YouTube launches India's first pop-up Space in Hyderabad

To support the growing community of independent YouTube creators, YouTube today unveiled its first pop-up YouTube Space in the country, here.

Set up at Ramoji Film City from October 5-7, the pop-up format will empower an emerging breed of young local language YouTube creators to provide richer more engaging visual content across genres.

Built around the "Learn," "Connect" and "Create" model of permanent YouTube Spaces, the pop-up format is an investment focused on the development and growth of content creators across the country, Lance Podell, Global head of YouTube Spaces said.

"India has a dynamic content creator ecosystem and we are excited to bring the benefits of YouTube Space to creators in emerging creative talent hubs like Hyderabad through a pop-up format which is the first-ever in the country," he said.

In the last 10-12 months over 50 independent creators in India have hit the milestone of 1 million subscribers and thousands of creators have hit 1,00,000 subscribers mark, he said.

"With ever-growing Internet user base in India, YouTube presents a tremendous opportunity for emerging language creators to succeed on YouTube and we remain committed to investing in their success," he said.

On the first pop-up YouTube Space launched in the city, Lance said over the next three days, 700 creators will get an opportunity to advance their digital and business skills, with classes on video production, building an online business, and an opportunity to network with established and popular YouTube creators in India.