You & Mr Jones
The world’s first brandtech™ group

Our Group

You & Mr Jones is the world’s first brandtech group — a technology holding company that helps brands do their marketing better, faster and cheaper using technology.

Group Companies

Blood is our brandtech practice. It sits at the center of You & Mr Jones as the portal into the group and its creative and strategic operating system.

Mobkoi is a premium mobile marketing specialist. They work directly with publishers to deliver tailor-made creative solutions into safe and select environments.

55 is Europe’s leading data company created by the former CEO and senior management team of Google Southern Europe.

theAmplify is a leading full-service technology and data-driven influencer marketing platform that enables brand-safe scaling of influencer marketing programs globally.

Mofilm is a global community of over 10,000 filmmakers connected by technology to create brilliant video content for the world’s leading brands.

People-powered marketing is much more powerful than the old legacy way

There's been a revolution in the world but not yet in the world of brand-building

Oliver (part of Inside Ideas Group) is the pioneer and global leader in building in-house digital marketing capabilities for brands.

Gravity Road is a leader in content innovation. They bring together marketing, entertainment and technology to create new types of content that builds brands.

Strategic Investments

Niantic is building a state-of-the-art augmented reality platform for current and future generations of AR hardware. They are best known as the creator of the AR mobile game Pokémon Go.

Pinterest is a visual social bookmarking platform that helps you discover, save and shop creative ideas.

Automat provides a Conversational Marketing Cloud platform that helps companies use AI to talk to their customers, and to understand and serve them better.

Pixlee is a visual marketing platform that delivers user-generated content from all social media platforms through a content management system.

Beeswax is a Bidder-as-a-Service (BaaS) business that empowers advertisers to do their own programmatic media buying with a Real-Time Bidding solution.

Crossing Minds was created in Stanford’s Artificial Intelligence Lab and is building a personalized AI to understand human behavior through comprehensive taste analytics and provide customizable recommendations and a cultural discovery platform.

You can no longer buy attention, you have to earn it

Jivox is a cloud-based platform that dynamically serves thousands of different personalized variations of the same ad to different users in real time.

Gfycat is a user-generated platform and top-60 site in the US that lets you create, discover and share GIFs.

Mic is the number one news and media company for the millennial generation, informing its 66 million monthly audience with issue-driven reporting and video.

Zappar is an augmented reality company, app and self-serve platform that connects the digital world with the things around you.

Elsy is an early-stage company that uses data, analytics and technology to create innovations in media investment management.

There's been a revolution in the world but not yet in the world of brand-building

Tribe Dynamics is a data company that tracks and measures social media influencer's content using a metric called Earned Media Value to deliver Brand Momentum Insights.

People-powered marketing is much more powerful than the old legacy way

Amino combines the best of blockchain, advertising and payment technologies to enforce transparency.

Traackr is the world’s leading provider of Influencer Relationship Management software, bringing a data-rich platform to marketers and guaranteeing accuracy in influencer selection and customer targeting.

You can no longer buy attention, you have to earn it

VidMob is a creative technology platform that enables brands to understand which visual, text and audio details impact ad performance and rapidly optimize creative for improved results.

Engage Video Group is South Africa’s fastest growing data-driven online video publishing platform.

There's been a revolution in the world but not yet in the world of brand-building

EVRYTHNG is the leading Internet of Things (IoT) platform for consumer product brands, which activates product packaging to share stories and offers, and empowers brand owners to authenticate their supply chain.

AI Foundation develops foundational technology, products and experiences to leverage the power of decentralized, trusted, personal AI.

People-powered marketing is much more powerful than the old legacy way

Better, faster, cheaper using technology

Leadership

You & Mr Jones is a partnership of brandtech experts and like-minded entrepreneurs from around the world

Sarah Davies

Partner

Sarah Davies

Partner

Sarah is a tech-focused brand-innovation expert and partner at Blood, our creative strategy practice.

Emma Cookson

Partner

Emma Cookson

Partner

Emma is a brand strategist who works with our clients to help unlock the potential of technology to accelerate brand growth.

David Jones

Founder

David Jones

Founder

David created You & Mr Jones to harness the power of technology to improve marketing. He’s also the co-founder of One Young World, the former global CEO of Havas and a founding member of the Facebook Client Council.

