YouTube is launching a $1.6 million program that’ll pay news organizations to make short-form content.
The Shorts Innovation Program for News is intended to “strengthen news organizations’ short-form video capabilities through financial grants and specialist support,” Brandon Feldman, YouTube’s director of news & civics partnerships, and Geoff Samek, YouTube’s director of product management for news, said in a company blog post.
For now, YouTube’s pouring cash and support into 20 organizations across 10 countries. Those organizations, it says, were selected based on a “strong existing long-form video presence on YouTube, but looking to improve and expand their Shorts news content creation.”
The program’s first wave of orgs include Univision, France’s Afp, and Singapore’s Mediacorp. YouTube says it will work these organizations for at least the next year.
In addition to the Shorts Innovation Program for News, YouTube’s also launching a news highlight feature that builds off...
The Shorts Innovation Program for News is intended to “strengthen news organizations’ short-form video capabilities through financial grants and specialist support,” Brandon Feldman, YouTube’s director of news & civics partnerships, and Geoff Samek, YouTube’s director of product management for news, said in a company blog post.
For now, YouTube’s pouring cash and support into 20 organizations across 10 countries. Those organizations, it says, were selected based on a “strong existing long-form video presence on YouTube, but looking to improve and expand their Shorts news content creation.”
The program’s first wave of orgs include Univision, France’s Afp, and Singapore’s Mediacorp. YouTube says it will work these organizations for at least the next year.
In addition to the Shorts Innovation Program for News, YouTube’s also launching a news highlight feature that builds off...
- 10/19/2023
- by James Hale
- Tubefilter.com
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