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Ben Kartzman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
147 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

And that's allowed us to really focus on, you know, servicing these enterprise customers today, which is who we really care about.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

Yeah, so it's really around impressions.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

So some of the larger customers that we work with will run, you know, 30 billion impressions in a given year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

You know, more of a midsize customer will run, you know, three to five billion impressions in a year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

And then we have a couple other customers, you know, on the lower end, where they're in kind of hundreds of millions of impressions.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

Yeah, so you back it all out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

So if someone's running 100 million impressions, if it was at a 50 cent CPM, they would end up spending 50 grand with us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

No.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

So we don't get involved in the media side of it at all.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

So that's entirely up to them and their agency to decide how they want to buy that media.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

Do they want to buy it programmatically through a DSP?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

Sorry, a DSP is a demand side platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

Got it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

So yeah, effectively, where they're going to go aggregate inventory, and it facilitates the buying for a customer through ad exchanges.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

Sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

So in those cases, you know, they've got their budget allocated for, you know, how they how much they want to spend to buy media.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

For us, it's really it's a software fee that they know that they've got to associate and they can back it out into a CPM.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

We know we're going to spend five grand a month with these guys and that's going to get us, you know.