Something that has always bothered me about the arena is the fact that it’s not posted on YouTube. If you want young people to engage in politics, you need to go where they are, which is YouTube.
So I created a small script that automatically post them as soon as they are avaible. The thumbnails I make myself manually. So from now on you can watch the Arena on youtube every saturday if you want:
https://www.youtube.com/@srf_arena
This is just an important issue to me, and I’m hoping that more people can engage with politics if it becomes more accessible to them.
Since I do not want to violate the rule on self promotion, I explicitly call out in the channel description that this is an unofficial channel that the SRG can take over at any time and continue to use officially. Monetization is turned off but regardless if the post is a problem I get it. I am only doing this because the SRG has seemingly made no progress on this issue for years, so I think this is a good solution.
The Arena is now avaible on youtube
byu/justyannicc inSwitzerland
Posted by justyannicc
3 Comments
Good on you for taking the initiative 👍
Cool initiative! Maybe someone could do the same thing for the French speaking equivalent, i.e. Infrarouge.
IIRC it is because the SRG made an agreement with private medias that they will keep there online presemce to the minimum and only use social medias to reach audiences that can only be reached this way. That’s why they are on IG but not YouTube.