AdSwerve CEO Clint Tasset discusses the company's operating margins with Nathan Latka, explaining margin compression caused by fast-growing pass-through media revenue.
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“We're probably sitting somewhere in the 30% range right now, and it's kind of just ticking down, but ultimately it's not because sitting Because of loss.”
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“So if we were to extract media out of it, I would say in excess of six figures.”
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“So right now I think we're effectively operating about 800 unique relationships and five to 6000 different advertisers.”
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