3 ms·

I'm curious to know how many people like this trend of having to watch a video when you get to a landing page. Its showing up in more and more places, and I per

I'm curious to know how many people like this trend of having to watch a video when you get to a landing page. Its showing up in more and more places, and I personally dislike it (I don't want to load a video and watch a clip, if I can quickly scan text and images and figure out if I should continue), but I wanted to know what other people thought.

rkudeshi 15y ago
I like both, personally. Ideally, I want to see a few images to get an idea of what the product is. If I'm interested, I'll watch the video to actually see how it works. There are things you notice in a video you'd never grasp just from a few pictures, just like how a few pictures can sometimes explain things much better than a lot of words.
grinich 15y ago
Text is high bandwidth, but videos are much better for communicating emotion.
timwiseman 15y ago
I am fully with you. As a general rule, I process text much faster (and more selectively) than I can process a video. The only time I prefer video is when it is something that truly benefits from being demonstrated in a way that is cumbersome to describe in words. Working with software is almost always best described in words with some pictures, but I found videos extremely helpful in origami.
jwr 15y ago
I rarely watch the videos. Life is too short. If I can learn about the service/product by reading, that's fine, if not — I'll just abandon the page. If the service/product is any good, it will come back to me sooner or later via friends' recommendations.
- Liddell 15y ago
  Seriously life is to short to watch a 55sec video...are you on your deathbed?
- gbog 15y ago
  Same here, rarely watch videos, but not because life is too short, because video are very intrusive. I need to put headphones, it may download slowly, I have to focus on somebody talking to me, often with a very weird accent, in a language that is not my mother tongue. Moreover I am in China and may have to fire my VPN, switch on the proxy, all this because some guys decided videos were more than text.
- dunk010 15y ago
  It's a 1 minute video so it probably took you longer to post this comment than to watch the thing.
robmcm 15y ago
I normally go to wikipedia for a description of a service or product rather than sift through all the marketing BS that's normally plastered over a website.

rkudeshi 15y ago

I like both, personally. Ideally, I want to see a few images to get an idea of what the product is. If I'm interested, I'll watch the video to actually see how it works. There are things you notice in a video you'd never grasp just from a few pictures, just like how a few pictures can sometimes explain things much better than a lot of words.

grinich 15y ago

Text is high bandwidth, but videos are much better for communicating emotion.

timwiseman 15y ago

I am fully with you. As a general rule, I process text much faster (and more selectively) than I can process a video. The only time I prefer video is when it is something that truly benefits from being demonstrated in a way that is cumbersome to describe in words. Working with software is almost always best described in words with some pictures, but I found videos extremely helpful in origami.

jwr 15y ago

I rarely watch the videos. Life is too short. If I can learn about the service/product by reading, that's fine, if not — I'll just abandon the page. If the service/product is any good, it will come back to me sooner or later via friends' recommendations.

Liddell 15y ago
Seriously life is to short to watch a 55sec video...are you on your deathbed?
gbog 15y ago
Same here, rarely watch videos, but not because life is too short, because video are very intrusive. I need to put headphones, it may download slowly, I have to focus on somebody talking to me, often with a very weird accent, in a language that is not my mother tongue. Moreover I am in China and may have to fire my VPN, switch on the proxy, all this because some guys decided videos were more than text.
dunk010 15y ago
It's a 1 minute video so it probably took you longer to post this comment than to watch the thing.

robmcm 15y ago

I normally go to wikipedia for a description of a service or product rather than sift through all the marketing BS that's normally plastered over a website.