Short daily videos about the place you live. The local news and what's on, every morning, and nothing from three states away. Posted where you already scroll.
Each video picks the stories that matter in and around town: the surf and the weather, ferries and roads, council and community news, and the gigs, comps and swims worth getting up for. Here's a sample morning in our example town, Manly.
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What happened overnight and what matters today, in about a minute.
Where to go tonight and this weekend, close to home.
Plenty of towns lost their local paper years ago. We cover them again, every day, from information that's already public. Here's how a video gets made.
Overnight we gather public sources for each town: council notices, traffic alerts, the weather service, local outlets and venue listings.
We pick the local stories and write them in plain language, with each fact tied to the source it came from.
Photos, maps, the forecast and the details you need, in a video that's done in about a minute.
Both videos go out at 7am on every platform, with every source listed in the caption.
Each channel has its own name, the one locals actually use, and covers its own patch. News and What's On launch together in every town.
Manly first, then Fairlight, Freshwater, Curl Curl and the rest of the Northern Beaches, then the Sydney stories that reach Manly.
Tell us where you live and what the locals call it. Towns with the most requests, and a local sponsor ready to back them, launch first.
Request your townSponsor your town's minute and your business closes every video, every day, seen by people who live within a short drive of your door. No wasted reach in other cities.
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$99 a week per town. That gets you the "brought to you by" end card in every video, the last slide of each day's image post and Stories, and a credit with your link in the captions. Get started.
Public information: council notices and meetings, traffic and road alerts, the official weather forecast, local news outlets, venue and event listings and community groups. Every source used in a video is listed in its caption.
Email hello@localminute.news with the video and what's wrong. We'll correct it or take it down. If a video mentions you and you'd like it changed, tell us the same way.
Send it to hello@localminute.news, ideally with a public link we can cite, like an event page or a council notice. Coverage is an editorial call and is never for sale.
No. Sponsors appear in a clearly marked "brought to you by" slot. They don't choose or change stories, and sponsored messages are never presented as news.
Yes. Follow your town's channel on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube or Facebook. There's no app and no sign-up.
We're launching town by town, starting where locals ask for one and a local business wants to back it. News and What's On launch together. Request your town.