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PodcastOne, Inc.Information Technology · Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. · CIK 1940177 · FY ends Mar 31
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PODC · 10-K · period ended 2026-03-31

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Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements contained in this Annual Report that are not statements of historical fact constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, notwithstanding that such statements are not specifically identified. These forward-looking statements relate to expectations or forecasts for future events, including without limitation our earnings, revenues, expenses or other future financial or business performance or strategies, or the impact of legal or regulatory matters on our business, results of operations or financial condition. These statements may be preceded by, followed by or include the words “may,” “might,” “will,” “would,” “could,” “should,” “will likely result,” “estimate,” “plan,” “project,” “forecast,” “intend,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “seek,” “continue,” “target” or the negative or other variations thereof or comparable terminology. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are based on information available to us as of the date of this Annual Report and on our current expectations, forecasts and assumptions, and involve substantial risks and uncertainties. Actual results may vary materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements herein due to a variety of factors, including: LiveOne’s reliance on its largest OEM customer for a substantial percentage of its revenue; LiveOne’s and our ability to consummate any proposed financing, acquisition, merger, distribution or other transaction, the timing of the consummation of any such proposed event, including the risks that a condition to the consummation of any such event would not be satisfied within the expected timeframe or at all, or that the consummation of any proposed financing, acquisition, merger, special dividend, distribution or transaction will not occur or whether any such event will enhance shareholder value; our ability to continue as a going concern; our ability to attract, maintain and increase the number of its listeners; PodcastOne identifying, acquiring, securing and developing content; LiveOne’s intent to repurchase shares of its and/or our common stock from time to time under LiveOne’s stock repurchase program and the timing, price, and quantity of repurchases, if any, under the program; LiveOne’s ability to maintain compliance with certain financial and other covenants; PodcastOne successfully implementing its growth strategy, including relating to its technology platforms and applications; management’s relationships with industry stakeholders; LiveOne’s ability to repay its indebtedness when due; LiveOne’s ability to satisfy the conditions for closing on its announced additional convertible debentures financing; LiveOne’s ability to implement its digital assets treasury strategy and/or purchase digital assets from time to time pursuant to such strategy, including for up to the maximum announced amount, and other risks related to such strategy; uncertain and unfavorable outcomes in legal proceedings and/or our and/or LiveOne’s ability to pay any amounts due in connection with any such legal proceedings; changes in economic conditions; competition; risks and uncertainties applicable to the businesses of our Company, LiveOne and/or LiveOne’s other subsidiaries; and other risks, uncertainties and factors including, but not limited to, those described in Part II – Item 1A of this Annual Report and in our other filings and submissions with the SEC. Except as required by law, we do not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements as a result of as a result of new information, future events or developments or otherwise.

The following discussion and analysis of our business and results of operations for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2026, and our financial conditions at that date, should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and the notes thereto included elsewhere in this Annual Report. As used herein, “PodcastOne,” the “Company,” “we,” “our” or “us” and similar terms refer collectively to PodcastOne, Inc. and its subsidiaries, unless the context indicates otherwise.

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Overview

We are a leading podcast platform and publisher that makes our content available to audiences via all podcasting distribution platforms, including our website (www.podcastone.com), Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and more. We are a majority owned subsidiary of LiveOne, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a Nasdaq-listed company (“LiveOne”). We have recently been ranked as high as #8 on the list of Top Podcast Publishers by the podcast metric company Podtrac, as a leading podcast publisher.

On September 8, 2023, we completed our spin-out from LiveOne and our direct listing on The Nasdaq Capital Market (the “Spin-Out”) and our shares of common stock began trading on the Nasdaq under the symbol of “PODC”. On September 21, 2023, we changed our corporate name to “PodcastOne, Inc.” After the completion of the Spin-Out, we became a standalone publicly traded company trading on The Nasdaq Capital Market. We remain a majority owned subsidiary of LiveOne.

We produce vodcasts (video podcasts), branded podcasts, merchandise and live events on behalf of our talent and clients. With a proven 360-degree advertiser solution for multiplatform integration opportunities and hyper-targeting, we deliver millions of monthly impressions, 6.0+ million monthly unique listeners and 17+ million IAB monthly downloads. With content covering all verticals (i.e. sports, entertainment, true-crime, business, audio dramas, self-growth, etc.), we provide a platform for brands to reach their most sought after targeted audiences. We intend to continue to acquire multiple assets over time and across a broad spectrum of podcast related media and companies. We intend to develop these assets to provide returns via organic growth, revenue production, out-licensing, sale or spin out.

Our operating model is focused on offering white glove service to our shows, talent, and advertising clients. With an in-house sales, production, marketing, and tech team, we believe PodcastOne delivers more to clients and talent than any other publisher in the marketplace. This allows us to scale our operations while attracting talent who bring in brand advertisers and revenue. We earn revenue through the sale of embedded host read ads, dynamic ads (host read and otherwise), segment sponsorships, and programmatic monetization channels. We also provide the opportunity for clients to have 100% share of voice with branded podcast episodes or series as well as live tours, merch, and IP ownership for original programming.

In addition to our core business, we also build, own and operate a solution for the growing number of independent podcasters, LaunchpadOne. LaunchpadOne is a free innovative self-publishing podcast hosting, distribution, and monetization platform that provides an end-to-end podcast solution, created to provide a low or no cost tool for independent podcasters without access to parent podcasting networks or state of the art equipment to create shows. LaunchpadOne serves as a talent pool for us to find new podcasts and talent.

We have experienced significant growth in recent years driven by increased advertising activity. For the years ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, our revenue was $61.7 million and 52.1 million, respectively, representing year-over-year growth of 18%.

We are more than a podcast company. We are in the relationship business. Brands and creators partner with us to reach consumers who will purchase, listen and subscribe to their favorite PodcastOne podcasts across the audio landscape. We offer content for every type of listener with verticals including reality TV, sports, true crime self-help, and business. The visibility and reach of our network is evident with shows which consistently rank in the top 100 on the Apple Charts.

Our Business Model

We are an Ad-Supported Service that provides free content to listeners via their mobile and desktop devices. We generate revenue from the sale of audio, video and social advertising delivered through advertising impressions. We generally enter into arrangements with advertising agencies that purchase advertising on our platform on behalf of the agencies’ clients. These advertising arrangements typically specify the type of advertising product, pricing, insertion dates, and number of impressions in a stated period. Revenue for our Ad-Supported segment is affected primarily by the number of a show’s listeners and our ability to provide innovative advertising products that are relevant to our Ad-Supported Users and enhance returns for our advertising partners. Our advertising strategy centers on the belief that advertising products that are based on content and are relevant to the Ad-Supported User can enhance Ad-Supported Users’ experiences and provide even greater returns for advertisers through the strength of our host-read embedded promos. According to a Audacy Inc. Survey in 2025, an estimated 68% of listeners believe the hosts actually use the products and services they recommend and 76% of podcast listeners say they have bought something from hearing a podcast ad. Offering advertisers additional ways to purchase advertising on a programmatic basis is another key way that we expand our portfolio of advertising products and enhance advertising revenue. Furthermore, we continue to focus on analytics and measurement tools to evaluate, demonstrate, and improve the effectiveness of advertising campaigns on our platform.

When we are onboard new talent both parties have the common interest of creating content that advertisers want to purchase. We craft our deals with a percentage split of the advertising revenue (host-read embedded ads, DAI and programmatic) which strengthens our partnerships because when advertisers spend, we all win.

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Key Factors Affecting Our Performance

We believe that the growth and future success of our business depends on many factors. While each of these factors presents significant opportunities for our business, they also pose important challenges that we must successfully address in order to sustain our growth and improve our results of operations.

Impressions

The digital advertising industry is introducing new ways to measure and price advertising inventory. For example, a significant portion of advertisers are in the process of moving from purchasing advertisement impressions based on the number of advertisements served by the applicable ad server to a new “viewable” impression standard (based on number of pixels in view and duration) for select products. In the absence of a uniform industry standard, agencies and advertisers have adopted several different measurement methodologies and standards. In addition, measurement services may require technological integrations, which are still being evaluated by the advertising industry without an agreed-upon industry standard metric. As these trends in the industry continue to evolve, our advertising revenue may be adversely affected by the availability, accuracy, and utility of the available analytics and measurement technologies as well as our ability to successfully implement and operationalize such technologies and standards.

Further, the digital advertising industry is shifting to data-driven technologies and advertising products, such as automated buying. These data-driven advertising products and automated buying technologies allow publishers and advertisers to use data to target advertising toward specific groups of users who are more likely to be interested in the advertising message delivered to them. These advertising products and programmatic technologies are currently more developed in terms of advertising technology and industry adoption on the web than they are on mobile or on other software applications, and may not integrate with our desktop software version of the ad-supported services. Because the majority of our ad-supported user hours occur on mobile devices, if we are unable to deploy effective solutions to monetize the mobile device usage by our ad-supported user base, our ability to attract advertising spend, and ultimately our advertising revenue, may be adversely affected by this shift. In addition, we rely on third-party advertising technology platforms to participate in automated buying, and if these platforms cease to operate or experience instability in their business models, it also may adversely affect our ability to capture advertising spend.

We generate revenue by charging a CPM based on the volume of purchased digital ads that we measure on behalf of these customers. If the volume of impressions we measure does not continue to grow or decreases for any reason, our business will suffer. For example, if digital ad spending remains constant and our advertiser customers transition to higher CPM ad inventory, overall impression volumes may decrease, which may result in fewer impressions for us to verify and a corresponding decline in our revenues.

Podcast Services

Our podcasts are available to users online alongside LiveOne’s digital Internet radio. Our users are able to listen to a variety of podcasts, from music, radio personalities, news, entertainment, comedy and sports. The podcasts are available on the LiveOne platforms and also on other leading podcast listening platforms such as Apple Music, Spotify, and Amazon. We monetize podcasts through paid advertising. We own one of the largest networks of podcast content in North America, which has over 200 exclusive podcast shows that produces over 300 episodes per week and has generated over 200 million downloads to date.

In addition to our core business, we have also build, own and operate a solution for the growing number of independent podcasters, LaunchpadOne. LaunchpadOne is a self-publishing podcast platform, created to provide a low or no cost tool for independent podcasters without access to parent podcasting networks or state of the art equipment to create shows. LaunchpadOne serves as a talent pool for us to find new podcasts and talent.

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Key Business Metric

We review various operating and financial metrics, including the number of podcasts downloaded to evaluate our business, measure our performance, identify trends affecting our business, formulate business plans, and make strategic decisions. However, while we believe that other than the number of podcasts downloaded on our platform, such metrics do not materially help to evaluate our business, measure our performance or provide a better understanding of our results, our management uses its experience and understanding of the podcasting and advertising industry to evaluate such metrics, as well as CPM and various underlying podcast agreement terms (such as minimum guarantee payments, term, marketing spend) and others, such as advertiser engagement with a show, on a show by show basis and in totality across all shows on our network to predict our future business and financial performance. Accordingly, we are not aware of any uniform standards for calculating these key metrics, which may hinder comparability with other companies who may calculate similarly-titled metrics in a different way, and provide the number of podcasts downloaded on our platform as the metric that we believe provides the best understanding of our results, as more fully discussed below.

