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Last week, our Women’s Affinity Group and our Ad Solutions division held a Women's History Month lunch celebration where our teams championed each other to break barriers. During intimate roundtable conversations, female Viacom executives including Pam Kaufman, Kelly Day, Valerie Bischak, Samantha Cooper and others shared their career journeys and the important lessons they've learned along the way.
Today we spotlight our very own Seema Patel, who’s the co-founder of Ad Tech Bae Women in Media networking events. The organization’s most recent event included presentations from Sharon Melnick, Ph.D., Joseph Meyer and Ryann Richardson who discussed setting intentions and recognizing our passions. Learn more here: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vMCHP
Here are your weekly insights from Viacom’s Talent Acquisition team. This week, Leisha Shorey, our lead creative recruiter for production, offers insights on making it as a creative in the industry. Q: What skills do you need to succeed as a creative? At different points in your creative career, you’re leveraging different skill sets. For an assistant or coordinator, organization and strong interpersonal skills are critical. You will be spinning multiple plates in support of your team, keeping the call lists, rolling calls, and scheduling edits etc. Interpersonal skills are important because you will often be dealing with very senior executives. While it can feel like a lot, you’ll also have the opportunity to sit in on cuts and meetings to observe how people talk about creative direction. At the mid-level, you get to utilize what you’ve learned from those meetings to form and sell your ideas on creative direction. As a senior executive, you will direct the creative process, but ideally, be less involved with the day-to-day.
8 strangers, 4 mini-documentaries, 1 highly memorable marketing strategy. Go behind the scenes to find out how Viacom Velocity and McDonald's created the successful "Moments" campaign that captured audiences' attention. Read more at http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vMAKO
Creativity that captivates! Congratulations to Viacom Velocity for being recognized in Adweek’s Arc Awards for Lit!, their innovative doc-series that explored the Lemon Dance Challenge. http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vMAKx
Welcome to the family Pluto TV! We've officially completed the acquisition of Pluto TV, the leading free streaming TV service in the U.S. With 12 million+ monthly active users, 100+ channels and thousands of hours of on-demand content, the deal expands our direct-to-consumer offering, next-generation distribution services and advanced advertising opportunities. We can't wait to see what's next! Read more via http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vMANs.
From MTV's multi-platform success to our rapidly expanding studio production business to Brian Robbins and a new vision for Nickelodeon, our CEO Robert M. Bakish shared why he's so excited for Viacom's future at a recent Morgan Stanley conference. For more: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vMAND
We strive to make a positive social impact on the communities we’re part of through our Viacommunity program. This year our #Viacommunity Day 2018 video, as well as Paramount Pictures, are finalists in the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship Film Festival and we encourage you to vote for us here: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vMACC
Unique. Limited. Highly coveted. Welcome to the rise of "mircomerch"- where brands and collaborators join forces to create pop-up, limited edition products that raise awareness of the brand, while increasing fan devotion. Read more on how Viacom is using the power of “micromerch” at http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vMAAb
“We have to really develop original programming that allows fans of our shows to dive much deeper both into the characters and personalities they really love.” Head over to our newsroom for an in-depth look at last week’s presentation from Kelly Day, President, Viacom Digital Studios, about connecting with digital audiences, plus some other popular discussions from our #Spark2019 employee summit. #LifeAtViacom http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vMajE
