BBC launches news, info channel on YouTube

New Delhi, May 30: Leveraging the growing number of internet users across the world, media giant BBC has launched a new news and information channel 'BBC World News' on the leading online video platform YouTube.

This is part of a non-exclusive partnership between BBC, BBC Worldwide and YouTube to create BBC branded channels online.

Around 30 news clips, gathered from the BBC's 58 international news bureaus and its 250 correspondents worldwide, are available every day.

The clips on the BBC World News (available to users outside the UK only) and BBC Worldwide channels will benefit from Google and YouTube's advertising platforms, generating new revenues for investment in BBC programme development and creation.

''The BBC has more journalists in more places than any other broadcast news organisation in the world. As part of our mission to find new ways to engage audiences around the world, we are delighted to be able to offer a dedicated BBC World News channel on YouTube that gives viewers the freedom to see our first-hand reporting whenever they want,'' BBC Global News Development Senior Vice-President Michele Grant said.

Users can select which of the latest BBC breaking news stories of their choice. They can also comment on clips, rate them and post their own video responses, the British broadcast major announced in a statement here today.

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