TNL Mediagene Announces Preliminary 2024 Financial Results and 2025 Outlook: 2024 results in strong revenue and proforma EBITDA performance‐Management expects continued revenue growth in the 2025 fiscal year

NEW YORK and TOKYO, April 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- TNL Mediagene (NASDAQ: TNMG), a leading media and technology company in Asia, today announced its preliminary unaudited financial results highlights for the year ended December 31, 2024, and provided an outlook for 2025.

2024 Unaudited Preliminary Highlights

1. Pro-Forma Revenue Growth: TNL Mediagene achieved a revenue increase of more than 30% year-over-year. This growth was driven by revenue diversification into more tech and data powered products, like establishing retail media networks, new strategic data partnerships, and innovative content, resulting in increased user engagement, especially in short-form video formats.
2. Pro-Forma EBITDA: On a normalized basis excluding extraordinary items, including one-time DeSPAC and IPO expenses, and currency fluctuations, adjusted EBITDA is expected to be near profitability.

Management Commentary

"Despite the one-time DeSPAC and IPO fees and time and resource consuming process, 2024 was a very successful year for us," said Joey Chung, CEO of TNL Mediagene. "Our revenue grew considerably, and EBITDA margins improved substantially as well, especially when excluding foreign exchange adjustments, which would show even larger numbers. We achieved significant synergies across our operations in Japan and Taiwan, and aim to continue to greatly diversify our media, revenue and products across different languages, and include more data analytics, content commerce and AI services. We are confident that 2025 will also be a year of growth for us. Importantly, we are one of the few media/tech/data/e-commerce companies that are close to achieving operational profitability, while still in its growth stage. Furthermore, the recently proposed U.S. government tariff rules are not expected to impact TNMG's operations or this year's business performance forecasts."

"Looking ahead to 2025, we are focused on diversifying our media multilingualization and revenue sources, enhancing content commerce and brand performance advertising, and strengthening video and video commerce for monetization. By leveraging technology and data, we aim to capture retail media ad budgets and support our corporate commerce business. Additionally, we will continue to improve operational efficiency and reduce costs using AI technology to automate content creation, martech products, translation, and other tasks."

"We believe TNL Mediagene is currently undervalued and trading at an attractive level, with a price-to-sales (P/S) ratio of around 0.5x and a price-to-book (P/B) ratio of around 0.4x, while the media, martech and data analytics industries trade well above those ranges.  Across the board, we are working to improve our overall profitability structure, EBITDA margin and seize growing opportunities to build value for our stakeholders. Together we believe our efforts can result in continued revenue growth and EBITDA improvement for 2025."

About TNL Mediagene

TNL Mediagene (NASDAQ: TNMG), a Tokyo based Asian media and technology company, is the product of the May 2023 merger of Taiwan's The News Lens Co. and Japan's Mediagene Inc., two leading, independent digital-media groups. Its business includes original and licensed media brands in Chinese, Japanese and English, across a range of subjects, including news, business, technology, science, food, sports and lifestyle; AI-powered advertising and marketing technology platforms in demand by agencies; and e-commerce and creative solutions. It takes pride in its political neutrality, its reach with younger audiences, and its quality. The company has about 500 employees across Asia, with offices in Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong. 
https://www.tnlmediagene.com/

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Use of Non-IFRS Financial Measures 

In this press release we have included adjusted EBITDA, a non-IFRS financial measure, which is a key measure used by our management and board of directors in evaluating our operating performance.

Adjusted EBITDA is our preferred metric for profitability because we believe it facilitates operating performance comparisons on a period-to-period basis and excludes items that we do not consider to be indicative of our core operating performance.

We define adjusted EBITDA as profit (loss) for the period excluding depreciation expenses and amortization expenses as well as extraordinary items associated with one-time events and transactions, such as one-time transaction-related expenses not eligible for capitalization.

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