Understanding and Creating Effective Explainer Videos
Understanding and Creating Effective Explainer Videos In today’s fast-paced digital world, capturing your audience's attention has never been more challenging.This is where explainer videos come into play—a powerful tool designed to simplify complex ideas and engage viewers concisely, with visually appealing content. Whether you're a startup trying to pitch a novel product, a seasoned business looking to enhance your brand messaging, or an educator aiming to explain intricate concepts, explainer videos are an effective solution. In this blog post, we will delve into the art and science behind creating compelling explainer videos. We’ll explore the different types of explainer videos, including: live-action, animated, whiteboard, and even Kickstarter videos, each serving unique purposes and audiences. Furthermore, we’ll guide you through the entire creation process—from
The Animated Video Process From A to Z
The Animated Video Process From A to ZIntroduction to Animated Video: The animated video process is complicated and the steps from start to finish are numerous. However, don't be intimidated! Animated video production is a wonderful marketing tool that easily engages people and rapidly improves lead generation and sales. In order to create a video that will be successful, knowing these steps will help you. It will empower you to understand what to look for, what to expect, and what to watch out for. Step 1) - What do I want my story to be? Animation is a storytelling tool. So getting clear on what you want your audience to understand about your story is essential. A good place to start is to
Help, my Video Marketing Strategy isn’t working!
You're in the middle of a video marketing campaign launch and your conversions aren't meeting their targets. Adjustments and optimizations aren't helping. What could be the problem? Let's go through a few tips to get your strategy back on track:1) One tip to get back on track is to take a second look at who you're targeting. Who are your customers? What are their lives like? Who seems to be enthusiastic about your product? Who isn't enthusiastic? What is your average CTR (click-through rate) based on gender, demographics and interests?Going back to basics like this can really help with adjusting your strategy from keywords to use, to understanding when to market to your audience during different times of the week, or
Mobile games have been implementing ads and in-app purchases to make their money on freely downloaded software since 2008. Will AR follow the same trend?There is a new market on the block, and it's called Augmented Reality. In a few short days Pokemon Go has turned into a world-wide sensation. It's definitely something new and different from a normal mobile game. It displays some of the amazing things that we can now do with augmented reality technology, including the integration of high-level GPS tracking data, environmentally aware camera tracking technology and 3d animated characters together.The next step for AR and VR tech may be the inclusion of new and different monetization features that aren't too obstructive to users, and still make
The last ten years has heralded a massive change in how marketers and advertisers reach their customers, collect data, make their products known, and create experiences that enhance brands and sell to the public.Smaller companies now have more options available to them online than ever before to reach, understand, and curtail their businesses and services to customers in need.This includes the rise of the use of cellphones, an explosion in app development, responsive and easy to build websites and interactive website ads, and now VR and AR (Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality).These products add to the branding and marketing packages for companies large and small and enable more engagement, and help people understand your products and what you do.This freeing up of
Training can be hard and expensive for a company to implement, and the consequences of having an untrained or under-trained workforce can be catastrophic to your bottom line if profit margins are squeezed by market forces, and you have a project or product that is hard to implement.Training your workforce well, and keeping track of their progress as they learn is essential for increasing a work environment's efficiency and saving money on overhead. It can also save time spent investigating what went wrong where and when if something goes wrong on a project or service.Training is very important, and can give you an edge in your business if implemented well.However many small and medium-sized companies simply don't have the time
ROI for Explainer Videos… Explained!
The use of streaming video online has steadily been rising for years. The use of Netflix instead of cable, Youtube's growth and popularity for the last decade plus, and other services for video have continued to become more significant and used more often as the internet grows.In fact, video traffic has risen so much that the majority of internet traffic across the world now is simply used for video streaming. ROI for video - Statistics and Facts: In May 2015, Cisco released the complete VNI Global IP Traffic Forecast, 2014 – 2019. Global highlights from the updated study include the following projections:By 2019, there will be nearly 3.9 billion global Internet users (more than 51 percent of the world’s population), up
Why Explainer Videos Increase Conversion Rates, But Only if Done Right!
There are four different types of learning styles that reflect a combination of learning types in people. Those types are:visual auditory tactilePeople gravitate towards a set combination of these types together, the four types are:The Reflector: prefers to think about what they're learning The Activist: learn by doing The Theorist: likes to understand how what they're learning fits into a previous framework. The Pragmatist: care about how it will work in the real worldYou may be wondering why I'm listing these in a blog post about explainer videos and their effectiveness on your audience. I'm listing them because they are significant to your website's conversion rate on consumers choosing to spend their money on your product.The average attention span of internet users in 2015 clocked
Storytelling is something people everywhere appreciate and love. It's a form of entertainment, as well as a medium to teach life lessons to everyone. It imparts cultural ideas and expectations, and spurs progressive action and critique of culture. Stories are things humans have made up and passed down over millennia to each other. Whether through oral tradition or written down, stories captivate and excite us, they charge the imagination and move us deeply if done well.Is it no small wonder that the Epic of Gilgamesh is still a story we talk about today, one that existed an estimated 3000 years ago. There are countless other cuneiform tablets recovered from the ruins of Sumer and Ur, but the story of Gilgamesh has