01 · Channel building
Terra Mater YouTube
Founded and built from scratch at Red Bull Media House. A premium factual brand translated into a channel designed for YouTube. Today 600K+ subscribers.
Strategic Storytelling · YouTube Direction · Format Development & Production
For innovation-driven companies, science institutions and all other entities that have something important to say.
Vienna based · Working across Europe 🇪🇺
Selected work · 01
The point of view
Your expertise is the raw material. With market, audience and trend research & strategic storytelling tools, I turn it into one strong narrative and carry it across content platforms, from YouTube formats to websites and newsletters, from the first idea to the final delivery.
Selected work · 02
01 · Channel building
Founded and built from scratch at Red Bull Media House. A premium factual brand translated into a channel designed for YouTube. Today 600K+ subscribers.
02 · Science communication
A YouTube channel for the Austrian Academy of Sciences that turns research from across the country into episodes a young audience actually watches, across biodiversity, psychology, demography and more. My part: format development, scripts, direction and packaging for the long-form episodes.
03 · Original documentary series
It is people who change things. My own documentary series follows the innovators building environmental and breakthrough technologies, with field reports, interviews and deep dives into real applications. No hype, no doom.
Services · 03
An analysis of your channel and stories, with clear priorities for what to change next.
Format development, narrative structure and series concepts people want to follow.
Strategy, production workflows and packaging that can scale without losing the story.
Ongoing sparring and practical storytelling training for teams, including ABT.
YouTube direction and hands-on production are available as delivery, not an afterthought.
How I work · 04
Find the substance, audience and real tension.
Build the narrative and the repeatable format.
Direct every decision around the story.
Learn from behaviour and strengthen the system.
Workshops · 05
The Storytelling Craft for Innovative Leaders
A hands-on workshop with proven storytelling tools that work hardest in practice, from Randy Olson’s And-But-Therefore framework to narrative structures used in film and media. Participants learn to turn facts, data and ideas into a story that creates tension, direction and action.
About · 06
I’m Philip del Alcázar, an independent storytelling strategist and YouTube director based in Vienna.
For more than 15 years, I have worked across video, digital storytelling and YouTube. I founded and built the Terra Mater YouTube channel at Red Bull Media House and later worked as Senior Storytelling Consultant and YouTube Director at tubics.
My work connects story, format, production and distribution. The goal is not content for content’s sake. It is a narrative an audience chooses to stay with.
EducationMSc in Sustainability, Entrepreneurship & Technology. Masters Degree in Film and Media Studies.
FilmProduction work on theatrical documentary films for the big screens.
Agency experienceYouTube strategy, channel audits and packaging.
LanguagesEnglish, German, Spanish and French.
Start a conversation · 08