AdTheorent's performance-focused programmatic advertising platform uses data science and machine learning (ML) capabilities to target digital ads without relying on privacy-backwards cookies, device IDs or other user profiles. The company's proprietary suite of tools, methodologies and vertical solutions maximizes campaign performance and ROI for advertisers, while operating in a privacy-first manner, which has quickly escalated into an essential element for brand marketers worldwide.
Revenue for 3Q21 was up 36% YoY and the company is projecting 28% growth in 2022 and 26% growth in 2023. The CTV market is a major growth driver for AdTheorent with nearly 300% growth YoY in 3Q21, and 240% growth expected in 2022. With 10 years of operating history and a strong track record of financial performance, AdTheorent has proven technology and market-validated business model that many SPACs lack.
For a comp group, we have used a group of similar growth, similar margin ad software companies. These comparables have an average forward P/S of 11.0x, while AdTheorent is priced at 6.3x, a 43% discount. On a 2023 EV/EBITDA basis the discount is 27% (24.1x vs 33.1x). AdTheorent's 2022 revenue growth is expected to be higher than the comp group average (28% vs 24%).
AdTheorent is improving the digital world for advertisers and consumers. By way of illustration, consider the following: when a consumer accesses content on a device -- a mobile device, tablet, or laptop-- a content page will render on that device, and that screen will likely contain an opportunity to show an ad, which is called a digital impression.
Advertisers want to know which of these impressions or opportunities to show/serve ads are most likely to yield engagement, conversions, or other advertiser-specified actions by their customers such as credit card signups, online sales, a hotel or airline bookings, whatever action is behind the given ad campaign, the advertiser is trying to drive those actions. They want to buy the media that's going to do just that.
Behind the scenes, there's a marketplace to buy and sell those ad opportunities. It's an auction system that takes place in microseconds. AdTheorent occupies the demand-side platform silo in this ecosystem, enabling advertisers to purchase digital media and digital ad impressions in real time and one at a time.
The key to AdTheorent's success is that it has transformed how that is done. AdTheorent uses machine learning and data science as its core method of ad targeting and campaign optimization. This contrasts with cookie-based or other ID-based or user profile-based targeting, which focuses more on individual identities and retargeting users and profiles across the Internet.
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