Vine?

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

What is Vine?
Is it of any use?

 

[TomsSportReport]

Good question, im also interested in this one.. I see it pop up more and more esp on twitter.. Anyone used it?

 

[IHateSpringSports2013]

Vine? As in the victim notification network that lets people know if certain criminals involved in crimes against them are let of jail, have additional crimes, etc.?

If so, probably not of much use journalistically.

 

[TomsSportReport]

Vine is a mobile service that lets you share short looping videos... right? Never used it myself but as i said its getting more and more popular.

 

[Wade Wilson]

All it is is popular. I really don't see how it has any journalistic value. Have seen/heard a few "new media editors" extol its importance in new media strategy, but I've never seen anything useful in a Vine video.

Will Sasso's vines are pretty funny, though.

 

[SFIND]

I signed up for an account a few weeks ago, and I echo sentiments that I don't think it has much journalistic value. I've used it for advertisements for stories and quick clips of games or stuff I've covered.

 

[buckweaver]

There's at least one major-metro newspaper editor who has been posting horrible 8-second Vine "videos" zooming in on a computer screen that shows his paper's front page for the following day.

Stop that, please.

 

[mustangj17]

I use it to shoot videos that we can quickly share to social media channels. Cheap content. Great interaction rates. Good for improving our impressions.

 

[wicked]

Great interaction rates.

What type of interaction do you get?

 

[SFIND]

I use it to shoot videos that we can quickly share to social media channels. Cheap content. Great interaction rates. Good for improving our impressions.

What can you shoot in six seconds?

 

[Matt Stephens]

I use it to shoot videos that we can quickly share to social media channels. Cheap content. Great interaction rates. Good for improving our impressions.

What can you shoot in six seconds?

Weather, weather, weather. Weather is always good for web traffic. ALWAYS.

 

[Songbird]

I use it to shoot videos that we can quickly share to social media channels. Cheap content. Great interaction rates. Good for improving our impressions.

What can you shoot in six seconds?

I would use it for sports. Capture a big play then tweet the Vine.

But I can see it being useful for spot news.

I still haven't used it because I'm on Droid but I'm curious.

 

[wicked]

Vine has just now come to Droid, from what I've read.

 

[krmcguire]

With Instagram adding video as a feature to their service, we ay have seen Vine's last stand.

 

[Matt Stephens]

Here's why I still like Vine better, it integrates seamlessly with Twitter. Instagram does not. That's a big fail for Facebook/Instagram, especially with the value of a 6-15 second video being favored in a Tweet versus your news feed.

 

[wicked]

Matt is right on this one. Instagram not playing nice with Twitter is going to blow up in its face, if the intent is to get the content to as many people as possible.

If the intent is to make cash off of it, which no one is doing right now, then godspeed.

 

[Matt Stephens]

I do like the video filters on Instagram, though. I'll give Facebook that.

 

[PaperDoll]

I use it to shoot videos that we can quickly share to social media channels. Cheap content. Great interaction rates. Good for improving our impressions.

What can you shoot in six seconds?

Weather, weather, weather. Weather is always good for web traffic. ALWAYS.

Is the Vine video on your site? And if not, how does it help get you pageviews and make $$$?

I understand the importance of bulding engagement via social media, but I often wonder (not having access to good analytics) whether it's driving people to the paper, either online or in print.

 

[Houston1]

I think Vine is a mobile service that lets you share short looping videos. am I right or not?

 

[mustangj17]

I use it to shoot videos that we can quickly share to social media channels. Cheap content. Great interaction rates. Good for improving our impressions.

What can you shoot in six seconds?

I don't work for a newspaper, I work for a quick-serve restaurant in the advertising department. We can shoot all sorts of food images in 6 seconds and in terms of interaction rates, we can get more virality with a smaller fan base. We have a campaign coming up soon where a few Vine 'influencers" will be posting about our products. I'll report back on the data.