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...Up to 15 seconds of video, 13 custom filters, and a "cinema mode" for stabilization. Those were some of the features added to Instagram last week, instantly turning the popular photo-sharing app used by 130 million people into a video-sharing service. Within the first 24 hours of the announcement, over 5 million videos had been uploaded.Sure, some were of frothy lattes and the Miami Heat winning the NBA finals, but the new features have wider appeal than to just casual users.
As newsrooms are now relying on social media as a platform to discover and deliver the news, Instagram's new video features will add another piece of content into the mix for organizations: short, solid-looking video clips.Beth Bennett, assistant professor at The Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications at Northwestern University, believes this will be the next big thing for news organizations....
Instagram and Vine videos have provided a platform for users to view news instantly and share among their friends or through social media. Beth Bernett, assistant professor at the Medill School of Journalism, believes that video sharing on Instagram will become an essential tool for news organizations to share updates online. This in turn, will keep users engaged with live news updates, especially for those that don't watch the news frequently.