Intersection for collaboration and creativity, media4impact’s incubation program for early-stage content creators.

Incubator

program overview

The media4impact Incubator program is a 5-month media training and support program dedicated to elevating emerging content creators and media entrepreneurs in Cambodia to create influential content, engage a wide audience base, and establish sustainable content platforms that focus on community development and public interest. The program aims to empower content creators within the media industry to drive positive change and foster a sustainable media landscape in Cambodia.


The 2023 Incubator program ran from April to October 2023 supporting 6 content creation teams among 56 applications. The program celebrated the completion of the creators’ journeys with a content creator exhibition called Prosob Exhibition on 07 October, 2023.

Making Change.
One content at a time.

We asked our alumni content creators from media4impact’s Incubation and Acceleration Program we have supported during our programs about their journeys and their goals.

Program Highlights!

Program activities consists of sharing sessions, workshops and site visits to creative studios connecting creativity and impact together.

  • Understanding Social Impact

    Define content’s target audience and learn to apply resourceful and meaningful messages to your content from a social impact angle. Learn to set expectations and find your own niche through meeting changemakers and creators in the field who are advocating for social changes.

  • Creative Exploration

    Site visits and creative exposure to the creative industry such as “Brand design, Film making, Content Creation Expert session, & Peer creators’ reviews)
    Creative Week:     Express what you want to tell.
    Visibility Week: Make your work more visible.
    Design Week: Develop your brand identity.
    Startup Week: Grow together as a socially impactful media.

  • Collaboration

    Fostering collaboration culture between media creators to tell impactful stories together as a community.

    Work together with other content creators to create impactful content, diversifying their views on other social impact topics.

  • Exhibition

    Offline gathering and project showcase of content creators’ works to their followers through interactive exhibition displays and performances.

    The exhibition is an opportunity for followers to meet the creators they have been supporting and find new interests in other social impact creators as well.
    More about Prosob exhibition here.

Incubators’ Projects

Incubators participated in the program had 3 projects to develop into content and publish on their social media platforms during the program based on thematic of Self-development, Education & Career, Art & Culture, Health & Wellbeing, and social & environmental issues.

Boujee is a Cambodian/Mauritian comic page. Boujee is an incubator alumni of media4impact program by Impact Hub Phnom Penh. They create content about adult life, woman empowerment and body positivity.

Boujee

Marie Lam and Tyl Kan are a duo of writer and illustrator who are passionate about exploring social and cultural topics through comic illustrations. During this program, they have worked on women empowerment topic to inspire women about body positivity and womanhood.

Project 1: Body Positivity with Pidor Ham 1 2

Project 2: Boujee x Vevid

Project 3: 2024 Calendar

Vevid is a Cambodian social impact content creator for Prosob community and media4impact program. He creates content to promote about scholarship and self-development topics.

Vevid

Vevid’s Day off is a platform where Vevid shares his life journey on his days off hoping to inspire the next generation to pursue their dreams.

His “Day off Podcast” series, explore topics to help his followers boost their confidence and have positive outlook in life. Vevid also promotes Scholarship topics.

Project 1: Day off Podcast with Switching 1 2

Project 2: Boujee x Vevid

Project 3: Day off Podcast with Sopheak 1 2

Piseth Keo is a comic artist of Piseth'swhatever. Piseth is an incubator alumni of media4impact program by Impact Hub Phnom Penh. He creates comic about digital consumption and digital minimalism. Techie Family.

Piseth’s Whatever

Piseth Keo is a comic artist from Siemreap, Cambodia. His comic strips are comical and satirical as a way for people to entertain themselves.

In this program, Piseth explored creating a comic series called “Techie family” to educate about digital minimalism.

Project 1 & 3: Techie Family series 1 2 3 4 5

Project 2: Piseth’s Whatever x Dassatek

Linna is an alumni of media4impact program by Impact Hub Phnom Penh. She is a high school student who creates content about self-motivation, Education topics and she shares positive vibes to her followers.

Linna

Linna Meng is a Cambodian content creator in High school with a passion to help youth focusing in their education journey. Linna makes motivational study videos, self-help videos, and shares about people’s success journey in education.

