Kate​ Thompson
Content & Communications
Interviewed live on BBC Breakfast TV and Radio 4 as an industry expert, I have also arranged large scale events, taken and edited promotional photographs, conducted live web chats and recorded pod casts. I have written scripts for commercial videos, conducted surveys and competitions, created promotional videos, and worked with a variety of PR and SEO agencies. It all started in central London.
DEGREE
After graduating with a BSc in Sociology (2:1) from London's South Bank University, I began my career in the fast moving world of TV, appearing weekly on the light entertainment show Talking Telephone Numbers and then working in post production before going into digital media.
VIRGIN
As marketing executive at Virgin.Net, I was selected to join the launch of the first UK company to offer DIY websites to small businesses.
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MICROSOFT
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As an interim editor, I created and commissioned content on new technology for the launch of bCentral, the website for small business owners.
WEDDING INDUSTRY
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As features editor, media spokesperson and industry expert at Confetti, I wrote and produced hundreds of articles, spoke directly to the press, and had my own agony aunt column and a lifestyle column on the Huffington Post.
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TRAVEL INDUSTRY
More recently, I have worked for a number of travel publications in content and direct marketing, social media management and international client account management - with extremely successful results.
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MUSIC INDUSTRY
Music is my passion and I have written for several music publications including Rhythm of Red and Metal Talk.
As a voice-over artist, my voice appears on the title track of Cosmograf's album The Man Left in Space and the track White Car on the album Capacitor, also by Cosmograf.
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