April 10
Effective immediately, Thomas Port, 45, will be joining the management of ProSiebenSat.1 sales house SevenOne Media. As Managing Director for Online Sales, he will be in charge of Sales Online, Sales Marketing Online, and Sales Services Online, as well as Multimedia and Commerce. Port has worked previously with the ProSiebenSat.1 Group, where from November 2004 to July 2008 he was Commercial Director, in charge of the Online and Entertainment operations at the former online and convergence sales house SevenOne Interactive. He rejoins the Group from Constantin Medien AG, where he was a Managing Director at Sport 1 and the sales house AdImpulse Media.
Before joining the ProSiebenSat.1 Group for the first time in 2004 the Saarland-born graduate in business was head of marketing cooperation ventures at Deutsche Bahn, where he was in charge of special forms of advertising. Before that, he was with KirchMedia for five years, ultimately as sales manager at Deutsches SportFernsehen (DSF).
Said Thomas Wagner, Chairman of Management at SevenOne Media: “Thomas Port is an established marketing expert who will strengthen and expand our positioning in the online market. The future belongs to video advertising, and with Thomas Port’s help we intend to advance that process and set trends in the advertising market.”
About SevenOne Media SevenOne Media is Germany’s leading sales house for audiovisual media. With their multiple media platforms, its station brands enable the company to generate about 3.2 billion gross contacts per month among adults over age 14, via TV and online. The company’s gross market share of about 43 percent makes it the leader in the German TV advertising market. In the online advertising market, the company ranks fourth, with 18.43 million unique users (internet facts 2009-IV). As a subsidiary of the ProSiebenSat.1 Group, SevenOne Media provides marketing for the Group’s German-language stations, their digital platforms (pay TV, video on demand, online, mobile, podcasts, games, teletext) and various third-party services (teletext). The management of SevenOne Media is made up of Thomas Wagner (Chairman), Alexander Duphorn, Dr. Christian Wegner and Thomas Port.
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