Ed Nightingale Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

Covering all gaming articles, including daily trending news, reviews, interviews and featuresEstablishing the gaming content strategy and running Gaymeo social channelsSeeking out LGBT+ gaming stories relevant to the audienceLiaising and networking with PRs and industry contacts to discover storiesCovering major gaming events, such as E3

London, United Kingdom

• Responsible for strategy and creating content for global email database, including automated emails and regular B2C genre-based newsletters to targeted segments, supporting new music releases, artists and D2C stores across the business. • Work with UK labels to initiate fan acquisition campaigns for artist and streaming brands through email marketing and social channels. • Onboarding EU teams, developing CRM newsletter strategy and system solutions.• Work with external partners such as Ticketmaster and EMP on integrated campaigns.• Attend digital marketing and music marketing summits to develop industry knowledge.• Member of Diversity Taskforce and chairman of LGBT Pride committee, including moderating panel events.

London, United Kingdom

• Liaise with label marketing managers and other key stakeholders internationally to assist with marketing campaigns, B2C emails, localisation and audience segmentation.• Develop fan acquisition campaigns. Successes include a festival campaign that acquired over 10k subscribers and a vinyl competition for Record Store Day with a 60% conversion rate.• Coordinate email copy translation and localisation across multiple European territories.• Analyse data across multiple social and streaming platforms to inform marketing campaigns.• Compile detailed post-campaign KPI reports to present to stakeholders.• Write CRM best practice guides and case studies shared and presented on international calls.• Assisting email production using Fanmail templates, Storyports plugin and html in Exact Target.

London, United Kingdom

Freelance journalist covering reviews, features and interviews in entertainment and LGBT culture. Includes writing credits in the following publications:The GuardianThe Stagei-DThe Sunday Times Travel MagazineWireframe MagazineGayming MagazineMiro MagazineKotaku UKExeunt MagazineSee link for portfolio.

* Reviewing all forms of music (albums, singles, gigs, festivals), theatre (fringe, West End), films (attended London Film Festival 2014) and games.* Strong online presence on social media (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram).* Familiar with web maintenance, various CMS, Google Analytics and SEO* Developed excellent written skills and the ability to edit, proof-read and work to personal deadlines.* Basic Photoshop skills* Established a number of industry contacts in PR companies.* Writing extends to other publications including Attitude Magazine, Kotaku UK, Exeunt Magazine, Den of Geek, Official Theatre, PressPlayOK, EntertainmentWise, Broadway Baby

London, United Kingdom

• Working in the Metadata & Rights Team to support users of the GRS contracts and rights system via email.• Data entry of artist contract information; assisting global users with ad hoc queries; sending reports and maintaining data integrity of artists and their repertoire.

London, United Kingdom

• Writing for the UK’s newest and fastest growing LGBT News and Culture website.• Film and gaming/technology writer, regularly producing news, reviews and features (attended the BAFTA Games Awards 2015).• Joined the sub-editing team in January 2015 after a performance review of copywriting skills.• Proofreading copy, ensuring adherence to section schedule and site style guidelines, checking all images attached, completing metadata descriptions and managing SEO for each article.

London, United Kingdom

* Implementing clean-up of the GCDM database for the Royalties team in preparation for new EROS system. Responsible for worldwide data integrity of the Royalties database and contacting global Warner affiliates for data confirmation.* Streamlining methods of working through the creation and development of new systems to improve team output.* Investigation undertaken into company-wide methods of creating compilations. Written report has been presented to senior members of staff in order to improve working methods across multiple departments.* Interviewing and recruiting new team members; training team members using newly written training manual.* Managing the workload of other team members, regularly checking their work and running statistics reports on team output using Excel.

• Temporary employment• Assisting PA with finance and administrative duties• Assisting publishing team with royalties administration• Administering purchase ledger, inputting invoices on to Sage system• General ad hoc administrative tasks for all departments

• Headhunting calls to potential candidates• Outgoing calls to stores and companies to collate company data• Data entry of candidates’ personal contact details

• Working in theatre shop selling merchandise & confectionary.• Cashing up daily takings.• Organising seating plans for large school groups.• Assisted in looking after young people during rehearsals and during performances.• Point of contact between the young people, chaperone leader and Director.

• Inputting Debt Management Plan packs onto the computer system, confirming a client’s eligibility for a DMP.• Outgoing and incoming calls to clients to discuss existing DMP applications and set up new cases, handling client’s personal and financial details.• General office administration work.• Development of excellent phone manner, particularly sympathising with clients who wish to keep their financial situation private and clients in a state of distress due to their finances. Also, improving typing speed and efficiency in inputting applications to clear backlog.• Answering incoming calls and emails for the recruitment hotline, inputting personal details of potential candidates, packing and sending out application packs.• Processing incoming application forms, marking personality questionnaires.• General administration work at all stages of the recruitment process and for the HR team as a whole.

Nctj Journalism, Journalism, Gold Standard

Through studying I honed my craft in news and feature writing, in addition to sub-editing, newspaper production and mobile video.

Ma, Music And Drama

Activities and Societies: Directed 'The Lion King' and 'On The Town' with Manchester University Music Society '10.Merit

Bmus, Music

Activities and Societies: Performed in five Guild Music Theatre Group productions, including at the Edinburgh Fringe. Directed Mozart's.