some portion or all of the net deferred tax assets will not be realized.

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The Company has provided a valuation allowance against substantially all of its remaining U.S. net deferred tax assets as of December 31, 20172023 and 2016,December 31, 2022, as based upon the level of historical U.S. losses and future projections over the period in which the net deferred tax assets are deductible, at this time, management believes it is more likely than not that the Company will not realize the benefits of these deductible differences. The decreaseCompany has provided a valuation allowance against the net deferred tax assets of its foreign subsidiaries as of December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022 largely based on the significant weight of negative evidence given to the consolidated worldwide cumulative loss position for the current year and the prior two years. The increase in the valuation allowance from 20162022 to 20172023 of $6.2$4.4 million principally relates to the reduction in federal deferred tax rate offset by the current year taxable loss.

U.S. losses and generation of federal and state research and development tax credits.

Based upon the level of historical income in Japan and future projections, the Company believes it is probable it will realize the benefits of its future deductible differences. As such, the Company has not recorded a valuation allowance against its net deferred tax assets in Japan as of December 31, 2017 and 2016.

As of December 31, 2017,2023, the Company had federal and state net operating losses of approximately $161.9$154.0 million, and $66.7of which $108.3 million respectively, which are available to offset future taxable income, if any, through 2037.2037 and $45.7 million which are available to offset future taxable income indefinitely. As of December 31, 2023, the Company had state net operating losses of approximately $76.5 million, of which $73.4 million are available to offset future taxable income, if any, through 2041 and $3.1 million which are available to offset future taxable income indefinitely. The Company also had federal and state research and development tax credits of $6.1$10.7 million and $3.9$6.3 million, respectively, which expire in various amounts through 2037.2043. The net operating loss and tax credit amounts are subject to annual limitations under Section 382 change of ownership rules under the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. Through June 30, 2014,This could limit the amount of tax attributes that can be utilized annually to offset future taxable income or tax liabilities. The amount of the annual limitation is determined based on the value of the Company immediately prior to the ownership change. Subsequent ownership changes may further affect the limitation in future years. The Company completed an analysis covering the tax periods from inception through December 31, 2022 and performed a high level assessment of the period January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2023 to determine whether there may have been a Section 382 ownership change and determined that it ismore-likely-than-not that the Company’s net operating and tax credit amounts as disclosed are not subject to any material Section 382 limitations.

OnEffective January 1, 2009,2022, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 requires the Company adoptedto capitalize, and subsequently amortize R&D expenses over five years for research activities conducted in the provisionU.S. and over fifteen years for uncertainresearch activities conducted outside of the U.S. As of December 31, 2023, the Company has recorded a deferred tax positions under ASC 740,Income Taxes. The adoption did not have an impact onasset of $13.2 million related to the Company’s retained earnings balance. capitalized R&D expenditures which is offset by a decrease in its net operating loss carryforward.

At December 31, 20172023 and 2016,2022, the Company had no recorded liabilities for uncertain tax positions.

At December 31, 2017 and 2016, the Company had nopositions, nor any accrued interest or penalties related to uncertain tax positions.

The Company files income tax returns in the U.S. federal tax jurisdiction, various state and various foreign jurisdictions. The Company is currently open to examination under the statute of limitations by the Internal Revenue Service and state jurisdictions for the tax years ended 20142020 through 2017.2023. Since the Company is in a U.S. loss carryforward position, carryforward tax attributes generated in prior years may still be adjusted upon future examination if they have or will be used in a future period. Additionally, certainnon-U.S. jurisdictions are no longer subject for income tax examinations by authorities for tax years before 2012.2018.

On December 22, 2017, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Act”) was enacted in the United States. The Act reduces the U.S. federal corporate tax rate from 34% to 21%, requires companies to pay aone-time transition tax on earnings of certain foreign subsidiaries that were previously tax deferred and creates new taxes on certain foreign sourced earnings. In December 2017, the SEC issued SAB 118, which directs taxpayers to consider the impact of the U.S. legislation as “provisional” when it does not have the necessary information available, prepared or analyzed (including computations) in reasonable detail to complete its accounting for the change in tax law.

As of December 31, 2017, the Company had not yet completed its accounting for all of the tax effects of the enactment of the Act; however, the Company has made a reasonable estimate of the effects on its existing deferred tax balances and theone-time transition tax. The Company will continue to refine its calculations as additional analysis is completed. The Company expects that any additional changes will be offset by an increase or decrease in the Company’s valuation allowance as any transition tax will result in use of the net operating loss deferred tax asset, which is fully offset by a valuation allowance along with all other net deferred tax assets.

