Wednesday 7th October, 5-6:30 pm UK time Free for members / £15 for non-members Ticket sales end tomorrow, 6th October, at 23:59 BST.

Over 80% of social media videos are watched entirely on mute on mobiles. In today's fast-paced, multiplatform media landscape, subtitles have become an essential visual hook to grab attention and retain viewers across TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts.

To every LATAM colleague receiving this offer: Say no. Your expertise and time is valuable. You deserve fair pay and reasonable working conditions—not impossible demands for poverty wages. Don't accept this and speak up.

This exploits subtitlers and undermines the translation industry. No qualified professional can live under these terms.

For 15,000 MXN net/month (630 GBP/834 USD), candidates are expected to accept: • At least 120 minutes of subtitling daily • Full-time availability with no fixed schedule • Constant availability for meetings • Additional tasks (transcription, ASR and FNS adjustments) on non-subtitling days

On International Translation Day, we would like to remind all AVT translators of their value and the expertise they bring to their work. That's why we're alarmed to see that New Art is offering the following rate for a full-time subtitling position...

Wednesday 7th October, 5-6:30 pm UK time Free for members / £15 for non-members

In this webinar, media localization specialist Javier Rebollo will dive into the craft, mechanics, and technical execution of subtitles for vertical videos.

Over 80% of social media videos are watched entirely on mute on mobiles. In today's fast-paced, multiplatform media landscape, subtitles have become an essential visual hook to grab attention and retain viewers across TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts.

The 2026 Emmys were awarded last week! As in previous years, we want to recognise Subtle members who contributed to the nominated productions by creating subtitles, SDH, voice-over and audio description scripts, or by quality-checking localisation work. See all the details on our blog!

We're all really excited about the possibilities and hope you'll consider joining us!

If this sounds appealing, or if you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch with David Buchanan, Rachel Jones or write to Subtle at [email protected].

It won't require extra work from you, unless you wish to volunteer. At this stage, admin will be handled by members of the Subtle Committee, although we're joining as individual freelancers and the Branch will be its own separate entity.

-Draw up a rate card to protect against falling rates -Negotiate more firmly with clients -Access legal advice, healthcare benefits and professional indemnity insurance -Raise the profile of AV translators within the industry -Work with unions in other countries to protect rates internationally

This would include anyone working in audiovisual localisation and media accessibility: subtitling, dubbing, audio description, captioning, etc. BECTU membership would allow us to…

Calling all audiovisual translators living in the UK! We need YOU! Some of Subtle’s committee members are putting together a group of UK-based members to create our own AVT branch within the BECTU union.