Zeta Global
Enterprise marketing cloud combining CDP, DSP, ESP, data and AI.
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Company facts
- Official name
- Zeta Global Holdings Corp.
- Entity type
- COMPANY
- Founded
- 2007
- Headquarters
- 3 Park Avenue, 33rd Floor, New York, NY 10016
- Company size
- 1,001–5,000
- Market role
- AdTech Vendor
- Ticker
- ZETA
- Official website
- zetaglobal.com
What Zeta Global does
Zeta Global operates a hybrid B2B software and advertising infrastructure model. It provides enterprises with a unified marketing platform sold as software, while also monetising media activation through its DSP, proprietary data and identity assets, and publisher monetisation products. Value is created by combining customer data, identity resolution, orchestration, activation and measurement inside one stack, allowing clients to consolidate vendors and execute campaigns across owned and paid channels.
Category differentiation
This is the US-listed marketing technology company, not a generic AI product or a standalone ad agency. It should also not be confused with any unrelated businesses using the word 'Zeta' in telecoms, finance or software services.
Strategic context
AI-supported assessment from the existing company research; distinguish interpretation from sourced facts.
Zeta Global is a US-listed marketing technology company that sells an integrated enterprise platform for customer data management, identity resolution, email, programmatic activation, analytics and AI-driven campaign orchestration. Its core product, the Zeta Marketing Platform, is positioned as a unified system for enterprise marketers, agencies and marketing operations teams to manage customer data, audience targeting, messaging, activation and measurement across channels including web, CTV, email and in-app. The company makes money through a blend of recurring software fees, usage-linked media activation revenue, data monetisation and publisher monetisation. Its product footprint spans MarTech and AdTech: CDP and marketing automation, a DSP, identity and data assets, and publisher monetisation tools such as HIRO. The 2024 acquisition of LiveIntent strengthened its publisher and identity capabilities, extending the platform further into email and publisher-side monetisation.
Company news briefing
Briefing updated:
Zeta Global has further strengthened its AI and infrastructure capabilities by entering an agreement to acquire AI engineering firm Senso, complementing its existing partnership with Palantir. Building on its recent $1 billion credit facility and strong Q2 financial performance, the company is accelerating its international expansion with a new London hub under U.K. President Lalitha Stables while navigating broader ad tech sector consolidation.
Business model & monetisation
Zeta Global primarily monetises via enterprise SaaS subscriptions and multi-module platform contracts covering marketing automation, CDP, identity, analytics and messaging. It also earns usage-based revenue from programmatic media activation through its DSP, licences or embeds value from proprietary data and identity assets, and can capture monetisation from publisher products through advertising revenue share or related platform fees. Overall, the model blends SaaS / software subscription with media take-rate and data-driven monetisation.
- Enterprise platform subscriptions
- SaaS / software subscription for multi-module marketing platform access
- Programmatic media activation
- Percentage take-rate on DSP media spend
- Data and identity monetisation
- Data-driven enrichment and identity-linked commercial value
- Publisher monetisation
- Revenue share or platform fees tied to monetised publisher traffic
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.
Zeta Global Corp.
IAB vendor record: 469
- Cookies declared
- Yes
- Non-cookie access declared
- No
- Declared purpose IDs
- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
- Declared feature IDs
- 1, 2, 3
- Indexed sellers.json entries
- 153 · zetaglobal.com
Products & market categories
Technology
Competitors & alternatives
- Epsilon
Identity-driven adtech and martech platform for enterprises.
- Branch
Mobile linking, attribution, and programmatic buying platform for marketers.
Side-by-side comparisons
Recent recorded signals
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Zeta Global to Acquire Senso, Adding AI Engineering and Frontier-Model Connectivity to Its Intelligent AI Infrastructure
Recorded impact score: 4/5
Zeta Global (NYSE: ZETA) announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Senso, a Y Combinator-backed AI engineering company whose technology helps power Zeta's Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) offering. The acquisition will bring additional technology in-house, add AI engineering talent and deepen Zeta's connectivity to frontier models.
