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YouTube · Sound Stages · Los Angeles
Google Digital Studios
What producing live events, film-grade production, and social content taught me, and why that thinking is still ahead of how most brands operate.
The story
At YouTube's Stage at Google Campus, I was producing boutique live events inside a professional sound stage, which meant the same day could generate a high-end corporate event, a premium video production, and organic social content, all from a single location and a single crew.
Most brands were running three separate operations to accomplish what we were doing in one. The insight was simple but not obvious: if you design the event with content in mind from the beginning, the live moment and the digital asset become the same product.
The stage had broadcast-grade lighting and sound. The guests were YouTube partners and corporate clients. Every element that made the event premium also made the content premium, if you knew how to see it that way. That's what I brought: the eye that knew what was worth capturing, and the production infrastructure to capture it well.