Istanbul, Türkiye
Founder of CreatorStation, the leader in digital talent management, influencer marketing, and exclusively managing leading top Turkish YouTube channels. Helped them grow to become top Youtube creators in Turkey. CreatorStation works with the most respected and recognized brands with its highly experienced and trusted team. At a very young age, his interest in computers led him to manage large teams in internet service providers established in the early days of the internet in Turkey. He founded Oynasana.com as a hobby while studying Visual Communication Design at Bilgi University on a 100% scholarship while working simultaneously as a full-time young manager, became Turkey's first and largest game site and appeared as the first game site on the Alexa Turkey top 10 list. He founded SEM single-handedly with the marketing and seo experience he gained in Oynasana and pioneered search marketing and conversion optimization in Turkey. In addition, he has trained numerous digital marketing experts who are currently managing the marketing teams of leading global companies and sold the company to a German media group. Cem provided hundreds of people with the training he gave in many fields and shaped the direction to their careers.
Founder and CEO of CreatorStation, leader in influencer marketing, talent management and producer of leading top Turkish YouTube channels in entertainment, gaming, education, style, beauty, travel verticals reaching an audience of more than 50M+ subscribers and with unique viewer reach of 40M per month. CreatorStation works with the most respected and recognized brands with its highly experienced and trusted team.
Founded in 1997 as a non-profit gaming organization, providing game servers (Quake, Half-life, Counter-Strike) and online competition platform for gamers in Turkey. Organized more than hundreds of offline and online gaming tournaments including World Cyber Games eliminations and finals in Turkey for many years. Our online game store launched in 2018 and become an authorized reseller for leading gaming publishers including 2K, Bethesda, EA, Paradox, Riotgames, Rockstar Games, Ubisoft, and more.
Managed and designed, IP telephony and IP PoS networks for various companies under Ata Holding, including Burger King Turkey, ATM Joker Turkey and Ata Online. Implemented network security measures and provided system administration for ISP network consisting of corporate internet and WAN connections, e-commerce applications. Designed and implemented two datacenters with redundant SDH and fiber connections, Free Space Optics (Laser) backups, Cisco 7500 and 7200 series routers, Cisco Call Manager and other backbone equipment.
Single-handedly designed the company’s original, ongoing core technology for ads and SEO management. Pioneered search marketing and conversion optimization in Turkey. Trained numerous digital marketing experts who are currently managing the marketing teams of leading global companies. Successfully earned all Google certifications, in just four years under my leadership SEM became the leading digital marketing agency.
Avaturk, Founded by Hasan Colakoglu (Current VP of International at Riot Games) was one of the first companies doing official video and computer games business in Turkey. Joint venture of TEB and Koç Group.;Avaturk was the official distributor of Ubisoft and THQ, sub-distributor of Nintendo (Nortec Multimedia) and was managing an online games community with over 250,000 members in 2004. Helped Avaturk shine with the online gaming servers powered by Oynasana.com