What about the cameras, moving or still, were looked at as an advertising tool??
As a potential new visitor, a person or family would go to the website, click on cameras and check out the coasters, paths, eateries and landscape. they see people doing stuff..
would that not be a good selling tool?
What about the cameras, moving or still, were looked at as an advertising tool??
As a potential new visitor, a person or family would go to the website, click on cameras and check out the coasters, paths, eateries and landscape. they see people doing stuff..
would that not be a good selling tool?
Photos and short video do a much better job showing all of that and advertising than a webcam can do. Quality, control, color, and being close up- web cams on towers can't even come close to competing with that. They aren't even in the same realm, as anyone who deal with photography and video should be able to tell you. (notice I said should)
And for traffic, Runner pointed out that it's traffic cams and controls that they need, not webcams, which again aren't going to accomplish much.
I know it's easy to fall into the assumption that if it's something talked about on TPR or other sites it must have an impact. But in reality coaster enthusiasts make up a very tiny percentage of customers (a good bit than 1%) and really don't have much of an impact on the bottom line.
And if they were that big of a producer, then you would see Disney, Universal, Busch and every other park out there using them. Instead you can count the number that have active web cams on both hands.
Here's the one way I see webcams being useful- for a few very limited in park functions- security (though security cameras are far better), traffic (again the already mentioned traffic cameras and controls are much better), and a few operations things. None of which there is really any reason to put online for people not working in the park to access. I still fail to see ANY benefit to the parks by putting webcams online for the general public to see.
The only exception to that, maybe, is during construction of a new project. And even that video and still photos can show better than a webcam.
Sanddune, I think as Sir Willow pointed out it would be a very small number that would visit based on this. Just a couple thoughts.
SDC probably ( I am not sure) has a marketing company hired for all things advertising and promotional. They might control all things that is seen. I.E. billboards, Brochures, TV ad campaigns. And most companies hire those marketing firms to run their Twitter, Instagram, Facebook accounts also. They tightly control this to make sure you see what they want you to see. A webcam used as advertising could be a disaster because they cannot control what a random person does. So, along with other things that are positive, the viewers are going to see peoples reaction when a bad situation happens. Oh Crap PK is down again cut the feed we do not want viewers to see people backing out of the line. Or we do not want potential visitors to see the mass of folks in the TT courtyard. They would also need to see how the installation and ongoing cost ( bandwidth is not cheap ) to operate the system is charged. Is a webcam for promotional a better use of our money , or is it better to have our marketing company put up 3 more Instagram post every day? My gut tells me that the social media would generate way more.
Who really knows but I bet if the Marketing team has not suggested it yet then it probably holds no value.
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