#trending in video - February 10, 2021

Welcome to the #trending in video blog from Best Made Videos®. We are a Seattle-based live event wedding videography and video production company and we use this video marketing blog to keep you up to date on all of the latest trending news in videography and video production in the Pacific Northwest and beyond!

On the off chance that video wasn't a piece of your everyday life toward the beginning of 2020, it positively was by mid-March. The COVID-19 pandemic has quickened the appropriation of numerous advanced patterns and new methods of correspondence on a worldwide scale. The most recent details highlight a 60% expansion in video utilization worldwide since the pandemic started. 

While we envision social removing numbers will move back to pre-pandemic levels all through 2021, the estimation of video is staying put. 

Video development and its impact on promoting 

To see where video is going, it's useful to take a look at the past. We've made considerable progress since 1941, when the primary TV advertisement broadcasted during a Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies game, elevating a wristwatch to baseball fans. 

The beginning of modern times slung video promoting from a TV undertaking to your PC — at that point in the end to your cell phone and tablet. In February 2005, YouTube hit the scene, and after seven months, the channel's first popular video — a Nike promotion — hit 1,000,000 perspectives. 

Today, one billion hours of video are observed day by day on the stage. Facebook videos have 8 billion perspectives each day and 11% of all the substance transferred is video. 

The advantages of video promoting can be found in the numbers. Take these details from the Wyzowl Video Marketing Statistics 2020 report: 

• 96% of individuals watched a video to study an item. 

• 84% of individuals chose to purchase an item subsequent to watching that brand's videos. 

• 66% of individuals said their favored method to find out about an item was by watching a short video versus the following most noteworthy technique for understanding content (18%). 

• People are twice as liable to impart videos to companions than other substance types. 

It's an advanced world, and numerous purchasers go through hours out of each day looking through feeds on their telephones. For their thumbs to stop on your substance, you have seconds to stick out. That is the place where video comes in.

Video promoting patterns for 2020 and past 

The requirement for a brand to accept video is clear. Yet, the space is becoming busy as more videos are hurled on the web. In 2020 and into 2021, advertisers need to create videos that are vital, intelligent and imaginative. Here are nine video patterns to consider. 

• 360-degree video and computer generated reality. This innovation allows your fans to sit steering the ship of an item and take it for a turn in an assortment of conditions you can handle — without the expenses and coordinations of actually shipping individuals to these areas. 

• Animation. Liveliness is an extraordinary choice for showing your theoretical thoughts, items that are in the idea stage and areas where surprisingly realistic shots aren't possible. There's no restriction on where movement can take you, and it's an incredible method to add a portion of present day energy to a set up brand. 

• Behind the scenes content. We're eating up credible looks into others' lives during video gatherings, and your fans need the equivalent from their #1 image. Show the unscripted side of your organization. That energetic person who's been collecting motors on the line for quite a long time. Your designing group planning the following enormous thing. Formats, illustrations and standard introductions and outros can help less-created videos stay on-brand. 

• Live video. Legitimate, in the background substance can be facilitated on live videos on Facebook and YouTube. These give channel-explicit substance to your adherents and permit them to practically go to occasions like item delivers and instructive talks. Taking live occasions further by facilitating Q&As during the transmission permits you to draw in with watchers continuously and make important associations. Stages regularly focus on live videos in calculations, so a live video is bound to be seen by your devotees, also. 

• Search streamlining. For accessible stages like YouTube, having search-improved videos is an absolute necessity to guarantee that your substance springs up when somebody is looking for a how-to or item. Adding pertinent catchphrases, hashtags, labels, document names, titles, depictions and shut inscriptions helps the probability that your videos will rank in query items and snatch more perspectives. 

• Platform-explicit video. Today most online media stages uphold local video. Nonetheless, the organization and length of that video shifts dependent on the reason for your channels. Heading into 2021 and past, we're seeing brands create customized video systems for their channels, giving fans extraordinary encounters on every stage. That is especially obvious with long-structure versatile video content, which requires a drawn out system to get right. IGTV dispatched in 2018, and the stage is a rising star for displaying longform video, including instructional exercises, Q&A conversations, in the background takes a gander at your image and the sky is the limit from there. 

• Ephemeral substance. Social destinations with transitory substance that is just accessible for a short time, as Facebook Stories and Instagram Stories, are expanding in prominence and offer video an ongoing, individual feel. Most channels either offer this usefulness or are currently turning it out, including YouTube Stories, LinkedIn Stories and Twitter Fleets. Devotees see transient substance preceding it vanishes, so you'll need to make content that feels selective and opportune. The principle objectives of impermanent substance ought to be to deliver a prompt reaction (for example peruse an article or pursue a bulletin) or lift commitment (react to an inquiry, share client produced content). 