Year Ended

The increase in the number of podcast downloads can be attributed to the increase in the number of podcasts in our podcast network.

Number of Podcast Downloads

We are an Ad-Supported Service that provides free content to listeners via their mobile and desktop devices. We generate revenue from the sale of audio, video and social advertising delivered through advertising impressions. We generally enter into arrangements with advertising agencies that purchase advertising on our platform on behalf of the agencies’ clients. These advertising arrangements typically specify the type of advertising product, pricing, insertion dates, and number of impressions in a stated period. Revenue for our Ad-Supported segment is affected primarily by the number of a show’s listeners and our ability to provide innovative advertising products that are relevant to our Ad-Supported Users and enhance returns for our advertising partners. Therefore we believe our ability to grow and measure our effectiveness of advertisers is dependent on tracking the number of podcast downloaded on our platform.

Basis of Presentation

Our results of operations and financial position are consolidated with LiveOne’s financial statements and these financial statements have been derived as if we had operated on a standalone basis during the years ended March 31, 2026 and 2025. The amounts recorded for related party transactions with LiveOne may not be considered arm’s length transactions and therefore, the financial statements may not necessarily reflect our results of operations, financial position and cash flows had we engaged in such transactions with an unrelated third party during the years ended March 31, 2026 and 2025. Accordingly, our historical financial information is not necessarily indicative of what our results of operations, financial position and cash flows will be in the future, if and when we contract at arm’s length with unrelated third parties for services they receive from LiveOne.

Limitations and Reconciliations ofNon-GAAPFinancial Measures

Non-GAAP financial measures are presented for supplemental informational purposes only. Non-GAAP financial measures have limitations as analytical tools and should not be considered in isolation or as substitutes for financial information presented under U.S. GAAP. There are a number of limitations related to the use of non-GAAP financial measures versus comparable financial measures determined under U.S. GAAP. For example, other companies in our industry may calculate these non-GAAP financial measures differently or may use other measures to evaluate their performance. In addition, free cash flow does not reflect our future contractual commitments and the total increase or decrease of our cash balance for a given period. All of these limitations could reduce the usefulness of these non-GAAP financial measures as analytical tools. Investors are encouraged to review the related U.S. GAAP financial measures and the reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures to their most directly comparable U.S. GAAP financial measures and to not rely on any single financial measure to evaluate our business.

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Components of Results of Operations

Revenue

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

Cost of Sales

Cost of sales consists of direct costs comprised of revenue sharing expenses owed to content creators and commissions.

Operating Expenses

Our operating expenses consist of cost of sales, product development, sales and marketing, and general and administrative expenses. Personnel-related expenses are the most significant component of operating expenses and consist of salaries, benefits, stock-based compensation expense, and, in the case of sales and marketing expenses, sales commissions. Operating expenses also include an allocation of overhead costs for facilities and shared IT-related expenses. As we continue to invest in our business, we expect our operating expenses to continue to increase in dollar amount, and although we believe our operating expenses as a percentage of revenue will decrease over the longer term, we expect operating expenses as a percentage of revenue will increase in the short term as we invest in product innovation and sales growth and incur additional professional services and compliance costs as we operate as a public company.

Sales and Marketing

Sales and Marketing include direct and indirect costs related to our advertising and marketing. Additionally, sales and marketing include merchandising advertising and royalty costs. Advertising expenses to promote our services are expensed as incurred.

Product Development

Product development costs not capitalized are primarily expenses for research and development, product and content development activities, including internal software development and improvement costs which have not been capitalized by us.

General and Administrative

General and administrative expenses consist primarily of personnel-related expenses for our finance, human resources, information technology, and legal organizations. These expenses also include non-personnel costs, such as outside legal, accounting, and other professional fees, software subscriptions, as well as certain tax, license, and insurance-related expenses, and allocated overhead costs.

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We also recognized certain expenses as part of our transition to a publicly-traded company, consisting of professional fees and other expenses. In the quarters leading up to the listing of our common stock, we incurred professional fees and expenses, and in the quarter of our listing we incurred fees paid to our financial advisors in addition to other professional fees and expenses related to such listing. After the listing of our common stock, we continue to incur additional expenses as a result of operating as a public company, including costs to comply with the rules and regulations applicable to companies listed on a U.S. securities exchange and costs related to compliance and reporting obligations pursuant to the rules and regulations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). In addition, as a public company, we continue to incur additional costs associated with accounting, compliance, insurance, and investor relations. As a result, we expect our general and administrative expenses to continue to increase in dollar amount for the foreseeable future but to generally decrease as a percentage of our revenue over the longer term, although the percentage may fluctuate from period to period depending on the timing and amount of our general and administrative expenses, including in the short term as we expect to incur increased compliance and professional service costs.

Results of Operations

The following tables set forth our results of operations for the periods presented and as a percentage of our revenue for those periods. The period-to-period comparison of financial results is not necessarily indicative of financial results to be achieved in future periods.

Year Ended

Operating expenses:

Product development 46 52

Impairment of intangible and fixed assets - 334

Amortization of intangible assets 573 1,089

Other income (expense):

Other expense (2 ) -

Total other expense, net (2 ) -

Loss before provision for income taxes (2,644 ) (6,434 )

Provision for income taxes - 24

Net loss per share – basic and diluted $ (0.10 ) $ (0.26 )

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

Year Ended

Depreciation expense

Sales and marketing 20 85 (76 )%

General and administrative (8 ) 20 (140 )%

Total depreciation expense $ 44 $ 250 (82 )%

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

Year Ended

Stock-based compensation expense

Total stock-based compensation expense $ 8,211 $ 4,215 95 %

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

Year Ended

Operating expenses

Cost of sales 88 % 91 %

Sales and marketing 5 % 7 %

Product development 0 % 0 %

General and administrative 10 % 12 %

Impairment of intangible assets 0 % 1 %

Amortization of intangible assets 1 % 2 %

Total operating expenses 104 % 112 %

Income (loss) from operations (4 )% (12 )%

Other income (expense), net (0 )% 0 %

Loss before income taxes (4 )% (12 )%

Income tax provision 0 % 0 %

Net loss (4 )% (12 )%

Revenue

Revenue increased $9.6 million, or 18%, for our fiscal year ended March 31, 2026 ("fiscal 2026") compared to our year ended March 31, 2025 ("fiscal 2025"). The increase in revenue was primarily due to growth in direct ad revenue of $6.3 million and an increase in barter revenue of $3.0 million due to an increase in advertising demand as a result of our increased partnerships and podcasts delivered.

Cost of sales

Cost of sales increased $6.7 million, or 14%, for fiscal 2026 compared to fiscal 2025. The increase was in line with our revenue growth as revenue share splits with our content creators remained consistent.

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Operating Expenses

Year Ended

Sales and marketing expenses $ 3,239 $ 3,479 (7 )%

Product development 46 52 (12 )%

Impairment of intangible assets - 334 100 %

Amortization of intangible assets 573 1,089 (47 )%

Sales and Marketing

Sales and marketing expenses decreased $0.2 million, or 7%, for fiscal 2026 compared to fiscal 2025. The decrease was primarily due to less advertising spending as it pertained to marketing our podcast shows.

Product Development

Product development decreased $6,000, or 12%, for fiscal 2026 compared to fiscal 2025. The decrease was primarily due to a decrease in project activity.

General and Administrative

General and administrative expenses increased $0.1 million, or 2%, for fiscal 2026 compared to fiscal 2025. The increase was primarily due to an increase in stock-based compensation and our legal and accounting fees.

Impairment of Intangible and Fixed Assets

Impairment of intangible assets decreased by $0.3 million, or 100%, for fiscal 2026 compared to fiscal 2025. The decrease is attributed to the cancellation of a show previously acquired (see Note 4 – Goodwill and Intangible Assets) in the amount of $.02 million and the remining due to ceasing to use some of the company's internally developed software.

Amortization of Intangible Assets

Amortization of intangible assets decreased by $0.5 million, or 47%, for fiscal 2026 compared to fiscal 2025. The decrease can be attributed to the decrease in content related intangibles associated with the write-off of certain podcasts.

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Other Income (Expense), net

Year Ended

Total other income (expense), net $ (2 ) $ - 100 %

Other income (expense), net decreased $2,000, or 100%, for fiscal 2026 compared to fiscal 2025. The change was not deemed significant.

Non-GAAPFinancial Measures

The following table presents certain non-GAAP financial measures, along with the most directly comparable U.S. GAAP measure, for each period presented below. In addition to our results determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP, we believe these non-GAAP financial measures are useful in evaluating our operating performance. See below for a description of the non-GAAP financial measures and their limitations as an analytical tool. A reconciliation is also provided below for each non-GAAP financial measure to the most directly comparable financial measure stated in accordance with U.S. GAAP.

Contribution Margin

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

Adjusted EBITDA

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

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Adjusted EBITDA Margin

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

The following table sets forth the reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA to net loss, the most comparable GAAP financial measure for the year ended March 31, 2026 and 2025 (in thousands):

Non-

Recurring

Depreciation Stock-Based Stock-Based Acquisition and Other (Benefit)

Net Income and Compensation Compensation Realignment (Income) Provision Adjusted

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

Year Ended

Less:

Amortization of developed technology (31 ) (227 )

Share-based compensation 4,722 93

Developed technology 31 227

Limitations and Reconciliations ofNon-GAAPFinancial Measures

Non-GAAP financial measures are presented for supplemental informational purposes only. Non-GAAP financial measures have limitations as analytical tools and should not be considered in isolation or as substitutes for financial information presented under U.S. GAAP. There are a number of limitations related to the use of non-GAAP financial measures versus comparable financial measures determined under U.S. GAAP. For example, other companies in our industry may calculate these non-GAAP financial measures differently or may use other measures to evaluate their performance. In addition, free cash flow does not reflect our future contractual commitments and the total increase or decrease of our cash balance for a given period. All of these limitations could reduce the usefulness of these non-GAAP financial measures as analytical tools. Investors are encouraged to review the related U.S. GAAP financial measures and the reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures to their most directly comparable U.S. GAAP financial measures and to not rely on any single financial measure to evaluate our business.

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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 consolidated financial statements requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenue, expenses and related disclosures. We evaluate our estimates and assumptions on an ongoing basis. Our estimates are based on historical experience and various other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances. Our actual results could differ from these estimates. We believe that the assumptions and estimates associated with our revenue recognition, allowance for doubtful accounts, the assigned value of acquired tangible and intangible assets and assumed and contingent liabilities associated with business combinations, provision for legal settlements, useful lives and impairment of property and equipment, intangible assets, goodwill and other assets, the fair value of our equity-based compensation awards and convertible debt instruments, and valuation of deferred income tax assets and liabilities, have the greatest potential impact on our consolidated financial statements. Therefore, we consider these to be our critical accounting policies and estimates.

