Digital Marketing Intern

Gannett   McLean, VA   Full-time     Advertising / Marketing / Public Relations
Posted on April 2, 2024
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Req #41494

Tuesday, April 2, 2024

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Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI) is a diversified media company with expansive reach at the national and local level dedicated to empowering and enriching communities. We seek to inspire, inform, and connect audiences as a scalable, growth focused media and digital marketing solutions company. We endeavor to deliver essential content, marketing solutions, and experiences for curated audiences, advertisers, consumers, and stakeholders by leveraging our diverse teams and suite of products to enrich the local communities and businesses we serve. Our current portfolio of trusted media brands includes the USA TODAY NETWORK, comprised of the national publication, USA TODAY, and local media organizations in the United States, and Newsquest, a wholly-owned subsidiary operating in the United Kingdom. Our digital marketing solutions brand, LocaliQ, uses innovation and software to enable small and medium-sized businesses to grow, and USA TODAY NETWORK Ventures, our events division, creates impactful consumer engagements, promotions, and races. Gannett open roles are featured on various external job boards. When applying to a position at Gannett, you should be completing an application on Gannett Careers via Dayforce. Job postings directing you to complete an application on other external sites may not be valid.     To connect with us, visit www.gannett.com

The Digital Marketing Intern is responsible for assisting Custom Solutions team members in properly executing, maintaining, and overseeing high-value marketing campaigns that run as non-standard implementations within the ReachLocal portfolio of media products. These include Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Spotify, Pandora, Waze, Pinterest, and LinkedIn. This role is focused on paid media, not organic.


The core job function is to assist the Custom Solutions Team with responsibilities assigned on an as-needed basis.


Campaign Execution:

The Intern is responsible for aiding team members on new campaigns and effectively launching the campaigns within departmental SLA 

  •  Review provided campaign parameters and make adjustments/recommendations to ensure the program’s success
  •  Work within multiple systems to launch campaigns. 
  •  QA all work to ensure budgets, targeting, campaign flights, billing, and creatives are as intended.

Campaign Management:

The Intern is responsible for regularly reviewing and tuning all campaigns as assigned by members of the Custom Solutions team.

  •  Perform campaign analysis, including documenting findings and communicating relevant insights to campaign stake holders
  •  Make targeting, bidding, and creative suggestions as needed to ensure campaign success 
  •  Keep the campaign information up to date within the project management systems

Campaign Analysis:

The Intern is tasked with learning all the platforms Custom Solutions uses, which will enable them to:

  • Develop comprehensive analysis of currently running campaigns.
  •  Highlights – what is performing well with the campaign?
  • Lowlights – what areas of the campaign need improvement?
  • Insights – what strategic recommendations and context can be given about the account?
  • Leverage additional analytic tools when needed.
  •  Understand and implement analytic technologies such as tracking pixels, utm strings, and conversion monitoring systems both proprietary and 3rd party 
  •  Go beyond basic campaign metrics to analyze campaigns within the overall context of the client’s marketing program 
  •  Produce ad-hoc reporting

Overall Job Performance:

  • Support team members launch campaigns within 7-10 business days.
  • Regularly monitor campaigns as assigned.
  • Performing deep dive campaign analysis.
  • Document this analysis within project management systems.
  • Communicate insights to Custom Solutions team members.
  • Respond to email inquiries within 4 business hours and setting expectations for resolution of the issue.
  • Provide highlight, lowlights, and insights for campaigns as assigned.
  • Delivery of reports to team members.
  • Follow daily workflow procedures.
  • Check the Sales Force ticketing cue, Corp Portal performance reports, and write statuses.
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Other details

  • Job Family General
  • Job Function Intern
  • Pay Type Hourly
  • Employment Indicator Internship