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