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Page 1: Technology driven PERFORMANCE MARKETING · Online performance marketing company ... system for centralised management of websites • Some assets rank for high intent keywords, others

March 2017

PERFORMANCE MARKETINGTechnology driven

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DISCLAIMER

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THIS PRESENTATION (THE “PRESENTATION ”) WHICH HAS BEEN PREPARED BY

XLMEDIA PLC. (THE “COMPANY) IS FOR INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY AND DOES

NOT CONSTITUTE AN OFFER OR INVITATION TO SUBSCRIBE FOR OR PURCHASE

ANY SECURITIES, AND NEITHER THE PRESENTATION NOR ANYTHING CONTAINED

HEREIN NOR THE FACT OF ITS DISTRIBUTION SHALL FORM THE BASIS OF OR BE

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Neither the Presentation, nor any part of it, may be taken or transmitted into the United

States of America, Australia, Canada, South Africa or Japan or into any jurisdiction where it

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The Presentation is issued solely to and directed at: (i) persons who have professional

experience in matters relating to investments falling within article 19(5) of the Financial

Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 (the “Order”) and are

“investment professionals” falling within the meaning of the Order; and (ii) high net worth

entities falling within article 49(2)(a) to (d) of the Order. This document is exempt from the

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investment activity and has therefore not been approved by an authorised person as

would otherwise be required by section 21 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000

(“FSMA”). It is a condition of your receiving the Presentation Materials that you fall within,

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The statements contained in this document, such as “may,” “will,” “should,” expect,”

“anticipate,” “estimate,” “intend,” “continue”, “aiming” and “believe” and other similar

expressions are forward-looking statements and not historical facts. Due to various

risks, uncertainties and assumptions, actual events or results or the actual performance

of the Company may differ materially from those reflected in or contemplated by such

forward-looking statements. Past performance, targeted performance and projected

performance are not reliable indicators of future results and there can be no assurance

that targeted or projected returns will be achieved. The value of any investment made

by an investor can go down as well as up and an investor may lose its entire investment.

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OVERVIEW

2016 Performance

$103.6 M Revenues

$34.6 MAdj EBITDA

Online performance marketing company

• We attract paying users from multiple online & mobile channels and direct them to online businesses

• We operate a performance based business model

• Wide technology base to drive growth and results

Strong profitable growth

• Strong track record of profitable growth and cash generation

• Successful diversification strategy adding skills and client base in additional verticals

• Highly cash generative, progressive dividend policy of 50% pay out

Significant market opportunities

• Demand for digital marketing accelerating

• Performance models are preferred by advertisers

• Financial services, social gaming and online gambling continue strong growth

• Potential to target additional territories

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OUR BUSINESS MODEL

Online users: Web, mobile,

social, …

Performance based payment

Lifetime Revenue share

(50% of revenues)

/ CPA / CPI /…

Attracting potential

users through our

publishing assets and

directing to our

customers

Approachingpotential users through

posting ads in different

platforms and directing

to our customers

Complimentary

Partners

Networking

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PUBLISHING

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• XLMedia owns a network of over 2,300 informational websites, mobile sites and apps engaging millions of users in 18 languages

• Informational websites attract potential customers and refer them to web and mobile online businesses

• “Palcon” is our a proprietary content management system for centralised management of websites

• Some assets rank for high intent keywords, others being optimized to reach these positions

USD

‘0

00

$14,922

$18,801

$23,965

$30,298

$46,057

$10,188$14,211

$18,345

$23,856

$38,384

68% 76% 77% 79% 83%$0

$5,000

$10,000

$15,000

$20,000

$25,000

$30,000

$35,000

$40,000

$45,000

$50,000

2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Revenues Direct Profit

The portfolio is the outcome of years of investment

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Big Data

Accumulate data

from difference

sources and analyse

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PUBLISHINGExample users’ journey:

User search results High ranking XLMedia property Users directed to client Revshare / CPA / …

Ongoing optimisation

Quality content Brand Optimising

Asset optimisation

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MEDIA

• XLMedia acts as an advertiser running thousands of simultaneous self-funded campaigns, in different verticals. Customers pay based on performance

