Brandtech
Marketing services group combining agency operations with AI software.
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Company facts
- Official name
- The Brandtech Group LLC
- Entity type
- COMPANY
- Founded
- 2015
- Headquarters
- United States
- Company size
- 50–200
- Market role
- Agency & Consultancy
- Official website
- thebrandtechgroup.com
What Brandtech does
Brandtech creates value by combining agency and consultancy-style delivery with owned software assets. It acquires or builds specialist capabilities, integrates them into a group operating model, and sells end-to-end marketing, media, commerce and creative services to enterprise brands. The software layer improves productivity and provides a path to more scalable, repeatable revenue alongside labour-based service income.
Category differentiation
Brandtech is a marketing services and software holding group, not a single-purpose adtech tool or consumer brand. It is best understood as the parent platform behind agency, commerce and AI creative businesses such as Jellyfish, OLIVER and Pencil.
Strategic context
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The Brandtech Group is a private marketing technology and services group serving large brands with a mix of managed services and proprietary software. Through businesses including Jellyfish, OLIVER, Mobkoi, Pencil and Jellyfish Commerce, it provides digital media buying, search, commerce activation, embedded in-house agency teams, creative production and AI-driven creative orchestration. Its revenue model combines enterprise service contracts, media buying and performance fees, and software-style monetisation from AI and commerce tools. The company’s customers are primarily enterprise marketers and large consumer brands looking to consolidate media, creative, data and commerce execution under fewer partners while using AI to reduce production cost and increase campaign throughput.
Company news briefing
Briefing updated:
Building on the expansion of AI ads optimisation within its Share of Model™ platform and the appointment of Seun Odeneye as EMEA Chief Media Officer to advance its agentic media agenda, The Brandtech Group has further strengthened its leadership with the appointment of Chris Garbutt as Global Chief Creative Officer. Garbutt will focus on high-craft AI storytelling and experience, reinforcing the group's integration of AI-native capabilities across its creative and media practices, supported by Jellyfish's ongoing research into LLM visibility and creator content.
Business model & monetisation
Brandtech monetises mainly through enterprise managed-service contracts, retainers, strategic consulting fees, media buying fees or margins, and performance-linked commerce or marketing engagements. It also generates software revenue from proprietary platforms such as Pencil and Acorn-i-derived capabilities through subscription-style and potentially usage-based SaaS pricing layered into broader enterprise relationships.
- Managed marketing and media services
- Service fees, retainers and project income
- Media buying and activation
- Media margin and execution fees
- AI creative and commerce software
- SaaS subscription and usage-linked pricing
- Strategic consulting and in-housing transformation
- Consulting and programme fees
Products & capabilities
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Products & market categories
Technology
Media Channel
Subsidiaries & acquisitions
- Jellyfish
Global digital marketing agency with proprietary media and AI tools.
- MOBKOI
Immersive adtech platform for full-screen cross-channel brand campaigns.
Recent recorded signals
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Brandtech Group Appoints Chris Garbutt as Global Chief Creative Officer to lead high craft AI storytelling and experience
Recorded impact score: 3.5/5
Brandtech Group announces the appointment of Chris Garbutt as Global Chief Creative Officer, focusing on high craft AI storytelling and experience.
Jellyfish Appoints Seun Odeneye as EMEA Chief Media Officer
Hiring · Recorded impact score: 2/5
Jellyfish, a global digital marketing business and part of The Brandtech Group, has appointed Seun Odeneye as Chief Media Officer EMEA. Odeneye, who brings over 20 years of experience in media, technology, and investment, will lead Jellyfish's paid and earned media practice across EMEA. His mandate includes accelerating the agency's 'agentic media' agenda and integrating AI-native capabilities across media, strategy, and investment analytics. Odeneye joins from IPG Mediabrands, where he served as Managing Director, Investment, and previously led a 350+ person division at KINESSO UK&I. The appointment follows Stephanie Parry's recent appointment as Managing Director, UK & Ireland, strengthening Jellyfish's leadership team as it aims to build EMEA's first truly agentic media practice.
- Jellyfish appointed Seun Odeneye as Chief Media Officer EMEA.
- Odeneye has over 20 years of experience in media, technology, and investment.
Jellyfish Launches AI Ads Optimisation in Share of Model
Paid media optimisation / AdTech platform · Recorded impact score: 3/5
Jellyfish, a global digital marketing company within The Brandtech Group, announced AI Ads Optimisation — an expansion of paid-media optimisation inside its Share of Model™ platform. The update extends beyond existing Google Ads / Performance Max integration to produce AI-driven media optimisation and insights for ChatGPT-driven experiences and major channels including TikTok, DV360, YouTube and Reddit (the latter via pilots). The release also adds an always-on strategy assistant that continuously surfaces recommendations across SEO, brand, PR, paid media and ecommerce teams. Share of Model, launched in 2024 to track brand visibility in LLMs, has been cited by Harvard Business Review and MIT Technology Review. Google PMax, YouTube, DV360, ChatGPT and TikTok support are available globally today.
- Jellyfish announced AI Ads Optimisation as an expansion of its Share of Model™ platform.
- Jellyfish is part of The Brandtech Group.
YouTube Creator Content in Over 25% of LLM Answers
LLM & Creator Content Influence · Recorded impact score: 3/5
Research published by digital marketing agency Jellyfish (part of Brandtech Group) analysed more than 27 million AI model responses across seven LLMs and found YouTube creator content appears in over one in four AI-generated answers across tracked categories — and approaches one in two for high-intent sectors. Instagram and TikTok content are also rising in influence. Jellyfish expanded its Share of Model platform with new Creator Intelligence tools and reports that highly visible content for AI search tends to come from niche experts producing structured, information-rich videos rather than celebrity influencers. Jellyfish executives say many AI results now surface independent creator content more often than brand-owned content, citing FMCG results where nine out of ten YouTube videos appearing in AI results were from independent creators.
- Jellyfish analysed more than 27 million AI model response data points across seven LLMs.
- YouTube creator content appears in more than 25% of AI-generated answers across tracked categories, rising to almost 50% in high-intent sectors.
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Questions about Brandtech
What is Brandtech?
Brandtech is a private marketing technology and services group that combines agency operations, in-housing models, commerce services and proprietary AI software for enterprise brands.
Who uses Brandtech?
Its customers are mainly large brands, enterprise marketing teams, major advertisers and retail or ecommerce companies seeking media, creative, commerce and AI-enabled marketing support.
How does Brandtech make money?
It earns revenue from managed-service contracts, retainers, consulting fees, media buying margins and software-style revenue from platforms such as Pencil and commerce tools.
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