What's up!?

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YouTube channel ( news )
language German
founding 4th June 2013
resolution 2015
channels What's up!?
Subscribers over 260,000
Calls over 70,000,000
Videos 1,642
network Mediakraft Networks

What's up!? was a daily updated YouTube news channel for a youth audience operated by Mediakraft Networks .

General

The news channel presented daily news and information from all over the world to a young audience that traditional media can no longer reach. News that had been researched by the editorial team was processed in video form, the selection of topics was based on current political events, and viewers were able to give their feedback and opinions directly through ratings and comments. The makers saw their target group in the 13 to 21 year olds. The video clips were presented by changing moderators against a red background, their length was mostly around five minutes. The magazine Stern rated the clips of the channel as “solid like“ Tagesschau ”or“ heute ”, only presented more casually, not as stiff in language and significantly faster due to the video editing”.

What's up!? and new formats of youth journalism were the subject of a research symposium on media studies at the University of Trier in February 2015 and at the Medienforum NRW in June 2015.

The channel was produced in a studio in Berlin until the end of 2014 , after which production was relocated to Cologne . On October 1, 2015, the Mediakraft Networks channel was discontinued.

team

What's up!? was started in July 2013 by Mediakraft Networks in Berlin with many German YouTube stars. These included LeFloid , Space Frogs , Marti Fischer (TheClavinover), Fewjar , Alive4Fashion, Benjamin Jaworskyj, Hatice Schmidt, Bullshit TV and Mapamundi. The videos were moderated by YouTubers AlexiBexi , Ooobacht, Manniac , Philipp Steuer, RobBubble , Ella TheBee, Rap am Wednesday , Max Krüger and Thien Nguyen. From 2014 to spring 2015, Philipp Steuer was editor-in-chief of the newsroom . The videos were now presented by a permanent moderation team. Most recently, journalist Marius Stolz and media scientist Arne Fleckenstein were part of the editorial team of the news channel.

Awards

  • 2014: PlayAward in the Information on the Videodays category
  • 2014: Pedagogical Interactive Prize (PÄDI) from SIN - Studio im Netz e. V. The jury praised the language suitable for young people and awarded the seal of "educational value".
  • 2015: Kinderothilfe media award for what goes on? - Editor Marius Stolz in the “Online” category for the clip Born to work .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Channel information , accessed December 9, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b Lukas Menzel: YouTube: The “Tagesthemen” for young people , Netzpiloten.de, October 9, 2014.
  3. ↑ Julia Neumann: News of the Youtube Generation: Politics for "Dudes" and "Bitches" , Taz , October 19, 2013.
  4. ↑ a b Vera Linß: Clips for Young Voters: New News Formats on the Net , Deutschlandradio Kultur , August 10, 2013.
  5. ^ News for YouTubers , video from Deutsche Welle , October 7, 2013.
  6. ↑ Marc Reichwein: Video bloggers make the “Tagesschau” look old , Die Welt , August 22, 2013.
  7. ↑ a b Matthias Jauch, Beke Detlefsen: The best channels on the net: How YouTube politics serves , Stern , July 15, 2015.
  8. ↑ Does it work for you !? - Research Symposium of Trier Media Studies , University of Trier , accessed on September 17, 2015.
  9. ↑ Review: The Great Freedom - How Much Journalism Can YouTube Take? , Medienforum NRW , June 11, 2015.
  10. ↑ Eike Kühl: Mediakraft expands YouTube program , Netzfilmblog Zeit online , July 15, 2013.
  11. ↑ The talk from Tuesday, May 26, 2015 ( Memento from October 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), with the “Was Geht Ab!?” Editors Arne Fleckenstein and Marius Stolz, Köln.tv , May 26, 2015.
  12. ↑ Lukas Menzel: Mediakraft presents Was geht Ab!?, Techscalibur and Einfach Geschichte , broadmark.de, October 1, 2015.
  13. ↑ Flicker & See: Mediakraft starts news channel on Youtube , netzfeuilleton.de, July 15, 2013.
  14. ↑ Max Krüger aka FRODOAPPARAT , SWR , accessed on August 4, 2016.
  15. ↑ Michael Kneissler: Mediakraft Networks YouTube: "Geiler Scheiß" , brand eins , 2/2015.
  16. ↑ a b Lukas Menzel: What's going on !? Awarded Pädi 2014 , Broadmark.de, November 18, 2014.
  17. ↑ Anant Agarwala: Report: Loved, clicked, bought! , Focus , May 30, 2015.
  18. ↑ Katharina Wurdack: "We are not a classic lean-back medium" , UnAuf , student newspaper of the Humboldt University , July 13, 2015.
  19. ↑ Peter C. Mueschen: VideoDays Play Awards 2014 - The Winners , Broadmark.de, August 19, 2014.
  20. ↑ PÄDI - the Pedagogical Interactive Prize 2014 , sin-net.de, accessed on September 14, 2015.
  21. ↑ Kinderothilfe media prize awarded: “Children's rights need space in everyday media” ( Memento from January 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Kindernothilfe , November 13, 2015.