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YouTube · Sound Stages · Los Angeles
Google Digital Studios
What producing at the intersection of 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 architecture 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.