WideSpace CEO Patrik Fagerlund claims enterprise market penetration among the largest global advertising brands.
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Fagerlund: WideSpace Has Zero Ad Fraud and Offers a Fraud Guarantee
“We have deeper integration, so we can actually control what, where we service ads, and there is very little fraud, which you will see, and we actually have a fraud guarantee, so fraud you will see a lot in the ad tech business. We have zero.”
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Fagerlund: WideSpace Takes a 50% Fee on $100K Annual Ad Spend
“So if you're a customer, you typically pay 50% of that spend to make use of the technology. If you go then of course it's a volume game. The more you pay the less we charge basically.”
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Fagerlund: WideSpace Rejected Strategic Investors to Maintain Market Neutrality
“No, it's non-strategics, and we, over the years, we had sort of propositions from strategics, but we actually turned them down so this is more VC, VC fund, and because it's, as soon as you move in that direction, a strategic player might be that you can't work…”
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Fagerlund: WideSpace Provides a 100% Ad Viewability Service
“We do a lot of viewability, where we can basically have a service, a hundred percent viewability, and, That is sort of not very often you see that in the industry either.”
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Fagerlund: Publisher Exclusivity in Ad Tech Has Largely Disappeared
“Today it's a lot more open, so you will be, basically, either you do header bidding, where everybody bid for a certain inventory, or you have the old model, which is a waterfall, where we might come in with a really high CPM prices, and then we will be very hi…”
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Fagerlund: WideSpace processes $30M-$40M in volume with 130 employees
“So today we're in the area of above thirty million dollars, or close to forty million dollars 130 people”