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The show cases make things slightly more clear. It seems like a framework for creating short vertical-orientated chaptered videos with fancy captions and that

The show cases make things slightly more clear. It seems like a framework for creating short vertical-orientated chaptered videos with fancy captions and that play mute by default. Why anyone would want this? I do not know. https://stories.google/showcase/ https://stories.google/showcase/

rchaud 6y ago
> Why anyone would want this? I do not know. I would imagine some portion of the 1 billion Instagram users that are familiar with this style of storytelling.
- scoopertrooper 6y ago
  I can assure you that it is the children who are wrong.
marcodave 6y ago
> Why anyone would want this? I do not know. its product manager at Google, looking for a promotion (and then let it rot)
netsharc 6y ago
Tell marketers/SEO experts that stories will be shown prominently on Google search results, and they'll be selling that stuff as "You must have this!" to their clients. I imagine Google's search results will look like Instagram's Explore tab soon enough (https://icdn6.digitaltrends.com/image/instagram-stories-explorer-tab-750x1334.jpg https://icdn6.digitaltrends.com/image/instagram-stories-expl... ) showing "trending" clips which are mostly video snippets stolen and re-posted to carry ads from the re-poster...
netsharc 6y ago
I looked at the money showcase: https://www.refinery29.com/stories/how-stuff-is-made-money/ https://www.refinery29.com/stories/how-stuff-is-made-money/ So... it's like watching a YouTube video, but every 10 seconds, it jumps back 10 seconds and repeats that 10 seconds, so you have to keep pressing "next [slide]" (at least Instagram/Snapchat progresses seamlessly) God fucking damnit, people...
- BrianOnHN 6y ago
  The subscribe button at the end doesn't seem to work either.
cmehdy 6y ago
Congrats, we are all old! Snapchat and Vine started it, and now TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook are all neck-deep in it. Every single one is dominated by this content in 2020, with perhaps the only area where text is still a main thing being Discord (although voice-chat is the attractive bit for gamers) & the streaming world (Twitch comments, youtube comments, niche Twitter communities). Whether we like it or not that's where the users are, and for Google that means it's where the ads and indexing should be.
- subpixel 6y ago
  I’ve seen this format aped by the NYTimes and I loathe it.
- scoopertrooper 6y ago
  Yikes, I'm so out of touch. It guess it's the modern equivalent of flipping through pictures in a magazine, but I never really understood the entertainment value in that either.
  - hombre_fatal 6y ago
    Fwiw, it's the only way to post something on Youtube/Instagram/Facebook/etc. that: doesn't have a like count, has no comments, it's ephemeral, and anyone who responds to it basically is just sending you a private message than writing something everyone can see. It's much better than posting the content normally and having to feel somewhat like a loser when nobody even likes/comments on it. On Instagram I have like 6 photos uploaded the normal way. For years I've only used the "stories" system to engage with friends. It's far more personal. Don't knock it too quickly, you may find it's a step in the right direction. I don't want it at the top of Google search as a marketing apparatus, though.
    - ric2b 6y ago
      Everything you listed sounds like something that should be handled by permissions or settings, not a completely different media format.
- 6y ago

rchaud 6y ago

> Why anyone would want this? I do not know. I would imagine some portion of the 1 billion Instagram users that are familiar with this style of storytelling.

scoopertrooper 6y ago
I can assure you that it is the children who are wrong.

marcodave 6y ago

> Why anyone would want this? I do not know. its product manager at Google, looking for a promotion (and then let it rot)

netsharc 6y ago

Tell marketers/SEO experts that stories will be shown prominently on Google search results, and they'll be selling that stuff as "You must have this!" to their clients. I imagine Google's search results will look like Instagram's Explore tab soon enough (https://icdn6.digitaltrends.com/image/instagram-stories-explorer-tab-750x1334.jpg https://icdn6.digitaltrends.com/image/instagram-stories-expl... ) showing "trending" clips which are mostly video snippets stolen and re-posted to carry ads from the re-poster...

netsharc 6y ago

I looked at the money showcase: https://www.refinery29.com/stories/how-stuff-is-made-money/ https://www.refinery29.com/stories/how-stuff-is-made-money/ So... it's like watching a YouTube video, but every 10 seconds, it jumps back 10 seconds and repeats that 10 seconds, so you have to keep pressing "next [slide]" (at least Instagram/Snapchat progresses seamlessly) God fucking damnit, people...

BrianOnHN 6y ago
The subscribe button at the end doesn't seem to work either.

cmehdy 6y ago

Congrats, we are all old! Snapchat and Vine started it, and now TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook are all neck-deep in it. Every single one is dominated by this content in 2020, with perhaps the only area where text is still a main thing being Discord (although voice-chat is the attractive bit for gamers) & the streaming world (Twitch comments, youtube comments, niche Twitter communities). Whether we like it or not that's where the users are, and for Google that means it's where the ads and indexing should be.

subpixel 6y ago
I’ve seen this format aped by the NYTimes and I loathe it.
scoopertrooper 6y ago
Yikes, I'm so out of touch. It guess it's the modern equivalent of flipping through pictures in a magazine, but I never really understood the entertainment value in that either.
- hombre_fatal 6y ago
  Fwiw, it's the only way to post something on Youtube/Instagram/Facebook/etc. that: doesn't have a like count, has no comments, it's ephemeral, and anyone who responds to it basically is just sending you a private message than writing something everyone can see. It's much better than posting the content normally and having to feel somewhat like a loser when nobody even likes/comments on it. On Instagram I have like 6 photos uploaded the normal way. For years I've only used the "stories" system to engage with friends. It's far more personal. Don't knock it too quickly, you may find it's a step in the right direction. I don't want it at the top of Google search as a marketing apparatus, though.
  - ric2b 6y ago
    Everything you listed sounds like something that should be handled by permissions or settings, not a completely different media format.
6y ago