Immediate Media Co
Gavin Barber has extensive experience in sales and business development roles within the media and advertising industry. Gavin has held positions such as Regional Sales Director at Immediate Media Co, where they managed a sales team across various platforms and media brands. Gavin also served as Regional Sales Director at Viant Technology, overseeing business outside of London and managing a team of sales and account managers. Additionally, Gavin has worked as a Sales Executive at Mail Newspapers and as a Medical Sales Representative at Boehringer Ingelheim. Gavin has also held leadership roles at The National Magazine Company, IPC Media, and Hearst UK, where they were responsible for managing sales teams and developing corporate contracts with major advertising agencies.
Gavin Barber attended Staffordshire University from 1993 to 1997, where they obtained a 2:1 degree in Business Studies. Prior to that, they studied at King Edwards VII, Lytham from 1986 to 1993, though no degree or field of study information is provided.
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Immediate Media Co is the special interest content and platform company, home to over 1,000 people in London, Bristol, Nottingham and Manchester. We own and operate some of the best-loved brands in the UK. And we only focus on special interest markets, engaging over 75 million people globally each month, with world-class content, innovative new products and services and live events. Immediate operates over 70 consumer brands and sells over 51 million magazines each year. With over 1.3 million active subscribers across print and digital, we are the UK’s leading publisher by subscribers. Immediate is the market leader in many of the sectors we operate in, including food, gardening and children’s publishing. Our brands include Radio Times, BBC Good Food, olive, BBC History magazine, BBC Gardeners’ World magazine, Girl Talk, and MadeForMums. We publish BBC Top Gear on behalf of BBC Studios and children’s titles for LEGO and Disney. Immediate Live, our live events business, is the UK’s leading organiser of unmissable consumer events. We create premium events and experiences that connect and inspire our audiences, including BBC Gardeners’ World Live, the Good Food Show, London Art Fair, The Cycle Show, Move It, The Festival of Quilts and the Hampton Court Food Festival. In November 2022, Immediate acquired Nutracheck, the UK’s leading subscription-based weight management and dietary improvement platform and with 350,000 premium subscribers, one of the biggest digital subscription apps in the UK. In January 2022, Immediate was named the UK’s 4th best place to work in the Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Awards 2022 and was the highest ranked media company in the list confirming its position as the leading employer in the sector.