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ON THE COMPANY
4.A. HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE COMPANY
General Corporate Information
We were incorporated as Marimedia Ltd. in 2007 in Israel under
the Companies Law. We changed our name to Taptica International Ltd. in September 2015, then to Tremor International Ltd. in June 2019,
and to Nexxen International Ltd., in January 2024. Our principal executive offices are located at 82 Yigal Alon Street, Tel Aviv, 6789124,
Israel. Our website address is www.nexxen.com, and our telephone number is +972-3-545-3900. Information contained on, or that can be accessed
through, our website does not constitute a part of this Annual Report and is not incorporated by reference herein. We have included our
website address in this Annual Report solely for informational purposes.
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The effective date of the registration statement (Commission File
No. 333-256452) for our initial public offering of our ADSs on the Nasdaq Global Market was June 17, 2021. The offering commenced on June
17, 2021 and was closed on July 15, 2021.
On February 14, 2025, we executed the Reverse Split and voluntarily
terminated our ADS facility in connection with the Trading Structure Changes.
Our SEC filings are available to you on the SEC’s website
at www.sec.gov, which contains reports, proxy and information statements, and other information regarding issuers that file electronically
with the SEC. The information on that website is not part of this Annual Report and is not incorporated by reference herein.
Nexxen Inc., which currently maintains an office at 661 El Camino
Real, San Carlos Suite 200, California, 94070, United States of America, is our agent to receive service of process or other legal summons
for purposes of any such suit, action or proceeding that may be instituted in any state or federal court in the Borough of Manhattan in
the City of New York.
For information on our capital expenditures, see Item 5.B. “Operating
and Financial Review and Prospects—Liquidity and Capital Resources—Capital Expenditures”.
4.B. BUSINESS OVERVIEW
Our Mission
Our mission is to empower full-funnel performance for advertisers, agencies, publishers,
broadcasters, and others across the digital advertising ecosystem through robust, and in some cases exclusive, data and media.
Overview
Nexxen is a global flexible advertising technology platform with
deep expertise in data and advanced TV that provides advertisers, agencies, digital publishers, broadcasters, and others with technology
and data solutions to plan, buy, manage, sell, and measure advertising across the digital advertising supply chain. Our unified end-to-end
platform, powered by data and artificial intelligence (“AI”), supports advertising workflows spanning planning, activation,
optimization, monetization, and measurement across formats and devices, and is designed to drive full-funnel performance and efficiency
for customers on both sides of the digital advertising ecosystem. While supporting digital advertising efforts across formats and devices,
Nexxen maintains a particular focus on some of the industry’s fastest-growing segments, including Connected TV (“CTV”),
Video, and data-driven solutions, supported by a global team of seasoned technologists and industry experts.
We believe there is a significant market opportunity within the
approximately $792 billion global digital advertising market, which is expected to grow at a CAGR of approximately 10% through 2029,
according to eMarketer. Publishers rely on advertising to support their businesses and brands, and advertisers use digital channels to
reach targeted and measurable audiences to maximize effectiveness and returns. We believe the digital advertising market remains fragmented,
and that our comprehensive end-to-end platform and data capabilities, along with our expertise in Video and CTV, position Nexxen competitively
to increase market share over time.
We believe we are well positioned to benefit from several trends
in the evolving advertising ecosystem, including: the continued proliferation of digital media consumption; growing adoption of programmatic
advertising; increasing advertiser focus on premium formats such as Video and CTV; the shift of linear advertising budgets toward, and
their convergence with, digital advertising budgets; the continued migration of live sports to digital environments, including CTV; increased
advertiser reliance on data-driven tools and AI; and the increasing sophistication of the digital advertising landscape.
We address the digital advertising market through three core proprietary
offerings: a demand-side platform (“DSP”) that advertisers use to plan, activate, and manage digital advertising campaigns;
a supply-side platform (“SSP”) that digital publishers use to monetize inventory; and the Nexxen Data Platform, which integrates
directly with both our DSP and SSP to drive performance. Our Data Platform leverages large-scale data sets, advanced machine learning
techniques, and AI to generate audience insights and campaign recommendations. By contextualizing and synthesizing this data, the platform
is designed to provide advertisers with a more comprehensive and granular view of audiences across formats and devices, which can improve
campaign effectiveness and returns on advertising investments, while also supporting the optimization of digital publisher inventory monetization.
By combining these three proprietary solutions with integrations across industry-leading partners, we offer an end-to-end platform that
is designed to be flexible and scalable to meet our customers’ needs, while enabling us to operate across a broad and growing range
of digital advertising spend and verticals.
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Our customers are largely comprised of both ad buyers, including
brands and agencies, and digital publishers. Our platform serviced a diversified customer base of 627 active customers and 1,304 active
publishers as of December 31, 2025, and served advertisements in approximately 180 countries. We generate revenue through platform fees
based on either (i) a percentage of spend, (ii) flat fees or (iii) fixed CPMs (“cost per mille”) that are tailored to fit
our customers’ specific utilization of our solutions.
Over the past several years, the advertising environment has been
influenced by a combination of macroeconomic, geopolitical, and pandemic-related factors. In 2022 and 2023, advertisers faced challenges
from rising inflation, higher interest rates, and ongoing uncertainty related to the residual effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, which
in some cases led to reduced or delayed campaigns. In 2024, the industry benefitted from lower inflation, reduced interest rates, and
the U.S. election cycle, contributing to stronger advertising activity, although geopolitical hostilities and broader macroeconomic uncertainty
continued to impact advertiser budgets to an extent. In 2025, the advertising environment remained generally positive, but growth was
constrained by: cautious and uneven consumer spending; macroeconomic and industry uncertainty; evolving U.S. trade dynamics; ongoing geopolitical
hostilities; tariffs; reduced political advertising spend compared to 2024; and increased supply path optimization (“SPO”)
efforts by larger industry participants.
Our Video revenue grew to $242.0 million for the year ended December
31, 2025, from $232.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, while our CTV revenue fell to $109.4 million for the year ended December
31, 2025, from $113.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2024. Video revenue growth in 2025 was driven largely by strength in Desktop
Video and partially offset by reduced CTV and Mobile video revenue. Video revenue growth, however, was constrained by several factors
that impacted the business in the second half of the year, particularly Q4 2025, including reduced spending from one large DSP customer
due to its increased SPO efforts in Q4 2025, the absence of elevated political advertising spend compared to 2024, and other headwinds
including evolving U.S. trade dynamics, geopolitical hostilities, and tariffs which reduced advertising spend to an extent from certain
customers.
The Company generates revenues across multiple principal markets
and categories of activity. Information regarding revenues by category of activity and by geographic market for the years ended December
31, 2025, 2024 and 2023 is presented in Notes 12 and 21a, respectively, to the consolidated financial statements.
Our total comprehensive income for the year ended December 31,
2025 decreased to $27.9 million from $35.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, representing a decline of 21.3%, or $7.5 million.
Our Adjusted EBITDA for the year ended December 31, 2025 increased to $115.1 million, from $114.6 million for the year ended December
31, 2024, reflecting a year-over-year increase of 0.5%, or $0.6 million. Further, we had cash and cash equivalents of $133.3 million as
of December 31, 2025, and no principal long-term debt.
