Teads Holding Co.
For the period ended Mar 31, 2026. Filed May 8, 2026.
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Mar 31, 2026 · Filed May 8, 2026
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Period ended 2025-09-30; filed 2025-11-06.
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Teads Holding Co. (together with its consolidated subsidiaries, “Teads,” the “Company,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) is a leading omnichannel advertising platform focused on driving outcomes for brand and performance advertisers across the digital ecosystem. We connect global advertisers with an expansive network of media owners across the open web, connected TV (“CTV”), and in‑app environments. The Company is headquartered in New York, New York, with additional operations in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
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The three months ended March 31, 2026, represent the first full-quarter comparative period following the acquisition of TEADS, a private limited liability company (société à responsabilité limitée) incorporated and existing under the laws of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (the “Acquisition”). Consequently, our current results reflect the fully consolidated operations of the combined company. This overview highlights material developments in our business and should be read in conjunction with the more comprehensive business and industry discussion included in the 2025 Form 10-K.
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Our platform is designed to enable advertisers to reach their audiences across the digital advertising ecosystem and drive desired outcomes from those audiences at each step of the marketing funnel. We continue to focus on providing efficient, high-impact supply chains for advertisers and sustainable advertising revenue for media owners as the digital advertising ecosystem evolves.
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Post-Acquisition Strategy and Implementation
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Following the Acquisition, we focused on the integration of our operations amid operational challenges inherent in returning a combined global company to growth. Building on the restructuring of our go-to-market organization in the second half of 2025, we continue to execute our broader strategic restructuring plan (the “Strategic Plan”) announced in December 2025, which is intended to reduce operating costs, improve operating margins and advance the Company’s commitment to profitable growth. The Strategic Plan, which resulted from a comprehensive review of our business portfolio and operational structure, involves a reduction of the Company’s global workforce by approximately 10% as we realign our commercial and product teams around distinct growth pillars. A key component of this strategy is the deliberate rationalization of our business portfolio and a focus on supply quality, including the “clean-up” of underperforming inventory. While these optimizations, alongside broader macroeconomic volatility and increased competition on the demand side, contributed to a year-over-year reduction in spend from a limited number of customers, we believe these shifts are essential for the long-term health and transparency of our premium marketplace.
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Generative AI and Publisher Traffic Trends
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The digital advertising ecosystem is experiencing structural shifts and evolving user behaviors, characterized in part by declining traffic trends on the traditional publisher side of the Open Internet. These developments are further catalyzed by the integration of generative artificial intelligence (“AI”) into major search engines and web browsers, which can provide direct answers and summaries that may bypass the traditional user journey. We have observed these combined factors lead to a decline in page view volume for certain segments of our premium publisher partners, thereby reducing the advertising inventory available for monetization on our platform. While this broader evolution presents challenges to traditional traffic patterns, it also creates new opportunities for platform innovation and engagement, and we are already adjusting our strategy to capitalize on these shifts.
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General worldwide economic conditions continue to experience instability, as well as volatility and disruption in the financial markets. These conditions result from factors including geopolitical tensions, including the effects of the Israel-Hamas conflict and the uncertainty regarding the sustainability of the related cease-fire and the conflict involving Israel, the U.S., Iran and surrounding nations, as well as other geopolitical tensions and uncertainties, global supply chain disruptions, labor market volatility, tariffs and trade wars, general economic uncertainty, inflation, fluctuations in U.S. and global interest rates, and currency exchange rate fluctuations. The global economy is also experiencing heightened uncertainty due to market reactions to changes in international trade and tariff policies, recessionary concerns, corporate bankruptcies, and the impact of actual or potential U.S. government shutdowns, which have the potential to further exacerbate inflationary pressures.
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For additional information regarding the potential impact of macroeconomic factors on our business, see Item 1A, “Risk Factors” in our 2025 Form 10-K.
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User Engagement and Driving Desired Outcomes
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Demand for Outcomes Across the Funnel
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The Role of AI in Content and Personalization
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Generative AI and Search Trends
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Regulatory and Platform Changes
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We generate revenue primarily from advertisers who purchase media inventory from us to deliver digital advertising across a broad range of environments, including web, mobile app, online video, and CTV. Advertisers buy media through our platform using multiple buying models, including cost‑per‑click (“CPC”), cost‑per‑thousand impressions (“CPM”), video completion‑based pricing, and other outcome‑based formats.
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Revenue is recognized when an advertisement is delivered or when the specified outcome—such as an impression, click, completed video view, or other measurable event as defined in the contract—occurs. The nature of the outcome depends on the campaign objective and the applicable pricing model.
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In most arrangements, we act as the principal in the transaction because we control the advertising inventory before it is transferred to the advertiser. In these cases, we recognize revenue on a gross basis for the amount billed to the advertiser. In certain arrangements, where we do not control the advertising inventory prior to transfer, we act as an agent and recognize revenue on a net basis.
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Our revenue is impacted by the level of advertiser demand for our products and by the volume, quality, and performance of available advertising inventory. Demand fluctuates based on macroeconomic conditions, seasonal advertising patterns, campaign performance, brand and performance marketing budgets, and advertiser ROAS expectations. As advertisers achieve their desired ROAS on our platform, they may increase budgets or expand usage of our full‑funnel solutions over time.
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Restructuring Charges. Restructuring charges include non‑recurring severance and related costs incurred in connection with (i) the workforce reduction announced following the Acquisition in February 2025, and (ii) the Strategic Plan initiated in December 2025 to streamline operations and reduce costs. These charges are not reflective of ongoing operating performance and are excluded from certain financial and performance measures.
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Provision (Benefit) for Income Taxes
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Revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2026 decreased $20.4 million, or 7.1%, to $266.0 million, from $286.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025.
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The decrease was primarily driven by lower volumes within direct response offerings, reflecting our 2025 initiative to improve overall quality by exiting certain supply and demand sources. This decrease was partially offset by growth in our CTV offerings and the impact of a full quarter of consolidated operations compared to the partial period in the prior year.
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Traffic Acquisition Costs — decreased $25.1 million, or 13.7%, to $158.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026, from $183.2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025.
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The decrease was primarily driven by lower revenue volumes and a favorable change in revenue mix toward higher-margin offerings. As a percentage of revenue, traffic acquisition costs decreased to 59.4% for the three months ended March 31, 2026, from 64.0% for the three months ended March 31, 2025.
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Other cost of revenue — increased $3.8 million, or 18.5%, to $24.3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026, compared to $20.5 million in the prior year period. This increase was primarily the result of a full quarter of consolidated operations across our expanded platform compared to the partial period results in the prior year following the Acquisition and higher amortization expense of approximately $1.3 million. As a percentage of revenue, other cost of revenue increased to 9.1% for the three months ended March 31, 2026, from 7.1% for the three months ended March 31, 2025.
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Gross profit— increased $0.9 million, or 1.1%, to $83.6 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026, compared to $82.7 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 primarily due to the favorable shift in revenue mix and lower traffic acquisition costs as a percentage of revenue described above, partially offset by lower overall revenue volumes.
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Our Ex-TAC Gross Profit increased $4.8 million, or 4.6%, to $107.9 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026, from $103.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025. The increase was primarily due to a full quarter of consolidated operations compared to the partial period in 2025, partially offset by the lower overall revenue volumes discussed above.
