Daniels will manage the YouTube Originals development pipeline and oversee production, the video-sharing website said.
She will join as vice president, YouTube Originals and report to Robert Kyncl, head of content & business operations at YouTube.
YouTube's competitors Netflix Inc and Amazon.com Inc are getting aggressive toward producing original online series and independent low-budget films as traditional media outlets suffer from dwindling audience numbers and falling advertising revenue.
Earlier this year, Amazon announced its plans to produce close to 12 movies a year with budgets of between $5 million and $25 million. This was announced shortly after the e-commerce company signed director Woody Allen to create a TV series.
Google Inc bought YouTube in 2006 for $1.65 billion in a stock-for-stock transaction.
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