YOC AG announced preliminary earnings results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2017. Adjusted operating earnings before depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) improved by an estimated EUR 1.25 million in fiscal year 2017 and amounted to EUR 0.3 million against loss of EUR 1.3 million in 2016. It increased its sales at group level by around 20 % to an estimated total of EUR 14.4 million in the financial year of 2017 (2016: EUR 12.0 million). The growth of the YOC Group is driven by the continuously increasing share of automated sales via real-time trading systems (Programmatic Advertising). At the same time, the proportion of revenue generated by the company's proprietary ad technology products is also growing globally. As a result, gross profit margin is expected to increase significantly to around 39 % (2016: 37 %). The YOC Group, including these provisions, reports an expected EBITDA of EUR -0.1 million (2016: EUR -1.1 million). Successful fourth quarter with revenues of around EUR 4.3 million and positive EBITDA of EUR 0.4 million.