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Loren Wilson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
120 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1134 Ad Network Pivots to On Demand Video Generation

It was $160 million, which is the size of many IPOs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1134 Ad Network Pivots to On Demand Video Generation

Yeah, so I started the company with another entrepreneur, Eric Hazen.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1134 Ad Network Pivots to On Demand Video Generation

We started going on about six years ago now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1134 Ad Network Pivots to On Demand Video Generation

Yeah, more of an ad tech play.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1134 Ad Network Pivots to On Demand Video Generation

We like to consider digital media and ad tech because there's a kind of a combination of things that we got going on with some owned and operated sites that we've got investments in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1134 Ad Network Pivots to On Demand Video Generation

We've got a video studio where we go out and help publishers create content.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1134 Ad Network Pivots to On Demand Video Generation

Video content, customized video content, which ultimately creates more video ad inventory.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1134 Ad Network Pivots to On Demand Video Generation

And then we've got a number of tech solutions that help publishers really around monetization primarily, but more of an agnostic tech play that contributes to increasing yield for publishers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1134 Ad Network Pivots to On Demand Video Generation

And then the final part is more of an ad network play, connecting buyers and sellers in the video advertising space.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1134 Ad Network Pivots to On Demand Video Generation

So the ad network is pretty sizable.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1134 Ad Network Pivots to On Demand Video Generation

That's kind of where we started just focusing on connecting publishers and advertisers together.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1134 Ad Network Pivots to On Demand Video Generation

And we put a lot of folks in video early on going back almost six years now, like I said.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1134 Ad Network Pivots to On Demand Video Generation

So that's where everything really started.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1134 Ad Network Pivots to On Demand Video Generation

But, you know, when you're an ad network, you're very squarely in the middle of the ecosystem, right, in the supply chain.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1134 Ad Network Pivots to On Demand Video Generation

And so...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1134 Ad Network Pivots to On Demand Video Generation

What we've recognized is that ad network oftentimes has a negative connotation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1134 Ad Network Pivots to On Demand Video Generation

People on either end of the spectrum want to figure out ways to cut out ad networks.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1134 Ad Network Pivots to On Demand Video Generation

And so we, of course, have a little bit of a different view and feel that we've added value.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1134 Ad Network Pivots to On Demand Video Generation

But either way, there are challenges operating a model like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1134 Ad Network Pivots to On Demand Video Generation

And so what we've done is work to diversify.

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