Media Intern - Summer 2025

Role: Media Intern - Summer 2025

We are looking for interns who are just as passionate about media and advertising as we are. Our summer internships are a 10-week experiential learning opportunity that includes hands-on learning, engagement with industry professionals, mentorship, and exposure to global brands.

Your internship will be focused on one of the following areas: 

• Media Planning: Learn the ropes of communication strategies across all media channels and working cross-functionally with teams.
• Media Buying, Digital Investment, Programmatic: Develop an understanding of the client’s vision, collaboration, and negotiation skills needed to secure media.
• Data Analytics: Get up to speed with collecting and analyzing both qualitative and quantitative data to create compelling stories for our clients.
• Paid Search: Master paid advertising to ensure our client’s websites and ads are visible at the top of search engine results pages.
• Paid Social: Navigate sponsored advertising content on third-party social networking platforms with the goal of targeting specific customers.
• Commerce: Pick up a basic understanding of data and technology used to determine media investments to drive online business growth.
• Corporate: Gain organizational exposure that contributes to our agencies’ success and functions by supporting teams within Finance, Talent Acquisition, DEI, and/or Marketing.

What you’ll be doing:

• A 10-week full-time, paid internship working alongside other advertising enthusiasts to discover what media has to offer within one of our operating agencies.
• You will be treated as a true member of your team and will work alongside them on actual projects for clients.
• Analyzing data and trends. Using tools like Excel, MRI, ComScore, Tableau, and etc every day.
• Collaborate on an internship project.
• Work with a team to identify current challenges and develop solutions.
• Awareness and preparation for full-time roles and a successful career trajectory at GroupM.
• Great networking opportunities with industry professionals at all levels.

What you need to be successful:

• In the process of building strong interpersonal, leadership skills, and have made a positive contribution in your previous work experience, class projects, community volunteer programs or other extracurricular activities.
• Courage to explore new ways to solve a problem and can work well both independently and in a team.
• Enthusiastic and motivated by data and trends and have previous experience using Excel.
• A natural collaborator, you cultivate positive relationships with colleagues and/or peers.
• You're curious, helpful, and tenacious, and look for ways you can contribute by taking initiative.

Location & Timing:

• New York City, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, and Playa Vista are 100% in-person on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays with the possibility of remote on Mondays & Fridays
• The 2025 Summer Program will be held June 3 - August 8, 2025. We seek rising seniors, juniors, and sophomores. 

Life at GroupM:  
  
Our passion for shaping the next era of media includes investing in our employees to help them do their best work, and we’re just as committed to employee growth as we are to responsible media investment. GroupM employees can tap into the global GroupM & WPP networks to pursue their passions, grow their networks, and learn at the cutting edge of marketing and advertising. We have a variety of employee resource groups and host frequent in-office events showcasing team wins, sharing thought leadership, and celebrating holidays and milestone events. Our benefits include competitive medical, vision, and dental insurance, significant paid time off, preferential partner discounts, and employee mental health awareness days.      
   
GroupM is WPP’s media investment group and the world’s leading media investment company with a mission to shape the next era of media where advertising works better for people. The company is responsible for more than $60 billion in annual media investment, as measured by the independent research bureau COMvergence. Through its global agencies Mindshare, Wavemaker, EssenceMediacom, and mSix&Partners, and cross-channel performance (GroupM Nexus), data (Choreograph), entertainment (GroupM Motion Entertainment) and investment solutions, GroupM leverages a unique combination of global scale, expertise, and innovation to generate sustained value for clients wherever they do business. Discover more at www.groupm.com.  
  
GroupM provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard for factors such as race, religion, national origin, colour, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected status.  
  
GroupM is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to, among others, individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans. If you need an accommodation because of a disability to search and apply for a career opportunity with GroupM, please send an e-mail to GroupM Leave Administration at Leave.Administration@groupm.com or call (212) 297-8507 and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. 

The base salary for this position at the time of this posting is $20 per hour for the intern role. We offer a competitive benefits package, please visit https://www.wpp.com/people/wellbeing/benefits-at-wpp-in-the-us for more details.