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Molly McDonald

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📍London via NYC/ 🇮🇪/ SRQ
Usually on a plane ✈️
Producer/ Director 🎬
Founder @blue_door_productions
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A Creator Economy ‘Happy Hour’ for newcomers and the curious! A panel chat and guest Q&A with special guests: Aby Hobday - Head of Content @Willne Callum Van De Martel - Global Executive Producer @Red Bull Charley Lebetkin - Founder/Editor Charley Rose Ltd Harry Griffiths - Head of Content @Calfreezy Jack Sylvester - Cofounder @thediaryofaceopodcast John Mason - Director @sidemen Molly Williams - Producer @max.fosh Scott Dunster - Lead Editor @zacalsop Thank you @mollybmcd for organising this event, and making me feel so welcome
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Music video drops 10.3.26
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IdeasFest what an event you were 🤩 Join us in reminiscing over our time back at Champney's this time for an event full of flowing ideas and some incredible talks! Take a deep dive into @ideasfest and explore dreamland where 3 of @creatorleaders own spoke on stage sharing their knowledge on the hot seat!
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We took the Creator Leaders Hot Seats to @ideas_fest on @simonsquibb’s DREAM stage🎤 This time in the hot seat: @cammensah, YouTube strategist behind some of the biggest channels in the UK (and beyond). @mollybmcd, founder of @blue_door_productions and content producer for some of the world’s biggest brands, including Red Bull and National Geographic. @laurenleyva, public speaking expert helping people become better, more confident communicators. @nadernajjar, founder of @leverbrands, the team behind some of LinkedIn’s biggest creators, including Chris Donnelly. Here are some shots from the day! 📸 @shots.by.cas
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a week in the motherland
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Congrats to Gabe and Katie
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Less than a week’s notice to turn around six videos in five days, and that was the very first time she’d even heard of the channel. Molly McDonald opens up about the chaos of working with Friends From Work, from the whirlwind start back in January to what it actually feels like being the one wrangling them on set. A rare, honest glimpse into the behind-the-scenes energy of one of YouTube’s fastest-moving creator teams Comment “MOLLY” and I’ll send you the full episode
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Forty hours of non-stop shooting. Five days to turn around the edit. And a story so big it almost didn’t land. Molly McDonald breaks down the production behind Mitch Hutchcraft’s English Channel crossing, explaining how the team used graphics, piece-to-camera reminders and voiceovers to keep viewers oriented through the exhausting swim and constantly shifting weather conditions. A look at how structure, pacing and clear storytelling can save a massive, complex video in the edit Comment “MOLLY” and I’ll send you the full episode
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200+ million views. Molly McDonald isn’t in a single one of them. She built her career in New York TV (SNL, Law & Order), then moved to London in 2021 with no network and no contacts, and started again on YouTube. In 2024 she launched Blue Door as a one-woman production house. Her actual skill is turning briefs that shouldn’t be possible into something you can schedule. Flying a private jet to Morocco to rescue stray dogs with Zac Alsop meant international animal transport law, vets and health protocols across multiple countries. Six months into Blue Door, a serious accident in London. Five fractures, four surgeries, a possible amputation. She kept the company running from a hospital bed. Full episode out now. Comment “Molly” and I’ll send it to you.
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This is Molly McDonald, and if you've never heard her name, that's the point. She's the elite producer behind the camera on some of the biggest names in the game, from Zac Alsop to Steven Bartlett, Friends From Work, Red Bull and more, with content she's helped create generating over 250 million views. This week on Think Like a Creator, Molly breaks down what a producer actually does, from ideation to publication, why storytelling beats chasing virality every time, and the split-second decision that saved one of Zac Alsop's biggest videos before filming even started We also get into what YouTube videos really cost, the first hire every creator should make, and the quiet pub meetup and group chat that ends up running half the hiring in the industry Plus, the question everyone in the space keeps asking: why is there no female Sidemen? Someone's going to do it Comment “MOLLY” and I’ll send you the full episode
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OFFER ENDING SOON 🎫 LINK IN BIO
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USA Weeks 5&6 💙 The World Cup Final, 1,000 pints of Guinness & a wrap of the show! See y'all in 2030, i'm off to bed.
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