Short-form news

Ship a short-form news app on one API

Vertical news clips, swipe navigation, in-clip CTAs, push-notification triggers off completion. TikTok-class UX for news.

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curl -X POST https://api.fastpix.com/v1/on-demand \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FASTPIX_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "inputs": [{ "url": "https://your-cdn.com/clip.mp4" }],
    "playback_policy": "public",
    "in_video_ai": { "captions": true }
  }'

9:16 vertical native  Per-clip analytics completion + share  Push triggers off completion events

TRUSTED BY PRODUCT TEAMS SHIPPING VIDEO AT SCALE

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Why short-form news breaks most video stacks

Three things this stack has to solve.

Sub-second swipe-to-next

01

Prefetch the next clip during the current one.

Short-form news needs the next clip to start before the user's thumb leaves the screen. Per-title encoding emits low-overhead renditions tuned for swipe UX.

AI dubbing for regional distribution

02

Same clip, multiple language tracks.

Regional news markets need Telugu, Hindi, Tamil, Bahasa, or other languages on the same clip. AI dubbing attaches alternate audio tracks to the same playback ID.

Publishing pipeline as one POST

03

Source URL to playback ID, no stitching.

Newsroom CMS posts a source URL; FastPix returns a playback ID plus webhook events for encoding and ready states. One API call per published clip.

Build the next

Build the next Inshorts video, NewsBreak vertical, Wavve news

Snackable news apps with swipe-feed playback and per-clip engagement events.

News clips

60-second vertical clips, swipe navigation, in-clip CTAs.

Breaking news live

Auto-promote a live stream into the swipe feed at the top.

Multi-language

AI-dubbed audio tracks per locale on the same clip ID.

Push-on-completion

Webhook fires after watch-completion; route to your push service.

What you build

Capabilities mapped to the 8 short-form news jobs-to-be-done.

These capabilities tie to swipe-feed + AI-dubbing + regional-distribution jobs short-form news teams ship.

News video publishing pipeline

POST a source URL to /v1/on-demand, get a playback ID back, embed the player. Webhook on encoding ready. The publishing flow is one API call per asset.

VOD pipeline

News video moderation

On-upload NSFW + policy detection via In-Video AI. Tunable threshold per category, webhook on flag, audit-log entry per decision.

Moderation

Newsroom video CMS workflow

Your CMS posts a source URL; FastPix returns a playback ID plus webhook events for encoding/ready/error states. Plug into Drupal, Strapi, Sanity, Contentful via REST.

Integration patterns

News video syndication

Same playback ID delivered to multiple destinations with per-site signed-URL policy. One asset, many syndicated surfaces.

Syndication

News video audit log compliance

Every operation (upload, encode, play, delete, signed-URL mint) produces an audit-log entry. Export via API or stream via webhook into your SIEM.

Audit log + compliance

News video paywall

Signed playback URLs with per-tier policy. Your auth service validates the user's tier before signing. Revoke on subscription change.

Signed playback

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FastPix products that build this solution

Video on Demand

Video on Demand

Short-form encoding presets

Video Player

Video Player

9:16 swipe-native

In-Video AI

In-Video AI

Auto-captions + AI dubbing

Video Data

Video Data

Per-clip completion analytics

Security, compliance, and partnerships

PartnerNVIDIA Inception
PartnerGoogle Cloud Partner

Customer

30M+ users on regional swipeable news

“30M+ Telugu users watching regional news in 60-second swipeable clips.”

Aadhan team

Regional short-form news

Questions this team asks

Short-form News platform questions, answered.

  • What is a video pipeline?

    For short-form news, the FastPix video pipeline is one API call: POST a source URL to /v1/on-demand, get a playback ID back, embed the player. Encoding ready webhooks signal when the clip is publishable. Video on Demand.

  • Can I post news clips on YouTube too?

    FastPix ships the upload + delivery infra for your own app. Cross-posting to YouTube / Facebook is your workflow (or via a partner). The same source can be uploaded both places. See pricing.

  • What are the steps of news production?

    FastPix covers the post-production handoff: encode → deliver → play → measure. Editorial CMS, ingest from camera, and breaking-news routing live in your app or via partners. Use Video on Demand and Video Player.

  • What is video moderation?

    On-upload NSFW + policy detection via In-Video AI. Tunable threshold per category, webhook on flag, audit-log entry per decision. In-Video AI.

Pricing

Per-minute pricing under a cent.

Encoded, delivered, stored. Free trial pathway covers 10 videos + 100K streaming min + AI samples. See full pricing.

ENCODING

Pay per minute encoded

$0.0267/min 1080p Pro

Per-title ABR encoding across H.264.

Up to 720p Pro$0.0213 / min
Up to 1080p Pro$0.0267 / min
1440p (2k) Pro$0.0427 / min
2160p (4k) Pro$0.0855 / min

STREAMING

Pay per minute streamed

$0.00067/min 1080p Pro

Multi-CDN delivery from 300+ POPs.

Up to 720p Pro$0.00054 / min
Up to 1080p Pro$0.00067 / min
1440p (2k) Pro$0.00108 / min
2160p (4k) Pro$0.00217 / min

STORAGE

Pay per minute stored

$0.00268/min 1080p Pro

Assets stored and CDN caching, lifecycle handled.

Up to 720p Pro$0.00215 / min
Up to 1080p Pro$0.00268 / min
1440p (2k) Pro$0.00430 / min
2160p (4k) Pro$0.00860 / min
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