Verasity is proud to welcome our newest member of staff to the team — Rob Weeks! Rob is a media professional with 15 years of experience in Digital Media at Dailymotion, The BBC, and the Discovery Channel. Dailymotion is a top 100 destination and video sharing platform owned by Vivendi with over 300 million unique monthly users catering to the BBC, VICE, Bloomberg and others.

Fun fact, he also used to be a DJ — his music knowledge is insane. He can DJ for us when we host a Verasity party!

Rob is now our Commercial Sales Director focusing on signing up publishers that will integrate Verasity technology into their existing video infrastructure. As Rob will mainly focus on the B2B side of things, you’re likely to see him out and about closing publishers and media companies building valuable relationships for Verasity.

Short interview with Rob:

1) What attracted you to Verasity?

A chance to work with a great team utilising cutting edge technology to enhance the rewards experience for viewers consuming online video. I’m excited to take a new product to a market and industry I know and love to help add new revenue streams for the client whilst providing incentives for viewers to engage more in the content they are consuming.

2) What’s your journey been through online video?

I worked in Digital Rights Management for the BBC at a time when YouTube and iTunes were exploding in the mid naughties.This led me to Discovery Networks International and YouTube network/channel management as well as long form online video delivery for clients like Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Xbox and Sony. After a brief cameo working in newspaper publishing I returned to online video at Dailymotion where I was responsible for Content Acquisition in Music, Sport, News & Entertainment as well as the integration of online video player tech solutions for clients owned and operated websites.

3) What’s a random fact about yourself?

I was a jungle/drum&bass DJ in a former life!