Profitable Growth for LiveRamp as Publicis Buy Nears

In the US, data collaboration firm LiveRamp has announced results for the quarter ended June 30th, with total revenue up 10% to $214 million, and adjusted EBITDA jumping 40% to $51.4m.

LiveRamp is headquartered in San Francisco, employees around 1,300 people and has a complicated corporate history (summarized by DRNO here). The company operates a global data collaboration platform allowing companies to unify, manage and activate data across the digital ecosystem, connecting more than 25,000 publisher domains and 500 technology and data partners across fourteen markets. In May, while announcing annual revenue up 9% to $813m, it revealed it had agreed to be acquired by global marcoms group Publicis, for a total enterprise value of around $2.2 billion - this buy is said to be 'on track' to complete before the end of the year, subject to a shareholder vote scheduled for August 17th.

In the latest results, Subscription revenue rose 8% to $160 million, and Marketplace & Other revenue 15% to $54 million. CEO Scott Howe (pictured) says the figures represent 'a strong start' to the company's fiscal 2027 and are ahead of expectations. He elaborates: 'We continue to make good progress with our AI and agentic initiatives with the launch of the LiveRamp Agent Builders Lab and new partnerships with OpenAI, Databricks and Adobe.'

The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices worldwide. And is on the web at www.liveramp.com .