The Trade Desk, also known as TTD, a Publicly Owned company headquartered in the United States, was founded in 2009 and operates with approximately 2,640 employees. The company reported $2.9B in revenue as of 2025. The company specializes in RTB and programmatic solutions, functioning as a technology company providing digital ad buying solutions that enable brands to create, manage, and optimize their campaigns across various ad formats and devices. The Trade Desk maintains offices across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.

Revenue

Founded

2009

Headcount

3,843

Headquarters

United States

Primary Segment

RTB and programmatic

Ownership

Publicly Owned

Deployments

52

News Summary:

The Trade Desk's chief strategy officer, Samantha Jacobson, departed on July 9, 2026, to lead monetization partnerships at OpenAI. Earlier that day, Dentsu launched its New Stream Media in-house commerce data platform, integrating The Trade Desk as its first partner to help retailers and brands extract more value from first-party data. On July 8, Invoca integrated its AI-powered call and conversion data into The Trade Desk Marketplace, enabling advertisers to connect programmatic spend with offline signals for audience targeting and revenue growth. This followed HSBC's upgrade of The Trade Desk's rating to "Hold" from "Reduce," citing an improved near-term outlook after the resolution of the company's dispute with Publicis.

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The Trade Desk offers 5 products in the ad tech and services and media tech industries. The Trade Desk's product portfolio comprises of RTB and programmatic, data, targeting and identity, retail and commerce media ad tech and user experience and devices.
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The Trade Desk's revenues were $2.9B in 2025. Caretta Research has split The Trade Desk's revenue into 5 different product categories, the largest of which is demand side platform (DSP), which represents 94% of The Trade Desk's revenue.
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The Trade Desk's customers primarily consist of physical retail companies. Examples of The Trade Desk's customers include Carrefour, The Home Depot and Dollar General. The Trade Desk has commercial and technical partners like Tencent Holdings, DoorDash and Microsoft. Examples of The Trade Desk's suppliers include Snowflake and BrightLine.

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