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About Arsenal Insider

Arsenal Insider is the ultimate destination for fans of North London-based Arsenal F.C. The website was first registered in 2007, and began publishing Arsenal content in 2009. GRV Media Ltd acquired Arsenal Insider in 2020.

Arsenal Insider sets itself apart from other football media outlets with a vibrant team of writers who on top of being fully qualified sports journalists, happen to be lifelong fans of the club. We value the diverse perspectives of our skilled contributors who often echo the thoughts of match-going Gooners.

On top of providing informed opinion and expert analysis, our writers bring you the latest breaking news and updates from the Emirates Stadium.

Over the years Arsenal Insider is proud to have been featured in:

Arsenal Insider is part of a leading independent network of websites including HITC, TBR Football, United in Focus and The Chelsea Chronicle. Together, we are part of UK-based publisher and tech company GRV Media. Discover more about our brands on our own company website.

Contact Us

Arsenal Insider is overseen by John Verrall. You can get in touch with John at [email protected]. You can also contact us by visiting our Contact Us page. Additionally, you’ll find contact details of the wider GRV Media team on our company website’s Contact Us page.

Meet The Arsenal Insider Team

Dylan Walsh

Dylan Walsh

Kyle Archer

Kyle Archer

Lucas Arnold

Lucas Arnold

Rahul Lakhani

Rahul Lakhani

Shamanth Jayaram

Shamanth Jayaram

Subhankar Mondal

Subhankar Mondal

Will Jones

Will Jones

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Arsenal Insider & GRV Media

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About GRV Media

Our business rebranded as GRV Media in 2015, prior to which we were named after the launch website, HITC (Here Is The City). The rebrand coincided with a period of growth through launch and acquisition, and the company now comprises 20 owned-and-operated websites, social channels, and an advertising management business called PROP.

GRV Media’s own brands are focused on sport, entertainment and gaming. Together, our owned and operated websites reach around 30m visitors monthly and are trusted and followed by more than 1m Facebook users.

PROP, GRV Media’s tech arm, works with around 70 publishers worldwide to manage and maximise their advertising revenues.

The combined reach of the GRV network is over 150m visitors each month.

Our People

GRV Media remains owned and run by its founders – Vic Daniels (Co-Founder & Executive Chairman), Graham Morris (Co-Founder & CEO), and Robi Buckley (Co-Founder and Senior Developer).

The founders are supported by an experienced management team; find out more about them here.

Location

GRV Media has proudly pioneered remote working since our inception in 2002. We operated successfully as a fully remote business for two decades prior to the pandemic.

  • Our registered office is 18 Mulberry Avenue, Widnes, Cheshire, WA8 0WN.
  • Our London address for correspondence is 28 Ormiston Grove, London W12 0JT.

You can find contact details for key members of the company here.

Our Values

Our visitors

Like all digital publishers, we want to grow our audience, keep them engaged and entertained, and fund our operations effectively through advertising.

We pride ourselves on the speed, accuracy, and quality of the content we publish, across a wide range of topics. We are also proud to do this in ways that we think are right and decent – we do not, for example, seek clicks by publishing stories about celebrities that are unkind or hurtful.

We unequivocally do not carry advertising which promotes gambling. During the last 20+ years, GRV Media has been repeatedly approached about running gambling ads, and we have chosen to decline every time, believing this is the right thing to do for our website visitors.

Our team

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At the core of the business is our team of around 90 talented journalists, who are valued and nurtured and whose individual contributions are celebrated. We operate in a fast-paced environment, with ever-changing commercial pressures. We value long-term relationships with our editorial teams, meaning that all of our writers are employees of GRV, with associated rights and benefits. We believe this also maintains a higher standard of accountability and integrity journalistically, which is increasingly unusual in the freelance culture so often prevalent in digital publishing.

Our partners

We believe in treating all our contractors, clients and partners with respect. Above all, transparency and honesty are at the heart of our processes and communication. Our publisher clients can be sure that we operate in an open manner, without the smoke and mirrors often associated with advertising technology. We are also proud to have been among the first ad platforms to offer a near real-time dashboard and prompt net 30 days payment terms.

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