NEW YORK, October 21, 2024--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Zeta Global (NYSE: ZETA), the AI-Powered Marketing Cloud, today announced it has successfully completed its acquisition of LiveIntent, a pioneer in people-based marketing.

The addition of LiveIntent’s assets, publisher network, and channel capabilities will bolster the Zeta Marketing Platform, strengthen the Zeta Data Cloud, and advance Zeta’s position in AI-powered marketing. For more information on the acquisition, read here.

"Acquiring LiveIntent is not only accretive to our financial profile, it also strengthens the value we deliver to enterprises, extends our platform to the publisher ecosystem and widens our moat," said David A. Steinberg, Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Zeta Global. "We’re delighted to add LiveIntent’s vast data assets, direct channel capabilities and premium publisher network to the Zeta Marketing Platform (ZMP). The integration of LiveIntent into the ZMP will expand gross margins while accelerating the shift of our revenue derived from agency customers to direct channels."

Transaction details are available in Zeta’s Press Release and 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 8, 2024.

About Zeta Global

Zeta Global (NYSE: ZETA) is the AI-Powered Marketing Cloud that leverages advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and trillions of consumer signals to make it easier for marketers to acquire, grow and retain customers more efficiently. Through the Zeta Marketing Platform (ZMP), our vision is to make sophisticated marketing simple by unifying identity, intelligence and omnichannel activation into a single platform – powered by one of the industry’s largest proprietary databases and AI. Our enterprise customers across multiple verticals are empowered to personalize experiences with consumers at an individual level across every channel, delivering better results for marketing programs. Zeta was founded in 2007 by David A. Steinberg and John Sculley and is headquartered in New York City with offices around the world.

Forward-Looking Statements

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