Revenue Recognition

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

We report revenue on a gross or net basis based on management’s assessment of whether we act as a principal or agent in the transaction. To the extent we act as the principal, revenue is reported on a gross basis net of any sales tax from customers, when applicable. The determination of whether we act as a principal or an agent in a transaction is based on an evaluation of whether we control the good or service prior to transfer to the customer. Where applicable, we have determined that we act as the principal in all of its membership service streams and may act as principal or agent for our advertising and licensing revenue streams.

Advertising Revenue

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

From time to time we enter into barter transactions involving advertising provided in exchange for goods and services. Revenue from barter transactions is recognized ratably over time based on the terms of the contract as delivery of impressions is performed on a consistent basis. The transaction price for these contracts is measured at the estimated fair value of the non-cash consideration received unless this is not reasonably estimable, in which case the consideration is measured based on the standalone selling price of the advertising spots promised or delivered to the customer. Services received are charged to expense in the same manner.

Stock-Based Compensation

Stock-based compensation cost is measured at the grant date based on the fair value of the award and is recognized as expense over the requisite service period, which is the vesting period, on a straight-line basis. We use the Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing model to determine the grant date fair value of stock options. This model requires us to estimate the expected volatility and the expected term of the stock options which are highly complex and subjective variables. The variables take into consideration, among other things, actual and projected employee stock option exercise behavior. We use a predicted volatility of its stock price during the expected life of the options that is based on the historical performance of our stock price as well as including an estimate using guideline companies. Expected term is computed using the simplified method as the Company’s best estimate given its lack of actual exercise history. We have selected a risk-free rate based on the implied yield available on U.S. Treasury securities with a maturity equivalent to the expected term of the stock. Stock-based awards are comprised principally of stock options, restricted stock and restricted stock units (“RSUs”). Forfeitures are recognized as incurred.

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Stock option awards issued to non-employees are accounted for at the grant date fair value determined using the Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing model. Management believes that the fair value of the stock options is more reliably measured than the fair value of the services received. We record the fair value of these equity-based awards and expense at their cost ratably over related vesting periods.

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Commitments and Contingencies

From time to time, we are involved in legal proceedings and other matters arising in connection with the conduct of our business activities. Many of these proceedings may be at preliminary stages and/or seek an indeterminate amount of damages. We regularly evaluate the status of our commitments and contingencies in which we are involved to (i) assess whether a material loss is probable or there is at least a reasonable possibility that a material loss or an additional material loss in excess of a recorded accrual may have been incurred and (ii) determine if financial accruals are required when appropriate. We record an expense accrual for any commitments and loss contingency when we determine that a loss is probable and the amount of the loss can be reasonably estimated. If an expense accrual is not appropriate, we further evaluate each matter to assess whether an estimate of possible loss or range of loss can be made and whether or not any such matter requires additional disclosure. There can be no assurance that any proceeding against us will be resolved in amounts that will not differ from the amounts of estimated exposures. Legal fees and other costs of defending litigation are expensed as incurred.

Non-Income Tax Contingencies

We do not collect and remit sales and use or similar taxes in all jurisdictions in which we have sales, based on our belief that such taxes are not applicable or legally required.

The June 2018 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc., No. 17-494, along with the application of existing, new or future rulings and laws, could have adverse effects on our business, prospects and operating results.

Long-lived Assets, Goodwill and Intangible Assets with Finite Lives

We perform valuations of assets acquired and liabilities assumed on each acquisition accounted for as a business combination, and allocate the purchase price of each acquired business to its respective net tangible and intangible assets. Acquired intangible assets principally comprise of customer relationships and technology. We determine the appropriate useful life by performing an analysis of expected cash flows based on historical experience of the acquired businesses. Intangible assets are amortized over their estimated useful lives using the straight-line method, which approximates the pattern in which the majority of the economic benefits is expected to be consumed.

Goodwill represents the excess of the purchase consideration of an acquired entity over the fair value of the acquired net assets. Goodwill is tested for impairment annually or when events or circumstances change that would indicate that goodwill might be impaired. Events or circumstances that could trigger an impairment review include, but are not limited to, a significant adverse change in legal factors or in the business climate, an adverse action or assessment by a regulator, unanticipated competition, a loss of key personnel, significant changes in the manner of our use of the acquired assets or the strategy for our overall business, significant negative industry or economic trends or significant under-performance relative to expected historical or projected future results of operations.

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We evaluate the recoverability of our intangible assets, and other long-lived assets with finite useful lives for impairment when events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset group may not be recoverable. These trigger events or changes in circumstances include, but are not limited to a significant decrease in the market price of a long-lived asset, a significant adverse change in the extent or manner in which a long-lived asset is being used, significant adverse changes in legal factors, including changes that could result from our inability to renew or replace material agreements with certain of our partners such as Tesla Motors on favorable terms, significant adverse changes in the business climate including changes which may result from adverse shifts in technology in our industry and the impact of competition, a significant adverse deterioration in the amount of revenue or cash flows we expect to generate from an asset group, an accumulation of costs significantly in excess of the amount originally expected for the acquisition or development of a long-lived asset, current or future operating or cash flow losses that demonstrate continuing losses associated with the use of our long-lived asset, or a current expectation that, more likely than not, a long-lived asset will be sold or otherwise disposed of significantly before the end of its previously estimated useful life. We perform impairment testing at the asset group level that represents the lowest level for which identifiable cash flows are largely independent of the cash flows of other assets and liabilities. In making this determination, we consider the specific operating characteristics of the relevant long-lived assets, including (i) the nature of the direct and any indirect revenues generated by the assets; (ii) the interdependency of the revenues generated by the assets; and (iii) the nature and extent of any shared costs necessary to operate the assets in their intended use. An impairment test would be performed when the estimated undiscounted future cash flows expected to result from the use of the asset group is less than its carrying amount. Impairment is measured by assessing the usefulness of an asset by comparing its carrying value to its fair value. If an asset is considered impaired, the impairment loss is measured as the amount by which the carrying value of the asset group exceeds its estimated fair value. Fair value is determined based upon estimated discounted future cash flows. The key estimates applied when preparing cash flow projections relate to revenue, operating margins, economic lives of assets, overheads, taxation and discount rates. To date, we have not recognized any such impairment loss associated with our long-lived assets.

Goodwill is tested for impairment at the reporting unit level, which is the same or one level below an operating segment. In any year we may elect to perform a qualitative assessment to determine whether it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is in excess of its carrying value. If we cannot determine qualitatively that the fair value is in excess of the carrying value, or we decide to bypass the qualitative assessment, we perform a quantitative analysis. The quantitative analysis is used to identify both the existence of impairment and the amount of the impairment loss by comparing the estimated fair value of a reporting unit with its carrying value, including goodwill. The estimated fair value is based on internal projections of expected future cash flows and operating plans, as well as market conditions relative to the operations of our reporting units. If the estimated fair value of the reporting unit exceeds its carrying value, goodwill of the reporting unit is not impaired; otherwise, an impairment loss is recognized within our consolidated statements of operations in an amount equal to that excess, limited to the total amount of goodwill allocated to that reporting unit.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

Current Financial Condition

As of March 31, 2026, our principal sources of liquidity were our cash and cash equivalents in the amount of $3.5 million, which primarily are invested in cash in banking institutions in the U.S. The vast majority of our cash proceeds were received as a result of our operations, completed private placement offering (the “Bridge Loan”) of our unsecured convertible notes with an original issue discount of 10% (the “OID”) in the aggregate principal amount of $8.8 million (the “Bridge Notes”) and intercompany loans from our parent, LiveOne. All of such Bridge Notes were converted into shares of our common stock in connection with the completion of our Direct Listing. As of March 31, 2026, we had a net related party receivable balance of $0.3 million. Our parent is required to maintain a minimum cash balance as a result of debt covenants on its debt.

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

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Sources of Liquidity

On July 15, 2022, we completed a private placement offering of the Bridge Notes for gross proceeds of $8.0 million. In connection with the sale of the Bridge Notes, the holders of the Bridge Note received warrants to purchase shares of our common stock (the “Bridge Warrants”), and we also issued warrants to purchase shares of our common stock to the placement agent in the offering (the “Placement Agent Warrants”). The Bridge Notes were scheduled to mature on July 15, 2023, subject to a one-time three-month extension at our election. We elected the extension and extended the maturity date to October 15, 2023. On September 8, 2023, we completed a Qualified Event (as defined in the Bridge Notes) as a result of our direct listing on The NASDAQ Capital Market on such date. In connection with such completed Qualified Event, all of the remaining Bridge Notes (including interest thereunder) in the aggregate amount of approximately $7.02 million converted into approximately 2,341,000 shares of our common stock at the conversion price of $3.00 per share, and the exercise price of the Bridge Warrants and the Placement Agent Warrants was fixed at $3.00 per share. All of the 3,114,000 Bridge Warrants and the Placement Agent Warrants were issued and outstanding as of March 31, 2026.

In August 2023, LiveOne entered into a $1.7 million secured loan with Capchase which accrues interest at 8% and matures 30 months form issuance (the “Capchase Loan”). On January 28, 2025, LiveOne entered into a new Business Loan Agreement (the “2025 Business Loan Agreement”) with its then senior lender to update certain terms of its former credit facility (the “ABL Credit Facility”), including to reduce the principal amount outstanding under the promissory note underlying the facility (the “Promissory Note”) to $3,750,000, reflecting LiveOne’s repayment of the ABL Credit Facility as of such date, and to extend the maturity date of the Promissory Note to November 20, 2025. The Capchase Loan was repaid in full in February 2026.

