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MediaAlpha

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MediaAlpha brought in $1.11B of revenue in fiscal 2025, growing 14% a year over five years at a 2% operating margin.

$1.11Brevenue, FY2025
+14%growth a year, 5 years
2%operating margin

Revenue and margin

2018: $297M2019: $408M20192020: $585M2021: $645M20212022: $459M2023: $388M20232024: $865M2025: $1.11B20252.0%

Bars: revenue, $B (10-K). Line: operating margin. Years where the filing's revenue line isn't comparable are left out of the line.

What they told investors

“And that obviously, has a profound effect on the return on ad spend that we're able to deliver for carriers and the yield that we're able to deliver for publishers.”Steven Yi · 2026 Q2 · transcript
“Lastly, we're leveraging predictive AI throughout our marketplace to better target consumers and improve return on ad spend for our carriers and yield for our publishers.”Steven Yi · 2026 Q2 · transcript
“During the quarter, we were pleased to see a significant strategic shift by a leading LLM to place greater emphasis on advertising monetization to support the consumer product.”Steven Yi · 2026 Q1 · transcript
“Moving forward, I am encouraged by the productive conversations we are having with a growing number of leading carriers about further leveraging our trusted infrastructure and AI targeting capabilities to maximize return on ad spend and gain market share.”Steven Yi · 2026 Q1 · transcript
“That effectively means a lot of distribution costs that agent-based carriers were incurring are starting to shift from agent commissions into advertising dollars, which is a net positive for our industry and clearly a net positive for us.”Steven Yi · 2026 Q1 · transcript
“This allows us to price traffic more granularly, improving publisher yield while simultaneously delivering strong return on ad spend for carriers and agents.”Steven M. Yi · 2025 Q4 · transcript

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