Our Industry
We operate in the digital advertising industry, which is a core
pillar of monetizing digital properties accessible by the internet. We specialize in digital video advertising, which collectively comprised
66% of our revenue for the year ended December 31, 2025, across mobile video, desktop video, and CTV.
We believe key industry trends shaping the digital advertising
market include: the continued growth of digital media consumption; the shift to programmatic advertising; increasing reliance on data-driven
decision making; evolving consumer privacy and regulatory requirements; SPO; the migration of linear TV advertisers and budgets toward
digital media; including CTV; live sports continuing to migrate to digital channels; the adoption of platforms that provide integrated
solutions across the advertising supply chain; advances in AI; and seasonal fluctuations in advertising spend.
Continued Growth of Digital Media Consumption
Audiences continue to spend an increasing amount of time online
for social, business, and purchasing activities. The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent work-from-home and hybrid in-office dynamics contributed
to lasting shifts in digital media consumption habits and the adoption of online activities traditionally conducted offline, including
telehealth, food delivery, and e-commerce. As consumers spend more time online for everyday activities, we believe advertisers will increasingly
allocate a larger portion of their ad budgets to digital channels. According to eMarketer, in the United States, more than a third of
the day is expected to be spent on digital media consumption during 2026. This digital consumption is occurring across multiple devices,
including mobile, desktop, tablets, gaming devices, and CTVs. These trends may contribute to increases in both the supply and demand of
available ad impressions that can be monetized programmatically.
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Shift to Programmatic Advertising
Programmatic advertising is the use of software and algorithms
to match buyers and sellers of digital advertising in a real-time technology-driven marketplace. The transactions are executed in milliseconds
and do not require manual labor for execution. It is becoming increasingly prominent in the digital advertising industry, as publishers
and advertisers prefer that their bids/asks for digital ad inventory be completed in an easy, efficient, and automated manner. Additional
advantages of programmatic advertising include enhanced audience targeting, attribution, and measurement, as well as improved customized
campaign management workflow solutions. According to eMarketer, U.S. programmatic digital video ad spending is expected to increase from
approximately $118 billion in 2025 to roughly $159 billion in 2027, at a CAGR of approximately 16%.
Data Driven Decision Making and AI
As the digital media industry grows, increased consumer engagement
by audiences has generated large amounts of data and behavioral insights that can be harnessed to maximize returns on investment (“ROI”)
for advertisers through effective audience targeting and measurement, and to optimize digital inventory monetization for publishers. These
insights include industry-compliant anonymized data sets relating to consumer interests, preferences, and intent, as well as auction data
from advertising bid requests. Technology solutions must efficiently and effectively process, analyze, and manage this growing volume
of data while addressing increasing regulatory requirements and audience protection standards. AI is also becoming increasingly prevalent
within the industry to enhance usability and maximize efficiency and effectiveness for advertisers and digital publishers across the advertising
ecosystem.
Consumer Privacy and Regulatory Concerns
In recent years, there has been growing attention on how consumer
data is being collected and used for ad targeting. Both globally and locally, new laws have been introduced to protect consumer privacy
and set new standards for the digital advertising industry. Key regulations include the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), the
UK GDPR, the ePrivacy Directive (as implemented in national laws, including the UK Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations),
California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, California Invasion of Privacy Act, the Colorado Privacy
Act, the Connecticut Data Privacy Act, Florida Digital Bill of Rights, Indiana Consumer Data Protection Act, Iowa Consumer Data Protection
Act, Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act, Maryland Online Data Privacy Act, Montana Consumer Privacy Act, Nevada Privacy of Information
Collected on the Internet from Consumers Act, New Jersey Data Protection Act, Oregon Consumer Privacy Act, Rhode Island Data Transparency
and Privacy Protection Act, Texas Consumer Privacy Protection Act, Utah Consumer Privacy Act, Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act, and
Apple’s Identifier for Advertisers. Additionally, major web browsers like Safari and Firefox have eliminated third-party cookies,
and Google is moving towards a system where users must opt-in to share their data with third-party cookies. These changes require companies
in the digital advertising space to constantly adapt to meet new privacy requirements.
Seasonality
In the advertising industry, companies commonly experience seasonal
fluctuations in revenue. For example, many marketers allocate the largest portion of their budgets to the fourth quarter of the calendar
year to coincide with increased holiday purchasing. Historically, the fourth quarter of the calendar year has reflected our highest level
of advertising activity, while the first quarter has generally represented our lowest quarterly revenue due to seasonal factors. Historical
seasonality may not be predictive of future results, given the potential for changes in consumer activity and advertising patterns as
advertisers respond to emerging industry trends, dynamic macroeconomic conditions, global trade developments, political conditions, election
cycles, major non-annual advertising events, and ongoing geopolitical hostilities. Nevertheless, we expect our revenue to continue to
fluctuate based on seasonal factors that affect the advertising industry as a whole.
Our Market Opportunity
We believe that we are well positioned to capitalize on some of
the fastest-growing segments of digital advertising, such as Video, including CTV, which reflected 66% of our revenue for the year ended
December 31, 2025.
Global digital advertising spend is forecasted to be $792 billion
for 2025 and is expected to grow at an approximately 10% CAGR to over $1.1 trillion in 2029. As advertisers follow audiences to emerging
digital channels, digital advertising is expected to outpace the growth of total global media ad spend. Increased internet bandwidth in
developing countries is expected to support this growth, and the increasing proliferation of next-generation mobile, CTV, and other on-the-go
technology devices in developed countries, alongside changes in consumer content viewing habits, is driving growing video viewership.
These trends are expected to contribute to increased adoption of full-screen video formats, which have historically been widely used by
advertisers. We believe these long-term shifts in the industry present opportunities for companies operating in the digital advertising
technology space, particularly Nexxen, given its long-standing focus on Video, CTV, robust and differentiated datasets, and AI, alongside
its end-to-end platform model, which we believe may provide opportunities to capture a broader market opportunity relative to one-sided
peers and competitors.
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Digital Video and CTV Advertising
We address some of the fastest growing areas within digital advertising,
Video and CTV, which are expected to grow at an accelerated rate compared to other formats. In the U.S., where we generate most of our
revenue, the growth rates and adoption of Video and CTV are expected to be even higher. According to eMarketer, U.S. CTV ad spend is projected
to grow at a CAGR of approximately 12% from 2025 to 2029, reaching roughly $53 billion. U.S. Video ad spend is projected to grow at a
CAGR of approximately 13% from 2025 to 2029, reaching roughly $216 billion. Additionally, the number of digital video viewers worldwide
is expected to reach approximately 4.5 billion by 2029.
Linear TV budgets are increasingly shifting towards digital video
and CTV, driving greater demand for these premium ad formats. These market trends underpin our strategic focus on these activities, which
we believe may present continued growth opportunities given the proliferation of smart TVs, the growing availability of ad-supported streaming
content and providers, native Smart TV home screen advertising units becoming available programmatically, and live sports increasingly
being viewed across digital environments. As linear TV and CTV continue to converge, with many linear TV broadcasters expanding their
CTV footprints through digital assets such as FAST channels and streaming apps, we anticipate that advertisers, digital publishers, and
broadcasters will increasingly seek platforms such as ours that can support cross-planning between linear TV, CTV, and other digital environments,
which could contribute to higher levels of CTV demand on our platform over time. Finally, our robust and advanced TV data sources and
capabilities offered through Nexxen Data Platform, available to customers leveraging our CTV advertising technology solutions, in many
instances can support more effective targeting for advertisers across the TV landscape as well as improved ROI on CTV advertising spend,
which could contribute to greater long-term CTV revenue growth opportunities.