On May 19, 2025, we and LiveOne entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (the “SPA”) with certain institutional investors (each, a “Purchaser” and collectively, the “Purchasers”), pursuant to which (i) LiveOne sold to the Purchasers our Original Issue Discount Senior Secured Convertible Debentures (the “Initial Debentures”) in an aggregate principal amount of $16,775,000 for an aggregate cash purchase price of $15,250,000, and (ii) if certain conditions are satisfied as set forth in the SPA, including at least one of the Conditions (as defined below), LiveOne may sell at its option to the Purchasers its additional Original Issue Discount Senior Secured Convertible Debentures in an aggregate principal amount of $11,000,000 on substantially the same terms as the Initial Debentures (the “Additional Debentures” and collectively with the Initial Debentures, the “Debentures”). The Debentures are convertible into shares of LiveOne’s common stock at the holder’s option at a conversion price of $2.10 per share, subject to certain customary adjustments such as stock splits, stock dividends and stock combinations. LiveOne may sell to the Purchasers the Additional Debentures if within 15 months of the Closing Date either of the following conditions have been satisfied during such 15-month period (the “Conditions”): (x) the VWAP (as defined in the SPA) of LiveOne’s common stock has been equal to or greater than $4.20 per share (subject to certain customary adjustments such as stock splits, stock dividends and stock combinations) for 30 consecutive trading days, or (y) Free Cash Flow (as defined in the SPA) has been equal to or greater to $3,000,000 for three consecutive fiscal quarters, and has increased in each of the foregoing quarters from the immediately preceding fiscal quarter. The Initial Debentures mature on May 19, 2028 and accrue interest at 11.75% per year. Commencing with the calendar month of August 2025 (subject to the following sentence), the holders of the Initial Debentures will have the right, at their option, to require LiveOne to redeem an aggregate of up to $100,000 of the outstanding principal amount of the Debentures per month. Commencing from November 18, 2025, May 18, 2026 and May 18, 2027, the holders of the Initial Debentures will have the right, at their option, to require LiveOne to redeem an aggregate of up to $150,000, $250,000 and $300,000, respectively, of the outstanding principal amount of the Initial Debentures per month. In connection with the sale of the Debentures, LiveOne paid off all obligations owing under, and terminated, the 2025 Business Loan Agreement, and all related loan agreements.

As of May 31, 2025, LiveOne’s total outstanding consolidated indebtedness was $14.7 million, net of fees and discounts, which consisted of the Debentures and a SBA loan.

On October 1, 2024, LiveOne announced an amended relationship with our largest OEM customer. The OEM customer no longer subsidize LiveOne's services to some of its customers, however, LiveOne continues to offer all OEM customer vehicles in North America the opportunity to convert to become direct subscribers of LiveOne’s LiveOne music app. The direct subscription to the LiveOne app allows such users for the first time to access their LiveOne music and LiveOne’s other service offerings directly across all of their devices. LiveOne’s music streaming button/icon, which allows users to directly connect their subscription to LiveOne, is expected to remain in the OEM customer’s music streaming services dashboard in perpetuity. The OEM customer will continue to pay LiveOne monthly for grandfathered vehicles for the term of the OEM license agreement. Accordingly, the change in LiveOne’s relationship with the OEM customer in October 2024 is likely to cause its liquidity and cash flows to fluctuate significantly beyond March 31, 2025, which may then have an impact on our liquidity and potentially cause our liquidity to fluctuate significantly beyond March 31, 2025. LiveOne’s liquidity will depend upon its ability to convert as many of the OEM drivers as possible to become direct subscribers of its LiveOne app and the OEM customer continuing to pay for any grandfather users, as well as LiveOne’s ability to enter into new B2B agreements to provide its services that could materially contribute to our liquidity and cash flows, which may then have an impact on our liquidity and potentially cause our liquidity to fluctuate significantly. In addition, LiveOne’s liquidity will depend on its ability to negotiate with its music labels, publishers and other partners to achieve flexibility in the terms of its license agreements to match their OEM driver conversions, which may then have an impact on our liquidity and potentially cause our liquidity to fluctuate significantly. Furthermore, LiveOne’s liquidity will be dependent on its ability to repay the Debentures when due and/or pay any amounts that LiveOne has agreed to pay under the SX Settlement Agreement, which may then have an impact on our liquidity and potentially cause our liquidity to fluctuate significantly.

As of the date of this Annual Report, holders of 1,243,998 Bridge Warrants (other than LiveOne) exercised their warrants for cash at an exercise price of $3.00 per share resulting in proceeds to us of approximately $3.73 million. LiveOne also exercised all of its 1.1 million Bridge Warrants.

We are looking to secure additional interim financing in the immediate future, which is needed to continue our current level of operations in the future and satisfy our obligations. In the absence of additional sources of liquidity, management anticipates that existing cash resources will not be sufficient to meet current operating and liquidity needs beyond June 2026. There is no assurance that we will be able to obtain additional liquidity or be successful in raising additional funds or that such required funds, if available, will be available on attractive terms, or at all, or that they will not have a significant dilutive effect on our existing stockholders. In addition, management is unable to determine at this time whether any of these potential sources of liquidity will be adequate to support our future business operations. While we do not currently anticipate delays or hindrances to our current business operations and initiatives schedule due to liquidity constraints, without additional funding we may not be able to continue our current level of business operations in the future.

Subject to applicable limitations in the instruments governing our outstanding indebtedness, if any, we may also use our current cash and cash equivalents to repurchase shares of our common stock, and pay down our debt, if any, and/or LiveOne's debt, in part or in full. We may do so in the open market, through tender offers, through exchanges for debt or equity securities, in privately negotiated transactions or otherwise.

In the future, we may utilize additional commercial financings, bonds, notes, debentures, lines of credit and term loans with a syndicate of commercial banks or other bank syndicates and/or issue equity securities (publicly or privately) for general corporate purposes, including acquisitions and investing in our intangible assets, content, platform and technologies.

As reflected in our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report, we have a history of losses which was $2.6 million for the year ended March 31, 2026. These factors, among others, raise substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern within one year from the date that the financial statements are issued. In addition, our independent registered public accounting firm in their audit report to our financial statements for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2026 expressed substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern. Our consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments related to the recoverability and classification of recorded asset amounts or the amounts and classification of liabilities that might be necessary should we be unable to continue as a going concern. Our ability to continue as a going concern is dependent on our ability to execute our strategy and on our ability to raise additional funds through the sale of equity and/or debt securities via public and/or private offerings.

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

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Credit Agreement and Other Debt

For additional information regarding our credit agreement and other debt, see “Contractual Obligations” in this Item 7 below and in the footnotes to the Consolidated Financial Statements (Notes 6, 7, and 8 to our financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report).

Sources and Uses of Cash

Cash Flows

The following table provides information regarding our cash flows for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2026 and 2025 (in thousands):

Year Ended

Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities $ 2,452 $ (212 )

Net cash used in investing activities (22 ) (154 )

Net cash used in financing activities - -

Net change in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash $ 2,430 $ (366 )

Cash Provided By (Used In) Operating Activities

Net cash provided by operating activities for the year ended March 31, 2026 of $2.5 million primarily resulted from our net loss during the period of $2.6 million, which included non-cash charges of $3.7 million largely comprised of depreciation and amortization, stock-based compensation and provision for credit losses. The remainder of our sources of cash used in operating activities of $1.4 million for this period was from changes in our working capital.

Net cash provided by our operating activities for the year ended March 31, 2025 of $0.2 million primarily resulted from our net loss during the period of $6.5 million, which included non-cash charges of $4.4 million largely comprised of depreciation and amortization, stock-based compensation, provision for credit losses and impairment of intangibles. The remainder of our sources of cash used in operating activities of $1.8 million for this period was from changes in our working capital, including $2.4 million from timing of intercompany payables/receivables.

Cash Flows Used In Investing Activities

Net cash used in investing activities for the year ended March 31, 2026 of $22,000 was principally due to the $22,000 of cash used for the purchase of property and equipment during such period.

Net cash used in investing activities for the year ended March 31, 2025 of $0.2 million was principally due to the $0.2 million of cash used for the purchase of property and equipment during such period.

Cash Flows Used In Financing Activities

Net cash used in financing activities for the year ended March 31, 2026 was none.

Net cash used in financing activities for the year ended March 31, 2025 was none.

Debt Covenants

As of March 31, 2026, LiveOne was in compliance with all of its Debenture debt covenants.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

See Note 2 — Summary of Significant Accounting Policies to our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report for a discussion of new accounting pronouncements.

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Item 7A.Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

Not applicable to smaller reporting companies.

Item8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data

Consolidated Balance Sheets as of March 31, 2026 and 2025 F-3

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements F-7

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Board of Directors and Shareholder of

PodcastOne, Inc.

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of PodcastOne, Inc. (a subsidiary of LiveOne, Inc.) (the “Company”) as of March 31, 2026 and 2025, the related consolidated statements of operations, stockholders' equity and cash flows for each of the two years then ended, and the related notes to the consolidated financial statements (collectively, the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of March 31, 2026 and 2025, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the two years then ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

Going Concern Uncertainty

The accompanying financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern. As discussed in Note 1 to the financial statements, the Company has suffered recurring losses from operations, negative cash flows from operating activities and has a net capital deficiency. These matters raise substantial doubt about the Company's ability to continue as a going concern. Management's plans in regard to these matters also are described in Note 1. The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.

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 Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with 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 audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

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.

/s/ Macias Gini & O’Connell LLP

We have served as the Company's auditor since 2022.

Los Angeles, CA

June 29, 2026

PCAOB ID No. 324

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PODCASTONE, INC.

Consolidated Balance Sheets

(In thousands, except share and per share amounts)

Assets

Current Assets

Cash and cash equivalents $ 3,509 $ 1,079

Prepaid expense and other current assets 231 230

Property and equipment, net 204 59

Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity

Current Liabilities

Accounts payable and accrued liabilities $ 6,932 $ 5,539

Lease liabilities 70 -

Lease liabilities, non-current 97 -

Commitments and Contingencies

Stockholders’ Equity

Total Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity $ 29,197 $ 21,195

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

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PODCASTONE, INC.

Consolidated Statements of Operations

(In thousands, except share and per share amounts)

Year Ended

Operating expenses:

Product development 46 52

Impairment of intangible and fixed assets - 334

Amortization of intangible assets 573 1,089

Other income (expense):

Other expense (2 ) -

Total other expense, net (2 ) -

Loss before provision for income taxes (2,644 ) (6,434 )

Provision for income taxes - 24

Net loss per share – basic and diluted $ (0.10 ) $ (0.26 )

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

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PODCASTONE, INC.

Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity

(In thousands, except share and per share amounts)

Additional Total

Common Stock Paid in Accumulated Stockholders’

Shares Amount Capital Deficit Equity

Stock-based compensation - - 1,910 - 1,910

Vested employee restricted stock units 120,250 - - - -

Additional Total

Common Stock Paid in Accumulated Stockholders’

Shares Amount Capital Deficit Equity

Stock-based compensation - - 1,940 - 1,940

Vested employee restricted stock units 710,565 - - - -

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

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PODCASTONE, INC.

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

(In thousands)

Year Ended

Cash Flows from Operating Activities:

Depreciation and amortization 616 1,338

Impairment of fixed assets - 158

Impairment of intangibles - 176

Provision for credit losses 183 (4 )

Changes in operating assets and liabilities:

Prepaid expenses and other current assets (1 ) 876

Related party receivable/payables, net 1,321 2,415

Accounts payable and accrued liabilities 1,394 (1,196 )

Other liabilities - (46 )

Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities 2,452 (212 )

Cash Flows from Investing Activities:

Purchases of property and equipment (22 ) (154 )

Net cash used in investing activities (22 ) (154 )

Net change in cash and cash equivalents 2,430 (366 )

Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period 1,079 1,445

Cash and cash equivalents, end of period $ 3,509 $ 1,079

Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information:

Cash paid for income taxes $ - $ -

Cash paid for interest $ - $ -

Supplemental disclosure of non-cash investing and financing activities:

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

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PODCASTONE, INC.

