Kidoz
Privacy-first mobile adtech for children, teens and family audiences.
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Company facts
- Official name
- Kidoz Inc.
- Entity type
- COMPANY
- Founded
- 2009
- Headquarters
- Pacific Centre: Suite 1500, 701 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, V7Y 1C6, Canada
- Company size
- 10–49
- Market role
- AdTech Vendor
- Ticker
- KIDZ (TSXV); KDOZF (OTC)
- Official website
- kidoz.net
What Kidoz does
Kidoz operates a two-sided in-app advertising marketplace with supporting software products. On the demand side, it sells audience access, campaign delivery, contextual targeting and creative formats to advertisers and agencies. On the supply side, it provides publishers and app developers with SDK-based monetisation, yield tools and programmatic demand access. Value is created by aggregating compliant kid-safe inventory, matching it with brand demand and taking a share of media spend while improving publisher monetisation.
Category differentiation
Kidoz is a specialised mobile advertising and monetisation platform focused on child-safe and family-safe digital environments, not a general consumer kids app or a broad mobile gaming publisher. It should also be distinguished from large generalist ad platforms such as Google, AppLovin or Unity, which are not centred on COPPA-led kid-safe inventory.
Strategic context
AI-supported assessment from the existing company research; distinguish interpretation from sourced facts.
Kidoz is a Canadian public adtech company operating a privacy-first in-app advertising and monetisation ecosystem centred on children, teens and family audiences. Its products span advertiser demand tools, publisher monetisation, programmatic trading infrastructure, playable ad creative, audience research and an SDK that connects mobile apps to its network. The company’s positioning is built around COPPA- and GDPR-oriented compliance and contextual targeting that does not rely on behavioural or personal data. Kidoz makes money primarily by selling advertising and programmatic access to brands, agencies, app developers and publishers, while sharing revenue with app partners integrated through its SDK. It also generates ancillary revenue from managed campaign services, audience insight products and OEM or platform-related licensing tied to Kidoz OS. Its customers are business buyers rather than end users, even though some of its products ultimately reach child and family audiences.
Company news briefing
Briefing updated:
Kidoz reported year-on-year revenue growth for Q1 2026, building on record turnover and net income achieved during fiscal 2025. The firm is accelerating strategic investments in artificial intelligence while positioning mobile in-game advertising as a transparent, privacy-safe solution for global advertisers. Concurrent executive leadership updates include the appointment of Henry Bromley as CFO and the formalisation of Tarrnie Williams Jr. as Chief Operating Officer to oversee product, technology, and operations.
Business model & monetisation
The core monetisation model is advertising revenue generated from direct campaigns and programmatic trading across Kidoz’s in-app network, typically via a take-rate on media spend and revenue-sharing with publishers. Additional monetisation comes from publisher monetisation infrastructure, managed campaign or creative services around interactive ad units, audience insight products, and likely OEM or licensing arrangements linked to Kidoz OS deployments. Commercial mechanics are consistent with CPM- and performance-led ad spend, platform take-rates and B2B software-enabled service revenue.
- Direct advertiser campaigns
- Media spend-based pricing and campaign delivery
- Programmatic trading and exchange take-rate
- Percentage take-rate on ad spend
- Publisher monetisation and SDK-enabled revenue share
- Revenue-sharing on inventory monetisation
- Creative and managed campaign services
- Service fee / retainer
- OS or OEM-related licensing
- Licensing / commercial partner fees
Products & capabilities
No products with linked sources are available in this view.
Programmatic stack & registry data
Registry entries and observed technical data do not establish certification, legal compliance or actual usage.
Kidoz Inc.
IAB vendor record: 1278
- Cookies declared
- No
- Non-cookie access declared
- No
- Declared feature IDs
- 3
- Declared special purpose IDs
- 1, 2
- Indexed sellers.json entries
- 403 · kidoz.net
Products & market categories
Technology
Media Channel
Competitors & alternatives
- Mobvista
Mobile adtech platform for app growth, monetisation and analytics.
- InMobi
Mobile-first ad tech platform for programmatic advertising and app monetisation.
- SuperAwesome
Privacy-first youth advertising and compliance platform.
Side-by-side comparisons
Subsidiaries & acquisitions
- Prado
Mobile in-app advertising platform for publishers and brand campaigns.
Recent recorded signals
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No sufficiently sourced and dated signals are available for this view.
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Questions about Kidoz
What is Kidoz?
Kidoz is a public Canadian adtech company providing privacy-first in-app advertising, monetisation and programmatic tools focused on children, teens and family audiences.
Who uses Kidoz?
Its users are mainly brand advertisers, agencies, mobile app publishers, developers and marketers that need compliant audience reach, user acquisition or app monetisation.
How does Kidoz make money?
Kidoz makes money through advertising spend, programmatic take-rates, publisher revenue-sharing, software-enabled monetisation tools, managed campaign services and some platform or licensing revenue.
Sources & coverage
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22 publicly documented primary sources and citations linked across the market graph.
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