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Ashish Patel

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
137 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$16m Just Raised and 1 Billion Monthly Active Views with Ashish Patel of NowThis EP 215

Sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$16m Just Raised and 1 Billion Monthly Active Views with Ashish Patel of NowThis EP 215

And I don't have a full view into the branded side as I'm minding more on the editorial side of the house.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$16m Just Raised and 1 Billion Monthly Active Views with Ashish Patel of NowThis EP 215

But in total, in a general package beyond Shell, what we'd like to do is at least 4 or 5 what we call hero assets that are generally about

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$16m Just Raised and 1 Billion Monthly Active Views with Ashish Patel of NowThis EP 215

a minute to two minutes long.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$16m Just Raised and 1 Billion Monthly Active Views with Ashish Patel of NowThis EP 215

Uh, we do format specific, uh, you know, different types of assets for different, uh, different platforms.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$16m Just Raised and 1 Billion Monthly Active Views with Ashish Patel of NowThis EP 215

So generally the, uh, the channels that we, uh, um, activate branded content are our Facebook, uh, where we do have those minutes to two minute assets.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$16m Just Raised and 1 Billion Monthly Active Views with Ashish Patel of NowThis EP 215

Uh, we have special, uh, edits of those that we put on for Instagram and,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$16m Just Raised and 1 Billion Monthly Active Views with Ashish Patel of NowThis EP 215

Be on Instagram, Twitter is a good syndication point for our branded.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$16m Just Raised and 1 Billion Monthly Active Views with Ashish Patel of NowThis EP 215

And then we have done a few executions on Snapchat, but not too many at this point.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$16m Just Raised and 1 Billion Monthly Active Views with Ashish Patel of NowThis EP 215

Yes, our former president left for Snapchat early last year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$16m Just Raised and 1 Billion Monthly Active Views with Ashish Patel of NowThis EP 215

But yeah, I mean, I think us with all publishers are trying to figure out the best way to activate on Snapchat.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$16m Just Raised and 1 Billion Monthly Active Views with Ashish Patel of NowThis EP 215

So planning ahead is very difficult because we are a news focused company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$16m Just Raised and 1 Billion Monthly Active Views with Ashish Patel of NowThis EP 215

I mean, I'd say news with a little end because we do cover, you know, kind of trending internet, things that are trending on the internet and whatnot.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$16m Just Raised and 1 Billion Monthly Active Views with Ashish Patel of NowThis EP 215

But yeah, I mean, the trick is really about flexibility and really understanding the end points of consumption.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$16m Just Raised and 1 Billion Monthly Active Views with Ashish Patel of NowThis EP 215

So again, like I mentioned a little bit earlier, it's like we really, really think about the end user and why they're on those platforms.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$16m Just Raised and 1 Billion Monthly Active Views with Ashish Patel of NowThis EP 215

The idea is that, you know,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$16m Just Raised and 1 Billion Monthly Active Views with Ashish Patel of NowThis EP 215

on our side that we staff people that are basically mirroring our target audience on the other side.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$16m Just Raised and 1 Billion Monthly Active Views with Ashish Patel of NowThis EP 215

So we have, you know, an 18 year old on Snapchat talking to an 18 year old on Snapchat.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$16m Just Raised and 1 Billion Monthly Active Views with Ashish Patel of NowThis EP 215

Yeah, I mean, we have a team that manages Snapchat and they happen to be the youngest team in the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$16m Just Raised and 1 Billion Monthly Active Views with Ashish Patel of NowThis EP 215

But yeah, so we have an editor, basically an EIC named Sarah Frank.