About Venatus

Venatus is a global provider of advertising solutions to the gaming and entertainment sector, offering a range of products and services to both advertisers and publishers looking to boost their advertising performance.

2008

From colleagues to founders

Matt Cannon & Rob Gay first built a working relationship while working in AdTech in 2008.

2010

A gap for gaming

From their experience, a notable gap was seen to provide solutions for the gaming industry. And, after a few notes written on napkins in the pub, Venatus was founded in 2010. 

2015

Starting to take flight

After a few successful first years, the decision was made to expand globally, opening regional offices in the US and Australia.

2018

Gaming goes mainstream

In 2018/19 the rise of freemium gaming brought a boom to the industry. Games like Fortnite now reaching mass markets and cross devices created a huge opportunity to explain the power of gaming media to the wider advertising industry.

2021

An electrifying investment

Livingbridge, one of the UK’s leading mid-market private equity investors, announces its investment in Venatus. The investment supported Venatus in establishing itself as the largest global gaming ad specialist – facilitating its ambitious growth plans in the US, taking the business to new geographies, and heavily investing in its proprietary technology.

Present

To infinity and beyond...

Now, Venatus employs over 120 people, providing solutions and signing deals with the biggest publishers in the world, such as EA, Rovio & FUTBIN. The global sales team enjoy having direct relationships with leading brands and advertisers from agencies such as Publicis, Omnicom and more, running over 900 directly sold campaigns each year for the likes of LEGO, PlayStation and Disney.

WHAT MAKES VENATUS

People, platform & partner

Our '3 P's' are a top level view of what's important to us as a business. Our talented people power the great things we do every day, allowing us to build the best AdTech platform that enables us to be the no.1 partner for our clients.

We’re building the best squad of people to work with, supporting and progressing their careers
We’re committed to creating a platform that helps both publishers and advertisers thrive
We aim to be the #1 advertising partner, imparting expertise and always adding value

Our Values

Our values are what we live by. They guide the way we work with publishers and advertising clients as well as how we work with eachother. We’re a group of go-getters that want to be involved in the next big play and to do that we’re committed to supporting others, including everyone and helping our team win.

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 each other and for our clients. We want everyone to be comfortable and confident to do great work, 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 market 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 supportive to our team-mates in a refreshingly straightforward, open way.

Interested in being a part of the team?

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