• XL deploys proprietary technology to manage media campaigns across all ad units: social, mobile, web, …

• 2016 reflects a decrease in activities in the utilities verticals

• Recent acquisition of ClicksMob strengthens mobile base

Example users’ journey:

USD

‘0

00

Users browse

web/mobile/social/…XLMedia posts ads Users directed to client

Revshare / CPA / CPI …

$8,183$10,115

$20,632

$45,777$47,645

$5,565 $5,611$8,545

$15,411 $13,779

68% 55% 41% 34% 29%$0

$10,000

$20,000

$30,000

$40,000

$50,000

$60,000

2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Revenues Direct Profit

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MEDIA – OPTIMIZATION CYCLE

XLM self-funded campaigns

Using proprietary tools for analysis and iterative testing optimising

Country / Brand / Creative / Offer / Device / Content / entry source …..

Optimising Gather data

Big Data

Proprietary data enabling XLM to

optimise campaigns

Bid on ads Select vertical/brand -XLM customers

Conversion

Paying customerOffering – deploy XLM market intelligence

XLM

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PARTNER NETWORK

• Currently manages over 300 independent affiliate partners who drive traffic through XLMedia

• Affiliates benefit from XLMedia’s ongoing close support, scaled operations and one-stop-shop to service multiple operators

• Affiliates access XLMedia’s proprietary system aggregating statistics and promotions from many operators

• In 2016 we initiated a review process of our partner base with a view to implementing a more stringent sign up and operations criteria which resulted in a reduction in revenues from this segment in 2016

USD

‘0

00

$3,030

$5,587$6,123

$13,145

$9,903

$484 $628 $683$1,809

$1,160

16% 11% 11% 14% 12%$0

$2,000

$4,000

$6,000

$8,000

$10,000

$12,000

$14,000

2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Revenues Direct Profit

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OUR TECHNOLOGY

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Tracking Solutions Pheonix Rampix Business

IntelligencePalcon

A consolidated

management

system across all

websites, for fast

and dynamic

integration and

deployment

Tracks the sales

funnel from different

sources on Company

websites and paid

media campaigns for

analysis and

optimization

Management of Group

entities and unique

operational processes

for enhanced

efficiency

Centralized

management of social

campaigns, unique

targeting

methodologies

Unified Data warehouse

to collect data from

thousands of sources

on a daily basis, process

and analyse for

improved performance

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$4.0 $8.8$12.5 $13.3

$17.0

$28.5$34.6

$11.2

$20.9$26.1

$34.5

$50.7

$89.2

$103.6

$0.0

$20.0

$40.0

$60.0

$80.0

$100.0

$120.0

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

STRONG FINANCIAL TRACK RECORD

Employees: 40

Main focus: poker

and casino

Employees: 40

Main focus: poker and

casino

Announced new

investor group

Employees: 97

Main focus: expansion

Acquisition of partner,

Acquisition of competitor

Employees: 120

Main focus: expansion

in EU & North America

New media

New investor

Employees: 197

Main focus: IPO, M&A

IPO

Websites acquisitions

incl. Sports UK focused

EDM acquisition for

social gaming

Employees: 270

Main focus:,

Technology, M&A

Marmar media

Websites

acquisitions incl.

UK mobile focused

Employees: 327

Main focus:,

continued

diversification

8.2 8.0 12.4Dividends since IPO ($ m)

Revenues ($ m)

Adjusted EBITDA ($ m)

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INCOME STATEMENT

*Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization, excluding share based payments and acquisition related expenses.

