Zoopy Street Cam launched on 14 September this year, as our way of opening up social media publishing to even more people, by taking video cameras to them and allowing them to make their voices heard on all kinds of everyday issues.
To quote from our original launch post:
For a long time, we’ve wanted to create a space on Zoopy that would represent the daily ups and downs of living in South Africa. A channel that would reflect the issues we’re all tackling and talking about on a day-to-day basis, which would eventually become a living archive of the weeks, months and years that constantly pass us by.
Sport, politics, entertainment, drama, you name it. If South Africa’s talking about it, Street Cam will cover it. But because Zoopy’s about social media, not one-way media, the Street Cam channel is also open to YOU to upload your thoughts on the daily issues.
Since launching, we’ve hosted hundreds of opinions on a variety of topics. See the vids here.
From today, we’re adding to our multimedia mix as part of our new site’s expansion into four different types of media: videos, photos, podcasts and blogs. The new addition is called Zoopy Street Cast and will be a podcast edition of Street Cam, but won’t be an audio copy of everything on the Cam version. It’ll feature different opinions from people who otherwise wouldn’t want to share their opinion in front of a video camera. It’ll allow more freedom, in terms of language and thought.
Here’s today’s first Street Cast episode - on Jacob Zuma’s successful election into the position of ANC president:
