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Creative Realities, Inc

Creative Realities, Inc. designs, deploys, manages, and monetizes digital signage networks for businesses that want to communicate with customers in-store or on-site. The company combines hardware resale, installation, managed services, SaaS content management, creative content support, and ad-tech tools into a single-vendor offering. Its customer base spans retail, quick-service restaurants, convenience stores, automotive, sports and entertainment, and other venue-based environments. The company also operates a network operations center in Louisville, Kentucky to support and troubleshoot deployed networks remotely and through field technicians. Recent filings show a business that is trying to expand recurring software and managed-service revenue while navigating uneven deployment activity and liquidity pressure.

Revenue57.2m USD
+12.5 %y/y
Operating profit (EBIT)-8.9m USD
−1,045.2 %y/y
EBIT margin-15.5%
−17.3 ppy/y
Net income-8.3m USD
−135.9 %y/y
Free cash flow-8.1m USD
−339.1 %y/y

Fiscal year 2025 · change from previous year

Development 2020–2025

-200204060m USD2020: 17 m USD2020: EBIT -16 m USD20202021: 18 m USD2021: EBIT -2.5 m USD20212022: 43 m USD2022: EBIT -2.5 m USD20222023: 45 m USD2023: EBIT 1.3 m USD20232024: 51 m USD2024: EBIT 0.94 m USD20242025: 57 m USD2025: EBIT -8.9 m USD202557-8.9
RevenueOperating profit (EBIT)

Business

Share of revenue
Hardware sales35 %

Resale of digital signage hardware and media players sourced from OEMs such as Samsung and BrightSign.

Managed services / SaaS30 %

Recurring software subscriptions and managed services that operate and support customer signage networks.

Installation services20 %

Field deployment, installation, and logistics services for new and expanding signage rollouts.

Creative and other services10 %

Content creation, repurposing, and other support services tied to digital signage programs.

AdTech platforms5 %

AdLogic and Adlogic CPM+ tools used to monetize retail media and in-store advertising networks.

Products

Reported · share of revenue
37.1%31.3%16.7%9.8%FY2025100 %
  • Hardware37.1 %
  • Managed Services31.3 %
  • Digital Media Advertising16.7 %
  • Installation Services9.8 %
  • Other Services5.1 %

Source: 10-K FY2025, revenue the company reports per product line (SEC XBRL). Shares are of the lines shown and add up to 100 %.

Customers

Creative Realities sells primarily to businesses that use digital signage to improve customer engagement, operational communication, or media monetization. The company specifically cites automotive, retail, QSR, convenience stores, and DOOH advertising as key market segments, and it also serves sports and entertainment customers. Buyers are typically organizations that need a full implementation partner rather than a standalone software tool, because deployments often require hardware, installation, integrations, and ongoing support. Customers value the company’s single-vendor model, managed labor pool, and ability to support large, complex networks across North America. The AdTech offering also targets customers that want to turn in-store screens into revenue-generating retail media assets.

Retail and retail media operators

They buy signage hardware, CMS, creative services, and AdTech tools to improve shopper engagement and monetize screen inventory.

Quick-service restaurants

They buy menu-board and in-store signage solutions to support promotions, speed of service, and customer experience.

Convenience stores

They buy digital signage and retail media solutions to drive promotions and in-store advertising revenue.

Automotive and transportation customers

They buy specialized signage and application solutions such as OSx+ and other digital experience tools to improve customer satisfaction and operational workflows.

Sports and entertainment venues

They buy large-scale hardware and installation projects for high-impact guest communication and sponsorship activation.

Strategy

The company’s strategy is to package hardware, software, creative services, installation, and support into a single integrated offering that reduces complexity for customers. A major priority is expanding recurring managed-services and SaaS revenue, which management expects to grow as digital signage adoption broadens across its served verticals. Another strategic focus is AdTech, where AdLogic and Adlogic CPM+ are intended to help customers monetize in-store retail media networks and expand the company’s addressable market. The company also emphasizes sector expertise in automotive, retail, QSR, convenience stores, and DOOH advertising to improve win rates and deepen customer relationships. In the near term, execution is constrained by liquidity and the need to preserve capital while maintaining service quality and customer retention.

