Big job, puny pay packet at Digital Spy

Posted by Axegrinder on 24 November 2008 at 13:50
Tags: Big Brother, Digital Spy, Hachette Filipacchi UK, Lagardere Active, Uncategorized

When magazine publisher Hachette Filipacchi UK acquired Digital Spy in April, many wondered if the entertainment news website – set up by Neil Wilkes and James Welch in 2000 – would lose its quirky charm.

Well, the site now boasts “over 80 million monthly page impressions and a unique audience reach of 5.4 million (October 2008)” and is clearly a very big player.

But despite now being part of a corporate giant – Hachette Filipacchi UK is itself a subsidiary of global media organisation Lagardere Active – some things are still decidedly small-scale.

Digital Spy is currently advertising for Celebrity Big Brother reporters to work eight-hour shifts during the four-week run of Channel 4’s reality TV show. The job ad warns: “Due to the nature of the series, the work rota comprises shifts around the clock, every day of the week.”

The pay? From £50 to £65 per full shift.

Don’t all rush at once.