Tameez writes, “When Wired had six reporters follow a robotaxi from autonomous car company Waymo around San Francisco, for example, associate director of social Evy Kwong took vertical smartphone videos and interspersed them through the piece. In a story about a a robot startup, Wired inserted a social video after the second paragraph. The video is anchored by the story’s reporter Will Knight, with a Godzilla poster and a lava lamp behind him.
“Short vertical videos, a staple of Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, are increasingly making their way on to news sites. The format is a hit with audiences — the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) reported earlier this year that 66% of respondents in its global survey watch short news videos every week — but more than two-thirds of that viewing still takes place on platforms, not publisher websites, RISJ found. Publishers are trying to change that.
“‘We’re looking for as many ways as possible to bring the videos that we’re making for TikTok and Instagram [on to] the site,’ Indu Chandrasekhar, executive global director of audience development and analytics at Wired, told me.”
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