Posts by "Courtney Purchon"

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Afraid of the Camera? Face Your Fears With These 13 Tips

5 MIN TO READ Butterflies, jitters, dry mouth, vertigo, even mild nausea – all symptoms of the fact that you’re just plain uncomfortable in front of the camera. From our experience, that’s very common. In fact, it’s normal. But, it doesn’t have to be that way. In this post, we cover thirteen of the best tips for overcoming your fear of the lens to help you face…

8 Powerful Reasons to Use Viewer Logins For Your Videos

5 MIN TO READ Sometimes, you don’t want the whole world to see your video. In fact, many of the businesses we talk to are more concerned about the privacy of their videos than anything else. Issuing a login to viewers, with which they can access your videos, is a highly secure and easy way to share your content. It’s simple to setup, straightforward for…

Three Video Marketing Trends We’re Excited About

2 MIN TO READ Video marketing is evolving at a hectic pace, and will certainly continue to do so in the coming year. We already shared our predictions for the most impactful trends for online video. Now, let’s take a closer look at what, specifically, is going to matter for video marketing.

10 Major Predictions for Online Video in 2017

4 MIN TO READ The end of 2016 is upon us, and what a year it was! Tumultuous at times, 2016 saw lots of ups and downs. The world of online video is no exception. From provocative live video streams, to innovative uses for 360 video and virtual reality, 2016 offered a lot of surprising moments. But, we believe the best is yet to come. To help you…

How Westworld Used Handheld Camera Shots in an Ingenious Way

4 MIN TO READ This post contains spoilers! Hurry up and finish Season One of HBO’s Westworld before reading if you haven’t done so already. If you obsessively watched Westworld Season One over the past couple months, you might have caught onto some of their tricks. For instance, the multiple timelines, whether or not certain people are “real,” and when characters are acting under their own…

Update: Upload Larger Video Files

2 MIN TO READ As you may have noticed from years past, we love releasing product updates just before the holidays. Think of it as our little gift to you during a hectic time of year. This year, we made it possible to upload much larger video files to our platform. We also made uploads resumable, meaning they’ll pick up where you left off if…

How to Make a Holiday Video People Will Actually Watch

4 MIN TO READ The holidays are joyous, merry, and cheerful, but they can also be quite overwhelming. Between the inundation of repetitive jingles, aggressively urgent sales, and the pressure to be the perfect host, it’s all too easy to get caught up in the whirlwind and wake up in the New Year wondering what on earth just happened. When it comes to video,…

Top 10 Reasons to Be Thankful for Video

4 MIN TO READ With Thanksgiving week upon us, it’s time to reflect on all the ways in which life has been particularly kind to us. We are thankful for so many things here at SproutVideo. Our amazing customers, friends and family, our new offices, a remarkably warm and sunny fall in NYC, and all the delicious pizza and tacos at our doorstep, just…