Mobile Advertising
The number of consumers with smart phones and high-speed internet
is expected to continue rising, supporting mobile advertising as a prominent channel within digital. According to eMarketer, U.S. mobile
digital ad spend is projected to grow at a CAGR of approximately 10% from 2025 to 2029, reaching approximately $336 billion. As generative
AI technologies, including large language models (“LLMs”), begin to shift user attention and engagement patterns away from
traditional desktop and mobile web experiences, we see potential for sizable growth within mobile in-app advertising, which may be less
impacted by these changes, and we are allocating additional resources and focus to support expansion within this channel.
Our Role in the Digital Advertising Ecosystem
Advertisers and Agencies
Spending begins with advertisers, who often engage advertising
agencies to help plan, execute, and manage their campaigns. To better control and optimize advertising operations, advertisers and agencies
are consolidating spend with fewer, larger technology platforms that can deliver transparency, support high-quality inventory, offer data-
and AI-driven campaign planning, activation, and measurement, and help generate better returns on advertising spend (“ROAS”)
relative to other solutions. These advertisers and agencies access our platform through both Nexxen DSP and other third-party DSPs. We
believe that our end-to-end technology platform and direct relationships with advertisers and agencies may contribute to increasing consolidation
of spend on our platform over time.
Demand Side Platforms (“DSP”)
Advertisers and agencies often engage DSPs, which serve as advertising
demand aggregators, to plan, execute, and manage their digital marketing campaigns across various ad formats. We offer self-service, managed-service,
and hybrid options through our DSP, supporting customized, flexible, and robust campaigns. We are also integrated with other leading DSPs
globally, such as The Trade Desk and Google DV360, which enables customers to transact in real-time with both our publisher clients and
other external publishers.
Supply Side Platforms (“SSP”)
SSPs such as ours are designed to monetize digital inventory for
publishers and app developers by enabling their content to meet the necessary software code and programmatic integration requirements.
Buyers and sellers come together through our marketplace to monetize, target, and purchase available digital advertising inventory. Our
platform is designed to efficiently process significant volumes of advertising bid information, providing a seamless digital experience
for our customers. Traditionally, SSPs have focused exclusively on the needs of sellers in this process and have limited their interactions
with buyers to the buyers’ agent, the DSP (though this dynamic has evolved recently). As buyers have sought greater control of their
advertising supply chain, we have extended the capabilities of our specialized platform over recent years to serve the needs of advertisers
and agencies. In addition to operating Nexxen SSP, we are integrated with other leading SSPs globally, such as Magnite and Pubmatic, which
allows customers to transact in real time with our advertiser and agency clients, as well as other external advertisers and agencies.
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Publishers and Content Providers
Digital publishers and app developers create websites, digital
content, and applications for user consumption, along with associated digital advertising space. As consumers navigate these websites
and apps, individual ad impressions are delivered across various ad formats and channels. These impressions are typically sold to advertisers
and agencies programmatically in real-time via a third-party technology infrastructure or SSP. Publishers and app developers rely on advertising
revenue as a primary growth driver for their businesses and depend on the capabilities of these third parties to achieve optimal yield
for their advertising inventory. As of December 31, 2025, we served 1,304 active publishers worldwide on our platform, consisting of 184,090
active sites and apps to which we have direct access to deliver ads for our customers.
Our Strengths
We believe the following attributes and capabilities provide us
with long-term competitive advantages.
Established Expertise in Video, Including Mobile
and CTV
We believe Video, including CTV and mobile video, is among the
fastest growing areas of digital advertising, and Video represented 66% of our total revenue for the year ended December 31, 2025, and
approximately 71% of our revenue excluding Performance (non-programmatic) activity for the year ended December 31, 2025. We were one of
the first movers in the digital video advertising and CTV markets, in several cases releasing industry-first solutions, helping us gain
early traction, strong customer adoption, and recognition as a leading advertising technology provider within these markets. Our platform
was intentionally built as an end-to-end video campaign delivery solution and, over time, we have further enhanced our platform’s
Video- and CTV-focused technology and data capabilities through both organic investment and acquisitions. We intend to continue investing
in, innovating, and releasing new Video-focused solutions. In 2025, we launched, to the best of our knowledge, the industry’s first
solution for programmatic Smart TV home screen ad activation, further strengthening our position as an innovative leader in the CTV market.
We are also expanding our mobile in-app footprint and partnerships, which we believe represents a significant growth opportunity which
may also help mitigate potential impacts from evolving consumer behaviors, including the increased adoption of generative AI-driven search
platforms and other LLMs.
End-to-End Platform with Proprietary Technology,
Data, and AI
We leverage our fully integrated, unified, end-to-end platform
to help advertisers and digital publishers maximize ROI while optimizing the connection between brands, audiences, and media partners
using our proprietary data sets, technology products, and suite of AI-powered solutions, which we’ve branded as “nexAI”.
We can assist customers across all stages of the campaign lifecycle including planning, activation, optimization, monetization, and measurement.
We believe we have a competitive advantage through our proprietary data, robust demand and supply sources, partnerships with premium vendors,
AI suite, and comprehensive solutions across the digital advertising technology supply chain. As a technology-first solution, our platform
is agnostic and capable of transacting end-to-end or integrating with third-party sources to serve our customers, which we believe differentiates
us, can support long-term growth, and can expand our addressable market across both sides of the digital advertising ecosystem.
Scale and Reach with Audiences, Advertisers,
and Publishers
Our platform currently accommodates approximately 487 billion
daily ad requests and approximately 679 million daily ad impressions on average. This significant daily volume of ad requests, data,
and impressions provides scale with publishers and access to direct, and in some cases exclusive, premium advertising inventory, enabling
our advertising customers to avoid intermediaries and reduce costs. Operating an end-to-end platform strongly positions us to minimize
the loss of scale typically associated with two independent platforms user-syncing with each other. This advantage supports efficient
and highly scalable audience-targeted buying strategies to maximize ROAS.
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Nexxen Data Platform: Integrated Data, AI,
Machine Learning, and Technology Drives ROI
Our proprietary Nexxen Data Platform is a flexible, fully integrated
solution comprised of robust, and, in some cases, exclusive datasets that can be leveraged across campaigns, formats, and stages of the
digital advertising lifecycle. The platform facilitates the entire data supply chain, including through direct data onboarding, audience
targeting and sentiment analysis tools, identity solutions, audience reach extension, and measurement, providing advertisers and digital
publishers with a comprehensive approach to leveraging data.
Nexxen Data Platform combines first-party data with third-party
partnerships to identify, reach, and expand curated audiences, benefiting both advertiser and publisher customers. It employs AI in the
form of machine learning algorithms and statistical models to aggregate and analyze vast volumes of data, contextualizing it into actionable
insights that can be applied in real-time across campaigns to fuel better performance and efficiency. This integration of data and AI
with our end-to-end technology is designed to drive performance for customers by optimizing media costs, improving targeting precision,
and protecting against invalid traffic.
