The media landscape has changed dramatically in the last five years. Media websites all use visual material to support and enhance their stories.Journalists and bloggers require news and visual assets when they report a story. Online newsrooms need to be a resource for these digital journalists.
7. Video Use on Media Websites
“In the past the question in the newsroom would be:
Did you get the picture?
Now it’s do you have the video?”
David Leeson, Digital journalist. Adjunct Professor, University of Texas, Emerging Media
and Communication.
10. Online Video Growth
Online video will account for two-thirds of all consumer traffic by
2015. Cisco
11. Video Influences Decisions
Sharing branded video content through social media is
an effective means to drive Brand Lift and purchase
intent
• 110% lift in consumers’ intent to purchase after
discovering and watching the branded videos
•
• Consumers who had been exposed to the
campaign were more than twice as likely to want to
buy the product as users who were not exposed.
Vizo/Sharethrough
12. Video Use Now
182 million U.S. Internet
users watched online video
content in December 2011.
That’s averages out to more
than 23 hours per viewer.
85.3 percent of the U.S.
Internet audience viewed
online video.
The duration of the average
online content video was 5.8
minutes.
comScore
13. Most Watched
Music
Entertainment
People and Blogs
Sports
News
Comedy
Animation
How to
Source: Sysomos 2011
15. Shareable Stories
Make a point – something to take away. Vivid details
they will remember and will want to share with others.
Grab their interest right out of the gate.
Use short sections and create a rhythm
Speak conversationally.
Have fun doing this – it communicates to your audience.
Scott Simon NPR
19. Public
When they hear news about a brand they visit
the website and the online newsroom
Finding news online through search
Sharing news in social media
20. Online Newsroom
Provide access to all news
Connect to all social content
Easy to use
Easy to find content and contacts
Images
Video
Graphics