Posts by "Courtney Purchon"

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How Customer Feedback is Used at SproutVideo

5 MIN TO READ We wouldn’t be anywhere without our customers. This isn’t just about keeping the lights on. It’s really about building a better video hosting platform for business by listening carefully to what our customers are telling us. Gathering, analyzing, and implementing customer feedback is one of the most important activities a business can embark on. All too often, it’s left too…

17 Video SEO Best Practices

10 MIN TO READ Video SEO is key to ensuring you are getting the most out of your videos. Here’s our guide to what you need to know to rise through the rankings and leverage your rich content to drive traffic to your site.

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…

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…

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…

How to Get the Most Out of Your SproutVideo Account

4 MIN TO READ How do you know if you’re really getting your moneys’ worth from your online videos? It seems like it should be a simple equation: make a cool video, get people to watch it, and watch the traffic and sales flood in from all the shares and likes. In reality, you have to be using every single trick in your arsenal…

The Case Against Native Video

4 MIN TO READ Image credit: blossomstar (freepik.com) Just because it’s a trend, doesn’t mean it’s universally good. This holds particularly true for native video on social media. Native video has exploded in the past couple years, as Facebook and other social giants beefed up support for video content, and began promoting it heavily over other content types. But, is native video actually good…