Content Writer

 

 

  

Content Writer

 The Online Content Writer III researches, validates, and develops clear and compelling content that adheres to required branding and style guidelines. Writes, edits, proofreads, and copyedits content for various channels including online platforms and print publications. Being an Online Content Writer III ensures that all grammar, spelling, flow, tone, and style are appropriate for the writing project. Incorporates search engine optimization best practices in all materials produced. In addition, Online Content Writer III utilizes content management tools to prepare materials. Requires a bachelor's degree in english, communication, journalism or equivalent. Typically reports to a manager. Being an Online Content Writer III work is generally independent and collaborative in nature. Contributes to moderately complex aspects of a project. Working as an Online Content Writer III typically requires 4 -7 years of related experience.

 

Asst. Editor, Celebrity & Entertainment

 

 

We’re looking for a TV, movie, and celebrity-obsessed Assistant Editor to join POPSUGAR, within Group Nine Media! If your free time is spent streaming countless hours of Netflix while tweeting updates to all your followers, your award season predictions are always spot on, you have a knack for writing shareable headlines and witty ledes, and you care about telling diverse stories, we want to talk to you!

As a member of the Entertainment team, you'll work weekday evenings, covering relevant breaking news in the Entertainment and Celebrity world. This is a full time position, and will be remote initially, but once Group Nine returns to our offices, this role can be based in our SF, LA, or NY offices. The assistant editor will report to the Sr. Editor, Celebrity and Entertainment.

The Assistant Editor will lead by example in demonstrating Group Nine’s values - Care Deeply, Be Brave, Go First, Do Good, Stay Close and Win Together.

What You’ll Do

·         Research, write, and produce multiple posts each day for our Celebrity and Entertainment vertical

·         Create seasonal and themed features based on team and network brainstorms

·         Work closely with other team members on daily coverage and weekly/monthly editorial themes and planning

·         Conduct original reporting and interviewing to produce in-depth features as needed

·         Create content during special events, including award shows, premieres, and finales, working quickly and cleanly in real time

·         Consider analytics and previous successes to pitch strategic, winning story ideas

·         Follow a wide range of trending celebrity and entertainment topics to identify opportunities to spotlight multicultural stories and talent

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Success Will Look Like

·         Exercising sound judgment on weekend coverage, resulting in content that drives traffic and engagement

·         Working well autonomously on the weekends, and collaboratively with the team during the week

·         Bringing new, intersectional perspectives and passions to PS with original, impactful content

 

Must Haves

·         Minimum of 2 years of experience in digital media, writing/editing, or a related field

·         A healthy obsession with social media

·         Super strong writing and communication skills

·         An ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative team environment

·         The ability to stay ahead of trends and adapt to new and changing tasks and priorities on an hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly basis

·         A proven interest in and dedication to covering broad viewpoints, cultures, and experiences

·         A familiarity with and passion for the POPSUGAR brand

·         HTML and Photoshop skills are a plus

·         Must be willing and able to work weekend and evening hours

 

 

Streaming Editor

IGN

IGN’s content team is looking for a streaming editor to lead our coverage of emerging and established streaming platforms in the entertainment space, from Netflix to HBO Max to whatever becomes the next Quibi. You’ll be covering a wide range of streaming topics, helping us identify and report on the industry trends, programming, and personalities that are driving conversation, as well as offering thoughtful follow-up commentary and analysis. You’ll also have the opportunity to contribute to our traditional movie, TV, and games coverage.

IGN’s editorial team is made up of all kinds of people that share a common love of games, TV, movies, comics, tech, and all things geeky. We strongly encourage people of every race, gender, sexual orientation, and background to apply.

Responsibilities

Working with a team of writers and freelancers, alongside our features and SEO leads, to decide what we cover around new or rediscovered releases, how we cover it, and who covers it for us, including through interview and junket opportunities.

Conceptualizing, producing, and editing in-depth features and analysis to answer questions, posit relevant theories, explain lore, or offer new context on the streaming landscape and the most popular shows within it.

