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The Challenge
When you operate at Vevo's scale, the office is part of how the work gets made. The company built its reputation as the world's leading music video network, delivering more than 22 billion views and 1.5 billion hours of music video every month from a catalog of over a million videos, and running the largest network of music channels on YouTube. It does this with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, London, and Sydney and dedicated content studios in Brooklyn and the LA Arts District. Vevo runs a hybrid model with a three-day in-office requirement and around 200 employees at its New York headquarters alone. The entire global footprint is supported by a lean IT team of three, led by Stephen Bruno, SVP of IT Strategy and Operations.
As Vevo continued investing in collaborative office spaces across its global footprint, the company needed a more reliable way to understand how those spaces were being used. Existing access data only told part of the story: badge activity at headquarters could be incomplete when employees entered in groups, while smaller offices and studios used different access setups that made consistent reporting difficult. "Before, we had an incomplete picture," Stephen recalls. Building even a basic view of attendance often meant reaching out to local teams and relying on estimates rather than consistent, centralized data.
The one structured process that existed, pulling card swipe data into a spreadsheet for leadership, covered only the New York HQ and consumed several hours of IT time every month. And Stephen had already been down this road. A network-based presence feature from an established US provider turned out buggy, with support that was hard to reach. Another vendor he evaluated had no real product in the space. Vevo needed precise, network-based attendance data across every location, without adding hardware and without adding headcount.
Why PULT
Stephen first discovered PULT while researching workplace attendance and office utilization tools, including through ChatGPT-assisted research. After reviewing PULT's website and capabilities, he reached out to learn more. From the first conversations with founder Julius and the engineering team, three things stood out and helped make PULT the clear choice for Vevo.
PULT in Action
Today, PULT Presence runs across all seven Vevo locations, offices and studios alike. Presence is detected passively through the existing Meraki network and Jamf-managed devices, with no sensors, no badges, and no new hardware to deploy or maintain. For devices outside the standard MDM workflow, PULT's engineering team worked with Vevo to create an approved alternative approach, helping ensure attendance data remained complete and consistent across the full office footprint.
The BambooHR integration is what makes the data not just accurate but fair. Vacation and sick days flow directly into attendance averages, ensuring approved time away is reflected accurately and employees are not misrepresented in three-day policy reporting. Remote weeks are next on Vevo's roadmap. All of it lands in a single dashboard leadership can access directly, allowing them to review attendance trends for their teams instead of funneling requests through IT.
The setup itself was almost anticlimactic, in the best way. It took a few hours, and the system was already pulling data. Ongoing maintenance is close to nothing, an occasional check, roughly once a month, to keep device records in sync after a hardware swap.
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The Results
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Ready for similar results?
Curious how this would look for your team? Vevo brought its entire global footprint into focus without adding new hardware, increasing operational overhead, or relying on manual reporting. If you want the same clarity on office attendance, we're happy to show you how PULT Presence fits your setup.
