{"id":61221,"date":"2026-10-29T10:23:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T07:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesauditimes.net\/en\/?p=61221"},"modified":"2026-10-29T10:23:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T07:23:05","slug":"neal-mohan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesauditimes.net\/en\/neal-mohan\/","title":{"rendered":"Neal Mohan, YouTube Chief Executive Who Took the Platform to the TV Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Neal Mohan is the chief executive officer of YouTube<\/a>, the video platform owned by Alphabet. He took the top job in February 2023 after almost eight years as the service’s chief product officer, and he has spent most of his working life in online advertising and video.<\/p>\n

His tenure has coincided with YouTube’s move onto the living-room television and a sharp rise in its revenue. Alphabet said YouTube’s combined advertising and subscription revenue exceeded $60 billion in 2025, and TIME magazine named Mohan its CEO of the Year for 2025.<\/p>\n

Education<\/h3>\n

Mohan studied at Stanford University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. He later returned to the same campus for an MBA at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.<\/p>\n

He has kept a link with the business school since then. Starbucks lists him as a member of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council.<\/p>\n

Career<\/h3>\n

Mohan started out in consulting. He then moved to NetGravity, a young company that sold software for placing advertisements on websites. NetGravity was later bought by DoubleClick, the online advertising firm, and Mohan stayed on through the merger.<\/p>\n

At DoubleClick he rose to senior vice president of strategy and product development, a post he held from 2005 to 2008. In that role he worked on the company’s plan and led its product teams during a period of fast growth in internet advertising.<\/p>\n

In 2007 Google agreed to buy DoubleClick for $3.1 billion. TIME reported that Mohan handled the deal from DoubleClick’s side, and he then helped bring the two businesses together after the purchase closed.<\/p>\n

From 2008 to 2015 he was senior vice president of display and video ads at Google<\/a>. The job covered the display and video advertising products that Google offers to publishers and advertisers, an area Google had expanded through the DoubleClick purchase.<\/p>\n

In 2015 he moved to YouTube as chief product officer. Over the next eight years he oversaw the product side of the service, from the main app to new formats. TIME reported that in 2017 he began rebuilding the YouTube app for television screens, a project that later became central to the company’s strategy.<\/p>\n

On 16 February 2023, Susan Wojcicki announced that she was stepping back as YouTube’s chief executive. Mohan, who had worked with her since the DoubleClick acquisition, was named as her successor and took charge that month.<\/p>\n

As chief executive he has pushed YouTube further into living-room viewing, sports, podcasts and tools built on artificial intelligence. The platform began carrying NFL Sunday Ticket games in 2023, and in 2025 it hosted its first global livestream of an NFL game, played in Brazil.<\/p>\n

YouTube’s audience reaches far beyond its home base in California. In Saudi Arabia, YouTube was the most used social platform in 2025 with 27.2 million users, according to our report on social media use in the Kingdom<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Creator-led sports coverage is one of the newer formats. In October 2026, selected Roshn Saudi League matches began streaming through a creator-led YouTube brand, as covered in our guide for fans<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Current Roles<\/h3>\n