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How to Create a Recipe for Success With Online Video

5 MIN TO READ Creativity is annoyingly fickle. Whether it’s lacking inspiration, or a bad case of writer’s block, sometimes it takes more energy to start a video project than it does to film or edit it. Overcome this all-too-common obstacle to cranking out video with a simple solution: a reliable recipe you can use again and again for different videos. Here’s how to…

Should You Hire a Production Studio, or Make the Video Yourself?

5 MIN TO READ Thousands of dollars are potentially at stake, so you want to be sure to get this right: should you hire a video production studio, or do it yourself? It’s not just the expense entailed in hiring the studio or purchasing your own equipment, it could also be lost revenue and time if the end result isn’t that great, and the…

14 Crucial Steps to Market Videos for Free on Your Own

3 MIN TO READ If you’re part of a small team, your expertise needs to be incredibly wide-ranging. Everyday you come up with great ideas, you get creative with production, and then of course comes marketing your videos! Follow this guide to marketing videos on your own, and you can add another valuable skill to your ever-growing list.

Why You Should Build Your Video Website with SproutVideo

5 MIN TO READ You spent hours perfecting your videos, and are ready to unveil them to the world, but, now what? Spending even more time customizing a WordPress or Squarespace theme is certainly an option. So is building your whole website from scratch, but in that case, you better know how to code. A third option, for those of us short on time…

Eight Unexpected Video Marketing Lessons from Sports

5 MIN TO READ Whether you watched the Olympics or not, one thing is clear: people are getting better and better at sports. One of the most effective (legal) tools being used to enhance performance is video, and the ways in which it’s being leveraged for athletes inspired us to explore how the same ideas could be applied to video marketing. From performance analysis,…

The Secret to Hooking Viewers Like Stranger Things

6 MIN TO READ Note: We tried to avoid any specific spoilers in this post. Nevertheless, reader beware if you haven’t finished watching Stranger Things yet. If you’re like millions of Americans, you just binge watched eight episodes of Stranger Things, the runaway success on Netflix last weekend. You might have even rewatched it while shamelessly ordering more pizza, but we’re not here to…

10 New Ways to Engage Students with Video

3 MIN TO READ Have you ever wondered how to harness the power of video in the classroom? In our previous post we shared engaging video assignments for elementary and middle school students. Now, we’re going to look at how it can be used to enhance your students’ learning experience (and cut down on your administrative tasks!).

Ten Engaging Video Assignments to Get Your Students Talking

5 MIN TO READ In the classroom, video means instant engagement, and making video is an increasingly important skill for youngsters to develop. We’ve put together ten exciting assignment ideas that will help elementary and middle school teachers get their students making great video! Parents, feel free to steal these ideas for rainy weekends, too.