London Casting Calls & Acting Auditions

Gleam Futures is a talent-led media and entertainment business. Launched in 2010, it was one of the first businesses to focus on digital-first talent with influence. Gleam has since led the way in shaping what is this innovative and exciting ‘influencer’ industry. In 2017 Gleam Futures was acquired by the Dentsu network. This has led to a wealth of global opportunities for Gleam Futures.

If you’re not afraid of hard work and want to be part of a team that is enthusiastic, ambitious and want to grow within an empowering, trusted and fun environment then we would like to talk to you.

The role

The Senior Talent Manager reports into the Head of Talent UK and will manage a small team. The role’s primary function is to manage a roster of talent whilst driving incremental revenue via new business development opportunities.

Responsibility:

• Ensure each talent on their roster has a realistic, timely but ambitious strategy agreed
• Ensure that talents’ image is protected
• Forecast for roster and ensure that forecast is met
• Seek and secure commercial opportunities across the entire roster
• Identify new business development opportunities
• Training/Mentoring junior members of the team.
• Identify and sign high revenue talent and inspire the team to do the same.

Accountability:

• Driving roster revenue to target
• Driving non-roster revenue to target
• Retaining talent
• Line management of some of the team
• Driving revenue from new opportunities

Skills & Knowledge:

• Articulate and clear communication whether in person, by phone or by email
• You will work in a fast paced environment and an ever-evolving media landscape, meaning no two days are ever the same.
• Being able to manage key stakeholders (including the talent) so that expectations are always managed as best possible.
• Being able to foresee potential issues or roadblocks in advance and successfully navigate around those.
• Being able to adapt behaviour from one talent to another talent and not taking a one size fits all approach.
• Stay on top of industry developments and share insights with the wider team that may affect the business or talent.
• The ability to negotiate large, complex commercial partnerships for talent across brands, publishing, licensing, mobile, live, and other relevant industries.
• The ability to develop key relationships on behalf of each talent whether that be with a brand marketeer, a publication, or a platform.
• Able to handle any serious crisis management for talent alongside key stakeholders i.e. a publicist or senior management.
• Good people management skills
• Ability to build strong commercial relationships with third parties
• Ability to write a cohesive pitch deck and present it with confidence, answering any
• commercial questions and getting buy in from all parties
• Project manage a commercial opportunity ensuring that Gleam delivers against the KPIs
• that were set out at the beginning of the project

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Gleam Futures

Model Paris Fashion Week Casting

February 4th, 2023

Location: 112 Rue Martel 75010 Paris

Time: 1:30PM – 3:30PM

We’re looking for:

• Mechanics
• Aged approx 35-45yrs to feature in a music video.

Paid role.

Broadcasting Project

Looking for:

• Real Female Fashion Students
• Aged: 18-19 years old
• Creative and personal style.

Shooting in London

Must be LONDON BASED

Paid Project.

Looking for: Subculture Teens

• E.G. Goths, emos, boxer kids, comic book fans, anime fans, kids with piercing/died hair, skateboarders.
• All ages 11-18 years and all ethnicities

Based in or around London.

Shooting in UK

W/c 27th Feb / 6th March / 13th March.

Lara Manwaring Casting is casting company film and TV. 

Previous projects worked on include the Channel 4 series ‘Top Boy’

We are currently looking in London for: 

A Carribbean women aged 60-90

• To play a key role in a BBC Feature film being made this summer.
• It is a positive story about a man with mental health difficulties and his grandmother.
• No previous acting experience is needed.

(why not give it a try and see if you like it? Many people have acting talent that they didn’t event know about!)

If we feel you could be right for the role we will be in touch to explain more.

Thank you!

This is a great opportunity, and the role will be WELL PAID. 

Title: Analytics Associate Director

Discipline: Analytics

About Essence

Essence, part of GroupM, is a global data and measurement-driven media agency whose mission is to make advertising more valuable to the world. Clients include Google, Flipkart, NBCUniversal, L’Oreal and the Financial Times. The agency is more than 1,800 people strong, manages $4B in annualized media spend and deploys campaigns in 106 markets via 20 offices in APAC, EMEA and North America.