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements

for the Years Ended March 31, 2026 and 2025

Note 1— Organization and Basis of Presentation

Organization

PodcastOne, Inc. (“we,” “us,” “our,” the “Company” or “PodcastOne”) is a Delaware corporation headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. The Company is a leading podcast platform and publisher that makes its content available to audiences via all podcasting distribution platforms, including its website (www.podcastone.com), its PodcastOne app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and more.

The Company was incorporated in the State of Delaware on February 25, 2014, and is a majority owned subsidiary of LiveOne, Inc. (“LiveOne”), a Nasdaq listed company. On July 1, 2020, LiveOne through its wholly owned subsidiary, LiveXLive PodcastOne, Inc., acquired the Company. Acquisitions are included in the Company’s financial statements from the date of the acquisition. The Company uses purchase accounting for its acquisitions, which results in all assets and liabilities of acquired businesses being recorded at their estimated fair values on the acquisition dates. In connection with the acquisition, the accounts of the Company were adjusted using the push down basis of accounting to recognize the allocation of the net assets acquired which was determined to be $16.1 million. In accordance with the push down basis of accounting, the Company’s net assets were adjusted to their fair values as of the date of the acquisition based upon an independent appraisal. The Company has two wholly owned subsidiaries, Courtside, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and PodcastOne Sales, LLC, a California limited liability company.

Basis of Presentation

The results of operations and financial position of the Company are consolidated with LiveOne’s financial statements and these financial statements have been derived as if the Company had operated on a standalone basis during the years ended March 31, 2026 and 2025. The amounts recorded for related party transactions with LiveOne may not be considered arm’s length transactions and therefore, the financial statements may not necessarily reflect the Company’s results of operations, financial position and cash flows had the Company engaged in such transactions with an unrelated third party during the years ended March 31, 2026 and 2025. Accordingly, the Company’s historical financial information is not necessarily indicative of what the Company’s results of operations, financial position and cash flows will be in the future, if and when the Company contracts at arm’s length with unrelated third parties for services they receive from LiveOne.

The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”). Any reference in these notes to applicable guidance is meant to refer to GAAP as found in the ASC and Accounting Standards Updates (“ASU”) of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”).

Going Concern and Liquidity

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

The Company’s principal sources of liquidity have historically been its debt issuances and its cash and cash equivalents (which cash, cash equivalents amounted to $3.5 million as of March 31, 2026). The Company has an accumulated deficit of $38.7 million and had a working capital of $2.9 million as of March 31, 2026. These factors, among others, raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern within one year from the date that these financial statements are filed. The Company’s consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments related to the recoverability and classification of recorded asset amounts or the amounts and classification of liabilities that might be necessary should the Company be unable to continue as a going concern.

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The Company is looking for additional financing sources to attempt to secure additional interim financing, which is needed to continue its current level of business operations and satisfy its current obligations, unless such financing is provided by LiveOne, if at all. In the absence of additional sources of liquidity, management anticipates that existing cash resources will not be sufficient to meet current operating and liquidity needs beyond June 2026. There is no assurance that management will be able to obtain additional liquidity or be successful in raising additional funds or that such required funds, if available, or that LiveOne will provide any financing to the Company, if at all, or that any such financing will be available on attractive terms or that it will not have a significant dilutive effect on the Company’s existing stockholders. In addition, management is unable to determine at this time whether any of these potential sources of liquidity will be adequate to support the Company’s future business operations. While the Company does not currently anticipate delays or hindrances to its current business operations and initiatives schedule due to liquidity constraints, without additional funding the Company may not be able to continue its current level of business operations in the future. The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty. Accordingly, the financial statements have been prepared on a basis that assumes the Company will continue as a going concern and which contemplates the realization of assets and the satisfaction of liabilities and commitments in the ordinary course of business.

Principles of Consolidation

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

LiveOne Reverse Stock Split

Effective September 26, 2025, LiveOne effected a 1-for-10 reverse stock split of its issued and outstanding shares of common stock (the “Reverse Stock Split”). As a result of the Reverse Stock Split, every 10 shares of LiveOne's issued and outstanding pre-Reverse Stock Split shares of common stock, $0.001 par value per share, were combined into one share of LiveOne's common stock. Stockholders who otherwise were entitled to receive fractional shares of LiveOne's common stock received cash (without interest) in lieu of any fractional shares. As a result of the Reverse Stock Split, equitable adjustments corresponding to the Reverse Stock Split ratio were made to LiveOne’s outstanding warrants and its other convertible instruments and upon the exercise or vesting of all stock options such that every 10 shares of LiveOne's common stock that may be issued upon the exercise of LiveOne's warrants and stock options and conversion of its other convertible instruments held immediately prior to the Reverse Stock Split represent one share of LiveOne's common stock that may be issued upon exercise of such warrants and stock options and conversion of the other convertible instruments immediately following the Reverse Stock Split. Correspondingly, the exercise price per share of LiveOne's common stock attributable to LiveOne's warrants and stock options and the conversion price of its other convertible instruments immediately prior to the Reverse Stock Split was proportionately increased by a multiple of 10 following the Reverse Stock Split.

All LiveOne's common stock share and per share data, and exercise price data for applicable common stock equivalents, included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, have been retroactively adjusted to give effect to the Reverse Stock Split for all periods presented, unless otherwise indicated.

Note 2— Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Use of Estimates

The preparation of the Company’s consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires the Company’s management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting period. Significant items subject to such estimates and assumptions include revenue, allowance for doubtful accounts, the assigned value of acquired assets and assumed and contingent liabilities associated with business combinations and the related purchase price allocation, useful lives and impairment of property and equipment, intangible assets, goodwill and other assets and the fair value of the Company’s equity-based compensation awards. Actual results could differ materially from those estimates. On an ongoing basis, the Company evaluates its estimates compared to historical experience and trends, which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying value of assets and liabilities.

Revenue Recognition Policy

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

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Practical Expedients

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

Allocation of Costs

The Company’s consolidated financial statements include an allocation of costs that have been incurred by LiveOne on the Company’s behalf. Such expenses incurred include, but are not limited to, salaries, benefits, share-based compensation expense, insurance, accounting, tax and legal services. Such expenses were allocated to the Company based upon certain assumptions and estimates that were made in order to allocate a reasonable share of such expenses to the Company, so that the Company’s consolidated financial statements reflect substantially all costs of doing business. The authoritative guidance to allocate such costs is set forth in Staff Accounting Bulletin, or SAB Topic 1-B “Allocations of Expenses and Related Disclosures in Financial Statements of Subsidiaries, Divisions or Lesser Business Components of Another Entity.”

Had the Company been operating on a stand-alone basis, the cost allocated would not be materially different for the years ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively.

Gross Versus Net Revenue Recognition

The Company reports revenue on a gross basis for all advertising contracts based on management’s assessment of whether the Company acts as a principal or agent in the transaction and is evaluated on a transaction-by-transaction basis. To the extent the Company acts as the principal, revenue is reported on a gross basis and gross of revenue sharing expenses owed to the content creators. The determination of whether the Company acts as a principal or an agent in a transaction is based on an evaluation of whether the Company controls the good or service prior to transfer to the customer. The gross amount of revenue recognized is equal to the amounts received from our customer, gross of revenue sharing expenses owed to the content creators.

Advertising Revenue

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

From time to time the Company enters into barter transactions involving advertising provided in exchange for goods and services. Revenue from barter transactions is recognized ratably over time based on the terms of the contract as delivery of impressions is performed on a consistent basis. The transaction price for these contracts is measured at the estimated fair value of the non-cash consideration received unless this is not reasonably estimable, in which case the consideration is measured based on the standalone selling price of the advertising spots promised or delivered to the customer. Services received are charged to expense in the same manner. The Company estimates the fair value of the transaction price based on prices charged to similar customers and services provided for similar services. Barter revenue for the years ended March 31, 2026 and 2025 was $28.0 million and $25.0 million, respectively. The Company's barter revenue is attributed to one customer and comprised of 45% and 48% of its revenue for the years ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively.

Cost of Sales

Cost of sales consists of direct costs comprised of revenue sharing expenses owed to content creators and commissions.

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Sales and Marketing

Sales and Marketing include the direct and indirect costs related to the Company’s event advertising and marketing. Advertising expenses to promote the Company’s services are expensed as incurred. Advertising expenses included in sales and marketing expense were $0.2 million and $0.2 million for the years ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively.

Product Development

Product development costs not capitalized are primarily expenses for research and development, product and content development activities, including internal software development and improvement costs which have not been capitalized by the Company.

Stock-Based Compensation

Stock-based compensation is allocated to the Company from its parent LiveOne based on the amount of stock-based compensation granted to employees of the Company in the form of stock-based compensation of LiveOne in accordance with SAB Topic 1-B “Allocations of Expenses and Related Disclosures in Financial Statements of Subsidiaries, Divisions or Lesser Business Components of Another Entity.”

LiveOne and the Company measures stock-based compensation cost at the grant date based on the fair value of the award and is recognized as expense over the requisite service period, which is the vesting period, on an accelerated basis. LiveOne and the Company accounts for awards with graded vesting as if each vesting tranche is valued as a separate award. LiveOne and the Company uses the Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing model to determine the grant date fair value of stock options. This model requires LiveOne and the Company to estimate the expected volatility and the expected term of the stock options which are highly complex and subjective variables. The variables take into consideration, among other things, actual and projected employee stock option exercise behavior. LiveOne and the Company uses a predicted volatility of its stock price during the expected life of the options that is based on the historical performance of LiveOne and the Company’s stock price as well as including an estimate using guideline companies. The expected term is computed using the simplified method as LiveOne and the Company’s best estimate given its lack of actual exercise history. LiveOne and the Company has selected a risk-free rate based on the implied yield available on U.S. Treasury securities with a maturity equivalent to the expected term of the option. Management believes that the fair value of the stock options is more reliably measured than the fair value of the services received. Compensation expense resulting from granted restricted stock units and restricted stock awards is measured at fair value on the date of grant and is recognized as share-based compensation expense over the applicable vesting period. Stock-based awards are comprised principally of stock options, restricted stock, restricted stock units (“RSUs”), and restricted stock awards (“RSAs”). Forfeitures are recognized as incurred. LiveOne records the fair value of these equity-based awards and expense at their cost ratably over related vesting periods.

During the year ended March 31, 2024, the Company began to issue equity awards in the form of RSUs directly to its employees under the Company's 2022 Equity Incentive Plan that was approved in December 2022.

