Matt Newstead

Shaping memorable experiences for players, fans, partners and media while strengthening the Rebellion brand and presence worldwide. • Run launches, showcases, fan festivals, press briefings, and community meetups. • Leading the planning and delivery of Rebellion’s events across games, comics, board games, and consumer products. • Own the logistics end‑to‑end — venues, staging, agencies, equipment, travel, staffing. • Creating immersive, community‑driven experiences that celebrate Rebellion’s worlds and deepen fan engagement. • Bringing events to life across social, digital, and in‑game channels. • Stakeholder POC with publishers, platform holders, media, and sponsors. • Integrating livestreams, broadcasts, and virtual meet‑ups to extend reach beyond the show floor. • Managing budgets, tracking spend, and delivering cost‑effective events without compromising quality. • Lead post‑event analysis to measure success across attendance, engagement, viewership, and ROI.

Ownership of and responsibility for pre-recorded digital and social content, events, custom video content and live streams with views to exceed core KPI targets. • Managing multiple high-profle creative projects, collaborating with established client partners on all elements of the creative production process, • Production lead for metric-driven content, including as head of data and cultural insights. • Generating concepts ideas from latest internet culture and industry trends. • Developing internal and external teams to produce award-winning work. Responsible for team member growth, development and well-being. • Recruited producers, production management, industry experts and post-production teams to collaborate on projects as required. • Responsible for content quality and fnal output. • Overseeing brand guidelines and brand development at a senior creative level. • Delivery of creative briefs for branded content. • Direct production management requirements, including budgeting in scope, scheduling, location scouting, casting and resource management. • Lead RFP brainstorms and creative collaboration sessions. • Spearheaded over 100 creative projects, leading to a 40% increase in the companies retainer production contracts.

• Team lead responsible for branded channel relaunch on multimedia platforms. • Building weekly workback schedules and strategies for daily content streams and digital content drops. • Leading physical set rebuild and technical production infrastructure changes. • Ideating new core strategy pillars and weekly creative content output. • Collating and studying channel metrics and KPI data to inform future content. • Coordinating global localisation of UK content for other brand markets to integrate content on their own social platforms. • Led a team of 8 in exceeding client KPI targets with over 1.5 million channel impressions and 200K new subscribers in the first 6 months.

- Conceived, wrote and edited multiple news, review and opinion articles for the Official Xbox Magazine and GamesRadar’s digital site. - Running parallel to my work at Attention Seekers Productions, used as a creative outlet to challenge myself to find new and exciting ways to engage readers with content whilst indulging in my own passion for video games and the rapidly-developing ecosystem in which it sits.

• High-end content production and creative strategist. • Designing workfow solutions and production roadmaps. • Owning creative script and copywriting for shows and digital marketing. • Budgeting and resourcing for existing stakeholders and new RFPs. • Developing and enhancing digital concepts from client briefs and specifcations. • Full ownership of high-end productions saw over a dozen contracts

- Assisted Lead lighting engineers for their Christmas rendition of 'The Nutcracker' - Adopted the DMX configuration for the ROH lighting grid and worked under a talented team of lighting designers