Brian Walton is a creative-minded communications and marketing professional with experience in editorial, publicity and brand management. He notably worked as a content writer & producer for PUBG, managed publicity for clients like Netflix, DC Comics, Fandom, and Riot, and served as the Editor in Chief of Nerdist, cultivating a team that rose the site's profile from celebrity blog to destination pop culture news site.
Brian's written work has been featured on Screenrant, Ranker, Geekscape and in press releases featured on gaming, film and comic news sites.
Walton co-produced events for Nerdist that included panels at numerous conventions and were featured in Rolling Stone's "10 Things to See at Comic-Con". He also produced the "50 Years of Trailer Park" panel at Comic-Con International 2019, highlighting 50 years of movie trailers featured at the convention. Previously, Walton co-created and produced panels for ZomBCon, a zombie fan convention in Seattle, Washington, featured in an in depth article by Chuck Palahniuk for Playboy Magazine in 2011.
Walton is a trained projectionist and cinephile.