2022 Media i Awards winners: See the full list, including National Sales Team of the Year, here

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2022 Media i Awards winners: See the full list, including National Sales Team of the Year, here

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What you need to know:

The Media i Award winners were announced at a soldout event in Sydney last night. Nine’s sales team took out the national sales gong.
Sales teams from 13 different media owners took out awards.

Nine’s sales team has been named the National Sales Team of the Year for a second consecutive year by its peers in the Media i Awards in a sold-out ceremony at Sydney’s Ivy Ballroom last night, the first face-to-face event in three years due the Covid.

More than 2,500 media agency employees voted across three categories – National Sales Team of the Year, Sales Team of the Year by Market, and Sales Person of the Year By Category by Market.

“It takes hard work, dedication, and resilience to consistently deliver to your client’s needs at the highest level whilst at the same time navigating our dynamic and complex media landscape. And those of you who have mastered the art are being recognised this evening,” Charles Parry-Okeden, CEO of Media i, said.

The awards were introduced in 2011 and are the only recognition for media salespeople, and what they do for clients and agencies.

“The industry is back,” Media i Managing Director, Chris Winterburn, said.

“All finalists are to be congratulated on their nomination and should feel tremendous pride in having been recognised by their agency peers as being outstanding at what they do.”

Nine was the most awarded media company, receiving eight awards, followed by oOh! Media, ARN and JCDecaux with four each. Awards were given to 13 different media owners sales organisations.

2022 National Sales Team of the Year

Nine

2022 Sales Teams Winners List

NSW: Nine
VIC: oOh!Media
QLD: ARN
SA: oOh!Media
WA: JCDecaux

Sales Representative of the Year (Digital)

NSW: Kim Dao, Yahoo
VIC: Jordan Grimston, The Trade Desk
QLD: Terrence Michael, Nine
SA: Imran Khalil, Nine
WA: Sebastian Tatur, Yahoo

Sales Representative of the Year (Print Media)

NSW: Lloyd Whittaker, Nine
VIC: Tiffany Leahy, Nine
QLD: Tara Duncan, News Corp Australia
SA: Travis Strange, News Corp Australia
WA: Meave Daniels, The West Australian Newspaper

Sales Representative of the Year (Outdoor/Cinema)

NSW: Abby Stjernqvist, JCDecaux
VIC: Michaela Colahan, oOh!Media
QLD: Courtney Johnson, QMS & Matt Dilger, JCDecaux
SA: Natasha Jarrett, oOh!Media
WA: Alycia Diggle, JCDecaux

Sales Representative of the Year (Radio)

NSW: Tom Bonnell, ARN
VIC: Tess McLeod, ARN
QLD: Liam Armstrong, ARN
SA: Daniel Muscat, Nova Entertainment
WA: Luke Kevin, Nova Entertainment

Sales Representative of the Year (Television)

NSW: Ellen Atkinson, Foxtel Media
VIC: Mack Rivett, Nine
QLD: Jayne Balke, Paramount
SA: Stephanie Rose, Nine
WA: Mitch Dehnel, Paramount