Senior Vice President, West Coast Ad Sales - Viacom Entertainment and Music Groups
As Senior Vice President of West Coast Ad Sales for Viacom Entertainment and Music Groups, Brian Bloodgood is responsible for all television billing and client relationships in his respective territory for COMEDY CENTRAL, Spike TV, TV Land, CMT as well as all MTV and VH1 properties. In addition to his television duties, Bloodgood is actively involved in convergent strategies. His ad sales team covers all national advertisers and agencies in Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Denver, Las Vegas and all prospective markets in between. Priority categories include movie studios, foreign automotive, and the digital gaming industry, which represent the group’s top billers. Another principal responsibility he shares is managing Viacom Strategic Programming & Marketing Partnerships with the movie studios.
Prior to moving to the west coast, Bloodgood resided in New York where he worked as a COMEDY CENTRAL account executive covering ad agencies in NYC, as well as the Southeast United States. Before coming to COMEDY CENTRAL, he worked in the sports world selling commercial time and integrated sponsorships for ESPN and OCC Sports. The foundation of his advertising career began on the agency side (DMB&B/ TeleVest and J. Walter Thompson) shortly after graduating from the University of Florida.