About Ryan.

Hey there! I’m a content marketer that’s worked with companies including Google, GoDaddy, Clearbit, Wistia, and Algolia.

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I’m currently the Director of Content Marketing at Ahrefs. Check out our blog, YouTube channel, and newsletter, read by 284k SEO professionals.

Previously I was CMO at the content marketing agency Animalz, where I generated over 2 million pageviews for the Animalz blog, and ran workshops with companies like Andreessen Horowitz, Writer, Drift, Clearscope, Wynter, and BrightonSEO.

I’ve been a writer, content strategist, team lead, marketing director, VP, CMO, and agency co-founder.

I’m also the author of two novels, the host of the Ash Tales podcast, an amateur landscape photographer, and the guitarist for The Schrödinger Effect.

My resume.

A potted history of my recent roles. Learn more on LinkedIn.

Ahrefs (2023–Present)

  • Director of Content Marketing (Aug 2023Present)

Ahrefs.com is a very powerful toolset for SEOs and online marketers.

Animalz (20182023)

  • CMO (Nov 2022Jun 2023)

  • VP of Content (Sep 2021Nov 2022)

  • Director of Marketing (Jun 2020Sep 2021)

  • Content Strategist (Jan 2019Jun 2020)

  • Content Marketing Manager (Jan 2018Jan 2019)

Animalz is a B2B content marketing agency, serving companies like Google, Shopify, Algolia and Intercom. I joined as a content writer and left as CMO.

Cobloom (20152018)

  • CMO & Co-founder (Jan 2016Dec 2017)

  • Content Strategist (Jan 2015Jan 2016)

Cobloom was a B2B content marketing agency. I joined as a writer and took an ownership stake when the company pivoted from reputation management to content marketing.

Freelance (20112015)

  • Content writer (Jan 2011Jan 2015)

I worked as a freelance copywriter and content marketer during (and after) university, offering a white-label service for agencies looking to outsource their content marketing.

My links.

This is a collection of my podcast appearances, webinars and talks, popular tweetstorms, and bylined articles (excluding many hundreds of ghostwritten articles for customers). This page is curated largely for personal use, but you may find the most recent links helpful too.

I have highlighted my favorite links with a ⭐:

Bylined articles

Ahrefs (2023 - present)

Animalz (2018 - 2023)

Search Engine Land (2021)

ConversionXL (2018)

Zapier (2018)

Cobloom (2015 - 2018)

Kapost (2014 - 2015)

Webinars

Podcasts

As guest

As host

Tweetstorms

Projects