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Brainlabs Buys Social Media Influencer Agency Fanbytes

May 13 2022

Digital marketing agency Brainlabs has acquired social media influencer marketing agency Fanbytes, for an undisclosed sum.

Daniel GilbertThe UK-based 60-strong business was launched in 2017 by its CEO Timothy Armoo, COO Ambrose Cooke and CTO Mitchell Fasanya. Fanbytes offers clients access to Bytesights, a data set of more than three million influencers, enabling brands to monitor growth, predict trends and pinpoint conversations around their products, competitors and sectors.

The three founders will take up new roles at Brainlabs, with Armoo now VP of Influencer, Cooke VP of Influencer Integration and Fasanya VP of Influencer Technology. Fanbytes will lead and shape Brainlabs' influencer offering, bringing its expertise to US, LATAM and APAC regions where Brainlabs already has offices. The news follows Brainlabs' recent acquisition of India-based data services specialist Nabler.

Commenting on the acquisition, Brainlabs Global CEO Daniel Gilbert (pictured) said: 'I'm super excited about welcoming Fanbytes to Brainlabs, not only because I'm in awe at what they've achieved in such a short space of time but I also see them as an essential piece of the jigsaw in our digital media offering. Influencer marketing has rapidly become an integral part of the digital media mix so to be able to offer it alongside our other capabilities under one roof is a huge advantage to our clients'.

Web sites: www.brainlabsdigital.com and www.fanbytes.co.uk .

All articles 2006-23 written and edited by Mel Crowther and/or Nick Thomas, 2024- by Nick Thomas, unless otherwise stated.

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