Monks is a digital-first marketing, technology services and consulting company that connects content, data and digital media and technology services and provides solutions in the consulting, enterprise software, gaming, film, social, digital advertising, data, and measurement ecosystems.

Monks was founded in the Netherlands in January 2001 as Media.Monks by Wesley ter Haar, Erçin "Gin" Roberscheuten, and Terrence de Kat.

[3] Monks joined the Society of Digital Agencies (SoDA) in 2012, with Ter Haar serving as chairman of that collective today.

[13] Campaign US noted this occurred in the midst of the introduction of new AI products, an earnings miss, and multiple acquisitions.

[15] The project's profile page describes the library as "a monument to press freedom and an innovative back door for access to censored content.