Team Rubber

Our team tree… beautiful. Secret Santa stash is building up!

The Viral Ad Network is growing rapidly (yay!) and that means we are looking to add to our Bristol-based publisher team.

This is an extremely important part of VAN that looks after our bloggers and website owners; providing them with great ad campaigns that pay them well, and ultimately providing our advertisers with views for their campaigns on awesome sites.

So what’s the job like:

This is a great way to get started in the industry. You get to work on great campaigns for big clients, and you’ll pick up key skills in account management, planning, media buying and reporting. We hope you’ll stick around for a couple of years, but we’ll train you in ways that give you a great preparation to step up to your next position (whether it’s internal or external).

The role has three key responsibilities:

- Help build our network of quality online publishers
- Support the campaign management team with delivery of clients campaigns
- Support the sales team with publisher input for pitching

In detail…

- Researching and recruiting publishers and bloggers from desired categories to sign up to the Viral Ad Network.
- Assessing and processing incoming publisher signups.
- Categorising publisher inventory to aid campaign planning and pitching
- Expanding VAN’s profile across key social media platforms – tweet, blog, get involved…
- Help to grow VAN’s publisher community with relevant marketing & events.
- Ensure VAN publisher inventory meets individual campaign targets.

What you’re like:

This is a job for people who:

- Are comfortable with numbers, especially straightforward arithmetic.
- Enjoy talking to people by phone and email to develop relationships.
- Work hard (cliche, but true here). It’s a job where you need to get your tasks done to time. It can also be necessary to check campaign progress out of office hours (using online systems).
- Have solid writing skills: we don’t have time to check your spelling etc, and we’re working with publishers who may judge us negatively if you can’t write clearly and accurately.
The type of work is fairly consistent and suits someone who is happy to do similar tasks on a daily basis. That said, the job is exciting: new opportunities come up, new relationships will be formed, we get sales wins and awesome content to seed, and campaigns need to get their views.

You will definitely need:

- A good degree. Everybody here has proven themselves.
- A genuine desire to get stuck into work and take responsibility.
- A passion for online publishing. You need to be an active consumer of digital, and experience writing or running a blog would be great.
- Previous work experience, this can be anything dealing with people or a task based role. It doesn’t have to be relevant to marketing or online, but we don’t have time to teach you the most basic professional and get-things-done skills.

Salary and progression

- Within the role, you can progress from ‘novice’ to ‘ninja’. This would take a couple of years. A novice gets paid £14.4k, and a ninja would get around £25k.
- There’s healthy profit share on top for all staff (linked to company performance), and a success club (team rewards for making monthly sales target).
- There’s a wide range of progression opportunities when it’s time to move on from this role. There may be opportunities to move up within VAN taking management responsibility for aspects of sales or operations, or moving elsewhere within the Team Rubber group. It’s also a great stepping stone into agencies or client-side marketing, giving a solid grounding in account management, media planning and buying, and campaign operations.

Interested? To apply mail ally@viraladnetwork.net with a covering letter outlining why you think you are suitable for the position and where your strengths lie along with a 2 page CV.

Here’s a quick round up of interesting / fun stuff I’ve noticed that’s going on this week! Well from Tuesday anyway…

TUESDAY – The Hoff is Here

#1 Peter Pan launches at Bristol Hippodrome today, starring David Hasselhoff as Captain Hook. It’s only on till the 8^th of Jan so if you want to go, I’d get in quick – I received tickets to this yesterday as my first Christmas present – hooray!

WEDNESDAY – #Kittencamp Christmas Party – no other events need be mentioned!

#1 KittenCamp comes to Bristol for a spectacular Christmas party from 6.30 pm onwards in the party room at The Big Chill Bar.

Special guest speakers, fancy dress, monthly-mega-meme-mix, drinks and monster-musical-memes-mixer - with FREE beers provided courtesy of the Viral Ad Network (www.ViralAdNetwork.net).

THURSDAY – Moomins and pies

#1 Pieminister PIES! The final event from Bristol Festival of ideas and what a grand finale it is!

Tristan Hogg and Jon Simon, founders of Pieminister share their success story, their pies (yes free samples!) and some Christmas drinks in their talk: Pieminister: A Pie for All Seasons… Excellent after work event in my opinion, 6.30 pm onwards at Cabot Circus. Free but you need to reserve a place.

#2 Moomins night at the cube – Yes this is how it sounds.

Spend an evening in the Moomin Valley with audio visual treats and Moomin-inspired food and drink in the bar – Free from 8pm.

FRIDAY – Hounded, Bloggers’ Christmas Party & Lunchtime deception

#1 Hounded – SlingShot have unleashed their latest thrilling chase game and I am SO excited about this! So after surviving the zombie apocalypse (or not in our case) and the creatures that lurk in the shadows.. You now have to survive as a fox being hounded down by huntsman equipped with REAL dogs. Ahhh!

Mulled wine and snacks can be found at St Nick’s after the event to help you recover – YES! £13 From 7pm Thursday and Friday – We’re playing Friday if anyone wants to join!

#1 MyStreetChic.com – is hosting a Bloggers’ Christmas Party and Fashion Show.

If you’re a fashion or beauty blogger keen to meet other bloggers then head over to their Christmas party and fashion show at 7pm in Java. Tickets are £5 each but for that you get a goodie bag, a MyStreetChic.com cocktail, plus free entry to the club after the event.

#3 Pervasive Media Studio Lunchtime Talk: Mystery Design, Physical Deception
and Attention Control – 1pm.

Do something interesting with your lunch break, like go and see Stuart Nolan giving a talk on his expertise in sleight-of hand, hypnosis, cold reading, psychological illusion, memory skills, and street performance. Learn how he’s applied these techniques to new areas; researching how teenagers respond to the mysterious in new technologies, how organisations are regularly deceived by the language of strategy documents, and how the art of attention control can be used in visual design, media production and sport coaching.

SATURDAY – Made in Bristol Gift Fair – From 10am

#1 Locally created gifts are spread over three floors of Colston Hall’s foyer space, to create a unique shopping extravaganza with a lively and festive atmosphere. Over 100 carefully selected creatives will be offering their affordable and original designer items.

SUNDAY – Comedy at the Chill

#1 Tumbleweed Comedy Club is a brand spanking new comedy club at the Big Chill bar. Seems to be an ‘open-mic’ event, which could prove very interesting…Taking place upstairs in the Study room.

And that’s it for what’s happening this week? #1!