Head of Culture & Trends at YouTube. Video culture and nonsense expert. Author of the book VIDEOCRACY from Bloomsbury https://xitter.cf/t.co/PnrjtmI2CF 🌈🌈🦊📈

Brooklyn, NYC
Joined July 2009
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@YouTube28 Oct 2022
a tribute fit for a king 👑 join us in celebrating @Technothepig's 9th channel anniversary with a look back at his journey. watch the full video here → yt.be/sW4To
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Check out YouTube's first Culture & Trends Report! @shockallocca's team put together an interactive video experience to show us the current state of digital culture, from 5 billion views of home workouts to 40 million views of virtual choirs: yt.be/BiVv
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@YouTube12 Nov 2020
About Rewind this year.
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@MKBHD30 Jun 2020
Imagine being in charge of YouTube Rewind 2020
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I made a game! Presenting LiesGame.com. It's a quick, free game about making up lies that you can play with 2-8 people.
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@YouTube18 Mar 2020
For those of you who can #StayHome, some creator #WithMe videos to help you keep boredom, hunger and cabin fever at bay.
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7th graders prepared to write captivating introductions to their @TEDTalks by analyzing mentor talks of @shockallocca & @ChimamandaReal #TCRWP #CavalliniPride
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"Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez" started streaming as a Netflix Original docuseries today. Proud of the story our team worked on and wove together: netflix.com/title/81062828
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I caught up with @shockallocca at the @YouTube beach club during @Cannes_Lions. He has great insights into the way YT has changed over time and the role it plays in daily life, and also what it means to have his finger on the pulse of billions of people. apple.co/2hmRoE1
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I spent way too much time putting together this video of Alex Trebek saying the word "genre," so now you have to RT it. Sorry, I don't make the rules
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With daily watch time now reaching 1B hours, new patterns of culture are constantly emerging. Ben Jones, Kevin Allocca, and Cecile Frot-Coutaz will be at Cannes to talk about it tomorrow → bit.ly/2IkLD6S
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@LilNasX1 May 2019
we look amazing kevin
Just chilling with @LilNasX and talking about memes. Peak 2019.
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"The fact is that you are greater than any trend. Your perspective, your creativity, your voice ultimately supersedes any trending phenomena." - @shockallocca, #VidConLDN
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"Audiences connect not with the subject matter, but with the person exploring it with them. With you." - @shockallocca, YouTube's Head of Culture & Trends #VidConLDN
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@YouTube6 Dec 2018
It's almost time... #YouTubeRewind drops at 10am PST TODAY at this link: youtu.be/YbJOTdZBX1g.
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NEW: @YouTube has unveiled the top trending videos of 2018 and two of the top five videos are tear-jerkers. YouTube's Head of Culture & Trends (@shockallocca) is here to discuss the top videos: cbsn.ws/2L0eahN
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Rolling Stone
@RollingStone7 Nov 2018
There was no song of the summer this year — and there never will be one again rol.st/2DtaN21
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“Ultimately the thing that I realized I was most interested in is why people like things and how entertainment works,” Kevin Allocca, BC '06, said. bcheights.com/magazine/index…
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“A celebration of all things YouTube, replete with backstories about certain videos and what precipitates their rise or fall … An enjoyable read.” --PopMatters bit.ly/2L2Zim0 @shockallocca
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