Vibrant Media appoints new head of UK sales
London, 13th September 2012 —(The Drum)— Contextual advertising company Vibrant Media has appointed Sam Pattison as its head of UK sales.
Pattison joins the London agency from Unanimis Consulting where he serves as UK sales director and before that head of UK agency sales. He is a former group head of advertising for Workthing.com, part of the Guardian Media Group.
Martin Forbes, senior vice president and managing director for Europe at Vibrant, said: “Sam is joining Vibrant at a momentous time, with our new solutions gaining traction, and with the addition of key new executives, including Sheila Buckley, our first global CRO, and Tom Iler, our new CTO.
"With a wealth of agency sales experience, Sam will help to evolve our UK sales team and spearhead our growth in the UK - developing our robust presence in categories such as auto, health and FMCG, and expanding our lead into new verticals.”
Pattison joins the London agency from Unanimis Consulting where he serves as UK sales director and before that head of UK agency sales. He is a former group head of advertising for Workthing.com, part of the Guardian Media Group.
Martin Forbes, senior vice president and managing director for Europe at Vibrant, said: “Sam is joining Vibrant at a momentous time, with our new solutions gaining traction, and with the addition of key new executives, including Sheila Buckley, our first global CRO, and Tom Iler, our new CTO.
"With a wealth of agency sales experience, Sam will help to evolve our UK sales team and spearhead our growth in the UK - developing our robust presence in categories such as auto, health and FMCG, and expanding our lead into new verticals.”
About Vibrant
Vibrant Media is the world’s leading provider of in-content contextual technology that gets brand content and advertising discovered across platforms. With over 6,500 premium publishers, reaching more than 250 million unique users per month (comScore, 2012), Vibrant gives top brand marketers the opportunity to deliver highly targeted advertisements and branded content within text and images. Vibrant works with top brand advertisers such as Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, P&G, Sainsbury’s and Unilever.
The company was founded in 2000 and has offices in New York, San Francisco, Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta, London, Paris, Hamburg, Munich and Dusseldorf. For more information, visit www.vibrantmedia.co.uk or www.facebook.com/vibrantmedia or twitter.com/vibrantmediauk. Vibrant’s blog with insights on the digital marketing industry can be found at www.RelevanceMatters.com
