Vertical is how mobile-first audiences watch news. For most newsrooms, though, getting there still means working backwards: taking footage shot and cut for a horizontal frame, then re-cropping, re-framing and re-editing it for a 9:16 feed. It is a step that consumes editing time and production resource every day, on every clip.
Reuters Vertical Video removes that step, delivering short-form vertical clips, curated and edited by Reuters, formatted to publish straight to your feeds.
Built for vertical, not just cropped
Every clip is 9:16 and typically runs between 25 seconds and a minute and a half, framed and cut for the vertical feed rather than cropped down from a wide shot. Clips arrive ready to post to platforms like TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, Facebook, or your own site. The content is platform agnostic, so it works wherever you publish vertically.
Curated and edited by Reuters
The Reuters social team selects and edits each clip for vertical-native engagement, covering breaking news, moments, entertainment, lifestyle and human-interest stories, with Reuters standards for accuracy and trust behind every one. User-generated content is the one exception: it is supplied in raw vertical form and identified in the metadata, so your team can filter it in or out as it suits your workflow.
Scale your social output without stretching your team
Vertical Video gives your team a consistent supply of ready-to-publish clips, so you can publish directly to your audience and keep pace with breaking moments without adding editing resource. The hours currently spent reformatting can go to the work only your newsroom can do.
How you get it
Access is flexible. Browse, preview and download on Reuters Connect, or take the feed straight into your own systems via the Reuters API. You can also reach it through Reuters MCP, which makes Reuters content available directly inside the large language models and AI tools your team already works in.
If you would rather control the edit yourself, Reuters Video continues to offer raw and wide footage for teams with their own production workflow. Vertical Video is built for the moments when the priority is agile publishing, not producing.
"Our customers are not short of footage. They are short of the time it takes to make that footage work in a vertical feed. Vertical Video is Reuters doing that work up front, to the same editorial standard as everything else we publish, so our customers can go straight to posting."
Conor Molumby, Senior Video Product Manager, Reuters
