Nick Merritt Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

Leads 24 person multiplatform content team across Money, Travel, Consumer Rights, Podcasts and Video, with a specific focus on growing digital audiences and customer journeys into partnerships across the personal finance and travel categories. • Member of the Extended Leadership Team• Led the digital transition of my portfolio, rapidly building a 7 figure revenue affiliate business by focusing on high value niche audiences in areas of partnership potential, driven by SEO and newsletters• Managed a complex set of stakeholder relationships across commercial, editorial, social, press and policy teams to deliver content priorities and organisational goals• Helped launch partnership journeys with L&C, Confused.com, Lifesearch, HubFS on key pages, and optimise signups to internal Which? products and services• Team lead for cross company non-member Income growth project group

London, England, United Kingdom

Senior manager responsible for the development, team leadership and operational delivery of Content SEO for Red Ventures' UK brands. My focus was content that grew SEO traffic across our sites, delivery of best in class content experiences for our customers, and growth of new secondary brands and verticals. In this role I worked especially closely with the SEO, Product, Content Design and Digital Earned Media teams. • Member of RVU's & Red Ventures' Extended Leadership Teams• Set up freelance contributor network of 40 personal finance, broadband and production experts, writing and editing 250 updates/month• Helped lead the creation of Confused.com's SEO content plan, focused on revamping key guide and transactional pages, while mentoring and advising Confused.com's content team• Helped shape and deliver RVU's Content Playbook, CMS platform capabilities, best practices, KPIs • Member of global content cabinet, helping to shape and deliver Red Ventures editorial policies

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for digital content production and audience growth for Time Inc UK across all digital media brands and channels. Represented Time Inc UK on the AOP's digital audience group.• Member of the Digital Leadership Team• Developed Trusted Reviews' brand, editorial focus and proposition, working to improve its product quality, editorial strategy and performance in market. Established new labs enabling us to scale up product testing.• Helped build content team focused on e-commerce, including first cross company Black Friday team, helping deliver 24% YoY increase in e-commerce revenues• Helped reduce editorial costs by 23% by leading digital editorial transformation, helping to shape cross-brand content teams in the Women’s Lifestyle and Fashion and Beauty verticals• Standardised quality review process, planning, audience development and content KPIs across the company, improving collaborative working and cross site syndication

London, United Kingdom

Site design and launch, editorial development, audience development and digital strategy. Leading the editorial team, editorial development, content SEO, video and social strategies for the Homes group's websites, with a particular focus on Housetohome, Ideal Home and LivingEtc.• Migrated, redesigned the proposition for, and launched IdealHome.co.uk, helping return Homes Group to YoY traffic growth of 35% after two years of declines• Tight cost control delivering 50% saving against budget• Launch NPD for Live-Smart, a test site aimed at smart home technology• Reset video strategy focusing upon on-site pre-roll• Led SEO training for NME, Cycling Weekly, Marie Claire plus creation of best practice guidelines for Time Inc. UK as a whole

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for the editorial leadership and content strategy for 5 technology web brands delivering 32m global UUs/month, 5 technology magazines and 3 interactive app magazines on iOS/Android,• Restructured the editorial operation, establishing a multiplatform content team, reducing commissioning and headcount costs by 15% across our products• Delivered successful multi platform relaunch of T3 brand across web, tablet and print, doubling its newsstand sales YoY, recovering T3.com from longstanding Google penalties and rebuilding its audience to 1.2m UUs.• Successful launch of galleries, How To and Wearables channels on TechRadar, doubling PVs to 74m/month in a year and taking TechRadar to its all time highest traffic numbers• Project management of TechRadar's three year roadmap

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for leading the TechRadar.com global business and P&L, developing it from a UK to a global brand, extending it into new categories and territories.• Developed TechRadar into a 26 million user/month global business by launching in the US and Australia with local teams, and licensing it in India.• Developed content licensing partnerships with Stern.de and Chip.de in Germany• Launched TechRadar Pro, a B2B brand extension and turned it into a 550k UU site• Launched and managed TechRadar Downloads, a brand extension in partnership with Chip.de• Launched a subscription-based interactive digital magazine app on tablet• Helped grow affiliate revenues with Pricegrabber, USwitch and Reevoo, and early adopted PerfectMarket and Outbrain in the UK• Established annual media partnership with MWC• Worked closely with the commercial team to deliver a multi million pound revenue line around creative solutions, native content, experiential and video, working with brands including Samsung, LG, Microsoft, EE and more• Launched and managed Gizmodo.co.uk in partnership with Gawker, taking it to 700k users/month

Responsible for launching and building the UK's market leading technology website and Future's cornerstone digital business.• Launched TechRadar.com, developing the user personas, user journeys, wireframes, product specification, editorial proposition, content strategy and content formats• Built and led a 12 person, PPA award winning content team specialising in news, features, reviews and video• Took TechRadar to UK market leadership and kept it there, establishing Future as the leading tech publisher in the country• Pioneered and built TechRadar’s influential SEO strategy, teaching the techniques to the team, the company and international licensees

London & Bath

• Relaunched and repositioned T3, Future’s biggest lifestyle brand at the time, then took it to its highest-ever circulation• Oversaw the editorial development of 20 print and web properties across the creative, digital video, technology and design markets• Worked with publishing, marketing, research, commercial and editorial teams on NPD, relaunches and redesigns

Bath, United Kingdom

• Founding editor of the world’s leading digital photography brand, Digital Camera World• Founding editor of Microsoft’s first news-stand magazine• Edited Future's biggest magazine at the time, PCPlus• Founding editor in chief of Future's poker titles• Reimagined and relaunched PC Answers, a declining PC magazine, turning it one of the 8 fastest growing magazines (all categories) in the country for two years in a row