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Twitter Just Shut Down Vine 4 Years After Buying It for $30 Million

Twitter Just Shut Down Vine 4 Years After Buying It for $30 Million | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Vine will not be an infinite loop.


It was four years ago this month when Twitter bought Vine for a reported $30 million, but now the relationship has fully withered. On a Medium blog post, Twitter revealed that it's shutting down the looping video app in the coming weeks.


"You'll be able to access and download your Vines," the post read. "We'll be keeping the website online because we think it's important to still be able to watch all the incredible Vines that have been made. You will be notified before we make any changes to the app or website."


How long the Vine videos will live on the website is unknown, but creation of the mobile app's six-second clips has already been halted. It's a fairly surprising move....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

That's a very surprising move by Twitter – to close down Vine after attracting 200 million users. The problem is, at six seconds, Vines were never long enough and too limited in scope to tell a real story. Twitter is likely to undergo big changes, very quickly in order to survive. The layoffs and live streaming of NFL football are first steps in a new path to the future.

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Vine: Short Videos and What Marketers Need to Know | Social Media Examiner

Vine: Short Videos and What Marketers Need to Know | Social Media Examiner | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Do you want to know more about Vine video?


Are you wondering how brands and businesses can successfully market with Vine video?


To explore how to use Vine short video on Twitter, I interview Zach King for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast...

Jeff Domansky's insight:

In Social Media Marketing Podcast 108, Zach King shares how he uses Vine video. A good overview if you're just starting to look at video in your content marketing mix.

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How to Create Magic on Vine in 6 Seconds | Jeff Bullas's Blog

How to Create Magic on Vine in 6 Seconds | Jeff Bullas's Blog | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

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!...

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Practical tips to get you up and running on Vine.

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MixBit, The New App From YouTube's Founders, Aims To Turn Everyone Into A Filmmaker

MixBit, The New App From YouTube's Founders, Aims To Turn Everyone Into A Filmmaker | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

With YouTube Chad Hurley and Steve Chen made publishing videos easy. Now they want to make it just as easy to create them.When Google wanted to boost the quality of YouTube’s content, it gave out $5 million in grants to select creators. YouTube cofounders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, who sold the service to Google in 2006, are now tackling the same problem, but with a different philosophy.


They hope that a new app they are launching on Thursday, called MixBit, will make shooting quality video scalable and accessible to everyone.“Unfortunately I think YouTube is going down the route of rewarding the select few around content creation, be it with partnerships or with ways of funding original content,” Hurley told Fast Company. “I can understand, it’s great to stimulate the community and make money available to them. But I feel that’s a more traditional approach to solving the problem. It’s basically replicating the studio model...I’m looking for something that doesn’t necessarily alienate any group of people, but gives them all equal access.


”That apparently includes people who never shoot any video. With MixBit, as with Instagram video and Vine, users touch their phones’ screens to take multiple video clips that the app combines into one video. But only MixBit allows other people to use those clips, if they’re public, in their own videos....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Video disruption or video democracy ahead? Interesting new tool.

Kristie Chiles's curator insight, October 20, 2014 5:59 PM

Youtube is constantly evolving and coming up with new ways to publish videos - love it!

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100 Best Vine Accounts (Viners) of 2015

100 Best Vine Accounts (Viners) of 2015 | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

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...

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Let this be kind of your guilty pleasure. Sort of like reality TV. Nobody admits they watch it but everybody checks in on it. Some fun, some profound, mostly silly.

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Fanta Pouring Big Bucks Into Vine Video Comedy Series

Fanta Pouring Big Bucks Into Vine Video Comedy Series | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

...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....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Very creative and well targeted!

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Meet The Stars Of Vine: These Kids Have Millions Of Followers And Make Eye-Popping Amounts Of Money

Meet The Stars Of Vine: These Kids Have Millions Of Followers And Make Eye-Popping Amounts Of Money | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

One sponsored Vine paid for a 24-year-old's entire college tuition. Another makes $2,000 per re-vine.


For 16 year-old Lauren Giraldo, $2,000 isn't hard to come by.


All she has to do is press the re-Vine button to share a sponsor's video with her followers and an advertiser will cut her a large check.


Giraldo is a star on Vine, the Twitter-owned video platform that launched in January 2013. There, millions of people post 6-second clips and share them with the community. Giraldo is one of the most popular people on Vine with 2.4 million followers. Brands who want to grow their followings or promote their products are throwing money at girls like Lauren...

Jeff Domansky's insight:

The new reality is reality TV all the time. Whatev.

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13 Ways For Brands to Use Vine for Social Media Marketing | Business 2 Community

13 Ways For Brands to Use Vine for Social Media Marketing | Business 2 Community | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

With the release of Twitter’s new video service, Vine, brands should take note of what could be the next viral medium. It’s posed to try to break into social video the way Instagram revolutionized mobile photo sharing. With six second videos that can be shared through the Vine app, Twitter or Facebook, creative minds have already jumped in with videos with a winning combination of entertainment, fun, and amusement. We’re already seeing a lot of possibilities for brands.

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