Director of Marketing at Spout LLC
Greater Chicago Area
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- Director of Marketing at Spout LLC
- Writer/Owner at Movie Marketing Madness (Sole Proprietorship)
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- New Media Specialist at MWW Group
- Writer at MarketingVox
- Writer/Blogger at Weblogs, Inc.
- Digital Media Specialist at Bacon's Information
- Writer at FilmThreat.com (Sole Proprietorship)
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Chris Thilk’s Summary
Diving into social media back in 2003 or 2004 has led to a great career. First it allowed me to expand what I was doing at Bacon's Information (now Cision) and then in my role as a New Media Specialist at MWW Group.
Parallel to that has been my evolution as an online writer in my own right, on my Movie Marketing Madness and other blogs as well as with the various freelance opportunities that have come my way.
Currently I am Director of Marketing at Spout.com, where I'm working to bring greater awareness to the movie-centered conversations happening there.
Chris Thilk’s Specialties:
social media relations, blog setup, blog maintenance, blog strategy
Chris Thilk’s Experience
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Director of Marketing
Spout LLC
(Motion Pictures and Film industry)
August 2008 — Present (1 month)
Overseeing a wide variety of marketing activities - from SEO to brand identity - I'm responsible for finding ways to inform people about the movie-based conversations that are happening on Spout and how they can use the site to find new movies they might grow to love.
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Writer/Owner
Movie Marketing Madness (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Marketing and Advertising industry)
February 2005 — Present (3 years 7 months)
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New Media Specialist
MWW Group
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; IPG; Public Relations and Communications industry)
April 2006 — August 2008 (2 years 5 months)
My day to day work involved researching and brainstorming on new media strategies for clients. That includes blogs, podcasts, wikis and RSS. I'm also a blogger the agency site openthedialogue.com.
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Writer
MarketingVox
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
February 2007 — June 2008 (1 year 5 months)
MarketingVox covers the online media and marketing space, discussing new trends in online and new media advertising, with a focus on how that applies to media buyers. The articles or posts aren't bylined but rest assured I'm there.
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Writer/Blogger
Weblogs, Inc.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)
May 2005 — January 2007 (1 year 9 months)
Since May of 2005 I have been writing for a number of the blogs owned by the Weblogs, Inc. network. Primarily I've been writing for AdJab, where I've recently taken over as editor.
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Digital Media Specialist
Bacon's Information
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Public Relations and Communications industry)
September 1998 — April 2006 (7 years 8 months)
I've was part of what is now the Digital Media team at Bacon's for about six years now. My responsibilities included researching web sites for inclusion in our database and crafting keyword searches for our clients.
Toward the end, my job also included becoming the in-house resource for information on blogs, RSS and podcasting. In the last year I wrote two white papers on those subjects for Bacon's that have been met with some success. -
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FilmThreat.com (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; 11-50 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)
February 2004 — February 2006 (2 years 1 month)
Since early 2004 I have been writing for FilmThreat.com. My first column was titled "Movies on the Brain", where I wrote about what random thoughts and distractions were coming to mind while watching what often turned out to be a terrible movie.
After about three months of that I ended that column and began the Movie Marketing Madness one. This has been ongoing since May, 2004. In it I review the campaign for a new movie and comment on what works for me and what doesn't. My primary focus has been on blockbuster-type releases (they provide easy targets) but I have on occasion shown the spotlight on a smaller release that I've been looking forward to.
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Chris Thilk’s Interests:
movies, marketing, advertising, blogging, writing, public relations, music, technology, internet, new media
Chris Thilk’s Groups:
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MWW Group Alumni
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