Are you great at ad sales? Do you have relationships with the New York agency community? Ready to close new business, grow existing business and beat aggressive revenue targets? Have you spent the last couple years selling ads on the Interwebs? Ready for your next challenge?
If so we’ve got a job for you! We’re looking for an Account Manager to join our sales team. The position will be based in New York and will focus on the New York agency community.
You’ll be part of a small but quickly growing national sales team that currently covers everywhere from Seattle to Florida. Current clients include Toyota, History Channel, Chili’s, Hornitos, TJ Maxx, Nikon, Canon and, of course, more. And we’re just getting started.
This is an awesome opportunity to help build a really big business, deliver real value to advertisers and — most importantly — help make independent Web shows sustainable. You’ll be changing lives and making it possible for people to pursue their passions. It’s an amazing feeling.
You can apply through LinkedIn or e-mail evan AT blip DOT teevee to apply. Include a resume and a short cover letter. Make sure to mention Tumblr in your e-mail (ideally in the subject) so that we know to pay extra special attention.
We’re also still looking for an excellent ad ops person to make sure we execute well on all the campaigns our sales team is selling. Let us know if you’re that person or know that person.
The blip.tv sales team has been crushing it. So much so that for the first time in our history we’re set to serve an ad for every single available impression on almost every show that’s opted into advertising on blip. The only exception? Postrolls. We’re not going to be serving very many postrolls. So you’ve got to be opted into preroll and overlay in order to take advantage of our sales team’s crushing it.
Advertisers include Best Buy, Chili’s, MetroPCS, Toyota Scion, Canon, Nikon, The History Channel and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. And more.
This means that it’s time for show creators to opt into more advertising formats and take other steps to maximize their revenue. Because there’s money to be had! There are shows on blip who are already using blip ad revenue to help pay the rent and even live on. Results will, of course, vary. Some shows make only a penny. Other shows make tens of thousands of dollars.
So read Optimizing your show’s revenue on the blip.tv support site. Then go and opt into preroll and overlay ads. There are high quality, high paying ads available for you.
Blip.tv is looking for an ad operations rock star. Our sales team has been crushing it and we need an operations star to also crush it.
The position is Director of Advertising Operations. The right person will work daily with sales, content, technology and our executive management team along with our advertising partners to execute all aspects of ad ops and trafficking. We use FreeWheel for our ad serving, so familiarity with them is a major plus. Expertise in DART or Atlas is easily transferrable, though.
Our expectation is that you’ll make ad ops and trafficking look easy. We also expect that you’ll make our clients (agencies like Starcom and Digitas and Initiative, brands like TJ Maxx and Scion and Nikon) really happy.
And here’s the kicker: not only will you be part of building a really big business, you’ll also be helping great companies sell great products. Most importantly, though, you’ll be helping make independent Web shows sustainable. You’ll be changing lives and making truly independent media truly sustainable. If that isn’t exciting I don’t know what is.
We’re 18 people in a SoHo loft and one guy out in California. We’ve got a really collegiate culture and we buy lunch for everyone every day. We’re backed by some of the Skype guys and by Bain Capital Ventures. We serve more than eighty million video views a month across a massively distributed network which includes YouTube, Vimeo, iTunes, TiVo, FiOS, NBC Local Broadcast and Sony Consumer Electronics (TVs and Blu-Ray players). We work with more than 50,000 independent Web shows.
We are building the next-generation television network. Read more about blip, take a tour of the Show Creator Dashboard and check out our EPK.
If you’re interested please drop me an e-mail (mike AT blip DOT teevee) with your resume and let me know that you found out about this opening on Tumblr. It’ll be points in your favor. And if you know anyone good please make an introduction.
Revenue reporting is currently running behind, which means you may be seeing revenue reported as “zero” from October 31st on. Don’t worry though, all revenue is still being recorded and will be available for review in the Dashboard sometime on 11/10.
Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any questions, please open a case at support.blip.tv or send an email to support/at/blip.tv.
UPDATE: Ad revenue reporting is fully caught up. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Revenue reporting is currently down for maintenance, which means you may be seeing revenue reported as “zero” from October 31st on. Don’t worry though, all revenue is still being recorded and will be available for review in the Dashboard once maintenance is complete.
Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. Please email support/at/blip.tv or visit support.blip.tv with comments/questions.
UPDATE: Revenue statistics are now being calculated and should begin reappearing in the Dashboard. Thanks for your patience.
blip.tv hosted 80.8mm video views in October. Thank you to all of the uber-talented people creating great shows: this number is about you and the power of independent media.
