Samantha Missingham

Current

Audience Marketing on The Bookseller magazine & Kirkus Reviews at Nielsen Business Media
Owner at Lounge Marketing
Marketing Consultant at Centaur Communications

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Past

Marketing Consultant at Skep Media
Marketing at Future Publishing
Marketing Manager at mad.co.uk

Marketing Manager at New Media Age
Marketing Manager - Financial Technology Publications at Incisive

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Education

University of Bristol

Connections

206 connections

Industry

Marketing and Advertising

Websites

My Website

Samantha Missingham’s Summary

Sam has worked in publishing for 14 years, starting at Incisive Media working on financial technology publications. She then moved to Centaur where she was marketing manager for a portfolio of titles including New Media Age. She then moved on to become marketing manager for Centaur's portal site www.mad.co.uk. She has provided marketing consultancy expertise to Future Publishing, Skep Media, Mountside Media and an ongoing relationship with Centaur.

She is currently working for Nielsen Business Media providing audience marketing support for The Bookseller magazine and website.

After setting up on her own, she established Lounge Marketing in 2005 to offer a broader base of publishers and event organisers creative and marketing solutions. Her clients reflect some of the largest publishers in the UK.

Lounge Marketing has developed and now forms a collective of experienced professionals - each with their own area of expertise earned in the most well regarded publishing and event companies in the UK.

Through this shared knowledge and experience, Lounge Marketing offers creative, well thought out, intelligent solutions across editorial, marketing, design, web & online development, search engine optimisation and communication.

Samantha Missingham’s Specialties:

Magazine marketing, relationship building, event marketing, online publishing, subscription marketing, seo, communication strategy, creative and design solutions, conference producing, research

Samantha Missingham’s Experience

Audience Marketing on The Bookseller magazine & Kirkus Reviews

Nielsen Business Media

(Publishing industry)

June 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

Subscription/audience marketing development for The Bookseller magazine and TheBookseller.com & Kirkus Reviews (US magazine)

The Bookseller is the definitive trade magazine. Relied upon for breaking news, industry analysis, Buyer's guides, latest book sales charts from Nielsen BookScan, jobs and more.

The Bookseller has just launched several industry free email alerts. Sign up now at www.thebookseller.com/emails.

Kirkus Reviews has been reviewing books in US since 1933. Offering the earliest pre-pub reviews of 5000+ books per year. Find our more at http://www.kirkusreviews.com

If you work in publishing and would like to link with me then get in touch.
Owner

Lounge Marketing

(Marketing and Advertising industry)

January 2005 — Present (4 years 11 months)

Comprising of a team of very experienced professionals, Lounge Marketing is a specialist agency offering expertise to the publishing and event industry.

Lounge Marketing offers creative, well thought out, intelligent solutions across editorial, marketing, design, web & online development, search engine optimisation and communication specifically relating to publishers and event companies.

Lounge Marketing clients reflect some of the largest publishers in the UK including Centaur, BBC Magazines, Future Publishing, Dennis , and more
Marketing Consultant

Centaur Communications

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Publishing industry)

May 1995 — Present (14 years 7 months)
Marketing Consultant

Skep Media

(Publishing industry)

December 2004 — November 2008 (4 years )

Skep Media published leading business to business magazines in the home entertainment and gaming industries. As well as its magazines Home Entertainment Week (www.heweek.co.uk), RRP Magazine and InStock Magazine, Skep Media also run industry events.

Lounge Marketing runs the marketing for Home Entertainment Week (HEW). Plus recently worked on the speaker programme for Skep's industry event the HEW Summit.

Sam is in the process of devising a programme for a technology-focused home entertainment event. To cover IPTV, VoD, video delivery through social networks & mobiles.
Marketing

Future Publishing

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Publishing industry)

June 2004 — May 2005 (1 year )
Marketing Manager

mad.co.uk

(Online Media industry)

June 1997 — June 1998 (1 year 1 month)
Marketing Manager

New Media Age

(Publishing industry)

June 1995 — June 1996 (1 year 1 month)
Marketing Manager - Financial Technology Publications

Incisive

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

1993 — 1995 (2 years )

Samantha Missingham’s Education

University of Bristol

BSc , Maths , 1989 — 1993

Additional Information

Samantha Missingham’s Websites:

My Website

Samantha Missingham’s Interests:

publishing, magazine marketing, event management, event marketing, conference producing, online publishing, communication strategy, editorial, design, seo, relationship building

Samantha Missingham’s Groups:

Women 2.0
Inbound Marketers - For Marketing Professionals
Facebook.com
American Library Association
eMarketing Association Network
Frankfurter Buchmesse
ThoseinMedia
Ladies Who Launch
Twitter
Book Publishing Professionals
Publishers & Book sellers association
AFFILIATED AUTHORS
University of Bristol Alumni
Social Media Marketing
Information Science and LIS
Magazine Publishers of America (MPA)
Media Professionals Worldwide
Women For Hire
Tweeple
Women’s National Book Association-NYC
Tools of Change for Publishing
NYC Women in Publishing
Authors & Publishers Association
Creative Bath
FOLIO: MediaPRO -- Magazine & eMedia Publishing Professionals
Circulation Network
Children's Publishing
Women & Publishing-Media network group
twitter innovators Innovation & Creativity Network of Tweeters
Circulation/Fulfillment Specialists
Women's National Book Association
SLA Solo Librarians Division
Booksconnect - Authors, Agents, Rights and Publishing Professionals, Publicists, Event organisers...
B2B Content Marketing
Book Design
Ebooks, Ebook Readers, Digital Books and Digital Content Publishing
B2B Social Media
CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
Forum for Publishers, Editors, and Authors in India and Abroad
www.OnlyMarketingJobs.com - it pays to know people
London Business Book Club
Self Publishing for Love and Money
Internet Librarian
Film & Education
Branding & Marketing
Brrism - Bristol Social Media
Publishing Talk