Devon Shuman Email & Phone Number

Florida

Devon leads some of Gen Media’s best performing, strategic initiatives to include small and unmeasured market revenue growth and agency and new business development. Her understanding and interest in the trends and categories that drive national spot radio sales help her coach client stations on how to maximize their national revenue and opportunity. She.

Greater Denver Area

Gen Media Partners is an integrated sales and marketing company that connects consumers with advertisers’ brands by leveraging the benefits of the media assets it represents, individually or as part of a multi-platform campaign, across national, regional, and local levels. Gen Media Partners steers the operations of McGavren Guild Media, Local Focus Radio.

Greater Denver Area

Local Focus Radio proudly champions for independent radio broadcasters who have made a commitment to local content, talent and community. We reject the idea of radio being sold as a commodity-- one size does not fit all. We sell the flavor of a market, not a ranker run. We sell the value the community places on their local, homegrown stations, not CPPs. We.

Greater Atlanta Area

Local Focus SE internal captain. Primarily responsible for developing upper level agency relationships, while building strategy and creating opportunity for client stations in small and medium sized markets.

Led a multifunctional sales team responsible for over 25 million dollars in billing annually. Partnered with all of Interep's companies to sell value and service to agency customers on behalf of our client stations. Built new business and expanded opportunities with current client roster.

Primary contact between national sellers and agency buyers. Responsible for pitching multiple market media plans that address market trends and current competitive landscape. Consistent success in generating high share of dollars for station clients while maintaining mutually -beneficial relationships with the agency buyers and upper-level planners and.

Liaison between client and agency. Maintained familiarity with client's products, services, business culture and competition. Presented campaign plans for approval or modification. Handled budgets and maintained campaign costs. Collected and analyzed sales and consumer data. Reported to clients during and after the campaign. Assessed the effectiveness of.

Identified client's target audience. Analyzed market trends, rankers, duplication, TSL, age cell breakouts, programming, and personalities. Negotiated and placed radio buys with media outlets (both local and national) for efficiency and effectiveness. Ensured that all ads ran accurately.

Initiative Media Developed promotion-marketing packages for 188 markets from concept through recap, working with sales management at client stations and senior buyers at Initiative Media. Developed market profiles on each of these markets covering economy, demographics, the media landscape, and benefit-analysis of our client stations.

Received company's highest honor, the Chairman's Circle Award for exemplary service in a sales support role. Front-line point of contact between nationwide roster of client stations and agency media buyers. Responsible for ordering and executing broadcast campaigns including added-value promotions and resolving billing discrepancies. Worked with sales.