YouTube has unveiled a three-day pop-up YouTube Space in Hyderabad for the growing community of independent YouTube creators, it announced via Tweet. According to a PTI report, the production house-like has been set up at Ramoji Film City from October 5 -7, and the pop-up space will help local YouTubers to create more engaging visual content across genres. In these three days, YouTube is looking to help close to 700 creators with business skills, classes on video production, building an online business, and networking with established and popular YouTube creators in India, as per the report. Youtube already has such production house-like space called 'YouTube space' at Mumbai's Film city, on permanent basis, which was launched in December, 2015. The space allows video content creators to access visual and editing equipment, training programs, workshops and community events. In a tweet, it said that close to 7500 creators use its Mumbai space. YouTube is committed to helping creators achieve their full potential ? #YouTubeSpaceHYD pic.twitter.com/eBAQUVMhUO — YouTube India (@YouTubeIndia) October 5, 2017 Why? India looks like an important market for YouTube. In March this year, YouTube said that the company saw 14 creators hitting the 1 million subscribers mark in the past one year, across Entertainment, Music, Tech and Food. In 2016, the company saw over 500 creators across India get over 100k subscribers, “meaning at least one channel is crossing this threshold every day. YouTube has been consistently investing in boosting creators’ success, with initiatives such as the NextUp development program as well as holding more than 50…
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