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Booth: Tango Zebra was acquired for $30M USD
“It was thirty million US.”
James Booth Oct 15, 2017 ▶ 4:49 813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform
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Booth: 90% of Scoota's platform activity is self-serve
“90% of what we do is what we refer to as self-serve. So our technology is activated by third parties themselves. And for that we charge A low cost per thousand fee.”
James Booth Oct 15, 2017 ▶ 7:30 813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform
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Booth: Scoota charges a 20% to 25% take rate on managed campaigns
“And then 10% of our activity is what we refer to as managed service. Where we're activating the campaigns for and behalf of the clients, and for that we take a percentage of media, which is typically around the 20, 25%”
James Booth Oct 15, 2017 ▶ 8:02 813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform
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Booth: Scoota generates an 80% to 85% gross margin on self-serve
“The self-serve is very high margin because, you know, we're not concerned with media. The media is all dealt with by the clients. So that's an 80, 85% gross margin.”
James Booth Oct 15, 2017 ▶ 8:36 813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform
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Booth: Self-serve accounts for roughly two-thirds of Scoota's revenue
“So, I would say self-service typically is about two-thirds.”
James Booth Oct 15, 2017 ▶ 9:14 813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform
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Booth: Scoota targets £5M in self-serve revenue for 2017
“So, you know, and then, but because we've shifted dramatically to self-serve, our goal for self-serve is five million. Whether or not we get there this year, we don't know, but .”
James Booth Oct 15, 2017 ▶ 14:36 813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform
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Booth: Scoota forecasts profitability for current quarter in 2017
“Whether or not we get to where we want to revenue eyes, that's, you know, we'll, we'll see, but we should actually, we know we're forecasting profitability for this quarter, which for us is a good mark.”
James Booth Oct 15, 2017 ▶ 15:29 813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform
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Booth: Tango Zebra raised $1.6M before being acquired
“We raised one point in total, 1.6 million.”
James Booth Oct 15, 2017 ▶ 4:23 813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform
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Booth: I personally invested a few hundred thousand pounds into Scoota
“In real terms, a few 100,000, but actually in, you know, loss of income, because I didn't pay myself anything for a long time, and, you know and all the other stuff. It's substantially more than that.”
James Booth Oct 15, 2017 ▶ 6:52 813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform
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