Project 1 & 3:

Project 2: Linna x SEA Fokus

SEA Fokus is an incubator alumni from media4impact incubator program by Impact Hub Phnom Penh. SEA Fokus promotes and shares climate resilience and climate change topics in Cambodia. Their team comprises of Hangbou Oeng, Kouy Y Seav, and Pisen Sou.

SEA Fokus

SEA Fokus is a team of three members creating content about climate change and climate resilience topics to raise awareness for youth in Cambodia. During the program, they developed content and turned them into guidebooks for youth to learn more about the topic.

Project 1: Visual explainers content series

Project 2: Linna x SEA Fokus

Project 3: Guidebook “Feeling under the weather”

Dassatek is an inspiring group of Cambodian farming youth. They are an alumni of media4impact incubator program by Impact Hub Phnom Penh. They discuss about regenerative agriculture, youth and farming. Panha Soun, Moryta Dek, Sophanith Phorn.

Dassatek

Dassatek is a team of three members creating content about regenerative agriculture and aims to promote agriculture and farming towards youth, awakening their potential in working with nature. Agriculture is vital in providing food as well as maintaining environmental biology.

Project 1 & 3: Video Podcast production

#យុវជនដាំកសិកម្មឡូយ

Project 2: Piseth’s Whatever x Dassatek

Collaboration Projects

Media4impact Incubation program values the idea of collaboration as a testament to the transformative power of connection in the face of creative exploration.

Boujee x Vevid’s Day Off

Dassatek x Piseth’s Whatever

Linna x SEA Fokus

overall program

SOCIAL

MEDIA

PERFORMANCE

overall program

PERFORMANCE

The program's strategic objective is to foster the creative skills and connecting them with a community of like-minded creators to spread impactful messages to more Cambodian youth. “When we see it, we understand it. And when we understand it, we care about it. And when we care about it, we’ll do something to help save it.”.

100% of participants found the program highly valuable.

  • About Creativity

    “I love the creative week, especially the going directly into each creation places like Anti-archive, which is one of my best and new experiences of getting to know how each creation is made, the backstory, the calming environment and as well as the Anagata visit, I loved it.”

  • About Community

    “I was more motivated to make content when surrounded by like-minded people so I had consistently created impactful content that engages more new audience.”

  • About Personal Growth

    “[What I like most is] the collection of ideas and perspectives from content creators and experts of different working backgrounds.”

  • About Activities

    “I love the exhibition and the way you invited different speakers from different fields in the creative industry. Plus, the 3 phases of the content creation help creators to develop their content rather than just a single one.”

  • About Personal Growth

    "I really like the people, the sessions, and the food. This program is not just a place to learn but it is a place that made me feel like home. Gonna miss m4i so bad “

  • About Activities

    “I absolutely love everything and could not be more grateful for everything that Prosob had provided that got me this far. Among all, Bong Rean Thort is one of the best speakers invited. Although there was no presentation, [...] his backstory and everything shared was very inspiring and fun to learn from. Still, I find every sharing session to be very helpful and I am able to make use of all the sessions to use.”

PHOTO GALLERY

Photo of program activities happening during media4impact Incubator Program. Find out more about Prosob Exhibition here.

Marie Lam from Boujee introducing herself and Boujee to her program peers.

Marie Lam from Boujee introducing herself and Boujee to her program peers.

Media4impact Incubator Program Onboarding day: Boujee, Vevid's Day Off, Linna, Piseth'swhatever, Dassatek, SEA Fokus at Impact Hub Phnom Penh

Media4impact Incubator Program Onboarding day: Boujee, Vevid's Day Off, Linna, Piseth'swhatever, Dassatek, SEA Fokus at Impact Hub Phnom Penh

Shunsuke Miyatake and Uddam Pen led an experience sharing session on content for impact to the m4i incubator's program participants. They share their personal experience working at Wapatoa, and Art4food (Joint collaboration with Local4Local).

Shunsuke Miyatake and Uddam Pen led an experience sharing session on content for impact to the m4i incubator's program participants. They share their personal experience working at Wapatoa, and Art4food (Joint collaboration with Local4Local).