Jean-Marc Antoni

Founding Partner

Jean-Marc Antoni

Founding Partner

Jean-Marc is our Global CFO and drives the growth of the group as it makes acquisitions and investments in brandtech companies.

Julie Hardy

Partner

Julie Hardy

Partner

Julie is a digital marketing expert who works with our clients to deliver brand innovation. She has extensive luxury and beauty experience, and oversees the group’s global influencer practice.

Ron Croen

Partner

Ron Croen

Partner

Ron leads You & Mr Jones Brandtech™ Ventures, our venture-investment arm, based on the West Coast.

It’s not about marketing to consumers, but about mattering to people

George Prest

Partner

George Prest

Partner

George co-founded Blood, our creative strategy practice. His creative talent helps deliver breakthrough brandtech solutions for our clients.

André Pinto

Partner

André Pinto

Partner

Andre is our Mergers & Acquisitions specialist. He works closely with our acquisition and investment prospects as they look to join the group.

You can no longer buy attention, you have to earn it

Annette Stover

Partner

Annette Stover

Partner

Annette is responsible for our operational success, for both You & Mr Jones and our group companies.

Drew Burdon

Partner

Drew Burdon

Partner

Drew co-founded Blood, our creative strategy practice. His strategic expertise helps deliver smart, effective brandtech solutions for our clients.

Brands used to be defined by what brands said to people, now they're defined by what people say to people

Recent News

The latest news & announcements from You & Mr Jones

Acquisitions / Investments

You & Mr Jones Takes Majority Stake in Internal Marketing Firm

The Wall Street Journal — January 2019

AI Foundation raises $10 million to launch products that benefit humanity

Venturebeat.com — September 2018

You & Mr Jones bolsters artificial intelligence investments, promotes Sarah Davies and Julie Hardy, hires Daniel Floyed

The Drum — September 2018

Video platform VidMob expands to London with You & Mr Jones as an investor

More About Advertising — May 2018

Traackr Raises $9 Million in Series B Funding to Fuel Influencer Marketing Technology for Global Brands

Martechseries — April 2018

Why former Havas chief David Jones invested in Bafta-winning agency Gravity Road

The Drum — March 2018

Gravity Road sells controlling stake to You & Mr Jones

Campaign — March 2018

Amino Payments raises $4.5M seed round to ramp up hiring

Technical.ly — February 2018

Press Coverage

You & Mr Jones Valued at $1.3 Billion, ‘Brandtech’ Company Says

The Wall Street Journal — December 2019

A new type of ad agency is catering to brands born on digital channels – and industry giants need a plan

Business Insider — May 2018

Rebecca Sykes tapped as Mofilm global CEO to pursue 'culturally relevant creative'

The Drum — April 2018

Sykes Named CEO Of MOFILM

Mediapost.com — April 2018

Betting big on mobile augmented-reality games

The Wall Street Journal — November 2017

20 million reasons why You & Mr Jones is high on Pinterest

Adweek — October 2017

Kate Spade uses AR to lure shoppers to Paris flagship during fashion week

Glossy — September 2017

You & Mr Jones continues investment spree

The Wall Street Journal — July 2017

Is 'Brandtech' the new marketing?

CMO.com — July 2017

Mobile marketing startup Mobkoi acquired by You & Mr Jones

The Drum — June 2017

You & Mr Jones takes majority stake in mobile specialist Mobkoi

Campaign — June 2017

Press Releases

You & Mr Jones raises $200MM to further scale its ability to deliver enterprise level technology-driven marketing solutions for the world’s leading brands

December 2019

Brandtech Group You & Mr Jones acquires majority stake in Inside Ideas Group — parent company of Oliver

January 2019

Rebecca Sykes named CEO of MOFILM, the world’s leading people-powered marketing company

April 2018

You & Mr Jones announces investment in Pinterest to tap into the promise of visual search & marketer value

October 2017

You & Mr Jones acquires mobile marketing company Mobkoi

June 2017

You & Mr Jones leads investment round in pioneering AI-driven conversational marketing platform, Automat and announces investment in AI-start-up Crossing Minds

June 2017

David Jones raises $350 million to launch first global brandtech group

June 2015

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One Young World

Described by CNN as the ‘Young Davos’, One Young World is a registered charity, created by Kate Robertson and our founder David Jones, that empowers brilliant young people to drive positive change in the world and we’ve made One Young World a shareholder in You & Mr Jones.

So, if we do well, they do too.