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# Ad tech’s public-market exodus: four delistings in a year
- URL: https://fabric-media.ghost.io/ad-techs-public-market-exodus-four-delistings-in-a-year/
- Published: 2026-08-15T00:56:19.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-27T00:47:44.000Z
- Description: Nielsen-DoubleVerify, IAS-Novacap, LiveRamp-Publicis and now Criteo-Vista mark four take-privates in a year, while public survivors like Trade Desk get punished despite growth.
- Author: Fabric.Media Editorial
- Tags: Ad-tech, Deals, Seb Joseph, Krystal Scanlon

**Why it matters.** Public ad-tech boards now have four recent take-private deals to cite as the standard exit when growth stalls, weakening the case for staying listed even amid revenue growth like Trade Desk’s.

*Signal from* [*digiday.com*](https://digiday.com/?ref=fabric-media.ghost.io) *·* [*Seb Joseph*](https://fabric-media.ghost.io/tag/by-seb-joseph/)*,* [*Krystal Scanlon*](https://fabric-media.ghost.io/tag/by-krystal-scanlon/) *·* [*read the original*](https://digiday.com/marketing/future-of-marketing-briefing-the-public-ad-tech-era-is-over/?ref=fabric-media.ghost.io)*.*