We believe that whatever you're trying to achieve Lounge Marketing can offer you creative, well thought out, intelligent solutions. If you need support in editorial, marketing, design, web & online development, search engine optimisation, production and more or, of course, a combination of all of these - then contact us and we'll start banging our heads together.

Who we are

Sam Missingham
Director

Sam has worked in publishing for 14 years, starting at Incisive Media working on financial technology publications. She then moved to Centaur where she was marketing manager for a portfolio of titles including New Media Age. She then moved on to become marketing manager for Centaur's portal site www.mad.co.uk

Following a move back to the West Country, she developed subscription marketing campaigns for 18 Future Publishing magazines - including Computer Arts, 3D World, Junior Magazine to name a few.

After setting up on her own, she established Lounge Marketing in 2005 to offer a broader base of publishers and event organisers creative and marketing solutions.

Contact Sam at sam@loungemarketing.co.uk
or call Sam on 01225 339727 (or 0773 4747 482)

Jonathan Taylor
Creative Director

Jonathan has worked in design for the publishing and events industry for over 13 years. His first role was for an electronic publishing company based in Bristol where he developed his online design skills for clients such as British Aerospace, SWEB pus many others.

From there he moved to Future Publishing where he became senior subscription marketing designer for all 70 Future magazines (including T3, EDGE, Official Playstation, .net. MacFormat and more).

Jonathan left Future to set up his own design consultancy www.bopgun.com. His clients here have included BBC Worldwide, BBC Online subscription shop. BBC Haymarket events (Gardeners' World Live, Good Homes Show, Autosport International), Consumer Exhibition (The Wine Show), BSkyB (animation), Natmags, Centaur, Origin Publishing, Pentland (Speedo) and more.

One of his current projects is as Creative Director of Drift Surf magazine.

Contact Jonathan at jon@loungemarketing.co.uk
or call Jonathan on 01225 351 715 (or 07595 099 919)

Ali Stewart
Editorial Director

Ali started her career in publishing 15 years ago. Before which she was a qualified linguist, living and working in Spain for three years. She has been an employee for Northern & Shell, Future Publishing and Merricks Media, working across a broad spectrum of specialist, consumer magazines. 

She has extensive experience in editorial management and direction, launch activity, international publishing and development – both for print and online. In fact, advertising sales is the only area where she has not worked in the publishing world. 
    
She set up her own consultancy Athay & Associates in 2005. Where, amongst other clients, she produces the National Trust's monthly staff magazine - bringing her commercial publishing skills to the Trust and their internal communications. 

These are the strengths Ali brings to Lounge Marketing clients. After listening and understanding the audience's need she creates impact through well-written, well-presented literature. 

Contact Ali at ali@loungemarketing.co.uk
or call Ali on 01225 339 727

Howard Swanwick
Head of Online solutions

Howard has spent twelve years working with some of the major publishers in the UK, including Future Publishing, Origin Publishing, Haymarket and BBC Magazines.

His expertise is in converting well known magazine brands into commercial online resources. He does this through creative and dynamic website builds, back-end programming plus search engine optimisation. In which he has seem great success with optimising triathlon, surfing and craft websites.

Projects he has worked on in the past include Olive Magazine, BBC Wildlife, BBC Focus, BBC History, BBC Sky at Night Magazine, 220 Triathlon and the two largest craft portals in the world Cross-Stitching.com and CardmakingandPapercraft.com.

He now runs his own board sports publishing company, and is the editor of Drift Magazine, one of the UK’s most respected surfing titles.

e: howard@loungemarketing.co.uk
t: 01225 339 727

Jonathan Taylor
Creative Director
jon@loungemarketing.co.uk
or call
01225 351 715
(or 07595 099 919)

Ali Stewart
Editorial Director
ali@loungemarketing.co.uk
or call
01225 339 727

Lounge Marketing
PO Box 3941
Bath
BA1 0BS

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