Townsquare Reports Q4 Revenue of $106.5M, Down 9.9% YoY
Reports Q4 revenue $106.5M vs. $117.8M last year, "I am pleased to share that Townsquare's fourth quarter and year end results met our previously issued net revenue and Adjusted EBITDA guidance, reflecting our team's hard work in the current environment. We are proud that the execution of our Digital First Local Media strategy allowed us to deliver excellent results for our clients, while also outperforming competitors and gaining market share," commented Bill Wilson, Chief Executive Officer of Townsquare Media, Inc. "In 2025, net revenue decreased -2.8% year-over-year excluding political, and -5.2% in total, and Adjusted EBITDA decreased -3.0% year-over-year excluding political, and -12.2% in total. Importantly, due to our strong expense management, Adjusted EBITDA margins excluding political were constant year-over-year, despite revenue declines. In addition, our full year net loss improved by $1.2 million year-over-year, to a net loss of $9.8 million." Mr. Wilson continued, "In 2025, Townsquare's Digital business, which now represents 55% of the Company's total net revenue and 56% of our total Segment Profit, was buoyed by the consistent strength of our differentiated programmatic digital advertising offering, including the success of our Media Partnership division, and the direct sales of our local owned and operated digital properties. Both of these digital revenue streams increased by +9% year-over-year in 2025, offsetting the significant short-term headwinds of declining search engine referral traffic we experienced in 2025, and leading to overall 2025 Digital Advertising revenue growth of +1.6% as compared to the prior year. I'm also pleased to share that we are starting to see early signs of digital audience stabilization, and are optimistic the negative remnant revenue headwinds presented by the year-over-year decline in search engine referral traffic will abate in the second half of 2026. In fact to start 2026, the traffic to our local mobile apps and websites grew sequentially month-over-month with both January and February online audience being larger than December, and thus our local remnant revenue in January and February was more than we generated in any month of Q4. I would also like to highlight the strong profit performance of Townsquare Interactive in 2025, which delivered Segment Profit growth of +17.4% year-over-year, and a Segment Profit margin of 34%, representing the highest Segment Profit margin in Townsquare Interactive's 14-year history. One of the largest benefits of our business model is significant cash generation. In 2025, despite having meaningfully higher interest expense obligations, we generated $30.6 million of cash flow from operations over the course of the year. We utilized this cash flow first and foremost to invest in our local business through organic, internal investments that support our revenue and profit growth, particularly our digital growth engine. In addition, we repaid $22.6 million of debt following our February 2025 refinancing through both voluntary and mandatory debt amortization, and made $13.2 million of dividend payments. Due to management's and the Board of Director's ongoing confidence in our business, the underlying strength of our digital advertising differentiation, and our consistent, strong free cash flow characteristics, which we believe is not reflected in our stock price to date, we plan to maintain the dividend at its current rate, despite the high implied dividend yield. Looking forward, we remain confident in our ability to build shareholder value for our investors through long-term net revenue, Adjusted EBITDA and cash flow growth, net leverage reduction, and future dividend payments," concluded Mr. Wilson.
