Ian Van Houten


YouTube Producer and strategist

I’ve been working online since I was 9 years old, using the skills I’ve garnered to help others scale their personal brands and businesses. I specialize in end-to-end YouTube production, turning creative concepts into polished, high-performing videos. From planning and scheduling to creating sets, reviewing edits, and ensuring everything needed for a video is there, I handle every detail so creators can focus on what they do best: being on camera. If it’s on screen, I’ve already made sure it works.

I’ve worked as Channel Manager, Production Manager, and Creative Strategist for some of the largest and most relevant gaming channels, including LankyBox, Checkpoint, and Dash.
I continue to work with YouTube channels outside of my work at Sandbox.

Over the years, I’ve used the skills I’ve developed to help others grow their brands and businesses. This eventually led me to make Sandbox Creative, a YouTube creative services company, where I work with top creators to scale their content by custom-fitting the world’s best YouTube creative talent on teams, and streamlining production systems and the backend.