BBC Earth Gets Dedicated YouTube Channel

LONDON: BBC Earth, BBC Worldwide’s new international brand for natural-history content, is launching its own channel on YouTube that will showcase shows such as the Emmy Award-winning Blue Planet.

BBC Earth is the global brand for all the BBC’s natural-history content spanning the last 50 years. BBC Earth branding will be applied across TV, DVDs and BBC Nature digital products and the YouTube channel marks the first international rollout of the brand. The BBC Earth channel will initially launch with 50 clips including, for the first time on YouTube, Blue Planet. New clips will continue to be added every week going forward. Further content for the YouTube channel includes five clips from Life of Mammals, five new clips from Turtles Guide to the Pacific, three new clips from Cheetahs: Fast Track to Freedom and five clips that feature ‘Fab Facts,’ where a question relating to the clip is asked at the beginning and at the end of the clip the answer is revealed.

Neil Nightingale, the head of BBC’s natural history unit, said: “I’m delighted that the BBC Earth channel on YouTube will now allow people all round the world to enjoy some of the very best of the great content from the BBC Natural History Unit online.”