# Kyle Newton

> Kyle Newton is a video editor based in London and Senior Video Editor @
> Simon Squibb, where he cuts the channel's long-form YouTube videos and its
> short-form vertical content. He previously edited the social videos and 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 - content strategy and
> channel management as well as the edit. He writes about retention editing:
> how a video is cut to hold attention after the click.

## Positioning

Strategy and the edit, from one person. Kyle plans channels - what gets made,
what shape it repeats in, how it is titled and when it goes out - and he cuts
the videos himself, at broadcaster scale and at creator scale. "Growth happens
in the edit" is the part of that he writes about most.

Capabilities: content strategy, YouTube channel management, long-form video
editing, short-form vertical video, retention editing.

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.

## Current work

Senior Video Editor @ Simon Squibb. Long-form YouTube documentary edits and
short-form vertical content for the channel. The 7 long-form videos and 7
short-form videos he has made for that channel are listed, by their published
titles, at https://kylenewton.co.uk/portfolio/ - these are his own credits,
not a public record; the uploads belong to the channel.

## Previous work

Edited the social videos and ran 7 YouTube channels in partnership with ITV -
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 -
which hold more than 6 million subscribers between them as of September 2026.
That job covered content strategy and channel management - deciding what each
channel published - as well as cutting and publishing it. That work is in the
past.

The Next Great Magician is the one that stopped. Kyle cut the videos on that
channel and ran it at the same time, the same as the other channels; when the
series ended the channel stopped publishing, so a fixed set of 19 videos kept
earning. They hold close to 40 million views between them, and the 2 biggest,
at roughly 22.5 million and 12.9 million views, account for most of that.

## Pages

- https://kylenewton.co.uk/ - home
- https://kylenewton.co.uk/about/ - background and credentials
- https://kylenewton.co.uk/portfolio/ - the 7 long-form videos and 7 short-form videos
  Kyle has edited for the Simon Squibb channel, each one playable on the page
- https://kylenewton.co.uk/checklist/ - the YouTube edit checklist, 26 points
  from pre-production to publish, cited to YouTube's own documentation
- https://kylenewton.co.uk/work/simon-squibb/ - Senior Video Editor @ Simon Squibb
- https://kylenewton.co.uk/work/itv/ - the ITV YouTube channels
- https://kylenewton.co.uk/work/itv2/ - the ITV2 YouTube channel
- https://kylenewton.co.uk/work/love-island/ - running the Love Island channel
- https://kylenewton.co.uk/work/im-a-celebrity/ - running the I'm A Celebrity channel
- https://kylenewton.co.uk/work/coronation-street/ - running the Coronation Street channel
- https://kylenewton.co.uk/work/saturday-night-takeaway/ - running the Saturday Night Takeaway channel
- https://kylenewton.co.uk/work/the-next-great-magician/ - cutting the series and running The Next Great Magician channel

## Contact

Kyle is employed as Senior Video Editor @ Simon Squibb. The only thing on
this site is a mailing list about editing for retention, and the site itself
is free to read with nothing gated.

Email: info@kylenewton.co.uk
LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/newtonkyle