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Fluent, Inc.

For the period ended Dec 31, 2025. Filed Mar 31, 2026.

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FY2025 · Filed Mar 31, 2026

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Item 1. Business

This business description should be read in conjunction with our audited consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes thereto appearing elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025 (the "2025 Form 10-K"), which are incorporated herein by this reference.

Company Overview

Fluent, Inc. ("we," "us," "our," "Fluent," or the "Company") is a commerce media solutions provider connecting top-tier brands with highly engaged consumers. Leveraging diverse ad inventory, robust first-party data, and proprietary machine learning, we unlock additional revenue streams for partners and empower advertisers to acquire their most valuable customers at scale. We primarily perform customer acquisition services by operating highly scalable digital marketing campaigns, through which we connect our advertiser clients with targeted consumers.

We access these consumers through both our commerce media marketplace ("Commerce Media Solutions"), which delivers targeted advertising within e-commerce and digital media transaction flows on partner sites and mobile apps, and our owned and operated digital media properties ("O&O Sites"). In 2025, we delivered data and performance-based customer acquisition services for approximately 400 consumer brands, direct marketers, and agencies across a wide range of industries, including Media & Entertainment, Financial Products & Services, Health & Life Sciences, Retail & Consumer, and Staffing & Recruitment.

We operate our Commerce Media Solutions on partner sites and mobile apps where we embed our proprietary ad-serving technology to identify and acquire consumers for our advertiser clients. Our technology is integrated at key moments in the consumer experience to capitalize on high engagement and improve conversion; for example, our post-transaction solution connects advertisers to consumers on e-commerce websites and apps after a purchase or similar transaction. Commerce Media Solutions generates meaningful revenue for our media partners, while driving high-quality customer acquisition for our advertiser clients. We enter into exclusive agreements with our media partners with one-to-five year terms, typically remunerating them on a revenue share and/or impression basis.

We also attract consumers at scale to our O&O Sites primarily through promotional offerings, through which consumers are rewarded for completing activities on our sites. Upon registration, consumers provide their name, contact information, and opt-in consent for telemarketing and email marketing. Over 90% of these users engage with our media on their mobile devices or tablets.

Once users have registered on our sites, we integrate our proprietary direct marketing technologies and analytics to engage them with surveys, polls, and other experiences, through which we learn about their lifestyles, preferences, and purchasing histories, among other matters. Based on these insights, we serve users targeted, relevant offers on behalf of our clients. As new users register and existing registrants re-engage, our database is enriched and improves the effectiveness of our performance-based campaigns, thus expanding our addressable advertiser client base.

Since inception, we have amassed a large, proprietary database of first-party, self-declared user information and preferences. We solicit our users' consent to be contacted by us and/or our advertisers via various channels including email, telephone, SMS/text, and push messaging. We leverage their self-declared data primarily in two ways: (1) to serve advertisements we believe will be relevant to users based on the information they provide on our O&O Sites and our Commerce Media Solutions, and (2) to provide clients with users' contact information for direct outreach. We may also leverage our technology and database to drive non-core revenue streams, including utilization-based models (e.g., programmatic advertising).

Additionally, we operated a call center-supported performance marketplace ("Call Solutions") that provided live, call-based performance campaigns to help clients increase customer acquisition. Our Call Solutions business served clients across an array of industries with a particular focus on the health insurance sector. On January 31, 2026, we completed the sale of our Call Solutions business through the sale of all the membership interests of Winopoly, LLC, an indirect subsidiary. For additional information, see Note 16,*Subsequent Events,*in the Notes to the consolidated financial statements.

Across our business we generate revenue by delivering measurable results to our clients. We differentiate ourselves from other marketing alternatives through our ability to provide clients with a cost-effective and measurable return on advertising spend ("ROAS"), a measure of profitability of sales compared to the money spent on ads, and to manage highly targeted and fragmented online media sources. We are predominantly compensated on a negotiated or market-driven "per click," "per lead," or other "per action" basis aligned with the customer acquisition cost targets of our clients. For our O&O Sites and, prior to its sale, our Call Solutions business, we bear the cost of acquiring consumers from media partners that ultimately generate qualified clicks, leads, calls, app downloads, or customers for our clients. Our Commerce Media Solutions business operates under exclusive long-term contracts with media partners that generally remunerate the partner on a revenue share basis. Notwithstanding occasional minimum guarantees, Commerce Media Solutions does not bear significant media inventory risk.

