Criteo
Criteo is a digital advertising company that enables businesses to target and retarget potential customers through personalized display advertisements.
Last updated Oct 24, 2026 by ATDb automated enrichment · Connections updated Oct 26, 2026
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At a glance
- Employees
- 1001-5000
- Funding
- ~$490M
- Revenue
- $800M–$1B
- Stock
- CRTO
About
One of the largest independent commerce media platforms globally, with a leading position in retargeting and a growing retail media network serving brands, agencies, retailers, and publishers.
Criteo is a digital advertising company that enables businesses to target and retarget potential customers through personalized display advertisements. Its commerce data and AI technology connect media impressions with over one trillion commerce transactions, helping advertisers find the right audiences and deliver relevant messages based on shoppers' complete purchase journeys. Criteo serves multiple sides of the advertising ecosystem: it helps retailers monetize their audiences as media companies, supports brands and agencies in driving awareness and sales across media and sales channels, enables publishers to connect content consumption to commerce, and uses AI-driven audiences and creatives to bring new and lapsed customers to marketers. Historically associated with ad retargeting, Criteo is now repositioning for an AI-driven commerce era, running early experiments with large language models and piping structured commerce signals into LLM environments via a Model Context Protocol server, so that agents inside tools like ChatGPT or Claude can draw on Criteo's data when recommending products. The company's dataset encompasses 720 million daily active users, more than one trillion dollars in observed online transactions, and billions of SKUs integrated across retailers and brands. In June 2023, the French data protection authority fined Criteo 40 million euros, notably for failing to verify that individuals whose data it processes had given their consent. Source 1: wikipedia.org — Criteo Source 2: lunio.ai — What is Criteo Used For? | How to Use Criteo? Source 3: criteo.com — More about Criteo | Commerce Growth Help Center Source 4: digiday.com — How Criteo is turning LLMs into its next big advertising ...
Business model
Performance Advertising Platform
Target market
Enterprise, Mid-Market
What they offer
Commerce Max
Demand-side platform (DSP) for brands and agencies to activate retail media and open internet campaigns using Criteo's commerce data.
Commerce Grid
Supply-side platform (SSP) for retailers and publishers to monetize their audiences and inventory through commerce-focused advertising.
Commerce Yield
Retail media monetization solution helping retailers manage and optimize their onsite and offsite media businesses.
Criteo Retargeting
Core retargeting product that re-engages shoppers who have previously visited an advertiser's site with personalized ads across the open internet.
Audience Match
Privacy-safe audience targeting using first-party data matched against Criteo's commerce graph.
Dynamic Creative Optimization (DCO)
AI-powered creative tool that automatically generates and optimizes personalized ad creatives at scale.
Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server
Experimental integration that pipes structured commerce signals into LLM environments, enabling AI agents in tools like ChatGPT or Claude to draw on Criteo's commerce data for product recommendations.
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Technology stack
Security & compliance
Deployment
API
Yes
- 2005 · Founded
- 2022Absorbed Iponweb