Our local YouTube celebrities gathered last week at the first official YouTube Pop-up Space in Bangkok to hang out, network, attend workshops and produce potentially viral videos.
YouTube launched its first ever Asia Pacific YouTube Pop-up Space May 12 at G Village Co-creation Hub in Lad Prao. The two-day event was a success and a follow-up has been scheduled for the week of Aug. 22.
YouTube Spaces offer free access to state-of-the-art audio-visual and editing equipment to produce top-quality digital video content for their own YouTube channels, according to The Nation.
It’s no surprise that YouTube chose Bangkok as their first Asia Pacific location. Thais are some of the most avid users of social media, with the most popular social networks being Facebook, Line and YouTube, according to the Bangkok Post. Thailand boasts 16 million YouTube users.
These YouTube Spaces, whether permanent (as they are in Tokyo, Los Angeles, London, New York, Sao Paulo, Berlin, Paris, Mumbai and Toronto) or Pop-up, as they have been in Mexico City and Nashville, Tenn. before Bangkok, are designed to give local original content creators a place to work, network and share ideas.
The Bangkok Pop-up space also hosted happy hours, workshops, and an award ceremony where the most active and highly-watched Thai creators received awards for their work. Among those honored were entertainer TubtimTube (247K subscribers), ink & fern from 108Life (376K subscribers), beauty blogger NdMikki Holic (106K subscribers) and gamer Zbingz (1.3M subscribers).
David Macdonald, head of YouTube Spaces Asia-Pacific, said, “By setting up these Pop-up Spaces for Thai creators, we hope to empower Thailand’s next generation of digital creators to learn, connect and create new content, by giving them access to fantastic studios, and cutting-edge audio, visual and editing equipment.”
Empowering Thailand’s next-gen creatives? We love it.
