Julia Hamilton Trost

Head of VR/AR & Brand Content Partnerships at YouTube

Bio

Julia is the Head of VR/AR & Brand Content Partnerships at YouTube. For VR/AR, she works closely with partners and YouTube creators to expand the library of compelling immersive content on YouTube. Separately, her team also helps brand partners optimize their organic strategy on YouTube to create more compelling content for users.

Prior to joining YouTube, Julia was the Business Development Lead for Daydream, Google's VR/AR team, managing content partnerships with a focus on VR video. During Julia's time on the Daydream team, Women's Wear Daily selected Julia for their 2017 "10 of Tomorrow" list as an emerging leader in the technology space.

Julia joined Google in 2006 and led partnerships with top tech brands in Google’s media sales division. Passionate about media and tech, she worked at The Atlantic magazine and CNN's “Larry King Live” in Washington, DC prior to Google. Julia resides in San Francisco with her husband and their beloved Lab mix puppy and graduated from Duke University.