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John Nardone

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
150 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
840: Ad Tech: $400m from Apple? Deal! FlashTalking Doing 15-40b Impressions/month

Boy, you know, it's very seasonal.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
840: Ad Tech: $400m from Apple? Deal! FlashTalking Doing 15-40b Impressions/month

So as you can imagine, in fourth quarter, when our big retail clients are spending for the holidays, the numbers get really, really large.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
840: Ad Tech: $400m from Apple? Deal! FlashTalking Doing 15-40b Impressions/month

So we probably range anywhere from 15 billion to 40 billion a month, depending on the time of the year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
840: Ad Tech: $400m from Apple? Deal! FlashTalking Doing 15-40b Impressions/month

Well, certainly we pay attention to impression volume a lot.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
840: Ad Tech: $400m from Apple? Deal! FlashTalking Doing 15-40b Impressions/month

But to be really honest, what I'm more focused on is the long-term progression of the clients in terms of their ability to use the data successfully.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
840: Ad Tech: $400m from Apple? Deal! FlashTalking Doing 15-40b Impressions/month

A lot of what...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
840: Ad Tech: $400m from Apple? Deal! FlashTalking Doing 15-40b Impressions/month

drives that impression volume is helping to move the client and their agency's internal processes so that they're capable of executing more efficiently and using the data.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
840: Ad Tech: $400m from Apple? Deal! FlashTalking Doing 15-40b Impressions/month

As I said, the Mad Men sort of model of advertising needs to change to take advantage of this data, and clients and agencies are just learning how to do that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
840: Ad Tech: $400m from Apple? Deal! FlashTalking Doing 15-40b Impressions/month

It's the very early days of this sort of data-driven creative model, and so what we've found

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
840: Ad Tech: $400m from Apple? Deal! FlashTalking Doing 15-40b Impressions/month

testing running lots of interesting pilots and doing a lot of sort of hand-in-hand working with the clients and agencies is what gets them using the data having success learning what works and that ultimately drives the impression volume so we try to build 18 month learning

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
840: Ad Tech: $400m from Apple? Deal! FlashTalking Doing 15-40b Impressions/month

their messaging and their success metrics.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
840: Ad Tech: $400m from Apple? Deal! FlashTalking Doing 15-40b Impressions/month

Which team?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
840: Ad Tech: $400m from Apple? Deal! FlashTalking Doing 15-40b Impressions/month

You mean overall?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
840: Ad Tech: $400m from Apple? Deal! FlashTalking Doing 15-40b Impressions/month

No, no, we're global.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
840: Ad Tech: $400m from Apple? Deal! FlashTalking Doing 15-40b Impressions/month

So we have offices in Germany.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
840: Ad Tech: $400m from Apple? Deal! FlashTalking Doing 15-40b Impressions/month

I run the whole company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
840: Ad Tech: $400m from Apple? Deal! FlashTalking Doing 15-40b Impressions/month

CEO of the whole company, but the U.S.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
840: Ad Tech: $400m from Apple? Deal! FlashTalking Doing 15-40b Impressions/month

obviously has become the key dominant market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
840: Ad Tech: $400m from Apple? Deal! FlashTalking Doing 15-40b Impressions/month

We're 280 employees globally.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
840: Ad Tech: $400m from Apple? Deal! FlashTalking Doing 15-40b Impressions/month

Yes, the company's been profitable since day one, and that's why there's never been a penny of outside capital.