Writing news stories and taking interviews on the streaming space, with a particular emphasis on making industry developments accessible to our audience.

Monitoring industry and audience trends, as well as internal analytics, to identify new coverage opportunities.

Cultivating industry contacts and sources to help create informed, authoritative original reporting.

Working across departments to generate topical content that serves our users’ interests on multiple platforms, in text and video form.

Required Skills

You’re passionate about the streaming space and keeping up with industry trends and news developments.

You’re a voracious consumer of all things entertainment and pop culture, have a critical eye for quality despite the crowded marketplace, and can condense that information into meaningful recommendations for our audience.

You’re engaged with audiences and content across various streaming platforms, and can spot a story within the community, as well as wider cultural moments.

You have notable experience in a comparable editing role and understand how to write for IGN's audience.

You have strong editorial opinions and journalistic standards, excellent writing skills, and an impeccable eye for an edit.

It would be extra awesome if…

You’re also an expert on gaming streaming spaces like Twitch and YouTube and are embedded in those communities, too.

You have good on-camera presence and can speak extemporaneously on games and entertainment-related topics.

You’re based in Los Angeles or San Francisco - or can get to our offices in those cities.

You can optimize your pieces for both search and organic discovery across platforms.

You have regularly covered trade shows, junkets, and conventions.

You’re an avid moviegoer in addition to consuming all things streaming.

You’re well versed in transmedia and have an appreciation for the shows and movies themselves, as well as the novelizations and comics tied to them.

You have a degree in journalism or another relevant media field.

If you think this sounds like the job for you, please apply here, and make sure to provide a resume, cover letter, and at least three writing samples that you think show your aptitude for the role.

Position: Streaming Editor

IGN is a leading media company focused on gaming, entertainment, and pop culture. We are the number one video game and entertainment information destination and attract one of the largest concentrated audiences of young adults on the Internet across 28 platforms including desktop, mobile, YouTube, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram and more.

Overview

The Streaming Editor at IGN will stand at the intersection of streaming and entertainment, focusing on both emerging entertainment streaming platforms (HBO Max and Peacock), established services like Netflix, as well as community-focused platforms like Twitch and YouTube.

The editor will create and contribute to a wide range of streaming content, including features, reviews, news, and previews, with a focus on written formats that can also be adapted to video. This editor will also have the opportunity to contribute to traditional movie and TV coverage as well, including reviews, features, junkets and set visits.

In addition to professional experience writing articles -- specifically reviews and recommendation features -- and conducting interviews, candidate must have experience meeting regular daily deadlines, proactively generating creative ideas for content, and managing relationships with external partners.

This position will focus on coverage of popular genre titles in the streaming space, notable industry/community ventures with popular streamers in the gaming space, as well as highlighting hidden gems relevant to the IGN audience, and conceptualizing larger features on the streaming industry as a whole. The ideal candidate should be well-organized, proactive, and results-driven. This role will report into the Editorial Manager.

Here’s What The Role Will Be Focused On

Create content to help the audience discover relevant streaming movies on a variety of platforms.

Monitor community trends on Twitch, Steam, YouTube to identify cultural moments or games worth following up on or reporting

Proactively Ideate, Pitch And Execute The Below Content Types

News highlighting audience’s response to popular releases or community moments

Review content to help the audience determine what is and isn’t worth watching.

Features that help the audience better understand the content they’re consuming.

Interviews with talent involved with streaming titles as well as the executives making decisions behind-the-scenes, and popular streamers or community members.

Work with the Editorial Manager, Executive Entertainment Editor, Executive Features Editors, and Executive News Editor to strategize around coverage of streaming services, using tools like SEO and traffic analytics.

Contribute to traditional entertainment coverage including reviews, features, interviews, and junkets.

Assign and edit streaming content from IGN freelancers.

Coordinate content and manage relationships with external partners on the studio and talent side.

Work with the social team and video team to identify opportunities for overlap with their respective verticals.

Participate in video content around the topics IGN covers, not limited to just streaming movies or streaming platforms.

Qualifications

You have at least 5+ years of relevant experience in the entertainment industry and a published body of work covering movies and streaming space.