Take-san's Odori

Take-san's Odori

Bank Vath, program manager of m4i's incubator program sat near fellow creators at Pteah Chas's Co & Bloom Coffee.

Bank Vath, program manager of m4i's incubator program sat near fellow creators at Pteah Chas's Co & Bloom Coffee.

Delightful sharing sessions by Vandy Moung from iDE Cambodia and Chhuong Yiv Chhoy from BBC Media Action. Chhoung Yiv Chhoy, Head of production at BBC Media Action shared Actionable tips on how to captivate youth attention on social media and gave i

Delightful sharing sessions by Vandy Moung from iDE Cambodia and Chhuong Yiv Chhoy from BBC Media Action. Chhoung Yiv Chhoy, Head of production at BBC Media Action shared Actionable tips on how to captivate youth attention on social media and gave insights on what content we should make for Cambodia. Vandy presented the concept of Human-Centered Design Thinking process to the creators.

Vandy Moung (iDE Cambodia) in Yellow presenting to media4impact incubators.

Vandy Moung (iDE Cambodia) in Yellow presenting to media4impact incubators.

Chhuong Yiv Chhoy from BBC Media Action

Chhuong Yiv Chhoy from BBC Media Action

media4impact's Incubators met with 20 youth to learn more about content the youth are interested in.

media4impact's Incubators met with 20 youth to learn more about content the youth are interested in.

Vevid's Day Off sharing his journey to participating youth.

Vevid's Day Off sharing his journey to participating youth.

Anton L.Delgado from Southeast Asia Globe to share his opinion on journalistic reporting and storytelling related to his passion towards Environmental journalism.

Anton L.Delgado from Southeast Asia Globe to share his opinion on journalistic reporting and storytelling related to his passion towards Environmental journalism.

Media4impact Incubators who participated in Anton L.Delgado's sharing session at Impact Phnom Penh.

Media4impact Incubators who participated in Anton L.Delgado's sharing session at Impact Phnom Penh.

Vandara Sin, Progarm support and Communication Lead for medai4impact and Impact Hub Phnom Penh, shares exercises for the incubator participants to work on.

Vandara Sin, Progarm support and Communication Lead for medai4impact and Impact Hub Phnom Penh, shares exercises for the incubator participants to work on.

Incubators from media4impact program had a fruitful discussion with representatives for their topics.

Incubators from media4impact program had a fruitful discussion with representatives for their topics.

Pichmony Thay and Linna Meng discussed about mental health and youth topics.

Pichmony Thay and Linna Meng discussed about mental health and youth topics.

Boujee and Pidor Ham discussed about Body positivity and women empowerment topic.

Boujee and Pidor Ham discussed about Body positivity and women empowerment topic.

SEA Fokus met with program managers at Impact Hub Phnom Penh who work on Climate change and environmental topics.

SEA Fokus met with program managers at Impact Hub Phnom Penh who work on Climate change and environmental topics.

Dassatek met with Chhouden Chhim who is supporting the local indigenous Kouy community in Kampong Thom Province, Cambodia.

Dassatek met with Chhouden Chhim who is supporting the local indigenous Kouy community in Kampong Thom Province, Cambodia.

Povleakhena Nov, MIL instructor have a heart-to-heart session with our fellow content creators about ethical content creation, Media Information Literacy, and content we want to see.

Povleakhena Nov, MIL instructor have a heart-to-heart session with our fellow content creators about ethical content creation, Media Information Literacy, and content we want to see.

Incubator having a fun time sharing their experiences on social media.

Incubator having a fun time sharing their experiences on social media.

Creative Week took the creators to explore the creative industry of Cambodia. This week, Filmmaking. This session was hosted by Anti-Archive, a local film production company.

Creative Week took the creators to explore the creative industry of Cambodia. This week, Filmmaking. This session was hosted by Anti-Archive, a local film production company.

