Case Study
/Creative Content Expansion
79M
LIFETIME VIEWS FOR TWO ORIGINAL FRANCHISES
480,000
VOTES CAST IN BRACKET CHALLENGES
Objective: Reinvigorate a legacy broadcast brand for a generation that had never watched appointment TV, which meant treating Access Hollywood not as a red carpet interview show that happened to have social channels, but as a content company that could originate IP of its own.
Strategy: I built two parallel tracks. First, I developed original franchises. I pulled from both our archival library and new interviews to design content that served current digital audience trends, rather than merely repackaging red carpet moments.
Second, I built the Ultimate Bracket Challenge, a recurring interactive series that turned pop culture moments into a standing engagement habit throughout the year instead of a one-off activation. The through-line across both was the same bet: that owning our own recurring formats, not just covering other people's events, was how we'd earn new audience's attention on a repeat basis.
Results: Both tracks proved the thesis. "Present Delivery" and "Behind the Easel" — franchises built entirely from this strategy — generated 41M and 38M lifetime views respectively, showing these formats could hold an audience.
The Ultimate Bracket Challenge drove over 480,000 votes across the series, and the "Mimi Madness" bracket earned something no media budget can buy: Mariah Carey’s direct engagement. The music legend shared the launch post on her own X account and posted a video filling out the bracket herself.
Together, these concepts became the proof that Access Hollywood could originate IP, not just repackage news.
Original Franchises
Bracket Challenges