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@hnshah very nice to meet you! That's definitely what we are working towards - many people advise us to raise our prices. Instead, I imagine a world where everyone can afford to create multiple videos for every campaign, split testing to get the best possible result. Shakr will eventually power video creative for some of the smartest ad tech companies out there, who are leveraging split testing for everything by video - because of the high upfront cost of professional video creative. To get there, we are exposing our API to select partners, and meanwhile every day the Shakr team and our community of over 1,000 independent designers is cranking hard to accumulate more video designs and better video designs.
Great product which I think is a perfect fit for SMBs.
The pay only if you like it reminded me another service with a similar offering - https://meetpromo.com/ just in case you haven't seen them.
Happy to see more companies in the mission of making the video world better and more accessible.
'high 5'
@yoavush thank you for cheering us on! We need all the help we can get to make video more accessible. Video ads are the fastest growing ad format, 19.5% CAGR through to 2019, according to PwC's Media Outlook. Here's a blog post we wrote about democratizing video ads: http://blog.shakr.com/democratiz...
@davidyhlee no need to convince me (see our Veed.me and Coverr.co ;) ) Let's make it a better world for video.
Speaking of blog posts.. here's one of our recent ones http://blog.veed.me/what-kinds-o...
Happy to connect. always great to know people from your market.
Cheers
@davidyhlee Is it just me or is there not a video on your homepage? I'd think that'd be front and center for you guys.
@sachinkamdar speaking of eating your own dog food, we use Shakr to promote ourselves with video ads on Facebook. Here's the video ad campaign we ran with the best UAC: https://business.facebook.com/sh...
@sachinkamdar @davidyhlee Agreed, we need to add a video on our front page, but our whole site is literally filled with example videos of what you can do with Shakr! And the video here on Product Hunt is made with Shakr!
Are you able to export/download these video files and do they have any branding on them after purchase?
@anandp29 when you make a video for free there will be a watermark over it which can be removed by buying the video. You can also download it after purchasing without any branding, just a clean mp4. One thing to note is that the music is included in the final video and is pre-cleared for copyright issues, often just the music licensing can be more expensive on its own than with Shakr because of our partnerships with great music libraries!
@davemcclure thanks for posting us on PH! Hello Product Hunters, thanks for showing us some love. Shakr is Canva for video. Sign up through PH and get a 100% discount on your first video! Tweet about us and get two 100% promo codes. :-)
Shakr makes it possible for everyone to make SUPER AWESOME video ads for less than $100 -- and everything is try-before-you-buy. Make a video for free, only pay if you agree the video is SUPER AWESOME.
What's a SUPER AWESOME video ad? It's not just a video ad that looks awesome. It's a video ad that drives massive business results, like when www.Britesoles.com drove 9x FB likes vs the image ads they typically run.
We have over ONE THOUSAND video designs that are SUPER AWESOME. Our video designs are made by independent designers around the world, many of whom have done video design work for big brands like Nike, BMW, Samsung, CBS. They sell their video designs through Shakr, you can personalize any of them right inside your web browser.
Please let me know what you think in the comments! Pulling an all-nighter here in Seoul for any questions the PH community might have about Shakr or video advertising.
The NYT's @HirokoTabuchi wrote that, "Small merchants can use some of the bells and whistles available to savvy start-ups or big corporations — like the video ads that run before YouTube clips." http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/3...
The video ad industry's smartest coverage is at Video Ad News, where @vinnyflood says "Shakr have simplified the workflow for creating video ads, so pretty much anyone can create a professional looking video ad for their business — often for as little as $50." http://www.videoadnews.com/2014/...
Our friends @armandobiondi @massimocw at AdEspresso say "Meet Shakr, a super simple, affordable solution for creating amazing Video Ads and presentations." https://adespresso.com/academy/b...
I tried it and must say you did a great job on the UX. Very easy to use. I tried the Light grey design in Apps but must say it doesn't work for our productivity app since the characters of the text are very limited so some more options to skip / add text fields would have been nice. I'll still keep Shakr bookmarked for other projects since the price is really reasonable. So thumbs up!
