A service that can make short-form news videos in just five seconds based on text is one of the innovating journalism start-ups on display at this year's Future Media Lab conference in Brussels.
Creators gave a series of short pitches throughout the event, highlighting some of the latest developments that could make digital journalists' jobs easier - and generate new revenue.
Here are three of the start-ups that caught Journalism.co.uk's eye:
Wibbitz
Wibbitz automatically turns text in a web article into a one or two-minute video summary that can be viewed easily on mobile devices.
The algorithm uses language processing tools to analyse each story, work out what it is about and how it should be treated. It then weaves together related images, videos and infographics.
Co-founder Zohar Dayan said the end result "looks pretty much the same as a human-produced video". A video can be generated in about five seconds and offers publishers the opportunity to increase their video content and potential video ad revenue.
The technology is provided for free, with pre-roll ads on the beginning of clips on a revenue-share basis.
MobileReporter
Launched just this month, MobileReporter is a crowd-sourcing platform that connects freelance investigative journalists with their audience.
It was thought up by Stefano Valentino, an Italian freelancer for the past 15 years. He said the idea was "to help freelances who have a big project in mind" but cannot implement it all by themselves.
Journalists begin a new project on the site - a pitch to some extent, explaining what they plan to work on. Other users can subscribe to individual projects and track their progress, read over their drafts, donate money to get the idea off the ground, or offer to help out with research or leads.
MobileReporter can be embedded within the template of a news site and one of the site's first partners is the Italian newspaper La Repubblica.
Marfeel
Marfeel creates mobile and tablet-optimised versions of newspaper and magazine websites, pulling content from the original site and repackaging it in a way that creators say can lead to a five-fold increase in page views and reading time.
The start-up has teamed up with publishers including National Geographic and serves mobile-friendly ads tailored to a user's interests.
Even Google has apparently praised the app's makers for boosting page views and getting high ad revenue returns, and the service received $2m in start-up funding in 2013.
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