Customer acquisition is crucial for startups across various industries, including e-commerce, gaming, and marketplace companies. These startups often allocate a significant portion of their marketing budget to social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Snap, and TikTok, as these platforms attract a large user base.
The digital advertising spend is expected to grow by 25% this year, reaching $191 billion. Companies like Google, Facebook, Snapchat, and Twitter have reported substantial year-over-year growth in their advertising revenues. However, despite the positive outlook, customer acquisition has become increasingly challenging and expensive.
Founders, marketers, and investors in the customer acquisition ecosystem have observed the rising difficulty and cost of acquiring customers. This can be attributed to the exponential growth of e-commerce and direct-to-consumer businesses, driven by the pandemic and global lockdowns. Additionally, platforms face pressure to facilitate acquisition at scale while navigating privacy restrictions.
Despite the significant growth in digital advertising, there is a lack of tools that provide marketers and growth leaders with comprehensive insights and performance analysis across channels. This information gap puts platforms at an advantage. Trust aims to address this issue by offering analytics and a community platform for marketers.
Trust, a platform that recently secured $9 million in financing, provides marketers with the necessary tools to optimize their marketing investments. It offers aggregated competitive benchmarking, market-level performance data, and curated news and conversations from industry leaders. Trust also introduces the Trust virtual card, which enhances buying power and provides extended payment terms for marketing investments.
Why Did I Invest in Trust?
Trust is led by CEO and co-founder James Borow, who previously played a key role in Snap’s global programmatic ads platform. With firsthand experience in the challenges faced by companies in understanding and optimizing marketing investments, James and his team are well-equipped to address these pain points. As an investor, I believe in James’ product-founder fit and his ability to revolutionize multi-channel analytics and optimization.
Trust has the potential to level the playing field for startups and larger organizations alike, empowering them to make informed marketing decisions. I am excited to see how Trust reshapes the landscape of customer acquisition and supports businesses in achieving their growth goals.
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