Duncan Madden Email & Phone Number

London, GB

Global

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UK And The World

Freelance copywriter for, amongst many others, Cashplus, Group Of Humans, Timberland, Vestd, Experian, Mediablaze, SearchStyle, YOPA.co.uk, Barclays, MasterCard, Vodafone Group, Samsung, Yahoo, Vertu mobile phones, DigitasLBi, Great Fridays, Jetsetter, StayXO, Ten Lifestyle, Fujitsu Siemens, British Telecom, Syndicut, Criminal Clothing, Panasonic.

Worldwide

A curated network of designers, thinkers and technologists. Calm and neutral, we celebrate vulnerabilities and differences by finding ways to learn from them.PurposeBringing people together to imagine a better future.Rules of engagementWe solve the right problems in the right order to create a stronger, more relevant and humanised business.WhyBecause.

I'm a contributing travel writer to Forbes.com writing weekly articles on all aspects of travel, including trip write-ups, hotel, city and country guides, environmental issues, travel kit reviews, travel tips, trending destinations and anything else that might inspire you to get up and go.

The World

I write luxury and adventure travel stories (and the odd advertorial) for Escapism (the UK's biggest individual travel magazine), Square Mile and Hedge magazines. Recent features include a journey of discovery in Bhutan, ice driving the frozen lakes of north Sweden, surfing the Maldives, uncovering the real Rio de Janeiro, crossing borders in Baja and a.

I worked with Nomoko, a Zürich based startup, to help establish its product offering and grow its brand identity. Owning the English copy across marketing, web and product, I collaborated with design and dev teams to build a highly technical Digital Twin platform targeting the Swiss real estate industry, worked with marketing and design teams to explain.

I freelanced regularly for Experian across its product and service offering and owned the product copy across experian.co.uk and related websites and apps. Collaborating with the product and design teams, I write all web and app copy including everything from product and service descriptions to establishing customer journeys with best UX practice, FAQs and.

London, United Kingdom

I've contracted with digital design and development agency Digital Detox on a few projects now. These include a complete restructure, redesign and rewrite of a core internal service and platform for a global banking giant as well as a redesign and rewrite of the agency's own website at digital-detox.co.uk.

London, United Kingdom

Vestd is a revolutionary equity distribution platform that helps startups and SMEs issue shares to their team members, customers and collaborators. Disrupting traditional and outdated equity distribution methods such as option and EMI schemes, Vestd gives businesses new opportunities to use their equity to fuel growth and reduce their dependence on cash. I.

London, UK And San Francisco, USA

I worked on a freelance basis with Great Fridays for several years as their reference copywriter for in-house and client-side projects and then again after its merger with EPAM, a global service design agency listed at number eight on Forbes' 25 fastest growing public tech companies.Internally I've worked on the company rebrand and helped establish the.

London, United Kingdom

I work with Vodafone Group Services on a freelance project-by-project basis ensuring a consistent tone of voice across disparate Group teams and projects. Copywriting duties are wide-ranging, from writing and editing technical, brand, design and copy style guides to working with developers creating front end user journeys for websites (fixed and.

London, United Kingdom

Search Style is a new community-led social network startup that brings together styles and trends from around the world, aggregated through Instagram and automatically added to a user's profile on Search Style. I joined on a short project to review the UX side the Search Style platform. I had responsibility for all customer-facing content – refining and.

London, United Kingdom

I was brought in to conduct a full copy and UX review of new online property agent YOPA.co.uk prior to launch. I reviewed and edited existing site content, streamlined the user experience for payments, property uploads and general site interaction. I also created a comprehensive set of FAQs, error messages and automated emails.I now work as a freelance.

London

I joined for a two-month contract as an editor and writer for a new Timberland project, called The Modern Trail. I commissioned articles and features from writers around the world; wrote lifestyle features, reviews and travel guides for UK and US cities; worked on content strategy for upcoming seasons; and headhunted new brand ambassadors – called.

London, United Kingdom

As a co-founder and head of brand and content for this crowdfunding startup, I helped bring the brand to life and create a unique and compelling identity that stood apart in the crowdfunding and alt finance industry. From establishing brand identity by laying out brand values, recognising customer needs and targeting missed opportunities in the finance.

London, United Kingdom

I joined the digital content team as a copywriter working on new web and mobile products and services for Barclays Online Banking. Working with project managers, developers, designers, UX specialists, project stakeholders, legal, brand and compliance teams, I helped create user journeys and front end content for projects navigating the complex and.

The World

I write practical and honest guides and reviews to luxury hotels around the world for Jetsetter's commercial flash sale discount luxury travel service. So far I've reviewed hotels for Jetsetter in the UK, Iceland, Spain, Costa Rica, Mexico, America and Germany.

London, United Kingdom

Over a six-month contract I curated the transition of Jetsetter's US identity for the UK market. Alongside writing new hotel reviews, I edited and 'translated' several hundred existing reviews from US to British English, created new email marketing communications and newsletters, promotional marketing material and social media, and edited the UK Jetsetter.

London, United Kingdom

I took on a freelance contract for UX design agency Foolproof, managing a massive technical copywriting project for one of the world's largest technology and mobile hardware and software brands. The project involved creating and editing around 40,000 copy strings for the company's new flagship mobile platform, liaising with both the Foolproof agency and.

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

I worked remotely for LBi Denmark on a project-by-project basis for international clients including IKEA and Secunia security software, writing English SEO and metadata content, web and product descriptions, social media posts, and commercial video scripts.

Three-month contract to update and create copy for IKEA's rebranded.com website. Copy creation included SEO and metadata content for all departments and product ranges, and creative introductory and descriptive furniture copy for departments including bathroom, kitchen and home office. Ongoing video script writing, web copy creation and management on an.

I freelance edited four issues of Palladium magazine, a quarterly luxury publication that differentiates itself from the traditional stereotype of ‘men’s magazines’ with opinion-led and factual features, reviews and news on globally significant topics across the cultural spectrum. Aimed directly at the high-end of the contemporary urban men’s market.

Editor of a monthly international technology and lifestyle publication.Duties included commissioning all editorial and visual content, managing an extensive team of freelancers as well as an in-house editorial and design team. Working to strict editorial, PDF and print deadlines on a monthly basis, liaising with the production department and online.

I started my journalism career as a sub-editor working across several titles including Hotdog Magazine, DVD Review, Digital Photographer and Digital Photography Made Easy, ensuring editorial, PDF and print deadlines were met.Duties included subbing and proofing all editorial and visual content pre and post design in terms of spelling, grammar, continuity.