You have contacts in the industry you can leverage for exclusives and unique coverage ideas.

You are an active consumer of streaming content and proactive in your pursuit of hidden gems on streaming platforms.

You have an interest in understanding audience consumption habits on streaming services and come armed with strategies to engage them.

You are an expert in your own time management and are detail-oriented, delivering assignments on deadline and with clean, accurate copy.

You are a creative and critical thinker who can deliver informed opinions in video and written form.

You can lead written and video content projects from start to finish as a “one person army,” from script to edit to publish.

You are passionate about the genre space, and you consider yourself an expert in specific genre franchises.

You understand Internet trends, analytics tools, SEO principles, etc. and know your way around a CMS.

You are collaborative, have a good attitude, and a desire to learn.

It would be extra awesome if…

You’re an IGN reader/watcher and active community member.

You have current and active relationships with studios and networks like Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Disney, CBS, and others.

You are articulate and comfortable on camera and can speak extemporaneously as well as read from a script or teleprompter -- every member of our content team is welcome to participate in video projects.

You have a strong understanding of multiple social platforms, including how users consume content on everything from Instagram to TikTok to Reddit.

IGN’s editorial team is made up of all kinds of people that share a common love of games, TV, movies, comics, tech, and all things geeky. We strongly encourage people of every race, gender, sexual orientation, and background to apply.

 

Manager, Content Strategy

What You'll Do:

Lead the overarching content strategy across multiple channels and touchpoints including our blog, newsletter, and social media

Continuously develop a content strategy that evolves our experience to drive acquisition, engagement, and retention

Own the Bright Cellars brand voice

Own key growth metrics associated with the blog and newsletter

Drive content alignment within the marketing team and content awareness for cross-functional partners

Manage content creation and cadence serving as the final approval for all customer facing content

Lead the content and editorial side of our SEO strategy in partnership with product

Recommend and implement process improvements for effective content collaboration, consistency and quality

Maintain clear deadlines for deliverables and ensure they are met

 

Write, edit, and proofread content.

Institute cross-platform content.

Brainstorm with team members to develop new ideas.

Build a following on social media.

Provide editorial, creative, and technical support to team members.

Track web analytics to ascertain content engagement levels.

Manage content across all platforms, including email and social media.

Partner with the Sr. Demand Gen Director on content strategy and work with team members to execute across all audiences for always-on engagement.

Conduct content audits and identifies gaps and areas of opportunity to improve messaging and positioning performance.

Monitor digital engagement and report on content performance.

Build content for campaigns across multiple channels (webinars, events, display, SEO, SEM, social, partnerships, email).

Work collaboratively with Sales, Customer Success, and Product to ensure a coherent messaging.

Develop marketing content that aligns with the customer journey and sales-buying stages.

Work cross-functionally with content, design, and product teams to produce targeted, personalized assets that engage and convince target accounts to move through the sales funnel.

Create nurturing program content that drives leads through the sales funnel.

You’re a great fit if you...

Bachelor's degree in communications, journalism, English, or related field.

3-4 years of agency experience or in a similar role.

Adept at keyword placement and SEO best practices.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Proficiency with popular content management systems.

Experience with social media management.

Creativity and the ability to develop original content.

Ability to develop content that provokes engagement.

Experience developing multi-channel content, leveraging data to improve performance, and digital marketing channels.

Experience targeting customers spanning a wide range of industries; retail, automotive & B2B/B2C companies, is a plus.

Strong technical marketer, with solid expertise of MarTech stack and how it supports marketing efforts especially around marketing automation and CRMs (HubSpot, Salesforce, Outreach)

Understanding of search engine algorithms and ranking methods.

You pick up on technical things quickly, enjoy learning new skills and knowledge, and are adept at staying ahead of the curve on relevant industry, company, product, and technical knowledge.

Proven experience building content and messaging across multiple industries.

Possess a strong mix of B2B marketing experience in SMB, Mid-Market, and Enterprise.

The ability to manage multiple projects with little oversight and the awareness to ask for help when needed.

