Geek Syndicate Issue 9 March 2014 | Page 31

Geek Syndicate stop working and the projects come thick and fast. GS: What traits do you think are needed to work in digital marketing? MM: A sense of honesty and fun, and skin thicker than a hippo’s. GS: How did you end up working in digital marketing? MM: I was a local newspaper journalist for a number of years and then crossed into local government communications. During that time there was a major shift in the way marketing worked as the true impact of the internet began to dawn on everyone. Now working in any kind of PR, but especially publishing, cannot be done without jumping headlong into the digital sphere. GS: What was your most successful media campaign that you worked on to date and why do you think it was a success? MM: Far and away the most successful project was publicising ‘Closet’, a Judge Dredd story that ran in 2000 AD earlier this year (2013 - ed) and dealt with issues of homosexuality in Mega-City One. Thanks to some good placement, the story went global an