Brighttalk Limited
Registered name: BRIGHTTALK LIMITED
Part of Techtarget Holdings, Inc. groupBrighttalk Limited made £8.3m revenue and £2m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2023.
Brighttalk Limited’s revenue fell 41% to £8.3m in the year to 31 Dec 2023, with £2m profit and 66 employees. The company is classified under “other business support service activities” and is based in London; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London, London
- Age
- 24 yrs · since 2002
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Part of a group. The filing indicates this company sits within a group structure, so its results may depend on intra-group trading and it may be hard to replicate independently. From the filing: “TechTarget, Inc.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2021 | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £17.7m | £14.1m | £8.3m |
| Cost of sales | £3.7m | £3.7m | £2.7m |
| Gross profit | £13.9m | £10.4m | £5.6m |
| Operating profit | £1.5m | £6.1m | £1.7m |
| Profit before tax | £2m | £6.6m | £2.4m |
| Profit after tax | £2.3m | £6m | £2m |
| Profit (best available) | £2.3m | £6m | £2m |
| Staff costs | £16.5m | £7.4m | £4.9m |
| Employees (average) | 105 | 104 | 66 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 12.9% | 42.4% | 24.6% |
| Gross margin | 78.8% | 73.8% | 67.4% |
| Revenue per employee | £168k | £135k | £126k |
| Profit per employee | £21.7k | £57.5k | £31k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼20.3% | ▼40.8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲162.6% | ▼65.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼0.9% | ▼36.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £10.5m | £10.5m | £2.7m |
| Net assets | £19.2m | £25.1m | £27.4m |
| Fixed assets | £1.5m | £2.2m | £2m |
| Current assets | £26.6m | £29.9m | £30.4m |
| Debtors | £2.4m | £2.2m | £1.1m |
| Deferred income | £7.7m | £4.9m | £2m |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2024 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 24.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 67.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £126k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £31k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 24.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 24.3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 13.8%
- Money owed by customers. Low = customers pay quickly.
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
- ▲9%
- Now £27.4m
- Cash at bank
- ▼75%
- Now £2.7m
- Headcount
- ▼37%
- Now 66
- Deferred income
- ▼58%
- Now £2m
- Fixed assets
- ▼8%
- Now £2m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Techtarget Holdings, Inc. (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Brighttalk Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2023 (profit £2m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2024. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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