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Ron Jacobson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
125 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
824: Brilliant Ad Tech Hedge: $8m Managed Services Firm RockerBox Adds $1k/mo SaaS Product

We want to target them very, very heavily right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
824: Brilliant Ad Tech Hedge: $8m Managed Services Firm RockerBox Adds $1k/mo SaaS Product

A day later when that person is researching taxes, no point in getting in front of them at that moment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
824: Brilliant Ad Tech Hedge: $8m Managed Services Firm RockerBox Adds $1k/mo SaaS Product

Well, at the end of the day, we're running advertising campaigns.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
824: Brilliant Ad Tech Hedge: $8m Managed Services Firm RockerBox Adds $1k/mo SaaS Product

So our inclined advertisers are looking to spend money on publishers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
824: Brilliant Ad Tech Hedge: $8m Managed Services Firm RockerBox Adds $1k/mo SaaS Product

We're just trying to find the behaviors of users that indicate that they should be spending that money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
824: Brilliant Ad Tech Hedge: $8m Managed Services Firm RockerBox Adds $1k/mo SaaS Product

So when we find a person whose recent behavior is very high intending, we'll bid very, very high, extremely high CPMs, which make publishers happy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
824: Brilliant Ad Tech Hedge: $8m Managed Services Firm RockerBox Adds $1k/mo SaaS Product

So that's exactly corridor technology.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
824: Brilliant Ad Tech Hedge: $8m Managed Services Firm RockerBox Adds $1k/mo SaaS Product

Through all these partnerships, we're able to uncover for that user behind impression A, where do we see that person browsing in that 10, 20, 30 minute beforehand?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
824: Brilliant Ad Tech Hedge: $8m Managed Services Firm RockerBox Adds $1k/mo SaaS Product

And sticking with a travel example, if that person spent 20 to the last 30 minutes across a wide range of travel blogs and things like that, we'll continually bid higher and higher for that travel advertiser.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
824: Brilliant Ad Tech Hedge: $8m Managed Services Firm RockerBox Adds $1k/mo SaaS Product

2015 was just under two.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
824: Brilliant Ad Tech Hedge: $8m Managed Services Firm RockerBox Adds $1k/mo SaaS Product

Last year was just about four, and we'll probably do just about eight this year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
824: Brilliant Ad Tech Hedge: $8m Managed Services Firm RockerBox Adds $1k/mo SaaS Product

As of today, it's probably net 10% of our media business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
824: Brilliant Ad Tech Hedge: $8m Managed Services Firm RockerBox Adds $1k/mo SaaS Product

It's growing really fast.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
824: Brilliant Ad Tech Hedge: $8m Managed Services Firm RockerBox Adds $1k/mo SaaS Product

So it's really fun because a lot of our clients are working on the advertising side.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
824: Brilliant Ad Tech Hedge: $8m Managed Services Firm RockerBox Adds $1k/mo SaaS Product

They're actually looking to take more of the advertising in-house.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
824: Brilliant Ad Tech Hedge: $8m Managed Services Firm RockerBox Adds $1k/mo SaaS Product

They want to sort of own that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
824: Brilliant Ad Tech Hedge: $8m Managed Services Firm RockerBox Adds $1k/mo SaaS Product

With hindsight, we can help them better understand where they should be serving their media, whether or not it's with Rockerbox.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
824: Brilliant Ad Tech Hedge: $8m Managed Services Firm RockerBox Adds $1k/mo SaaS Product

So it's a great way for us to basically work with clients, whether or not they're looking for somebody like a Rockerbox to manage campaigns, we can help them out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
824: Brilliant Ad Tech Hedge: $8m Managed Services Firm RockerBox Adds $1k/mo SaaS Product

If they want to do it themselves, we can enable that as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
824: Brilliant Ad Tech Hedge: $8m Managed Services Firm RockerBox Adds $1k/mo SaaS Product

I wish.