Content & team leadership
A content strategy carried into delivery by a 5-person team.
At Digital Brandria, I led the digital presence project for Sky News Arabia presenter Youssef El Sherif, coordinating 5 people across content and distribution. Average YouTube video views reached 2× their previous level within the first six weeks of the project.
A project led through Digital Brandria
5 people. A delivery process I carried with the team.
Average YouTube video views within the project’s first six weeks.
- Strategy
- Production
- Distribution
- Performance review
At a glance
- Project owner
- Youssef El Sherif, a presenter at Sky News Arabia
- Engagement
- Delivered through Digital Brandria
- My responsibility
- Strategy, advisory work, task allocation, team coordination and performance review
- Project team
- 5 people under my direction
- Platforms
- YouTube, Meta, X and newly established social accounts
- Outcome window
- The first 6 weeks of the project
Developing a presence that worked across the platforms
The goal was to develop Youssef’s social presence, reach a wider audience and improve the opportunity to monetize the content.
I researched the market and competitors, developed the strategy and proposal, and advised Youssef directly on hooks, content structure and production tools. Putting it into practice meant coordinating the videos, accounts, publishing and performance review.
I translated the approach into work the team could deliver
I assigned tasks and followed the output through production, publishing and review. The work included improving thumbnails, selecting valuable excerpts, developing shorter clips, scheduling content and contributing to video openings.
We reviewed video performance, improved discoverability and developed comment management. Those activities informed the ongoing decisions about what to publish and how to present it.
The surrounding account work mattered too
We aligned usernames, established accounts on platforms where he had no presence and removed impersonation accounts.
I also enabled simultaneous livestreaming across multiple platforms and recommended technical search improvements for his articles on the Sky News Arabia website.
Together, that work supported a more coherent presence and made the content and its owner easier to find.
The first six weeks
Average views per YouTube video reached 2× their previous level, alongside an increase in earnings as the project developed.
I set the strategy, led delivery through the 5-person team and reviewed performance, while advising Youssef directly on his wider digital presence.
What the responsibility required
Leading delivery means making the objective useful to the people doing the work. Each person needs to understand what they are producing, why it takes priority and how its performance will be assessed.
That experience complements my independent media venture. With Elkhabar Bewodooh, I operated the project myself; here, I turned the strategy into coordinated work across a team.
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