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The Unsung Heroes: Who’s Behind Your Favorite Video?

4 MIN TO READ Pop videos are the essence of great video marketing. For over three decades now, music videos have represented the sum of the media’s ability to capture public imagination and use it to sell something—in this case, music. The people behind the videos, the producers and directors, have honed the skill of making great video to a point of near-perfection; in…

Introducing a New Way to Share Your Videos Online!

3 MIN TO READ After many, many months of hard work at SproutVideo HQ, we are extremely excited to release our video website features as a part of our core platform offering. These easy-to-use, beautiful, and powerful video sites are now available at no extra cost with all our existing pricing plans for all our customers. We added features, themes, and a fancy new…

Real Estate Series #4: the Importance of Audio in the Home Sales Video

3 MIN TO READ As you’re finishing preparations for the amazing tour video of the house you want to sell, it’s time to think about audio. Audio is by far the easiest giveaway for a low-budget video, and so this is where you need to invest some attention to detail — although not a lot of time — to get a strong result. The…

Real Estate Series #3: 10 Tips for Lighting Your House for a Video Shoot

3 MIN TO READ Note: This post is part of our Real Estate Series on selling your house with video. View earlier posts here and here. To achieve a polished and professional-looking video tour of your home, lighting is one of the most important elements to get right. The quality of lighting will also have a major visual impact on how attractive—and large or…

Real Estate Series #2: Filming Your House for the Best Effect

3 MIN TO READ Note: This post is part of our Real Estate Series on selling your house with video. View last week’s post here. When it comes to giving a virtual video tour of your house, the best approach is likely to be a minimalist one with no tour guide to distract viewers, just all the most striking views of the house itself….

Real Estate Series #1: 8 Tips for Staging Your House for Video

4 MIN TO READ Most real estate veterans know that there’s a special formula to making a house sale-ready. This is the formula of “staging” — highlighting your home’s strengths, downplaying weaknesses, and appealing to the largest possible pool of potential buyers. If you’re going to sell your house with video, classic staging tips, as well as a few creative ones, are going to…

Video Spotlight: “Happy” by Pharrell Williams

4 MIN TO READ Image Credit: 24hoursofhappy.com (2013) This month’s Video Spotlight is on the epic 2013 music video “Happy” by singer and producer Pharrell Williams. It’s still stuck in our heads, and for good reason. The song “Happy” hit number 1 in 24 countries around the world in 2013 and 2014, thanks to the simple yet incredibly effective music video campaign that went…

Ten Tips for Introducing Your Team with Video

2 MIN TO READ Video is a fast, visual, engaging way to introduce your team members to each other, and to highlight the great work that they do. In this post, we’ve come up with a few ideas to help you get beyond the typical interview format to create dynamic team videos.