Palantir’s Quiet Takeover of Media’s Data Stack
Data & AI · Recorded impact score: 4/5
Palantir is expanding from government work into media and marketing, striking deals with Fox News Digital, Zeta Global, Stagwell, and USA Today Co. These partnerships involve building internal platforms, analyzing audience data, and integrating AI. Despite employee concerns at USA Today, executives praise Palantir's speed and ontology-based approach. The company embeds forward-deployed engineers and offers interoperability with various AI models. For Zeta and Stagwell, Palantir also serves as a sales channel, taking a revenue share. The push reflects a broader industry shift toward leveraging data for monetization and efficiency.
- Fox News Digital struck a deal with Palantir in December 2025 to build its article production platform, which now handles 95% of its articles.
- Zeta Global signed a seven-year partnership with Palantir in June, rebuilding its data cloud on Foundry after skipping a competitive review.
Zeta Global Invests in U.K. Growth with New London Hub and Leadership
Recorded impact score: 3.5/5
Zeta Global announced the appointment of Lalitha Stables as President, U.K., the opening of a new London hub, and the consolidation of more than 120 U.K. employees in a single location to accelerate expansion across the U.K.
Attentive VP Jema Birkmeyer Discusses AI's Role in Lifecycle Marketing
AI in Marketing · Recorded impact score: 1/5
In a MarTech Series interview, Jema Birkmeyer, VP of Strategic Accounts at Attentive, discusses the evolving landscape of lifecycle marketing as AI and agentic AI take on more campaign decisions. She highlights a shift from rule-based marketing to direction-setting, where AI handles millions of real-time decisions about audience, messaging, timing, and channel, allowing marketers to focus on strategy and creativity. Birkmeyer emphasizes the need to balance short-term conversions with long-term customer value, noting that 65% of shoppers are open to more relevant messages, while 80% ignore irrelevant ones. She discusses the changing role of segmentation, the importance of deliberate testing for creative and strategy, and the risk of brands losing relevance through over-automation. The interview underscores that AI enhances but does not replace the need for human insight and creativity in building lasting customer relationships.
- Jema Birkmeyer is VP of Strategic Accounts at Attentive.
- Attentive is an omnichannel marketing platform for SMS, email, RCS, and push.
Old Marketing Goals Are Obsolete in an AI, Privacy-First World
Digital Marketing Strategy · Recorded impact score: 2/5
Writing for CMSWire, Chad S. White argues that four traditional marketing goals are becoming obsolete as AI, privacy regulation, and changing consumer behavior reshape digital marketing. Brand stewards should aim for functional brand experiences rather than pixel-perfect consistency, since email rendering and AI summarization tools vary across inboxes. The article also contends that Google search visibility no longer guarantees reach, because AI Overviews and large language models have reduced referral traffic; brands should diversify across social platforms, marketplaces, and owned channels. In a privacy-first environment, campaign-level KPIs are losing value, pushing marketers to centralize customer data and measure long-term customer relationship metrics such as lifetime value. Finally, with AI agents increasingly acting for customers, the author advises marketers to write clear, literal copy that machines can interpret correctly, calling this an essential shift for agentic commerce.
- The article was published on CMSWire on September 3, 2026, by Chad S. White.
- Gartner predicts mobile app usage will decrease 25% by 2027 due to AI assistants.
Careers & open positions
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| Position | Department | Location | Posted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior Art Director(Senior) | Creative Services | New York, NY | |
| AI Ops Application Operations Lead(Lead) | Business Operations | Hyderabad, India | |
| Manager, Analytics & Insights - Programmatic(Manager) | Data Science & Analytics | Remote - Fort Lauderdale, FL; Remote - United States | |
| Senior Manager, Data Analytics and Revenue Forecasting(Unspecified) | Strategy | New York, NY | |
| Director of Paid Search, EDU(Director) | Media Activation | Remote - United States |
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Questions about Zeta Global
What is Zeta Global?
Zeta Global is a public B2B marketing technology company that provides an integrated platform covering customer data, identity, messaging, programmatic activation, analytics and AI-driven orchestration.
Who uses Zeta Global?
Its direct customers are primarily enterprise marketers, CRM and marketing operations teams, advertisers, agencies, programmatic buyers, and digital publishers.
How does Zeta Global make money?
It earns revenue from enterprise software subscriptions, programmatic media activation take-rates, data and identity monetisation, and publisher monetisation products.
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