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The new visual messaging app, WORDEO is easy to describe with words, but more fun to see in action. Drawing from Getty Images’ stock photography and video, the app builds a small video out of your message, with a pictures or video for each key word in the message. Typically, you can choose from up to five images, but you can customize the message by pulling an image from your phone’s library or take a picture or video right at the moment, edit it, and integrated it into the message. The message is polished off with a music track, also customizable.
The service started in January, and currently works on the iOS platform, with an Android version in the works. Messages can only be sent between WORDEO subscribers, and the images are not downloaded into your phone as part of your image library, so you’ll have to start from scratch each time you create a message.
It’s hard to say if it will take off into a big phenomena, but it’s definitely fun to play with, especially with such a huge collection of images to pull from, providing potentially an endless supply of pictures and video.
In my interview with Ted Sandling, Marketing Manager for WORDEO, he offers that for visual thinkers it’s a new approach to telling a visual story. I can see it appealing to a Twitter mode of communication through short messages but not requiring skills at sketching or drawing to have a powerfully graphic message.
Watch the video, sign up for the service (which is free, as of the time of publication of this article), and leave a comment below. (In a few weeks time, you should be able to leave a comment with visuals, but in the meantime, let us know if you use the service and what you think about it.