Visit essenceglobal.com for more information and follow us on Twitter at @essenceglobal

About the role

Accountable for quantifying and measuring the success of our executions and for delivering insights that enable us to innovate the work we deliver at Essence. Leading multi products projects, developing best practice, being the main point of contact for other teams.

Some of the things we’d like you to do

• Build a deep understanding of marketing plans and their objectives to help account teams build comprehensive measurement, and test & learn plans
• Play an instrumental role in evolving and designing new, innovative measurement tools. Managing the process through to delivery and take ownership of global roll out
• Recruit, manage and mentor analytical resource, ensuring the efficient flow of work through the team, the timely delivery of high-quality outputs and their continuing development as professionals
• Lead the creation of clear, robust and thought-provoking campaign reviews and insights
• Work with Account teams to help define the correct questions to get under the skin of campaign performance and then interrogate data sources to deliver the answers
• To help deliver “best in class” analytical capabilities across the agency with the wider Analytics team, including the use of new methods, techniques, tools and systems
• Develop innovative marketing campaigns and assist clients to define objectives

A bit about yourself

• Degree from a top-tier university, minimum 2:1 (preferably numerical)
• Experience working in a data based role
• Experience managing a team and ability to delegate effectively
• Proficiency with systems such as SQL, Social Analytics tools (Crimson Hexagon), Python, and ‘R’
• Expose to measurement of both Direct Response and Brand Awareness campaigns
• Excellent at presenting data in a visually engaging and insightful manner that cuts through the noise
• Strong organisational and project management skills
• Strong understanding of what data points can be collected and analysed in a digital campaign, and how each data point should be analysed
• Established and professional communication, presentation, and motivational skills

What you can expect from Essence

Essence’s mission is to make advertising more valuable to the world. We do this by employing the world’s very best talent to solve some of the toughest challenges of today’s digital marketing landscape. It’s important that we hire people whose values reflect those of our own: genuine, results-focused, daring and insightful. As an Essence employee, we promise you a workplace that invests in your career, cares for you and is fun and engaging. We believe these factors create a workplace where you can be yourself and do amazing work.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, or marital status.

Essence

Production Manager

Brighter Productions – Bournemouth

£35,000 – £45,000 DOE plus benefits

Brighter Productions is seeking an exceptional candidate to act as Production Manager within our team. You will be a central component working on both digital and live event production. 

Who are we?

Brighter Productions work across a range of sectors, media and industries, from automotive to agriculture, and everything in between. Our teams work in some of the top venues around the world, creating exceptional Live, Hybrid and Virtual Experiences.  

Our dedicated team have steadily built a reputation in the events industry and are well-known for providing seamless production services. We are seeking an exceptional candidate to act as Production Manager to join our dedicated and passionate team. 

The successful candidate must have a minimum of five years of technical production experience, with a thorough knowledge of sales, production management and technical experience.

As well as being a technical expert, the successful candidate should be passionate about their work, be a genuine team player, be confident in communicating with a wide range of people and happy to work to tight timescales. 

What does the role involve? 

• Providing technical specifications across sound, video, lighting, set and staging
• Publish show brief information including schedules, floor plans, technical drawings and crew paperwork
• Manage and control the overall budget keeping in line with the quote.
• To liaise with clients and venue staff to fulfil the delivery of an event
• To allocate and book resources; equipment, external services, transport, accommodation, external services etc.
• Taking responsibility for rigs and de-rigs
• Allocating and booking resources
• Managing on-site teams (technical staff, freelancers and local crew)
• Act as a key contact and account manager for major clients
• Organising and delegating tasks as required
• To carry out detailed site surveys and production meetings
• Act as a Brand Ambassador for Brighter Productions
• Undertaking other reasonable duties as required

Who are you? 

