BBC Reel marks the broadcaster's effort to collect all video under one new platform and give new life to evergreen content from around the BBC's multiple brands and verticals. Each day, BBC Reel will publish a themed playlist, chosen by one of its six-person team, containing one newly commissioned video. The other four or five videos will be taken from verticals like BBC News, BBC Culture, BBC Travel, BBC Future or from the digital video produced by its numerous radio brands. The playlist also features a BBC News video about nuns in Mexico who saved a sacred type of salamander; a BBC Earth video about a rare hand-reared bird in Spain; and a BBC World Service report on a conservationist who saved a humpback whale. The public-service arm of the BBC has explored short-form video playlists with the more U.K. focused BBC Ideas and BBC Stories, both of which can cross-promote with BBC Reel. BBC Reel is built on the same technology as BBC iPlayer, but iPlayer is built and targeted at the U.K.-license fee payer, not the BBC's international audience. BBC Reel is an initiative of BBC Global News, an independent entity supported by commercial revenue, so it's not funded by the U.K. license-fee payer. Read more