I've seen so many articles lately about new apps that all want to be "the Instagram of video." Is there any value in that type of media? Do people really want that? Isn't that satisfied by animated gifs?

And to a larger end, could YouTube sweep in and do this with some kind of dedicated service or section of YouTube? Should they?

I've seen these all over the app store in the past and I think they won't catch on. I think that the ubiquity of photos, how simple they are to create and upload and many other factors make these video filtering apps gimmicky at best.

I agree, I think this need for a "moving Instagram" as it were would be better filled by apps that record video and make GIFs or cinemagraphs. I would much rather have that.

I agree with you Mike. I think that they are better served by traditional and universal mediums like Youtube videos and GIFs. I wonder if we can find someone to argue in favor of these apps.

Honestly, I think our infrastructure isn't quite there yet to make video sharing and viewing as ubiquitous as photo sharing/viewing.

The idea of being the "Instagram of video" is, I think, more of a business-fueled comparison than a creativity-related one; Instagram has defined photo-sharing for anyone with a smartphone. That hasn't happened with video yet, even though there is decent YouTube integration in iOS (and I would certainly hope Android as well). The thing is that video uploading/downloading just isn't *fast* enough yet. Uploading a mobile video with no editing or processing takes a good 10 minutes if I want quality greater than 360p.

The way I see it, though 10 min might seem rather trivial for vloggers like us that wait a good 30-70 minutes for an HD, main-channel upload, for a smartphone user, waiting more than a dozen seconds is a deal breaker. Like it or not, I think one of the defining qualities that a smartphone activity will fly or die by is time required to wait before moving on to another activity. If you're a non-video-user and you have to sit and wait for your smartphone to upload before you can go on and do other things, it's no longer an impulse activity, and there's much less incentive to do it regularly or in the middle of the hustle and bustle of daily life.

I agree with Jacke, the whole idea of instagram for photo sharing. No point of watering down something that is unique by it self. Also thy have several other social network apps that people can use to post videos. In the end I agree with Mike because I won't think it will catch on.