{"id":3470,"date":"2017-10-25T17:58:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T21:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tlsrv.net\/covering-major-news-events-with-thinglink\/"},"modified":"2022-12-01T06:34:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T10:34:21","slug":"covering-major-news-events-with-thinglink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/blog\/covering-major-news-events-with-thinglink\/","title":{"rendered":"Image of the Week: Covering major news events with ThingLink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ThingLink user: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.univision.com\/noticias\/huracan-irma\/el-rugido-de-irma-asi-se-escucha-el-huracan-a-su-paso-por-florida?b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Univision Map<\/a>\u00a0&#038; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/weather\/hurricane-irma\/hurricane-irma-destruction-360-degree-view-of-a-canal-in-big-pine-key\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Local 10 News 360 Tour<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">(click to explore live)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is an infinite number of creative use cases to use ThingLnk for covering major news events with interactive media.\u00a0 As digital storytelling shifts to visual media, ThingLink allows you to tell a complete and unique story through the vehicle of an image, video or 360 image.\u00a0 In this weeks image of the week we feature how two media publishers covered Hurricane Irma&#8217;s path over Florida with an interactive audio map and 360\/VR experience.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong style=\"background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">1) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.univision.com\/noticias\/huracan-irma\/el-rugido-de-irma-asi-se-escucha-el-huracan-a-su-paso-por-florida?b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Interactive Map from Univision<\/a>:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px;\">Univision uses ThingLink to bring viewers into the path of the storm by listening to audio clips of what Irma sounded like in different parts of Florida. Using audio within images is a great alternative to text heavy information.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.thinglink.com\/card\/963456069584027649\" width=\"800\" height=\"646\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span color=\"#000000\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><strong>2) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/weather\/hurricane-irma\/hurricane-irma-destruction-360-degree-view-of-a-canal-in-big-pine-key\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">360\/VR tour from Local 10 News Miami<\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\">Using 360 images is the most visually captivating way to bring your audience directly into the experience of a news event from their computer.\u00a0 Here Local 10 News Miami details the power and destruction from Irma and what emergency service crews and residents are facing.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/mediacard\/966075994312015873\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<hr>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #339966;\"><br \/>Want to learn more?<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0Click to schedule a 20min screen share demo\u00a0with\u00a0me at a time of your choice to learn how to create interactive maps or 360 experiences like the users above. Or, email me directly\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:andrew@thinglink.com\">andrew@thinglink.com<\/a>.\u00a0<br \/>{{cta(&#8216;f3903730-8051-4ca2-8c48-4716245ce78e&#8217;,&#8217;justifycenter&#8217;)}}<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<span style=\"text-align: center; background-color: transparent;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ThingLink user: Univision Map\u00a0&#038; Local 10 News 360 Tour\u00a0(click to explore live) There is an infinite number of creative use cases to use ThingLnk for covering&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[238,289,270],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6527,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470\/revisions\/6527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}