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Adam Davis

Creative & analytical digital marketing self-starter & entrepreneur with relentlessly high standards and over a decade's worth of broad category experience, including domain expertise in online video.
New York, NY
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adavis80@gmail.com
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917.696.9647
After working at several large ad agencies over a ten-year period and directing digital marketing for History Channel, Kraft, Corona, & Ace Hardware, I started my own boutique digital marketing consultancy where I worked with Hollywood movie studio clients and focused on social media strategy and activation for half a dozen films. After successfully consulting for a brief 6 months, I co-founded a tech startup (vidbid), the first live video shopping marketplace where individuals and businesses sell their products by broadcasting live to shoppers directly from their webcam or mobile device. As co-founder, I've focused primarily on growth hacking, customer acquisition & retention, P&L, video production, and business development; securing three-dozen client partnerships. I have 12+ years of experience as a team leader, collaborator, educator, and fierce negotiator on behalf of my clients.
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Work Experience

vidbid.com

Co-Founding Partner, Marketing & Business Development
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Jan 2012 - Dec 2015

Created, patented, raised capital & built the world’s first live video shopping platform

  • Growth Hacking: Responsible for creating & optimizing all digital marketing driving new user acquisition and retention
  • Leadership: Manage team of 10 and P&L, forecasting, due diligence, risk management
  • Sales & Business Development: Lead all sales & business development initiatives resulting in 35+ client partnerships
  • Operations: Development of all processes, procedures, and partnership materials (decks, term sheets)
  • Online Video: Wrote, produced, filmed, curated, and edited 100+ short-form web videos (live and recorded)

Horizon Media

Associate Director, Digital Media Investments
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Dec 2005 - Nov 2011

Managed, strategized, presented, sold-through & launched, optimized, and analyzed 100+ digital campaigns

  • Product Development: Helped quadruple client’s digital marketing expenditure over 4 years by leading through influence
  • Cross-Functional Leader: Oversaw development with creative agencies & activation partners ensuring ideas aligned with strategy
  • Project Management: Supervised, planned, and optimized numerous multi-channel client projects simultaneously
  • Negotiations: Fiercely negotiated over $20 million in savings on behalf of clients
  • Educator: Initiated and led several digital media training and development courses + mentored junior staff
  • New Business: Collaborated in multiple agency pitches that drove significant revenue for agency
  • Analytics: Developed KPI’s, analyzed data, and presented in-depth insights with senior management & clients
  • Compliance: Composed, revised, & approved all key business/legal contracts and worked with corporate compliance
  • Business Systems: Created internal/external best practices & automated workflow systems increasing productivity
  • Data-Driven Influencer: Championed the first agency Vizu research partnership that quantitatively proved digital effectiveness
  • Digital & Consumer Trends: Ardently engaged with other senior executive media leaders at monthly Media Council meetings

ID Media

Senior Digital Account Executive
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Aug 2004 - Dec 2005

Managed strategy, planning/activation & optimization of all direct response media including all SEM

MediaEdge:CIA

Media Planner
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Jun 2002 - Aug 2004

Researched, activated & monitored cross-platform media buys for clients (digital / print / direct mail / email)

Education

State University of New York at Albany

Bachelor of Science Business Administration: Marketing & IT Management
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1998 - 2002

Skills

  • Digital Media
  • Digital Strategy
  • Digital Marketing
  • Mobile
  • Advertising
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Media & Entertainment
  • Digital Entertainment
  • Corporate Branding
  • Online Marketing
  • Online Advertising
  • Business Development
  • Entertainment
  • Interactive Advertising
  • Mobile Marketing
  • Mobile Devices
  • Media Planning
  • Integrated Marketing
  • Social Media
  • Email Marketing
  • Social Media Marketing
  • SEO
  • New Media
  • Video
  • SEM
  • Mobile Advertising
  • Marketing
  • Interactive Marketing
  • Publishing