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Kevin Tan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
156 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1018 Why He's Making Leap from AdTech to Data As A Service Business Model

I mean, that's the one that grew over the last seven years and that's kind of

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1018 Why He's Making Leap from AdTech to Data As A Service Business Model

hence the bigger chunk.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1018 Why He's Making Leap from AdTech to Data As A Service Business Model

The fastest growing areas are the areas where we're selling data as a service or we're selling things on a SaaS basis where we're distributing data or doing onboarding as a service.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1018 Why He's Making Leap from AdTech to Data As A Service Business Model

Yeah, well, you know, I think people are, you know, initially when the business started, I think people onboarded data and sold it, you know, on a CPM on a transactional basis because

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1018 Why He's Making Leap from AdTech to Data As A Service Business Model

that was the way that media was sold.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1018 Why He's Making Leap from AdTech to Data As A Service Business Model

So it was just really easy to append and buy it because that's the way the advertisers bought it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1018 Why He's Making Leap from AdTech to Data As A Service Business Model

Yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1018 Why He's Making Leap from AdTech to Data As A Service Business Model

So what's happening right now is we're selling data.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1018 Why He's Making Leap from AdTech to Data As A Service Business Model

We tend to be selling data as a service into a lot of different brands and advertisers and publishers, et cetera, and businesses who are consuming that data and using it for a wide range of service.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1018 Why He's Making Leap from AdTech to Data As A Service Business Model

They're buying a certain volume of data that they can utilize for whatever purposes are stated in the contract over a period of time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1018 Why He's Making Leap from AdTech to Data As A Service Business Model

So it's a recurring monthly subscription time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1018 Why He's Making Leap from AdTech to Data As A Service Business Model

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1018 Why He's Making Leap from AdTech to Data As A Service Business Model

I mean, in terms of that way, it's predictable.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1018 Why He's Making Leap from AdTech to Data As A Service Business Model

I think also, you know, if you look at the predictability, even across the transactional stuff that's attached to the ad spend, it is pretty predictable.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1018 Why He's Making Leap from AdTech to Data As A Service Business Model

You know, and we see we certainly see that in our business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1018 Why He's Making Leap from AdTech to Data As A Service Business Model

It's in terms of spending very, very low churn rates in terms of if you're looking at advertisers on a monthly basis and we have.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1018 Why He's Making Leap from AdTech to Data As A Service Business Model

thousands and thousands of advertisers buying our data on a monthly basis.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1018 Why He's Making Leap from AdTech to Data As A Service Business Model

But if you look at other businesses, I know Jeff Green over at the Trade Desk is talking a lot about how they have predictability of their revenue, even though it's transactional, it's much more SaaS-based, even though it's transactional.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1018 Why He's Making Leap from AdTech to Data As A Service Business Model

So I think you start to see this in a lot of areas, but we are actually seeing pretty rapid growth in the SaaS part of our business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1018 Why He's Making Leap from AdTech to Data As A Service Business Model

We're not seeing it because our data is being sold not only through advertising and media and to a whole bunch of other channels where