With Vine, Instagram video, and the ever-increasing popularity of YouTube, video is dominating the social media landscape in 2013.
Uberfip’s latest video infographic provides interesting facts and figures about the growth of social video, and what these numbers represent for marketers.
Don’t miss the chance to hear from the three men who started the 3D printing boom at the Inside 3D Printing Conference & Expo, September 17-18 in San Jose, California. Chuck Hull, Carl Deckard, and Scott Crump will explore their early technical and commercial challenges, and what it took to make 3D printing a successful business. Learn more.
There’s no scientific formula for predicting whether or not something will go viral on the Internet.
But a monolithic social network like Twitter certainly has the massive data pool from which to at least glean insights into the path to virality.
What was the moment when Twitter was first brought to your attention? When did you realise that Twitter was something important?
For many people, the Hudson River plane crash was Twitter’s tipping point, when the of-the-moment and on-the-spot reporting medium that Twitter provided to anybody – critically, not just the mass media – allowed iPhone owner Janis Krums to take a photograph that was rapidly shared around the Twitterverse. And the rest, as they say, is history.
The State of Origin is basically the Super Bowl of rugby, an annual best-of-three series of rugby league football matches between the Blues and the Maroons, who represent the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland, respectively.
In honor of the premier sporting event, Australia’s National Rugby League (NRL) partnered with digital marketing agency VML Australia to create a tricked-out NRL Mission Control Room. Take a look inside.
Yesterday Facebook-owned Instagram launched a new video feature which allows Instagram users, all 100+ million of them, to record Vine-style videos on the fly.
The difference? Instagram’s videos can be as long as 15-seconds, compared to Vine’s six seconds, and Instagram users can also add one of any thirteen filters on the fly to their video content. Pretty darn cool.
So, here’s the billion-dollar question: given Instagram’s size and clout, does this mean the end of Vine?
A group of about 30 popular Viners have teamed up to launch the ironically titled “Unpopular Now,” a riff on Vine’s “Popular Now” category.
In addition to sharing their Vines, the group plans to host contests and curations. There’s also an Unpopular Now Twitter account and YouTube channel.
When Vine was first announced in late January, the initial reaction was lukewarm and filled with uncertainty about what it would mean for marketers and brands as they attempted to weave to the videos into their social marketing mix.
But time has shown the tool can provide a good change of pace and be an effective engagement tactic for any brand.
One of the highlights of AllThingsD’s “D: Dive Into Mobile” conference in April was Twitter product head Michael Sippey’s 1-on-1 with Peter Kafka about Vine.
AllThingsD just released the full video of the conversation, and it is definitely worth a watch.
Comedians and Twitter just mix well, like burgers and fries. Or burgers and hot dogs, if you like your Twitter humor on the juicier side.
To wit: Conversations With A Twitter Feed, a hilarious web series created, written and directed by Alex J. Mann, who moonlights as a writer for SomeECards. David C. Monk is the director of photography and editor.
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