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Operating expenses decreased $21.7 million, or 17.1%, to $105.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026, from $127.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025. This decrease included net unfavorable foreign currency effects of approximately $6.9 million. The decrease was primarily driven by the following factors:
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•the absence in 2026 of $15.6 million in impairment charges recorded in 2025 related to the discontinuation of a legacy video product offering;
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•a $15.1 million decrease in strategic, transaction and integration-related costs included in general and administrative expenses, from $16.4 million during the three months ended March 31, 2025 to $1.3 million during the three months ended March 31, 2026;
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•a $3.3 million decrease in Research and Development expense, primarily related to a reduction in personnel-related costs as a result of achieved cost efficiencies through the integration of our global operations, which more than offset the additional month of base operating costs resulting from a full quarter of combined operations; and
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•$1.7 million in restructuring charges during the three months ended March 31, 2026, compared to $7.3 million during the three months ended March 31, 2025. We estimate that total charges to be incurred under the Strategic Plan will range from approximately $8.0 million to $12.0 million and we expect it to result in annualized cost savings of approximately $35.0 million to $40.0 million. We expect the actions associated with the Strategic Plan to be substantially complete in the first half year of 2026, subject to local law and consultation requirements.
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•These decreases were partially offset by higher Sales and marketing expenses of $12.7 million during the three months ended March 31, 2026 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2025, primarily driven by higher compensation expense due to the timing of a full quarter of consolidated sales compared to a partial period in the prior year and additional amortization of acquired intangible assets.
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As a percentage of revenue, total operating expenses declined to 39.6% for the three months ended March 31, 2026 from 44.4% for the three months ended March 31, 2025. This decrease was primarily driven by the non-recurrence of significant acquisition and integration-related costs, impairment charges, and higher restructuring expenses incurred in the prior year. Additionally, the margin improvement reflects the realization of operational efficiencies and the successful reduction of duplicative costs across the unified platform.
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Other (Expense) Income, Net
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Other (expense) income, net decreased $5.6 million, or 23.9%, to $18.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026, from $23.6 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025, primarily related to a $5.7 million decrease in interest expense to $17.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026 from $23.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025. This decrease was primarily attributable to the absence of $13.3 million in fees and interest related to the $625 million senior secured bridge term loan credit facility (the “Bridge Facility”) incurred during the first quarter of 2025 to finance the Acquisition, which was subsequently repaid in February 2025. These savings were partially offset by a $7.6 million increase in interest expense related to the Senior Secured Notes, which totaled $16.8 million during three months ended March 31, 2026, compared to $9.2 million in the prior year period. The increase in interest on the Senior Secured Notes reflects a full quarter of interest and amortization of related discounts and deferred financing fees in 2026, compared to a partial period in 2025.
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Our effective tax rate decreased to 2.5% in the three months ended March 31, 2026, compared to 19.4% in the three months ended March 31, 2025. This decrease was primarily due to U.S. pre-tax book losses for the year-to-date period being subject to a U.S. valuation allowance, coupled with the pre-tax loss during thethree months ended March 31, 2026.
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As of March 31, 2026, we are in a three-year cumulative loss position in the U.S.. Under applicable accounting guidance, a cumulative loss in recent years represents significant, objective evidence that is difficult to overcome. After weighing all the evidence, we determined that the weight of the objective negative evidence continues to outweigh the positive evidence and we retain the valuation allowance against U.S. federal and state deferred tax assets. The Company will continue to consider existing evidence, both positive and negative, that could impact its view with regard to future realization of deferred tax assets.
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Net Loss
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As of March 31, 2026, we had cash and cash equivalents of $85.5 million and short-term investments of $13.2 million. In addition, we had up to $40.0 million of available borrowing capacity under our 2025 Revolving Facility (as defined below), subject to customary conditions and covenant limitations.
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Outbrain Inc. (“Outbrain”) was incorporated in August 2006 in Delaware. On February 3, 2025, Outbrain completed the acquisition (“Acquisition”) of TEADS, a private limited liability company (société à responsabilité limitée) incorporated and existing under the laws of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (“Legacy Teads”). The consideration paid at the closing of the Acquisition was approximately $0.9 billion. Upon closing, we began operating under the new Teads brand and on June 6, 2025, we completed our corporate name change from Outbrain Inc. to Teads Holding Co. (together with its subsidiaries, “Teads,” the “Company,” “we,” “our,” or “us”). Teads Holding Co.’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”), trades on The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC under the new “TEAD” ticker symbol effective June 10, 2025. The Company is headquartered in New York, New York with various wholly-owned subsidiaries, including in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
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Teads is the omnichannel outcomes platform for the Open Internet, driving full-funnel results for marketers across premium media. With a focus on meaningful business outcomes for branding and performance objectives, we drive value with every media dollar by leveraging predictive AI technology to connect quality media, beautiful brand creative, and context-driven addressability and measurement.
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Our platform is designed to enable advertisers to not only reach their audiences across the entire Open Internet — from web, to CTV, to app environments — but to drive outcomes from those audiences at each step of the marketing funnel. These outcomes include completed views, post-click engagement, brand uplift, sign-ups, sales, and more. Our solution is designed to directly address the largest challenges in the advertising industry today — including inefficient supply chains and fragmentation, quality and scale of inventory, and the ability to correlate advertising investment to concrete business outcomes. For advertisers and their agencies, we offer a single access point to scaled audiences across premium, curated media environments, with technology solutions that we believe drive outcomes from branding to performance. For media owners, we provide both sustainable, year-round advertising revenue and technology solutions designed to more deeply engage and retain audiences.
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By combining the respective sets of exclusive media inventory of Outbrain and Legacy Teads, from publishers to CTV, we believe that we provide a more connected consumer experience across the Open Internet.
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The following is a summary of our performance for the periods presented, which incorporate the results of operations for Legacy Teads from February 3, 2025 through September 30, 2025:
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•Our revenue was $318.8 million in the three months ended September 30, 2025, compared to $224.2 million in the three months ended September 30, 2024, including net favorable foreign currency effects of approximately $5.0 million. Revenue for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 was $948.2 million, compared to $655.3 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, including net favorable foreign currency effects of $7.8 million.
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•Our gross profit was $105.7 million and our gross margin was 33.2% for the three months ended September 30, 2025, compared to gross profit of $48.9 million and gross margin of 21.8% for the comparable period in 2024. Our gross profit was $308.7 million and our gross margin was 32.6% for the nine months ended September 30, 2025, compared to gross profit of $136.0 million and gross margin of 20.8% for the nine months ended September 30, 2024.
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•Our Ex-TAC Gross Profit(1) was $130.5 million in the three months ended September 30, 2025, compared to $59.7 million in the three months ended September 30, 2024. Our Ex-TAC Gross Profit(1) was $377.8 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2025, compared to $167.8 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024.
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•Our net loss was $19.7 million, or (18.6)% of gross profit, in the three months ended September 30, 2025, compared to net income of $6.7 million, or 13.7% of gross profit, for the comparable period in 2024. For the nine months ended September 30, 2025, our net loss was $88.8 million, or (28.8)% of gross profit, compared to net loss of $0.5 million, or (0.4)% of gross profit, for the nine months ended September 30, 2024.
