Should you use video to promote your mobile app?
There is a lot of material on the Internet explaining the benefits of video for promoting anything, including mobile applications. At first glance this is logical. Videos attract more attention than text or images. However, the reality is not so rosy. I created a modified version of the R Mahjong application that allows AI bots to play against each other and records videos of the games played. Everything seems to be fine. Just record 300 videos and post them on YouTube. However, I immediately have a question: will anyone watch this? Even if the AI played stronger than the strongest mahjong player, no one would watch it. Well, perhaps a strong professional will watch a couple of videos to see if there is anything interesting in them for him. How many such people are there? Several people. However, this is not even the real problem. The problem is that no one will watch even very interesting videos, because these videos are practically invisible. What does “the video clip is practi...