About Me

Name's Yosub but you can call me Yo.

Entertainment + Tech forever.

PROFILE SUMMARY

Currently Director of Brand Marketing at Figma. Highly motivated and creative Editorial & Content Strategist with 15+ years of experience.

HIGHLIGHTS & QUALITIES

  • Expertise in branding, editorial, activations, content strategy, community building, audience retention.

  • Wide knowledge of social media marketing with the ability to prepare web ready content and manage content for multiple platforms

  • Effective visual communicator across multiple platforms including video, graphics, and writing

  • Being cute

People I’ve worked with + Brands I've worked on:

Kerry Washington, Dustin Lance Black, The Lottery, The Weinstein Company, All Def Digital, Bravo/NBCU (All tentpole shows), AMC Networks (The Walking Dead, Mad Men, Breaking Bad and more), GIPHY, Twitter, Figma

I pride myself in:

A high EQ, being a great manager, and the ability to turn insights into a campaign. Being a great dad to a slightly sociopathic dog and cat.

Obsessed with:

  • Social Media (Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, BSKY, LinkedIn)

  • trends, fashion & technology

  • pop culture

 
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GIPHY

Role: Content Strategy Director

I managed a team of five, overseeing all of our editorial and social calendars. I set the strategy to increase our web, embed, and API traffic and in the span of one and a half years, I helped drive our social impressions to over 4 billion impressions as well increasing our engagement by 100%.

All Def Digital

Role: Sr. Content Manager

Lead social marketer and content strategist for ADD52, Russell Simmons and Steve Rifkind's pop-up music discovery platform

Reached over 102 million+ potential impressions on Facebook / Twitter for ADD52 properties through influencer integrations, light paid media, and content optimization in the span of 5 months

 

BLT Communications

Role: Community Manager

Managed the 34 million+ social community of AMC shows on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Instagram

All things content for: The Walking Dead, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Hell On Wheels, Talking Dead, The Killing, Freakshow

360i

Role: Content Manager

Managed the 3MM+ fans/followers across Bravo properties on Facebook (one-off campaigns on Twitter/Tumblr)

All things content for: Real Housewives properties, Shahs of Sunset, Kandi Factory, Top Chef, Million Dollar Listing, Flipping Out, Kathy Griffin's My Life on the D List, Married to Medicine

The Weinstein Company

Role: Social Media Manager

Project managed websites including, but not limited to, "The King's Speech," "Blue Valentine," and "Django Unchained."

Handled digital creative, PR (worked with major publishers such as Fandango, Movietickets, Huffington Post, to organize giveaways, digital exclusives)

Delivered over 30MM impressions

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How I’ve shown up

Welcome to My Crib. It’s Rented. And It’s a Moneymaker.

Though they don’t own their apartments, some renters are investing in the décor and design of their units to display on social media and are getting paid to do it.


How K-pop fans are weaponizing the internet for Black Lives Matter

And four other ways people are using social media to support nationwide protests.


Meme-king Bernie Sanders strikes again at Joe Biden’s Inauguration

TLDR: Bernie Sanders attended Joe Biden’s inauguration with his classic mitten-clad nonchalance, and the internet obviously is here for it.


Look at All the Hot Queer People Posting Their #LGBTQGlowup

We all need to see some smiling, friendly, queer faces from time to time. After all, that’s part of the reason why so many of us are online: looking for information, art, or resources to feel closer to a sense of community. And while Twitter can be actual hellfire most of the time, sometimes it’s really, really good at connecting and uplifting its users with hashtags like #LGBTQglowup.


No More Saving Face

I wrote about my experience of growing up in the church as a gay Korean American.


Speaker at FindSpark: Getting Creative Projects Off The Ground

I spoke at FindSpark on how to get creative projects started at a company, whether it's a startup or a large corporation.


HUFFPOST: Giphy Made Glorious Asian GIFs To Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month


GIPHY Launches GIF Project for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Artist: Angie Wang

Artist: Angie Wang


Talking about the top GIFs of 2016 on CHEDDAR TV


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