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•Our Adjusted EBITDA(1) was $19.2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2025, compared to $11.5 million for the three months ended September 30, 2024. Adjusted EBITDA(1) was 14.7% and 19.3% of Ex-TAC Gross Profit(1)in the three months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively. Our Adjusted EBITDA(1) was $56.8 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2025, compared to $20.3 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024. Adjusted EBITDA(1)was 15.0% and 12.1% of Ex-TAC Gross Profit(1)for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
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Recent Developments
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Acquisition of Teads
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On August 1, 2024, we entered into a definitive share purchase agreement (the “Share Purchase Agreement”) with Altice Teads S.A. (the “Seller” or “Altice Teads”), a public limited liability company (société anonyme) incorporated and existing under the laws of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the sole shareholder of Legacy Teads, and Legacy Teads. Pursuant to the Share Purchase Agreement, we agreed to acquire all of the issued and outstanding share capital of Legacy Teads on the terms and conditions set forth in the Share Purchase Agreement. On February 3, 2025, the parties entered into Amendment No. 1 to the Share Purchase Agreement, which revised certain terms of the Share Purchase Agreement, including the consideration paid at the closing of the Acquisition.
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On February 3, 2025, we completed the Acquisition for an aggregate closing day consideration of approximately $0.9 billion, including $625 million in cash, subject to certain customary adjustments, and 43.75 million shares of Common Stock. Following the closing, the Seller owns approximately 46.6% of the Company’s issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock (based on the amount of issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock as of December 31, 2024). We believe that the Acquisition created one of the largest Open Internet advertising platforms, which is differentiated by our ability to drive outcomes for awareness, consideration, and performance objectives, across CTV, web and mobile applications.
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During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025, we recorded Acquisition and integration costs of approximately $3.7 million and $25.5 million, respectively. See Note 2 to the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements for additional information on the Acquisition.
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2025 Restructuring Plan
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On February 3, 2025, in connection with the completion of the Acquisition, we announced a restructuring plan (the “Plan”), involving a reduction in workforce, as part of our efforts to streamline operations and reduce duplication of roles. We estimate that we will incur approximately $11 million to $14 million in charges in connection with the Plan, of which approximately $9 million to $11 million is expected to be incurred in 2025. These charges will consist primarily of severance and related costs.
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The actions associated with the employee restructuring under the Plan were initiated in February 2025 and were implemented in large part in the second quarter of 2025, and are expected to be completed by the first quarter of 2026. During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025, the Company recorded associated non-cash charges of approximately $0.7 million and $9.6 million, respectively (see Note 3 to the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements for additional information).
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The estimates of the charges and expenditures that the Company expects to incur in connection with the Plan, and the timing thereof, are subject to a number of assumptions, and actual amounts may differ materially from estimates. In addition, the Company may incur other charges or cash expenditures not currently contemplated due to unanticipated events that may occur, including in connection with the implementation of the Plan.
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Credit Agreements
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In connection with the entry into the Share Purchase Agreement on August 1, 2024, the Company entered into a debt commitment letter, dated August 1, 2024, with Goldman Sachs Bank USA, Jefferies Finance LLC and Mizuho Bank, LTD, pursuant to which these parties committed to provide (i) a $100 million senior secured revolving credit facility and (ii) a senior secured bridge facility in an aggregate principal amount of up to $750 million.
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Further, on the Credit Facilities Closing Date, in connection with the entry into the Credit Agreement described above, the Company terminated the Second Amended and Restated Loan and Security Agreement, dated as of November 2, 2021, by and among the Company, Silicon Valley Bank, a division of First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company, Zemanta Holding USA Inc. and Zemanta Inc.
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Senior Secured Notes
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On February 11, 2025, Midco completed a private offering (the “Offering”) of $637.5 million in aggregate principal amount of 10.000% senior secured notes due 2030 (the “Notes”) at an issue price of 98.087% of the principal amount thereof in a transaction exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). See the “Liquidity and Capital Resources” section below and Note 9 to the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements for additional information regarding the Notes.
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The proceeds from the Offering were used, together with cash on hand, to repay in full and cancel the indebtedness incurred under the Bridge Facility, including accrued and unpaid interest thereon, that was used to finance and pay costs related to the Acquisition, as well as pay fees and expenses incurred in connection with the Offering and the Bridge Facility refinancing.
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On June 17, 2025, the Company completed the repurchase of $9.3 million aggregate principal amount of the Notes for $8.0 million in cash, including accrued interest, representing a discount of approximately 17% to the principal amount of the repurchased Notes.
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Impairment of vi
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In March 2025, in connection with the post-merger integration of the newly acquired Teads business, we made a decision to discontinue the video product offering associated with our prior acquisition of vi. Accordingly, during the nine months ended September 30, 2025, we recorded impairment charges totaling $15.5 million to fully write off the associated intangible assets and capitalized software, as further described below and in Note 5 to the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements.
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In June 2025, a new round of direct hostilities broke out between Israel and Iran, involving significant missile and drone strikes exchanged between the two countries. This escalation and other regional events have heightened regional instability and increased security risks across Israel. These events have resulted in significant travel restrictions, facility closures and shelter-in-place orders, including remote work measures, in various locations, and may further impact critical infrastructure, supply chains, and the broader Israeli economy. In October 2025, a cease-fire was brokered between Israel and Hamas. However, we cannot predict if and to what extent this cease-fire will remain in effect or upheld.
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In the second and third quarters of 2025, we faced operational challenges in returning to growth while implementing the complex integration of two similarly scaled companies. During the third quarter of 2025, we restructured our go-to-market organization and implemented several measures related to our organizational leadership, structure and processes. While these changes have resulted in measurable improvements in leading indicators, they have not yet translated into revenues at the pace we anticipated. We are seeing an increase in new business-generating meetings, a growing pipeline, and a shift in the trajectory of cross-sell revenue. Despite this progress in early-stage metrics, the impact of these improvements on revenue is nascent and has been influenced by factors such as increased competition, advertiser volatility, and agency relationships in certain geographies and verticals. Accordingly, we continue to see a lower rate of sales, a lagging indicator, in the following key countries: the U.S., the United Kingdom and France.
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Our legacy Outbrain DSP business also experienced headwinds, including fromthe clean-up of underperforming supply partners and other quality control changes. These changes had a meaningful impact, with a small number of customers spending a combined $30.0 million less on our platform year over year, driving a $5.0 million decline in year over year Ex-TAC Gross Profit.
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During the third quarter, we engaged an external consulting firm to conduct a comprehensive review of our business to identify opportunities to restore growth and improve profitability. This review provided analysis and specific implementation plans regarding the rationalization of our business portfolio, our operational and organizational structure, and potential further efficiencies, which are being converted into a detailed execution plan.
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User Engagement with Relevant Media and Advertising Content
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We generate revenue from advertisers through ads that we deliver across a variety of media partner properties. We charge advertisers based on certain actions, such as the number of clicks or impressions of their ads, or other actions, such as the number of completed video views. We recognize revenue when an ad is clicked on or displayed to the end user.
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The amount of revenue that we generate depends on the level of demand from advertisers on our media partners’ properties. We generate higher revenue at times of high demand, which is also impacted by seasonal factors. Due to the measurable performance that our advertisers achieve with us, a portion of our advertisers increase their level of spend with us over time as long as their ROAS objectives are met.