Through AdParlor, LLC ("AdParlor"), our wholly-owned subsidiary, we operate our non-core business which offers advertiser clients managed creator marketing and media buying services across social media platforms.

Market Opportunity

The global advertising market is undergoing a structural shift driven by the evolution of the attention economy, as consumer engagement becomes increasingly fragmented across digital, physical, and commerce-driven environments. As brands compete across online platforms, retail media networks, and in-store environments, advertisers are reallocating spend toward channels that offer measurable outcomes, access to first-party data, and proximity to transaction events.

According to eMarkerter’s September 2025 forecast, U.S. digital advertising spend is projected to reach approximately $381.99 billion in 2026, representing 10.6% year-over-year growth, with a projected four-year compound annual growth rate of approximately 9% through 2029. Digital advertising continues to represent the majority of total media investment, reflecting sustained advertiser demand for performance-driven, measurable environments.

A growing portion of this expansion is attributable to commerce media and retail media networks (“RMNs”), which leverage retailers’ first-party customer data and transactional insights to enable targeted advertising across owned and operated digital properties, off-site media, and physical retail environments. eMarketer projects that retail media will grow at a 13.6% CAGR through 2029, the highest among major digital channels. U.S. commerce media advertising spend is projected to increase from approximately $68 billion in 2025 to nearly $117 billion by 2029, underscoring advertisers’ continued migration toward commerce-oriented environments that offer closed-loop measurement and clearer linkage between marketing investment and business outcomes.

Industry participants expect this structural shift to continue as retailers and publishers expand proprietary media networks and deepen direct brand relationships, emphasizing the strategic value of first-party data amid tightening privacy regulations and the continued deprecation of third-party cookies. As advertising investment expands across new digital and physical environments, marketers must realign their strategies, measurement frameworks, and technology investments to effectively activate, measure, and monetize consumer engagement in a fragmented and privacy-constrained ecosystem.

Key Challenges Facing our Clients

Advertisers operate in an increasingly competitive attention economy, in which consumer engagement is finite and fragmented across digital, physical, and commerce-driven environments including online platforms, streaming media, mobile devices, and in-store experiences. As brands compete across these touchpoints, they face heightened pressure to demonstrate measurable return on investment (“ROI”), adapt to advances in artificial intelligence (“AI”) and automation, respond to shifting consumer behaviors, and manage marketing investments amid ongoing macroeconomic uncertainty.

These challenges are further compounded by evolving data privacy laws, regulations, telemarketing laws and regulations, platform policies, and the continued evolution of retail and media ecosystems, which constrain data availability and reduce visibility into consumer behavior across digital and in-store environments. As a result, advertisers face increasing difficulty measuring performance consistently and optimizing marketing investments across the customer journey.

Measurement, ROI & Attribution– As consumer engagement becomes increasingly fragmented across channels and locations, accurately measuring marketing effectiveness and attributing outcomes to specific activities remains a persistent challenge for advertisers. Customer journeys span multiple digital platforms and physical retail environments, making it more difficult to confidently connect marketing investments to business outcomes.

According to Gartner, digital channels now account for more than 60% of total marketing spend with paid online channels representing 69% of total digital investment, underscoring that a majority of budgets have an increasing reliance on environments where measurement methodologies are less standardized and data access is constrained. Broader industry research from eMarketer indicates that declining signal availability, increased platform-level restrictions, and inconsistent measurement frameworks are among the top concerns for marketing leaders. As a result, advertisers increasingly rely on modeled, aggregated, or platform-reported metrics, which reduce transparency, confidence in reported ROI, and the ability to allocate budgets efficiently across channels.

Rapid Technological Change and AI Adoption– Advances in AI-driven automation, analytics, and optimization technologies are increasingly positioned as a means for marketing organizations to manage growing channel complexity without increases in budget or headcount. Gartner’s CMO Spend Survey indicates that marketing budgets have remained relatively flat as a percentage of company revenue, even as digital channels now account for a majority of total marketing investment. As a result, marketing teams are under pressure to deliver greater efficiency, performance, and measurable outcomes with constrained resources.

While AI adoption is accelerating, scaling these technologies to drive consistent, enterprise-wide impact remains challenging. Research from McKinsey & Co. indicates that although 88% of organizations have implemented AI in at least one function, far fewer have successfully operationalized AI at scale. Data fragmentation, integration challenges, and governance requirements continue to limit the ability to translate AI investments into reliable, transparent, and measurable performance improvements. These structural pressures — fragmented data environments, constrained budgets, and the need for transparent, measurable performance — are reshaping the requirements for marketing technology and solutions.