No additional U.S. income taxes or foreign withholding taxes have been provided for any additional outside basis differences inherent in the Company’s foreign entities as these amounts continue to be indefinitely reinvested in foreign operations based on management’s current intentions. Determining the amount of unrecognized deferred tax liability related to any remaining undistributed foreign earnings not subject to the transition tax and additional outside basis difference in these entities (i.e., basis difference in excess of that subject to theone-time transition tax) is not practicable. The Company is still in the process of analyzing the impact of the Act on its indefinite reinvestment assertion.

13. Debt

8. Debt

On November 19, 2015,1, 2023, the Company entered into a loan modification agreement to an existing amended and restated loan and security agreement with a lender (the(collectively, the “Loan Agreement”) providing. The Loan Agreement provides for up to a $20.0$30.0 million asset basedasset-backed line of credit (the “Line of Credit”). Under the Line of Credit, the Company can borrow up to $20.0 million. Borrowings under the Line of Credit are secured by substantially all of the Company’s assets, excluding its intellectual property. Outstanding amounts under the Line of Credit accrue interest at a rate equal toas follows: (i) for prime rate advances, the prime rate orplus 225 basis points and (ii) for Secured Overnight Financing Rate ('SOFR") advances, the LIBORgreater of (A) the SOFR rate plus 2.5%225 basis points and (B) 4%. Under the Loan Agreement, the Company must comply with certain financial covenants, including maintaining a minimum asset coverage ratio. If thethere is outstanding principal during any month, is at least $15.0 million, the Company must also maintain a minimum net income threshold based onnon-GAAP operating measures.measures. Failure to comply with these covenants, or the occurrence of an event of default, could permit the lenderlenders under the Line of Credit to declare all amounts borrowed under the Line of Credit, together with accrued interest and fees, to be immediately due and payable. The Line of Credit agreement will expire on November 1, 2026

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. The Company was in compliance with all applicable covenants under the Line of Credit as of December 31, 2017. As the Company has not drawn on the Line of Credit,2023 and there are were no amounts borrowings outstanding as of December 31, 2017.2023.

On December 31, 2015, the Company entered into an equipment financing agreement with a lender (the “December 2015 Equipment Financing Agreement”) to finance the purchase of $604 in computer equipment. In February 2016, the Company drew down $604 under the December 2015 Equipment Financing Agreement, and the liability was recorded at fair value using a market interest rate. The Company repaid its obligation over a two year period through January 2018, and the amount outstanding was $26 as of December 31, 2017.

9.14. Accrued Expenses

Accrued expenses consist of the following:

  December 31, 

 

December 31,

 

  2017   2016 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

Accrued payroll and related benefits

  $4,436   $7,089 

 

$

6,499

 

 

$

10,082

 

Accrued sales and other taxes

   1,363    2,275 

 

 

2,601

 

 

 

3,098

 

Accrued professional fees and outside contractors

   2,021    1,082 

 

 

2,163

 

 

 

3,057

 

Accrued content delivery

   2,390    2,013 

 

 

3,528

 

 

 

5,684

 

Accrued other liabilities

   3,411    3,246 

 

 

2,775

 

 

 

4,956

 

  

 

   

 

 

Total

  $13,621   $15,705 

 

$

17,566

 

 

$

26,877

 

  

 

   

 

 

10.

15. Segment Information

Disclosure requirements about segments of an enterprise and related information establishes standards for reporting information regarding operating segments in annual financial statements and requires selected information of those segments to be presented in interim financial reports issued to stockholders. Operating segments are identified as components of an enterprise about which separate discrete financial information is available for evaluation by the chief operating decision-maker, or decision-making group, in making decisions on how to allocate resources and assess performance. The Company’s chief decision maker is its chief executive officer. The Company and the chief decision maker view the Company’s operations and manage its business as one operating segment.

Geographic Data

Total revenue to unaffiliated customers by geographic area, based on the location of the customer, was as follows:

  Year Ended December 31, 

 

Year Ended December 31,

 

  2017   2016   2015 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

Revenue:

      

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

North America

  $91,358   $92,912   $86,106 

 

$

120,378

 

 

$

118,755

 

 

$

119,079

 

Europe

   24,425    25,196    25,380 

 

 

32,922

 

 

 

36,177

 

 

 

37,947

 

Japan

   16,881    15,230    9,061 

 

 

20,080

 

 

 

21,988

 

 

 

25,272

 

Asia Pacific

   22,539    15,617    12,380 

 

 

27,421

 

 

 

33,645

 

 

 

28,261

 

Other

   710    1,311    1,779 

 

 

386

 

 

 

443

 

 

 

534

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

 

Total revenue

  $155,913   $150,266   $134,706 

 

$

201,187

 

 

$

211,008

 

 

$

211,093

 

  

 

   

 

   

 

 

North America is comprised of revenue from the United States, Canada and Mexico. Revenue from customers located in the United States was $85,459, $87,302$111.7 million, $111.8 million and $80,455$111.5 million during the years ended December 31, 2017, 20162023, 2022 and 2015, respectively. Revenue from customers located in Japan was $16,881, $15,230 and $9,061 during the years ended December 31, 2017, 2016 and 2015,2021, respectively. Other than the United States and Japan, no other country contributed more than 10%10% of the Company’s total revenue during the years ended December 31, 20172023, 2022, and 2016.2021, respectively.

