Meet the IGN Deals Team Covering Black Friday Sales in 2025

The IGN Deals squad has much than 30 years of combined deal-hunting experience. We've been uncovering discounts agelong earlier it was adjacent our occupation to bash truthful and volition proceed to bash truthful agelong aft we retire. The creation of redeeming wealth is thing anyone tin larn to do, but lone a prime fewer person the dedication and thrust to genuinely maestro it.

Thankfully, our squad of experts volition beryllium doing astir of the deal-hunting for you during Black Friday play this year. We'll beryllium utilizing assorted tricks of the commercialized to question retired the champion deals each time to assistance usher you toward discounts connected the things you really privation to bargain this vacation season.

Eric Song, Commerce Manager

Eric started his nonrecreational woody hunting vocation astatine Techbargains backmost successful 2007, aboriginal taking connected further managerial roles astatine LogicBuy and ExtremeTech. In 2016, helium assumed his existent presumption arsenic IGN commerce manager successful complaint of uncovering the champion gaming and tech deals each day. When Eric isn't hunting for deals for different radical astatine work, he's hunting for deals for himself during his escaped time. The champion woody he's precocious recovered was a LEGO Star Wars Millennium Falcon 751982 kit for astir $200 (normally $800) acknowledgment to a Target terms error. When he's not racking up freemogems successful Genshin Impact oregon attempting to suffer value with Beat Saber, Eric's retired successful the Pacific water connected his kayak sportfishing for salmon and halibut.

Robert Anderson, Senior Commerce Editor

Robert has been with IGN for astir 7 years, archetypal starting his vocation penning astir broadband and mobile telephone contracts successful the UK. He's since gone connected to beryllium IGN's nonmigratory gaming deals expert, and has lent his bargain hunting skills to a fistful of IGN's sister sites similar Eurogamer, RockPaperShotgun, VG247, PCMag, and Mashable. Alongside his knack for gaming deals, helium loves a dive heavy to find elusive discounts connected TCGs similar Pokémon oregon Magic, 4K UHD Blu-rays, comics, and a plentifulness more. When he's not penning for IGN, you'll find him playing Darkest Dungeon connected his Steam Deck with a piping blistery cupful of tea. Cheers!

Chris Reed, Commerce Editor

Chris has been penning professionally for 15 years. It each started erstwhile helium got an iPod Touch and started looking for games and thought, “I could reappraisal these things.” In abbreviated order, helium got a occupation arsenic a mobile gaming exertion earlier moving connected to screen console and PC games astatine sites similar The Cheat Sheet and GameSpot. He’s ever had an oculus retired for a bully deal, truthful joining IGN arsenic a commerce exertion was an casual fit. He’s covered Black Friday and Cyber Monday for 7 years and counting, digging up each the champion deals disposable astatine immoderate fixed moment.

Seth G. Macy, Sr. Social Commerce Producer

Seth has been penning astir video games professionally since 2009, starting astatine 1UP.com and moving to IGN arsenic a quality freelancer successful 2014. He was hired connected full-time successful 2018 arsenic Tech & Commerce exertion earlier moving to Executive Editor, IGN Commerce and present Sr. Social Producer, Commerce. Since the commencement of 2025 he's grown the IGN Deals societal commerce accounts by 38,000 followers, an astir 11% summation YoY. A substance of up to the infinitesimal deals, clever graphics, and timely postings person pushed this growth. He besides shows up successful a batch of IGN's video content, owed to his boyish charm.

Jacob Kienlen, Senior SEO Strategist

Jacob has been penning professionally for a small implicit 8 years now, but he's been clipping coupons his full big life. He archetypal got his commencement moving astatine Digital Trends wherever helium people fell into commerce sum astir tech deals and discounts. There, helium led the team's Black Friday and Cyber Monday sum for 2 years earlier moving into a broader role. Since he's been astatine IGN, helium has continued to enactment connected larger contented projects, but inactive helps assistance with income lawsuit sum passim the year. Jacob's relation connected the IGN Deals Team during Black Friday this twelvemonth volition beryllium covering wide income trends astatine large retailers similar Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, and Target.

Blythe Dujardin, SEO Coordinator

Blythe is the newest subordinate connected the IGN Deals team. After 2 years astatine a integer selling agency, she arrived astatine IGN successful 2024 to enactment wide sum strategy portion pitching successful during large income events. She mostly handles streaming sum due to the fact that she suffers from utmost FOMO immoderate clip she misses a discount. Over Black Friday, she’ll beryllium keeping an oculus connected Disney+, HBO Max, Hulu, and Crunchyroll successful particular. As a collector herself, Blythe’s besides ever looking for carnal media deals from large retailers similar Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Her large points of involvement are books, DVDs, and TCGs similar Magic: The Gathering.

Lindsey Salzer, Director of Audience Dev. and Commerce

Lindsey (she/her) has a inheritance successful integer marketing, SEO and assemblage development, spanning implicit 10 years. She has worn galore hats successful her career, but has astir precocious been overseeing the affiliate concern astatine IGN, ensuring IGN's assemblage gets the champion buying guidance connected each of the chill tech, gadgets, toys and games each day. She volition beryllium precise hands connected during Black Friday, supporting the squad immoderate mode she tin to optimize and beforehand IGN experts' deals during the craziness that is Black Friday week. On a idiosyncratic level, Lindsey grew up thrift buying with her mom, truthful bargain hunting is successful her blood. (She adjacent had a manner blog astatine 1 point.) That said, she's a large instrumentality of resale sites similar Depop and eBay.