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Doug Ford was most recently the Director of Music and Podcasts Content Strategy at YouTube/YouTube Music, based in NYC. Doug oversaw a global team that collaborated on content strategy and developed and maintained YouTube Music’s owned and operated playlist ecosystem, which is centered around premium playlists for every genre, mood, and moment of a user’s life, and includes high profile brands such as “RELEASED”, “The Hit List”, “Al Milion” and “On Everything”. Doug’s team consisted of content experts who worked hand-in-hand with Product Managers and Engineers to optimize music and podcasts recommendation experiences. They are the humans in the human + machine mix that YouTube employs to ensure that YouTube Music playlists serve the right music to the right user at the right moment.Doug was previously a Senior Director and Head of Music Culture & Editorial for Spotify, based in NYC.Doug came to Spotify in May 2013 as part of the company's first acquisition of Tunigo, where he was Global Director. In his role he built and oversaw playlist curation teams cooperatively on a global level, and represented the Shows & Editorial team cross functionally with other global teams within Spotify. Doug was instrumental in helping bridge Human and Algorithmic curation at Spotify. Additionally, Doug was involved in recruiting and managing a significant portion of Spotify's Global Curation team, including all of Spotify's high profile Genre specialists. In addition to critical and foundational contributions to Spotify's overall playlist philosophy and ecosystem, Doug established "The Syndicate", a network playlist strategy that developed some of Spotify's biggest brands, including RapCaviar, Today's Top Hits, New Music Friday, Rock This, Are & Be, Mint, and Hot Country.In 2000 Doug co founded a ground breaking and successful online predictive song testing company called HitPredictor which was subsequently sold to Clear Channel/iHeartRadio in 2010. Doug also has had success as a record label owner, one of the highlights being the discovery and signing of multi-platinum rock act Crossfade to Columbia records. Doug began his career by writing, performing, touring, and recording as a multi-instrumentalist/vocalist. He helped create and manage a large residential recording facility in Upstate NY, working for many years as a producer/engineer for a large number of artists in multiple genres, and was VP of the studio's Grammy nominated indie record label.

Listed skills include Music, Digital Media, Record Labels, Social Media Marketing, and 54 others.