International Men's Day 2026: a captioned team message video
International Men's Day is 19 November 2026, theme 'The Future Is Everyone'. Trim one team recording and caption it for $0.22 on Sume.
International Men's Day is 19 November 2026, and the official site gives the 2026 theme as "The Future Is Everyone". A team that wants to post a message can record one 20-second statement, trim the best take ($0.02) and burn captions onto it ($0.20, for clips up to 60 seconds), $0.22 in total. Captions matter because many people watch with the sound off.
The date and theme come from the International Men's Day site, read on 2026-10-12. The Sume side comes from the video trim and video captions docs, read the same day.
What does the official site state?
The site lists the date and theme and three goals for 2026: formal UN calendar recognition for the day, mandatory gender outcome reporting across UN programmes and the Sustainable Development Goals, and endorsement of the New York Declaration for Men and Boys. It gives no social-media or hashtag guidance, so write your own message and attribute only what the site says.
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Date | 19 November 2026 |
| Theme | The Future Is Everyone |
| Goals | UN recognition, gender outcome reporting, New York Declaration |
How do you make the message clip?
Record one person or a few people saying a short statement, for example the theme and one thing your team is doing. Import the file with POST /v1/media-imports, then trim the best 20 seconds with video trim: send start plus either end or duration, plus an Idempotency-Key. Trim returns a new MP4 and leaves the source alone.
Say the theme aloud in the recording. Speech captions burn what speech-to-text hears, and the docs say you can send only one of script_text, words, cues and segments per job, so an extra title card cannot sit on the same caption job. If you give script_text, it replaces the heard wording with yours while keeping the speech timings.
What do the captions cost and which style fits?
A standalone caption job reserves $0.20 for a video of up to 60 seconds. The Latin styles are slam, punch and tiktok-green; if you send no style, Latin text defaults to slam. The input video_url must be a public HTTPS URL that Sume can fetch, which the trimmed artifact is.
| Step | Rate | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| One trim | $0.02 per job | $0.02 |
| One caption job | $0.20 up to 60 s | $0.20 |
| Total | $0.22 |
Get consent from everyone on camera, and keep the message about your own team's actions rather than claims about the cause.
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