About VidSF
What?
VidSF offers local, quick and recent videos about your community. Our site encourages anyone to be a local video reporter by directly sharing ad revenue.
Why?
- We were inspired to start VidSF when we noticed our peers were no longer watching local TV news.
- We also recognized it can be tough to get video production jobs in the Bay Area, especially for fledgling videographers.
VidSF seeks to address both of these issues: Let’s give everyone equal footing to produce video content that matters to our local community. We’ll split ad revenue to provide income for local videographers.
Who?
VidSF serves the San Francisco community. Everyone is welcome to produce video for VidSF — experienced or aspiring videographers, activists, students, young, old, rich, poor, tall or short. We’ll even help you learn how.
VidSF is a project started by Kieran Farr and Steve Cochrane earlier this year.
- Kieran founded a TV station in college and then worked for an ad agency where he planned online advertising campaigns. Pretty soon he was fed up with corporate life and started driving a taxi in the City. He still drives 3 days a week to pay rent (and for servers) while working on this project.
- Steve worked with Kieran on the college TV station and is now a certified design/UI/html/css/js whiz.
When?
Now! We opened the site in August and now we’re building our community of videographers.
Here’s our rough timeline:
How?
Join us! Our production team meets regularly. We’re seeking others to join too. You’ll need access to your own production equipment and realize that there’s no ad revenue to split — yet.