Founded in 2007 by entrepreneurs Doug Drury and Jonathan Reid, VMG is a privately owned portfolio of technology, service, and product businesses. With operations across North America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania, the Group delivers global reach with on-the-ground expertise in every major market.
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Scalable Production and Publishing Solutions
VMG Premedia supports global brands and publishers by handling the complex technical and high-volume requirements that bottleneck their content operations.
For Brands, VMG provides scalable creative production that maintains quality while improving efficiency across image, video, and design. For Publishers, VMG helps to create strategic, cost-saving print and digital workflows and digital editions production.
High-Performing Creative that Drives Results
VMG Digital combines creative craft with platform expertise to produce high-volume, social-first content. As a trusted partner to platforms including Meta, TikTok, and LinkedIn, the team ensures every asset is built for both aesthetic impact and performance.
Whether delivering high-volume content for global brands or executing targeted digital campaigns, VMG Digital helps businesses reach the right audience to deliver real, meaningful growth from their social and digital channels.
Shoppable, Data-Driven Catalogues
Red Pepper Digital helps retailers and brands turn static media into a direct path to sale. By transforming catalogues into interactive, shoppable experiences that live on a brand’s own website or app, they turn passive browsers into active buyers.
With a blend of smart UX and shopper insights, Red Pepper makes it easy for customers to move from discovery to checkout while giving brands the data they need to drive higher sales.
A Connected, High-Performing Workforce
VMG Connect helps organisations build digital workplaces that actually work for their people. By combining expertise in leading employee experience platforms with clear communication and change strategies, the team ensures that internal technology is adopted and used to its full potential.
From the office to the frontline, the focus is on designing digital experiences that drive genuine engagement and the behaviours needed for a business to perform.
Corporate Venturing and Investments
Led by Co-founder Jonathan Reid, VMG Ventures is the group’s investment and venturing arm. As an entrepreneur-friendly firm with deep contact networks, the team manages a portfolio of angel investments and technology businesses they have helped found.
VMG Ventures is a co-founder of Insite.ai and BEDC.ai, and was a founding partner of McCarthyFinch (exited in 2020 to Onit Inc/K1 Capital). Historically, VMG Ventures has invested in equity partnership with New Zealand’s most established angel investor, Sir Stephen Tindall, GNZM.
VMG Ventures is currently focused on its existing portfolio and is not originating new deals. For further information on VMG Ventures, please contact karla@thevmggroup.com or follow Jonathan on LinkedIn.