Income Taxes

The Company accounts for income taxes using the asset and liability method, which requires recognition of deferred tax assets and liabilities for the expected future tax consequences of events that have been included in the financial statements or tax returns. Under this method, deferred tax assets and liabilities are based on the differences between the financial statement and tax bases of assets and liabilities using enacted tax rates in effect for the year in which the differences are expected to reverse. Deferred tax assets are reduced by a valuation allowance to the extent management concludes it is more likely than not that the assets will not be realized. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. The effect on deferred tax assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in the Company’s consolidated statements of operations in the period that includes the enactment date.

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Earnings (Loss) Per Share

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

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

Segment Reporting

The Company presents the financial statements by segment in accordance with ASC Topic No.280, Segment Reporting (“ASC 280”) to provide investors with transparency into how the chief operating decision maker (“CODM”) manages the business. Operating segments are defined as components of an enterprise about which separate discrete information is available for evaluation by the chief operating decision maker, or decision-making group, in deciding how to allocate resources and in assessing performance. The Company views its operations and manages its business in one segment, which is the business of being a leading podcast platform and publisher that makes its content available to audiences via all podcasting distribution platforms. The Company determined the CODM is its President. The CODM reviews financial information and allocates resources across its one operating segment.

The CODM evaluates the performance of the operating segment and allocates resources based on net loss that also is reported on the consolidated statements of operations as net loss. The measure of the operating segment assets is reported on the consolidated balance sheet as total assets. All of the Company's revenue is attributable to the United States and all of the Company's assets are located in the Unites States.

Cash and Cash Equivalents

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

The following table provides amounts included in cash and cash equivalents presented in the Company’s consolidated statements of cash flows for the years ended March 31, 2026 and 2025 (in thousands):

Total cash and cash equivalents $ 3,509 $ 1,079

Accounts Receivable

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

The Company believes that the credit risk with respect to trade receivables is limited due to the large and established nature of its largest customers and the nature of its receivables.

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The Company’s accounts receivable at March 31, 2026 and 2025 are as follows (in thousands):

Accounts receivable, gross $ 7,586 $ 6,318

Less: Allowance for credit losses (255 ) (72 )

Related Party Receivable and Payables

LiveOne has historically maintained a lending relationship with the Company in order to supplement the Company’s working capital needs. As of March 31, 2026 and 2025, the net receivable (payable) from the Company to LiveOne was $0.3 million and $(0.2) million, respectively. LiveOne does not charge interest on these borrowings.

Property and Equipment

Property and equipment are recorded at cost. Costs of improvements that extend the economic life or improve service potential are also capitalized. Capitalized costs are depreciated over their estimated useful lives. Costs for normal repairs and maintenance are expensed as incurred. The Company capitalizes certain costs related to the development of its platform and other software applications for internal use. In accordance with authoritative guidance, the Company begins to capitalize its costs to develop software when preliminary development efforts are successfully completed, management has authorized and committed project funding, and it is probable that the project will be completed and the software will be used as intended. The Company stops capitalizing these costs when the software is substantially complete and ready for its intended use, including the completion of all significant testing. These costs are amortized on a straight-line basis over the estimated useful life of the related asset, generally estimated to be two years. The Company also capitalizes costs related to specific upgrades and enhancements when it is probable the expenditure will result in additional functionality and expense costs incurred for maintenance and minor upgrades and enhancements. Costs incurred prior to meeting these criteria together with costs incurred for training and maintenance are expensed as incurred and recorded within product development expenses in the Company’s consolidated statements of operations.

Depreciation is recorded using the straight-line method over the assets’ estimated useful lives, which are generally as follows: computer, machinery, and software equipment (3 to 5 years), furniture and fixtures (3 to 5 years), leasehold improvements are depreciated over the shorter of the estimated useful life or the lease term and capitalized software (2 years).

The Company evaluates the carrying value of its property and equipment if there are indicators of potential impairment. If there are indicators of potential impairment, the Company performs an analysis to determine the recoverability of the asset group carrying value by comparing the expected undiscounted future cash flows to the net book value of the asset group. If it is determined that the expected undiscounted future cash flows are less than the net book value of the asset group, the excess of the net book value over the estimated fair value is recorded in the Company’s consolidated statements of operations. Fair value is generally estimated using valuation techniques that consider the discounted cash flows of the asset group using discount and capitalization rates deemed reasonable for the type of assets, as well as prevailing market conditions, appraisals, recent similar transactions in the market and, if appropriate and available, current estimated net sales proceeds from pending offers.

Goodwill

Goodwill represents the excess of the purchase consideration over the fair value of the net tangible and identifiable intangible assets acquired in a business combination and is carried at cost. Goodwill is not amortized, but is subject to an annual impairment testing, as well as between annual tests when events or circumstances indicate that the carrying value may not be recoverable. We perform our annual impairment testing at January 1 of each year.

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The Company’s annual goodwill impairment test is performed at the reporting unit level. The Company generally tests goodwill for possible impairment by first performing a qualitative assessment to determine whether it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying value. If a qualitative assessment is not used, or if the qualitative assessment is not conclusive, a quantitative impairment test is performed. If a quantitative test is performed, the Company determines the fair value of the related reporting unit and compares this value to the recorded net assets of the reporting unit, including goodwill. The fair value of the Company’s reporting unit is determined using a market approach based on quoted prices in active markets. In the event the recorded net assets of the reporting unit exceed the estimated fair value of such assets, an impairment charge is recorded. Based on the Company’s annual impairment assessment, no impairments of goodwill were identified during the years ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively.

Estimations and assumptions regarding, future performance, results of the Company’s operations and comparability of its market capitalization and net book value will be used.

Intangible Assets with Finite Useful Lives

The Company has certain finite-lived intangible assets that were initially recorded at their fair value at the time of acquisition. These intangible assets consist of Intellectual Property and Content Creator Relationships resulting from business combinations. Intangible assets with finite useful lives are amortized using the straight-line method over their respective estimated useful lives, which are generally as follows: Brand and Trade Names (10 years) and Content Creator relationships (2 years).

The Company reviews all finite lived intangible assets for impairment when circumstances indicate that their carrying values may not be recoverable. If the carrying value of an asset group is not recoverable, the Company recognizes an impairment loss for the excess carrying value over the fair value in its consolidated statements of operations. The Company recorded an impairment loss of none and $0.2 million during the years ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively.

Fair Value Measurements – Valuation Hierarchy

Fair value is defined as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants on the measurement date (i.e., an exit price). The Company uses the three-level valuation hierarchy for classification of fair value measurements. The valuation hierarchy is based upon the transparency of inputs to the valuation of an asset or liability as of the measurement date. Inputs refer broadly to the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing an asset or liability. Inputs may be observable or unobservable. Observable inputs are inputs that reflect the assumptions market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability developed based on market data obtained from independent sources. Unobservable inputs are inputs that reflect the Company’s own assumptions about the data market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability developed based on the best information available in the circumstances. The three-tier hierarchy of inputs is summarized below:

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The classification of assets and liabilities within the valuation hierarchy is based upon the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement in its entirety. Proper classification of fair value measurements within the valuation hierarchy is considered each reporting period. The use of different market assumptions or estimation methods may have a material effect on the estimated fair value amounts. Financial assets and liabilities measured on a recurring basis are those that are adjusted to fair value each time a financial statement is prepared. There have been no transfers between levels.

Concentration of Credit Risk

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

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Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements

In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures (“ASU 2023-09”), which will require the Company to disclose specified additional information in its income tax rate reconciliation and provide additional information for reconciling items that meet a quantitative threshold. ASU 2023-09 will also require the Company to disaggregate its income taxes paid disclosure by federal, state and foreign taxes, with further disaggregation required for significant individual jurisdictions The Company adopted ASU 2023-09 on April 1, 2025 on a prospective basis. The adoption of this standard did not have an impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements

In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU No.2024-03, Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income - Expense Disaggregation (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses. The amendments in ASU 2024-03 require a public business entity to disclose specific information about certain costs and expenses in the notes to its financial statements for interim and annual reporting periods. The objective of the disclosure requirements is to provide disaggregated information about a public business entity’s expenses to help investors (i) better understand the entity’s performance, (ii) better assess the entity’s prospects for future cash flows, and (iii) compare an entity’s performance over time and with that of other entities. ASU 2024-03 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2026, and for interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2027, with early adoption permitted. We are currently evaluating the impact of the adoption of ASU 2024-03.

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

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Note 3— Property and Equipment

The Company’s property and equipment at March 31, 2026 and 2025 was as follows (in thousands):

Property and equipment, net

Computer, machinery, and software equipment $ 134 $ 132

Furniture and fixtures 14 14

Leasehold improvements 91 91

Right-of-use assets 166 -

Capitalized internally developed software - 944

Total property and equipment 405 1,181

Less accumulated depreciation and amortization (201 ) (1,122 )

Total property and equipment, net $ 204 $ 59

Depreciation expense was $0.1 million and $0.2 million for the years ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively. The Company recorded an impairment of none and $0.2 million and none for the years ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively. The impairment for the year ended March 31, 2025 can be attributed to the Company ceasing to use some of its internally developed software.

Note 4— Goodwill and Intangible Assets

Goodwill

The Company currently has one reporting unit. The following table presents the changes in the carrying amount of goodwill for the year ended March 31, 2026 (in thousands):

Goodwill

Acquisitions -

Finite-Lived Intangible Assets

The Company’s finite-lived intangible assets were as follows as of March 31, 2026 (in thousands):

Gross Net

Carrying Accumulated Carrying

Value Amortization Value

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The Company’s finite-lived intangible assets were as follows as of March 31, 2025 (in thousands):

Gross Net

Carrying Accumulated Carrying

Value Amortization Value

The Company’s amortization expense on its finite-lived intangible assets was $0.6 million and $1.1 million for the years ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively.

The Company recorded an impairment charge of none and $0.2 million for the year ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively. The impairment for the year ended March 31, 2025 was the result of the winding down of a podcast show acquired by PodcastOne.

The Company expects to record amortization of intangible assets for fiscal years ending March 31, 2026 and future fiscal years as follows (in thousands):

For Years Ending March 31,

Note 5— Accounts Payable and Accrued Liabilities

Accounts payable and accrued liabilities at March 31, 2026 and 2025 were as follows (in thousands):

Accrued revenue share can be attributed to monies owed to content creators who contribute their podcast or other media content for the Company to sell to consumers. The Company accrues a liability based on the percentage of revenue owed to each content creator at the time of sale.

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Note 6— Leases

The Company's operating leases with lease terms of greater than 12 months are capitalized in operating lease right-of-use assets and operating lease liabilities in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. Rent expense for these operating leases totaled $0.1 million and $0.1 million for the years ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively.

