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REVENUE
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2026
Revenue from Contract with Customer [Abstract]  
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The Cardlytics platform
The Cardlytics 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. Working with the marketer, we design a campaign that targets customers based on their purchase history. The consumer is offered an incentive (collectively, "Consumer Incentives") to make a purchase from the marketer within a specified period. We use a portion of the fees that we collect from marketers to provide these Consumer Incentives to our FI partners' customers after they make qualifying purchases. Leveraging our platform, we are able to create compelling Consumer Incentives that have the potential to increase return on advertising spend for marketers and measure the effectiveness of the advertising. Consumer Incentives totaled $23.8 million and $35.7 million during the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively. We pay certain partners a negotiated and fixed percentage of our Billings to marketers less any Consumer Incentives that we pay to partners' customers and certain third-party data costs ("Partner Share"). Revenue on our condensed consolidated statements of operation is presented net of Consumer Incentives and gross of Partner Share.
The Cardlytics platform has two different pricing models: (1) served based pricing and (2) engagement based pricing.
Served Based Pricing. Under our Cost per Served Sale ("CPS") pricing model, we generate Revenue by charging a percentage, which we refer to as the CPS rate, of all purchases from the marketer by consumers who (1) are served marketing and (2) subsequently make a purchase from the marketer during the campaign period, regardless of whether consumers engage with the applicable offer and thereby becomes eligible to earn the applicable Consumer Incentive. We set CPS rates for marketers based on our expectation of the marketer's return on spend for the relevant campaign. Additionally, we set the amount of Consumer Incentives payable for each campaign based on our estimation of our ability to drive incremental sales for the marketer. We seek to optimize the level of Consumer Incentives to retain a greater portion of Billings. However, if the amount of Consumer Incentives exceeds the amount of Billings that we are paid by the applicable marketer we are still responsible for paying the total Consumer Incentive. In some instances, we may also charge the marketer, the Consumer Incentive, in which case the marketer determines the level of Consumer Incentive for the campaign.
Engagement Based Pricing. Under our engagement based pricing model, marketers generally pay us a fee for each purchase that we generate following a consumer's engagement with an offer. Marketers may choose between two variations of our engagement based pricing model: (1) Cost per Redemption whereby marketers specify and fund the Consumer Incentive and pay us a separate negotiated, fixed marketing fee or (2) Cost per Transaction whereby marketers pay us a negotiated, fixed marketing fee out of which we fund the Consumer Incentive, which is determined in our discretion. We generate Revenue if the consumer (i) is served an offer, (ii) selects the offer and thereby becomes eligible to earn the applicable Consumer Incentive, and (iii) makes a qualifying purchase from the marketer during the campaign period. We set the fees for engagement based pricing for marketers based on our estimation of the marketers' return on spend for the relevant campaign.
The following table summarizes Revenue from the Cardlytics platform by pricing model (in thousands):
Three Months Ended
March 31,
 20262025
Served based pricing$10,062 $24,911 
Engagement based pricing22,971 30,679 
Other Revenue(1)
1,286 845 
Cardlytics Platform Revenue$34,319 $56,435 
(1)Other Revenue during the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025 primarily includes pricing models that do not relate to served based pricing and engagement based pricing, which includes new pricing models that we are exploring and hosting fees that we charge our FI partners to support the costs required to host our services.