Our machine learning algorithms can process millions of requests
per second to support optimization and prediction models, including invalid traffic monitoring, viewability, queries per second, bidding,
and pricing. These capabilities enable us to continuously identify, build, expand, and refine audiences, helping customers achieve their
key performance indicators (“KPIs”) and maximize ROI across campaigns.
Partnership with, and Investment in, V, and
Programmatic Smart TV Home Screen Solution
Since 2022, Nexxen has partnered with, and invested in, V, a subsidiary
of Hisense and the world’s fastest-growing major CTV operating system (“CTV OS”), powering Hisense, Toshiba, and other
CTV brands. In 2025, we announced our intent to increase our total investment in V from $25 million to $60 million while extending and
expanding our commercial partnership through at least the end of 2029 (previously through 2026). Our investment will represent an approximately
6% equity stake in V once fully deployed, of which $45 million has been invested ($25 million in 2022 and $20 million in Q3 2025), with
the remaining $15 million expected to be invested in Q3 2026. We expect to generate returns on this investment over time as V executes
its ambitious global growth plans, including by leveraging our most recently invested capital to expand its North American CTV footprint.
Through our commercial partnership, Nexxen has secured global automatic
content recognition (“ACR”) data exclusivity and ad monetization exclusivity on V’s North American video and native
display media through at least the end of 2029. Leveraging our end-to-end platform and this exclusivity, we launched what we believe to
be the industry’s first solution for programmatic Smart TV home screen ad activation in 2025 on Hisense and other V-powered Smart
TVs, providing access to premium, high-value placements on a rapidly-growing base of CTV home screens. To the best of our knowledge, we
believe no other digital advertising technology company currently offers this capability, differentiating Nexxen, accelerating our long-term
CTV revenue growth potential, and helping insulate us from SPO trends implemented by the world’s largest DSPs. We believe over time
we can expand this capability beyond V-powered CTVs to other major CTV original equipment manufacturers (“CTV OEMs”).
Exclusive access to V’s global ACR data further differentiates
Nexxen with robust CTV targeting and measurement solutions, which we believe can attract higher levels of CTV advertising spending to
our platform by supporting performance and advertiser ROI. Additionally, we can license this ACR data to third parties, creating an additional
high-margin growth trajectory we expect to capitalize on over time.
Management Team of Industry Veterans with Extensive
Expertise
Our senior management team brings deep experience in the digital
advertising technology industry, which we believe provides a competitive advantage. The team has a strong track record of acquiring and
integrating synergistic businesses, as well as driving organic growth, which we believe positions Nexxen to continue expanding its growth
and profitability.
Profitability
Historically, we have delivered strong margins relative to our
peers in the advertising technology industry. For the year ended December 31, 2025, our total comprehensive income margin was 7.6% and
our Adjusted EBITDA margin (as a percentage of revenue) was 31.6%, compared to our total comprehensive income margin of 9.7% and Adjusted
EBITDA margin (as a percentage of revenue) of 31.3% for the year ended December 31, 2024. Our total comprehensive income margin decrease
in 2025 was driven by a $7.5 million decline in total comprehensive income, partially offset by a $0.7 million decrease in revenue. Our
Adjusted EBITDA margin increase in 2025 was driven by a $0.6 million increase in Adjusted EBITDA and a $0.7 million decrease in revenue.
We believe we can expand our profitability and margins over time through revenue, total comprehensive income, and Contribution ex-TAC
growth, improving operating leverage driven by the structural cost advantages of our end-to-end model, and efficiencies enabled by nexAI.
We intend to continuously improve our cost structure and enhance our AI integrations, while our ability to sell multiple technology and
data solutions across the advertising ecosystem, combined with our differentiated offerings, is expected to further support long-term
growth and profitability expansion.
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Our Growth Strategy
We believe that programmatic advertising is still an underpenetrated
market that will experience robust growth over the next decade as ad budgets continue to shift to digital and as digital continues to
shift towards programmatic execution. We intend to capitalize on these secular trends by pursuing growth opportunities that include:
Focus on Core Areas of Growth in Video, Including
Mobile and CTV
CTV is one of the fastest growth formats within digital advertising,
and this trend is expected to continue over the next several years, according to eMarketer. In the United States, CTV advertising spend
is expected to grow at a CAGR of approximately 12% from 2025 to 2029, while digital Video advertising spend is expected to grow at a CAGR
of approximately 13%, reaching roughly $216 billion by 2029. Video (including mobile video, desktop video and CTV) advertising represented
approximately 71% of our revenue without Performance (non-programmatic) activity for the year ended December 31, 2025, and remains a core
strategic focus. We plan to leverage our existing expertise in Video and CTV to grow our market share and plan to introduce new, differentiated
solutions to drive performance for customers. According to eMarketer, U.S. mobile digital ad spend is projected to grow at a CAGR of approximately
10% from 2025 to 2029, reaching approximately $336 billion. As generative AI technologies, including LLMs, begin to shift user attention
and engagement patterns away from traditional desktop and mobile web experiences, we see potential for sizable growth within mobile in-app
advertising, which may be less impacted by these changes, and we are allocating additional resources and focus to support expansion within
this channel, including through growing partnerships.
Introduce New Solutions and Capabilities, and
Invest in our Technology, Data, and AI Stack
As we grow our market share and add new customers, we continue
to invest in our technology, data, and AI stack and develop new innovative solutions. We are continuously focused on introducing differentiated
solutions to address the rapidly evolving digital advertising market. Key areas of potential growth and investment include enhancing our
proprietary data sets and capabilities within Nexxen Data Platform through AI and machine learning; expanding and strengthening our CTV
advertising offerings; increasing our mobile in-app footprint and capabilities; enhancing our audience targeting capabilities; expanding
our identity solutions; and broadening our global platform coverage.
We provide customers with creative alternatives to plan and execute
campaigns, offering complementary scale and opportunities to enhance audience targeting strategies. For example, we offer, and will continue
to enhance, contextual and other audience targeting solutions powered by content data collected through our publisher partnerships, as
well as third-party solutions integrated into our ecosystem.
Industry-wide movement away from cookie-based tracking has increased
demand for alternative identity solutions. We offer our own proprietary identity solutions, and maintain partnerships with, and are increasingly
integrating, major alternative identifier frameworks such as IdentityLink and Unified ID 2.0. We are committed to supporting evolving
privacy requirements and emerging identifier standards. We believe the industry will not converge on a single alternative to cookie-based
tracking, and we are enhancing our platform to agnostically support multiple identity solutions.
Capitalize on V Partnership and Programmatic
Smart TV Home Screen Ad Activation Solution
Nexxen is partnered with V, a subsidiary of Hisense and the world’s
fastest-growing major CTV OS, and has extended the partnership through at least the end of 2029, positioning us to benefit from the continued
global expansion of V-powered Smart TVs. We intend to invest in our commercial, media, and data teams to fully capitalize on the holistic
opportunity presented by this partnership.
