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Video increasingly seems to be the new way of acquiring news, especially online. People prefer to watch the packages and clips that are streamed onto a website, rather than read an article about a video. This is so that each viewer can fully understand the story without having to rely on their own imagination as to what is being spoken about.

The Huffington Post, is doing a phenomenal job of streaming video on their website. The site has an entire section called “video” where viewers can click to find articles in the different sections. The video sections include, “The Blog,” “Entertainment & Comedy,” “Politics,” “Media,” and “Other.” Within each of these columns, viewers can scroll down to reveal numerous videos relevant to each section of interest. When sections such as politics and media get boring or dull to the viewer, they can scroll down on the left side to find funny videos of entertainers, funny clips, etc. to lighten the mood.

Clip of the Video Site on HuffingtonPost.com

In addition, bloggers of the site are allowed to post videos of relevant topics to each category. After the Oscars, William Shatner posted a video congratulating each of the winners, while inserting his own humor and fun into the video. In this way, viewers get to know the bloggers and understand what they are about.

The one key element in web video that the Huffington Post is lacking is their user-submitted videos. It is important to get the opinions of all aspects of a topic and in order to do so, Huff Post should include people who are not a part of the news industry. This would benefit them because it would give them credit for involving people outside of the news industry who may have opinions and insight into a certain topic.

The rules for online web video are still being written, however, it is important that one rule be followed and that is to include livestreaming and user-submission. These two methods engage the viewer and keep them coming back to see what people have to say and how they go about showing these ideas through a video.

Video media is both informative and fun. People who visit the Huffington Post website can get a full day’s worth of news simply from their video section. The upkeep of this section is great and up-to-date. It is an excellent way for viewers to get to know the staff and the people who are in fact the news. The only criticism is to include more user submissions, but as a whole, the site is doing an excellent job of incorporating web video into a respectable newscast.

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