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TechTarget Inc

For the period ended Jun 9, 2025. Filed Jun 10, 2025.

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Jun 9, 2025 · Filed Jun 10, 2025

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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

SCHEDULE 14A

Proxy Statement Pursuant to Section 14(a) of

the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

(Amendment No. )

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TechTarget, Inc.

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June 10, 2025

Dear Informa TechTarget Stockholders:

You are cordially invited to attend the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of TechTarget, Inc. (the "Annual Meeting"), which will be held at 11:00 a.m., Eastern Daylight Time, on Thursday, July 24, 2025, at our corporate headquarters located at 275 Grove Street, Newton, Massachusetts 02466.

We are using the "Notice and Access" method for providing our proxy materials to you via the Internet. As a result, we are mailing to our stockholders a Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials ("Notice") instead of a paper copy of our Proxy Statement and our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 ("Annual Report"). The Notice contains instructions on how to access both documents and vote online. The Notice also contains instructions on how each stockholder can receive a paper copy of our proxy materials, including this Proxy Statement, our Annual Report, and form of proxy. Using this distribution process conserves natural resources and reduces the costs of printing and distributing our proxy materials.

We hope that you will be able to attend, and participate in, the Annual Meeting. Whether or not you plan to attend, it is important that your shares be represented and voted at the Annual Meeting. As a stockholder of record, you may vote your shares by telephone, over the Internet, or by proxy card, and we hope you will vote as soon as possible.

On behalf of the Board of Directors, we thank you for your continued confidence, support, trust and ongoing interest in Informa TechTarget.

Sincerely,
/s/ Mary McDowell/s/ Gary Nugent
MARY MCDOWELLChairperson of the BoardGARY NUGENTChief Executive Officer

NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS

TO BE HELD ON JULY 24, 2025

Notice is hereby given that all stockholders are cordially invited to attend the Annual Meeting of Stockholders of TechTarget, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), to be held at 11:00 a.m., Eastern Daylight Time, on Thursday, July 24, 2025 (the "Annual Meeting"), at our corporate headquarters located at 275 Grove Street, Newton, Massachusetts 02466. Stockholders will be asked to consider and act upon the following matters at the Annual Meeting:

(1)

To elect our nine director nominees, Sally Ashford, Stephen A. Carter, David Flaschen, M. Sean Griffey, Don Hawk, Mary McDowell, Gary Nugent, Perfecto Sanchez, and Christina Van Houten, each to serve for a term expiring at our 2026 annual meeting of stockholders and until their successors are duly elected and qualified;

(2)

To ratify the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025;

(3)

To approve an advisory (non-binding) resolution to approve the compensation of our named executive officers;

(4)

To approve an advisory (non-binding) proposal on the frequency of future advisory votes on the compensation of our named executive officers; and

(5)

To consider and act upon any other business as may properly come before the Annual Meeting and any adjournments or postponements thereof.

Only holders of record of outstanding shares of the Company's common stock at the close of business on May 30, 2025 (the "Record Date") are entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the Annual Meeting and any adjournments or postponements thereof.

In accordance with the rules of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, we will send a Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials on or about June 10, 2025, and provide access to our proxy materials over the Internet, beginning on June 10, 2025, to the holders of record and beneficial owners of our capital stock as of the close of business on the Record Date.

Only stockholders, and persons holding legal proxies from stockholders, may attend the Annual Meeting. If your shares are registered in your name, you must bring a form of identification to attend the Annual Meeting in person. If your shares are held in the name of a broker, trust, bank, or other nominee, you must bring a legal proxy or letter from that broker, trust, bank, or other nominee that confirms that you are the beneficial owner of those shares.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

