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Hey Scott,
Simple video and it works - definitely better than many other product promo videos I've seen in my time (as a videographer.)
Just wanted to clarify something about YouTube: ads do not run before, during, or after if you don't allow them. Ads will only run if a video is "monetized," which is a setting that the uploader controls. In addition, I believe embedded content (such as the video embedded in this post) does not have advertisements running ever, but I could be wrong on this point.
That said, both Vimeo and YouTube are great video hosts. I tend to prefer YouTube (if absolutely everything inside your video is original) because it makes the video far more accessible and has a greater chance of being discovered by your desired audience. Vimeo's real advantage is its video page presentation and better compression, at least in my opinion.
Thanks for sharing VoiceBunny! I had no idea this existed, and will make my life easier.
Not entirely true; by uploading to YouTube, you run the risk of a content provider claiming that your video contains their content, which will allow them to run ads on your video involuntarily. If your promotional video includes music (even if you have a license to that music), this seems quite likely.
The thing I couldn't figure out with Youtube was how to stop the post-roll "ads" for "related videos" that took the user out of our context.
And, no, removing it from the public index didn't effect the post-roll recommendations.
Fortunately we also have an amazing designer in house so we could do the rest of the video ourselves. You can see the results at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5siDTau6Rvg (note that we went with YouTube since you can't use Vimeo for commercial purposes).
So how can Vimeo be an alternative to YouTube?
Am I missing something here?
They also give you the stats on the video, so you know which parts users watch, which parts they rewind etc.
Also can the OP break down what they spent the money on, Powtoon is not displaying pricing right now. Great post.
It depends on the product category you're in, and as always YMMV.
This video would never have ads on YouTube.
So, to your point, our time was probably the most costly part. :)
I guess thats why the good ones charge so much. The content is pretty important.
Of course, since we just posted it, we won't have good results of our A/B test (against a static image slideshow) for a week or so.
I also really need an unbounce alternative. I'll have a look at your site when I get some downtime.
The big problem is you put every feature tahat you have in your app into the video. Thats why its kind of blah. Focus on one tihng you do based on which suorce the user comes from.
If he's coming from HN then just test your business should be enough. The user will find the other features as he explores.
Can I ask, do you think it has advantages over, say, recording your screen while you record yourself taking someone through a demo? Then maybe replacing your voice with a voicebunny voiceover?
I imagine cartoon v screen demo is dependent on your audience and objectives, but intrigued as to why you went this route. Cheers!
Our problem with that is that, as a startup, our UI was changing every couple of months. The premise/goal doesn't change for the user... but we keep making it better. So that video got old too quick. And editing screen recordings every couple of months got tiring.
We are also looking to do some how-to videos with voice-bunny instead of our voices though. It ends up sounding much better.
I have produced opt in rates north of 51% and actual front end sales conversion rates of 5% percent using those resources to help with building a script
It might be cool to license some more background music from a site like audiojungle.net to make it available.
I thought about music... but after an hour trying to find a good match I gave up and figured I could add music later.
Our first recording came back a little too whimsical. So we asked for a revision to have it more profesional sounding and got it for $16 more dollars. Still within our $200 budget.
Beyond the education we were trying to go for a little bit of the corny/infomercial feeling.