SpokenLayer
also referred to as: spoken layer
15 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 28, 2016 by Will Mayo · said 21 times in 2 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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Oct 28, 2016
Mayo: SpokenLayer Currently Generates Most Revenue From SaaS Subscriptions
“Right now we probably make, as a company, more revenue from the SaaS side, since we also work with non-media clients as well, enabling them to have spoken editions, whether it's a hedge fund that has reports for their traders or other types of enterprise conte…”
Oct 28, 2016 positive
Mayo: Spoken editions differ fundamentally from traditional long-form podcasts
“I think they're really different products. I think what podcasts are an incredibly great medium for people to create bespoke content, tell native stories, and especially in a long form sense, typically you think of a podcast as a 20, 30, 60, 90 minute experien…”
Oct 28, 2016 positive
Oct 28, 2016 positive
Mayo: First-person narrative content translates phenomenally well into spoken audio
“Anything written in the first person that's a personal story that's typically editorial or opinion, that is the writer saying, I believe this, I think this, I think that we should do this, or this was done wrong, is always written in a short quip sentences, ve…”
Oct 28, 2016
Oct 28, 2016
Mayo: SpokenLayer focuses on enterprise clients with 10M+ audiences
“We've entertained it, but most of those types of partners don't have a budget to spend thousands of dollars a month to add a spoken edition, so we've really focused on clients that have, you know, 10 plus million person audiences that can Work with those audie…”
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Oct 28, 2016 neutral
Mayo: SpokenLayer monetizes via SaaS platform fees and an ad network
“So not only some of the publishers we work with pay us as a platform in SAS fee to have a spoken edition, other publishers because of their scale work with us and we have an ad network and ad marketplace built on top of our platform that as things start to sca…”
Oct 28, 2016 bullish
Oct 28, 2016
Mayo: SpokenLayer's enterprise SaaS contracts range in the thousands per month
“This isn't something that's a couple hundred dollars a month. It's also not something that's hundreds of thousands, but, you know, it depends on the volume of content for a partner that's only doing, you know, It could be relatively low, but for some of our pa…”
Oct 28, 2016
Oct 28, 2016 negative
Mayo: Acquiring consumer audio users is brutal; B2B infrastructure scales better
“Acquiring customers is really hard in audio, and instead of competing with distributors and publishers who are our partners, we'd rather empower them and work with them to create a better user experience and a better distribution for them, so being behind the …”