33%

22%

23%

19%

3%

2015

Item (Thousands $) FY 2016 FY 2015

Audited Audited

Revenues  103,605 89,219

Cost of revenues 50,282 48,143

Gross Profit 53,323 41,076

Operating Expenses 23,226 18,116

Operating Profit 30,097 22,960

Total adjusted EBITDA* 34,617 28,442

% Adj. EBITDA 33% 32%

IPO expenses and other income (expenses) 0 -403

Finance income (expenses), net 903 1,736

Profit Before Taxes 31,000 24,293

Taxes (from Income) 5,416 4,093

Net Profit 25,584 20,200

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CASH FLOW STATEMENT

2016 2015

Net income 25,584 20,200

Depreciation and amortisation 3,878 3,775

Cost of share-based payment 646 839

Changes in Working Capital, tax and finance

expenses(2,319) 3,486

Finance income from financial derivatives (837) 99

Cash Flow from Operating Activities 26,952 28,399

Investing Activities

Purchase of property and equipment, net (479) (644)

Acquisitions of subsidiaries and contingent

consideration payments(5,500) (7,959)

Acquisition of domains, websites, technology (16,042) (12,326)

Financial investments, net 4,633 9,925

Cash Flow for investing activities (17,388) (11,004)

2016 2015

Financing Activities

Dividend paid to equity holders of the Company (12,362) (8,017)

Dividend paid to non-controlling interests (1,805) (694)

Exercise of options 1,546 943

Payments of liabilities to former shareholders of acquired subsidiary - (927)

Net cash used in financing activities (12,621) (8,695)

Cash and short term investments at the end of the period 35,186 42,607

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BALANCE SHEET 31 December 2016

$ '000

Current assets:

Cash, cash equivalents and short term investments 35,186

Trade receivables 17,075

Other accounts receivable 3,463

Financial derivatives 1,002

Total current assets 56,726

Non-current assets:

Long term investments 609

Property, plant and equipment 1,229

Goodwill 26,302

Domains and websites 36,039

Intangible assets 5,948

Deferred taxes 85

Other account receivable 171

Total non-current assets 70,383

Total Assets 127,109

Current liabilities:

Trade payables 9,274

Contingent consideration payable 0

Other liabilities and accounts payable 14,196

Total current liabilities 23,470

Non-current liabilities

Deferred taxes 126

Other liabilities 228

Total Non-current liabilities 354

Equity

Share premium 66,812

Capital reserves 702

Retained earnings 34,349

Non-controlling interests 1,422

Total equity 103,285

Total Equity & Liabilities 127,109

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REVENUE DIVERSIFICATION

Revenues diversification –

products

Revenues diversification –

users’ geography

Revenues diversification –

customers

Revenues Per

business model

Gambling, 70%Gaming,

12%

Other, 18%

Other

Customers,

71% A, 7%

B, 6%

C, 6%

D, 6%E, 5%

Revshare, 49%

CPI, 19%

Other, 33%Scandinavia,

32%

Rest of Europe

27%

North America,

21%

Other

Territories,

20%

Further diversification steps through acquisitions: Greedyrates.ca, ClicksMob

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GROWTH STRATEGY - FINANCIAL SERVICES

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• XLMedia has identified the financial services sector as a strategic growth engine and acquired Greedyrates, a leading Canadian credit card comparison website.

• Greedyrates increases XLMedia’s North American presence and establishes a foothold in the financial services market

• Further growth opportunities following acquisition are in additional financial services (e.g. loans, banks, ….) and countries.

• The credit card and payment card markets continue to grow, with projected CAGR of purchase transactions by credit cards(1) of 4.52% in Canada and 6.36% in the US for 2014 to 2024

(1) Source - The Nielson report 2016.

Purchase transactions are payments of goods and services generated by general

purpose payment cards

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• ClicksMob delivers performance-based user acquisition to leading apps

• Active across a number of verticals, including gaming, e-commerce, travel, entertainment and finance

• Significant presence in Asia, with over 30% of ClicksMob 2016 revenues generated from the region

MOBILE PROGRESS – CLICKSMOB

• Acquisition includes ClicksMob’sproprietary technologies such as audience matching, engine optimization and fraud fighting tools

• In 2016: revenues of $16.3m, EBITDA $0.3m

• The acquisition enables XLMedia to deliver services to a wider range of customers in different verticals and geographies, whilst maximising benefits of scale

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CLICK TO EDIT MASTER TITLE STYLEMobile and tablet advertising growth

• Mobile advertising is expected to grow by an average of 38% a year between 2014 and 2017

• Mobile ad spend projected to account for 51% of all new advertising between 2014 and 2017, growing by $42

billion

Online gambling and social gaming market

• Demand for social games continues to grow, aided by mobile growth, and is expected to see CAGR of 24% in the