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Restructuring Charges. Restructuring charges consist primarily of severance and other costs in connection with our announced Plan to streamline our operations and reduce duplicative workforce upon completion of the Acquisition.
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Gain on Repurchase of Long-Term Debt. On June 17, 2025, we completed the repurchase of $9.3 million aggregate principal amount of the Notes for approximately $8.0 million in cash, including accrued interest, at a discount of approximately 17% to the principal amount and recorded a pre-tax gain of approximately $1.2 million. In September 2024, we repurchased the remaining $118.0 million of our 2.95% Convertible Senior Notes due 2026 (“Convertible Notes”) at a discount of approximately 7.5% of the principal amount and recorded a pre-tax gain of $8.8 million.
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(1)Ex-TAC Gross Profit and Adjusted EBITDA are non-GAAP financial measures. See “Non-GAAP Reconciliations” in this Report for the definitions and limitations of these measures, and reconciliations to the most comparable U.S. GAAP financial measures.
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Our reported increases in revenue for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025 were primarily attributable to incremental revenues from the Acquisition of $126.8 million and $346.2 million, respectively, offset in part by lower revenues of $32.2 million and $53.3 million from the legacy Outbrain business, primarily driven by lower ad impressions from certain media partners.
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The increase in traffic acquisition costs in both periods was largely driven by incremental costs from the Acquisition, partially offset by lower traffic acquisition costs from the legacy Outbrain business, reflecting lower revenue and a net favorable change in our revenue mix. As a percentage of revenue, traffic acquisition costs decreased to 59.0% for the three months ended September 30, 2025, from 73.4% for the three months ended September 30, 2024 and decreased to 60.2% for the nine months ended September 30, 2025, from 74.4% for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, reflecting the higher margin profile of the acquired business.
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The purpose of this Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations (“MD&A”) is to provide the readers of our financial statements with narrative information from our management, which is necessary to understand our business, financial condition, and results of operations. The MD&A should be read in conjunction with our condensed consolidated financial statements and notes thereto. In addition to the condensed consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with the generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (“GAAP”), we use certain non-GAAP financial measures throughout this discussion to provide investors with supplemental metrics used by our management for financial and operational decision making. These measures are supplemental and are not an alternative to our financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. See “Non-GAAP Reconciliations” in this Report for the definitions and limitations of these measures, and reconciliations to the most comparable U.S. GAAP financial measures.
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The purpose of this Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations (“MD&A”) is to provide the readers of our financial statements with narrative information from our management, which is necessary to understand our business, financial condition, and results of operations. The MD&A should be read in conjunction with our condensed consolidated financial statements and notes thereto. In addition to the condensed consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with the generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (“GAAP”), we use certain non-GAAP financial measures throughout this discussion to provide investors with supplemental metrics used by our management for financial and operational decision making. These measures are supplemental and are not an alternative to our financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP. See “Non-GAAP Reconciliations” in this Report for the definitions and limitations of these measures, and reconciliations to the most comparable GAAP financial measures.
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We operate a two-sided marketplace, which together, creates a scaled end-to-end advertising solution. We have direct relationships with both (i) global advertisers including Fortune 500 brands, agency holding companies, and small-to-medium sized businesses, and (ii) media owners spanning premium publishers to connected TV (“CTV”) platforms. We believe that CTV is an example of our investment in and expansion into high-growth channels. CTV positions our platform to capture increasing advertiser spend as it continues its shift from linear television into on-demand television. We generate revenue from advertisers purchasing media owner inventory through our platforms.
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We operate a two-sided marketplace that provides a scaled, end-to-end advertising solution by maintaining direct relationships with global advertisers, including Fortune 500 brands and agency holding companies, as well as media owners spanning premium publishers to CTV, application developers, and other existing and emerging content platforms. We generate revenue primarily from advertisers purchasing media owner inventory through our platform.
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Together with those risk factors we have identified in the 2024 Form 10-K, we have identified the following important factors that could impact our future financial performance or condition:
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Together with the risk factors identified in our 2025 Form 10-K, we have identified the following developments that may impact our future financial performance or condition:
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General worldwide economic conditions have experienced significant instability, as well as volatility and disruption in the financial markets, resulting from factors including geopolitical tensions, including the effects of the war between Russia-Ukraine, the conflict between Israel-Hamas and the sustainability of the related cease-fire, the conflict between Israel-Iran and the uncertain trajectories of such conflicts, tariffs and trade wars, new and proposed legislation in the U.S., the impact of the U.S. government shutdown, general economic uncertainty, inflation, increased interest rates, recessionary concerns, bankruptcies, currency exchange rate fluctuations, global supply chain disruptions, and labor market volatility. The global economy is also experiencing heightened uncertainty in part due to market reactions to changes in tariff policies, which have the potential to further exacerbate inflationary pressures, with the duration of any such impact remaining uncertain. These conditions have negatively impacted our advertisers and, as a result, our business and could, if they continue or worsen further, adversely impact us in the future, including if our advertisers were to reduce or further reduce their advertising spending as a result of any of these factors. We continue to monitor our operations, and the operations of those in our ecosystem (including media partners, advertisers, and agencies), but these conditions make it difficult for us, our media partners, advertisers, and agencies to accurately forecast and plan future business activities and they could cause a further reduction or delay in overall advertising demand and spending or impact our advertisers’ ability to pay, any of which would negatively impact our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
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These conditions have negatively impacted our advertisers and, as a result, our business could, if these conditions continue or worsen, adversely impact us in the future, including if our advertisers were to reduce or further reduce their advertising spending. We continue to monitor our operations, and the operations of those in our ecosystem (including media partners, advertisers, and agencies), but these conditions make it difficult to accurately forecast and plan future business activities. Such volatility could cause a further reduction or delay in overall advertising demand and spending or impact our advertisers’ ability to pay, any of which would negatively impact our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
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Many of our employees, including certain members of our management team and board of directors (“Board”), operate from our offices in Israel. Accordingly, political, economic and military conditions in Israel and the surrounding region directly affect our business and operations. Following the October 7, 2023 attacks by Hamas terrorists on Israel's southern border, Israel declared war against Hamas and since then, Israel has been involved in military conflicts with Hamas, Hezbollah, a terrorist organization based in Lebanon, and Iran, both directly and through proxies like the Houthi movement in Yemen and armed groups in Iraq and other terrorist organizations. Additionally, following the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, Israel conducted limited military operations targeting the Syrian army, Iranian military assets and infrastructure linked to Hezbollah and other Iran-supported groups. Although certain cease-fire agreements have been reached with Hamas and Lebanon (with respect to Hezbollah), these agreements failed to be upheld and military activity and hostilities continue to exist at varying levels of intensity, and the situation remains volatile, with the potential for escalation into a broader regional conflict involving additional terrorist organizations and possibly other countries.
