Why I think video blogging won’t work
The thing with blogging is that it gives people a quick fix of content, if you have a problem you can find an answer in a post, if you want to learn something new you can skim through a post and get the details you need quick, if you’re a regular visitor to a certain blog you can skim through the posts and content of the week and only read the bits that are applicable to you.
But with a video blog, to actually get the content, you have to sit down and really listen to the whole video, it could be pointless crap, like most of what I talk, but you don’t know until you get into it. Which takes time most people don’t have – or aren’t willing to spend.
I think the only way a video blog would work is if the majority of the content was still normal text, and then the videos were a content delivery necessity.
As in, walking through a tutorial or showing how to use a system and implement that on your site or something.
I’m sure there’s a market for a whole video based blog, but the traffic to the same content in text form wouldn’t be comparable. And that’s what it’s all about isn’t it? Traffic?
April 4th, 2008 at 9:33 am
I have to admit that I almost never watch a video embedded in a blog. My main surfing computer doesn’t have sound, and it’s a pain to boot my gaming computer over to my non-gaming boot to watch a video. So I just don’t watch them.
April 4th, 2008 at 11:09 am
yeah true didnt think of that, lots of people dont have their sound on ready to go, either not hooked up, headphones or speakers not turned or or just dont have sound at all…
April 5th, 2008 at 6:02 am
I agree. A company called Seesmic here in the Bay Area is getting lots of buzz, but I have to admit that I really wonder how long it would take to the most of us to adopt such an approach, if ever.
April 5th, 2008 at 10:15 am
Personally I will sit down and watch a video embedded in a blog post, if it piques my interest and is in a niche or is about a topic that I am very interest in. Otherwise, I am not really inclined to look at the video, especially if it looks like it is going to take a while to load - as many of them do nowadays. Thanks for the post.
April 5th, 2008 at 10:16 am
*interested in.