Screen Australia has partnered with Google Australia/YouTube once again on the Skip Ahead program. Now in its sixth year, the initiative has committed over $900 000 in production funding to local Youtube Creators, to help support them in creating more ambitious content for their channels, with 2020 seeing the largest group of recipients to date.
Google representative Lucinda Longcroft stated her appreciation for the 2020 talent pool, as well as the consistently strong results that the program produced over six years: ‘We continue to be amazed by the calibre of ideas and projects YouTube creators are developing for Skip Ahead.