Move over Snapchat. Other apps are now available which, in some cases, offer more loading and editing features so that a mobile video compiled from multiple sources can be viewed on social media.  RJI Futures Lab update #105 offers a very useful primer on JumpCam, Mixbit, Peepsqueeze and other recent apps.  

The apps could expand the reach and engagement for community news and events via smartphones especially since videos on JumpCam, Mixbit and Peepqueeze can be viewed on social media or downloaded. Snapchat videos can be viewed only with its app.

The Futures Labs report by Gabriel Jefferson, Reuben Stern and Rachel Wise provides a video overview as well as follow-up text full of details. The list below is an excerpt from the report: 

JumpCam is an app that lets users shoot a video, and then invite friends to add to it. It is automatically compiled by JumpCam, but the creator can add effects and music to it after. The app is available for iOS and Android.

Mixbit is both an app and a website where a user can create a video by creating a private or open collaboration. Others users can then submit photos or videos to the project and then Mixbit handles the editing, effects and graphics. After it is complete the creator can still make changes to the video manually. The app is available for iOS, with an Android version in the works.

Peepsqueeze is targeted toward use by groups of friends. Contributors are invited into the process by a video’s initiator to create a “seamless, downloadable video keepsake.” The app is available for iOS and Android.

Riff is an Android and iOS app released by Facebook Creative Labs that lets users start and add to video threads using a hashtag-like topic label. The finished videos can be shared in Facebook and elsewhere on the Web. 

Videoo is a website and app that allows the public to upload videos up to 33 seconds long to a hashtag playlist. People can then vote on videos within the playlist. Videos with the most votes move to the beginning of the playlist. Users can also remix the playlist to create their favorite version. The app is available for iOS and Android.

From Part 2 of the Futures Lab report: Contextly is offering a tool that enables publishers to notify users when follow-up stories of interest are posted on their websites.

In his April 28 blog, Contextly co-founder and CEO Ryan Singel writes, “Simply put, the FollowUp button shows up at the end of story on a publisher’s site and lets the reader sign-up to get notifications when a follow-up story is published by that publication. We also immediately send the reader the BackStory – a collection of stories formatted as a timeline that give context for the story you are following.”