Through this partnership, Nexxen has secured global ACR data exclusivity
on V-powered CTVs and ad monetization exclusivity on V’s North American video and native display media through at least the end
of 2029. Leveraging our end-to-end platform and this exclusivity, we launched what we believe to be the industry’s first solution
for programmatic Smart TV home screen ad activation in 2025 on Hisense and other V-powered Smart TVs, providing access to differentiated,
high-attention CTV ad placements commanding premium pricing. To the best of our knowledge, no other digital advertising technology company
currently offers this capability, which we believe further differentiates Nexxen, creates a strong competitive moat, can attract greater
CTV advertising spend to our platform, and can potentially accelerate our long-term CTV and data revenue growth opportunity. Over time,
we expect to expand this programmatic Smart TV home screen ad activation solution beyond V-powered CTVs to additional CTV OEMs.
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Exclusive access to V’s global ACR data further strengthens
our CTV audience targeting and measurement capabilities, supporting advertiser performance and ROI while providing the potential to attract
higher levels of advertising spend to our platform. Additionally, we can license V’s ACR data, creating an additional high-margin
growth opportunity.
Expand End-to-End Enterprise Partnerships and
Revenue
In addition to other areas, we are focused on expanding relationships
with large enterprise self-service customers that have significant advertising budgets. As an end-to-end platform, we are uniquely positioned
to support these customers across the entire advertising and data supply chain, including planning, activation, optimization, monetization,
and measurement, delivering both performance and operational efficiencies. Our integrated platform enables enterprise customers to maximize
audience reach, gain robust data insights, drive higher ROI, and simplify campaign execution, while simultaneously driving increased revenue
and profitability for Nexxen. By facilitating both sides of the transaction, from demand via our DSP to supply via our SSP, we believe
enterprise partnerships offer a disproportionate growth opportunity compared to one-sided platform competitors and can provide a degree
of insulation from SPO trends being implemented by large DSPs.
Strengthen Our Relationships with Existing
Customers
We are continuously enhancing functionality across our platform
to attract new customers, encourage our existing customer base to allocate more of their advertising spend and inventory to our platform,
and have customers adopt more solutions within our product ecosystem. As programmatic advertising adoption grows, and as brands and publishers
increasingly focus on Video, CTV, data, AI, efficiency, and improved ROI, we believe we are well-positioned to both expand our customer
base and generate additional revenue from existing customers.
Expand Our International Footprint and U.S.
Market Share
We continue to acquire new publishers and advertisers across markets
while expanding our global footprint, delivering significant demand and supply for digital ad impressions across all channels and formats.
We will continue to enhance and expand third-party integrations to maintain and improve our platform’s flexibility, while leveraging
our technology and data stack to provide innovative solutions to new and existing customers across markets and platforms. By consistently
developing new tools and products, and enhancing existing ones, we believe we can help customers maximize the value of our platform and
services, accelerating our long-term growth potential.
Continue to Bolster Nexxen Data Platform’s
Capabilities
We leverage real-time data, AI, and machine learning to synthesize,
aggregate, and contextualize vast datasets, helping our advertiser and publisher customers optimize digital ad spend and inventory management.
Nexxen Data Platform was architected for flexibility, delivering impactful insights that are agnostic to format or device. By owning and
operating a proprietary data platform, we can provide robust analytics, audience targeting, segmentation, reach extension, and measurement
on a global scale. We continuously enhance the platform to make it seamless for customers to directly onboard first-party data, leverage
identifier solutions, expand audience reach, and optimize and measure campaign effectiveness, all within a single, integrated platform.
We believe this combination gives us a competitive advantage, enabling higher ROI for advertisers, optimal yield for publishers, and strong
growth potential for Nexxen amid the industry’s increasing focus on performance. We believe we can extend this advantage by further
investing in data and AI, and introducing more data- and AI- powered solutions and capabilities, to enhance the efficacy and usability
of our data to maximize results for customers, which in turn can potentially increase the advertising spend and inventory allocated to
our platform.
Leverage our Industry Expertise and Target
Select Acquisitions
We have a successful track record with past acquisitions and may
leverage our industry experience to identify future complementary opportunities that broaden our scale and enhance our technology and
data solutions. If we identify future attractive acquisition opportunities, we believe we have the expertise, leadership, and operational
capability to execute strategic transactions and effectively integrate them into our platform.
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Our Solution and End-to-End Technology Platform
Our Solution
Our end-to-end platform is a comprehensive software suite that
supports a wide range of media types (such as Video, Smart TV native, audio, and display) and devices (including mobile devices, CTVs,
streaming devices, and desktops), creating an efficient marketplace where advertisers can purchase high-quality advertising inventory
from publishers at scale. Our solutions provide a number of advantages, including an advanced real-time bidding auction optimization engine,
access to a global, high-quality marketplace, robust data and AI capabilities, and flexibility to execute concurrent campaign strategies
designed to drive strong returns on digital advertising investments. When customers utilize our platform on an end-to-end basis, they
often realize cost efficiencies and enhanced ROAS.
Our platform handles approximately 487 billion daily ad requests
on average. Each ad request is processed in a fraction of a second (55ms on average) and powered by our real-time bidding engine,
which leverages private servers and infrastructure in four strategically placed data centers located in the U.S., Europe, and Asia Pacific,
as well as cloud resources.
Key Components of our end-to-end platform include:
• Demand Side Platform – We offer a self-service DSP solution that enables advertisers and their agencies to efficiently plan, activate, and manage omnichannel campaigns, optimize toward improved performance and ROI, and gain deep insights into brand engagement. Our DSP provides extensive access to premium inventory, differentiated data for audience targeting, AI, planning capabilities across formats, incrementality testing solutions, and advanced reporting and measurement. We also offer full-service or hybrid buying models for advertisers and agencies to support a broad range of business needs.
• Data Platform – We offer a fully integrated data platform that sits at the core of our end-to-end offering and unlocks the value of data flowing through our DSP and SSP solutions. Our data platform, referred to as “Nexxen Data Platform,” enables advertisers and publishers to directly onboard, manage, plan, activate and measure, with data from multiple (and in some case exclusive) sources to optimize performance and ROI. Nexxen Data Platform delivers actionable insights and recommendations across geographic, behavioral, consumption, demographic, and other data dimensions within a unified solution. Our data platform supports direct data onboarding, audience targeting and segmentation, sentiment analysis, reach extension, identity resolution, optimization, and measurement, and is continually enhanced through AI and machine learning. We believe an integrated data platform that can support advertisers and digital publishers across the entire data supply chain is a critical component of our marketplace, as it enables more accurate audience targeting, improved campaign optimization, and consistent data activation across channels and formats.
• Supply Side Platform – We offer a self-service SSP solution that enables publishers to sell their digital advertising inventory through a real-time bidding auction across all screens, including mobile devices, CTVs, streaming devices, and desktops. Our SSP provides publishers with access to robust data, differentiated demand sources, and a comprehensive product suite designed to support efficient and effective inventory management, yield optimization, deal management and revenue growth.
• Analytics and AI (“nexAI”) – We collect, synthesize, and analyze data across our platform using a combination of our comprehensive suite of AI-powered solutions (which we’ve branded as “nexAI”), machine learning, and deep learning technologies. These capabilities generate efficiency and actionable insights that inform bidding decisions, optimize campaign performance, and support forecasting of ad impression and auction dynamics. We believe these analytics and AI-driven capabilities enhance outcomes for both advertisers and publishers, and we expect to continue investing in these technologies to improve performance, efficiency, and scalability across our platform.
