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Sandy Lohr

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182 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
819: AdTech: Bake Off Leads to Major Acquisition and $100m+ In Media Spend Under Management

They own CondΓ© Nast Magazine.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
819: AdTech: Bake Off Leads to Major Acquisition and $100m+ In Media Spend Under Management

So Wired, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Glamour, it's all part of theirs, New Yorker.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
819: AdTech: Bake Off Leads to Major Acquisition and $100m+ In Media Spend Under Management

They were early investors in Reddit.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
819: AdTech: Bake Off Leads to Major Acquisition and $100m+ In Media Spend Under Management

They own Charter Communications.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
819: AdTech: Bake Off Leads to Major Acquisition and $100m+ In Media Spend Under Management

They're a large investor in Charter, as well as Discovery Channel.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
819: AdTech: Bake Off Leads to Major Acquisition and $100m+ In Media Spend Under Management

and Advanced Local.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
819: AdTech: Bake Off Leads to Major Acquisition and $100m+ In Media Spend Under Management

And that was my old stomping ground was Advanced Local.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
819: AdTech: Bake Off Leads to Major Acquisition and $100m+ In Media Spend Under Management

And that consists of statewide and regional news and information sites, over 50 million unique visitors.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
819: AdTech: Bake Off Leads to Major Acquisition and $100m+ In Media Spend Under Management

They're the eighth largest news organization in the country.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
819: AdTech: Bake Off Leads to Major Acquisition and $100m+ In Media Spend Under Management

And my job was to make sure that the sellers in these digital local markets from coast to coast had the best solutions to march in and solve problems for

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
819: AdTech: Bake Off Leads to Major Acquisition and $100m+ In Media Spend Under Management

Sales reps working for media companies in the local markets.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
819: AdTech: Bake Off Leads to Major Acquisition and $100m+ In Media Spend Under Management

So we had these regional markets.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
819: AdTech: Bake Off Leads to Major Acquisition and $100m+ In Media Spend Under Management

So in New Jersey, which is the largest of the markets, nj.com is a renowned website that is the largest in New Jersey.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
819: AdTech: Bake Off Leads to Major Acquisition and $100m+ In Media Spend Under Management

It's actually one of the largest in the country.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
819: AdTech: Bake Off Leads to Major Acquisition and $100m+ In Media Spend Under Management

and the different newspaper assets that they had.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
819: AdTech: Bake Off Leads to Major Acquisition and $100m+ In Media Spend Under Management

So you have digital sellers that are selling both print and digital, so they're media sellers, and they need the best products to be able to walk in and be able to solve problems for local businesses.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
819: AdTech: Bake Off Leads to Major Acquisition and $100m+ In Media Spend Under Management

So they certainly have all this fantastic first party data based on all these unique visitors that they have to their owned and operated sites, their social play, all of this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
819: AdTech: Bake Off Leads to Major Acquisition and $100m+ In Media Spend Under Management

But you have to be able to understand that somebody is going to walk in and be able to offer that business the opportunity to run on Google and Bing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
819: AdTech: Bake Off Leads to Major Acquisition and $100m+ In Media Spend Under Management

And if you aren't there and it was a strategic move for

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
819: AdTech: Bake Off Leads to Major Acquisition and $100m+ In Media Spend Under Management

Correct.