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Kian Graham

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187 total appearances

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

about having these other upsell tools.

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

Like, for example, another tool that we recently launched is called Traffic Cop, and it detects and blocks invalid traffic.

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

So it prevents these publishers from getting banned by, say, Google AdSense and losing all their unpaid ad revenues overnight.

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

Yes, some of it is pump-induced.

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

And we have to be, you know, kind of investigators to make sure we separate the ones who are genuine versus the ones who are not.

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

And our traffic cop tool is part of that.

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

We've also come up with other type of violations that publishers can do on purpose, like we call ad setup policy violations.

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

And it's things like hiding ads off the page, refreshing ads very aggressively, things like that.

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

So we have technology that can now detect it and provide that information to the publishers.

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

And then there's certain things that we see that we know that it's pub-induced and we deal with it accordingly because it can get pretty nasty and we don't want to hurt our partnerships with Google and all the other ad networks.

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

That is an ad impression.

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

We do tend to stay away from the video sticky ads.

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

They're very intrusive and, you know, they're kind of more short-term thinking.

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

We're more of a long-term, you know, bootstrap company that wants to go with less intrusive ads that you have, you know, you continue to grow your traffic and get return traffic.

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

So we stick with the less intrusive ads.

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

So when I say $3 million, because we accept the revenues on behalf of the publishers, and some we don't, especially the big ones.

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

So the $3 million is an estimation of the ones we don't as well.

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

In June, we were close to $400,000.

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

Okay, got it.

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

Yep, exactly.