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Blogads, a digital advertising firm, has been a media innovator since 1998. We represent 3500+ blogs including market leaders like PerezHilton, ThinkProgress, and TrailerAddict. We work closely with advertisers in industries including entertainment, consumer packaged goods, retail, and technology.
We are currently hiring for two new positions: (more…)
New companies are always popping in North Carolina, or moving here and thriving on the diverse, talented and highly educated workforce found in the state’s urban centers. But on May 8, North Carolinians will vote on an a constitutional amendment that would harm many of our talented citizens, as well as our state’s reputation as a entrepreneurial hotbed.
This new year has already brought some awesome news for Blogads. We’re in a new city, working in a new office and we’ve welcomed two new team members into new positions.
Meet Justin Weber and Zach Strom.
Justin joins us as an assistant project manager, with a speciality in quantitative research. When he’s not decoding trends on the Internet, you can find him writing about music, as well as performing it. He has degrees in Journalism and Mass Communication from UNC-Chapel Hill (MA) and Colorado State University (BA) and is well-acquainted with the Durham New Media scene, having interned at Durham-based ad agency McKinney.
Zach Strom is our newest sales strategist. He’s a graduate of UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School and comes to Blogads as a veteran of the Triangle tech scene, having worked for the Council of Entrepreneurial Development (CED) at the nearby American Tobacco Campus. Zach’s also an athlete and sports enthusiast, and has coached kids at a local sports camp and worked ESPN’s X Games in Los Angeles.
Welcome, gentlemen!
OH at Blogads HQ: "Whoa, looks like i'll be sitting on a patch of grass!"
It’s hard to believe we’ve only been in Durham for a week an a half. Every day, our new office feels a little more like home. And what home would be complete without — carpet tiles!? (more…)
Starting in 2012, one the words we’ll use to describe Downtown Durham will be “home.”
We can’t wait to tap into the vibrant, energetic, creative, funky, hoppin’, eclectic culture of the Bull City.
According to this gorgeous infographic from local news aggregator NCHeadlines.com, North Carolina is a remarkable place to live and work. We agree.
As part of the “de-bank-ification” of our new Downtown Durham office space, which used to house a credit union, we’re replacing a concrete wall behind the old teller counter with windows.
On Saturday, we tore down this wall. (more…)
We’re currently looking for more passionate people to work in our new Downtown Durham office. All of these postions are set to start ASAP and will require you to work in Durham, NC.
Don’t apply if you want structure and monotony
Don’t apply if you dislike music or dogs
Don’t apply if you dislike traveling and meeting new people
Do apply if you want to work with a collaborative, friendly team in downtown Durham
Do apply if you have an interest in advertising and media
Do send us your resume in PDF format and tell us why you want to work for us. Please send to analyst@blogads.com
We are seeking a Sales Strategist to join our Advertising Sales team. Someone who, like us, is passionate about digital media and building relationships.
General Responsibilities:
We need you to:
Blogads, a digital advertising firm, has been a media innovator since 1998. We represent 3500+ blogs including market leaders like PerezHilton, DailyKos, Dlisted, and TrailerAddict. We work closely with advertisers in industries including entertainment, consumer packaged goods, retail, and technology.
We are seeking an Assistant Sales Strategist to join the team that sells advertising on PerezHilton.com. Someone who, like us, is passionate about pop culture and digital media.
General Responsibilities:
You need:
The Blogads innovation team builds tools that monetize, analyze and promote social networking.
Based in the heart of Durham, we believe that innovation results from intimate, long-term conversations between clients, colleagues and peers. Preferably over coffee.
We hire people who listen and speak clearly, relentlessly define problems and test solutions, and, most of all, collaborate passionately.
We’re seeking ambitious project managers who love to play with technology, social tools and creative colleagues. You’ll perform an integral roll in defining, designing, launching and iterating new products. You’ll dig your fingers into the guts of Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, Tumblr, Foursquare, Dopplr, Findings… anything with an API.
You’ll fit well in this job if you tend to:
You should be a college graduate with prior experience managing web projects. Please mention prior PM experience, interacting with customers about their software needs, designing UIs or defining software functionality.
Durham, NC advertising agency McKinney won Best in Show for Web Site Excellence at Monday night’s OMMA Awards for SPENT, the online game that simulates life below the poverty level. The game, which has been called the “Oregon Trail of poverty games,” was created for local group Urban Ministries of Durham, and its universal premise has gained it a lot of recognition.
SPENT creator Jenny Nicholson has also created a petition to Congress, through which you can ask you local representatives to play the game.
Huge congratulations to Jenny and her team. We look forward to having such innovative neighbors.
Durham, NC is a short drive from our office. In this region known as the Triangle, Durham and Chapel Hill/Carrboro are the two closest points in distance and often in culture. The same entrepreneurial fertility that brought Blogads to Carrboro six years ago has now spread to Durham in a big way.
Workspace is bountiful and cheap in downtown “Bull City.” Brick warehouses from the city’s tobacco days have been converted to modern lofts and offices, and in the case of the American Underground, a windowless bunker of technological innovation.