Self-starter and remote team player with strong communication and problem-solving skills, stellar worth ethic, and hungry to succeed.

 

Tagger Job in Netflix

Here's what it's like to be a "Netflix tagger" — aka someone who is paid to watch Netflix all day

 

When Netflix asks if you’re still watching, say, The Office, mid-10-hour bingefest, it can feel a little judgy (YES, okay? We’re still watching). But when people like Sherrie Gulmahamad spend their whole day streaming shows, the platform doesn’t get in their way — in fact, Netflix *pays* them to watch TV shows, movies, and specials.

Gulmahamad is an originals creative analyst at Netflix, or, as it’s more commonly known, a “Netflix tagger.” And a new profile in Fast Company offers some interesting insight into what it’s like to binge-watch professionally.

First of all, not just anyone is cut out to be a Netflix tagger (sorry). Gulmahamad, who the story focuses on, studied screenwriting in college, then got a graduate degree in critical film studies. She works with a team of about 30 people whose day-to-day job is watching Netflix shows, movies, and specials (up to about 20 hours a week) and tagging each with relevant metadata that makes everything easier to search and categorize.

"We work with a sprawling palette of tones and storylines to capture the spirit of our content, and when it comes to those [subjective] sorts of tags, we can be more editorial,” she told Fast Company. “We have every storyline under the sun for supernatural content and it always cracks me up — zombies, witches, dragons, cannibals, Bigfoot, mad scientists, mutants, magical creatures, angels, demons and even 'evil kids.'"

Basically, Gulmahamad and her team are the ones who build the groupings you see in your Netflix queue.

You know, “Norwegian crime procedurals with a sarcastic female lead and a quirky sidekick,” etc. They also fill in more basic info like whether a show has nudity or violence and who’s in the cast. Gulmahamad specializes in comedy and stand-up specials, as well as sci-fi, but she’s watched a little bit of everything.

According to the story, Gulmahamad started in her position years ago, back when Netflix was still sending DVDs to your house in flimsy paper envelopes.

But nowadays, being a tagger is a coveted specialty to break into. When Gulmahamad is hiring new colleagues, she has very particular abilities in mind:

"Our job is very much like being a librarian and making sure things are classified accurately, but you also have the broad knowledge base of how TV shows or movies are related, and if they look good together in a row on our site," she said. "Netflix looks for someone who has both skill sets, plus a passion for innovation."

 

Taggers work to label films and TV shows with specific terms so they can be easily searched and discovered within Netflix. ... After they have finished watching the title, they will sit down for what usually takes less than an hour, to quickly browse through hundreds of tags and label the film."

Content Tagger/Metadata Specialist -

Virtual - Remote

Content Tagger/Metadata Specialist for a world-renowned media/entertainment organization. The Content Tagger/Metadata Specialist will be responsible for reviewing movies and television episodes and adding comprehensive metadata within a predefined methodology. Your work will enhance great content and empower creatives, consumers, and executives. Work will be performed remotely and candidates can be located anywhere in the US. This is a part-time position, approximately 25-29 hours per week. While this role can work nicely as a complement for industry creatives who have other part-time pursuits on the side, it is not a good fit for someone who has a full-time job.

Key Responsibilities:

Watch and annotate (“tag”) episodic and movie video content within a digital platform, across both objective and abstract metadata annotation types.

Categorize content into genres, add keywords and metadata tags according to complex predefined methodology that will help define catalog to viewers and help users discover new content, as well as aid writers and marketing teams.

Identify iconic and compelling segments within a title, based on likelihood to capture viewer attention and identify specific title “mood” (ex. Funny, suspenseful, etc.)

Qualifications:

Have a solid understanding of storylines, storyline development, characters, and character development as they relate to episodic and movie content.

Have a passion for deconstructing stories.

Comfortable and capable of working with abstract concepts.

Experience editing and working with metadata.

Experience working with a Content Management Systems and/or digital platforms.

Flexibility amid an evolving environment is a must.

Film degree, MFA in writing, professional writers' room experience, script reader, or equivalent experience preferred.