Last-minute media placement agency for SMEs across press and TV
Media-Start is a French media placement agency founded in 2022, focused on securing press coverage and TV sponsorships for small and mid-market businesses. The tech stack is sales-ops heavy—LinkedIn, Outreach, HubSpot, Lemlist, Zapier—reflecting a lead-generation and prospecting engine that dominates their operations. With 34 of 38 open roles in sales and a near-total junior staff composition, the company is scaling sales capacity aggressively while their pain-point list (new client acquisition, conversion rates, market expansion) signals they're hitting friction in their own growth.
Notable leadership hires: Lead generation
Media-Start connects SMEs and mid-market companies to media opportunities—newspaper placements through partners like Le Point and Le Figaro, and TV sponsorships on high-audience channels. Founded in 2022 and based in Marseille, the agency has grown to roughly 20 staff and operates across France. Their model centers on brand-content strategy and securing paid editorial and broadcast slots that would otherwise be inaccessible to smaller companies. Active projects cluster around prospecting automation, email sequences, and campaign execution—all aimed at filling their pipeline with new media-buyer clients.
Primary tools: LinkedIn, Outreach, HubSpot, Lemlist, Zapier, Notion. Also uses Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Meta, X, Payfit, Excel. No current adoption or replacement cycles.
Marseille, France. Founded in 2022 and currently operates approximately 20 employees, focused on the French market.
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