As of December 31, 2017 and December 31, 2016, property and equipment at locations outside the U.S. was not material.

11.16. 401(k) Savings Plan

The Company maintains a defined contribution savings plan covering all eligible U.S. employees under Section 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code. Company contributions to the plan may be made at the discretion of the Board. During the years ended December 31, 2017, 20162023, 2022 and 2015,2021, the Company has made contributions to the plan of $425, $336$1.4 million, $0.8 million and $276,$0.4 million, respectively.

17. Restructuring

12. Quarterly Financial Data (unaudited)

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In March 2023, the Company took an action to restructure certain parts of the Company with the intent of aligning skills with the Company’s strategy and facilitating cost efficiencies and savings. As a result certain headcount reductions were necessary. The following table presents certain unaudited quarterly financial information forCompany incurred approximately $0.4 million in restructuring charges during the eight quarters in the periodyear ended December 31, 2017. This information has been prepared2023 in connection with this action. The restructuring charges reflect post-employment benefits, and the Company does not expect to incur any additional restructuring charges related to this action. The restructuring charges are reflected in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations as follows: $0.2 million - General and Administrative; $0.1 million – Research and Development; and $0.1 million – Sales and Marketing. The Company paid the entire amount by March 31, 2023.

On April 28, 2023, the Company authorized a restructuring that is designed to reduce operating costs, improve operating margins and focus on key growth and strategic priorities (the "Plan"). The Plan includes a reduction of the Company's then-current workforce by approximately 10%. The Company incurred approximately $2.4 million in restructuring charges during the year ended December 31, 2023 in connection with the Plan. The restructuring charges reflect post-employment benefits. The restructuring charges are reflected in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations as follows: $1.2 million in Sales and Marketing; $0.9 million in Research and Development; $0.2 million in General and administrative and $0.1 million in Cost of Revenue. The Company paid all $2.4 million of the restructuring charges by September 30, 2023.

18. Subsequent Events

On January 11, 2024, the Company took an action to restructure certain parts of the Company with the intent of aligning skills with the Company’s strategy and facilitating cost efficiencies and savings. As a result certain headcount reductions were necessary. The Company estimates it will incur between $1.6 million and $1.8 million in restructuring charges in the three months ended March 31, 2024 in connection with this action. The restructuring charges will primarily reflect post-employment benefits and will be reflected in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations. The Company expects to pay the amounts due as a result of the restructuring action by June 30, 2024, with the majority expected to be paid before March 31, 2024.

On February 21, 2024, Robert Noreck, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer (collectively, “CFO”), notified the Company of his intention to resign. The Company and Mr. Noreck entered into a Transition and Resignation Agreement dated February 21, 2024, pursuant to which Mr. Noreck will step down as CFO effective as of the earlier of May 31, 2024 and the appointment of a successor CFO (the “Transition Date”). Beginning on the same basis asTransition Date, Mr. Noreck will transition into the audited financial statements and includes all adjustments (consisting onlyrole of normal recurring adjustments) necessarya consultant through September 30, 2024, at which time Mr. Noreck’s services to present fairly the unaudited quarterly results of operations set forth herein.Company will terminate. The Company has agreed that Mr. Noreck’s employment need not be exclusive to the Company after June 1, 2024.

F-30

  For the three months ended: 
  Dec. 31,
2017
  Sep. 30,
2017
  Jun. 30,
2017
  Mar. 31,
2017
  Dec. 31,
2016
  Sep. 30,
2016
  Jun. 30,
2016
  Mar. 31,
2016
 

Revenue

 $40,101  $39,487  $38,753  $37,572  $38,625  $38,389  $36,960  $36,292 

Gross profit

  23,783   22,983   22,175   22,354   23,272   24,612   23,507   23,028 

Loss from operations

  (1,331  (5,349  (7,884  (5,132  (3,684  (1,552  (2,211  (1,531

Net loss

  (1,372  (5,396  (7,678  (5,073  (4,363  (1,618  (2,398  (1,607

Basic net loss per share

  (0.04  (0.16  (0.22  (0.15  (0.13  (0.05  (0.07  (0.05

Diluted net loss per share

  (0.04  (0.16  (0.22  (0.15  (0.13  (0.05  (0.07  (0.05

Item 9.

Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure

None.

Item 9A.

Controls and Procedures

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

Our management, with the participation of our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, has evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules13a-15(e) and15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)), as of the end of the period covered by this Annual Report on Form10-K. Based on such evaluation, our principal executive officer and principal financial officer have concluded that as of such date, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective.

Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting as defined in Rule13a-15(f) or15d-15(f) of the Exchange Act. Internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and includes those policies and procedures that: (i) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of our assets; (ii) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that our receipts and expenditures are being made only in accordance with authorizations of our management and directors; and (iii) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of our assets that could have a material effect on our financial statements.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

Our management assessed the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 20172023 using the criteria set forth by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) in its Internal Control-Integrated Framework (2013). Based on this assessment and those criteria, management concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was effective as of December 31, 2017.2023.

The effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 20172023 has been audited by Ernst & Young LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, as stated in their report which is included herein.

Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting during our most recent fiscal quarter that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the ShareholdersStockholders and the

Board of Directors of Brightcove Inc.

Opinion on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

We have audited Brightcove Inc.’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2017,2023, based on criteria established in Internal Control-IntegratedControl—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (2013 framework) (the COSO criteria). In our opinion, Brightcove Inc. (the Company) maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2017,2023, based on the COSO criteria.

We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the consolidated balance sheets of the Company as of December 31, 20172023 and 2016,2022, the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive loss,(loss) income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2017,2023, and the related notes and our report dated February 28, 201822, 2024 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.

Basis for Opinion

The Company’s management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting included in the accompanying Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control overOver Financial Reporting. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects.

Our audit included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk, and performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

Definition and Limitations of Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

/s/ Ernst & Young LLP

Boston, Massachusetts

February 28, 2018

Item 9B.

/s/ Ernst & Young LLP

Other Information

Boston, Massachusetts

February 22, 2024

None.

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 Item 9B.

Other Information

During the three month period ended December 31, 2023, none of our directors or officers (as defined in Rule 16a-1(f) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) adopted, terminated or modified a Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement or any “non-Rule 10b5-1 trading agreement” (as defined in Item 408(c) of Regulation S-K).

Item 9C.

Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections

Not applicable.

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PART III

Item 10.Directors, Executive Officers, and Corporate Governance

Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers, and Corporate Governance

Incorporated by reference from the information in our Proxy Statement for our 20182024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, which we will file with the SEC within 120 days of the end of the fiscal year to which this Annual Report on Form10-K relates.

Item 11.Executive Compensation

Item 11. Executive Compensation

Incorporated by reference from the information in our Proxy Statement for our 20182024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, which we will file with the SEC within 120 days of the end of the fiscal year to which this Annual Report on Form10-K relates.

Item 12.Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters

Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters

Incorporated by reference from the information in our Proxy Statement for our 20182024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, which we will file with the SEC within 120 days of the end of the fiscal year to which this Annual Report on Form10-K relates.

Item 13.Certain Relationships and Related Transactions and Director Independence

Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions and Director Independence

Incorporated by reference from the information in our Proxy Statement for our 20182024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, which we will file with the SEC within 120 days of the end of the fiscal year to which this Annual Report on Form10-K relates.

Item 14.Principal Accountant Fees and Services

Item 14. Principal Accountant Fees and Services

Incorporated by reference from the information in our Proxy Statement for our 20182024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, which we will file with the SEC within 120 days of the end of the fiscal year to which this Annual Report on Form10-K relates.

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PART IV

Item 15.

Exhibits, Financial Statements and Schedules

(a)(1) Financial Statements.

The response to this portion of Item 15 is set forth under Item 8 above.

(a)(2) Financial Statement Schedules.

All schedules have been omitted because they are not required or because the required information is given in the Consolidated Financial Statements or Notes thereto set forth under Item 8 above.

(a)(3) Exhibits.

The exhibits listed below are filed or incorporated by reference as part of this Annual Report on Form10-K.

Exhibits

2.1* (1)

Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of July 26, 2012, by and among the Registrant, Zebra Acquisition Corporation, Zencoder Inc. and the Securityholders’ Representative named therein.

  2.2* (2)

2.2* (2)

Asset Purchase Agreement and Plan of Reorganization, dated as of January 6, 2014, by and among the Registrant, Cacti Acquisition LLC, Unicorn Media, Inc., Unicorn Media of Arizona, Inc., U Media Limited and the Securityholders’ Representative named therein.