Increase recurring SaaS and managed-services mixMedium term

Recurring revenue is more predictable than hardware and installation work and can improve customer retention.

Expand AdTech and retail media monetizationMedium term

AdLogic and Adlogic CPM+ open a larger addressable market by helping customers generate media revenue from signage assets.

Maintain a single-vendor, full-service offeringShort term

Bundling hardware, software, creative, installation, and support differentiates the company and reduces customer complexity.

Preserve liquidity and reduce operating strainShort term

The company disclosed substantial doubt about going concern, making capital preservation essential to execution.

Geography

Q1/2026

Creative Realities appears to generate most of its business in North America, with management specifically describing its SaaS platforms as powering some of the largest and most complex digital signage networks in North America. The company also emphasizes nationwide field support, which suggests a broad U.S. operating footprint rather than a concentrated local market. Its NOC is located in Louisville, Kentucky, supporting remote troubleshooting and dispatch across customer sites. The filings do not provide a country-by-country revenue table in the excerpt, so the geographic mix below is an estimate based on narrative disclosure rather than an authoritative segment note. Geography matters because deployments, installation logistics, and field service capability are central to the company’s ability to win and retain enterprise customers.

United States65 %
Canada35 %

Share of the revenue the company reports by geography.

Risks

The most immediate risk is liquidity, as management disclosed substantial doubt about the company’s ability to continue as a going concern without additional financing. Because the business depends on project deployments and customer spending, delays in hardware purchases or installation schedules can quickly reduce revenue and pressure margins. The company also faces customer concentration and renewal risk, as shown by a single customer insourcing part of its hosted environment and reducing software subscription licenses. Integration risk remains relevant after acquisitions, since the company must retain personnel, preserve customer relationships, and realize expected synergies while absorbing unknown liabilities. More broadly, digital signage and retail media businesses are exposed to technology shifts, competitive pricing, hardware supply variability, and uneven capital spending by retail, restaurant, and venue customers.

Sorted by severity
LowMediumHighLowMediumHighImpact →Likelihood →Going concern / liquidity shortfall1Acquisition integration and unknown liabilities2
Impact is the risk’s severity and likelihood how probable it is over the next few years, both assessed from the company’s reports. Numbers match the list.
  1. Going concern / liquidity shortfallImpact: CriticalLikelihood: Medium

    Management stated that current cash is not sufficient to execute the business plan and that additional financing may be required.

    ExposureOperationsWorking capitalStrategic initiatives
  2. Acquisition integration and unknown liabilitiesImpact: HighLikelihood: Medium

    The company disclosed risks around integrating acquired businesses and assuming unknown liabilities.

    ExposureCustomer relationshipsPersonnelLegal/contingent obligations
  3. Customer insourcing and subscription reductionImpact: High

    A single customer insourced part of its hosted environment, reducing software subscription licenses and managed-services revenue.

    Exposure: Recurring SaaS revenue

  4. Deployment timing and project concentrationImpact: High

    Hardware and installation revenue can swing materially based on the timing of large deployments, especially in sports and entertainment.

    Exposure: Hardware sales and installation services

Accounting

Judgemental items
Revenue recognition across hardware, installation, and SaaS

Different service lines likely recognize revenue at different points in time, affecting quarterly mix and comparability.

Impact: Revenue timing and gross margin volatility

Software asset impairment

A proprietary software platform was impaired after a customer renewal issue reduced expected future cash flows.

Impact: Non-cash operating expense and asset carrying value

Contingent consideration and acquisition accounting

Settlement and valuation of acquisition-related liabilities can affect earnings and balance sheet estimates.

Impact: Other income/expense and liabilities

Severance and restructuring-type costs

Cost-reduction initiatives created severance-related expenses that can recur during restructuring periods.

Impact: Operating expense volatility

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Last updated: 24/09/2026

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