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A sample channel's news short: EU solar passed coal

Vertical, from Ember's European Electricity Review: solar 13% of EU power in 2025, past coal since 2024, then the turn: gas power rose 8%.

Example of News Short9:16 · 48 s

Ember's report and Our World in Data, CC BY; CC0 and CC BY footage from Wikimedia Commons; the channel is a sample.

AvailableFull-film skill

News Short

A news short that reads with the sound off, every number with its source.

Install it in your coding agent from its skill page: the install prompt, what it needs and the price are there.

Install or buy

$4.90 once, with its updates · or every skill from $9.90 a month

Good fit for

  • A report, dataset or official release turned into a feed short
  • A weekly or monthly numbers round-up for social

Not for

  • Breaking news you cannot source yet
  • Opinion or campaign content presented as news
Example prompt
Use the news-director skill to make a 40-second vertical news short from this year's annual report of [an energy or health agency], with its sources on screen.

More example films

A sample channel's news short: the world's life expectancy is back

Square, from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: 73.3 years in 2024, above 2019's 72.6 after COVID; then the 30-year gap the average hides.

Example of News Short1:1 · 39 s

UN estimates via Our World in Data, CC BY; the map from Natural Earth; the channel is a sample.

Built-in styles

Caption News

Huge captions over footage and documents, a source tag on every number.

Data Story

Charts that grow from the real numbers, one point at a time.

Example film from Data Video

Collage

Cut-out photos, paper and highlights, like a news explainer.

Example film from Timeline Video

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