Media Buyer practice interview
Buying media inventory, negotiating value, pacing campaign budgets and improving delivery against audience and response targets. Practise the 5 questions interviewers ask for this role with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
Free with an Intaviu account: 320 credits a month, at 10 credits a minute of practice. Private: interview creators never see them.
- Mid level
- 20 minutes
- 5 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About the role
This interview tests how you turn a media plan into well-priced, correctly delivered placements. The panel wants evidence that you understand audiences, negotiate firmly, watch budget pacing and challenge discrepancies rather than simply processing bookings.
How to prepare
- Choose a campaign where your buying decision improved reach, response or cost efficiency and note what you changed.
- Revise how insertion orders, booking confirmations, proof of placement and supplier invoices fit together.
- Practise explaining a channel choice using the audience, campaign goal, timing and budget.
- Prepare an example of a supplier negotiation that protected placement quality as well as price.
- Review how you spot underdelivery early and decide whether to optimise, request make-good inventory or move spend.
Common mistakes
- Treating the lowest rate as the best deal without assessing audience quality or placement.
- Discussing reach and impressions without connecting them to the campaign objective.
- Moving budget before checking tracking, creative, inventory and delivery settings.
- Ignoring reconciliation and proof of placement when describing campaign close-out.
What to expect
A real first-round interview
5 questions the way interviewers ask for this role, with follow-ups when an answer needs more.
Spoken, like the real thing
Speak your answers in your browser or the free desktop app, with live captions. You can ask the interviewer to repeat anything.
Scored on 4 areas
The things this interview weighs most. With a paid plan, your report shows how you did on each one.
A private report
On Plus, Pro and Premium: every answer scored, your strongest lines quoted and what to say differently next time. Interview creators never see it.
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