VidCon’s new grant will award one emerging YouTuber $2,000 each week for a year

YouTube fan conference VidCon has announced it will distribute $2,000 grants to a new emerging YouTuber each week for a year, totaling $104,000 in grants to up-and-coming creators. The money doesn’t have any strings attached — you can spend it however you’d like. “Nothing is out there making this easier,” wrote Vidcon founder Hank Green on the project’s site, “and a lot of things are out there making it harder.” You can apply here. Green announced the grant at VidCon’s keynote this year. (The grant, however, is not a way into VidCon’s coveted “featured creator” status. “We want to be clear that this program is entirely separate from invites to VidCon,” the team wrote.)

The only requirements to apply: You must be creating content that…

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https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/25/17501432/vidcon-creator-grant-emerging-youtube