Economic Uncertainty and Cost Pressures – Competition for consumer attention has intensified amid economic uncertainty, rising media costs, and continued fragmentation of advertising channels. As attention becomes scarcer, the cost of reaching and engaging consumers has increased across both digital and physical environments.

Gartner research indicates that marketing budgets remain under pressure, with CMOs facing heightened scrutiny to demonstrate efficiency, near-term performance, and measurable financial impact. At the same time, eMarketer reports continued growth in digital media costs across key channels, further intensifying the need for advertisers to optimize spend and justify investments. These conditions require advertisers to carefully balance short-term performance objectives with longer-term brand and customer development priorities, often with limited tolerance for inefficiencies.

Evolving Consumer Behavior and Privacy Expectations– As competition for attention increases, consumer expectations for relevant and timely experiences continue to rise. At the same time, consumers have become more sensitive to how their data is collected and used, and regulatory and platform-driven privacy constraints have reduced access to detailed consumer-level information across digital and physical environments.

McKinsey research indicates that a majority of consumers expect personalized interactions from brands, while also emphasizing the importance of trust and responsible data use in sustaining customer relationships. Gartner has noted that personalization perceived as excessive or intrusive can negatively affect customer sentiment and purchase intent. Advertisers must navigate this tension by delivering relevant messaging across digital and in-store environments while complying with applicable privacy laws, telemarketing laws, platform policies, and evolving consumer norms. Failure to effectively balance these considerations may reduce campaign effectiveness, harm brand reputation, or increase regulatory exposure. These dynamics are reshaping the capabilities advertisers require from their marketing technology and analytics partners, including the ability to unify data across environments, enable compliant personalization, and deliver measurable performance outcomes.

Our Offerings and Solutions to Clients

We provide customer acquisition solutions to our clients, primarily through performance marketing campaigns. Through these campaigns, we deliver measurable consumer actions aligned with our clients' desired outcomes, within their marketing funnels, including completed transactions, lead form submission and app installations. Our commerce media platform is integrated into hundreds of top retailers and digital media properties, including Authentic Brands Group, Rebuy, Vivid Seats, and Belk. We believe our solutions are well positioned to address the needs and objectives of our clients, given our ability to deliver measurable ROAS, scalability, and campaign flexibility through our O&O Sites and Commerce Media Solutions. Leveraging consumer data from our proprietary first-party database, we are able to target precise audiences through preferred communication channels at optimal points of engagement.

Performance Campaigns

For clients seeking completion of specified consumer actions, such as a trial subscription, submission of a registration form, or installation of a mobile app, we execute performance campaigns tailored to meet the client defined criteria.

We bear the cost of acquiring consumer traffic from media partners within our commerce media platform and other media sources for our owned and operated digital media properties, without the assurance of a subsequent revenue-generating event. By leveraging the scale of our media network and our expertise in consumer traffic acquisition, we collaborate with clients to define billable events and pricing parameters that support the profitability objectives of all parties.

Consumer Data

Through our O&O Sites, we generate revenue by providing clients with qualifying data of consumers who have opted into direct marketing via channels such as direct mail, email, telephone, messaging, and other communication methods. Our clients then utilize this data to conduct their own marketing campaigns.

The data records we provide contain varying depths of consumer profiles based on self-declared information, ranging from basic contact information to behavioral attributes. Because consumers provide their information to us directly, we believe the scale and depth our first-party data represents a meaningful competitive advantage within the industry. Unlike many providers whose consumer data is largely inferred from observed behavior, our data is self-reported and, as a result, we believe it is more reliable and reflective of consumers' current interests and preferences.

Programmatic Data Offerings

Since 2018, we have offered, declared and modeled data sets for select audience segments within programmatic environments, enabling advertisers, such as those in the healthcare industry, to leverage the anonymized, privacy-compliant data to target high-intent prospects for their offerings. While our programmatic data offering represents a small percentage of our total consolidated revenue, we believe this business line signifies a strategically significant and incremental revenue stream.

Call Solutions Marketplace

Prior to its sale on January 31, 2026, through our Call Solutions business, we offered a live-agent capability and maintained call-ready data records, which served as a marketplace that connected consumers with our advertiser clients. This service provided clients high-value live call transfers of phone verified prospective customers. For additional information regarding the sale of this business, see Note 16,*Subsequent Events,*in the Notes to the consolidated financial statements.

