XML 19 R8.htm IDEA: XBRL DOCUMENT v3.24.3
Organization and Description of Business
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]  
Organization and Description of Business Organization and Description of Business
System1, Inc. and subsidiaries (the "Company", "we", "our" or "us") operates an omnichannel customer acquisition platform, delivering high-intent customers to brands, advertisers and publishers.

We provide our omnichannel customer acquisition platform services through our proprietary responsive acquisition marketing platform ("RAMP"). Operating seamlessly across major advertising networks and advertising category verticals to acquire high-intent end-users, RAMP allows us to monetize these acquired end-users through our relationships with third party advertisers and advertising networks ("Advertising Partners"). RAMP operates across our network of owned and operated websites, allowing us to monetize end-user traffic that we source from various acquisition marketing channels, including Google, Facebook, Outbrain, and TikTok. RAMP also allows third party advertising platforms and publishers ("Network Partners") to send end-user traffic to, and monetize end-user traffic on, our owned and operated websites or through our monetization agreements.

We have two reportable segments: Owned and Operated Advertising and Partner Network (see Note 10, Segment Reporting).

On August 1, 2024, we undertook a corporate reorganization, the result of which was that all of the assets and business operations of the Company are now held by System1 Holdings, LLC ("System1 Holdings"), a newly formed intermediate holding company of which we maintain the controlling interest and in which the non-controlling interest is owned by the holders of our Class C common stock. Following the corporate reorganization, (a) System1 Holdings now owns 100% of S1 Holdco, LLC ("S1 Holdco"), the previous intermediate holding company with the non-controlling interest, and 100% of S1 Media, LLC ("S1 Media"), another new subsidiary formed in connection with the corporate reorganization, (b) S1 Media holds the assets and business operations associated with our owned and operated products, which includes CouponFollow, Startpage and Mapquest, and (c) S1 Holdco holds our remaining assets and business operations associated with our digital advertising businesses, including our proprietary RAMP platform. S1 Holdco and its subsidiaries remain obligors and guarantors under our Term Loan and 2022 Revolving Facility, and System1 Holdings and S1 Media are not parties thereto.