Influenster co-founder and CEO Aydin Acar discusses the scale of the company's review database with Nathan Latka.
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“The largest product reviews outside of Amazon. So we have around twenty one million product reviews on our site.”
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Akar: Influenster has negative CAC because monetized product boxes drive signups
“Customer acquisition for members, our marketing budget for that is almost negative, because we are making money by sending these boxes, which in turn brings us a lot of new members. So what our, what we make money from is actually making our Platform much bigg…”
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Akar: Influenster tracking to $15M-$16M in fiscal revenue
“Currently we are at twelve million dollars in bookings and around 10, eleven million dollars in revenue, so we're tracking to around 17, eighteen million dollars in bookings to around 15, sixteen million dollar revenue.”
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Akar: Influenster has 4 million micro-influencer users
“We have around four million users at the moment.”
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Akar: Influenster shipped 2M products across 200 campaigns in 12 months
“We have around 200 campaigns you know, over 150 logos. We sent over two million products in the past 12 months.”
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Disclosure
Akar: Influenster's typical contract size is $80K to $150K
“No, I would say a typical contract size is anywhere between 80 to 150,000 dollars.”
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Disclosure
Akar: Ebates invested $8M into Influenster for Series A
“They put eight million dollars.”
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