PAUL
GARRETT
Content Producer · Executive Producer · Editor
Profile
I'm a content producer, executive producer and editor with more than 20 years' experience across broadcast, digital, social, YouTube, podcasts and branded content.
My career has followed the way audiences consume content, from television and promos, through early digital and social, to YouTube, podcasts and creator-led businesses.
I started as an editor and archive researcher, moved into creative production and senior team leadership, and now work across the full content process: finding the idea, producing it, editing it, packaging it for the platform and understanding what the audience responds to.
I've worked with brands, broadcasters, agencies and creators including Betfair, Flutter Entertainment, NatWest, TalkTalk, Sky, Discovery, MTV, Fox, The Jockey Club, British Paralympics, Secret Escapes, Plusnet and Daryl Carter Racing.
I'm particularly useful where content needs editorial judgement as well as production. I can lead a team and manage a significant production, but I'm equally comfortable getting into an edit, finding the right archive moment, shaping a YouTube title or turning a long-form conversation into short-form content.
Selected Recent Experience
Oversee the YouTube channel, podcast and social content for racing analyst Daryl Carter.
Develop content ideas and formats, oversee production and editing, manage YouTube packaging, thumbnails and publishing, create short-form and social content, and use audience performance to help shape future output.
The role combines editorial judgement, production, YouTube management and audience growth, with the content helping generate more than 100 paying members in its first three months.
Worked closely with Betfair's football and horse-racing social and content teams across podcasts, YouTube and social.
Produced and edited recurring football and racing podcasts, developed branding and graphics, created short-form clips and social assets, worked with presenters and contributors and managed fast-turnaround publishing around live sport.
The work often required taking a long-form recording and turning it into an entire content package across video, audio, YouTube and social, while working within brand and compliance requirements.
Also executive produced larger projects for Flutter, including a major content project for a 16K display involving more than 40 specialist roles across production, design, animation and post-production.
Edited YouTube content using racing footage, archive and event material.
Worked editorially with existing footage to find stories and moments that could become platform-specific content rather than simply republishing broadcast material.
Worked closely with TalkTalk's in-house producer creating digital video content for Facebook and YouTube.
Produced social advertising alongside educational and help-led YouTube content based around common customer questions.
The work ranged from promotional films to practical content designed to answer what customers were actively looking for.
Executive produced social content for Plusnet through Accenture.
Worked with the in-house director, assembling and managing the crew and production team required to deliver the films.
Work with the British Paralympics classification department overseeing animation and video projects explaining the classification process.
Manage creative and production delivery, helping turn specialist and sometimes complex subject matter into clear visual communication.
Produced advertising campaigns for Secret Escapes across the UK, Germany and Austria.
Oversaw production and post-production across multiple territories, adapting campaigns while maintaining consistent creative and brand standards.
Managed a long-term content relationship with NatWest, producing monthly video content for its in-branch screen network from the bank's Edinburgh team.
Worked directly with the client to plan, produce and deliver an ongoing stream of branded and informational content across a five-year relationship.
Executive produced a brand film for Moonpig, managing production and post-production through Stoke & Dagger.
Worked with OMD's social and content teams across clients including Channel 4, Celebrity Cruises, Hasbro, London Midland, Grey Goose and Southern Rail.
Projects covered social video, branded content and campaign production, including live-stream content for Walkers.
Executive produced six films for Discovery for the Edinburgh TV Festival, with an overall production budget of approximately £100,000.
Led a multidisciplinary team including a production manager, director, motion designers and 3D designers, overseeing the project from brief through to final delivery.
Co-founded and run a production and post-production company working directly with brands, agencies and in-house content teams.
Over the last decade, Stoke & Dagger has delivered work across sport, betting, finance, technology, entertainment and consumer brands.
My role varies according to the project. I develop creative ideas, pitch work, manage client relationships, build production teams, executive produce shoots, oversee post-production and regularly work hands-on as an editor.
Clients have included Betfair, Flutter Entertainment, NatWest, TalkTalk, British Rowing, British Paralympics, Team GB, Sky, Acer, Paddy Power, Secret Escapes, Plusnet, Moonpig and Tandem Bank.
Earlier Career
Joined Zenith to help launch Newcast, its new content-production offering.
Helped establish the production workflow and worked with the in-house team to develop and deliver branded and early social content.
Projects included work for Galbani, NatWest/RBS, Echo Falls and O2, including shoots involving some of the emerging influencer and creator talent of the period.
Worked with award-winning documentary company Spring Films on the Yahoo! series My Family and Other Recipes.
Combined series production, directing and editing responsibilities, helping adapt traditional documentary production experience to an online publishing environment.
Created, directed, produced and edited television promos for Cartoon Network's UK in-house team.
Produced a major digital-display proof of concept for Barclays' retail banking network.
Managed a £500,000 project and a team of designers, motion designers and copywriters producing video and graphic content for screens within Barclays branches.
Moved to Hong Kong to oversee a team of approximately 20 creatives producing English-language promos for Star TV's movie and entertainment channels across Southeast Asia.
Helped develop the team's writing, directing and editing skills and became increasingly involved in creative leadership.
Following the integration with Fox, moved into branded and ad-sales production, producing commercial content across Asia for Fox and National Geographic channels and working with National Geographic talent.
Created on-air promos for MTV programming, developing concepts and working across editing, directing and production.
Created promos, navigation and next-programme content for Discovery UK and Fox UK.
Created promos across movies, entertainment, kids and sport for HomeChoice, one of Britain's earliest television streaming platforms.
Won a Promax Europe Award in 2007 for promotional work produced for the service.
Worked on documentaries and archive-led productions for broadcasters including Channel 4, Discovery and CBS.
At Movietone News, researched and edited material from a historic newsreel archive covering decades of British and international history, developing an early understanding of archive research, logging and editorial retrieval.
Worked part-time while studying at Farnborough College.
Helped manage and research Chelsea's video archive and built a Microsoft Access logging system for matches, goals, close-ups, reactions and other footage that could later be retrieved for promos and sizzle reels.
Core Skills
Education
Farnborough College
HND Media Technology
Want to work together?
paul@stokeanddagger.com · 07753 835160