Justin Gardner Email & Phone Number

Mission Hills, Kansas, United States

In my new role, I continue to lead all publishing operations for Everhance. This now includes hiring, training and managing all writers, developing and implementing content strategy, finding and assigning all content to our team, overseeing the publishing of 1200+ posts a month across our portfolio of websites and running financial analysis to ensure our strategy maximizes our profitability.In addition, I'm modeling acquisition scenarios, developing proprietary performance algorithms to streamline the content production pipeline and uncovering new monetization opportunities through deep data analysis with the aid of artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT and Claude.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Everhance is a social news and edutainment company. Our team is one of the few in the industry setting new standards for publishing, online advertising, social media syndication, and native content sponsorship. We believe that knowledge and discovery can enhance the journey of life for all people. The Everhance network has a global audience of over 30M and our original video content has garnered over 1 billion views.As Executive Producer and Editor-in-Chief, I oversee all publishing operations for the company, including editorial, creation, monetization and licensing. Our properties include Did You Know, Humans of Tumblr, Wimp.com, Awkward.com, Awkward Mom, Science Dump and DYKN.We create hundreds of articles a week on our properties, and syndicate thousands more. In this day and age of a consolidating media landscape, there are few content networks that create and distribute as much original content as we do.

I was elected to a second term as President and am currently building in our previous successes and strengthening our membership-based society by creating special events and supporting theatres with direct financial assistance.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

I stepped back from the President role to focus in on leading Film Society KC's screening series, which feature a wide variety of films, as well as discussions about the films after screenings.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

The Film Commission of Greater Kansas City and the Film Society of Greater Kansas City have merged to form Film Society KC in early 2015, a group that's dedicated to promoting local filmmaking and filmgoing in the KC area.I'm leading the way for all the new Film Society KC events, benefits, membership and branding.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

I pioneered all social media efforts for AMC Theatres, from the creation of channels to the optimization of all social content to the development of strategies that leveraged social technologies to help people engage in more conversations about movies and the moviegoing experience.Those strategies proved to be best in class. Our team created engaging content, helped film studios with their social strategies, garnered millions of organically grown social fans, and our efforts were noted across the industry (thanks Oreo). I also created an award winning team of film bloggers/commentators who filmed daily talk shows that drew more than 200M YouTube views and won IAWTV awards 2 years in a row. That team was acquired by Collider in 2015 and that strategy can still be seen on a daily basis today.Most importantly, our channels drove billions of social impressions and resulted in millions of dollars in ticket sales.

Developed creative executions for marketing programs and promotions. Managed numerous vendor and internal relationships.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Developed and implemented CinemaKC's digital strategy to help promote their various activities, including their TV show on KSMO-TV every Saturday night at 6PM.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Since joining the Board, I took the lead on a complete redesign of the website, including building it on the Wordpress publishing platform, adding video and file sharing functionality to the site's Production Guide and adding more revenue opportunities to make the site self sustaining. These changes have given Board members and members of the production community in Kansas City the ability to update the site on their own with rich, relevant content that wouldn't have been possible before. I've also crafted a social strategy for the Commission that encompasses Twitter, Facebook and beyond.

I ran the multi-partisan blog Donklephant, which I put into semi-retirement in 2013. If you never went, it's a site where everybody is welcome to come and have an open, honest debate about the news of the day. Sometimes the conversation worked and sometimes it didn't, but it was always interesting.The site no longer exists, but you can look it up on Internet Archive: http://web.archive.org/web/*/donklephant.com

Responsible for developing the brand for a small technology startup and building buzz throughout the search space. The company was featured in the San Jose Mercury News, Business 2.0, SiliconBeat, Wired, CNET, BBC Online and many other technology focused publications and blogs.

Wrote copy for numerous clients in a wide variety of industries including health care, sports apparel, theme park and restaurant. While at the agency, won over 50 local, national and international awards for my work, including two Best of Show awards. Some of the publications that have featured my work include AdWeek Online, Creativity, Graphis and Communication Arts.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Started as an unpaid Summer intern and within a month was editing the majority of video for the 10PM newscast in a paid capacity. When the internship was over, I continued to edit video for the 5, 6, 9 and 10PM newscasts when I was home from school and directly after graduation.

Bachelor Of Journalism, Journalism

Obtained a degree a Bachelor of Journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia with an emphasis on Advertising.

Bachelors Of Journalism, Advertising, Minor: Philosophy

Activities and Societies: Founder of University of Missouri Screenwriting Club, Cartoonist at The Maneater (school newspaper), Board.