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Damien Mason

Writer, Editor, Strategist

Senior Hardware Editor for Club386, sitting in the dimension between editorial, ecommerce, and commercial. Formerly Gfinity Digital Media's Affiliate Content Strategist and PCGamesN's Hardware Editor, where I curated the site's view on technology and ecommerce through news, guides, features, and reviews. You'll also find my words in ProPrivacy, KitGuru, Rock Paper Shotgun, and I've even been quoted in pieces for Forbes, TNW, Reader's Digest, and more.

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A bit about me

I’m currently the Senior Hardware Editor at Club386, helping to shape the editorial and affiliate strategies. We take a quality-led approach, diving deep into our gaming hardware reviews and guides, with a community-first approach. I manage a team of two, putting my SerialTrainer7 Management & Leadership Academy certification to use.

I was formerly Gfinity Digital Media’s Affiliate Content Strategist and PCGamesN’s Hardware Editor, bridging the gap between ecommerce, editorial, and commercial. Using SEO tracking tools (SE Ranking, SEMRush, Parse.ly, Search Console, Trends) and affiliate platforms (AWIN, Impact, Skimlinks), I created organic plans to drive more conversions. I managed a team of full-time writers and commissioned freelance pieces.

Other notables include boots on the ground at IFA 2018 for KitGuru, launching the KitGuru Discord server, helping rebrand BestVPN into ProPrivacy in 2019, diversifying ProPrivacy’s content from VPNs into other privacy and security software (ad blockers, password managers, cloud services), and my expertise was quoted in Forbes, TheNextWeb, Digital Spy, Reader’s Digest. I am also a certified manager after completing Serial Trainer 7’s Management & Leadership Academy.

Perks
Trained manager

Complete with certification

No Depth Perception

Unique perspective

Seven years

In the industry

R6 Siege Fan

With ≈4,200 hours

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Skills

Editorial
Research & Investigation
Technical Knowledge
Strategy

Special Abilities

Hardware
Gaming
Film & TV Knowledge
Screenwriting

Blogs and Reports

From timely news pieces to in-depth reviews and ecommerce-driven guides, here are my highlights of the 3,000+ articles I've written. I'm also responsible for editing many more, and producing policy and strategy documents that I can't share publicly.