Contently

“We've raised twenty million dollars in total which is about a quarter of any of our competitors which is great for us because we're, you know, similar size and have an outsized presence in presence in our own content marketing.”

“My partners and I deciding to do a test to start selling some features of the project management tool for a monthly fee of a thousand dollars, and when we sold 13 in the first month, we said, okay this is the business, and here we are.”

“Six to 10,000.”

“So I realized that I was not the CMO that was going to take our company to the next step function. So I hired a replacement and after a month of getting her up to speed, I wanted people to stop going around me. And really for the mantle to fall on her. And so …”

“On the SAS side of things, it's around 200.”

“We work with a big chunk of the Fortune 507 of the 10 world's most valuable brands are our customers.”

“Our payback, it swings anywhere between, you know six months and a year, sort of depending on how we do that quarter and those kinds of things.”

“Team size wise, we're just over a hundred.”

“Fast subscription revenue will end the year at about a, on a twenty million dollar or so run rate and then the content component of that is quite a bit larger.”

“We've raised about twenty million dollars in equity over the last seven years or so.”

“We've tried things like per user pricing and all that stuff, and I've come to the conclusion that it just doesn't work very well in MarTech in general, but, you know, particularly in a business like ours where We want as many people on the system as we can get…”

“Getting it to be the kind of customers where we do really well, Fortune, and when you look at that cohort we're at 90 plus percent gross retention and then net negative on the MRR churn side.”

“And we do things like make sure that they get paid immediately on the submit of their first draft, which is night and day between what they're used to, where journalists will write a column for a magazine and then wait 90 days to get paid.”

“Today that network is around a 150,000 professional journalists, videographers, data researchers, Visual designers have any kind of talent that a brand might need to tell their story in a unique format is in that network.”

“Right now it's about 40,000. It's sort of, Goes between 30 and 50 K.”

“The average customer typically starts with a subscription that's somewhere around 60 K and ACV. And that's just on subscription fees.”

“So it's well over thirty million dollars now, mid thirty millions in terms of what we're actually paying these creators each year, which is awesome.”

“So our churn across the board this has been something we've been working a lot on in last quarter, it was 71% gross retention and about 90% net retention.”

“What we've decided to do recently is not count the 85% of the dollar that goes to the writer we just count it as pass-through now, and so we count only the 15% that we take”

“So we take a pretty small rate of whatever the marketplace transactions are. It's typically around 15% depends on a few variables, but that's sort of where it falls. You know, it's typically where it falls falls in line. Although that's, you know, the way it's…”

“I see these companies, the hyperscale too early, my personal take, and that comes with a cost. They didn't have the efficiency.”