Publicist, Blue Ant Studios

at  Blue Ant Media

TELLING CAPTIVATING STORIES TO AUDIENCES EVERYWHERE

Blue Ant Media is a privately held, international production studio and rights business and channel operator. The company’s studio creates and distributes a premium slate of programming, in all content genres, for streaming and broadcasting platforms around the world. Blue Ant Media also operates free streaming and pay TV channels under several media brands internationally, including Love Nature, Cottage Life, Smithsonian Channel Canada, BBC Earth Canada, HauntTV, Homeful, Drag Race Universe, Total Crime, Declassified, Love Pets and Love Drama. Blue Ant Media is headquartered in Toronto, with six international offices in Los Angeles, New York, Singapore, London, Washington and Sydney. blueantmedia.com⼁Instagram⼁LinkedIn⼁X⼁
Our employees are passionate experts in all of our business areas. They are fanatical about creating outstanding content and experiences, and about delivering them on new and evolving platforms. We actively seek new employees who embody our core values. We want them to think big, act with purpose, celebrate creativity, do the right thing, respect one another, and succeed together. We attract creative talents who are optimistic about the evolving future of content and who take pride in recognizing opportunities where others see challenges. At Blue Ant Media, we give them the flexibility to think like entrepreneurs, take ownership of their projects, take risks, and embrace innovation in a rapidly evolving media landscape. Our team members excel at collaborating with internal and external partners by building trusting, respectful working relationships.
Publicist, Blue Ant Studios
Blue Ant Media’s Communications team is looking for a Publicist to support the global media company’s award-winning production studio and rights business, Blue Ant Studios. Our ideal candidate is a self-starter with proven written and verbal communication skills, great press relationships and has an ability to juggle multiple projects while maintaining attention to detail. Reporting to the VP, Global Communications, the candidate will have dotted-line stakeholder relationships with Blue Ant Studios’ VP, Marketing and Brand Strategy and senior executives within the Studios group. The position is based in Toronto.

Core Responsibilities & Duties

• Work with Communications and Marketing teams on the creation and execution of strategic and results-driven trade and B2C publicity plans
• Execution of key Blue Ant Studios announcements, including greenlights, renewals and other company news. Responsibilities include writing and routing releases; aligning announcement plans with marketing and company-wide PR leads; and corresponding with press and industry stakeholders
• Provide Unit publicity support on select Blue Ant Studios productions, including photography selection, writing and distributing press kits, production notes, overseeing on-set media opportunities and managing unit publicist relationships, when applicable
• Pitch and secure trade and B2C interviews, features and review coverage with national and local media, including broadcast, print, podcasts and online blogs and sites
• Support broadcast, streaming and festival partners on Blue Ant Studios premieres with B2C publicity tactics to promote viewership of our series and documentaries on their platforms and at events, in partnership with Studios marketing
• Play a key role in preparing Blue Ant Studios executives and producers for trade press interviews, panel discussions, and PR appearances, while managing the delivery of materials to support these projects
• In partnership with the communications and marketing teams, establish and uphold relationships with our partners and their PR teams, in addition to talent, talent managers, talent publicists, executive producers and executives
• Manage/oversee the creation and delivery of all PR deliverables for buyers, co-producers and partners, when needed
• Serve as lead on awards campaigns for assigned series and films, while also packaging and submitting all applications
• Cross departmental relationships with production teams, distribution sales, business affairs, marketing + creative teams and divisional PR leads company-wide
• Creating and circulating regular PR updates and press clippings to key internal stakeholders
• Special projects and ad-hoc duties for the Studios on a case-by-case basis

Key Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Public Relations or similar discipline is preferred
• Impeccable writing ability, paired with a solid understanding of the television and media industry across distribution and production; Exceptional verbal and interpersonal communication skills
• A team player, who is a collaborative, positive and a supportive colleague
• Minimum 3 to 5 years of non-internship professional experience in a media relations role; Key relationships with trade television press and consumer facing outlets
• An ability to handle sensitive and confidential information appropriately and with good judgment
• The ability to juggle multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining attention to detail
• Self-starter with the ability to prioritize, and work proactively in a fast-paced, high volume, creative and deadline-oriented environment with the ability to react with appropriate levels of urgency to situations and events that require quick response or turnaround
• Proficiency with remote working technology (Teams, Zoom, Google Hangouts, etc.) required

At Blue Ant Media, we believe promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion is everyone’s responsibility. We can all contribute. As a global media company, we recognize our platform and opportunity to influence change and promote a more inclusive world. We know what we create, distribute, and produce is better with a diverse workforce. In recruiting for our teams, we encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds (who are eligible to work in Canada) and welcome the unique contributions each person brings.
If you have most of the qualifications listed in our posting, but are not sure whether to proceed with your application, we still encourage you to apply. We thank all candidates for their interest in Blue Ant Media and we will reach out to those candidates that are under consideration. If you are contacted for an interview and require an accommodation at any time during the recruitment process, please email our Human Resources team at hr@blueantmedia.com

• Work with Communications and Marketing teams on the creation and execution of strategic and results-driven trade and B2C publicity plans
• Execution of key Blue Ant Studios announcements, including greenlights, renewals and other company news. Responsibilities include writing and routing releases; aligning announcement plans with marketing and company-wide PR leads; and corresponding with press and industry stakeholders
• Provide Unit publicity support on select Blue Ant Studios productions, including photography selection, writing and distributing press kits, production notes, overseeing on-set media opportunities and managing unit publicist relationships, when applicable
• Pitch and secure trade and B2C interviews, features and review coverage with national and local media, including broadcast, print, podcasts and online blogs and sites
• Support broadcast, streaming and festival partners on Blue Ant Studios premieres with B2C publicity tactics to promote viewership of our series and documentaries on their platforms and at events, in partnership with Studios marketing
• Play a key role in preparing Blue Ant Studios executives and producers for trade press interviews, panel discussions, and PR appearances, while managing the delivery of materials to support these projects
• In partnership with the communications and marketing teams, establish and uphold relationships with our partners and their PR teams, in addition to talent, talent managers, talent publicists, executive producers and executives
• Manage/oversee the creation and delivery of all PR deliverables for buyers, co-producers and partners, when needed
• Serve as lead on awards campaigns for assigned series and films, while also packaging and submitting all applications
• Cross departmental relationships with production teams, distribution sales, business affairs, marketing + creative teams and divisional PR leads company-wide
• Creating and circulating regular PR updates and press clippings to key internal stakeholders
• Special projects and ad-hoc duties for the Studios on a case-by-case basi