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Many of our employees, including certain members of our management team and board of directors (“Board”), operate from our offices in Israel. Accordingly, political, economic and military conditions in Israel and the surrounding region directly affect our business and operations. Following the October 7, 2023 attacks by Hamas terrorists on Israel’s southern border, Israel declared war against Hamas and since then, Israel has been involved in military conflicts with Hamas, Hezbollah (a terrorist organization based in Lebanon) and Iran, both directly and through proxies. Although a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect on October 10, 2025, there is no assurance that this agreement will continue to be upheld. More recently, in February 2026, hostilities between Israel and Iran escalated again. In late February 2026, Israel, together with the U.S., conducted a major joint military campaign involving air and missile strikes against targets in Iran. These actions triggered a broad Iranian response and contributed to significant regional instability. The situation remains highly fluid, and we are unable to predict when, or on what terms, this escalation will be resolved. As of the date of the filing of this Report, significant volatility and uncertainty persists throughout the Middle East region, with the potential for continued escalation into a broader and more sustained regional conflict.
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The draft of Israeli military reservists, as well as the evacuation of Israeli citizens from areas near conflict zones have adversely affected our employees impacted by such actions. In addition, future government-imposed restrictions and precautions in response to such conflicts may negatively impact our employees, management and directors by interrupting their ability to effectively perform their roles and responsibilities. In addition, further hostilities involving Israel, possible damage to facilities and infrastructure, increased cyber attacks, the interruption or curtailment of trade between Israel and its trading partners, and/or the willingness to do business with companies with operations in Israel, as well as macroeconomic indications of deterioration of Israel’s economic standing as reflected in the downgrading in Israel’s credit rating by rating agencies that took place in parallel to these events, could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations and could make it more difficult for us to raise capital. The intensity and duration of the conflict between Israel and Hamas and the sustainability of the related cease-fire, as well as the conflicts with Hezbollah and other terror organizations and Iran and other countries are difficult to predict and we are continuing to monitor the situation and assessing its potential impact on our business.
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The draft of Israeli military reservists, as well as the evacuation of Israeli citizens from areas near conflict zones have adversely affected, and continue to adversely affect, our employees impacted by such actions. In addition, government-imposed restrictions and precautions in response to such conflicts may negatively impact our employees, management and directors by interrupting their ability to effectively perform their roles and responsibilities. In addition, further hostilities involving Israel could lead to damage to facilities and infrastructure, increased cyber attacks, the interruption or curtailment of trade between Israel and its trading partners, and/or the willingness to do business with companies with operations in Israel. Furthermore, macroeconomic indications of the deterioration of Israel’s economic standing as reflected in the downgrading of Israel’s credit rating by rating agencies (such as Moody’s and S&P Global) could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations and could make it more difficult for us to raise capital.
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We cannot attribute the impact of the current trends in advertising demand to any particular factor, including the conditions in Israel, and cannot predict the impact if the war continues or escalates further. See Item 1A “Risk Factors” included in our 2024 Form 10-K for more information regarding certain risks associated with the conditions in Israel.
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The intensity and duration of these conflicts are difficult to predict and we are continuing to monitor these events and assessing their current and potential impacts on our business. We cannot attribute the impact of the current trends in advertising demand to any particular factor, including conditions in Israel, and cannot predict the impact if these conflicts continue or escalate further. See Item 1A, “Risk Factors” included in our 2025 Form 10-K for more information regarding certain risks associated with the conditions in Israel.
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Our engine serves the ad experiences that are predicted to deliver high attention or engagement, rather than prioritizing simply based on price of the ads. We believe this approach leads to better return on advertiser spend (“ROAS”) for advertisers, whether they are focused on driving a performance outcome, or a branding outcome. Our growth is partially driven by retaining and expanding the amount of spend by advertisers on our platform, as well as by acquiring new advertisers. Through the Acquisition, we have expanded our total addressable market to now include top of the funnel marketing, while also attracting more diverse, premium demand. We view our full-funnel offering of both branding and performance capabilities as an opportunity to increase our share of wallet from advertisers and agencies. In addition, our joint business partnerships, or JBPs, represent a significant overall portion of our revenue and are strategic for driving advertiser retention and growth.
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Our growth is partially driven by retaining and expanding the amount of spend by advertisers on our platform and by acquiring new advertisers. Our total addressable market includes top, middle, and bottom of the marketing funnel, which allows us to attract diverse, premium demand. We view our full-funnel offering of both branding and performance capabilities as an opportunity to increase advertiser and agency spend on our platform. We invest in our relationships with agencies, both on a local and global basis, aligning on mutually beneficial service level agreements, and building products that help to solve their goals and streamline their operations. In addition, our joint business partnerships (“JBPs”) with large enterprise brands represent a significant overall portion of our revenue and are strategic for driving advertiser retention and growth.
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We continually invest in enhancements to our platform that allow advertisers to drive concrete business outcomes and ROAS. In particular, we are expanding our usage of AI to automate manual tasks in campaign set up and optimization, and to enhance advertiser creative and landing page performance. We also support advertisers with developing creative ads across formats, as a value added service to our advertisers.
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We continually invest in enhancements to our platform that allow advertisers to drive concrete business outcomes and return on advertiser spend (“ROAS”). In particular, we are expanding our use of AI to automate manual tasks in campaign setup and optimization, while enhancing advertiser creative and overall performance. We also support advertisers with developing creative ads across formats, as a value added service to our advertisers.
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Prices paid by advertisers on our platform fluctuate period to period for a variety of reasons, including supply and demand balance, macroeconomic conditions, and seasonality. In order to grow our revenue and Ex-TAC Gross Profit and maximize value for our advertisers and media partners, our focus as a business is on driving business outcomes and ROAS for advertisers, not on optimizing for price.
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Advertiser budgets and pricing on our platform fluctuate from period to period for a variety of reasons, including advertiser-specific cycles and preferences, quality of performance and ROAS, supply and demand balance, macroeconomic conditions, and seasonality. In order to grow our revenue and Ex-TAC Gross Profit and maximize value for our advertisers and media partners, our focus as a business is on driving business outcomes and ROAS for advertisers.
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For the nine months ended September 30, 2025, tens of thousands unique advertisers were active on our owned and operated platforms, in addition to the thousands of advertisers who access the platform through programmatic partnerships.
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For the three months ended March 31, 2026, thousands of unique advertisers were active on our owned and operated platforms, in addition to the thousands of advertisers who access the platform through programmatic partnerships.
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Our relationships with media partners are typically long-term, exclusive, and strategic in nature. Our top 20 media partners leveraged our platform for an average of 7 years (based on 2024 revenue), despite their typical contract length being two to four years.
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Our relationships with our media partners are typically long-term and strategic in nature, providing us with valuable ad inventory, often on an exclusive basis. Our top 20 media partners leveraged our platform for an average of 7 years (based on 2025 revenue).
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Our growth depends on media partners’ ability to drive traffic to their sites and generate page views. The proliferation of social media properties, streaming services and other platforms, as well as the adoption of AI have negatively impacted and may continue to negatively impact our media partners’ growth.
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Our growth depends on media partners’ ability to drive traffic to their sites, apps or other properties. The proliferation of social media properties, streaming services and other platforms, as well as the adoption of AI have negatively impacted and may continue to negatively impact the growth of key segments of our media partners, namely digital publishers. At the same time, the trends in user engagement create new opportunities and further needs from the media partners for our solutions to engage users and enhance monetization.
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Fundamentally, we plan to continue to make our platform available for media partners on all types of devices and platforms and evolve our business to apply our technology to the most popular methods of media consumption, which now include unique video, high-impact display, and other new media experiences, such as Moments, our vertical video offering launched in 2024, powered by Outbrain technology.
