Spencer Althouse Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, United States

• Manage four staff writers at various levels, increasing their traffic by over 100% (to 255 million pageviews) and their programmatic revenue by over 200% (to $1.1 million) in 2022 alone
• Lead two teams of six in quarterlong and yearlong editorial workshops to teach best practices on social optimization, programmatic revenue, increasing time spent, and how to go viral
• Oversee BuzzFeed's highest-performing.com vertical (UGC), editing 100+ articles each month and totaling over 350 million pageviews each year
• In the Top 1% of all BuzzFeed writers, averaging over 560k views per post in 2022 (have personally generated over one billion pageviews throughout time at company)
• Build customized traffic booster docs for 30+ writers/editors based on current data and trends, resulting in an extra 40 million pageviews and $200k in programmatic revenue

New York, United States

• Wrote original, high-quality articles that brought in over 10 million monthly pageviews
• Oversaw and edited all crowdsourced posts on the site (100+ articles each month)
• Led dozens of classes based on expertise in user-generated content, thumbnails, and social optimization

New York, United States

• Launched and edited BuzzFeed’s most successful vertical, generating over 300 million yearly pageviews
• Managed BF Community’s Facebook page, increasing follower count from 5k to 1.2 million in two years
• Taught classes across multiple departments based on expertise in user-generated content

New York, United States

• Piloted a private group of 20 BuzzFeed super-users, supplying edits and one-on-one assistance
• Solely moderated every comment on BuzzFeed’s site while also producing daily Community-themed articles to increase user engagement, generating one-third of the vertical’s overall traffic

New York, United States

• Created original, high-quality articles that resulted in over four million pageviews each month

Brooklyn, New York

• Oversaw the firm’s social media branding and publicity on Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr
• Wrote and edited press, consumer, and acquisition releases for several major motion pictures and independent films