Midweight Creative

Is this the role for you?
 

In 2025, Channel 5 and My5 are joining forces under one powerful new brand: 5 – delivering an all-new, unified experience across TV, streaming, and digital platforms.

We’re looking for passionate individuals to help shape this next chapter. This unified brand will revolutionize TV, streaming, and digital platforms, offering expanded free streaming services, more UK drama originals, and specially curated FAST channels.
 

With personalisation and cutting-edge, data-driven advertising solutions, 5 is set to lead the future of entertainment. After an impressive year of industry-leading growth, including a 40% surge in viewership in 2024, 5 is gearing up to transform the viewing experience— and we want you to be a part of it!
 

Help us create a brand that delivers unlimited entertainment, always free. Join the team driving the 5 relaunch and shape the future of how the world watches.
 

What will you be doing?
 

As a Midweight Creative on 5 you will create multiplatform campaigns to launch brilliant brand new original TV programmes, unmissable content bundles and special on air seasons on 5.

You will develop engaging social media campaigns across all major platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, YouTube) to promote our programmes as well as writing and editing on air promos for all 5’s TV channels (Channel 5, 5Action, 5Star, 5Select, 5USA) and the new 5 streaming platform (which is replacing My5 in March).
 

You will report into and work closely with a Senior Creative and work in close collaboration with the rest of the department, including Design, Production, Marketing, Social, Press and Media Planning.
 

What are we looking for?
 

• Experience of working within a creative team on multiplatform campaigns.
• Very strong at social-first thinking and adept at finding ways to make content stand out on any platform.
• Deep understanding of social media platforms, their respective audiences and social media advertising processes
• Excellent copywriting and proofreading skills.
• Excellent editing skills, proficient in Adobe Premiere and familiar with the wider Adobe Creative suite (Photoshop, Illustrator etc).
• Strong visual communication skills and an understanding of visual trends.
• Adept at working under pressure and meeting tight deadlines.
• Experience collaborating with designers to build key campaign imagery as well as 2D/3D motion design elements.
• Strong understanding of and able to deliver further to marketing briefs, crafting creative ideas to fit the brief and always able to flex and adapt to feedback.
• Showreel of creative work demonstrating all of the above.
• Please make sure to include a working link to your online showreel / portfolio in your application (together with any passwords if needed for access).

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Channel 5 is an award-winning public service broadcaster and the UK's third latest commercial TV station,  reaching 3 in 4 of the UK viewing public each month. The channel has a diverse schedule of original programmes across genres including issue-led documentaries,  popular factual,  accessible history,  stunning natural history,  inclusive entertainment and reality,  top level sport,  high quality scripted programming,  headline-grabbing current affairs and critically acclaimed children's and news programming. Channel 5 is a unit of Paramount Global. 

Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet. 

At Paramount, the spirit of inclusion feeds into everything that we do, on-screen and off. From the programming and movies we create to employee benefits/programs and social impact outreach initiatives, we believe that opportunity, access, resources and rewards should be available to and for the benefit of all. Paramount is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, and Veteran status. 

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