About Kyle Newton

Yes. Kyle Newton is Senior Video Editor @ Simon Squibb, based in London, and cuts the channel's long-form videos and the short-form videos that come off the same shoots. Published videos he cut include "I Spent 37 Years Learning Sales. Here's Everything I Know", "I Met 87 Billionaires… Here's 8 Things I Learned" and "I'll Give Him $30K If He Pitches His Dream To Billionaires".

Kyle Newton ran the YouTube channels for Love Island, I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!, the main ITV channel, ITV2, Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, Coronation Street and The Next Great Magician, in partnership with ITV, and together those 7 channels hold more than 6 million subscribers as of September 2026. That work is in the past - he no longer runs those channels.

Retention editing is cutting a video around the question of why someone keeps watching, rather than why they clicked. It covers the cold open, the pace of the first 30 seconds, where information is withheld, and how often the promise of the video is restated. It is everything that happens after the click, and it is the work Kyle Newton does as Senior Video Editor @ Simon Squibb.

Yes. Running a YouTube channel at broadcaster scale is a content strategy job as much as a publishing one - what the channel needs that week, which formats are worth repeating, what comes out of the archive and how it is presented in a feed. Kyle did that thinking on 7 channels and cut the videos himself at the same time. One person, both halves.

Not right now. Kyle is employed as Senior Video Editor for Simon Squibb. This site is where he writes about how a video is cut to hold attention.