Enterprise Software
LiveRamp
30-Second Executive Brief
Executive Assessment
LiveRamp functions as an emerging institution within Enterprise Software, backed by 80% sourcing coverage, with accelerating strategic relevance.
- Maintains 2 mapped relationships across the graph
- 80% sourcing coverage across sourced relationships
- Tracked as emerging institution within the Enterprise Software category
Executive Snapshot
- Strategic Role
- Emerging Institution
- Sourcing Coverage
- 80%
- Ecosystem Influence
- Regional
- Strategic Momentum
- Accelerating
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Computed live from this entity's own relationships and evidence: how many relationships carry at least one linked citation, weighted with citation recency and source type — independent of Strategic Importance, and not a prediction. Not a hand-typed number; recalculated on every read.
Coverage
- Mapped Relationships
- 2
- Technology Domains
- 3
Strategic Implications
- Central node connecting multiple strategic ecosystems
- Directly influences technology and capital flows
- Material relevance to downstream dependency mapping
Top Opportunities
Top Risks
Critical Dependencies
A data connectivity and identity resolution platform used across advertising and marketing technology, whose Q4 fiscal 2026 revenue grew 9% year-over-year with annual recurring revenue up 8% and subscription net retention improving to 107%. On May 17, 2026, LiveRamp agreed to be acquired by advertising holding company Publicis Groupe for $38.50 per share (a 29.8% premium), a deal valued at roughly $2.5 billion in total equity value, aimed at accelerating data co-creation for more sophisticated AI advertising agents; the enterprise value net of LiveRamp's cash was approximately $2.2 billion.
Leading Indicators
Hiring and patent filing trends — the underlying numbers Momentum is computed from. Insider filing activity is tracked separately under Sources below.
Additional Intelligence Signals
Patent citation lineage, earnings-call mentions, and federal contract disclosures — automatically collected, not yet visible anywhere else on the site.
Earnings-call mentions
Mentions OpenAI
“We continue to make good progress with our AI and agentic initiatives with the launch of the LiveRamp Agent Builders Lab and new partnerships with OpenAI, Databricks and Adobe.”
SEC 8-K exhibit (0000733269-26-000045) · Aug 5, 2026
Mentions Databricks
“We announced the launch of embedded identity, activation, collaboration, and measurement solutions in Databrick's new Agentic Customer Data Platform, which enables joint customers to unlock intelligence for advertising and marketing.”
SEC 8-K exhibit (0000733269-26-000045) · Aug 5, 2026
Mentions Adobe
“We announced a new integration with Adobe GenStudio for Commerce Media Networks (CMNs), making commerce purchase data available through LiveRamp s platform for use in Adobe s agentic content supply chain enabling brands to build and launch more targeted campaigns within commerce media networks.”
SEC 8-K exhibit (0000733269-26-000045) · Aug 5, 2026
Mentions NVIDIA
“We announced native support for NVIDIA AI infrastructure, upgrading our clean room architecture to handle the world's most advanced and compute-intensive AI workloads.”
SEC 8-K exhibit (0001104659-26-062908) · May 18, 2026
Mentions Uber
“On February 11, 2026 we appointed to our Board of Directors Kristi Argyilan, who currently serves as Global Head of Advertising at Uber.”
SEC 8-K exhibit (0001104659-26-062908) · May 18, 2026
Sources
Every claim traced to a primary source — evidence, recent activity, and insider filing behavior, all in one place.
Evidence
5 sources · 1 government/SEC filing
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR) — LiveRamp FY2026 Annual Report (Form 10-K), filed with the SECgovernment
- Seeking Alpha / Publicis Groupe press release — Publicis Groupe agrees to acquire LiveRamp for ~$2.5B to power smarter AI ad agentsnews
- GlobeNewswire / LiveRamp Q1 FY2027 earnings release — LiveRamp Q1 FY2027 revenue up 10% to $214M, operating income more than doubles ahead of Publicis closemarket-data
- LiveRamp investor relations — LiveRamp Q4 FY2026 revenue up 9%, net retention improves to 107%company
- Yahoo Finance — LiveRamp shares among notable movers in 2026news
Latest Activity
Insider Filing Activity
Counts filing frequency only — transaction direction/size wasn't parseable from the sampled filings · sourced from SEC EDGAR · as of Sep 7, 2026
Acquisition & Investment Fit
AI-reasoned, generated only from entities already in InsightNodes's own graph — a hypothetical strategic-fit exercise, not real M&A intelligence or a signal that any deal is planned or in progress.
Relationship Map
The relationships surrounding LiveRamp — ownership, dependencies, regulation, technology and market context. Click any node to make it the new center, 2 levels deep.
Connection type
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The Story So Far (last 6 months)
Auto-generated from this entity's dated milestones, relationship updates, and sourced evidence — not AI-written, just sorted.
Market Intelligence
UnverifiedCredibly-reported claims — analyst notes, sourcing citing “people familiar with the matter,” deals where the companies involved declined to comment — that haven't been officially confirmed. Kept structurally separate from the sourced evidence above; treat as a lead worth researching further, not an established fact.
Posting double-digit growth and more-than-doubled operating income in the quarter after agreeing to be acquired suggests LiveRamp's standalone business is performing well independent of the Publicis deal rationale
35% confidenceStrong Q1 FY2027 execution this close to a pending acquisition close is a reasonable signal that LiveRamp isn't a distressed or slowing asset being acquired opportunistically -- Publicis appears to be buying a business with real operating momentum, which may matter if the deal faces any regulatory or shareholder friction before closing.
This is InsightNodes' own interpretive read connecting LiveRamp's post-announcement results to the strategic rationale for the Publicis deal; neither company has characterized the Q1 results as validating (or complicating) the acquisition price.
GlobeNewswire · Aug 5, 2026
LiveRamp's Timeline
A sourced, dated history of LiveRamp's key moments — founding to present.
Aug 2026 · Q1 FY2027 revenue up 10% to $214M, GAAP operating income more than doubles, ahead of Publicis close
LiveRamp reported first-quarter fiscal-year 2027 revenue of $214 million (up 10% year-over-year) with GAAP operating income rising to $20 million from $7 million a year earlier and ARR up 7% to $539 million -- the first full quarterly report since agreeing to be acquired by Publicis Groupe for approximately $2.5 billion in May 2026.