*** Social Media Campaigns***

Through AdParlor, we operate our non-core business which offers advertiser clients managed-service creator marketing and media buying across social media platforms.

Our Competitive Strengths

We believe our competitive strengths enable us to provide a compelling value proposition to our clients and differentiate our offerings in the marketplace.

Proprietary and Innovative Technology Platform- Our internally developed technology platforms are unique in the industry, having been purpose-built for performance marketing with a mobile-first user experience in mind. Our platforms use our robust consumer data and proprietary machine learning capabilities to optimize the performance of our digital marketing campaigns for our advertisers.

Database of First-Party Consumer Information*-*We attract hundreds of thousands of consumers to our O&O Sites on a daily basis and collect demographic, behavioral and other data as they engage with our direct marketing experiences. This data is generated in real-time, as consumers respond to dynamically populated survey questions, thereby enabling targeted ads to be served in response. Consumer data is also stored, analyzed and further enhanced as consumers return to our sites and provide additional preferences and behaviors, allowing for the development of deeper insights and additional monetization opportunities. Importantly, enhanced consumer profiles are used by our commerce media platform to optimize ad serving.

Scale and Experience in Purchasing Media and Creating Content - Our ability to effectively access, channels and sources of consumer traffic at scale and build meaningful relationships with consumers has been critical to our growth. Since inception, we have deployed more than $2 billion in media spend. Our team has significant knowledge and experience in creating content that generates higher levels of profitability from given media sources, enabling us to acquire media more competitively. This capability allows us to run thousands of concurrent cost-effective client campaigns, at acceptable media margins.

Our Growth Strategy

We believe the performance marketing and commerce media industries present significant opportunities for growth. Elements of our strategy include:

Expanding our Network through Development of Commerce Media Solutions. Our commerce media platform utilizes our technology to extend our ad network for clients. Commerce Media Solutions affords our advertiser clients exposure to users with strong buying power who, having just completed a transaction, are in "purchase mode". We deploy overlay ad units that display a series of curated offers to consumers primarily on the transaction confirmation page of e-commerce and digital media websites. We compensate our media partners through revenue sharing agreements or by compensating them on an impression basis. Commerce Media Solutions has been operating since the first quarter of 2023, delivering year-over-year growth in every quarter since 2024. We intend to continue to invest in both sales efforts and product development to grow our media network and extend our product offering to capture more touch points in the consumer journey.

Increasing Monetization of Our Media Network. By presenting consumers with a broad array of offers curated to their preferences, as informed by our first-party data and our platform’s ad serving logic, we seek to facilitate transactions that are beneficial for the advertiser, the consumer, and our media partners. As we continue to improve consumer engagement on our platforms, we expect to strengthen relationships with existing advertisers and build relationships with new advertisers. Continuous enhancement to our product offerings and targeting capabilities are used to ensure optimization of the value of our network and higher per-unit profitability.

***•***Higher Quality Traffic to Our O&O Sites. As our business has grown, we have attracted larger and more sophisticated clients to our platform. To further increase our value proposition to clients and strengthen our position in the regulatory landscape, we have implemented various initiatives to remove lower quality consumer traffic, including traffic that did not consistently meet self-imposed regulatory standards. By improving the quality of consumer traffic sourced to our media properties, we have increased user participation and conversion rates, ultimately increasing payouts from "name brand" advertiser clients, creating a more sustainable foundation for our business.

Developing and Enhancing Products to Increase the Quality of Our Solutions. Our product development efforts are centered on scaling and advancing our commerce media platform. Key areas of investment include expanding our post-transaction media footprint through new partner integrations and surface areas, enhancing creative formats and consumer-facing experiences to drive engagement and advertiser performance, and extending our reach across mobile app environments beyond our existing mobile web presence.

Central to the platform’s effectiveness is our proprietary identity graph, which we continue to enrich through partnerships with third-party data providers and through the application of privacy-centric data architecture designed to support evolving regulatory requirements, including anticipated changes under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 ("CCPA"). These identity capabilities power our machine learning–driven ranking and bidding systems, which dynamically optimize ad placement and predict conversion outcomes with increasing accuracy — enabling more efficient advertiser spend and stronger yield across the network.

