Company Overview
RockYou is the leading innovator, creator, and distributor of content on the social web. With over 46M monthly US users, 213M users worldwide, and 15 billion global impressions, advertisers have the ability to tap the social networking audience directly, through timely and effective campaigns.
The company provides customised, one-of-a-kind branding and promotional opportunities through its network of applications on social networking platforms like Facebook, MySpace, Bebo and hi5. RockYou's advertising platform is the largest social media ad network and the most dynamic way for brands and advertisers to reach social media users. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, RockYou is funded by Sequoia Capital, Partech International, Lightspeed Venture Partners, DCM, SK Telecom Ventures and SoftBank. More information
Gilles Storme
Gilles Storme heads up RockYou EMEA advertising sales which includes application distribution, 3rd party ad network and brand sales.
Prior to joining RockYou, Gilles launched First Light Cosmetics, a mineral make-up brand marketed mainly online. Before launching his own business Gilles was pan European sales director at AOL and launched Platform-A as a regional proposition. He also held several positions at Discovery Networks and National Geographic Channel.
Gilles holds a Master of Business Administration from Kingston University and an Economics degree from the University of Brussels.
Gilles lives and works in the UK but being Belgian he has kept a fondness for strong beers, cartoon characters and hung parliaments. If you want to play, he has his list of 10 famous Belgians ready.