i want to bring in the ceo, frank gibeau, who joins me on the phone. break it down for us.iously your games are social, mobile, and mostly free, which is what people want right now. what kinds of trends in activity are you seeing? frank: right now, as people are sheltering in place, they are really turning to games like never before. they are finding that games are incredibly engaging. it is a refuge from the stress. at the same time, it is a compelling way to stay socially connected with friends and family. it is breaking down the social distancing people are experiencing now. saw was intrends we our first quarter, it was normal in terms of performance. toward the end of march was when you started to see the effects of shelter-in-place. we saw large jumps in audience engagement, the number of times people play the games per day, how often they will be playing and how long, and that has carried into april strongly. you see a large audience gain in april across all of our portfolios. many game companies are experiencing this. our games are free to play and largely driven by

despite seeing revenue exceed estimates for q1 and upping its outlook for the full year zynga's ceo frank gibeau joins us now on the quarter. frank, good morning. >> good morning. >> so there's quite a bit that you had to say in this report and who knows why the stock does what it does, but there's some sense i picked up among analysts your guidance for the current quarter was conservative and you project that things are going to begin to return to normal life in mid-may, and that would be just in a week or two, and that would actually return you to engagement and spending trends from before the crisis hit which for you would be a negative. i think it's safe to say at least in the new york area, maybe in the ba whey area whereu are headquarters things are not going to be back to normal in a week or two, so how quickly are you modeling that things will normalize? >> i think we're in uncertain times, unprecedented dynamics are at play in the market. if you look back in march in terms of hows the quarter wrapped up, we started to see the shelter in place orders really go into the eu in north americ