Who owns Opera Ads?
Opera Ads is owned by Kunlun Tech (China, SZSE: 300418) through its subsidiary Opera.[1]
Kunlun Tech owns 68% of Opera rather than all of it.
Evidence: Opera Limited Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended 31 December 2025, SEC EDGAR, 27 March 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Kunlun Tech Co., Ltd. via Opera verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇨🇳 China, Beijing
- Origin
- 🇳🇴 Norway
- Category
- Internet & digital › Digital services › Website & store builders
- Parent ticker
- SZSE: 300418
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Opera Ads
Opera Ads is the advertising platform Opera sells against its own browsers and content apps, and against partner inventory it resells through what it calls audience extension. It handles native, video and e-commerce placements, and Opera argues that sitting inside the browser lets it read a user's intent directly rather than inferring it from third-party cookies. Its total monthly advertising reach passed half a billion people by December 2025.
Ownership timeline of Opera Ads
- Current owner Kunlun Tech via Opera [1] verified
Where Opera Ads sits in Kunlun Tech
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Kunlun Tech
Kunlun Tech controls 10 brands on Brandtree, 10 of them in internet & digital.
Also in internet & digital
- GameMaker
- MiniPay
- Opera (1996)
- Opera AI
- Opera Air (2025)
- Opera GX
- Opera Mini
- Opera Neon (2025)
- Opera News (2017)
Other brands in website & store builders, and who owns them
The 20 brands in website & store builders on Brandtree belong to 6 owners. The largest is IONOS, with 9.
About the owner: Kunlun Tech
Kunlun Tech is a publicly listed company headquartered in Beijing, China. Brandtree records 10 brands under its control, and it is listed as SZSE: 300418.
Kunlun Tech is a Chinese internet company listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange under the code 300418, with its business address in the Dongcheng District of Beijing. It appears here because of what it owns rather than what it sells: Opera's own annual report names Kunlun Tech the ultimate parent of Opera, held through its Hong Kong subsidiary Hong Kong Kunlun Tech Holding Limited, which beneficially owns 68 per cent of Opera's shares and makes Opera a controlled company under Nasdaq rules. Kunlun is itself controlled by James Yahui Zhou, who is also Opera's executive chairman and who holds 11.6 per cent of Kunlun directly and a further 15.1 per cent through a Beijing limited partnership he is the general partner of. Certain Opera employees are paid in options over Kunlun shares.
🇳🇴 Opera Ads and other Norwegian brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 63 brands that began in Norway. 18 of them (29%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Opera Ads among them.
- Penger.no — Schibsted Media 🇳🇴
- TIDAL — Block 🇺🇸
- Awilco LNG — Awilco LNG 🇳🇴
- Byggmakker — Kesko 🇫🇮
- Color Line — Color Line 🇳🇴
- Diplom-Is — TINE 🇳🇴
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Opera Ads?
The parent company of Opera Ads is Kunlun Tech, a publicly listed company headquartered in China. Opera Ads sits under Kunlun Tech's subsidiary Opera.
Is Opera Ads Norwegian or Chinese?
Opera Ads originated in Norway, but it is owned today by Kunlun Tech, which is headquartered in China. So Opera Ads is a Norwegian-origin brand under Chinese ownership.
Is Opera Ads still owned by Kunlun Tech?
Yes. As of 26 September 2026, Opera Ads is still owned by Kunlun Tech. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Opera Limited Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended 31 December 2025 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 20-F, published 27 March 2026; retrieved 26 September 2026.
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