• Nexxen Discovery – Nexxen Discovery is an audience insight and activation product, and key component of Nexxen Data Platform. It unifies data from cross-channel sources, including our proprietary TV viewership data, and leverages first-party data to build intelligent audience profiles that are utilized across planning and activation. Powered by AI and machine learning, Nexxen Discovery provides actionable audience insights, including around sentiment analysis, interest, and brand affinity, to help customers create targeted segments, extend reach, and optimize campaigns in real time. It integrates seamlessly with our DSP and SSP to support planning, activation, and measurement across channels and inventory.
• Nexxen Studio – Nexxen’s in-house digital creative studio provides a range of creative solutions tailored to the needs of brands and agencies. Our comprehensive pre-flight creative testing and audience based in-flight creative optimization capabilities are enhanced through AI and fully integrated with Nexxen’s flexible, unified platform to maximize campaign performance.
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DSP
Key features of our DSP include:
• Comprehensive, AI-powered, intuitive self-service interface that enables advertisers to seamlessly plan, activate, and manage campaigns with full control while streamlining daily workflows.
• Advanced machine learning algorithms that optimize toward customers’ specific campaign goals, provide efficiency, and drive effective buying to meet online and offline KPIs.
• Seamless access to a variety of premium (and in some cases exclusive) data sources, including advertisers’ first-party data, proprietary Nexxen data, and a wide range of specialized third-party data across verticals.
• Robust forecasting and planning tools that accurately predict reach and spend across screens, formats, and audiences, helping advertisers strategically prepare campaigns for success.
• Access to premium (and in some cases exclusive) supply from Nexxen SSP and other leading third-party SSPs.
• Programmatic buying support for Smart TV home screen native units.
• Real-time automated bidding and optimization that leverages AI to improve campaign performance dynamically.
• Comprehensive and transparent omnichannel reporting and analytics tools that allow advertisers to track campaign performance in real-time, build custom and advanced reports, and combine with other data sets for independent analysis.
• Integration with Nexxen Studio, offering creative solutions ranging from turnkey to fully customizable designed to drive performance across digital environments.
• Data and brand surveys that deliver actionable insights for advertisers to evaluate brand lift, behavioral engagement, and emotional impact.
• Comprehensive suite of brand safety solutions, including integrations with industry-leading verification partners, ensuring campaigns are executed securely and with confidence.
SSP
Key features of our SSP include:
• Comprehensive and highly intuitive self-service platform that enables publishers to easily integrate into our ecosystem, manage their digital inventory, access real-time reporting and analytics, and transact with programmatic buyers through private marketplace (“PMP”) deals. Publishers also benefit from demand available directly through our proprietary DSP solution and additional demand facilitation initiatives driven by our global salesforce.
• Direct connection to Nexxen DSP, and other major leading DSPs, alongside compatibility with most AdAge top 100 brands. Our SSP delivers over 21 billion advertisements to viewers every month, optimizes content across multiple ad formats, builds effective custom audiences, and delivers strong ROI at scale.
• Omnichannel marketplace with access to 1,304 active publishers across the globe.
• Access to proprietary ACR data through our exclusive TV Intelligence product, which enhances monetization by creating comprehensive audience targeting opportunities.
• Simplified first-party data onboarding for key-value pair targeting, contextual cookie-less targeting options, and access to a variety of third-party audience data sources. Identity resolution capabilities allow publishers to connect audiences across devices and channels, providing advertisers with a closer connection to their target audiences and improving inventory monetization.
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• Industry-leading forecasting analytics and data-driven yield optimization tools that maximize inventory monetization and deliver strong ROI at scale.
• Ability for publishers to customize their experience by opting out of certain ad verticals or specific advertisers, managing channel conflicts, and controlling inventory access.
• Support for all major integration types, including open real-time bidding, header-bidding solutions, and proprietary client-side solutions, such as our video player, giving publishers flexibility in how they offer inventory to advertisers.
• Curated Marketplace, a self-service or API-accessed solution for brands, publishers, media, and data companies to manage, optimize, and monetize assets with a direct path to premium publisher inventory. This product allows users to create highly targeted, high-value PMPs.
• Transparent pricing and reporting that enables publishers to see revenue performance and make data-driven decisions about their inventory.
Nexxen Data Platform
Key features of Nexxen Data Platform include:
• Integrated audience segmentation and targeting – Audience segments are generated directly within our platform using a combination of first- and third-party data, including strategic data partnerships. Advertisers and publishers can also connect and activate their own first-party data across our ecosystem to improve campaign precision.
• Advanced machine learning and AI capabilities – Our platform leverages statistical models and AI-driven analysis to uncover insights from behavioral, demographic, and contextual data, enabling advertisers and publishers to achieve stronger performance metrics, optimize targeting, and improve ROI.
• Direct onboarding and activation of first-party data – Advertisers and publishers can seamlessly and directly onboard their first-party data into Nexxen Data Platform, enabling unified reporting, reach extension, audience targeting, and advanced measurement across the entire ecosystem.
• Enhanced forecasting and analytics – The platform provides actionable insights and forecasting tools to predict audience scale, reach, and media costs. Insights can be accessed through self-service interfaces or curated by our data team to support campaign planning and PMPs.
• Identifier and measurement solutions – Our platform includes identity resolution capabilities, connecting audiences across devices and channels to enhance targeting, attribution, and measurement.
• Proprietary data assets and TV intelligence – Our expertise in collecting, packaging, and activating TV viewership data through Nexxen TV Intelligence allows advertisers to plan, activate, and measure campaigns across digital formats with retargeting and attribution benefits. Nexxen has an exclusive global ACR data partnership with V that customers can leverage in their CTV targeting and measurement efforts.
• End-to-end ecosystem integration – As part of our unified tech stack, our data platform seamlessly connects with our DSP, SSP, AI, and other tools, enabling efficient audience activation, campaign optimization, and measurement across the full advertising supply chain.
Nexxen Discovery
Key features of Nexxen Discovery include:
• Unification of disparate data across digital, TV (linear, CTV, and streaming), and social environments, combined with proprietary web-based panels and bid-stream data, to provide a clear view of audiences and enable precise, flexible targeting and reach extension.
• Utilization of AI, machine learning, and natural language processing to analyze behavioral patterns, sentiment, trends, and interests, delivering actionable insights for customers.
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• Provides clients with a comprehensive set of capabilities to discover, understand, monitor, and engage their audiences across channels, supporting real-time activation based on consumer behaviors and interests.
• Enables the use of first-party data to enhance targeting, expand audience reach, and optimize campaigns across channels and inventory.
• Produces custom, transparent audience segments and smart contextual targets derived from behavioral patterns and sentiment to improve engagement, reach, and campaign performance.
Our Customers
Our customers consist largely of leading global brands and advertising
agencies on the demand side, and high-quality publishers on the supply side, spanning several industries including retail, entertainment,
consumer, financial services, healthcare, and others. For the year ended December 31, 2025, we had 627 active customers, including industry-leading
brands and agencies such as IPG, WPP, Publicis, H/L, Yahoo!, Tinuiti, and LG.
On our demand side, brands and agencies leverage our self-service,
managed-service, and hybrid DSP offerings, with integrations across the industry’s major third-party DSPs. On the supply side, we
service digital publishers, app developers, and self-service platform subscribers, also supported by integrations with leading third-party
SSPs.
