Ocean Outdoor
Melanie Blood is an experienced professional in project management and communications, currently serving as the Head of Ocean Labs UK and the Head of Project Management at Ocean Outdoor since January 2018. Prior roles include Senior Project Manager and Creative Project Manager at the same company. Prior to Ocean Outdoor, Melanie held various positions at Traverse Advertising, including Planner/Strategist and Account Director. Additional experience includes roles as a Marketing and Communications Assistant at Intergen, a Tutor at Victoria University of Wellington, and a Communications Assistant for Volunteering New Zealand. Melanie possesses a Bachelor of Arts degree in Media Studies and History, with a minor in Information Systems from Victoria University of Wellington.
Ocean Outdoor
Ocean is a boutique media company that fills a unique position in the Outdoor advertising landscape. Specialising only in large-format digital, iconic landmark and super-premium banner locations, Ocean creates inspirational canvases for inspirational advertising.The Out of Home landscape is changing at a rapid rate, and with change comes newopportunities.Ocean are now operating in a multi media channel market as out of home, digital, mobile, online and screen media all converge to create deep and meaningful consumer conversations in the out of home space.The behaviour behind The Art of Outdoor allows us to capitalise on the latest technology, research and creativity ensuring that an Ocean location continually adds value and drives our clients business forward in this new out of home, connected world.Every site in our portfolio is hand picked for its unique quality and personality. We encourage brands to “Ask for it by name”, because Ocean is about quality rather than quantity. Our company ethos and principles based around Freedom, Quality, Passion and Enterprise have helped us become a dynamic force in the global media market place.Ocean have a genuine national footprint covering the key cities of London, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Leeds, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Newcastle and Bristol. Ocean Group's position was further enhanced in Birmingham and Manchester with the acquisition of Signature Outdoor and MediaCo (now operating under the Signature Outdoor Brand).Signature is the premium Out of Home company in the UK's second and third cities, operating a mixture of city centre premium backlights, banners and key digital assets.