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First YouTube space facility in Middle East region opens in Dubai
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IANS | 19 Mar, 2018
Google-owned video platform YouTube opened a "YouTube Space" in Dubai,
the first-of-its-kind in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
Located
at Dubai Studio City, the YouTube facility aims "to support the growing
creator community in the MENA region by giving them access to a
state-of-the-art production space," Xinhua cited state news agency WAM
as saying.
The space, which is the tenth in the world, is
dedicated to YouTube content creators who would have free access to
high-end audio, visual and editing equipment in addition to training
programmes, workshops and courses.
More than 440,000 creators
have visited the nine YouTube Space facilities around the world since
the programme was first launched in 2012, said David Ripert, Head of
YouTube Spaces in Europe, Middle East and Africa.
"Creators are
the heartbeat of YouTube and supporting them has long been one of our
most important priorities," Ripert was quoted as saying.
"As a
platform, YouTube provides a blank canvas for creative expression and
the Space will be one of the tools creators use to tell their own
stories," Ripert noted.
The MENA region has more than 200 YouTube
channels with over a million subscribers, and over 30,000 channels are
subscribed by more than 10,000 users, Robert Kyncl, Chief Business
Officer of YouTube, was quoted as saying.
The Arab world has
experienced a 160-per cent increase in the number of channels uploaded
from MENA countries in the past three years.
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