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Christopher Reid

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
167 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1390 With $3m+ in ARR and 300+ Customers, He's Making Digital Advertising Easier for Publishers

I mean, ultimately, ultimately it models that like SAS because the way we make money is a function of the amount of advertising someone is doing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1390 With $3m+ in ARR and 300+ Customers, He's Making Digital Advertising Easier for Publishers

So, um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1390 With $3m+ in ARR and 300+ Customers, He's Making Digital Advertising Easier for Publishers

That's a pretty stable input.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1390 With $3m+ in ARR and 300+ Customers, He's Making Digital Advertising Easier for Publishers

The input is how many impressions, how many ads are we managing for you?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1390 With $3m+ in ARR and 300+ Customers, He's Making Digital Advertising Easier for Publishers

Then the output is we're either charging a fixed amount per ad or we're charging a rev share amount per ad.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1390 With $3m+ in ARR and 300+ Customers, He's Making Digital Advertising Easier for Publishers

We're primarily rev share focused.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1390 With $3m+ in ARR and 300+ Customers, He's Making Digital Advertising Easier for Publishers

But the two model really similarly because at some point, a CPM and a rev share are actually the same thing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1390 With $3m+ in ARR and 300+ Customers, He's Making Digital Advertising Easier for Publishers

They're transacted on a per impression basis and they can actually back out the exact same way.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1390 With $3m+ in ARR and 300+ Customers, He's Making Digital Advertising Easier for Publishers

So it's really two sides of the same coin.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1390 With $3m+ in ARR and 300+ Customers, He's Making Digital Advertising Easier for Publishers

And I would say yes, because normally in SaaS, you have a lot of upsell opportunity, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1390 With $3m+ in ARR and 300+ Customers, He's Making Digital Advertising Easier for Publishers

And so that's fairly typical.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1390 With $3m+ in ARR and 300+ Customers, He's Making Digital Advertising Easier for Publishers

With us, there is some variability because some publishers grow really quickly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1390 With $3m+ in ARR and 300+ Customers, He's Making Digital Advertising Easier for Publishers

And as they grow, that kind of looks like over 100% retention.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1390 With $3m+ in ARR and 300+ Customers, He's Making Digital Advertising Easier for Publishers

But if a publisher shrinks, they don't.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1390 With $3m+ in ARR and 300+ Customers, He's Making Digital Advertising Easier for Publishers

Modeling retention in our industry is like a little more complex because you do have that variability.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1390 With $3m+ in ARR and 300+ Customers, He's Making Digital Advertising Easier for Publishers

You also have variability across quarters.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1390 With $3m+ in ARR and 300+ Customers, He's Making Digital Advertising Easier for Publishers

So Q4 is a huge advertising season.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1390 With $3m+ in ARR and 300+ Customers, He's Making Digital Advertising Easier for Publishers

So revenue goes up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1390 With $3m+ in ARR and 300+ Customers, He's Making Digital Advertising Easier for Publishers

So you don't really have retention going up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1390 With $3m+ in ARR and 300+ Customers, He's Making Digital Advertising Easier for Publishers

So we can look at revenue retention.