Posts Tagged ‘vine’

What Brands has Vine Helped?

Vine is one of the cooler and more interesting services to hit social media in awhile.

Like anything, learning to use it properly for digital marketing and branding is a whole different story.

For those of you who still don’t know, Vine is a Twitter app that lets you to create and share six-second videos. Digital marketers have embraced Vine as another tool for their digital toolkits. Every brand should be looking into it and determining its validity.

To help inspire you, here are two popular brands that are using Vine and seeing some great results:

Toyota

While Toyota spends billions of dollars (yes, billions) on advertising, it never hesitated to use Vine as another bullet in its marketing chamber.

Several Toyota marketing departments around the world have used Vine to show a more fun and creative side of the company and the results have been very positive so far.

Malibu Rum

Malibu Rum clearly understands its brand, and using Vine, they represent summer, beach, fun and their product.

They have used Vine to further push their brand in social media and to help build a greater audience.

Make sure you check out Toyota and Malibu Rum’s work on Vine and  let us know of any other brand that is using this new app in exciting ways!

More: Hubspot highlighted 15 brands using Vine in creative ways.

Is Short the New Long?

Social media is constantly changing, and you need to keep up (or ideally stay ahead) of the trends and fads to market and communicate effectively.

A new and interesting trend has emerged this year, which wil probably going to stick around for the long haul. It’s the short video, which has been gaining steam for quite some time.

This started with Keek (which we blogged about recently) and has reached a new level with Vine – a new Twitter app that lets you create six second videos

Vine is essentially a Twitter version of video messaging. Six seconds is its version of 140 characters and users are taking to it so far. It might have more legs than some of its predecessors when all is said and done.

Even if you don’t want to have a presence on Keek or use Vine, it’s not hard to see that short video is what audiences are demanding.

Some will call this another example of our attention span being reduced to nothing. The truth is, we’re embracing new modes and mediums and discovering exciting ways to tell stories.

All digital marketers need to explore and embrace Keek and Vine, and, most important, find the best way to integrate Vine into your Twitter strategy.