  3.1* (3)

3.1* (3)

Eleventh Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation.

  3.2* (4)

3.2* (4)

Amended and RestatedBy-Laws.

  4.1* (5)

4.1* (5)

Form of Common Stock certificate of the Registrant.

  4.2* (6)

4.2* (6)

Second Amended and Restated Investor Rights Agreement dated January 17, 2007, by and among the Registrant, the investors listed therein, and Jeremy Allaire, as amended.

  4.3* (7)

4.3* (7)

Warrant to Purchase Stock dated August 31, 2006 issued by the Registrant to TriplePoint Capital LLC.

4.4* (8)Brightcove Inc. RSU Inducement Plan.

  4.4* (8)

4.5* (9)

Form of Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement under the Brightcove Inc. 2012 RSU Inducement Plan.

  4.5* (9)

Brightcove Inc. 2018 Inducement Plan.

  4.6* (10)

Form of Stock Option Agreement under the Brightcove Inc. 2018 Inducement Plan.

  4.7* (11)

Form of Performance-Based Restricted Stock Unit Agreement under the Brightcove Inc. 2018 Inducement Plan.

  4.8* (12)

Description of Capital Stock.

10.1* (10)(13)

Form of Indemnification Agreement between the Registrant and its directors and executive officers.

10.2†* (11)(14)

Amended and Restated 2004 Stock Option and Incentive Plan of the Registrant, together with forms of award agreement.

10.3†* (12)(15)

2012 Stock Incentive Plan of the Registrant.

10.4†* (13)(16)

Form of Incentive Stock Option Agreement under the 2012 Stock Incentive Plan.

10.5† (17)

10.5†* (14)

Form ofNon-Qualified Stock Option Agreement for Company Employees under the 2012 Stock Incentive Plan.

10.6* (18)

10.6* (15)

Lease dated February  28, 2007 between Mortimer B. Zuckerman, Edward H. Linde and Michael A. Cantalupa, as Trustees of One Cambridge Center Trust and Brightcove Inc., as amended.

10.7* (16)Lease dated June 15, 2011 between BP Russia Wharf LLC and Brightcove Inc.
10.8* (17)Loan and Security Agreement dated March 30, 2011 between Silicon Valley Bank and Brightcove Inc., as amended.

10.7* (19)

10.9* (18)

Second Loan Modification Agreement dated April 29, 2013 between Silicon Valley Bank and Brightcove Inc.

10.8* (20)

10.10* (19)

Third Loan Modification Agreement dated October 3, 2014 between Silicon Valley Bank and Brightcove Inc.

10.9* (21)

10.11* (20)

Loan and Security Agreement dated November 19, 2015 between Silicon Valley Bank and Brightcove Inc.

10.12†* (21)Employment Agreement dated August 8, 2011 between the Registrant and Jeremy Allaire.
10.13†* (22)Employment Agreement dated August 8, 2011 between the Registrant and David Mendels.

Exhibits10.10†* (22)

10.14†* (23)

Employment Agreement dated August 8, 2011 between the Registrant and Edward Godin.

10.15†* (24)Employment Agreement dated August 8, 2011 between the Registrant and Andrew Feinberg.
10.16* (25)Employment Separation Agreement dated January 2, 2013 between the Registrant and Edward Godin.
10.17†* (26)Amended and Restated Employment Agreement dated July 25, 2013 between Brightcove Inc. and Jeremy Allaire
10.18†* (27)Letter Agreement dated August 25, 2014 between the Registrant and Christopher Menard related to Mr.  Menard’s resignation and separation from employment with the Registrant.
10.19†* (28)Employment Agreement dated October 1, 2014 between the Registrant and Jon Corley.
10.20†* (29)Employment Agreement dated October 1, 2014 between the Registrant and Paul Goetz.
10.21†* (30)Employment Agreement dated November 3, 2014 between the Registrant and Kevin R. Rhodes.
10.22†* (31)Non-Employee Director Compensation Policy.

10.11†* (23)

10.23†* (32)

Senior Executive Incentive Bonus Plan.

10.12†* (24)

10.24†* (33)

Form of Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement under the 2012 Stock Incentive Plan.

10.13†* (25)

10.25†* (34)

Form of Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement for Company Employees under the 2012 Stock Incentive Plan.

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10.14†* (26)

10.26†* (35)

Form of Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement forNon-Employee Directors under the 2012 Stock Incentive Plan.

10.15* (27)

10.27* (36)

Form ofNon-Qualified Stock Option Agreement forNon-Employee Directors under the 2012 Stock Incentive Plan.

