Remember how, in school, whenever the class got to watch a movie everyone cheered? Suddenly, the kids who once hated learning started to love to learn. There's something about the moving image, accompanied by sound, that makes even dull information thrilling. That's why you should embed Flash video into your website whenever you can.
How The Internet Was Transformed By The FLV Player
Embedded streaming video changed the face of the Internet. It changed how and why people went online. The Internet used to be the province of nerds, or people who wanted to do specialized research. It used to be, you went online to look stuff up for school, or when you wanted detailed information about some subject that you couldn't research by conventional means. Some people used to look to the Internet to engage in intense, long, written debates.
Streaming video changed all that. First, people started putting videos on their MySpace pages. Suddenly, the Internet became as glamorous as a night club: a place of dynamic, compelling imagery of ephemeral, ambiguous meaning. Words are static. you read a sentence, and you can consider it. You pause to think about what it means. Sentences give you time to think and thus, generally, are pretty clear-cut. And that's just boring. Video, on the other hand, doesn't give you any time to think. You just have to watch and perceive and take it all in. It's like being on a breathtaking roller-coaster (versus sitting in your chair).
When YouTube came around, it cemented this change. The Internet became better than television, offering viewers the delight of moving pictures that they could breathlessly follow--except with more choice, with infinite choice. Do you want to look at a video of cute cats pouncing on their adoring human owner? A commercial from 1992 that you can't get out of your head? That's what the Internet offers to people, and that's what people now expect.
Incorporate Embed Flash Video In Your Site To Draw Them In
And that's why you need to embed Flash video on your site. People expect information on the Internet to move and talk for them, and if your site doesn't move and talk--and sing!--most people aren't going to care what you have to say. If you expect to sell products via the Internet, why not embed Flash video on your site that shows how the products work? If you want to build a personal resume on the Internet, why not make it stand out by including a video of you talking about your qualifications?
Text can be questioned; its literal meaning can be debated. Moving images just exist. You must get an FLV player embedded in your website. |
