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Introducing Yourself: Nailing Your Company’s “About Us” Video

5 MIN TO READ A good ‘About Us’ video tells the story of a brand, provides necessary information, fulfills a need, establishes a bit of social proof, and clearly shows what a brand is about. We’ve discussed a lot of different kinds of videos in this blog: interviews, series, and outdoor shoots, but your ‘About Us’ video is perhaps THE most important video you…

11 Great Ideas for Your Next Web Series

5 MIN TO READ Web series are a great way to capture and sustain audience interest. It’s a fresh way to keep audiences coming back to your brand week after week. This blog post is dedicated to crafting engaging online web series, with eleven ideas to get your own video series going.

Persuasive Calls to Action: Are Your Videos Benefiting From Them?

5 MIN TO READ The one key ingredient to any successful marketing video is an effective call-to-action (CTA). A persuasive CTA allows you to strike while the iron is hot, when viewers are most engaged and intrigued by your solutions. Here are the details on why they are so important, and how to implement your own powerful CTAs.

Video Hacks for Your Online Video Production

3 MIN TO READ Fact: Camera equipment is still expensive. Not too long ago, we put together a list of DIY fixes that encourage your crafty spirit and keep your pockets a little fuller. Here are more video hacks from professionals, online videographers, and some creative film students to help you create polished videos while sticking to a budget.

The Legalities of Using Music in Your Online Videos

4 MIN TO READ Gone are the days of Napster and Kazaa. Those sites are now archaic, but their popularity opened up a chasm of legal issues surrounding music pirating and synching. Song and lyric rights are contentious subjects, with copyright infringement costing some video-makers hundreds of thousands of dollars. Music piracy is a confusing and costly issue for many videographers and you can…

The Poor Film Student’s Guide to an Affordable Education

4 MIN TO READ   The film student. Together, the words paint a vivid picture of a college undergrad. Wildly creative, passionate, a wee bit eccentric, and poor. Very poor. Dedicated to their craft, the film student spends their days in class, their nights immersed in projects, and the infancy of their mornings serving smothered hash browns or filling stained mugs with coffee in…

SproutVideo now available through Embed.ly

< 1 MIN TO READ SproutVideo has always tried to make video hosting as simple and intuitive as possible for our customers. In that spirit, we’re pleased to announce that SproutVideo videos are now available through Embed.ly. Embed.ly is a service that makes it easy to embed content, such as video, images, audio and more, from nearly any site on the web. Embed.ly is used…