Across our broader product portfolio, we are investing in modernizing our legacy consumer platforms to improve domain reputation, streamline site experiences, and ensure operational continuity as we migrate workloads toward more scalable, cloud-native infrastructure. These efforts are designed to protect and extend the value of our existing media properties while aligning them with the technology standards and compliance posture of our commerce media business.

Sales and Marketing

We generate new client and media partner relationships primarily through our in-house sales team. We service established clients and partners through in-house account directors and managers, who seek to optimize results and expand our relationships.

Our Competition

In the commerce media space, we compete against an array of ad technology companies that provide non-endemic advertising offerings. More specifically, we compete against a small group of private U.S. companies for post-transaction commerce media inventory, with one larger enterprise that represents a significant share of the market. Some of our competitors have substantially greater financial, technical, sales and marketing resources, as well as greater name recognition and a larger customer base. While we believe the competitive landscape is becoming more complex, we believe our proprietary first-party database, our ad serving, and our customer acquisition technologies enable our clients to better target, engage, qualify, and communicate with relevant consumers, in a more measurable and cost-effective manner than our competitors.

Client Concentration

We have an extensive list of clients across a wide range of industries. For each of the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, no individual advertiser client accounted for more than 10% of the consolidated revenue or net accounts receivable.

Intellectual Property

We rely on trade secrets, trademark and copyright law, confidentiality agreements, and technical measures to protect our intellectual property rights. We maintain a portfolio of perpetual common law and federally registered trademark rights across several brands and domains relating to our business units, products, services, and solutions. We claim copyright protection in our original content that is published on our websites and included in our marketing materials.

Regulatory Matters

Our business is subject to a significant number of federal, state, local and international laws, rules, and regulations applicable to online or digital advertising, commercial email marketing, telemarketing, and text messaging. We are also subject to laws, rules, and regulations regarding data collection, AI, privacy and data security, intellectual property ownership and infringement, and promotions and taxation, among others. Some of our clients operate in regulated industries, such as financial services, credit repair, gambling, consumer and mortgage lending, secondary education, healthcare and medical services, and health insurance. To the extent applicable, we must comply with the laws, rules, and regulations applicable to marketing activities in those industries. Outside of the United States, we own and operate consumer facing websites in the United Kingdom (the "UK"), Canada, and Australia and are subject to the laws, rules, and regulations of those countries as they impact our operations.

These laws, rules, and regulations are generally designed to regulate and prevent deceptive practices in advertising, online marketing, and telemarketing, to limit the use of telemarketing without sufficient prior express consent, and to protect individual privacy rights and prevent the misuse and unauthorized disclosure of personal information. For example, the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act ("TCPA") imposes significant restrictions on the ability to make telephone calls or send text messages to telephone numbers without the prior written consent of the person being contacted for certain types of communications. The TCPA also requires that consumers be provided reasonable options for opting out of such calls and/or text messages after consent is provided. The TCPA imposes statutory penalties of $500 to up to $1,500 per call or text in violation. The Federal Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing (“CAN-SPAM”) Act applies to commercial email messages and makes it unlawful to send electronic mail messages that contain false or deceptive information, among other requirements. CAN-SPAM also requires the sender of emails sent for a commercial purpose to provide a functioning mechanism that allows the recipient to opt-out of receiving future commercial e-mail messages from the sender of such messages. Additionally, Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act, which prohibits unfair or deceptive acts or practices, as well as similar state consumer protection statutes, regulate marketing representations, data practices, and disclosure obligations. Additionally, the use of AI and machine learning in our platforms is subject to the same data protection, consumer protection, and marketing laws and regulations that apply to our broader business. These laws and regulations are continually evolving and any enforcement actions under such laws could result in fines, penalties, litigation, and increased expenses associated with compliance.

A growing number of states have enacted comprehensive consumer privacy laws which require certain disclosures in privacy notices, and which grant individuals certain rights with respect to their personal information, including the right to request access, correction, or deletion thereof. For example, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (the “CCPA”), applies to personal data of consumers, business representatives, and employees who are California residents, and requires businesses to provide specific disclosures in privacy notices and honor requests of such individuals to exercise certain privacy rights. The CCPA provides for fines, including increased fines for intentional violations, and allows private litigants affected by certain data breaches to recover significant statutory damages. Additionally, various states have enacted “mini TCPA” statutes and telemarketing laws that impose additional restrictions and, in some cases, provide for statutory damages or private rights of action. In addition, all 50 states and the District of Columbia have adopted data breach notification laws that impose, in varying degrees, an obligation to notify affected individuals, and in some cases state regulatory authorities and consumer credit bureaus, in the event of a data breach or compromise, when personal information has or may have been accessed or acquired by an unauthorized person. Compliance with each of these various laws could impose significant costs, as well as legal, regulatory, or financial exposure if we are found not to be in compliance.

