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Kian Graham

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
187 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MonetizeMore Bootstrapped to $5m Run Rate in AdTech Space

We kind of had a big kind of growth mark in Q4, which continued into 2020.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MonetizeMore Bootstrapped to $5m Run Rate in AdTech Space

There's aspects of that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MonetizeMore Bootstrapped to $5m Run Rate in AdTech Space

But overall, like in programmatic, a lot of them are big brand advertisers that really kind of slash their display advertising funds.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MonetizeMore Bootstrapped to $5m Run Rate in AdTech Space

And overall, when the ad spend pie shrinks,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MonetizeMore Bootstrapped to $5m Run Rate in AdTech Space

That means there's less money overall for publishers to earn.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MonetizeMore Bootstrapped to $5m Run Rate in AdTech Space

So the RPMs, which you called CPMs, so the revenue per thousand ad impressions, those decreased overall starting in the middle of March.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MonetizeMore Bootstrapped to $5m Run Rate in AdTech Space

Overall, in June, there was...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MonetizeMore Bootstrapped to $5m Run Rate in AdTech Space

About 3 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MonetizeMore Bootstrapped to $5m Run Rate in AdTech Space

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MonetizeMore Bootstrapped to $5m Run Rate in AdTech Space

Well, typically what happens, especially with the large publishers,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MonetizeMore Bootstrapped to $5m Run Rate in AdTech Space

is they only want to start a little bit, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MonetizeMore Bootstrapped to $5m Run Rate in AdTech Space

They want to do like a split test to see if you can outperform what they're currently running.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MonetizeMore Bootstrapped to $5m Run Rate in AdTech Space

So they'll start you at 10%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MonetizeMore Bootstrapped to $5m Run Rate in AdTech Space

And then once you kind of prove that you can make them more money, then they'll expand you more and more.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MonetizeMore Bootstrapped to $5m Run Rate in AdTech Space

So it's about winning this split test.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MonetizeMore Bootstrapped to $5m Run Rate in AdTech Space

Sometimes we're doing split tests against competitors.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MonetizeMore Bootstrapped to $5m Run Rate in AdTech Space

So it's about winning these split tests.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MonetizeMore Bootstrapped to $5m Run Rate in AdTech Space

It's about having very efficient technology.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MonetizeMore Bootstrapped to $5m Run Rate in AdTech Space

So we're not slowing down the page.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MonetizeMore Bootstrapped to $5m Run Rate in AdTech Space

You know,