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Achilles Le Grave

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
129 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1687 When Programmatic Bidding Reaches OTTs Like Sling, Roku, He Makes Money

That is a whole different channel that is a digitally fed channel rather than your traditional linear.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1687 When Programmatic Bidding Reaches OTTs Like Sling, Roku, He Makes Money

Got it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1687 When Programmatic Bidding Reaches OTTs Like Sling, Roku, He Makes Money

That's exactly right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1687 When Programmatic Bidding Reaches OTTs Like Sling, Roku, He Makes Money

Got it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1687 When Programmatic Bidding Reaches OTTs Like Sling, Roku, He Makes Money

So when that happens, those commercials that you're seeing over OTT happen over the programmatic spectrum.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1687 When Programmatic Bidding Reaches OTTs Like Sling, Roku, He Makes Money

So unless you're in media,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1687 When Programmatic Bidding Reaches OTTs Like Sling, Roku, He Makes Money

or in advertising programmatic might be a new term for you programmatic is basically the marketplace that fuels um the buyer seller relationships in advertising we're very used to this on web so when you load a uh when you load cnn.com the ads that you get served are different than the ads that i get served right because they're targeted in a different way

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1687 When Programmatic Bidding Reaches OTTs Like Sling, Roku, He Makes Money

We're carrying that thesis and that technology over to the TV screen.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1687 When Programmatic Bidding Reaches OTTs Like Sling, Roku, He Makes Money

So to this point, this space has been serviced by enterprise DSPs such as Rocket Fuel, AppNexus, and the Trade Desk.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1687 When Programmatic Bidding Reaches OTTs Like Sling, Roku, He Makes Money

These guys build very high-end pieces of software that allow professional media buyers at large media agencies to transact media in this way.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1687 When Programmatic Bidding Reaches OTTs Like Sling, Roku, He Makes Money

No one had gone out and made a self-service platform that literally allowed a coffee shop for five dollars a day to do the same.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1687 When Programmatic Bidding Reaches OTTs Like Sling, Roku, He Makes Money

I see.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1687 When Programmatic Bidding Reaches OTTs Like Sling, Roku, He Makes Money

And so that that is.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1687 When Programmatic Bidding Reaches OTTs Like Sling, Roku, He Makes Money

That's exactly right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1687 When Programmatic Bidding Reaches OTTs Like Sling, Roku, He Makes Money

So what we find is, you know, when you go out to a large agency like Starcom, unless you have a quarterly spend that's literally in the millions of dollars, there's nothing those media agencies can do for you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1687 When Programmatic Bidding Reaches OTTs Like Sling, Roku, He Makes Money

Because we end up seeing very large brands and it's very repetitive.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1687 When Programmatic Bidding Reaches OTTs Like Sling, Roku, He Makes Money

Brandsuka gives you a self-service model that allows anybody to, in a couple of minutes, launch a primetime TV campaign over programmatic.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1687 When Programmatic Bidding Reaches OTTs Like Sling, Roku, He Makes Money

And then our internal machine learning and algorithms allow those media buys to significantly outperform what humans at agencies are able to achieve.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1687 When Programmatic Bidding Reaches OTTs Like Sling, Roku, He Makes Money

Yeah, so, you know, we spent a lot of time looking as to the positioning of the platform from a revenue generation standpoint.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1687 When Programmatic Bidding Reaches OTTs Like Sling, Roku, He Makes Money

And what we found is a lot of people have tried to provide self-service advertising platforms for folks, and they generally have gotten it wrong.