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Jellyfish Unveils New Tech, New Look: Launches AI-Powered Media In-Housing Platform Alongside Rebranding

Martech Outlook | Friday, October 16, 2026

Launch Completes 12-Month AI Transformation for Jellyfish, Reflected in Bold New ‘Move Faster, Smarter, Together’ Rebrand

Agentic Solution for In-Housing Automates Media Research, Evaluation, Content Strategy and Activation, Delivering Cost Reduction & Performance Improvement

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London UK – Jellyfish, the leading global digital marketing company under The Brandtech Group, has unveiled a first-of-its-kind AI-driven in-housing media platform. Built on the company’s automated marketing system, the platform is a unified framework that taps into a range of proprietary AI agents and tools, including Jellyfish’s recently released Media Ops Agent. 

Jellyfish has successfully utilized these AI technologies with various brand clients, but now, for the first time, marketers can access its full suite as a comprehensive, end-to-end solution to bring their media programs in-house, easily automating media research, evaluation, content strategy and activation. 

The platform's agentic workflows offer marketers significant advantages, including:

• Accelerated Time to Launch: Decreases time to launch campaigns by 65%.

• Reduced Infrastructure Costs: Lowers infrastructure expenses by an average of 22%.

• Error-Free Launches: Ensures flawless campaign executions with AI-driven precision, including 100% adherence to Google, Meta, and Amazon best practices within hours.

• Augmented Performance: Boosts campaign performance by an average of 30%.

Plus, the platform automatically adjusts campaigns to stay within the allocated budget and continually optimizes them for performance every 2 hours, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

This new tool builds upon Jellyfish’s established support for brand clients’ in-housing efforts. Prior to this release, the company facilitated in-housing initiatives through its Jellyfish Training program. Offering over 250 courses, this program encompasses subjects such as Social Media, Search, and Programmatic. Notably, the program also features comprehensive training on Gen AI, with 15 new courses added just within the past year.

The company’s work in the in-housing space is also founded on proven expertise within The Brandtech Group. Brandtech’s OLIVER, is the world's first and only company dedicated to designing, building, and running in-house agencies and marketing ecosystems. It currently serves over 500 brands in nearly 50 countries.

Jellyfish’s launch of the new in-housing media platform is the last piece of a 12-month AI development program, which saw the company overhaul every aspect of the traditional marketing mix from insights to SEO, assets to activation, and MMM to reporting. In addition, the transformation is in direct alignment with The Brandtech Group and its established leadership in providing large-scale Gen AI services since 2018. 

Marking this milestone, Jellyfish is also introducing a rebranding that features a new logo, visual representation and the tagline “Move Faster, Smarter, Together” – all reflective of the company’s significant AI developments and transformation, alongside its entrepreneurial roots.

“In merely a year, we have been able to create 235,000 pieces of content for three of the world's top 10 advertisers with the content on average being produced 62% faster, 55% cheaper and delivering a 40% improvement in ROI. This represents a totally new integrated AI approach – driving remarkable results,” said Natalie Winford, Chief Solutions Officer, Jellyfish.

"For brands eager to take control of their media, Jellyfish’s new media in-housing platform automates marketing analytics, freeing teams to focus on strategy, not data entry. Moreover, it also integrates an advanced MMM tool, which quickly and precisely determines the marketing contribution to KPIs to make macro budgetary decisions,” said Jeff Matisoff, Partner, Jellyfish. “Thanks to Jellyfish's agentic media system, it's finally time for marketers to power their in-house media teams with AI as opposed to just shifting agency headcount into their own org. In-housing demand is high, with the ANA reporting that 80% of its members have in-house agencies – and AI is predicted to spark expansion.”

“In the last 12 months we have challenged ourselves to build and run tech that answers client needs around speed, insight, transparency, measurement, invention and cost. This latest launch is a primary example of a totally new marketing strategy – underpinned by AI,” said Nick Emery, CEO, Jellyfish. “Our new identity reflects our ability to combine both left and right brains for progressive brands in ways that others can’t.  We are about speed, outcomes and invention. As 'Good to Great' says you can’t invent your company identity you have to discover it. You cannot just claim to be something that you inherently are not. ‘Move Faster, Smarter, Together with AI’ is true to our entrepreneurial DNA, our amazing, inventive talent and the cutting-edge technology we develop every day.”

“Crafting Jellyfish’s new brand was an enticing challenge,” said Jo Wallace, Global Executive Creative Director, Jellyfish. “We set out to capture the company's collaborative energy, diverse expertise, and AI prowess, bringing them together in a dynamic visual identity that demonstrates how we ‘Move Smarter, Faster, Together’ to drive growth for our clients.”

Appendix

The Jellyfish 12-month development program has built AI into every discipline; 

Switchboard, which was officially released in March 2024, is Jellyfish’s single source of truth cloud-based reporting suite. Prioritizing audience and creative insights and customized for each marketer’s campaign requirements, Switchboard is how Jellyfish clients keep real time performance at hand.

Jellyfish launched AI Studios in April 2024 to drive the adoption of Pencil and reinvent how content at scale is delivered. Its AI-powered platform scales creative delivery like never before, enabling the production of hyper-relevant, localized content in real-time. By integrating creative seamlessly into performance strategies, Pencil turned campaigns into engines of innovation and efficiency.

At the same time, the company launched the Creative Collective to drive both tech-enabled creative ideation and the premium that still exists around social led human-generated content - winning the Grand Clio for its work with Netflix.

Search has always been central to Jellyfish but pioneering One Search gives them an award-winning edge in the market - innovating with its clients in a search landscape that continues to grow in terms of complexity, fragmentation, and disruption from AI. OneSearch won two awards in 2024 for work with Swarovski, recognizing its ability to generate more growth for less spend.

Over the course of 2024, Jellyfish Training trained over 55,000 delegates on courses ranging from GA4 through to prompt engineering and Generative AI, collecting the global Google Cloud Partner for Training Award for three years running.

Released out of beta in June 2024, Now-Next-Soon (NNS), Jellyfish’s forecasting and budget allocation platform, reinvents Marketing Mix Modelling to quickly and granularly inform decisions across all marketing channels - offline, digital, promotional, email, events and more. NNS’s faster outputs and frequent updates tell marketers everything they need to know about how marketing is driving business performance

In September 2024, Jellyfish launched the Share of Model™ platform reinventing SEO and providing real-time insights into how AI systems like GPT-4 and Llama 2 perceive brands, empowering clients to refine their strategies for an AI-driven world. Three start-ups have since raised $5M each to copy this initiative.

Jellyfish Cloud was created and released in October 2024 to guide the company’s clients across the right platform solution and martech systems integration.

Before Agents were a thing Jellyfish launched Social Agents in December 2024 to transform how clients gather feedback on content and positioning.

All this comes together under Jellyfish’s AM, Autonomous Marketing framework that brings together all of the company’s assets and inventions to drive growth for its clients.

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