/s/ Charles D. Rennick

CHARLES D. RENNICK

Vice President, General Counsel

and Corporate Secretary

Newton, Massachusetts

June 10, 2025

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Questions and Answers about the Annual Meeting and Voting Procedures2
Proposal No. 1: Election of Directors6
Our Board of Directors6
Information about the Nominees6
Recommendation of the Board of Directors8
Information about Directors and Committee Membership9
Board Leadership Structure9
Information about Other Executive Officers9
Information about Corporate Governance10
Stockholders Agreement10
Corporate Governance Guidelines10
Insider Trading Policy and Prohibitions on Hedging and Pledging11
Board Determination of Independence11
Controlled Company11
Board Meetings and Attendance12
Director Attendance at Annual Meeting of Stockholders12
Board Committees12
Non-Ivory Director Nomination Process14
Communications with Directors15
The Board's Role in Risk Oversight15
Code of Business Conduct and Ethics16
Human Capital16
Director Compensation16
Fiscal 2024 Director Compensation17
Executive Compensation17
Compensation Discussion and Analysis17
Executive Compensation Tables24
Summary Compensation Table24
Grants of Plan-Based Awards for 202425
Non-Equity Incentive Plans25
Equity Compensation Plans25
Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year End for 202426
Option Exercises and Stock Vested for 202426
Nonqualified Deferred Compensation for 202428
Employment Agreements and Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change of Control28
Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change of Control30
Pay Ratio Disclosure31
Pay Versus Performance31
Equity Compensation Plan Information39
Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation39
Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management39
Delinquent Section 16(a) Reports40
Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions40
Compensation Committee Report43
Audit Committee Report43
Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm43
Proposal No. 2: Ratification of Appointment of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm44
Recommendation of the Board of Directors44
Proposal No. 3: Advisory Vote to Approve Named Executive Compensation44
Recommendation of the Board of Directors45
Proposal No. 4: Advisory Vote to Approve the Frequency of Future Advisory Votes on the Compensation of Named Executive Compensation45
Recommendation of the Board of Directors45
Stockholder Proposals for 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders46
Householding of Annual Meeting Materials46
Other Matters46
General46

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PROXY STATEMENT

This Proxy Statement is furnished in connection with the solicitation by the Board of Directors (the "Board") of TechTarget, Inc. (the "Company," "Informa TechTarget," "we," "us," or "our") of proxies to be voted at our 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the "Annual Meeting"), to be held at 11:00 a.m., Eastern Daylight Time, on Thursday, July 24, 2025, at our corporate headquarters located at 275 Grove Street, Newton, Massachusetts 02466 or at any adjournments or postponements thereof. Stockholders of record of our common stock, $0.001 par value per share, as of the close of business on May 30, 2025 (the "Record Date") will be entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the Annual Meeting and any adjournments or postponements thereof. As of the Record Date, there were 71,489,000 shares of our common stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote. Each share of common stock is entitled to one vote on any matter presented at the Annual Meeting. Directions to our headquarters are available at: www.informatechtarget.com/contact-us/.

If proxies in the accompanying form are properly executed and returned, the shares of common stock represented thereby will be voted in the manner specified therein. If not otherwise specified, the shares of common stock represented by the proxies will be voted: (i)FOReach of the nine nominees for director (Proposal No. 1), (ii)FORthe ratification of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm (Proposal No. 2); (iii)FORapproval of an advisory (non-binding) resolution to approve the compensation of our named executive officers (Proposal No. 3); (iv) for every 1 YEAR with respect to an advisory (non-binding) proposal on the frequency of the vote on our compensation of our named executive officers (Proposal No. 4) and (v) in the discretion of the person or persons named in the Company's form of proxy, on any other proposals that may properly come before the Annual Meeting or any adjournment or postponements thereof. Any stockholder of record who has voted or otherwise submitted a proxy may revoke it at any time before it is voted by delivering written notice addressed to our Corporate Secretary (provided we receive your written notice before the Annual Meeting date), by submitting a duly executed proxy bearing a later date (provided we receive the later proxy card before the Annual Meeting date), by voting again over the telephone or the Internet prior to 11:00 a.m., Eastern Daylight Time, on July 24, 2025, or by attending and voting at the Annual Meeting. Mere attendance at the Annual Meeting of the person appointing a proxy does not revoke the appointment.

IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING THE AVAILABILITY OF PROXY MATERIALS FOR THE ANNUAL

MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS TO BE HELD ON JULY 24, 2025:

A copy of our Annual Report on Form 10-K (including the audited consolidated financial statements and schedules) for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 (the "Form 10-K"), as filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, except for exhibits, will be furnished without charge to any stockholder upon written or oral request to: TechTarget, Inc., 275 Grove Street, Newton, Massachusetts 02466 Attention: Corporate Secretary, Telephone: (617) 431-9200. This Proxy Statement and the Form 10-K are also available through the Investor Relations portion of our website atwww.informatechtarget.com. We include our website address in this Proxy Statement only as an inactive textual reference and do not intend it to be an active link to our website. The information on our website and the information contained or linked therein or otherwise connected thereto is not a part of or incorporated by reference into this Proxy Statement, regardless of any reference to such website in this Proxy Statement.

This Proxy Statement and the Form 10-K will be available for viewing, printing, and downloading on or about June 10, 2025 atwww.edocumentview.com/TTGT.

Informa TechTarget | Proxy Statement for 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders1
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