US between 2012 and 2016

• The online gambling market expanded from $21bn to $35bn in gross win from 2008 to 2014 (9.2% CAGR) and is

expected to expand to $51bn by 2018 (9.5% CAGR from 2014)

Growth of Internet advertising revenues

• Global online advertising spend increased from $52bn to $147bn between 2007 and 2014 (16.0% CAGR), and is

expected to expand to $322bn by 2020 (13.9% CAGR from 2014)

• Social online advertising spend is the second fastest growing sub-sector – Saw an increase in online advertising

spend from $0.6bn in 2007 to $22bn in 2014 (65.5% CAGR) and is expected to increase to $93.2bn in 2020 (27.2%

CAGR from 2014)

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THE FUTURE OF ONLINE MARKETING

Sources:

H2 Gambling Capital, eMarketer,

ZenithOptimedia, Technavio, IAB

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Continue to expand the Group’s operational reach into new geographies

and verticals

• Media: Leverage demand for online marketing services within US and Asia markets

• Publishing: Continue to grow market share in current territories and newer territories such as UK, Canada, Austria, German speaking, Greece, Denmark

Continue developing our technology infrastructure to accelerate organic growth and further enhances XLMedia’s reputation and competitive edge

• We continue to increase our investment in technology with over 80 staff focused on R&D

Execute acquisitions which both strengthen and expand the Group’s operational footprint

• Active pipeline of opportunities driven by highly fragmented market

• Financial strength and cash balance supports deal execution

GROWTH STRATEGY

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2016 progress

• Continued development of in-house systems

• Awarded Facebook Marketing partner for technology

• Established a new US subsidiary, focused to rapidly increase our business in mobile apps and additional non-gambling verticals

Foundations laid for future growth

• Strong sustainable organic growth in publishing segment

• Technology investments and staff are in place to support expansion for media as well as continue organic growth in publishing

• Social gaming and app installs represents strong growth opportunities for the coming years

• Strong balance sheet and cash balances to support additional acquisitions

• Business model reinforces management’s commitment to 50% dividend payout ratio

• Outlook for 2017 is positive with continued profitability

SUMMARY AND OUTLOOK

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APPENDIX

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INBAL LAVI CEO (ISRAEL)

• 12 years' experience in the online marketing

industry

• Diverse background and expertise in marketing

strategy, operations and P&L management,

including heading the 888poker business from

December 2011 to January 2014

ORY WEIHS GROUP CEO

• Entrepreneur with 13 years’

experience in performance-

based marketing

• Currently focused on business

development and strategy

• CEO of the company since

inception

YEHUDA DAHAN GROUP CFO

• Over 14 years’ experience in

accounting and finance

• Previously CFO for Barinboim

Investment Group and Head

Controller of Milomor Group

LIAT HELLMAN CFO (ISRAEL)

• Over 19 years’ experience in publicly

traded companies

• Served as CFO (Israel) of the

company since its inception and is

responsible for financial

infrastructure

CHRIS BELL NON-EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN

• Former CEO of Ladbrokes between 2001

and 2010

• Has over 20 years’ experience in the

gambling sector

• Currently non-executive Director at Rank

Group plc and Spirit plc and a member of

the Responsible Gambling Strategy board

EXPERIENCED SENIOR LEADERSHIP

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Digital Media consists of posting different forms of advertising in the online and mobile space

DIGITAL ADVERTISING

AdvertisersSpend on advertising

and marketing

Demand for

ad space

NetworksMatch supply and demand

Bid/Ask

ad-tech platforms

(exchange)

PublisherRun online

business/content websites

Supply of ad

space

Advertisers examples:

• Coca Cola

• Booking.com

• Gaming operators: Will Hill, 888, bet365….

• Ad agencies, affiliates, marketing, partners

• XLMedia – Media division

Publishers examples:

• The Telegraph / BBC / Sky / other news websites

• Google / Facebook / ….

• Best cooking recipes

• Informational websites in the gaming field such as

“How to play blackjack” / odds comparison

websites / …..

• XLMedia – Publishing division