FM.video in 15 seconds: the reels drop
We built a little factory that turns what NZ radio is playing right now into 9:16 reels: top ten countdowns, scroll feeds, visualizers and more. Flick through the whole drop in the new Reels gallery.
FM.video runs on live airplay. Every hour, real NZ stations tell us what the country is actually listening to, and we match it to the real music videos. This week we pointed all of that data at a new toy: a reel factory.
It takes the current chart, grabs the hottest clips, and renders short 9:16 videos built for phones: the kind you flick past on TikTok, Instagram and Facebook, except these are generated fresh from what radio played in the last 24 hours.
What came out of it
- Top 10 countdowns: 10 to 1 in fifteen seconds, straight from the last 24 hours of network airplay.
- Scroll feeds: a phone-in-a-phone flicking through what's hot, and the music changes as each video scrolls past, with the station that actually played it on the card.
- Fullscreen clips: one hot video, full bleed, with the now-playing chrome around it.
- Visualizers: real Milkdrop visuals reacting to the music, portrait and full screen.
- Beat flicks: hard cuts through dozens of video stills on the beat.
Watch the whole drop
They all live in one place now: fm.video/reels. It is a vertical feed, exactly like the apps these were built for. Flick up for the next one, tap for sound, go fullscreen if you are on a desktop.
Why we bother
Radio is still the best editor there is. Millions of listening decisions, every day, distilled by people whose whole job is knowing what a city wants to hear next. FM.video just adds the pictures. The reels are that idea compressed to fifteen seconds, and the factory means there will always be a fresh batch as the charts move.
If one of them made you curious: everything on FM.video is free, no signup, and the full channels are always on at fm.video/channels.