Sam Olive

With nearly 20 years’ experience in the industry, Sam’s early media career was spent working for cinema media owners Pearl & Dean followed by The National Magazine Company, before moving agency side in 2006 and refocusing on the world of TV. Sam spent several years as a TV planner & buyer across various clients for Media agencies of varying sizes. In 2014 Sam joined marketing and media consultancy company Ebiquity, before joining Thinkbox in 2016 as a Planning Controller where he helps spread the word of the power of TV to the industry.

Thinkbox is the marketing body for commercial TV in the UK, in all its forms. It works with the marketing community with a single ambition: to help advertisers get the best out of today’s TV.