Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Tech Corner Post: Vimeo



Written by Christy Marion

I recently just learned about Vimeo in my advertising class. When I chose to do my corner post on this particular social media site I had never heard of it. It is a website that is very similar to YouTube. It is a forum where people can upload their videos for public sharing. Users don’t necessarily have to create an account to watch videos, but they do if they want to upload their own material. The videos range from music videos, to commercials to inspirational videos. The large variety provides a great opportunity to share anything of someone’s particular interest.

I get a more formal vibe than with YouTube. The website home page has feature videos and that is where I started exploring. They videos I watched on their feature list were very high quality and I enjoyed watching them. The videos were inspiring and entertaining.

There is also a lot of helpful information through the website for beginners and people like me who weren’t really sure what it is all about. There is a page that informs users on how to get started, how to actually shoot a video and then how to upload it to the site. People can follow other users and share videos with each other.
This website could be useful for public relations purposes. There is actually a public relations channel and only has videos containing material related to public relations. There is always an easy connection with the public from using videos, so this is a great site to connect with people for public relations purposes. Since Vimeo contains videos where users can create their own, there could be a video contest to enhance PR efforts. The list could go on using creative ideas. I thought this website would be great for advertising campaigns as well. Once something goes viral,

These are some of the videos I enjoyed, and one is off of the public relations channel:



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