The Community Lounge
by Steve McLeod
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“We've just got a lawyer to be our Community Manager!” ft Community…
“We've just got a lawyer to be our Community Manager!” ft Community…
About this podcast
The Community Lounge is a place where community managers from video games studios and publishers tell their story of how they got into the role, talk about the challenges they face, and share tips to help other community managers.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 40 episodes
- “We've just got a lawyer to be our Community Manager!” ft Community Manager Julia Rozwens · 38 min · Season 4 Episode 11This week I'm joined by a familiar face: Julia Rozwens, Content Marketing Manager here at Feature Upvote, my own company and the team behind this very podcast. Julia joined us…
- “Have really strong boundaries for yourself” ft Community Manager Faye V · 45 min · Season 4 Episode 10Today's guest is Faye V, Community Lead Advisor at Chaos Manufacturing, returning for part two of our conversation. If you haven't heard part one, we recommend starting there…
- "Online communities are societies" ft. Community Manager Faye V · 40 min · Season 4 Episode 9Today's guest is Faye V, Community Lead Advisor at Chaos Manufacturing. Faye got a psychology degree, taught English in Japan, and spent years as a professional circus performer…
- “Don’t compete with your community for fandom” ft Community Manager Chandler Wood · 39 min · Season 4 Episode 8Today's guest is Chandler Wood, currently working with Skilltree Marketing. Chandler started his community management career truly in the deep end. He left games journalism…
- “Do the Job Before You Have the Job“ ft. Community Manager Greg Castle · 34 min · Season 4 Episode 7Today's guest is Greg Castle, Community Growth Manager for Essential Mod at Spark Universe. Greg started out as an archaeologist before finding his way into the games industry…
- “Every Community Manager has a different way of doing things” ft. Community Manager Danreb Victorio · 39 min · Season 4 Episode 6Today's guest is Danreb Victorio, Community Coordinator at Gamers Outreach — a nonprofit that brings video game entertainment to children in hospitals through their signature GO…
- "We work with real people, with real emotions" ft. Community Manager Kristoph Zandecki · 42 min · Season 4 Episode 5Today's guest is Kristoph Zandecki, a passionate community manager and marketer in gaming based in Poland. Kristoph was seconds away from becoming an English teacher before a…
- "Get people engaged and get them curious" ft. Community Manager Orchid · 40 min · Season 4 Episode 4Today's guest is Orchid, Community Manager at THOMIC, where she works on the cozy-but-brain-twisting rabbit breeding game Rare Rabbits. Orchid's path into games is one of the…
- "It’s a full time job - and then some!" ft. Community Manager Ray Willmott · 36 min · Season 4 Episode 3Today’s guest is Ray Willmott, Social Media and Community Lead at Curveball Games and founder of Ready Mix Consult. Ray’s path into games began after a decade working in local…
- "We're all really creators in some way" ft. Community Manager Milissa Maxin · 36 min · Season 4 Episode 2Today’s guest is Milissa Maxin, Senior Community Manager at Singularity 6, makers of Palia. Milissa’s path into games is anything but conventional. She began her career studying…
- "Community is a major part of everything we do" ft. Community Manager Joshua Callaghan · 32 min · Season 4 Episode 1Today’s guest is Joshua Callaghan, ex-Community Manager, and now an Account Manager at Raptor PR. Joshua began his journey in the games industry as a teenage Reddit moderator…
- "We raised $50K for charity with a video game" ft. Community Manager Greg Cummings · 41 min · Season 3 Episode 8Today's guest is Greg Cummings, Community and Content Manager at Far From Home, a Polish indie studio behind the survival game Forever Skies. Greg's journey into community…
- Introducing the Community Lounge Guides for Community Managers (solo episode) · 7 min · Season 3 Episode 7Welcome to a solo episode of the Community Lounge Podcast! I'm launching the brand new Community Lounge Guides: A series of practical resources designed specifically for…
- "The industry is smaller than you think" ft. Community Manager Vicki Fieldhouse · 35 min · Season 3 Episode 6Today's guest is Vicki Fieldhouse, Senior Community Manager at Secret Mode. Vicki took an unconventional path into games, entering community management in her mid-30s after years…
- "Players like to feel listened to" ft. Community Manager Joshua Mathews · 39 min · Season 3 Episode 5Today’s guest is Joshua Mathews, Marketing and Social Media Manager at Doborog. Josh has spent years in community and marketing roles across the indie games scene, working on…
- “That's my name! I'm in a game!” ft. Community Manager Charis Reid · 31 min · Season 3 Episode 4Today’s guest is Charis Reid, founder of Cut Teeth, an ad-hoc community management agency. After unexpectedly being made redundant earlier this year, Charis turned a setback into…
- When players take it too far ft. Community Manager John Lloyd · 40 min · Season 3 Episode 3Today’s guest is John Lloyd, Community Lead at The Path, a UK-based games marketing agency. John’s journey into community management began long before his first professional…
- "This job changed my life" with Dale Stiffell and Kallum Hoy · 1 h 3 min · Season 3 Episode 2Today’s guests are Dale Stiffell and Kallum Hoy, the dynamic community duo behind Transformers: Earth Wars at Yodo1 Games. The two met while working together at Space Ape Games…
- Turning Player Anger into Advocacy with Jarvs Tasker · 35 min · Season 3 Episode 1Today’s guest is Jarvs Tasker, Head of Communications at Happy Volcano. Jarvs has held several community and communications roles across the games industry, including at Raw…
- "It's all about just being really curious" with Victoria Tran · 34 min · Season 2 Episode 11Today’s guest is Victoria Tran, Games Communications Director at InnerSloth, the studio behind Among Us. She’s also the creator of the Community Dev Newsletter, an organizer of…