10.16†* (28)

10.28†* (37)

Separation Agreement dated July 24, 2017 between the Registrant and David Mendels.

10.29†* (38)Amendment to Employment Agreement dated July 24, 2017 between the Registrant and Andrew Feinberg.
10.30†* (39)Employment Agreement dated September 20, 2017 between the Registrant and David Plotkin.

10.17†* (29)

Non-Employee Director Compensation Policy, as amended and restated on April 11, 2018.

10.18†* (30)

Employment Agreement dated May 3, 2018 between the Registrant and Robert Noreck.

10.19* (31)

Second Amended and Restated Loan and Security Agreement dated December 14, 2018 between the Registrant and Silicon Valley Bank.

10.20* (32)

First Loan Modification Agreement dated March 29, 2019 between the Registrant and Silicon Valley Bank.

10.21* (33)

Third Loan Modification Agreement dated December 28, 2020 between the Registrant and Silicon Valley Bank.

10.22†* (34)

Brightcove Inc. 2021 Stock Incentive Plan.

10.23†* (35)

Form of Incentive Stock Option Agreement under the Brightcove Inc. 2021 Stock Incentive Plan.

10.24†* (36)

Form of Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreement for Brightcove Employees under the Brightcove Inc. 2021 Stock Incentive Plan.

10.25†* (37)

Form of Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreement for Non-U.S. Employees under the Brightcove Inc. 2021 Stock Incentive Plan.

10.26†* (38)

Form of Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreement for Non-Employee Directors under the Brightcove Inc. 2021 Stock Incentive Plan.

10.27†* (39)

Form of Restricted Stock Unit Agreement for Brightcove Employees under the Brightcove Inc. 2021 Stock Incentive Plan.

10.28†* (40)

Form of Restricted Stock Unit Agreement for Non-U.S. Employees under the Brightcove Inc. 2021 Stock Incentive Plan.

10.29†* (41)

Form of Restricted Stock Unit Agreement for Non-Employee Directors under the Brightcove Inc. 2021 Stock Incentive Plan.

10.30†* (42)

Employment Agreement, dated February 8, 2022 by and between the Registrant and Marc DeBevoise.

10.31*+ (43)

Lease dated November 23, 2021, between 281 Summer Street, LLC and Brightcove Inc.

10.32†* (44)

Brightcove Inc. 2022 Inducement Plan.

10.33†* (45)

Form of Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement under the Brightcove Inc. 2022 Inducement Plan.

10.34†* (46)

Form of Performance-Based Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement under the Brightcove Inc. 2022 Inducement Plan.

10.35*+ (47)

Second Loan Modification Agreement dated July 29, 2019 between the Registrant and Silicon Valley Bank.

10.36†* (48)

Amendment No. 1 to the Brightcove Inc. 2021 Stock Incentive Plan

10.37*+ (49)

Fourth Loan Modification Agreement, dated as of November 1, 2023, by and between the Registrant and the Bank.

10.38†**

Transition and Resignation Agreement dated February 21, 2024 between the Registrant and Robert Noreck.

21.1**

Subsidiaries of the Registrant.

  23.1**

23.1**

Consent of Ernst & Young LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.

  24.1**

24.1**

Power of Attorney (included on signature page).

  31.1**

31.1**

Certification of Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

  31.2**

31.2**

Certification of Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

  32.1**

32.1**•

Certification of Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

  97.1**

Amended and Restated Policy for Recoupment of Incentive Compensation.

101.INS**

Inline XBRL Instance Document.

101.SCH**

101.SCH**

Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document.

101.CAL**

101.CAL**

Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document.

101.DEF**

101.DEF**

Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document.

Exhibits101.LAB**

101.LAB**

Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document.

101.PRE**

101.PRE**

Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document.

104*

Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL with applicable taxonomy extension information contained in Exhibits 101.*)