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Fundamentally, we plan to continue to make our platform available for media partners on all types of devices and platforms and evolve our business to apply our technology to the most popular methods of media consumption, such as CTV environments including HomeScreen advertising placements.
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Examples of environments in which content consumption is expected to grow include pre-installed applications on Smartphones, Smartphone content feeds, gaming applications, push notifications, and CTV. Through the Acquisition, we have created an omnichannel outcomes platform, enabling advertisers to not only reach their audiences across the entire Open Internet — from web, to CTV, to app environments — but to drive outcomes from those audiences at each step of the marketing funnel.
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Examples of environments in which content consumption is expected to grow include CTV, online video, mobile in-app environments, and within Large Language Models (“LLMs”) interfaces. Our omnichannel outcomes platform enables advertisers to not only reach their audiences across the broad digital advertising ecosystem — from web, to CTV, to app environments — but to drive outcomes from those audiences at each step of the marketing funnel.
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The development and deployment of new ad formats allow us to better serve consumers, media partners and, ultimately, advertisers who seek to target and engage consumers at scale; we believe this continues to open and grow new types of advertiser demand, while ensuring relevance as the environments in which we operate diversify. As an example, we are rolling out our Connected Ads solutions, a new offering designed to provide a more immersive brand experience by delivering complementary ad placements on a single publisher page. We believe these initiatives are critical to our long-term growth and our ability to deliver differentiated value.
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The development and deployment of new ad formats and further penetrating new and growing environments, allow us to better serve advertisers who seek to target and engage consumers at scale. We believe this continues to open and grow new types of advertiser demand, while ensuring the relevance of the environments in which we operate.
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Driving attention and engagement is the key pillar of our platform that drives value for consumers, media partners, and advertisers. Our AI prediction engine manages this dynamic, matching consumers with editorial and advertiser experiences that will deliver attention and engagement across the Open Internet. We believe that the user experience has a profound impact on long-term user behavior patterns and thus “compounds” over time, improving our long-term monetization prospects. This principle guides our behavior and, as a result, we strive to compound consumer attention and engagement, continually enhancing value for both advertisers and media owners.
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Driving outcomes is a key pillar of our platform that drives value for media partners and advertisers. Our AI prediction engine manages this dynamic, matching consumers with editorial and advertiser experiences that will deliver desired outcomes across the digital advertising ecosystem.
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Growth in attention and engagement is driven by several factors, including enhancements to our AI prediction engine, growth in the breadth and depth of our data assets, the size and quality of our content and advertising index, user engagement, new media partners, expansion on existing media partners and expansion to new media environments and formats. As we grow attention and engagement, we are able to collect more data and continually improve our prediction engine, which drives better results for our advertiser and media owner partners. This growth “flywheel” can be measured by growth of the consumer data points we drive, such as click-through-rate (“CTR”). CTR improvements increase the number of clicks on our platform. We believe that we have a significant opportunity to further grow consumer engagement, and thus our business, as today CTR for ads on the Outbrain platform is less than 1% of ads served.
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The ability to deliver on outcomes for our media partners and advertisers is driven by several factors, including enhancements to our AI prediction engine, growth in the breadth and depth of our data assets, the size and quality of our content and advertising index, user engagement, new media partners, expansion on existing media partners and expansion to new media environments and formats. As we expand and invest, we are able to further maximize our efficacy across different screens and devices, support brands effectively across the lifecycle of their needs, and collect and connect more data and, as a result, continually improve our prediction engines, which drives better results for our advertiser and media owner partners.
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Innovation is a core tenet of our Company and our industry. We plan to continue our investments in our people and our technology in order to retain and enhance our competitive position. For example, improvements to our AI prediction engine or use of additional data signals, help us deliver more relevant ads, driving higher user engagement, thereby improving ROAS for advertisers and increasing monetization for our media partners.
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Innovation is a core tenet of our Company and our industry. The dynamic and continuously evolving nature of the digital advertising ecosystem will be significantly impacted by the use of AI in further driving innovative new technologies and solutions. We plan to continue our investments in our people, our technology, and moreover our people’s use of AI in order to retain and enhance our competitive position. For example, improvements to our AI prediction engine, or use of additional data signals, help us deliver more relevant ads, driving higher user engagement, thereby improving ROAS or other desired outcomes for advertisers and increasing monetization for our media partners.
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We believe in the transformative power of AI in shaping the future of sustainable media, and we are powered by our deep expertise in using AI technology for years to empower both media owners and advertisers in their businesses. We leverage AI in a manner designed to enable media owners to increase their revenues and connect with audiences on their own platforms within the Open Internet. We use machine learning to predict consumer interest and propensity to convert ads to sales. Our technology has developed into a robust AI machine learning system and is largely homegrown by our Research and Development team. One of the strongest long-term levers in our business is the continuous improvement of our algorithms and the data sets our algorithms learn from. Our direct integrations across our media partners’ properties provide us with a large volume of proprietary first-party data, including context, user interest and behavioral signals. The more data points we have, the better our advertisers’ ROAS, and yield potential can be.
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We believe in the transformative power of AI in shaping the future of sustainable media, and we are powered by our deep expertise in using predictive AI technology for years to empower both media owners and advertisers in their businesses. We leverage predictive AI in a manner designed to enable media owners to increase their revenues and connect with audiences on their own platforms. We use machine learning to predict consumer interest and propensity to convert ads to sales. Our technology has developed into a robust AI machine learning system and is largely homegrown by our Research and Development team. One of the strongest long-term levers in our business is the continuous improvement of our algorithms and the data sets our algorithms learn from. Our direct integrations across our media partners’ properties provide us with a large volume of proprietary first-party data, including context, user interest and behavioral signals. The more data points we have, the better we believe our advertisers’ ROAS and yield potential can be.
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Our dynamic placement optimization and ad serving technology, powered by our Smartlogic product, dynamically adjusts both the arrangement and the formats of content delivered to a user, depending on the user’s preferences and a media partner’s key performance indicators, designed to provide a tailored and engaging feed experience. We continue to invest in media partner and advertiser focused tools, technology, and products as well as privacy-centric solutions.
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Our placement optimization and ad serving technology dynamically adjusts both the arrangement and the formats of content delivered to a user, depending on the user’s preferences and a media partner’s key performance indicators, designed to provide a tailored and engaging experience. We continue to invest in media partner and advertiser focused tools, technology, and products as well as privacy-centric solutions.
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Our business depends on the overall demand for digital advertising, on the continuous success of our current and prospective media partners, and on general market conditions. Digital advertising is a rapidly growing industry, with growth that has outpaced the growth of the broader advertising industry. Content consumption continues to shift online, requiring media owners to adapt in order to successfully attract, engage and monetize their consumers. As audiences are increasingly engaged across digital media platforms, and as more purchase data is created, collected, integrated and analyzed digitally, advertisers are increasingly able to leverage sophisticated measurement and attribution solutions in order to optimize their advertising spend across the marketing funnel. As a result, advertisers are increasingly shifting spend away from legacy media offerings towards data-based solutions, driven by performance-centric metrics. We believe that our strength in delivering engagement and clear outcomes for advertisers, built on our proprietary AI prediction engine, aligns well with the ongoing market shift towards increased accountability and expectations of ROAS from digital advertising spend.
