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Cardlytics
Sell sideCDLX
Cardlytics brought in $210M of revenue in fiscal 2025, growing 3% a year over five years at a -48% operating margin.
$210Mrevenue, FY2025
+3%growth a year, 5 years
-48%operating margin
Revenue and margin
Bars: revenue, $B (10-K). Years where the filing's revenue line isn't comparable are left out of the line.
What they told investors
“advertisers can quickly decrease digital ad spending in difficult environments in response to their own cost pressures.”Lynne Laube · 2022 Q2 · transcript
What they see in the market
What its leaders and filings say about the ad market: its own ad business, or the channels advertisers use, since 2019; counts are statements, not spending.
CRM, loyalty & first-party data 65× since 2019Measurement 53× since 2019Affiliate & lead gen 20× since 2019Creative campaigns 15× since 2019AI in marketing 10× since 2019Programmatic & display 5× since 2019Retail media 3× since 2024
- CRM, loyalty & first-party data “Rewards programs across the industry are shifting toward merchant-funded, locally relevant models, and we are at the center of that shift.” Amit Gupta on the earnings call · Aug 12, 2026 · source
- Measurement “That growth comes down to 2 things: measurement and scaling, proving results quickly with new advertisers and making it easy for them to scale immediately.” Amit Gupta on the earnings call · Aug 12, 2026 · source
- AI in marketing “We launched an AI-driven campaign publishing engine that automates core setup and configuration workflows within our advertiser platform.” Amit Gupta on the earnings call · Aug 12, 2026 · source
- Affiliate & lead gen “The Cardlytics purchase intelligence platform is our proprietary native bank advertising channel that enables marketers to reach consumers through the FI partners' trusted and frequently visited digital banking channels.” 10-Q · Aug 5, 2026 · source
- Creative campaigns “Working with an advertiser, we design a campaign that targets consumers based on their verified purchase history, including total-wallet visibility into competitive and cross-category spending.” 10-Q · Aug 5, 2026 · source