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Ben Gilbert: belief

12 Jul 2016 Acquired Midroll + Stitcher (acquired by Scripps)

“Midroll, while it is a better company, they’re really taking on a flyer on spending 50 million on that thing. Their revenues right now are I think like 1.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Speaker
Ben Gilbert
Attribution
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
12 Jul 2016
Publisher
Acquired

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…I like that. Midroll, while it is a better company, they’re really taking on a flyer on spending 50 million on that thing. Their revenues right now are I think like 1. 5 to 2 million a year and you really got to believe that there’s going to be a big change in the way that you can stick these businesses together to make that change meaningful and were I a betting man, I’d bet against them. On the other hand though, in defense of Midroll, they are the advertising network for some of the biggest podcasts which as we were saying was one of the keys to unlocking this.…

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