Jobs in advertising aren’t straightforward math careers, but advertisers use math just as much as everyone else. Find out how advertising can combine your creative side with your mathematical side with this advertising manager career profile.

How do you use math in advertising?

“I use basic math on a fairly regular basis, to calculate dimensions and ratios and measure things on a pixel-by-pixel level.”

- Ryan Glenn, Dallas, Texas

Art Director at TracyLocke

What is an advertising manager?
Do you like watching commercials or checking out ads in magazines? Advertising and promotions managers are responsible for bringing these ad to you, the consumer. Advertising managers manage the money needed to create and display those ads. They also coordinate different creative departments in a company to create an ad you’ll love, they make final decisions on how the ads should look and they develop relationships with ad distributors. If they do a good job, their ads will make a lot of money.

How much education do you need?

Most advertising manager careers require a bachelor’s degree.

Does this career fit your personality type?

This career is great for enterprising, artistic and conventional types.

SKILLS YOU NEED

Time Mastery Time is ticking! In this career it’s important to stay on task and get the job done before your client’s deadline. Leadership Knowing when to speak your mind and how to influence people’s decisions will help you move ahead, win business and succeed in this field. Teamwork Being a good team player means doing your fair share of the work while supporting others so you can reach a common goal. Writing Good writing skills are essential to communicating well with your peers and clients — and impressing them with your clever ad slogans! Creativity Think creatively to stand out from the crowd! You need creativity to come up with awesome new advertising ideas. Brain Power In this career you’ll need to do research for ad campaigns, question current thinking and find new ways to solve marketing problems. Math How are advertising careers also math careers? Advertising managers know their stats! Without math they wouldn’t know how well their ads are doing out there in the world.

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