We generally contract with customers through master services agreements
(“MSAs”) and/or insertion orders, which govern the terms of running particular campaigns. Our MSAs typically have one-year
terms that renew automatically unless terminated earlier, giving users access to our platform.
We maintain long-standing relationships with our customer base,
which tend to repeatedly use our platform. This is reflected in our Contribution ex-TAC retention rate of 92% for the year ended December
31, 2025. While our Contribution ex-TAC per active customer increased in 2025, compared to 2024, our Contribution ex-TAC retention rate
was impacted by our strategic decision to discontinue relationships with smaller customers that were not generating meaningful revenue
or profitability for Nexxen to increase focus on supporting relationships with larger customers that have more sizable budgets to deploy.
Advertising spend was also constrained to an extent due to cautious and uneven consumer spending, macroeconomic and industry uncertainty,
evolving U.S. trade dynamics, ongoing geopolitical hostilities, tariffs, reduced political advertising spend, and reduced spending by
one large DSP customer driven by their increased SPO efforts. Over time, we anticipate increasing our Contribution ex-TAC retention rate,
supported by our ability to generate strong customer ROI through multiple integrated solutions spanning the entire digital advertising
supply chain.
Our Competition
We have a number of competitors that operate in portions of our
business, but few provide the full end-to-end technology solution that we offer.
We believe that our long track record and expertise in the digital
advertising industry, combined with our ability to operate technology and data solutions for both sides of the advertising ecosystem through
a unified data- and AI-powered platform, gives us significant advantages in platform development and a long lead over new entrants. Our
platform supports the entire campaign lifecycle, from planning and activation to optimization, measurement, and monetization, enabling
advertisers and publishers to maximize ROI and efficiency. We compete primarily based on the campaign performance of our platform, the
breadth and capabilities of our technology, identity resolution, omnichannel reach, planning and audience tools, proprietary datasets,
AI features, and advanced reporting and measurement functionalities. On the demand side, companies such as Viant Technology, Inc. and
The Trade Desk, Inc. are some of our key competitors.
On the supply side, companies such as Magnite, Inc., FreeWheel
Media, Inc., and PubMatic, Inc. are our main competitors, all of which compete to provide publisher inventory to advertisers.
We believe the principal competitive factors in our industry include:
• proven, robust, and differentiated self-service, managed-service, and hybrid offerings;
• omnichannel execution;
• integration and ease-of-use;
• quality, scale, and reach of digital advertising demand and inventory globally;
• first-party data and identity solutions;
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• depth and breadth of relationships with brand advertisers, premium publishers, agencies, and data providers;
• full suite of viewability, measurement, verification, and brand safety offerings;
• customer support and account management;
• differentiated data, media, and demand sources;
• data efficacy and the ability to drive performance and ROI;
• ability to support customers across their workflows;
• AI, machine learning, and technology capabilities and innovation;
• flexible pricing; and
• transparency.
We believe that we compete favorably with respect to all these
factors and are well positioned as a full-service, end-to-end platform catering to both advertisers and digital publishers.
Technology and Development
Our business model enables us to invest in our research and development,
which has been a key driver of our growth. Our platform is highly efficient at processing and managing large, complex data sets and is
used in real-time by both advertisers and digital publishers. We are committed to innovative technologies and the rapid introduction of
enhanced functionalities to meet the evolving needs of our customers. We therefore expect technology and development expenses to increase
as we continue to invest in our platform, particularly through investments in AI, data, and machine learning, to support higher advertising
spend volumes, attract new customers, differentiate our platform, and expand in the U.S. and internationally. Our technology and development
teams are based in the United States and Israel. For December 31, 2025, research and development expenses accounted for 20.9% of our operating
expenses.
Sales and Marketing
As an end-to-end platform, we have highly qualified sales teams
dedicated to acquiring new premium advertiser and publisher customers and expanding revenue relationships with existing customers. These
teams focus on selling access to our platform through self-service, managed-service, and hybrid offerings. Our global sales and marketing
team consisted of 502 employees (inclusive of all sales, marketing, and relevant support teams) as of December 31, 2025, and takes a proactive,
hands-on approach to cultivating and enhancing advertiser, agency, and digital publisher relationships.
We have dedicated teams focused on post-sale support to ensure
customer success. Our client success team onboards advertisers and regularly liaises with them to optimize delivery against KPIs and help
achieve their goals throughout the campaign lifecycle. Our publisher operations team onboards publishers and engages directly with them
to support their needs and help effectively monetize inventory.
Our Team and Culture
As part of our track record of successfully integrating acquisitions
and managing a global, multi-functional organization, we pride ourselves on bringing together teams across geographies, products, and
functions under one cohesive culture. We strive daily to embody innovation, commitment, collaboration, and authenticity.
Our management team fosters a transparent culture, encouraging
employees to share their feedback, ideas, and suggestions through an open-door policy and internal surveys that gauge satisfaction and
gather input for continuous improvement. We communicate and build relationships with external stakeholders through our marketing efforts,
including digital and social media, events, public relations, direct marketing, and online advertising. Our “People & Culture”
programs provide employees with volunteer opportunities in local communities, particularly focused on education and serving the underprivileged.
We also regularly donate to volunteer associations.
Our employees generally have long tenure across our entities, with
an average tenure of approximately seven years for our leadership team and approximately five years across all employees.
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We believe we attract talented employees to our company, and sophisticated
customers to our platform, largely due to our vision and commitment to leveraging cutting-edge data, technology, and AI to create solutions
that help advance the digital advertising industry.
As of December 31, 2025, we had 909 employees globally.
Intellectual Property
Our success depends, in part, on our ability to protect the proprietary
methods and technologies that we develop or otherwise acquire. We rely on a combination of patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret
laws, confidentiality procedures and contractual provisions to protect our proprietary methods and technologies and own more than 50 patents
in the United States. In 2024, we successfully rebranded our Company’s various businesses under the name “Nexxen” and
associated Nexxen logo to further promote our unified service and product offerings. The Company has been working on this rebranding in
its public-facing assets. The Company has obtained international trademark registration for these trademarks. The Company has obtained
trademark registrations in Australia, the European Union, Israel, Mexico, Singapore, the United Kingdom, China, and the United States.
The Company is actively prosecuting similar trademark applications in Canada and Japan. The Company also uses and actively protects other
trademarks in various jurisdictions and holds trademark registrations for the Perk mark in the United States and the Perk logo in Australia,
New Zealand, India, the European Union, United Kingdom, and WIPO.
We generally enter into confidentiality and/or license agreements
with our employees, consultants, vendors and advertiser customers, and we generally limit access to, and distribution of, our proprietary
information. We intend to pursue additional intellectual property protection to the extent we believe it would be beneficial and cost
effective.
Privacy and Data
Modern consumers use multiple platforms to learn about and purchase
products and services, and consumers have come to expect a seamless experience across all channels. This challenges marketing organizations
to balance the demands of consumers and the most effective advertising techniques with responsible, privacy-compliant methods of managing
data internally and with advertising technology intermediaries.
In the United States, both state and federal legislation govern
activities such as the collection and use of data by companies that engage in digital advertising like us. Also, because our platform
reaches users throughout the world, some of our activities may also be subject to foreign laws and regulations. As we continue to expand
internationally, we will be subject to additional laws and regulations, and these requirements may affect how we conduct business.