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Our business depends on the overall demand for digital advertising, on the continuous success of our current and prospective media partners, and on general market conditions. Digital advertising is a rapidly growing industry, with growth that has outpaced the growth of the broader advertising industry. Content consumption continues to evolve, requiring media owners to adapt in order to successfully attract, engage and monetize their consumers. As audiences are increasingly engaged across digital media platforms, and as more purchase data is created, collected, integrated and analyzed digitally, advertisers are increasingly able to leverage sophisticated measurement and attribution solutions in order to optimize their advertising spend across the marketing funnel. As a result, advertisers are increasingly shifting spend away from legacy media offerings towards data-based solutions, driven by performance-centric metrics. We believe that our strength in delivering engagement and clear outcomes for advertisers, from high-impact branding to lower-funnel performance, built on our proprietary AI prediction engine, aligns well with the ongoing market shift towards increased accountability and expectations of ROAS from digital advertising spend.
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AI is revolutionizing content creation, distribution, and personalization; automating tasks like video editing, image recognition, and language translation. AI-powered systems are also improving content delivery, helping media platforms suggest relevant movies, shows, articles, and advertisements to consumers. This is especially important at a time when advertisers increasingly anticipate measurable results from their digital advertising investments. Our experience in this space enables us to more nimbly capitalize on the opportunities for media owners and advertisers to leverage AI and automation to engage consumers and optimize their business goals.
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AI is revolutionizing content creation, distribution, and personalization; automating tasks like video editing, image recognition, and language translation. AI-powered systems are also improving content delivery, helping media platforms suggest relevant movies, shows, articles, and advertisements to consumers. This is especially important at a time when advertisers increasingly anticipate measurable results from their digital advertising investments. We believe that our experience in this space enables us to more nimbly capitalize on the opportunities for media owners and advertisers to leverage AI and automation to engage consumers and optimize their business goals. For additional information regarding our strategic approach to these technologies, see “Business—Industry” and“Risk Factors” in our 2025 Form 10-K.
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At the same time, the proliferation of generative AI tools, particularly their integration into major search engines and web browsers, is causing a shift in how users discover and consume content online. These tools can provide users with direct answers and AI-generated summaries, which has reduced their need to click through to original publisher websites. This trend of bypassing the traditional user journey to a publisher’s site could lead to a significant decline in direct user traffic across the Open Internet. A reduction in traffic to our media partners directly decreases the inventory of advertising impressions available for us to monetize, which has affected, and could in the future have a significant effect on, our revenue and results of operations.
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At the same time, the proliferation of generative AI tools, particularly their integration into major search engines and web browsers, is causing a shift in how users discover and consume content online. These tools can provide users with direct answers and AI-generated summaries, which has reduced their need to click through to original publisher websites. This trend of bypassing the traditional user journey to a publisher’s site could lead to a significant decline in direct user traffic. A reduction in traffic to our media partners directly decreases the inventory of advertising impressions available for us to monetize, which has affected, and could in the future have a significant effect on, our revenue and results of operations. For additional information regarding the impact of these trends and the related risks to our business, see “Business—Industry” and “Risk Factors” in our 2025 Form 10-K.
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Regulators across most developed markets are increasingly focused on enacting and enforcing user privacy rules as well as exerting tighter oversight on the major “walled garden” platforms. Industry participants have recently been, and likely will continue to be, impacted by changes implemented by platform leaders, such as Apple’s change to its Identifier for Advertisers policy and Google’s evolving roadmap pertaining to the use of third-party cookies within its Chrome web browser. See Item 1A, “Risk Factors'' in our 2024 Form 10-K for additional information regarding changing industry dynamics with respect to industry participants and the regulatory environment.
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Regulators across most developed markets are increasingly focused on enacting and enforcing user privacy rules as well as exerting tighter oversight on the major “walled garden” platforms. Industry participants have recently been, and likely will continue to be, impacted by changes implemented by platform leaders, such as Apple’s change to its Identifier for Advertisers policy and Google’s evolving roadmap pertaining to the use of third-party cookies within its Chrome web browser. For additional information regarding changing industry dynamics with respect to industry participants and the regulatory environment, see “Business—Industry,”“Business—Regulatory” and“Risk Factors” in our 2025 Form 10-K.
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We continue to expand and introduce new platform features that are adopted by our clients, expand our omnichannel capabilities, extend our reach to more CTV and other inventory and add additional clients whose businesses may have different underlying business models.
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We continue to expand and introduce new platform features that are adopted by our advertisers, expand our omnichannel capabilities, extend our reach to more CTV, video offerings, and other inventory and add additional customers whose businesses may have different underlying business models.
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Our agreements with advertisers provide them with considerable flexibility to modify their overall budget, price (cost-per-click or cost-per-impression), and the ads they wish to deliver on our platform.
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Our agreements with advertisers provide them with considerable flexibility to modify their overall budget, price (CPC and CPM), and the ads they wish to deliver on our platform, which can impact the timing and amount of revenue recognized.
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We define traffic acquisition costs (“TAC”) as amounts owed to media partners for the purchase of inventory. We incur costs with our media partners, which may be publishers or third-party intermediaries, in the period in which certain actions, such as click-throughs, impressions or views occur. Such costs due to media partners are based on the media partners’ contractual revenue share, a CPM model or guaranteed rates of payment based on certain media partner conditions. In some circumstances, we incur costs based on a guaranteed minimum payment, which may be based on either impressions, page views or a fixed amount if the partner reaches certain performance targets, in exchange for guaranteed placement on specified portions of the media owners’ online properties. As such, traffic acquisition costs may not correlate with fluctuations in revenue, as our costs may remain fixed even with a decrease in revenue. Traffic acquisition costs also include amounts payable to media partners whose supply is purchased programmatically.
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We define traffic acquisition costs (“TAC”) as amounts owed to media partners for the purchase of inventory. We incur costs with our media partners, which may be publishers, third-party intermediaries, or other parties such as original equipment manufacturers, in the period in which certain actions, such as click-throughs, impressions or views occur. Such costs due to media partners are based on the media partners’ contractual revenue share, programmatic bidding or guaranteed minimums based on certain media partner conditions. In some circumstances, we incur costs based on a guaranteed minimum payment, which may be based on either impressions, page views or a fixed amount if the partner reaches certain performance targets, in exchange for guaranteed placement on specified portions of the media partners’ online properties. As such, traffic acquisition costs may not correlate with fluctuations in revenue, as our costs may remain fixed even with a decrease in revenue. Traffic acquisition costs also include amounts payable to media partners whose supply is purchased programmatically.
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Other cost of revenue consists of costs related to the management of our data centers, hosting fees, data connectivity costs, research and insight costs, and depreciation and amortization. Other cost of revenue also includes the amortization of capitalized software that is developed or obtained for internal use associated with our revenue-generating technologies.
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Other cost of revenue consists of costs related to the management of our data centers, hosting fees, data connectivity costs, research and insight costs, and depreciation and amortization. Other cost of revenue also includes the amortization of capitalized software that is developed or obtained for internal use associated with our revenue-generating technologies and amortization of intangible assets.
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Impairment Charges. Impairment charges primarily consist of impairments of long-lived assets and capitalized software associated with the discontinuance of the video product offering associated with vi during the first quarter of 2025, as well as impairments of right-of-use assets for exited office locations, both in connection with the post-Acquisition integration of Teads.
