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Media Planner and Buyer

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A Media Buyer negotiates, purchases, and monitors the advertising space and airtime on behalf of the client. Media Buyers also play a key role in ensuring that advertising and promotional campaigns reach the highest number of people in a target audience at the lowest possible cost.

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JOSIE LANE

Current position

Journalist, communist & editor for Hindustan Times, DNA & Nat Geo Traveler. She's covered stories from travel start-ups, communities, gentrification, gender issues, and human rights.

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Career prospects & criteria 

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Educational Qualifications

  • Bachelors degree in advertising/ business or management/ communication and media studies/ english and journalism/ marketing/ psychology/ statistics.

  • MBA/ Masters in advertising

What you need to get started

  • Internships in media, marketing or advertising companies give applications an edge and are looked on favourably by employers.

  • A strong and genuine interest in media and an appreciation of the part it plays in advertising is vital

Soft Skills

  • Excellent research skills

  • Confidence negotiating

  • Good teamwork

  • Interpersonal skills

  • Interest in media

  • Good researchers

  • Spoken communication

  • Computer literate

  • Advertising

  • Meet deadlines

Technical Skills

  • Interest in media

  • Research skills 

  • Aware of media trends

  • Interpreting data into meaningful research

  • Computer literate

  • Advertising

  • Meet deadlines

  • Media Planning 

  • Media Buying

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