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In August 2018, BroBible was spun out of UPROXX and acquired by Horseneck Media LLC as an independently owned and operated media business, with most of the original partners of BroBible still involved in the business. As BroBible's publisher, I manage publishing operations, brand vision, strategic partnerships, and brand partnerships for BroBible - a leading lifestyle publisher. We work with brands of all shapes and sizes, accommodating original content production and activations to our influential audience of digitally connected men.

Los Angeles, California, Us

In November 2012, BroBible.com was acquired by UPROXX MEDIA. Current duties include:-Develop and lead day-to-day publishing strategy for BroBible, leading a team of 10 full-time editors and contributors to publish over 100 unique pieces of original and curated content a day.-Manage a team that curates and produce a diversity of editorial content, including relevant and repurposed news, exclusive interviews, slideshows, long-form essays, top 10 listicles, viral videos, and user-generated content that cover a variety of topics, including sports, music, college life, pop culture, Internet culture, and general lifestyle trends.-Create and lead strategy behind content tentpoles to grow premium, feature-length content to amplify BroBible’s authoritative voice in original content and programming. -Develop and execute daily publishing strategy behind BroBible's growing video operation, resulting in two million monetizable views a month. -Create and manage distribution of noteworthy original content for BroBible that’s been aggregated by Huffington Post, TMZ, Gawker, and Bleacher Report, driving traffic and increasing editorial brand awareness. -Grow BroBible's traffic from 400,000 unique visitors a month to over 15 million unique visitors a month over six years, with an annual year-over-year audience growth rate of around 30%. -Grow BroBible’s direct audience of power users (people who visit over 100 times a month) to over 3.5 million a month (GA).-Develop a unique brand voice and publishing strategy for BroBible's main social media channels, with a concentration on Facebook (1.3 million likes combined), Twitter (700,000 followers combined), Instagram (72,600 followers), Snapchat (12,000 followers), and YouTube (11,000 subscribers). -Create and execute new revenue opportunities for Woven Digital by implementing a native advertising strategy on BroBible, pushing original videos, and developing rev split/affiliate programs for small merchants.

BroBible is a media, entertainment, and events company that launched in February 2009. In the early stages of the business, BroBibleestablished a successful live-events business in New York City, a burgeoning TV/film/video production arm, and multiple publishing and merchandise offerings.In May 2011, BroBible published it's first book, "My Dad Is a Bro," via Gallery Books/Simon and Schuster.

Research, edit, and fact-check for a high-profile book project of Hunter S. Thompson’s compiled interviews "Ancient Gonzo Wisdom: Interviews with Hunter S. Thompson," published in July 2009 by Da Capo Press/Peruses Books.Responsibilities include researching, compiling, organizing, editing, and contextualizing Hunter S. Thompson’s interviews into a working manuscript while leading, organizing, and collaborating with other assistants.Communicating with independent authors, major magazines, newspapers, and media such as Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The Atlantic, NBC, The Paris Review, Playboy, Rolling Stone, Spin, NPR, Salon.com, Time Out: New York, and Esquire (U.K.) and in order to successfully seek reprint copyright permissions for the book.Contact, research, and compile individual author and journalist biographies for a "Contributors Biography" appendix.

English And Communication Education, Literature, Writing, Communication, Rhetoric, Film, And Education

International Studies Certifiaction, Semester At Sea Study Abroad Program