Operating lease cost for the years ended March 31, 2026 and 2025 consist of the following (in thousands):

Year Ended Year Ended

Fixed rent cost $ 36 $ -

Short term lease cost 80 68

Total operating lease cost $ 116 $ 68

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

Operating lease right-of-use assets $ 166 $ -

Operating lease liability, current $ 70 $ -

Operating lease liability, noncurrent 97 -

Total operating lease liabilities $ 167 $ -

Significant judgments

Discount rate – the Company’s lease is discounted using the Company’s incremental borrowing rate of 3.43% as the rate implicit in the lease is not readily determinable.

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

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

Future maturities of our operating lease is as follows (in thousands):

For Years Ending March 31,

Total lease payments 172

Less: imputed interest (5 )

Present value of operating lease liabilities $ 167

Note 7— Related Party Transactions

As of March 31, 2026, the Company’s parent, LiveOne, holds approximately 19.3 million shares of the Company's common stock and 1,100,000 common stock warrants to purchase shares of the Company with an exercise price of $3.00 per share. In addition, directors and management affiliated with LiveOne hold approximately 1.8 million shares of the Company's common stock.

During the years ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, the Company was allocated expenses by LiveOne attributed to the overhead expenses incurred on behalf of the Company. The amount allocated to the Company from LiveOne for the years ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, was $1.3 million and $1.0 million, respectively.

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As of March 31, 2026 and 2025, the Company had a related party payable owed to LiveOne of $5.0 million and $0.5 million, respectively, which primarily consisted of expenses related to overhead expenses paid on behalf of the Company (See Note 2 – Summary of Significant Accounting Policies). As of March 31, 2026 and 2025, the Company had a related party receivable from LiveOne of $5.3 million and $0.4 million, respectively, which primarily consisted of cash allocated to LiveOne.

During the year ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, the Company issued 906,189 and 1,315,880 shares of its common stock, respectively, with a fair value of $1.7 million and $2.5 million, respectively, in exchange for amounts owed under a cost sharing agreement between LiveOne and the Company.

Note 8— Commitments and Contingencies

Contractual Obligations

As of March 31, 2026, the Company is obligated under agreements with its content providers and other contractual obligations to make guaranteed payments as follows: $0.1 million and $0.1 million for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2027 and 2028, respectively.

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

On June 27, 2025 and effective as of June 1, 2025 (the “Effective Date”), the Company entered into a new employment agreement with Kit Gray, the Company’s current President (the “Gray Employment Agreement”). The term of the Gray Employment Agreement is for two years from the Effective Date at an annual salary of $375,000. Mr. Gray is eligible to earn a discretionary annual performance bonus for each whole or partial fiscal year of his employment period with the Company in accordance with the Company’s annual bonus plan applicable to the Company’s executive officers. Mr. Gray’s “target” performance bonus shall be 100% of his average annualized base salary during the fiscal year for which the performance bonus is earned. Pursuant to the Gray Employment Agreement, Mr. Gray was granted: (i) 700,000 restricted stock units of the Company, and (ii) 15,000 restricted stock units of LiveOne, the Company’s parent.

On June 27, 2025 and effective as of the Effective Date, the Company entered into a new employment agreement with Sue McNamara, the Company’s current Chief Revenue Officer (the “McNamara Employment Agreement”). The term of the McNamara Employment Agreement is for two years from the Effective Date at an annual salary of $325,000. Ms. McNamara is eligible to earn a discretionary annual performance bonus for each whole or partial fiscal year of her employment period with the Company in accordance with the Company’s annual bonus plan applicable to the Company’s executive officers. Ms. McNamara’s “target” performance bonus shall be 100% of her average annualized base salary during the fiscal year for which the performance bonus is earned. Pursuant to the McNamara Employment Agreement, Ms. McNamara was granted 15,000 Company RSUs and 2,500 restricted stock units of LiveOne, the Company’s parent.

On January 15, 2025, the Company entered into a three-year Enterprise Service and Advertising Agreement (the “Agreement”) with ART19 LLC (“ART19”), a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. to move the existing network of PodcastOne programming to the ART19 hosting platform. The Agreement is expected to drive additional monetization opportunities across the Company’s vast library of popular podcasts. Pursuant to the Agreement ART19 is required to pay the Company a minimum guarantee of $15.0 million over the term of the Agreement based on the Company achieving certain minimum impressions amount, which guarantee is subject to adjustment as provided in the Agreement, including if the Company achieves higher minimum impressions amounts. In addition, the Agreement provides for a revenue share split between the Company and ART19 based on gross sales revenue achieved by the Company under the Agreement. During the year ended March 31, 2026 and 2025 the Company recognized revenue of $ 7.8 million and $0.8 million from the Agreement, respectively.

Legal Proceedings

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

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Parent Company Debt

On May 19, 2025 (the “Closing Date”), LiveOne and the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (the “SPA”) with certain institutional investors (each, a “Purchaser” and collectively, the “Purchasers”), pursuant to which (i) LiveOne sold to the Purchasers LiveOne’s Original Issue Discount Senior Secured Convertible Debentures (the “Initial Debentures”) in an aggregate principal amount of $16,775,000 for an aggregate cash purchase price of $15.25 million, and (ii) if certain conditions are satisfied as set forth in the SPA, including at least one of the Conditions (as defined below), LiveOne may sell at its option to the Purchasers LiveOne’s additional Original Issue Discount Senior Secured Convertible Debentures in an aggregate principal amount of $11,000,000 on substantially the same terms as the Initial Debentures (the “Additional Debentures” and collectively with the Initial Debentures, the “Debentures”), in a private placement transaction. The Debentures are convertible into shares of LiveOne’s common stock at the holder’s option at a conversion price of $21.00 per share, subject to certain customary adjustments such as stock splits, stock dividends and stock combinations. LiveOne may sell to the Purchasers the Additional Debentures if within 15 months of the Closing Date either of the following conditions have been satisfied during such 15-month period (the “Conditions”): (x) the VWAP (as defined in the SPA) of the common stock has been equal to or greater than $4.20 per share (subject to certain customary adjustments such as stock splits, stock dividends and stock combinations) for 30 consecutive trading days, or (y) Free Cash Flow (as defined in the SPA) has been equal to or greater to $3,000,000 for three consecutive fiscal quarters, and has increased in each of the foregoing quarters from the immediately preceding fiscal quarter.

The Initial Debentures mature on May 19, 2028 and accrue interest at 11.75% per year. Commencing with the calendar month of August 2025 (subject to the following sentence), the holders of the Initial Debentures will have the right, at their option, to require LiveOne to redeem an aggregate of up to $100,000 of the outstanding principal amount of the Debentures per month. Commencing from November 18, 2025, May 18, 2026 and May 18, 2027, the holders of the Initial Debentures will have the right, at their option, to require LiveOne to redeem an aggregate of up to $150,000, $250,000 and $300,000, respectively, of the outstanding principal amount of the Initial Debentures per month.

Subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions, including applicable prior notice to the holders of the Initial Debentures, at any time after May 19, 2026, LiveOne may elect to prepay all, but not less than all, of the then outstanding Initial Debentures for a prepayment amount equal to the outstanding principal balance of the outstanding Initial Debentures plus all accrued and unpaid interest thereon, together with a prepayment premium equal to the following (the “Prepayment Premium”): (a) if the Initial Debentures are prepaid after May 19, 2026, but on or prior to May 19, 2027, 5% of the entire outstanding principal balance of the outstanding Initial Debentures (or the applicable portion thereof required to be prepaid by LiveOne); and (c) if the Initial Debentures are prepaid on or after May 19, 2027, but prior to the maturity date of the Initial Debentures, 4% of the entire outstanding principal balance of the outstanding Initial Debentures (or the applicable portion thereof required to be prepaid by LiveOne). Subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions, LiveOne shall be required to prepay the entire outstanding principal amount of all of the outstanding Initial Debentures in connection with a Change of Control Transaction (as defined in the Initial Debentures) for a prepayment amount equal to the outstanding principal balance of the outstanding Initial Debentures, plus all accrued and unpaid interest thereon, plus the applicable Prepayment Premium based on when such Change of Control Transaction occurs within the period set forth above applicable to such Prepayment Premium; provided, that (x) if a Change of Control Transaction occurs on or prior to May 19, 2026, plus 10% of the entire outstanding principal balance of the outstanding Initial Debentures; (y) if the Specified Carve-Out Transaction (as defined in the Debentures) in consummated, LiveOne shall be required to prepay the Initial Debentures, in an aggregate amount equal to the lower of the outstanding principal balance of the outstanding Initial Debentures and $7,500,000, in each case, plus the applicable Prepayment Premium, and (z) if a Permitted Disposition (as defined in the Debentures) pursuant to clause (g) of the definition thereof is consummated, LiveOne shall be required to prepay the Initial Debentures in an aggregate amount equal to the lower of the outstanding principal balance of the outstanding Initial Debentures and 50% of the first$1,000,000 of net proceeds resulting from such Permitted Disposition up to $1,000,000 and 25% of such net proceeds in excess of $1,000,000, in each case, plus the applicable Prepayment Premium.

LiveOne’s obligations under the Debentures can be accelerated upon the occurrence of certain customary events of default. In the event of default and acceleration of LiveOne’s obligations, LiveOne would be required to pay the applicable prepayment amount described above.

LiveOne’s obligations under the Debentures were guaranteed under a Subsidiary Guarantee, dated as of the Closing Date (the “Subsidiary Guarantee”), by certain of its subsidiaries, including the Company, Slacker, Inc. and LiveXLive, Corp. (collectively, the “Guarantors”). LiveOne’s obligations under the Debentures and the Guarantors’ obligations under the Subsidiary Guarantee are secured under a Security Agreement (the “Security Agreement”) entered into on the Closing Date among LiveOne, the Company and the other Guarantors, certain Purchasers and JGB Collateral, LLC (the “Agent”) as agent for the Purchasers (the “Security Agreement”), by a lien on all of LiveOne’s, the Company’s and the other Guarantors’ assets, subject to certain exceptions. In addition, pursuant to the Security Agreement, LiveOne, the Company and the other Guarantors agreed to pay to the Agent a collateral monitoring fee on the outstanding principal balance of the Debentures at per annum rate of 1%, which fee shall accrue daily and shall be payable to the Agent in cash on the last business day of each calendar month. LiveOne must also maintain a specified minimum cash balance (as set forth in the Debentures) and maintain minimum amounts of liquidity. As of December 31, 2025, LiveOne was in compliance with its debt covenants associated with the Initial Debentures.

