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James Booth

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
174 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform

Self-serve is very high margin because we're not concerned with media.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform

The media is all dealt with by the clients.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform

So that's an 80%, 85% gross margin.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform

All sorts of different considerations.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform

Yeah, absolutely right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform

Because if you're trading managed service, you're including media in that revenue, whereas self-serve is net of media.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform

So I would say self-serve typically is about two-thirds.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform

interesting um okay now so so i think i have a good understanding of the story where are you guys now in terms of location what's the team size and where are you based so we're in london we're about 30 people in london we're going through the process of um considering a move to new york or looking to open in new york we're just running through some tests at the moment to um to make sure that there's enough demand there but we believe there is uh

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform

We're in London, but we deliver campaigns all over the world.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform

So we deliver to about 50 countries at the moment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform

We have global campaign activity happening all the time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform

But we've managed to do that really from having scalable tech.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform

I mean, our focus has been very much on building a buy-side platform that is genuinely scalable.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform

So we can deliver global campaigns without having to go through a manual test process.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform

There's a thing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform

Yeah, I don't know.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform

I think nowadays because I've been in the industry for 20 years and โ€“

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform

And, you know, after that period of time, you get to know the client base pretty well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform

But in the early stages, you know, we were in the early stages, we were we were working out of Gloucestershire, which is, you know, in the west of the country, I was getting a train once a week.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform

And I would make up all sorts of things to try and get.