Despite 2025 revenue beats, The Trade Desk’s stock price falls sharply after earnings update

The Trade Desk announced both Q4 and full-year revenue beats for 2025 earlier today, but a perceieved weakness in its accompanying revenue guidance for the current trading period meant its stock was down in the early hours after the bell.

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The latest numbers came amid a glut of trading updates from the publicly-listed ad tech cohort – Magnite and Taboola also issued their earnigns for the period – with all eyes on the indsutry’s largest independent demand-side platform given the previous 12 months saw its stock price drop by two-thirds.

The Trade Desk announced revenues of $2.9 billion during 2025, up 18% year on year, with $847 million of that total generated during the closing quarter of the year, up 14%, with both sets of numbers beating earlier expectations.

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In Graphic Detail: Publishers chase video podcast growth, but audio still leads

The podcast industry has entered its video era. But audience behavior hasn’t fully followed. 

Recent data shows more listeners still prefer audio, and switch between audio and video depending on context. That’s leaving producers to treat video as a growth lever rather than a full replacement.

And yet, while audio may be the dominant format, audiences increasingly expect video, meaning publishers must invest in both formats without losing sight of where demand actually sits. 

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