Christopher Gates Email & Phone Number

Pacific Grove, Ca, Us

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Pitched, wrote, and edited articles about the entertainment industry, with a particular focus on video games, movies, television, and related media. Clients included VICE, Playboy, Mashable, Maxim, ESPN, GameSpot, Digital Trends, MAD Magazine, and many more.• Wrote in-game content, designed playtests, and conducted analytics reports for video game developers like Loot Crate Interactive.• Covered press junkets and set visits and reported live from events like E3, the Game Awards, and the PlayStation Experience.• Developed and wrote short films, feature-length screenplays, self-published comic books, and non-fiction book proposals.

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Founded and led /Film’s features team, which published over 100 long-form features per month. • Hired, trained, and managed a team of over 50 freelancers and 5 editors, vetting pitches, providing feedback on written work, and — most importantly — editing and proofreading submissions.• Maintained the editorial calendar for the features team and crafted coverage plans around major film and television releases.• Collaborated with other teams, including Static’s video and Snapchat groups, to ensure that cross-department projects maintained /Film’s unique voice and met the site's quality standards.• Prepared posts for publication via WordPress and the company’s proprietary CMS.

• Co-founded Static's original interviews program.• Interviewed both headlining and below-the-line Hollywood talent, and established Static as a source of high-quality exclusive reporting.• Helped Static formed relationships with major studios, PR firms, and Hollywood talent.• Lead writer and editor on Static's Netflix team, which created sponsored content about the streaming service's biggest movies and TV shows.• Wrote reviews, recommendation lists, and other SEO-focused content for the website Looper.

Monterey, Ca

• Created and analyzed daily reports using Google Analytics, SEO research tools, and other major tracking platforms to make informed, data-driven business decisions for the Traffic Acquisition team.• Designed and maintained an automated “bidding algorithm” that managed and optimized 2.5 million keyword-based SEM ads on a daily basis.• Developed a web-based CMS for SHOP.COM’s online vendors.• Participated in QA tests and developed front-end web interfaces.