The U.S. Congress and state legislatures, along with federal regulatory
authorities, have increased their attention on matters concerning the collection and use of personal data, including relating to internet-based
advertising. Data privacy legislation has been introduced in the U.S. Congress, and several states, including California, Colorado, Connecticut,
Utah, and Virginia have enacted comprehensive privacy legislation granting rights to consumers to enable increased control over the use
of their data. These laws include a consumer’s ability to restrict use of their personal data for cross-context advertising purposes.
Additional state legislatures have introduced data privacy legislation. Many non-U.S. jurisdictions have also enacted or are developing
laws and regulations governing the collection and use of personal data. For example, the Israeli Privacy Protection Law, 5741-1981, has
been amended, with amendments now in effect that extend its reach over Israeli residents as well as personal information of foreign residents
transferred to Israel, each of which provide for potentially material penalties for non-compliance.
Additionally, U.S. and foreign governments have enacted or are
considering enacting legislation that could significantly restrict our ability to collect, augment, analyze, use and share data collected
through cookies and similar technologies, such as by regulating the level of consumer notice and consent required before a company can
employ cookies or other electronic tools to track people online. In the United States, the FTC has commenced the examination of privacy
issues that arise when marketers track consumers across multiple devices, otherwise known as cross-device tracking. In addition to the
requirements relating to cookies or similar technologies described in the section “Risk Factors—Risks
Relating to Legal or Regulatory Constraints—We are subject to laws and regulations related to data privacy, data protection, and
information security, and consumer protection across different markets where we conduct our business, including in the United States,
the EEA and the United Kingdom and industry requirements and such laws, regulations, and industry requirements are constantly evolving
and changing. Our actual or perceived failure to comply with such laws and regulations could have an adverse effect on our business, results
of operations and financial condition”, in the European Union and the United Kingdom, informed consent is required for the
placement of a cookie or similar technologies on a user’s device and for direct electronic marketing. The GDPR and UK GDPR also
impose conditions for obtaining valid consent, such as a prohibition on pre-checked consents and a requirement to ensure separate consents
are sought for each type of cookie or similar technology. Detailed guidance relating to these requirements has been published by the European
Data Protection Board (and its predecessor, the Article 29 Working Party) as well as various supervisory authorities in the European Union
and the United Kingdom. While not legally binding, such guidance reflects the position and understanding of the regulators and their approach
to enforcement. Supervisory authorities in the European Union and the United Kingdom are increasingly focusing on the AdTech industry
and its compliance with these requirements. Several high-profile investigations are currently underway, and a number of fines have been
issued against businesses for their failure to, amongst other things, properly notify individuals of how their data is being used and
to collect informed consent.
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Additionally, our compliance with our privacy policy and our general
consumer data privacy and security practices are subject to review by regulatory bodies such as the FTC, which may bring enforcement actions
to challenge allegedly unfair and deceptive trade practices, including the violation of privacy policies and misrepresentations or material
omissions therein.
Certain State Attorneys General and state privacy regulators such
as the California Privacy Protection Agency (“CPPA”) in the United States may also bring enforcement actions based on comparable
state laws or federal laws that permit state-level enforcement. In California, for example, the Attorney General and the CPPA may bring
enforcement actions for violations of the CCPA. When we receive bid requests that include an opt-out signal, we do not “sell”
or “share” personal information, as defined by the CCPA. We have also adopted the Digital Advertising Alliance CCPA Compliance
Framework, which includes a technical specification to identify consumer signals to opt-out of sale of their personal information and
have signed the IAB Limited Service Provider Agreement that imposes service provider obligations for certain opted-out bid requests. These
IAB frameworks are designed to facilitate compliance with the CCPA although the California Attorney General’s office has not yet
approved such frameworks. The CCPA sets forth high potential liabilities for data privacy violations on a per-incident basis, and the
industry faces an uncertain compliance burden as our partners and publishers work to become compliant with the law. Also, the amendments
to the CPPA, which became effective on January 1, 2023, impose additional data protection obligations on in scope businesses, including
additional consumer rights processes and opt-outs for certain uses of sensitive data and sharing of personal data.
Since California enacted the CCPA, several states have enacted
comprehensive consumer privacy laws including, but not limited to, the Colorado Privacy Act (effective July 1, 2023), the Connecticut
Data Privacy Act (effective July 1, 2023), the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (effective January 1, 2023), and the Utah Consumer
Privacy Act (effective December 31, 2023). We expect the trend of enacting new and comprehensive privacy legislation to continue not only
in the United States but also around the globe.
In addition to consent and opt-out obligations under privacy and
data protection laws, we face potential liability under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”). Plaintiffs have asserted
that the use of third-party analytics, tracking technologies, cookies, and similar tools constitute “eavesdropping” or “wiretapping”
under CIPA, even where such technologies are deployed to analyze consumer behavior or support advertising and marketing services. Because
our platform processes data across publishers, advertisers, and consumer interactions using online tracking technologies to deliver targeted
advertising, we may face CIPA claims. If CIPA claims are successfully asserted against us, we could incur material litigation costs, settlements
or judgments, injunctive relief, reputational harm, and adverse impacts on our business operations.
To protect against unlawful content (advertiser and publisher), we include restrictions
on content in our terms and conditions. We also utilize various technologies and processes to review publisher properties and use third
party software to screen impressions we acquire through advertising exchanges.
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4.C. ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
The following table sets out details of the Company’s subsidiaries:
Name of company Country of Incorporation Ownership Percentage
Taptica Inc. USA 100%
YuMe Inc* USA 100%
Perk.com Canada Inc Canada 100%
Nexxen Group LLC USA 100%
Nexxen Group US Holdings Inc.* USA 100%
Nexxen Holdings Ltd* UK 100%
Nexxen Group Ltd UK 100%
Nexxen Media Pte. Ltd. (f/k/a Unruly Media Pte. Ltd) Singapore 100%
Nexxen Pty Ltd* Australia 100%
Nexxen Media Japan K.K. (f/k/a Unruly Media K.K.) Japan 100%
Nexxen Video Distribution Sdn. Bhd. (f/k/a Unmedia Video Distribution Sdn. Bhd.) Malaysia 100%
Nexxen CTRL GmbH (f/k/a SpearAd GmbH) Germany 100%
Nexxen Inc.* USA 100%
Amobee Ltd Israel 100%
* Under these companies, there are eleven (11) wholly owned subsidiaries that are
inactive, liquidated or in liquidation process.
4.D. PROPERTY, PLANTS AND EQUIPMENT
Our headquarters are located in Tel Aviv, Israel where we occupy
facilities totaling approximately 26,910 square feet under a lease that expires in December 2028. In addition, we have key locations in
New York, New York; Los Angeles, California; San Carlos, California; San Diego, California; San Francisco, California; Chicago, Illinois;
Baltimore, Maryland; Burlington, Massachusetts; Dallas, Texas; and Bellevue, Washington in the United States, as well as international
locations in Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan, Singapore, Australia, and Germany. These locations support our key business functions
including sales and marketing, customer support, business development, engineering, product development, and infrastructure support. We
believe that our current facilities are suitable to meet our existing needs.
4A. UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS
Not applicable.