# Monks

> Monks is S4Capital's global operating brand for marketing and technology services, combining creative production, media, data, commerce, customer experience and enterprise engineering in one unitary organization. Its strategic bet is Monks.Flow, an AI orchestration system and managed service designed to connect the people, models, data and approvals behind enterprise marketing - and increasingly sell that capability through long-term subscriptions instead of isolated projects and hours.

- **Founded:** 2001
- **Headquarters:** London, United Kingdom
- **Founders:** Wesley ter Haar (MediaMonks co-founder; Monks co-CEO, Marketing Services), Gin Roberscheuten (MediaMonks co-founder), Terrence de Kat (MediaMonks co-founder)
- **Team size:** Approximately 6,350 employees at year-end 2025, down 11.5% year over year; the company operated across 33 countries.
- **Products:** Marketing Services, Technology Services, Monks.Flow, Persona.Flow, Real-Time Brands
- **Notable:** Named Adweek's inaugural AI Agency of the Year in 2023., Named The One Show's inaugural AI Pioneer Organization in 2025; Burger King's Million Dollar Whopper work also earned AI honors., Won Business Intelligence Group Excellence in Artificial Intelligence awards for both the organization and Monks.Flow in 2025.

## Products & services

- **Marketing Services** — Creative, content, social, media, measurement, commerce and data-driven marketing delivered through integrated global teams.
- **Technology Services** — Digital product and platform engineering, cloud, data infrastructure, experience optimization, broadcast technology and enterprise transformation.
- **Monks.Flow** — An AI-powered orchestration ecosystem and professionally managed service connecting models, data, human talent, automation, quality control and campaign workflows.
- **Persona.Flow** — A Monks.Flow capability using retrieval-augmented generation and licensed research data to create interactive simulated consumer personas for marketers.
- **Real-Time Brands** — An operating proposition for continuous cultural sensing, rapid creative response and always-on brand participation.
- **Glass Box Media** — A transparent media proposition designed to connect investment, performance data and creative decisions without opaque trading economics.
- **Orchestration Partner** — Enterprise content and marketing supply-chain design that coordinates agencies, tools, talent, approvals and measurement around shared workflows.
- **Commerce and CRM** — Retail media, marketplace operations, ecommerce platforms, personalization, lifecycle marketing and Salesforce/Adobe implementations.

## Achievements

- Named Adweek's inaugural AI Agency of the Year in 2023.
- Named The One Show's inaugural AI Pioneer Organization in 2025; Burger King's Million Dollar Whopper work also earned AI honors.
- Won Business Intelligence Group Excellence in Artificial Intelligence awards for both the organization and Monks.Flow in 2025.
- Named Webby Production Company of the Year from 2021 through 2024.
- Placed in AdExchanger's Programmatic Power Players list every year from 2020 through 2024.
- Ranked among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies in 2022 and 2023.
- Named one of Newsweek's Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces in 2023.
- Achieved AWS Media & Entertainment Competency status.
- Won Optimizely Experimentation Partner of the Year in 2025.
- Built MINIWOOD, BMW/MINI's modular virtual production studio, which received three ADC Awards.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Monks Technology Services and Watts Law Firm launched an AI-powered case-qualification platform for legal intake.
- **2026-06** — Monks appointed Scott McBride managing director of Southeast Asia to expand integrated services and client transformation in the region.
- **2026-04** — Natalie Comins joined Monks to help lead creative experiences for the Google relationship.
- **2026-03** — Monks appointed Alex Oberberg chief revenue officer for EMEA and announced Chasing the Dream, a Monks Film/New Element Media documentary for global streaming on Disney+.
- **2026-03** — S4Capital reported 2025 revenue of £754.8 million, net revenue of £673.0 million and approximately 6,350 employees at year end.
- **2026-02** — Monks appointed Deb Stroff chief people officer as it continued organizational transformation around real-time and AI-enabled work.
- **2026-02** — S4Capital described a Monks subscription model expected to approach 25% of revenue by year-end, bundling talent, AI workflows and knowledge under recurring agreements.
- **2026-01** — Monks brought its CES Foundry format to CES 2026, convening executives around marketing as a measurable growth system.
- **2025-10** — Monks announced an agentic Culture Intelligence capability inside Monks.Flow for real-time brand engagement.
- **2025-09** — Technology Services introduced Dev², an AI-first application-development model, and partnered with VAST Data for AI-enabled media archive workflows.

## Links

- Website: https://www.monks.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/monks
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/madebymonks_
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/madebymonks/
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@madebymonks

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Last updated: 2026-08-13