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Impairment of Intangible Assets. Impairment of intangible assets primarily consist of impairments of long-lived assets and capitalized software associated with the discontinuance of the video product offering associated with vi during the first quarter of 2025.
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Other (expense) income, net is comprised of gains on repurchases of our long-term debt, interest expense, and other (expense) income and interest income, net.
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Other (expense) income, net is comprised of interest expense, and other (expense) income and interest income, net.
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Interest Expense. Interest expense consists of interest and fees on the Bridge Facility drawn and repaid during the first quarter of 2025, interest on our Notes, the Overdraft Facility (as defined below) assumed in the Acquisition, our revolving credit facilities, and our previously outstanding convertible notes. Interest expense may increase if we incur any borrowings under our 2025 Revolving Facility or if we enter into new debt facilities or finance lease arrangements.
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Interest Expense. Interest expense consists of interest on our 10.000% senior secured notes due 2030 (“Senior Secured Notes”), the Overdraft Facility (as defined below) assumed in the Acquisition, our revolving credit facilities, interest and fees on our senior secured bridge term loan credit facility drawn and repaid during the first quarter of 2025, and amortization of the related discount and deferred financing fees. Interest expense may increase if we incur any borrowings under our 2025 Revolving Facility (as defined below) or if we enter into new debt facilities or finance lease arrangements.
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Benefit for income taxes consists of federal and state income taxes in the United States and income taxes in certain foreign juris dictions, as well as deferred income taxes and changes in valuation allowance, reflecting the net tax effects of temporary differences between the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities for financial reporting purposes and the amounts used for income tax purposes.
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Provision (Benefit) for income taxes consists of federal and state income taxes in the United States and income taxes in certain foreign juris dictions, as well as deferred income taxes and changes in valuation allowance, reflecting the net tax effects of temporary differences between the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities for financial reporting purposes and the amounts used for income tax purposes.
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As a result of the Acquisition, our results of operations include the results of the acquired business from February 3, 2025 through September 30, 2025. Accordingly, the financial information presented as of and for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025 is not directly comparable to our financial information presented for the corresponding prior year periods.
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We have one operating segment, which is also our reportable segment. The following table sets forth our condensed consolidated results for the periods presented. Our 2026 results incorporate a full quarter of combined operations, whereas our 2025 results include the Legacy Teads business only from the Acquisition date of February 3, 2025, through March 31, 2025. Because the prior year period includes the results of the acquired business for only a portion of the quarter, the financial information presented for the three months ended March 31, 2026 is not directly comparable to the corresponding prior year period.
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(1)Ex-TAC Gross Profit, Adjusted EBITDA, and Adjusted EBITDA as a percentage of Ex-TAC Gross Profit are non-GAAP financial measures. See “Non-GAAP Reconciliations” in this Report for definitions and limitations of these measures, and reconciliations to the comparable GAAP financial measures.
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(1)Ex-TAC Gross Profit, Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA as a percentage of Ex-TAC Gross Profit are non-GAAP financial measures. See “Non-GAAP Reconciliations” in this Report for definitions and limitations of these measures, and reconciliations to the comparable U.S. GAAP financial measures.
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Three and Nine Months Ended September 30, 2025 Compared to Three and Nine Months Ended September 30, 2024
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Three Months Ended March 31, 2026 Compared to Three Months Ended March 31, 2025
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Revenue for the three months ended September 30, 2025 increased $94.6 million, or 42.2%, to $318.8 million, from $224.2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2024. Revenue increased $292.9 million, or 44.7%, to $948.2 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 from $655.3 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024. Revenue for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025 included net favorable foreign currency effects of approximately $5.0 million and $7.8 million, respectively, and increased $89.6 million and $285.1 million, respectively, on a constant currency basis, compared to the prior year period.
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Revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2026 included net favorable foreign currency effects of approximately $11.6 million. On a constant currency basis, revenue decreased $32.0 million, or 11.2%, compared to the prior year period.
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Traffic acquisition costs — increased $23.7 million, or 14.4%, to $188.2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2025, compared to $164.5 million in the prior year period. Traffic acquisition costs increased $82.9 million, or 17.0%, to $570.4 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2025, compared to $487.5 million in the prior year period. Traffic acquisition costs for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025 included net unfavorable foreign currency effects of approximately $4.6 million and $7.2 million, respectively, and increased $19.1 million and $75.7 million, respectively on a constant currency basis, compared to the prior year period.
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Traffic acquisition costs for the three months ended March 31, 2026, included net unfavorable foreign currency effects of approximately $6.4 million. Excluding these effects, traffic acquisition costs decreased $31.5 million, or 17.2%, on a constant currency basis compared to the prior year period.
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Benefit from income taxes was $4.7 million for the three months ended September 30, 2025, compared to provision for income taxes of $1.2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2024. Benefit from income taxes was $23.6 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2025, compared to benefit of $1.1 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024. These increases in benefits from income taxes were primarily due to higher pre-tax losses during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025, compared to the respective prior year periods.
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Benefit for income taxes was $1.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026, compared to a benefit of $13.2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025. The decrease in the benefit from income taxes was primarily due to lower pre-tax losses during thethree months ended March 31, 2026, compared to the respective prior year period, and U.S. pre-tax book losses for the year-to-date period being subject to a U.S. valuation allowance.
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On July 4, 2025, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “OBBBA”) was enacted into law in the U.S., with certain provisions of the OBBBA effective in 2025 and others becoming effective in 2026 and beyond. The OBBBA amends U.S. tax law including provisions related to bonus depreciation, interest deduction limitations, research and development, and foreign derived intangible income. The OBBBA provisions did not have a material impact on our total tax benefits for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2025. For the full 2025 year, we expect that the OBBBA provisions will result in lower cash taxes due to a favorable change to the US interest expense limitation regime, which allowed for more interest to be deducted in 2025 rather than carried forward into future years. We will continue to evaluate discretionary elections available and other provisions which become effective in 2026.
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On July 4, 2025, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “OBBBA”) was enacted into law in the U.S.. In 2026, Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income and Foreign-Derived Intangible Income have been modified to net controlled-foreign-corporation tested income (“NCTI”) and foreign-derived deduction eligible income (“FDDEI”), respectively. The OBBBA provisions did not have a material impact on the Company’s total tax benefits for the three months ended March 31, 2026.
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We are facing a changing eco-system, including declining traffic trends on the traditional publisher side of the Open Internet, and increased competition on the demand side. The proliferation of generative AI tools, particularly their integration into major search engines and web browsers, is causing a shift in how users discover and consume content online. These tools can provide users with direct answers and AI-generated summaries, which has reduced their need to click through to original publisher websites. This trend of bypassing the traditional user journey to a publisher’s site has led to a decline in direct user traffic across the Open Internet. For a representative segment of our premium publisher partners, we have observed this trend result in an approximate 10% to 15% decline in paid page views. A reduction in traffic to our media partners directly decreases the inventory of advertising impressions available for us to monetize, which has affected and continues to affect our revenue and results of operations.
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We have one operating segment, which is also our reportable segment. The following table sets forth our results of operations for the periods presented, which incorporates the results of Legacy Teads for the period from February 3, 2025 through September 30, 2025:
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As of September 30, 2025, our available liquidity was follows: