What is the difference between blogging and vlogging ? - Blogging vs Vlogging

 What is blog and vlog? What is the difference between blogging and vlogging?

What is a Blog?

Blog is a website where you can share your thoughts, knowledge , experiences, and more in written form.  Click here to more about what is a blog ,is format and structure.

What is a vlog?

Vlog is also called video blog, where sharing your knowledge , experiences, skills, reactions, daily life and more in the form of videos , in this, videos are created to share your talents, skills, or anything. Like if you  are a person who travels ,then you can take videos of your travel experiences and share those on world wide web this is called vlogging. Examples of vlogging can be food vlogging where you show how to cook a particular dish via a video, dance vlog where you show dance steps via a videos, gaming vlogs where you show online gaming videos, daily lifestyle vlogs where you show your daily life videos or share videos of you with your friends or sharing videos of your profession. 

What is the difference between Blogging and Vlogging?

Well, blogging and vlogging both have their own uniqueness. Blogging can be read while vlogging can be watched.

1- Blogging is done in the form of text, text with images ,it is sharing something on world wide web via a website. While vlogging is done in the form of videos, it is sharing something in the form of video.

2- Blog can make you more creative writer while vlog cannot do so.

3- Blogging can make you more knowledgeable and a good researcher because it demands keyword research , reading and research about a topic before you go for writing for that topic. While vlogging does not require any knowledge or research , it just can be done on one click on your phone, just record a video and edit it ,vlogging just require this skill which is video editing.

4- Blogging platform can be blogger, wordpress, jhoomla, wix, medium, tumblr etc. while vlogging platform can be youtube, vimeo, Facebook watch, LinkedIn videos, Instagram, etc.

5- Blogging takes time to get success like more views, sessions, traffic and moreover it takes time to create one original blogpost while vlogging can be done via a mobile and then just upload your video on youtube as youtube shorts or youtube videos , on facebook watch videos and simply get views or visitor for your videos. A vlog can get you more audience than a blog.

6- Blogging requires god content writing skills, a website domain , niche or topic on which you need to write while vlogging requires equipment like mobiles, video camera , microphone and skills like video graphy skills and video editing skills.

7- Blogs can be more informative while vlogs can be more interesting to watch , like if you have a blog on travel then one can just visit on your travel blog and can know details in words about price of the whole journey, hotels you took , places you went and more questions can be answered on your blogpost. Now, suppose you are vlogging about travel and telling details about price of the journey ,places you went etc. it becomes interesting to watch with real views of the whole journey.

8- It takes more time to earn from blogging while it takes less time to earn from vlogging. If you have good skills like video graphy, video editing then you can surely earn via a youtube channel. You just need to start a youtube channel , upload high quality and interesting videos and do a good youtube SEO for your youtube videos.

9- Blogging demands to create a website and sharing your daily life on your website may not increase user interest or audience retention while vlogging can do so ,with vlogging you can share your daily lifestyle and get more audience retention.

10- Vlogging must be a video which is interesting to watch while blogging must be a website where content with text or text with images are written and content must be readable, valuable ,original and unique. Click here to know how to create an original and valuable content for your blog.

So, above we have discussed about what is a blog and vlog and difference between them. Blogging and vlogging are both related to content creation and can be used for promotion, marketing, advertisement, learning, and more. Well, with blogs where you can learn about a topic by reading it while vlogs can be a video where you watch it and learn about a topic. Like, food blogging can include a full recipe of a food or dish and food vlogging can show a video in which you show everything about that dish preparation. People like watching videos more than reading a content because videos can be made more interesting.