• Digital is second nature to you
• You have an understanding of CAD systems
• You are comfortable communicating with clients and stakeholders at all levels
• You are happy to take feedback and make changes to content under tight timescales
• You are a multi-tasker, happy to be working on multiple projects at once
• You are a team player, always willing to support other team members
• You have a Full UK Driving Licence 
• You have good leadership skills
• You can work under pressure and hit deadlines
• You are hard-working and enthusiastic with a positive attitude
• You have great attention to detail 
• You are happy to represent the company in a positive manner at all times
• You are able to work overtime as required and at short notice

Benefits of working for Brighter Production include;

• Company events
• Free Parking 
• Company laptop 
• Cycle to work scheme
• Use of company vehicles 
• Bonus scheme

To apply for the role of Production Manager, please email your CV to [email protected] and let us know why you would like to be a part of the Brighter team. 

We look forward to hearing from you. 

Brighter Productions Ltd

Description

ABOUT MOONBUG ENTERTAINMENT:

Moonbug Entertainment is an award-winning global entertainment company behind some

of the most popular kids’ titles in the world. Moonbug’s line-up includes global sensations

CoComelon, Blippi, Little Baby Bum, Oddbods, Little Angel, My Magic Pet Morphle, Supa Strikas, Go

Buster, Playtime with Twinkle, Gecko’s Garage, ARPO and many more.

Moonbug’s shows are currently available in 32 languages and feature on more than 150

platforms globally, including YouTube, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Sky, Super RTL, BBC

iPlayer, HBO Max, Tencent, Youku and Roku. The company’s portfolio currently stands at 29

IPs and 100+ brand partners.

Moonbug is a subsidiary of Candle Media, an independent, creator-friendly home for

cutting-edge, high-quality, category-defining brands and franchises. By bringing together

elite talent operating at the intersection of content, community, and commerce, it helps to

position leading entertainment businesses for accelerated, sustainable growth in the

current market and beyond. Candle is run by its Co-Chairmen and Co-CEOs, leading

entertainment executives Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs, and backed by investment capital

from funds managed by Blackstone’s flagship private equity business.

The Role:

Moonbug Entertainment Limited is looking for a full-time Senior Director, Production to join the growing production team in London. This position will play a significant role in carrying on the global success seen in our brands Morphle, Gecko, Arpo and Supa Strikas.

The successful candidate will lead the development and growth of a portfolio of brands with the goal of developing global brands with true franchise potential.

This is a leadership role requiring vision, inspiration and brilliant execution. The appointee needs to have a deep expertise in production who can juggle multiple responsibilities, and has managed production teams and outsourced partners.

In this position, you will manage the production of kids’ content across several projects, pipelines and formats. We are looking for someone with a background in producing animated CGI series, and other content formats and who is hoping to join an exciting company within the world of kids’ media. The role will involve taking an overview and providing management support for several of our show producers based in London & LA, while implementing best practices and processes. It is crucial that you are highly organized and able to work independently across multiple projects, so good time management and prioritization will be expected.

In this position, you will be working closely with the creative team, senior producers, internal production teams and the studios responsible for producing the content. We work with studios from all over the world and collaborate with our team in LA, so flexibility and openness to coordinate with different time zones is a must.

The candidate will be a committed and adaptable individual with excellent interpersonal skills. You must excel at communicating with both internal teams and external clients, while also being able to multitask and manage with integrity and a smile.

This role will lead a group of 3-4 senior producers and their teams, to make sure all content production remains on schedule, within budget, on spec, and abides by the creative vision and agreed-upon quality targets/thresholds, whilst communicating progress to wider stakeholders in the company.

This role will be responsible for ensuring that all content related to their brands is delivered according to business objectives. The role will work with production heads in Music, Audio (podcasts) and Localization departments to ensure targets are achieved. This role will work closely with the Brand GM(s) to ensure content hits business objectives.

Requirements

• 9+ years of experience within animation and content production
• Must have significant animation both short form and long form.
• Podcast and other content format experience is also desirable
• Excellent client-facing ability
• Proven leader of teams and developer of people
• A natural coach and empathetic style
• A problem solver and able to foresee issues and plan accordingly
• Extremely organized, motivated, adaptable, diverse skillset, and personable.
• Highly collaborative, resourceful, curious with great calm and a good sense of humour

Moonbug Entertainment