(1)
(1)
Filed as Exhibit 2.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 26, 2012.
(2)Filed as Exhibit 2.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 6, 2014.
(3)Filed as Exhibit 3.2 to Amendment No. 5 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on FormS-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 6, 2012.
(4)Filed as Exhibit 3.3 to Amendment No. 5 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on FormS-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 6, 2012.
(5)Filed as Exhibit 4.1 to Amendment No. 5 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on FormS-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 6, 2012.
(6)Filed as Exhibit 4.2 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on FormS-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 24, 2011.
(7)Filed as Exhibit 4.4 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on FormS-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 24, 2011.
(8)Filed as Exhibit 4.4 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on FormS-8 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 14, 2012.
(9)Filed as Exhibit 4.5 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on FormS-8 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 14, 2012.
(10)Filed as Exhibit 10.1 to Amendment No. 5 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on FormS-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 6, 2012.
(11)Filed as Exhibit 10.2 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on FormS-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 24, 2011.
(12)Filed as Exhibit 10.3 to Amendment No. 5 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on FormS-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 6, 2012.
(13)Filed as Exhibit 10.4 to Amendment No. 5 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on FormS-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 6, 2012.
(14)Filed as Exhibit 10.5 to Amendment No. 5 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on FormS-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 6, 2012.
(15)Filed as Exhibit 10.6 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on FormS-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 24, 2011.
(16)Filed as Exhibit 10.7 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on FormS-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 24, 2011.
(17)Filed as Exhibit 10.8 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on FormS-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 24, 2011.
(18)Filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 30, 2013.
(19)Filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 7, 2014.
(20)Filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 20, 2015.
(21)Filed as Exhibit 10.9 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on FormS-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 24, 2011.
(22)Filed as Exhibit 10.10 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on FormS-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 24, 2011.
(23)Filed as Exhibit 10.11 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on FormS-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 24, 2011.

(24)Filed as Exhibit 10.13 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on FormS-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 24, 2011.
(25)Filed as Exhibit 10.14 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on July 26, 2012.

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(2)
Filed as Exhibit 2.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on January 6, 2014.
(3)
Filed as Exhibit 3.2 to Amendment No. 5 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the Commission on February 6, 2012.
(4)
Filed as Exhibit 3.3 to Amendment No. 5 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the Commission on February 6, 2012.
(5)
Filed as Exhibit 4.1 to Amendment No. 5 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the Commission on February 6, 2012.
(6)
Filed as Exhibit 4.2 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the Commission on August 24, 2011.
(7)
Filed as Exhibit 4.4 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed with the Commission on August 14, 2012.
(8)
Filed as Exhibit 4.5 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed with the Commission on August 14, 2012.
(9)
Filed as Exhibit 4.4 to Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed with the Commission on May 1, 2018.
(10)
Filed as Exhibit 4.5 to Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed with the Commission on May 1, 2018.
(11)
Filed as Exhibit 4.6 to Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed with the Commission on May 1, 2018.
(12)
Filed as Exhibit 4.9 to Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Commission on February 27, 2020.
(13)
Filed as Exhibit 10.1 to Amendment No. 5 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the Commission on February 6, 2012.
(14)
Filed as Exhibit 10.2 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the Commission on August 24, 2011.
(15)
Filed as Exhibit 10.3 to Amendment No. 5 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the Commission on February 6, 2012.
(16)
Filed as Exhibit 10.4 to Amendment No. 5 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the Commission on February 6, 2012.
(17)
Filed as Exhibit 10.5 to Amendment No. 5 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the Commission on February 6, 2012.
(18)
Filed as Exhibit 10.8 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the Commission on August 24, 2011.
(19)
Filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on April 30, 2013.
(20)
Filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on October 7, 2014.
(21)
Filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on November 20, 2015.
(22)
Filed as Exhibit 10.14 to Amendment No. 5 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the Commission on February 6, 2012.
(23)
Filed as Exhibit 10.15 to Amendment No. 5 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the Commission on February 6, 2012.
(24)
Filed as Exhibit 10.16 to Amendment No. 5 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the Commission on February 6, 2012.
(25)
Filed as Exhibit 10.17 to Amendment No. 5 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the Commission on February 6, 2012.
(26)
Filed as Exhibit 10.18 to Amendment No. 5 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the Commission on February 6, 2012.
(27)
Filed as Exhibit 10.19 to Amendment No. 5 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the Commission on February 6, 2012.

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(28)
Filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Commission on October 26, 2017.

(29)
Filed as Exhibit 99.5 to Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on April 11, 2018.
(30)
Filed as Exhibit 99.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on May 4, 2018.
(31)
Filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on December 14, 2018.
(32)
Filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Commission on April 24, 2019.
(33)
Filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on December 29, 2020.
(34)
Filed as Exhibit 99.1 to Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 17, 2021.
(35)
Filed as Exhibit 10.2 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Commission on July 28, 2021.
(36)
Filed as Exhibit 10.3 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Commission on July 28, 2021.
(37)
Filed as Exhibit 10.4 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Commission on July 28, 2021.
(38)
Filed as Exhibit 10.5 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Commission on July 28, 2021.
(39)
Filed as Exhibit 10.6 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Commission on July 28, 2021.
(40)
Filed as Exhibit 10.7 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Commission on July 28, 2021.
(41)
Filed as Exhibit 10.8 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Commission on July 28, 2021.
(42)
Filed as Exhibit 99.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on February 9, 2022.
(43)
Filed as Exhibit 10.48 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Commission on February 18, 2022.
(44)
Filed as Exhibit 4.4 to Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 18, 2022.
(45)
Filed as Exhibit 4.5 to Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 18, 2022.
(46)
Filed as Exhibit 4.6 to Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 18, 2022.
(47)
Filed as Exhibit 10.53 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Commission on February 23, 2023.
(48)
Filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on May 11, 2023.
(49)
Filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on November 1, 2023.

