23 Jan 2009
Videos taken on mobile phones made the big time with news organisations taking advantage of the readily available eye witness accounts that their journalists would never have been able to get, but streaming video live from mobiles to the web has still to catch the public awareness.
The Presidential inauguration, however, is I think the first major event to change this. Not only were there millions and millions of people watching the official camera feed that was streamed by all the major news sites, but there were literally hundreds of cameras around the country capturing the moment from very personal perspectives.
The most impressive though has got to be from the phone of singer John Legend who, along with a whole host of other celebs, managed to meet Obama after the ceremony.
It is a great video to watch, letting you see some really big stars behaving almost like their fans when they meet the new President and showing just how down to earth Obama is. But the thing that struck me most was how the media covered the clip.
Not really bothered by an impressive new technology (which most average people still aren’t aware of) and just happy to see behind the scenes footage of celebs getting ‘giddy’.
This is probably the best advert that mobile streaming service Kyte could have had and I think it wont be long before this kind of things moves beyond the early adopter stage.
Posted by Angus Farquhar (23/01/09 - 17:35)
Trained as a sound engineer, I stumbled in to text journalism, but knew it wasn't really me. Then I found video.
