FACEBOOK WATCH / RED TABLE TALK
Red Table Talk arrived as a Westbrook production with three cultural icons attached. As voice of brand on Facebook Watch, I shaped how it launched on the platform, and it became the network's number one show.
The show was made for a table.
We launched it into a feed.
THE CHALLENGE
Facebook Watch needed a flagship, and Red Table Talk was it. But a talk show built for intimacy doesn't automatically translate to a feed built for scrolling. The show was already good. The job was making sure the platform did it justice.
WHERE I CAME IN
Stood in as the brand. I was the creative stakeholder between Facebook and the production, working with brand-side PMMs, partner agencies, production houses, editors, designers, and animators to hold a consistent standard across everything the audience saw before they pressed play. Cut for the feed, not the couch. I guided the episodic trailers and optimized promotional assets through design, storytelling, and visual language, built social-first so the show could stop a scroll rather than wait to be found. Stayed hands-on through post. Pre and post-production both, making sure the filmic assets were built to maximize engagement on the platform they were living on.
ROLE
Creative Director (Meta, Facebook Watch), Brand Stewardship, Visual Strategy, Social-First Optimization, Production Oversight
CLIENT: Facebook Watch
PRODUCTION: Westbrook Studios
PARTNER AGENCY: Trailer Park
IMPACT
Facebook Watch's number one original series
14.7M average views per episode, 10.4M followers
The Will and Jada Smith episode drew 15.4M views in 24 hours
Facebook Watch's first-ever Daytime Emmy nomination
Sparked grassroots "Red Table Talk" chapters nationwide