Richard Raddon’s Post

Two years ago, we acquired an Israeli start-up (Adverifai) that was working to identify misinformation on the Internet. We invested heavily in the product and revealed it to the Cannes Lions crowd. I’m super proud of the team's work and all that investment. This year I heard from many customers asking me why Zefr didn’t also work on the open web. NO company can do everything well. Sure, you can do everything….but just not well. I understand that sometimes our customers don’t understand the difference between a robust solution and a check-the-box solution. But that fact doesn’t change Zefr’s commitment to the quality of our solution. When I look at our industry competitors (i.e. the legacy measurement providers), they clearly believe they are in the (static) software business. At Zefr, we understand that our business in safety and security is always evolving because the space is replete with adversarial agents attempting to monetize on harmful content. It becomes an aggressive cat-and-mouse game. The key to combating these agents of misinformation and brand safety is to aggressively INVEST. It never STOPS! That is why we maniacally focus on the walled gardens! It’s the space that gets most of our customer’s investment, AND it requires an ALWAYS innovation mentality to stay in front of the adversarial agents. If you are a public or private company and you settle for the “good enough” software mentality in the safety and security space, one day you will wake up and it won’t be good enough. The statement on Zefr’s Cannes signage could be applied to legacy ad tech companies. Building brand (or Ad Tech) trust is hard, losing it easy. #peanutbuttermanifesto

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