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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

talking about brands whose campaigns are delivered by our technology, then it's hundreds, hundreds and hundreds.

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

But if you're talking about actual paying customers, it's much less than that.

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

Because it's the agencies.

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

Oh, it's probably in the 20 or 30, you know, maybe, maybe 40, but it's a, you know, it's a much, much smaller number because each of those agency clients have, you know, they have a five, six brands.

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

Oh yeah, very much so.

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

Well, Tango Zebra, that would have been probably 2001.

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

I think for Scooter, it was 2008.

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

12, maybe 13, 2013, I think.

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

I think it depends where you count revenue.

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

Because last year, we hit that ยฃ10 million spend on the platform, which was good.

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

No, that was on the managed service side.

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

So, you know, and then because we've shifted dramatically to self-serve, our goal for self-serve is $5 million.

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

Whether or not we get there this year, we 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

What did you do on that one last year?

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

We did $3.5 million.

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

Yeah, it's aggressive and it's slightly challenging.

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

The first half of this year has been quieter than it might have been because the market has experienced a little bit of a downturn off the back of some of the concerns around brand safety that some of the brands have shared in market and that's caused some issues for agencies.

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

But we see that as a real opportunity for us.

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

The solution we have now is 100% transparent.

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

It's got all the brand safety elements built into it.