2026.03.17
Spectee joins AFP’s partner video collections
Spectee and AFP have entered a partnership to bring Spectee’s crisis-related user generated content (UGC) to AFP’s global customer base.
Leveraging its patented newsgathering technology, Spectee curates and verifies video content of natural disasters, extreme weather, political protests, military activities and other newsworthy events from around the world.
AFP offers fast, reliable and exhaustive video news coverage from more than 330 locations worldwide and provides its subscribers with access to a selection of premium partner collections via its platform AFP News.
Spectee videos are available now on news.afp.com.
About AFP
AFP is a leading global news agency providing fast, comprehensive and verified coverage of the events shaping our world and of the issues affecting our daily lives. Drawing from an unparalleled news gathering network across 150 countries, AFP is also a world leader in digital investigations. With 2,600 staff representing 100 different nationalities, AFP covers the world in six languages, with a unique quality of multimedia storytelling spanning video, text, photos and graphics.
About Spectee
With the mission of “Visualizing Crises,” Spectee aggregates and analyzes data from social media, weather parameters, traffic systems, road cameras, river sensors, and other sources to forecast disasters and risks. Its AI-based, real-time disaster and crisis management service, Spectee Pro, enables rapid information collection, visualization, and prediction of crises and disasters worldwide, empowering municipalities, media organizations, infrastructure companies, manufacturers, logistics firms, and trading companies across Japan. Utilizing the same technology, Spectee is actively expanding its UGC distribution business for global news and media organizations.
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