Nathan Putnam, CEO of Monumetric, explains the programmatic advertising supply chain and why disintermediating ad tech layers is necessary.
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Putnam: Digital sharecropping works only if audiences convert to owned channels
“And so if you're going to digital share crop, use it in a way that reinforces that platform's business model, because then they'll help you.
Like right now, if you're trying to grow an audience, put, put videos on Facebook, because you'll get way better organi…”
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Putnam: Forcing multiple ad exchanges to compete in real-time increases publisher revenue
“The problem that you run into is if you're sending all of your ad inventory into only one exchange, like an AdSense or even the AdExchange, which is also owned by Google you're limited only to the demand that exists within those exchanges, right? And you're go…”
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Putnam: Monumetric was Walmart's largest traffic supplier during its exchange debut
“Walmart is an example where they just, they're one of the first major brands to launch their own buy seat in these exchanges. And their first month was June in one of these exchanges and we were their largest
supplier of traffic during that month.”
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Putnam: Facebook organic reach collapsed from 50-60% to 2-3%
“Like, Facebook, like, five years ago, everybody was all about getting as many likes and followers on Facebook as they can, because organic reach was like, 50, 60%.
You know, right now, it's like, two to three percent, right?”
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Putnam: Monumetric works with over 1,500 publishers
“Just over 1500.”
Disclosure
Monumetric CEO: Google is simultaneously our best partner and biggest competitor
“Google is our best partner. Right. Like, they're our best partner. They're also our biggest competition.”