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Inside Vimeo’s $28M advertising strategy: How Youtube’s artsy, ad-free, alternative is making a dent in the video-sharing landscape.
Launched in 2004 by independent filmmakers—Jake Lodwick and Zack Klein—who wanted to share their professional/personal work online, Vimeo is an ad-free, video-distribution platform that caters primarily to a like-minded creative community. By Dec’13, Vimeo was representing 0.11% of the total Internet bandwidth with more than 22 million registered users, and 100 million unique visitors per month. Notable comedians like Kristen Schaal, “Weird Al” Yankovic and Reggie Watts have been actively using Vimeo to promote their content, alongside musicians like...
Surbhi Dhawan
Internet and Telecom - 7 min read
Monday.com raises $150M more in equity funding: Here’s an in-depth look into their $12M ad spend.
Formerly known as Dapulse, Monday.com is a team management platform that was founded in 2012 by Roy Mann (former C-level Executive at Wix) and Eran Zinman (former R&D Manager at Conduit Mobile). Based in Tel Aviv, Israel, the company raised a $1.5 million in a seed funding round to build a “next-generation” collaboration tool that allows you to create tasks, share files, plan workloads, and ultimately, visualize projects and processes that your team is collectively working on. Aside from...
Surbhi Dhawan
Internet and Telecom - 6 min read
How the Biggest Antivirus Companies spend their Advertising Budgets
The internet has become an integral part of human civilization. Every day, thousands of new users are gaining access to it. It’s not just about social media, though: The internet is changing the way we conduct monetary transactions. Even governments are using the internet for important missions. With such huge implications, threats also have become more dangerous. Too much is at stake. This is why the global antivirus market is booming. According to SBWIRE, the global antivirus-software market is...
Arvind Kesh
Internet and Telecom - 8 min read
How 3 Web Hosting Platforms use Digital Ads to Generate Leads
The web hosting industry is set to be a $154 billion market in 2022. Tens of thousands of companies are competing for a diverse audience — from college kids to multi-national corporations. To stay in business, most companies have differentiated themselves by catering to a specific niche. The best of the lot use digital advertising channels to reach the top: Rackspace has dominated the high-end corporate world with their interactive HTML5 ads that can test a website’s server speeds....
Milveen Eke-Allen
Internet and Telecom - 8 min read
How Leading Website Builder Platforms Manage Their Advertising Campaigns
We’re living in the golden age of tech where it’s becoming increasingly easier to create customized experiences for customers. One place we’re seeing this is in website design. Instead of hiring an expensive developer to build a site or spending hours trying to learn code and building a website DIY-style, online website builders are the new go-to because they help users save time and money. With professional results that look like a developer invested several hours building, what user...
Milveen Eke-Allen
Internet and Telecom - 8 min read