With smart phones and tablets being mainstream, capturing photos and video 'on the go' is now a part of many people's every day lives. Unless it's a special occasion why lug a camera and laptop around if your device can shoot HD video, decent still photos and much more besides? With this significant shift in everyday media capture, Facebook and Twitter have made sure that their users are able to share video too. Vine and Instagram are two applications you may have heard of, and may be using. These are currently the leading services to use when sharing video content to your social media platforms via portable devices. What does Instagram or Vine do that YouTube doesn’t? The main difference … [Read more...] about Short Social Video Sharing: The Value in Vine and Video for Instagram
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Instagram vs Vine – Which Micro Video Platform Should You Use in Your Business?
Video continues to be a big growth area and most businesses should be looking at ways to leverage this very “search friendly” medium. Video has always been a great medium for communicating your business message but 2013 heralded the rise of a new wave of video capturing with video sharing applications like Twitter's “Vine” and Facebook’s “Video for Instagram”. Mainstream adoption of smartphones and tablets to record these video snippets and the importance Google now places on video content in search rankings means video is very much back in focus for 2014 too. So how are short video clips are being used in Social Media for business? The best way to answer this question is to give you two … [Read more...] about Instagram vs Vine – Which Micro Video Platform Should You Use in Your Business?