On August 5, 2025, LiveOne amended certain defined terms contained in the Initial Debentures to provide that LiveOne and/or its subsidiaries shall be permitted to purchase Bitcoin, Solana or Ethereum (collectively, “Crypto”) up to an amount as agreed to by the parties from time to time in one or more transactions in accordance with the investment guidelines adopted by LiveOne from time to time and reasonably acceptable to the Purchasers (the “Guidelines”), and that LiveOne may retain one or more investment managers to engage in a Bitcoin yield strategy or other active management of any purchased Crypto in accordance with the Guidelines, in each case to further enable LiveOne to pursue its recently announced digital asset treasury strategy. The terms of the Initial Debentures and other transactions documents entered into in connection therewith remain unchanged. Pursuant to the Security Agreement entered into by the parties in connection with the issuance of the Initial Debentures, the Purchasers have a security interest in any purchased Crypto.

LiveOne Equity Offering

On July 15, 2025, LiveOne entered into an underwriting agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with Lucid Capital Markets, LLC (the “Underwriter”) pursuant to which LiveOne will issue and sell to the Underwriter 1,360,833 shares (the “Shares”) of LiveOne’s common stock, $0.001 par value per share (the “common stock”), at an offering price of $7.50 per Share and which includes the grant to the Underwriter of an option for the issuance and sales of up to 177,500 additional Shares (the “Option”) to be sold by LiveOne (the “Offering”). The aggregate gross proceeds to LiveOne from the Offering will be approximately $9.5 million (including the exercise of the Underwriter’s Option), after deducting an underwriting discount of 7% of the price to the public, but before deducting expenses payable by LiveOne in connection with the Offering. Pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement LiveOne has also agreed to issue the Underwriter’s common stock purchase warrants to purchase up to 4% of the securities sold in the Offering at an exercise price of $9.375. On July 16, 2025, the Underwriter exercised the Option. The Offering, including the Option, closed on July 17, 2025.

LiveOne used the net proceeds from the Offering to fund the acquisition of cryptocurrencies, the development and implementation of a cryptocurrency treasury strategy and for working capital and general corporate purposes.

LiveOne Preferred Stock Exchange

On July 15, 2025, LiveOne entered into letter agreements (collectively, the “Agreements”) with the Harvest Funds and Trinad Capital Master Fund Ltd., a fund controlled by Mr. Ellin, LiveOne’s Chief Executive Officer, Chairman, director and principal stockholder of LiveOne and Executive Chairman of our Company (“Trinad Capital” and collectively with the Harvest Funds, the “Holders”), the holders of LiveOne’s Series A Preferred Stock, which has a stated value of $1,000 per share. Pursuant to the Agreements (i) the Harvest Funds exchanged $4,500,000 worth of its shares of Series A Preferred Stock into 300,000 shares of LiveOne’s common stock, at a price of $1.50 per share, and Trinad Capital exchanged $2,250,000 worth of shares of its Series A Preferred Stock into 150,000 shares of LiveOne’s common stock at the same price, and (ii) the Harvest Funds and Trinad Capital received 300,000 and 150,000three-year warrants to purchase LiveOne’s common stock exercisable at a price of $0.10 per share.

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Note 9— Employee Benefit Plan

The Company’s parent LiveOne sponsors a 401(k) plan (the “401(k) Plan”) covering all of the Company’s employees. Employees are eligible to participate in the 401(k) Plan the first day of the calendar month following their date of hire. The Company may make discretionary matching contributions to the 401(k) Plan on behalf of its employees up to a maximum of 100% of the participant’s elective deferral up to a maximum of 5% of the employees’ annual compensation. The Company’s matching contributions were not material to the financial statements for the years ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively.

Note 10— Stockholders’ Equity

Spin-Out

Prior to the Spin-Out, LiveOne, through its wholly owned subsidiary, LiveXLive PodcastOne, Inc., canceled 127,984,230 shares of the Company’s common stock. As of March 31, 2026, LiveOne, Inc. owned approximately 18.4 million shares of the Company’s common stock (not including any shares of common stock underlying the PC1 Warrants (as defined below) held by LiveOne), which constituted approximately 71% of the Company’s issued and outstanding shares of common stock as of such date.

Pursuant to the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation which was approved by the Company’s board of directors and LiveOne as the sole stockholder on December 15, 2022, which became effective on September 12, 2023, in connection with the completion of the Spin-Out, the Company is authorized to issue up to 110,000,000 shares, consisting of 100,000,000 shares of the Company’s common stock and 10,000,000 shares of the Company’s preferred stock, $0.00001 par value per share (the "preferred stock").

On September 8, 2023, the Company completed the Spin-Out and converted the outstanding PC1 Bridge Loan (as defined below) into 2,340,707 shares of common stock based on a fair value of $4.39 per share, which was the closing price of the stock on the date of conversion. The book value of the PC1 Bridge Loan and the bifurcated embedded derivative were converted into additional paid in capital, which equaled the fair value of the 2,340,707 shares issued for the conversion of the PC1 Bridge Loan. As a result of the completion of the Spin-Out and the PodcastOne shares becoming publicly traded, the Company reclassified its warrant liability to equity as a result of the strike price and number of warrants becoming fixed at $3.00 per share, which resulted in a $9.1 million increase to additional paid in capital. In addition, the Company's derivative liability was written to zero as the redemption feature was unexercised.

LiveOne 2016 Equity Incentive Plan

LiveOne’s board of directors and stockholders approved its 2016 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended (the “2016 Plan”) which reserved a total of 1,260,000 shares of LiveOne’s common stock for issuance. On September 17, 2020, LiveOne’s stockholders approved the amendment to the 2016 Plan to increase the number of shares available for issuance under the 2016 Plan by 500,000 shares increasing the total up to 1,760,000 shares, which increase was formally adopted by LiveOne in June 2021. Incentive awards authorized under the 2016 Plan include, but are not limited to, nonqualified stock options, incentive stock options, restricted stock awards, restricted stock units, performance grants intended to comply with Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), and stock appreciation rights. If an incentive award granted under the 2016 Plan expires, terminates, is unexercised or is forfeited, or if any shares are surrendered to LiveOne in connection with the exercise of an incentive award, the shares subject to such award and the surrendered shares will become available for further awards under the 2016 Plan.

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The Company’s employees were awarded options and restricted stock awards under the 2016 Plan, therefore an allocation of the share-based compensation was made to the Company from LiveOne. The Company recognized stock-based compensation expense of $0.1 million and $1.7 million during the years ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively. The total tax benefit recognized related to share-based compensation expense was none for the years ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively.

LiveOne's Options Grants to the Company’s Employees

Stock option awards are granted with an exercise price equal to the fair market value of LiveOne’s common stock at the date of grant based on the closing market price of its common stock as reported on The Nasdaq Capital Market. The option awards generally vest over two to four years and are exercisable any time after vesting. The stock options expire ten years after the date of grant.

As of March 31, 2026, unrecognized compensation costs for unvested awards to employees was none,

The following table provides information about LiveOne’s option grants made to the Company’s employees during the last two fiscal years:

Year Ended March 31,

Number of options granted - 1,500

Weighted-average exercise price per share $ - $ 8.10

Weighted-average grant date fair value per share $ -

The grant date fair value of each of these option grants to employees was determined using the Black-Scholes-Merton option-pricing model with the following assumptions:

Year Ended March 31,

Expected volatility 0 % 84 %

Dividend Yield - % - %

Risk-free rate 0 % 4 %

Expected term (in years) - 5.88

The following table summarizes the activity of LiveOne’s options issued to the Company’s employees during the years ended March 31, 2026 and 2025:

Weighted-

Average

Exercise

Number of Price per

Shares Share

Exercised - -

Granted - -

Exercised - -

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The weighted-average remaining contractual term for options to the Company's employees outstanding and options to the Company's employees exercisable as of March 31, 2026 was 5.88 years and 5.88 years, respectively. The intrinsic value of options to employees outstanding and options to employees exercisable was none and none, respectively, at March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively. The intrinsic value of options exercised was none and none, at March 31, 2026 and 2025

The fair value of stock options outstanding and exercisable at March 31, 2026 was $0.1 million and $0.1 million, respectively. The fair value of stock options outstanding and exercisable at March 31, 2025 was $0.2 million and $0.2 million, respectively.

Restricted Stock Units Grants to the Company's Employees

As of March 31, 2026, unrecognized compensation costs for unvested LiveOne restricted stock unit awards to the Company's employees was none.

The following table provides information about LiveOne’s restricted stock units grants made to the Company’s employees during the last two fiscal years:

Year Ended March 31,

Weighted-average grant date fair value per share $ 5.50 $ 1.10

The following table summarizes the activity of LiveOne’s restricted stock units issued to the Company’s employees during the years ended March 31, 2026 and 2025:

Number of

Shares

Cancelled -

The fair value of restricted stock units that vested during the years ended March 31, 2026 and 2025 was $0.1 million and $0.3 million, respectively.

PodcastOne 2022 Equity Incentive Plan

On December 15, 2022, the Company’s board of directors and LiveOne as the sole stockholder, through its wholly owned subsidiary, LiveXLive PodcastOne, Inc., approved the Company’s 2022 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2022 Plan”) which reserved a total of 2,000,000 shares of the Company’s common stock for issuance. On April 8, 2026, the Company amended the 2022 Plan to increase the number of shares of common stock available for issuance under the 2022 Plan by 2,000,000 shares (the “EIP Increase”), which EIP Increase was previously approved by the Company’s board of directors. The EIP Increase is subject to approval of the Company’s stockholders, which the Company anticipates obtaining at its 2026 annual meeting of stockholders. Incentive awards authorized under the 2022 Plan include, but are not limited to, nonqualified stock options, incentive stock options, restricted stock awards, restricted stock units, performance grants intended to comply with Section 162(m) of the Code and stock appreciation rights. If an incentive award granted under the 2022 Plan expires, terminates, is unexercised or is forfeited, or if any shares are surrendered to the Company in connection with the exercise of an incentive award, the shares subject to such award and the surrendered shares will become available for further awards under the 2022 Plan.

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The following table summarizes the activity of the Company's restricted stock units issued to employees under the 2022 Plan during the years ended March 31, 2026:

Number of

Shares

Forfeited or expired (49,250 )

Forfeited or expired (75,000 )

During the year ended March 31, 2026, the Company recognized $2.1 million of stock compensation for vested restricted stock units. Unrecognized compensation costs for unvested PodcastOne restricted stock units issued to employees was $0.9 million for the year ended March 31, 2026, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average service period of 1.23 years.

Issuance of Common Stock to PodcastOne Service Providers

During the years ended March 31, 2026 and 2025 the Company awarded non-employees shares for services provided. The Company record the value of the expense based on the fair value of the common stock at issuance. The common stock issued to the non-employees vest immediately and may be repurchased by the Company. At time of issuance the Company records a liability attributed to the services provided. For the years ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, the Company incurred $6.6 million and $1.5 million in stock compensation expense. The Company settled $5.4 million of the non-employee shares in cash during the year ended March 31, 2026.

Authorized Common Stock and Authority to Create Preferred Stock

Source: SEC EDGAR (public domain) · 10-K for the period ended 2026-03-31, filed 2026-06-29 · accession 0001437749-26-021988

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