Content & audience strategist · New York

Good content does not distribute itself; I build what happens next.

From 2023 to 2026 I led day-to-day editorial distribution for Big Think’s flagship partnership with Stand Together: campaign publishing, content packaging, operating standards, and performance analysis across NFL, NBA, film, music, and owned editorial channels.

Jonathan Allen with a family featured in a My Cause My Cleats campaign film
Published campaign film My Cause My Cleats · packaging, publishing, and distribution
14.1M organic views across 63 campaign placements

Campaign films were produced by Freethink and partner creative teams. My work is the editorial packaging, publishing system, partner activation, and analysis around them.

The finding · NFL My Cause My Cleats 2025

The creative did not explain the reach. Distribution did.

I ran the master publishing plan for thirteen NFL player stories, then analyzed the campaign to determine what had actually produced its 14.1 million organic views.

4 stories with league and team amplification same creative template, same quality bar as the other nine 9 stories without it 78.6% of organic views the rest: 21.4% Stories without league amplification averaged under 500K views each, regardless of creative quality. Source: post-campaign performance report.
Institutional amplification, not creative quality, determined scale. That finding changed how the next cycle was planned.

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Reader-stake framing

2.7%

click rate

1.3% twelve-week average

Supporting work · Editorial packaging · Newsletters

The framing was the performance lever

I reframed a foster-care mentorship story around the reader’s stake in the relationship. The issue reached a 2.7% click rate against a 1.3% twelve-week average.

Published Demario Davis Walter Payton Man of the Year carousel
Published carousel · campaign operations

Flagship · Super Bowl LX · 2026

The control system behind a six-day Super Bowl week

41 pieces of content, 130 placements, five video releases inside one 48-hour window. I pressure-tested the plan, tracked partner activation live, and turned the results into a collaborator rule for the next campaign.

Published mixed-media carousel about music and technological change
Published mixed-media carousel

Supporting work · Format strategy · AI × music

Designing around audience skepticism

For an AI and music campaign, I developed three narrative architectures, licensing contingencies, and a kinetic-text fallback. Audience skepticism was the first design constraint; the format followed from there. View the live carousel ↗

Flagship · Systems design · 2024–2026

Making distribution part of the editorial process

I co-designed the two-day workflow and wrote the standards that moved social packaging upstream, from an afterthought to a structural step in how every article shipped.

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How I think

01

Start with the audience tension

Before format or channel, identify what the audience is trying to understand, resolve, or become. Then design distribution upstream.

02

Codify judgment

Standards turn individual taste into repeatable quality that survives volume and staff changes.

03

Name the scope

Every result is paired with the work I actually owned and the parts that belonged to the team.

04

Make analysis consequential

I want analysis to end in a decision: change the channel mix, alter the sequence, or design a real fallback.

History degree, editorial roots, three years running distribution for a national content partnership across NFL, NBA, music, and film campaigns. Based in New York. More about me →

Looking at audience development, editorial distribution, integrated campaigns, content strategy, and owned communications roles. Get in touch →