You're right. Video is the present and future. I'm old and weird, so if I have a choice between a video and an article, I'll read the article 9 times out of 10. But that's a distinctly minority view at this point. You'll be great on your podcast and I look forward to watching!
When I want to read news and a video set for autoplay on a site, sometimes I just f...ng close the window, don't bother stopping it. When I want to watch a video, I search one. But I prefer articles.
Thanks for the input @tibonova, I appreciate it.
Oh, I almost forgot: make subtitles if you want non-English viewers. It's an extra work, but I (and my friend too, in Hungary) usually pick that English video from the available ones that has English subtitle at least. It helps a lot for foreigners who cannot exercise the language live but read a lot (so very well) in English.
Dit must be the 'old' thing...I too prefer reading to videos. I very seldom watch unless I have specifically gone looking for a subject.
Haha it seems that is enough of us who prefer reading, that's actually very comforting.
Thanks @themagus!
Yeah I like reading too, but as you said, we maybe a minority, so this way opening the door to another audience.
Thanks Tom, I hope it will be decent :)
I'm sure that most of the marketers in the world will use videos, but I'm not sure that it's the future for the type A public. I get many emails trying to sell me something that say things like "click here to learn more," and most of them lead to some long-winded video that will take at least 10 and maybe more minutes to run its course.
Fortunately some of those videos will let you see a transcript if you attempt to leave the page -- some sort of "please don't leave, stay on page and read the transcript" message apprears. For them I usually stay on the page and speed read or skip down to the "here's what you will have to pay to get the real stuff" message. For those that don't have a transcript I just leave.
I said all that to say this: Video takes up too much of my time for the information it delivers.
But, of course, that does not apply to what I watch for relaxation -- dumb movies -- whatever.