Danech San, Director and Filmmaker at Ant-Archive presented two of her films, Sunrise in my mind (ថ្ងៃរះក្នុងចិត្ត) and Sea within a Sea (ឧទ្យានសមុទ្រ) to media4impact incubators. We talked about the art of storytelling and creative ways to tell stor

Danech San, Director and Filmmaker at Ant-Archive presented two of her films, Sunrise in my mind (ថ្ងៃរះក្នុងចិត្ត) and Sea within a Sea (ឧទ្យានសមុទ្រ) to media4impact incubators. We talked about the art of storytelling and creative ways to tell story that can make lasting impact to audience.

Poster of "Sunrise in my Mind ថ្ងៃរះក្នុងចិត្ត by Danech San"

Poster of "Sunrise in my Mind ថ្ងៃរះក្នុងចិត្ត by Danech San"

A cozy seating at Ant-Archive, watching and having an inspiring discussion with Danech San.

A cozy seating at Ant-Archive, watching and having an inspiring discussion with Danech San.

Uddam Pen, creative consultant at media4impact and Marie Lam, Boujee, talked about films Anti-Archive have produced.

Uddam Pen, creative consultant at media4impact and Marie Lam, Boujee, talked about films Anti-Archive have produced.

Both Bou, Co-founder of Anagata, shared insightful tips about design theory and branding for content creators at Anagata Studio.

Both Bou, Co-founder of Anagata, shared insightful tips about design theory and branding for content creators at Anagata Studio.

Both Bou, Vevid's Day off and Kouy Y from SEA Fokus took a peek into a logo book at Anagata.

Both Bou, Vevid's Day off and Kouy Y from SEA Fokus took a peek into a logo book at Anagata.

It's time for the Accelerators and the Incubators to meet! Daluch from LuyBook and Voneat from 606 Digital (Alumi of media4impact Accelerator Program) shared their experiences as long-term content creators and gave suggestions and advice to fellow in

It's time for the Accelerators and the Incubators to meet! Daluch from LuyBook and Voneat from 606 Digital (Alumi of media4impact Accelerator Program) shared their experiences as long-term content creators and gave suggestions and advice to fellow incubators at Impact Hub Phnom Penh

Ask-Me-Anything round with LuyBook and 606 Digital.

Ask-Me-Anything round with LuyBook and 606 Digital.

A rare opportunity for creators to meet with reputable content creator, Sopheak Chheng from Rean Thort. Rean Thort is a photography tip sharing platform who found success in podcasting.

A rare opportunity for creators to meet with reputable content creator, Sopheak Chheng from Rean Thort. Rean Thort is a photography tip sharing platform who found success in podcasting.

Sopheak Chheng, Rean Thort.

Sopheak Chheng, Rean Thort.

Vandara Sin interviewing Sopheak Chheng, Rean Thort's founder.

Vandara Sin interviewing Sopheak Chheng, Rean Thort's founder.

Incubators from media4impact Incubator Program learning from Rean Thort's experience sharing session.

Incubators from media4impact Incubator Program learning from Rean Thort's experience sharing session.

Meet the team!

Here to support, mentor, collaborate, and explore alongside you.

  • Miyatake

    Project Lead
    Streetlife photographer

  • Dinh-Long

    Business Mentor
    Chess Mage

  • Mel

    Program & Account Advisor
    Fueled by positivity

  • Bank

    Community Lead
    100% interest in fun

  • Uddam

    Creative Lead & Mentor
    Creampuff addict

  • Jason K

    Media & Comm Officer
    AI can do it!

  • Vandara

    Program & Comm support
    Identifies as a catopus

  • Alix

    Program & Network Advisor
    Occasional Babysitter

  • Maradony

    Admin & Finance Officer
    Nydorama

  • Anh

    Impact Data Analyst
    Cat Whisperer

Have you heard of

media4impact is an innovative engagement mechanism launched in October 2022 by Impact Hub Phnom Penh which aims to:

  • Empower media practitioners and leaders by helping them amplify their diverse voices and actions in civic spaces.

  • Support their growth and the growth of their teams or organization towards the path to sustainability.

  • Raise awareness about meaningful social and environmental issues in addition to inspiring an increasing number of youths to be self-informed, reflect, and potentially take actions to tackle these issues.

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