Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight

This is the Vine list to end all Vine lists—the one that actually counts. So far this year DailyTekk has rounded up and ranked the 100+ best Instagrammers, the 100 best YouTubers, the 100 best Pinners and the 100 best blogs and websites of 2015.

Today we conquer curate Vine, the site where people cram as much creativity, humor, information or idiocy into 6-second videos as humanly possible. And I will say this: Viners, you have a very, very unique community. It’s so different than the other social networks I just listed. The amount of effort that you have put into these short videos is nothing short of astounding. Kudos...

...The first episode of "Fanta For The Funny," which rolls out Friday on CollegeHumor.com and across Fanta's social and digital channels, is comprised of dozens of Vine clips depicting gags and pratfalls from some of the platform's most popular personalities. There's no host of the show, just the brief video clips organized into vignettes around topics. In the first episode, Fanta doesn't actually appear in the Vine videos, though its branding is interspersed several times between segments. The series will run over the course of six weeks.

Brands are increasingly looking to platforms like Vine, a rising social media service owned by Twitter, to promote themselves and their products. On Vine, users post six-second clips, also called Vines. Despite -- or perhaps because of -- these time constraints, Vine has emerged as fertile ground for comedy, with hordes of young people posting humorous clips. Already, companies like General Mills, Ford and Virgin Mobile have tapped Vine stars for their campaigns....

In the sixteen months since its launch we’ve witnessed a stream of hilarious six second set pieces and inspired stop motion zaniness created on Vine however. And what started as a stream, has become a raging river, with a userbase now in excess of 40 million.

With data from Unruly, suggesting that Vine shares have rocketed from five per second to nine, between April and June 2013, it’s not hard to see why brands left, right and centre are trying to jump onto the Vine bandwagon.

Here are some tips and insights into how you can create magic on Vine in 6 seconds!...

Vine, the video-looping app released back in January 2013, has proven itself to be much more than a passing fad. As a result, many brands across all sorts of industries continue to use the platform as a visually creative way to connect with fans and followers.

But, for some marketers, Vine is still somewhat of an unknown.The time limit is intimidating: For each Vine video, you have just six seconds to convey a message to your audience. What are best practices for planning out a six-second video? What equipment should you use? Which formats work best? How can you incorporate a call-to-action? How can you cross-promote on other social media networks?

To help answer these questions and more, check out the infographic below from SurePayroll. It'll help you perfect your Vine strategy so you can enhance your social media presence beyond photos and words....