Marriott’s Moxy Hotels Launches Celebrity Gossip Series With Taryn Southern

Marriott International’s newest digital series comes from its millennial-focused Moxy Hotels brand. The budget-friendly chain of boutique hotels, which launched its first location in Milan, Italy in 2013, partnered with YouTube comedian and actress Taryn Southern to create the celebrity gossip and interview web series DO NOT DISTURB.

Produced by Marriott Content Studio and filmed at YouTube Space LA, DO NOT DISTURB is hosted by Southern and has a laid-back setting in a mock-up Moxy hotel room. In each episode, Southern will interview celebrities about their careers, best travel experiences, and even topics like what they keep in their overnight bags or what was their last Google search. DO NOT DISTURB also functions as an introduction for the Moxy brand to U.S. viewers, ahead of the hotel chain’s ten upcoming locations in New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, San Diego, and Washington, D.C.

“We are excited about our collaboration with Moxy Hotels and Taryn Southern to produce DO NOT DISTURB,” said David Beebe, VP of Creative and Content Marketing at Marriott International, in a release. “This partnership allows our studio to create innovative content that will entertain and amuse a new generation of consumers, and speaks to the playful nature of the Moxy Hotels brand. Furthermore, this series is another example of how our portfolio of brands is partnering directly with the YouTube creator community to establish long-term relationships with a focus on enabling creators to do what they do best – tell original stories, engage audiences, and ultimately create entertaining content where the brand plays a character in the story.”

“Moxy fully embraces today’s contemporary traveler and welcomes guests with its style, design, affordability, and attitude,” added Vicki Poulos, brand director at Moxy Hotels. “Marriott’s Content Studio gives Moxy creative platforms that sets us apart from other lifestyle brands and helps us connect with travelers through the power of YouTube.”

You can catch all episodes of DO NOT DISTURB on moxyhotels.com and the brand’s YouTube channel starting September 2015.