Posts Tagged ‘digital media’
Digital jobs (four of them)
We’re getting busier by the day at Net Media Planet. So busy, in fact, that we are currently recruiting for four new positions.
So, hopefully you’re looking for a job in digital media. Hopefully you’re bright and passionate and you know a lot (or a bit) about Google, Bing, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter and you’d like to find out a bit more.
The Times has said that we’re the 16th fastest-growing private technology firm in the UK. We’ve won a truck load of awards in the search industry and digital publishing and we generated something like £80 million in revenue for a long list of clients last year.
So, if you’d like to work with us this is what you could be:
1. PPC Analyst:
What you’ll do:
We are looking for someone to join the team and take on the role of PPC Analyst, reporting directly to the Head of Search. You’ll manage campaigns for A-brand clients such as Dell, Adobe, McAfee and Singapore Airlines – becoming an expert in what Jason Calacanis has called the most important industry of the twenty first century.
What you’ll need:
A 2:1 degree in maths, statistics or another quantitative subject along with top analytical skills.
Read the full job spec here.
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2. Account Manager
What you’ll do:
You’ll report to the Operations Director and you’ll manage big client relationships with anyone from Apple to Microsoft. You’ll identify new business opportunities, prepare proposals and participate in pitches.
What you’ll need:
A couple of years experience working in a client facing role – preferably within the search industry. You’ll be analytical, with a great knowledge of PPC and you’ll have a deep-set interest in online marketing.
Read the full job spec here.
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3. Frontend developer
What you’ll do:
You’ll work with the Publishing and Projects team and you’ll be responsible for making sure that all of our top websites look good, work across all browsers and load up in super-quick time. You’ll have loads of scope to grow and you’ll have a lot of freedom – and what’s more you’ll be working with big clients.
What you’ll need:
You’ll need to have excellent CSS, HTML, Javascript, AJAX (JQuery) as standard. You’ll need to have experience working with big websites and you’ll be working with Facebook, WordPress and APIs – so experience there is beneficial too.
Read the full job spec here.
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4. Business Development Exec
What you’ll do:
You’ll work with the business development manager searching for new business right across the affiliate industry and beyond. You’ll manage relationships with affiliate networks and merchants so the company can make the best of any emerging opportunity.
What you’ll need:
A couple of years in a sales-based role and/or previous experience in digital media.
Read the full job spec here.
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If you would like to apply for any of these roles – just send a CV over to peter at netmediaplanet . [com] and I’ll pass it on.
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The Ashes – a few digital observations
The Ashes and digital media
So, England have won the Ashes and we have all turned up at work this Monday feeling unduly cheerful. I’ve even had a sensible conversation about cricket with a Spaniard – which underlines the gravity of the situation.
But let’s leave the cricket to one side and have a look at the effect of the series on digital media.
Firstly, as it was not available on terrestrial television people who did not have access to Sky were forced to find alternative ways of following the progress of the team. This meant listening to TMS online, watching the highlights later in the evening on Demand Five or following the live text updates on the BBC.
None of this is new, but the lack of straight TV coverage made people look around for alternatives. And when they found good places to watch/rewatch or listen to the action online, they would have also found more photos of the action, additional interviews, podcasts, blogs, videos, chat rooms and viewers’ polls. [See here or here]
Secondly, the series – which was played in stints of various days over the course of a month and a bit – encouraged social interaction online. People sent in their observations, their anxieties and their jokes, and they shared their photos and blogs while following the players and commentators on Twitter.
And one of the more surprising adoptions of Twitter came from members of the TMS team – a group of quite wonderful eccentrics that few would expect to understand any technology that had been introduced since around 1933. Here are some of their accounts:
And from Sky:
Not doing badly are they? – And it refutes one of the eight commonly used excuses for not using the web (“I leave social media to a younger generation. I’m too old.”)
The series also seems to have had a good effect on the BBC, and if you have a look at this round up of the Ashes series, you will see how they are beginning to share their Googlejuice by linking out to a range of external sites (mostly they are newspaper run websties).
This has not always happened, and if you believe in Jeff Jarvis’ link economy then this is a significant step forward. I wonder if they will soon start linking to blogs in the same way?
The Ashes is the kind of series that can change people’s habits. The nature of the sport is that you have to return to it, again and again, week after week – making it the perfect catalyst for altering behavioural patterns, and much more effective that a one-off football or boxing match.
I’ll finish this off with an excerpt from an email that I have just received from my Australian boss.
“Due to Australia’s unfortunate loss in The Ashes, I will be leaving the country on Wednesday evening and returning back to work on the 16th of September when hopefully everything has calmed down.”
I don’t feel sorry for him a bit.
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Update. Robin Goad, the Research Director for Hitwise UK has shown how much the Ashes have boosted the BBC and Sky Sports cricket websites.
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