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Criteo

Criteo

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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

Founded
2005
HQ
Paris, Île-de-France, France
Connections
270

AI-drafted from public sources79 sources cited

At a glance

Employees
1001-5000
Funding
~$490M
Revenue
$800M–$1B
Stock
CRTO
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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.

Key features

AI-driven audience targeting and retargetingCommerce data graph with 720M+ daily active usersOver $1 trillion in observed annual online transactionsDynamic creative optimization at scaleRetail media network (onsite and offsite)Privacy-safe identity and first-party data solutionsLLM/AI agent integration via Model Context ProtocolCross-channel campaign management (display, video, CTV, retail)

Use cases

Retargeting website visitors with personalized product adsProspecting new customers using lookalike commerce audiencesRetail media monetization for retailers and e-commerce platformsBrand awareness and consideration campaigns across the open internetDriving in-store and online sales for CPG and retail brandsPublisher audience monetization through commerce-focused demandAI agent-assisted product discovery and recommendations

Customer segments

Retailers and e-commerce companiesConsumer brands and CPG companiesMedia agencies and trading desksDigital publishersTravel and hospitality advertisersFinancial services advertisers

Tech & specs

Technology stack

Proprietary AI and machine learning modelsReal-time bidding (RTB) infrastructureCommerce data graphDynamic creative optimization engineModel Context Protocol (MCP) for LLM integrationFirst-party identity resolutionCloud-based ad serving infrastructure

Security & compliance

GDPRCCPAIAB TCF (Transparency and Consent Framework)SOC 2

Deployment

Cloud

API

Yes

Corporate history
  1. 2005 · Founded
  2. 2022Absorbed Iponweb
Connection details
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