@danny_kleckers yikes thanks for the awesome feedback! We need to make a new version of the Light Grey design in Apps for you. Pro tip: you can enter 2 blank spaces in any text field to skip it. (Well, more like a hack to compensate for a feature we haven't developed yet... #brutaltruth)
This is really cool. There are a lot of really crappy versions of this idea out there. It's clearly something the market needs / wants, but almost no one who is producing any quality deliverables / videos. Nice work!
@rebeccall80 Thanks Rebecca, you're right about that, we've gone the long and hard way of making something that will actually give end users a great video, not a glorified slideshow. I know @davidhylee have some preaching about the importance of focusing on customer success.
We've solved the quality issue many service have by 1. Experimenting ALOT with internal designs/developers and 2. Becoming a marketplace for motion graphic designers. We publish more and more video designs each week, so there will always be something new to come back to as an end user.
@j00st a local Indian restaurant used Shakr to make high quality videos then put them on a TV in front of their door. They added over 20 tables per day, with average revenue of $100 per table. That's an extra $40,000 in monthly revenue, from spending just $100 on video ad creative at Shakr.com.
Seems like @davidyhlee have taken a nap (4am here in Seoul) but I'd be happy to answer any other question until he wakes up ;)
One thing we haven't mentioned is that Shakr also is a marketplace where motion graphic designers can sell their Adobe After Effects projects, and getting the lion's share of the revenue (think iOS App Store but for motion graphic designers). We have over 1000 designers registered and growing. We think Shakr is great for motion graphic designers because their AAE projects are never exposed (just live edit in the browser) so they don't have to worry about piracy, a very prevalent issue on many video template marketplaces. Also customer/client support is also a nice thing we do for designers 🔑
@antoneliasson I'm still up! Love that you shared the deeper story about how Shakr fuels its growth in quantity & quality of video designs by empowering independent designers. Thanks!
@jarrettholmes Videohive requires that users purchase and download an Adobe After Effects project file. Very few people know how to use After Effects, it's multiple orders of magnitude more difficult to use than Photoshop. At Shakr, customers choose a video design and make the video right inside the web browser. Check us out at www.shakr.com and hit me up in the chat bubble on our site. @antoneliasson
Okay I THINK David have gone to bed now, we're pushing 6:42am here in Seoul, so maybe I'll get away with this, I hope he doesn't notice me posting this. Here's a SUPER early pitch for Shakr David did back in 2011 for @jason Calacanis. We've come a long way: https://youtu.be/kOhWNnxG5ao?t=1...
@antoneliasson I am NOT sleeping! I can't believe you shared that.... well, since we're here. @jason my co-founder & CTO also pitched at your first Seoul event. He did a much better job and actually won -- whereas I had to lick my wounds. So I spent a couple of years chasing down Minku and asking him to join Shakr. Since he joined, we've raised a total of $6 million, in the past 12 weeks grown our user signups, videos created and videos purchased by 30% per week, and launched a white-labelled version of our site in the Japanese market with Yahoo! JAPAN, which is the largest internet company in Japan. Having a great CTO cofounder makes a huge difference! Thanks @premist. And thanks @jason for, in a way, making Shakr possible!
@scottwyden thanks Scott, would love to hear your feedback, send us a message in the chat bubble in the lower right!
@silverdel Thank you for mentioning Shakr Subscriptions! Realtors and small marketing agencies are crushing it with video marketing, using Shakr subscriptions to get an awesome deal on awesome videos.
@logannickleson thanks Logan, I've seen some of your blog posts around the web, good stuff. Let's connect and see if you want to publish anything on the Shakr Video Marketing Blog!
Great tool. That's why I put the tool like one of my favorite platforms for Video Marketing in 2016: https://medium.com/a-data-driven...
@mailmevenkat25 Thanks for the feedback! Looking forward to see what you can create on Shakr! Say hi to us in the Intercom chat bubble!
@mailmevenkat25 Pricing gets even better when you use a FREE product hunt coupon! https://www.producthunt.com/r/0d... :-)
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