vervid is also a "similar product".
I'm always interested in new social media apps! Especially involving video/photos. Why is this better/different than snapchat? and other similar apps?
@andypngr Snapchat has many limitations for creators to create any type of vertical video you want. Slinger isn't trying to play in the space of content creation tools. We want to be the one place where all of those videos live on forever.
Snapchat lacks a place for people to truly discover new content creators and build a following. There is also very little incentive for content creators to invest time into creating content because it's always destroyed after 24 hours. Snapchat has also threatened many of its creators who were hacking the app to upload creations made outside the app. They've deleted many accounts of creators who have uploaded to Snapchat causing those creators to lose their audience. A lot of upcoming creators depend on that audience to make money via brand deals. On Slinger, **you can only upload**. We want to create an environment where creators thrive and feel like they have a home for their videos. We have a lot of respect for Vervid. We've been watching since day 1. Vervid looks like they may be spreading themselves too thin by building a product that has too many features. We built Slinger to be as simple and straight forward as possible. We've been building Slinger from day 1 with the creator in mind, first. I'm lucky to be the oldest story teller on Snapchat snapping since Jan 2014. From day one I've been thinking about Snapchat from a creator / entrepreneurial perspective and Slinger is the epitome of what is missing for creators.
We think there's going to be dozens of vertical video creation tools that emerge throughout 2016 and we have some big plans in the future to integrate with them :) .
@chriscarm great explanation! Thanks! There is a definite need of a home for vertical content.
Agreed on vervid. Snapchat definitely has it's place though.
Looking forward to seeing where this goes!
Vertical video used to be the most frustrating thing on the web, but people really don't want to turn their phones sideways. According to Evan Spiegel in this Adweek article, advertisers on (Snapchat) see a reported nine times more engagement when their ads are vertically oriented.
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