You need grasp the hot issue , then right away write something about this , you can get additional traffics to your sites !
Still, there are some trusted article sites wherein you can post worthy articles like squidoo, hubpages, and amazines to name a few
Article marketing isn't really dead, but you're right about making videos. If you want increased organic traffic, videos can put you on page one with sites that have 1000's of back links.
One misconception about Article Marketing is only for article written to drive traffic based from keyword targeting and massive link submissions, in which most times marketers assume that this is just a waste of time because some articles really does not convert. Remember first that articles are written to offer information that will connect to your market and get them interested, not to search engines. So make sure that your article can be easily connected starting from your Article Title. Perfect tips for Article Marketing specifically targeting your niche are 1. Research your niche identify process, advantages, benefits anything positive or negative that can turn into positive that can also be related to people's daily necessity. 2. Test it (write and submit) 3. Analysis of Results or Conversion (separate effective and non-effective) 4. Back to Research Again!
Article Marketing is still great. But not that kind of article marketing that pretends to distribute one article (spun or not) to 1000's of sites. That kind of am is dead after google panda. The strategy that's still effective is to submit 1 article to 2 or 3 of the top directories.