Brazil’s Samba Ads Raises $1 million

What does Samba Ads do?

Samba Ads, is a leading video distribution platform in Latin America. They care about great content and wants them to succeed. Their video platform helps producers reach the massive audiences by creating an efficient distribution window and strategies to develop money across many websites, screens and social networks. This premium video distribution helps publishers, advertisers etc in creating engaging content to attract audiences and make money from online videos.

How much Samba Ads was funded?

Samba Ads raised $1M in Series A funding on April 23^rd, 2015 from international investors e.bricks, Initial Capital, Rhodium and 500 Startups. All of these investors are betting on the Brazil’s online video opportunity.

Previous funding

$500k in Seed round on February 21, 2013 from Rhodium, 500 Startups, e.Bricks Digital and Initial:Capital.

What is next for Samba Ads?

Samba Ads provides firm streaming quick fixes to big organizations, distance learning players and universities, the founders of the firm wanted to find more about the distributed video ad opportunity and thus launched this startup. It brings 3 sides of the market; long tail publishers, premium content creators and ad agencies, together to check if monetization beyond You Tube.

As a part of the latest funding, Samba Ads has new addition to its Board of Director, Pedro Melzer, e.bricks’s MD,  Daniel Carneiro da Cunha from Initial Capital, Gustavo Caetano and  Rodrigo Paolucci the co-founders of Samba Ads.

More about Samba Ads

Samba Ads was founded on August 1, 2012 and has its headquarters in São Paulo. Around fifty content creators add brand friendly videos per day to its library of twenty thousand videos. More than 500 long tail publishers which includes local and regional news sites, distribute videos with the need to singing licensing agreements with multi content partners. When it comes to content, Samba Ads, sees no competition. It creates new audiences for the creators.