YouTube Videos: Opportunities And Risks For Device Firms
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Device-makers that have been reluctant to add product videos to YouTube might need to produce them anyway to counteract inaccurate or even dangerous user videos, one consultant says – but the step isn’t totally without risk. For example, attorney Colleen Heisey questions whether creating online video is the best use of a company’s limited resources: “You have to go viral to have the impact of millions of viewers … so you’re coming up with a digital engagement strategy, and the effort to do that might be better placed elsewhere."