We were involved in investigations with federal and state regulators over our practices including the FTC and the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General. These investigations and claims have all been settled as of December 31, 2023. As part of the FTC settlement, we have made and continue to make additional changes to our business practices that have adversely affected our results of operations for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024. See Item 1A. Risk Factors — Risks Relating to Legal and Regulatory Matters and Item 3. Legal Proceedings for further discussion of the impacts of these proceedings and various laws, rules, and regulations on our business.

Human Capital

Fluent is dedicated to certain core principles and values which include being fast to create solutions, collaboration, focus on deliverables and being growth minded to drive innovation. Fluent is committed to providing our employees with opportunities to grow and develop in their careers, supported by competitive compensation and comprehensive medical and wellness benefits. We embrace challenges and welcome opportunities to make improvements in our corporate culture and employee benefits. We are proud to have been the recipients of many awards for our corporate culture including regularly being listed on Crain’s Best Places to Work.

As of December 31, 2025, we had 186 employees, of which 185 were full-time employees. This represents a decrease of 13% over the number of employees as of December 31, 2024. None of our employees are represented by a labor organization, and none are party to any collective bargaining agreement with us. We have not experienced any work stoppages and strive to maintain a positive relationship with our team. We continue to operate under a hybrid strategy based around flexibility and collaboration.

Competition in the recruitment of top talent within our industry remains constant and our future success will depend in part on our continued ability to hire, incentivize, and retain exceptional colleagues across the business. As the business evolves, we continue to source talent to complement the existing team with different strengths, experience, and ideas. See Item 1A. Risk Factors — "Our failure to recruit or the loss of management and highly trained and qualified personnel could adversely affect our business." for further information about the risks related to our ability to recruit and retain qualified personnel.

Investing in our People

As a performance-based organization, Fluent offers competitive salaries and bonus/commission plans to both attract, reward, and retain our employees. We match up to 4% of employees’ contributions in their 401(k) to help our employees plan for their futures. We also prioritize the health and well-being of our employees, offering multiple health insurance plan options, and various mental health resources. To ensure our people take time to recharge, we offer discretionary time off that provides vacation days throughout the year in addition to our 13 paid company holidays. Our goal is to create a flexible work environment that fuels creativity and results.

We encourage curiosity and provide our people with the tools and resources to learn and grow. From internal Fluent University courses to company-wide workshops and memberships to corporate networking organizations, such as She Runs It, we offer continuous opportunities for personal and professional development. In 2025, we created approximately 1,500 hours of learning for our employees through these courses. Additionally, over the past few years, we have worked to support internal mobility for those who have excelled in their roles and are looking to gain new experience in other areas of the business that align with their individual career goals. We reward positive performance and celebrate our employees for their persistent drive to succeed.

We are constantly striving to make Fluent a more supportive place to work. We make a concerted effort to post roles and source top candidates to present a diverse candidate slate for our hiring teams. We know the importance of coming together. We hold regular town halls and team building activities. Additionally, we hold two annual programs that add meaningful value that focus on mental/physical health and development. This year was the 4th annual step challenge of which 25% of the Company participated in. In 2025 we also held our 4th year of the mentorship program. Colleagues continue to engage in both programs. These programs also help to build/deepen relationships across the organization.

Available Information

Fluent’s principal executive offices are located at 300 Vesey Street, 9th Floor, New York, New York 10282, and our telephone number is (646) 669-7272. Our internet website is www.fluentco.com. The website address provided in this 2025 Form 10-K is not intended to function as a hyperlink and information obtained on the website is not and should not be considered part of this 2025 Form 10-K and is not incorporated by reference in this 2025 Form 10-K or any filing with SEC. Our Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, and amendments to reports filed or furnished pursuant to Sections 13(a) and 15(d) of the Exchange Act are available, free of charge, on our Investor Relations website at investors.fluentco.com/ as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file such material with, or furnish it to, the SEC. Our periodic reports are filed or furnished electronically with the SEC under SEC File Number 001-37893 and can be accessed at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.

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