Company: CDLX
Filing Date: 2025-01-23
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0001666071-25-000014
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Company: Cardlytics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-01-23
Form: S-8
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### EXPLANATORY NOTE
Pursuant to General Instruction E of Form S-8, Cardlytics, Inc. (the “Registrant”) is filing this Registration Statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) to register 2,562,851 additional shares of its common stock under the 2018 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2018 Plan”) and 500,000 additional shares of its common stock under the 2018 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the “2018 ESPP”), pursuant to the provisions of the 2018 Plan and the 2018 ESPP providing for an automatic increase in the number of shares of common stock reserved and available for issuance under the 2018 Plan and the 2018 ESPP, as applicable, on January 1, 2025. In accordance with the instructional note to Part I of Form S-8 as promulgated by the Commission, the information specified by Part I of the Form S-8 has been omitted from this Registration Statement.

# PART II

## ITEM 3.

### INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE
The following documents filed by the Registrant with the Commission are incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement:

(a) The contents of the earlier registration statements related to the 2018 Plan and the 2018 ESPP, previously filed with the Commission on February 9, 2018 ( File No. 333-222965 ), May 21, 2019 ( File No. 333-231640 ), March 3, 2020 ( File No. 333-236869 ), March 1, 2021 ( File No. 333-253675 ), March 1, 2022 ( File No. 333-263143 ), January 23, 2023 ( File No. 333-269361 ) and January 29, 2024 ( F ile No. 333-276737 ) are incorporated herein by reference and made a part of this Registration Statement.

(b) The Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023, filed with the Commission on March 14, 2024 .

(c) The