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Christof Wittig

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
199 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 606: Hornet Raises $8M to Become Gay Content Hub, 17M Users, 3M MAU with CEO Christof Wittig

What's it called?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 606: Hornet Raises $8M to Become Gay Content Hub, 17M Users, 3M MAU with CEO Christof Wittig

DFP, Double Click for Publishers, so Google's platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 606: Hornet Raises $8M to Become Gay Content Hub, 17M Users, 3M MAU with CEO Christof Wittig

And so that's something that is well understood and instrumented by any media buyer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 606: Hornet Raises $8M to Become Gay Content Hub, 17M Users, 3M MAU with CEO Christof Wittig

And this allows us to give them access to.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 606: Hornet Raises $8M to Become Gay Content Hub, 17M Users, 3M MAU with CEO Christof Wittig

And that's really the key point.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 606: Hornet Raises $8M to Become Gay Content Hub, 17M Users, 3M MAU with CEO Christof Wittig

Traditionally, gay apps have been kind of limited to being, if you will, dating apps.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 606: Hornet Raises $8M to Become Gay Content Hub, 17M Users, 3M MAU with CEO Christof Wittig

Right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 606: Hornet Raises $8M to Become Gay Content Hub, 17M Users, 3M MAU with CEO Christof Wittig

So to meet other people for all sort of purposes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 606: Hornet Raises $8M to Become Gay Content Hub, 17M Users, 3M MAU with CEO Christof Wittig

And we, for the first time, add like genuinely created a network.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 606: Hornet Raises $8M to Become Gay Content Hub, 17M Users, 3M MAU with CEO Christof Wittig

and or acquired content into this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 606: Hornet Raises $8M to Become Gay Content Hub, 17M Users, 3M MAU with CEO Christof Wittig

In fact, Hornet has the largest gay media newsroom in the United States now, headed up by Stephen Horvath, the former chief editor of Frontiers Magazine in L.A., who is now heading up our content team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 606: Hornet Raises $8M to Become Gay Content Hub, 17M Users, 3M MAU with CEO Christof Wittig

And we are producing up to 15 to 20 stories.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 606: Hornet Raises $8M to Become Gay Content Hub, 17M Users, 3M MAU with CEO Christof Wittig

this as an additional incentive for the gay community to interact with one another over topics like by liking or by commenting on these posts and to in this way not only look at you know the community as a meat market and that's what I think is way

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 606: Hornet Raises $8M to Become Gay Content Hub, 17M Users, 3M MAU with CEO Christof Wittig

to small for other apps, but by actually providing a digital home for the gay community.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 606: Hornet Raises $8M to Become Gay Content Hub, 17M Users, 3M MAU with CEO Christof Wittig

A digital home for the gay community is what we're building.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 606: Hornet Raises $8M to Become Gay Content Hub, 17M Users, 3M MAU with CEO Christof Wittig

And we believe that will take the idea of gay apps to a whole new level.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 606: Hornet Raises $8M to Become Gay Content Hub, 17M Users, 3M MAU with CEO Christof Wittig

You know what, Nathan?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 606: Hornet Raises $8M to Become Gay Content Hub, 17M Users, 3M MAU with CEO Christof Wittig

We are now number two worldwide, which means we're number one in many key markets such as France, Brazil, Mexico, Turkey, Russia, even Taiwan, Thailand, everywhere.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 606: Hornet Raises $8M to Become Gay Content Hub, 17M Users, 3M MAU with CEO Christof Wittig

And we have up to Q3 this year never spent a cent on marketing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 606: Hornet Raises $8M to Become Gay Content Hub, 17M Users, 3M MAU with CEO Christof Wittig

Can you believe it?