• Testimonials. Client tributes aren't new, however their prevalence isn't easing back down as we investigate 2021. Planned clients discover surveys from different clients significantly more credible than a producer's message. There's nothing similar to seeing somebody's face light up with feeling while talking about how an item has encouraged that person develop their business. 

• Dynamic shooting gear. Video shoots are not, at this point restricted to a square shaped camera attached to a stand. With drones, gyro stabilizers and perspective cameras that can be affixed onto a moving item, you can get considerably more unique, in-the-activity film to draw in your crowd and recount an all the more balanced story. 

Prepared to inhale new life into your video procedure for 2021? Investigate your alternatives and have a great time.

Thanks again for stopping by! Whether you are in Seattle, the Pacific Northwest or beyond, I hope you can use this video marketing blog to take your video content creation to the next level and beyond! Thanks again and take care!

Corporate Videography FAQs

Answers for companies looking for event videography, corporate branding videos, convention coverage, and more.

What videography services do you provide?
Best Made Videos® is a full-service video production company focusing on live events, conferences, corporate branding videos, small business marketing videos, weddings, and more.
What is your experience with corporate events specifically?
Reid Johnson, owner of Best Made Videos®, has been a corporate videographer for over 18 years and has filmed for companies such as Amazon and Microsoft, plus a wide range of organizations and conferences.
Can I see a full-length sample of a similar video?
Yes. Corporate work is organized by video type so you can quickly find relevant examples, including conference videography, corporate video production, live event videography, real estate videography, small business promo videos, and livestreaming services.
What types of conferences do you film?
Best Made Videos® provides full-service coverage for conferences, conventions, and summits—from single-day meetings to multi-day gatherings. Coverage can include keynotes, panels, breakout sessions, sponsor activations, and the “pulse” of the event: attendee engagement, networking, and real reactions—while coordinating smoothly with planners and AV teams.
Do you offer corporate or conference photography services?
Best Made Videos® focuses on videography and can recommend or partner with highly rated corporate and conference photographers in Seattle when needed.
Where is Best Made Videos® located?
Best Made Videos® is based in West Seattle, Washington.
Do you offer destination videography services?
Yes. Best Made Videos® is available for destination and travel videography anywhere in the world.
Why should I choose Best Made Videos® over another corporate videographer?
Corporate projects often require speed, reliability, and brand-safe storytelling. Best Made Videos® emphasizes fast turnaround when timelines are tight, professional interview and storytelling experience, reliable event execution, transparent pricing, and strong technical capability for complex productions (including multi-camera and live-stream logistics when needed).
Will you be the lead shooter, or will you send an associate team?
Reid Johnson will be the lead videographer on-site, alongside any contracted associate videography team members if your event requires additional coverage.
What moments or events do you capture during a conference or trade show?
Coverage typically includes main stage/keynotes, panels, and breakout sessions, plus attendee engagement and reactions, networking and “in-between” moments, branded B-roll (signage, venue scale, details), and optional on-the-spot testimonials or soundbites for future marketing.
What do you and your team wear?
Typically black slacks and a black shirt (or venue-required attire) to blend in professionally and stay unobtrusive.
Are you fully insured?
Yes. A Certificate of Insurance (COI) can be provided upon request.
Will you perform a site walkthrough or tech rehearsal?
A pre-event walkthrough or tech rehearsal can be requested on a case-by-case basis. Depending on timing and distance, a fee may apply.
How do you handle audio?
Depending on the event, audio can be captured using dedicated microphones and recorders, or by working alongside your AV team to record clean feeds with redundancy.
Do you record to dual card slots?
Yes. Cameras record dual-slot for redundancy, and footage is backed up in multiple locations after your event.
Do you provide 4K exports?
Yes. Deliverables can be exported in the resolution and file type you need, including 4K when requested.
Do you offer same-day or next-day social media edits?
Yes. For conferences and trade shows, overnight recap highlight edits can be provided when requested.
Do you provide closed captioning or accessibility options?
Yes. Closed captions can be provided, including burned-in (permanent) captions on exported video files.
What is your revision policy?
Corporate video projects include two rounds of feedback and edits.
What is the turnaround time for the final master film?
Most corporate edits are delivered in about two weeks unless otherwise specified (and faster timelines are available for certain event recap needs).
Who owns the final product?
You own the final deliverables. Best Made Videos® generally retains the right to display work for portfolio/marketing purposes unless otherwise agreed.
What is your data backup and archiving workflow?
Footage is protected with a multi-step data preservation process using redundant backups (such as local and cloud storage, and additional archival methods as needed).
How do you handle talent releases for attendees?
If needed, Best Made Videos® can provide recommended signage and/or release forms to support attendee filming at your event.