*

Incorporated herein by reference.

**

Filed herewith.

The certifications furnished in Exhibit 32.1 hereto are deemed to accompany this Annual Report on Form10-K filed with and will not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 5, 2013.

(26)FiledAct of 1934, as Exhibit 10.1amended. Such certifications will not be deemed to be incorporated by reference into any filings under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, except to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form8-K filed withextent that the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 25, 2013.
(27)Filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 3, 2014.
(28)Filed as Exhibit 10.2 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 3, 2014.
(29)Filed as Exhibit 10.3 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 3, 2014.
(30)Filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 10, 2014.
(31)Filed as Exhibit 10.14 to Amendment No. 5 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on FormS-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 6, 2012.
(32)Filed as Exhibit 10.15 to Amendment No. 5 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on FormS-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 6, 2012.
(33)Filed as Exhibit 10.16 to Amendment No. 5 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on FormS-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 6, 2012.
(34)Filed as Exhibit 10.17 to Amendment No. 5 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on FormS-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 6, 2012.
(35)Filed as Exhibit 10.18 to Amendment No. 5 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on FormS-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 6, 2012.
(36)Filed as Exhibit 10.19 to Amendment No. 5 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on FormS-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 6, 2012.
(37)Filed as Exhibit 99.2 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange commission on July 26, 2017.
(38)Filed as Exhibit 99.3 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange commission on July 26, 2017.
(39)Filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 26, 2017.
*Incorporated hereinRegistrant specifically incorporates it by reference.

**

Filed herewith.
The certifications furnished in Exhibit 32.1 hereto are deemed to accompany this Annual Report on Form10-K and will not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such certifications will not be deemed to be incorporated by reference into any filings under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, except to the extent that the Registrant specifically incorporates it by reference.

Indicates a management contract or any compensatory plan, contract or arrangement.

+

Portions of this exhibit (indicated by asterisks) have been omitted in accordance with the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Item 16.Form10-K Summary

Item 16. Form 10-K Summary

Not applicable.

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Signatures

Signatures

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized on the 28th22nd day of February, 2018.2024.

BRIGHTCOVE INC.

By:

/s/ Andrew FeinbergBRIGHTCOVE INC.

Andrew Feinberg

By:

/s/ Marc DeBevoise

Marc DeBevoise

Chief Executive Officer

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose individual signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Kevin R. RhodesMarc DeBevoise, Robert Noreck and David Plotkin, and each of them, with full power of substitution and resubstitution and full power to act without the other, as his or her true and lawfulattorney-in-fact and agent to act in his or her name, place and stead and to execute in the name and on behalf of each person, individually and in each capacity stated below, and to file any and all amendments to this Annual Report on Form10-K, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto saidattorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing, ratifying and confirming all that saidattorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them or their or his substitute or substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue thereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

Name

Title

Date

/s/ Andrew FeinbergMarc DeBevoise

Andrew FeinbergMarc DeBevoise

Chief Executive Officer

(Principal Executive Officer)and Director

February 28, 2018

22, 2024

/s/ Kevin R. RhodesRobert Noreck

Kevin R. RhodesRobert Noreck

Chief Financial Officer

(Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)

February 28, 2018

22, 2024

/s/ Christopher Stagno

Christopher Stagno

Chief Accounting Officer

(Principal Accounting Officer)

February 28, 2018

/s/ Gary HaroianDiane Hessan

Gary HaroianDiane Hessan

Chairman of the Board of Directors

February 28, 2018

22, 2024

/s/ Deborah Besemer

Deborah Besemer

DirectorFebruary 28, 2018

/s/ Derek HarrarKristin Frank

Derek HarrarKristin Frank

Director

February 28, 2018

22, 2024

/s/ Diane Hessan

Diane Hessan

DirectorFebruary 28, 2018

/s/ Gary Haroian

Gary Haroian

Director

February 22, 2024

/s/ Scott Kurnit

Scott Kurnit

Director

February 28, 2018

22, 2024

/s/ David OrfaoTsedal Neeley

David OrfaoTsedal Neeley

Director

February 28, 201822, 2024

/s/ Thomas E. Wheeler

Thomas E. Wheeler

Director

February 22, 2024

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