Exverus by Brainlabs

​Founders William Durrant, Talia Arnold, and Jack Win started Exverus in 2014 after a decade each at big agencies that treated media planning and buying as separate siloes, and treated people as disposable. They built Exverus around 4 core values: truth, passion, service, and creativity. They believed senior people should stay on accounts instead of handing them off, and that a culture encouraging employees' lives outside of work produces better results and happier people.

In the early days, Exverus was known as a brand-building agency, but over the years, we've built a powerful performance engine: robust retail media and e-commerce departments, an in-house programmatic trading desk, paid search and social teams that earned us Now we plan and execute brand and performance under one scientific brain.

Exverus is the independent alternative to holding-company bureaucracy: we provide agile, hands-on service & senior-led execution; while our cutting-edge data technology provides accountability for every dollar spent and earned. That's why growth-stage, challenger brands and Fortune 500s alike trust us with their biggest marketing challenges. It's why we've earned 3 Ad Age Small Agency of the Year Awards, 8 ADWEEK Media Plan of the Year Awards, and landed on the Inc. 5000 three times under a leadership team of 73% women or people of color.

In 2025, Exverus was acquired by Brainlabs, an independent, AI-native media agency with the same people-first culture and tech-enabled agility. The acquisition didn't change how we operate, it only multiplied our capabilities. We're now integrated with Brainlabs' Cortex AI system, which models outcomes across budget allocation, targeting, and bidding, the kind of modeling once reserved for holding-company clients. Under the Brainlabs umbrella, our potential for growth over the next decade is limitless. 

Exverus means "from the truth." Over a decade in, that's still our guiding principle.