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Our mission

To guide our audience through an increasingly complex digital world by humanizing technology and filtering out the noise.

Who we are

Digital Trends, the largest independent premium technology publisher in the world, is an award-winning multimedia brand that guides consumers to the best products and services available today — and uncovers the innovations that will shape their lives tomorrow. With more than 6 million social followers and a website that reaches 30 million worldwide, the brand interacts with more than 100 million people per month.

We cover tech for the way you live: not just gadgets, but the powers they unlock in your life, the story of the people who made them, and the way they’re reshaping the world outside your window. Digital Trends filters the torrent of devices and innovation that surround us through a human lens that elevates experience above specs, hype, and marketing. The rapid pace of change creates a conversation that’s always engaging, entertaining, and challenging. You don’t have time to become an expert. But we’ll help you become one.

Meet the team

Digital Trends writes for people beyond your average tech geek. Many folks who don’t care at all about tech rely upon the dozens of editors and writers at Digital Trends for news on the latest iPhone software update, how to fix their laptop, and what TV model to buy. Here are the people that make it all possible — and the principles of transparency, equity, and integrity they strive to uphold.

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Publisher / CEO

Ian Bell is Publisher & Founder of Digital Trends Media Group which includes sites like The Manual, Digital Trends,  Digital Trends en Español (DTES), 21OakNewFolksPawTracks, and more.

Ian Bell founded Digital Trends in 2006 as a site that reflects his passion for consumer electronics, entertainment and gaming. Ian likes to spend his free time, watching movies, playing video games, building the latest gaming rig and listening to music. 

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Managing Editor

As Digital Trends’ Managing Editor, Nick Mokey oversees an editorial team delivering definitive reviews, enlightening buying guides, and incisive analysis. His decade-long career at the company has seen him writing, editing, managing, hosting videos, guiding conference tours, moderating panels, and presenting Tech Talks to companies including Microsoft and GM. He never met a headline he couldn’t tighten up.

Offline, you can find Nick hiking, biking, riding motorcycles, woodworking, or puttering down forest roads in the 4×4 camping van he imported from Japan. He grew up in Rochester, NY, holds a degree in Magazine Journalism from Syracuse University, and still drinks Genesee beer.

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Digital Trends Media Group is an award-winning publishing company encompassing a number of millennial-focused media brands including Digital Trends and Digital Trends en Español; men’s lifestyle publication The Manual; and a number of other popular titles. With easy-to-understand reviews and entertaining news and videos, Digital Trends Media Group serves more than 125 million unique visitors each month across partners and platforms. The company’s syndication partners include Apple TV, Android TV, ABC News, Roku, Oath, Fire TV, Atmosphere, DailyMotion, and more. Digital Trends Media Group is headquartered in Portland, OR.

For more information, visit DTMG.co.

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Office

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Portland, OR 97239

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