Blogs
First Friday Employee Feature – Abigail Adams
April 1, 2022
Meet our accounts receivable analyst, Abigail Adams. When she's not processing contracts or championing the fitness challenge, she's…
SnapStream Release 22.1
March 15, 2022
Our team has been hard at work improving the core of the SnapStream experience (and building a few new things too). See what's new in…
Feature Friday: Katie Lang
March 4, 2022
Hello SnapStream universe! Here at SnapStream, our people are everything, and we like to show them off. This week, meet our our associate…
Feature Friday: Benny Bowden
February 4, 2022
At SnapStream our people are everything. Meet Benny Bowden, our product designer to learn about product design and 36 hour races.
The Importance of Video To Traditional Newspaper Companies
January 27, 2022
From print journalism to radio, television, and digital platforms, news delivery has significantly changed and video is the anchor. We ask…
Feature Friday: Jill McDevitt
January 14, 2022
At SnapStream our people are everything. Meet Jill McDevitt, our awesome Customer Success Team Lead to see how she's grown with SnapStream.
The State of Local News
January 11, 2022
For over two centuries, the for-profit business model that sustained local journalism in the United States has been challenged by…
Feature Friday: Emily Rutledge
December 17, 2021
Do you know Emily Rutledge, our incredible Customer Success Team Lead? You should! Read on to learn a bit about her.
What Is News Avoidance and How Can You Avoid It?
December 9, 2021
News avoidance refers to intentionally resisting news. News avoidant people will either altogether avoid the news or drastically reduce the…
Feature Friday: Amy Vara
December 3, 2021
Say hi to Amy Vara, SnapStream's demand generation and digital marketing guru.
Getting in Deep: The Cost and Danger of Deepfakes in the Media and Beyond
November 29, 2021
The rise of the deep fake has hit the news industry the hardest as it makes it more challenging than ever to verify if a source is…
Misinformation Madness: Can We Trust The News?
October 21, 2021
Determining which news stories are misinformation versus which are fair and accurate is a challenging task. Fact checking -- which used to…
How COVID-19 Impacted News Consumption
October 7, 2021
There’s no doubt that the world at large has changed drastically since March 2020. With COVID-19 sweeping the globe, change has become the…
What is SnapStream? (Spoiler alert: A cloud-based news and media workspace)
October 4, 2021
So, what exactly is SnapStream? We are a cloud-based news and media workspace that gives you superpowers! We're how late night shows and…
Feature Friday: Sarah Eck
September 24, 2021
At SnapStream, our people are everything. Meet the leader of the Fantastic Four marketing team, Sarah!
Problems with Modern Journalism
September 23, 2021
Delivery methods for journalism have changed. News organizations must change how they reach their audience. Read why.
Snapcademy Clip Tip 2: Export to Twitter
September 7, 2021
Learn how to export video clips to Twitter using SnapStream's news and media video workspace.
Q3 Release – See What’s New in SnapStream 21.3
August 19, 2021
We’re excited to announce the release of SnapStream 21.3 which adds shared encoder tuning as well as several fixes for improved user…
A New Era of Storytelling with John Battelle
August 18, 2021
Good journalism is a superpower. Check out insights from John Battelle on how video journalism has evolved over the last several years.
Creating Clips with a Screen Recorder? Consider These 3 Things First.
August 11, 2021
Most of us find ourselves in the role of content creator these days, whether we're trying to build a brand, disseminate news, provide…
SnapStream Search Spotlight – July 2021
August 6, 2021
For the month of July, SnapStream users conducted 31,687 searches about people and events around the globe. Let's check out some of the…
Feature Friday: Rhetta Bobo
July 30, 2021
Howdy! Here at SnapStream, our people are everything and we like to show them off. This week, we'd like to introduce you to our customer…
SnapStream & Small Biz Insider Discuss the Power of Video Storytelling
July 27, 2021
On a recent episode of Small Biz Insider podcast our own Rakesh Agrawal joined Maggie Martin to talk about SnapStream's continued evolution…
Welcome to Snapcademy!
July 8, 2021
Today, we are launching Snapcademy: a snackable series of bite-sized learnings showcasing how to fully utilize SnapStream's blazing-fast,…
Five Things Every Digital News Team Should Learn from ONA21
June 30, 2021
The Online News Association (ONA) held its 22nd annual conference last week and we couldn’t get enough of the incredible speakers and…
SnapStream Search Spotlight – June 2021
June 28, 2021
June 2021 was packed with big news stories and our customers were all over them. Content producers were relentless in their quest to curate…
Feature Friday: Pete Hollmer
June 25, 2021
Wassup y'all? Here at SnapStream, our people are everything and we like to show them off. This week, we'd like to introduce you to our…
Skewed News: How Source Bias Affects Online News Engagement
June 17, 2021
People love their opinions and often make their consumption choices in direct correlation. Superhero arguments aside, the reality is…
How a News Media Video Workspace Can Unite Remote-First Teams
May 26, 2021
Remember when we all thought we would work from home for no more than two or three weeks? Ah, memories of a simpler time.
SnapStream Search Stats – May 2021
May 26, 2021
We're back at it this month looking at the top search topics in May. From May 1 through May 27, SnapStream users ran 32,240 search queries.…
SnapStream Search Stats – April 2021
April 29, 2021
This month, from April 1 through April 28, SnapStream users ran 38,956 search queries. Below are some of the hottest search topics of the…
Who Really Watches the News?
April 29, 2021
With the rise of digital media and the diversification of channels used by traditional news sources, not only do researchers have a tougher…
Four Ways to Make the Most of Social Media Algorithms
April 28, 2021
From last year’s documentary, The Social Dilemma, to this week’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, the algorithms powering the major…
Evolving the Newsroom for Quickly & Accurately Breaking News
March 23, 2021
Speed and accuracy have always been strange bedfellows in the world of news media. The advent of the 24/7 news cycle changed the very idea…
Why the Mars Video Clip Matters for Digital Content Creators
February 24, 2021
For the first time, we are able to see the moment a rover touches down on another planet. Not only could we actually view the landing of…
Trial by Video Clip
February 18, 2021
Trial evidence can take many forms. Expert testimony. Eyewitness accounts. Documents and photos. Maybe even the occasional surveillance…