THG PLC and The Trade Desk Partnership
Analysis based on 10 articles · First reported Feb 16, 2026 · Last updated Feb 17, 2026
This partnership is expected to positively impact the advertising and e-commerce markets by enabling more personalized and effective campaigns. Advertisers using The Trade Desk's platform will gain access to valuable retail data from THG PLC's THG PLC===Cult Beauty and THG PLC===Lookfantastic, leading to improved ad spend effectiveness and potentially higher sales for brands.
THG PLC has announced a strategic partnership with The Trade Desk, a global advertising technology leader. This collaboration will allow media buyers, including advertisers and agencies, to access THG's audience segments from its beauty retail platforms, THG PLC===Cult Beauty and THG PLC===Lookfantastic, on a self-serve basis through The Trade Desk's Kokai platform. This initiative aims to meet the growing market demand for personalized, effective, and transparent advertising campaigns by leveraging high-quality retail data. Advertisers will gain direct access to various audience segments across different categories like nutrition, skincare, makeup, haircare, and fragrance, enabling more precise targeting and measurement of media activity against actual sales. Both Rachel Moss of THG PLC and Tim Abraham of The Trade Desk highlighted the significant opportunities this partnership presents for improving ad spend effectiveness and expanding retail media offerings.
Set up alerts, explore entity relationships, search across thousands of events, and build custom intelligence feeds.
Open Dashboard