Leading Initiatives

Led EMEA social media strategy for creators and consumers, along with owned social channels. Supported the launch of YouTube Shorts by identifying trends to kickstart a trends engine and drive relevancy for the new product. Led multiple x-Google initiatives around key EMEA topics that supported executive and Google properties.


YouTube Shorts

With the launch of YouTube Shorts, the company was competing against the giant of TikTok. The key factor missing was the ability for trend content to be built on YouTube Shorts before TikTok. To help support this effort, I worked to help build a trends engine that identified trends on platform early, seed them to creators, and find ways to amplify across other social channels.


YouTube Creators

Creators are the heart of YouTube, they are also our biggest advocates and critics. To ensure we built positive relationships and perception for the platform, a strategy was designed to help humanise the brand via actually showing up for our creators where they were. By actually watching creator content, commenting, and elevating their content across YouTube channels, we saw a positive sentiment shift across for YouTube across the communities. These learnings were scaled out globally to all markets and also built in to our event strategy to ensure we connected and supported our creators at local, regional, and global events - building shareable moments, but also moments of connection.

Connecting Creators and Fans

Building on the insight of creators and their connection to their communities, worked on initiatives such as YouTube Love Notes that elevated fan comments in support of their creators to let the creators see how appreciated they were. Other activations include cross-Google partnerships for International Women’s Day and holiday moments.