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Venatus

Gaming ad & publisher platform

Venatus logo
21-100 employees
  • B2B
  • Gaming
  • Publishing
  • SaaS
  • Advertising
Farringdon, London, UK

Company mission

To be the number one advertising solution in gaming.

26% employee growth in 12 months

Our take

With the esports industry expanding exponentially, Venatus offers clients a real market advantage over their competitors by providing direct access to ever-growing gaming audiences.

Since 2010, Venatus has been at the forefront of the global advertising technology industry. It seeks to continue its growth by driving new publisher partnerships in emerging sectors, focusing particularly on specific competitors in the gaming sector. As a privately owned and independently funded business, Venatus is setting out to expand to new territories beyond its offices in Los Angeles, Seoul, London, Paris, and New York.

Venatus represents programmatic and direct ad sales for more than 600 publishers, including Rolling Stone, EA, Rovio, and FUTBIN, as well as helping deliver powerful campaigns for the BBC, Unilever, Hasbro, Intel, and Activision. Offering the world's first programmatic marketplace for entertainment, Venatus is well-placed to continue providing marketing solutions to the world's biggest brands.

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Steph

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Benefits

  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • Techsheme
  • Flexible working pattern
  • Season Ticket Loan scheme
  • 25 days annual leave (inclusive of festive office closure) plus bank holidays and your birthday off
  • Option to buy and sell annual leave allowance

Company values

  • All-in: As individuals and a team we share a passion, hunger and energy to deliver on our ambitious growth goals. We have high standards and expectations of ourselves and one another and we have the commitment, determination and self belief that we will succeed
  • Open to all: We are friendly, warm and welcoming and care about doing right by erach other and for our clients. We want everyone to be comfortable and confident to do great work, and bring their best thinking and ideas while growing and developing their talents everyday
  • Self-starters: We take the initiative, ask questions and get involved. We enjoy the freedom of genuine autonomy in our roles and the opportunity to have our voices heard and we own our responsibilities
  • Always moving: We thrive on the challenge of working in a fast-moving environment with ever-changing client needs and we have the flexibility to learn and adapt fast. We push boundaries with our continuous improvement and 'how can we do this better?' mindset. Thinking critically and creatively, we bring ideas and solutions to all we do
  • Play as a team: We enjoy personally connecting and having fun together because we all play our part and rely on each other. We don't carry passengers but we are always helpful and supportitive to our team-mates in a refreshingly straightforward, open way

Leadership

Studied at the University of Sussex and worked in Sales for over 7 years at eType-Europe, before serving as Commercial Director of Media Initiatives Group until February 2010.

Rob Gay

(CEO)

Worked as Managing Director at Media Initiatives Group and eType, and co-founded Alchemy.video in 2015.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Venatus

  • We have a staff led D&I Committee that meet on a monthly basis to discuss internal and external topics in an open, safe environment.