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Erik Matlick

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
183 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
895 $10m+ Balancing Act Between SaaS and Variable CPM Revenue

We've been in the variable data business, the audience solutions business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
895 $10m+ Balancing Act Between SaaS and Variable CPM Revenue

Oh, so that was first.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
895 $10m+ Balancing Act Between SaaS and Variable CPM Revenue

That was first.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
895 $10m+ Balancing Act Between SaaS and Variable CPM Revenue

So, you know, it was obviously 100% for the first year and a half.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
895 $10m+ Balancing Act Between SaaS and Variable CPM Revenue

It's about 60-40.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
895 $10m+ Balancing Act Between SaaS and Variable CPM Revenue

So the SaaS analytics piece of our business is growing a little bit faster.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
895 $10m+ Balancing Act Between SaaS and Variable CPM Revenue

And it's now about 40% of our revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
895 $10m+ Balancing Act Between SaaS and Variable CPM Revenue

And it'll continue to grow.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
895 $10m+ Balancing Act Between SaaS and Variable CPM Revenue

They're both growing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
895 $10m+ Balancing Act Between SaaS and Variable CPM Revenue

But most importantly to me as a CEO and managing investors, I like the variable piece because there's a lot of upside on the variable piece.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
895 $10m+ Balancing Act Between SaaS and Variable CPM Revenue

The most important part is that the SaaS piece drives more variable revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
895 $10m+ Balancing Act Between SaaS and Variable CPM Revenue

So in the variable piece to us is SaaS-like revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
895 $10m+ Balancing Act Between SaaS and Variable CPM Revenue

It's the same customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
895 $10m+ Balancing Act Between SaaS and Variable CPM Revenue

So to get into some numbers for you, we actually have almost 4,000 or approximately 4,000 customers of our data.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
895 $10m+ Balancing Act Between SaaS and Variable CPM Revenue

many of which are not buying from us directly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
895 $10m+ Balancing Act Between SaaS and Variable CPM Revenue

They're buying through our distribution channels.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
895 $10m+ Balancing Act Between SaaS and Variable CPM Revenue

That's a combination of everything.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
895 $10m+ Balancing Act Between SaaS and Variable CPM Revenue

The SaaS platform is probably in the hundreds right now, and we have an account-based strategy, if you will, where we're going after the largest companies first.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
895 $10m+ Balancing Act Between SaaS and Variable CPM Revenue

So we have a key account list, and so we're going after the very largest B2B companies first.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
895 $10m+ Balancing Act Between SaaS and Variable CPM Revenue

Yeah, and you bring up an interesting point, ad tech.