Vendor

LiveRamp

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Headquarters
San Francisco, California, USA
Ticker
NYSE:RAMP

LiveRamp describes its mission as connecting every signal, agent, surface and channel to fuel AI-powered marketing, grounded in trust. It is headquartered in San Francisco and trades on the New York Stock Exchange as RAMP. Scott Howe is its chief executive.

Origins

LiveRamp is the renamed Acxiom, a data company that dates from 1969. In October 2018, after selling its Acxiom Marketing Solutions division to Interpublic Group for $2.3 billion, the company changed its name to LiveRamp (source: Wikipedia).

Products named on its site

  • RampID, an identity identifier, and identity resolution and translation.
  • Clean-room technology for collaborating on data between companies.
  • Segmentation and activation, enrichment, a data marketplace and data monetization services.
  • Agentic AI orchestration.

LiveRamp says it has more than 1,700 associates in nine countries.

Publicis deal

On May 17, 2026 Publicis Groupe announced an agreement to acquire LiveRamp for $38.50 per share in cash. LiveRamp stockholders adopted the merger agreement on August 17, 2026. The sources we reviewed do not say whether it has closed; see the timeline entry.

Latest coverage

Sources

  1. LiveRamp: About (opens in a new tab) Primary source
  2. Wikipedia: LiveRamp (opens in a new tab) Other
  3. GlobeNewswire: Publicis to acquire LiveRamp to accelerate data co-creation for smarter agents (opens in a new tab) Press release ·
  4. LiveRamp: Form 8-K on the results of the August 17, 2026 special meeting (SEC) (opens in a new tab) Regulatory filing ·

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