Zeta Global (ZETA) Soars 25% as CEO ‘Highly Optimistic’

Zeta Global Holdings Corp. (NYSE:ZETA) is one of the 10 Stocks With Explosive Returns.

Zeta Global saw its share prices increase by 24.90 percent on Friday to finish at $22.89 apiece, as investor sentiment was boosted by its chief executive’s highly optimistic outlook about the company.

In a television interview on the same day, Zeta Global Holdings Corp. (NYSE:ZETA) CEO David Steinberg said that its AI platform called Athena “is winning in the marketplace.”

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“The truth is, there are very few companies that have implemented AI, and if you look at data, we started working on artificial intelligence in 2017. We put our AI platform live in 2020, and if you look at our business, we’re now [in our] 4th year of 30+ percent compounded growth on an average basis. That’s because our AI is winning in the marketplace,” he noted.

“Clients that are adopting Athena are seeing an even higher return on marketing spend than 600 percent. Our goal is to get clients to 1000 percent return on investment for every marketing dollar they spend through our platform, and I think that turbulence is causing clients to adopt Athena faster, which is one of the reasons I think why our business is growing faster than we originally expected it to.”

Athena is a superintelligent agent that aims to revolutionize marketing by uniting conversational AI, predictive answers, real-time activation, and measurement in one adaptive command center.

In the first quarter of fiscal year 2026, Zeta Global Holdings Corp. (NYSE:ZETA) said that Athena propelled agent interactions by more than 7x and accounted for 60 percent of AI platform usage in its first week of general availability.

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