The Zapier Blog

MARCH 27, 2023

Consuming video is easy. Producing good video is not. I went in search of the best AI tools for creating videos, and as it turns out, there are already a ton of amazing options. After a week of testing, here are my picks for the best AI video generators. High-quality video output.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

And that’s probably the reason why educational videos are so popular on YouTube and TikTok — the hashtag #LearnOnTikTok is massively popular for instance. If you watch an interesting video on TikTok, the social app might recommend something completely different when you skip to the next video. So what does Revyze feel like?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

The concept of “shoppable videos” has been around for at least a decade, with some big companies, like Showroom, Firework , Vimeo , YouTube and Klarna getting in on the action. The latest attracting investor attention is e-commerce video platform Videowise , founded by Romania-born product designer Claudiu Cioba in 2021.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 5, 2021

Insights from Yara Ohashi, Head of Digital Marketing, Americas and APAC at iStock who shares how to improve your video marketing strategy. Why a Video Marketing Strategy. According to a recent Hubspot report , 86% of businesses use video as a marketing tool, up from 61% just five years ago in 2016.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

Deep Render , a startup developing AI-powered tech to compress videos on the web, today announced that it raised $9 million in a Series A funding round led by IP Group and Pentech Ventures. Deep Render isn’t the only venture applying AI to the problem of video compression, nor is its AI a silver bullet necessarily.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

I have found their daily videos that give me what I need to know in five minutes or less a godsend. Here is that video: If you want to get more videos like this, you can download the Recount iOS app and/or sign up for their videos delivered via a daily email.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

More posts by this contributor 5 growth lessons I learned while scaling from $0 to $1M ARR When it comes to early-stage growth marketing, it’s often better to imitate than innovate Video content is king. There’s no denying the dramatic increase in video consumption across the globe. lighting, selfie-style, etc.) Let that sink in.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

Bubbles , a startup that pitches its platform as the “anti-Zoom” for video messaging, today announced that it closed an $8.5 Bubbles adds threaded video, audio and text comments to workers’ desktops — an idea that Medema said came to him when he was the CTO at Bloomon, a flower delivery service in the Netherlands.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

To Jae Lee, a data scientist by training, it never made sense that video — which has become an enormous part of our lives, what with the rise of platforms like TikTok, Vimeo and YouTube — was difficult to search across due to the technical barriers posed by context understanding. Image Credits: Twelve Labs.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

InVideo, a Mumbai-based startup that has built a video creation and editing platform, has raised $15 million as it looks to court more users and customers worldwide. In the year since its launch it has amassed more than 800,000 users who have created videos in over 75 languages.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Teach yourself growth marketing: How to perform growth experimentation through A/B testing In recent years, video has morphed into the king of social media content across the globe. It means that you need to prioritize video content for your startup. What does all that mean for growth marketing? It helps to prioritize.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

100ms , the live video conferencing infrastructure startup based in India, has raised $20 million in Series A funding to power the next generation of live video apps, coming barely five months after they closed the seed round.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Real-life fashion brands use NFTs for marketing in virtual worlds like Minecraft , plus several Atari and Microsoft video games. The fundamental value NFTs offer to bridge virtual fashion items with video games is the option to secure custody of the item for use in other games or mobile apps.

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Y Combinator

JULY 21, 2023

It turns out many of the billion dollar companies you know and love today pivoted on the way to getting there, and that’s what the first episode of our newest video series Office Hours is about. YouTube wanted to be a dating site. How do you know if it’s time for your startup to pivot?

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Smart Hustle Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2020

Webinars and video conferencing help companies, universities and colleges stay connected with global employees, students and customers. Keep reading to discover everything you need to know about webinars and video conferencing. The benefits of Webinar and Video Conferencing . Higher attendance numbers. Communication tools.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Video cameras are everywhere: in warehouses, factories, car washes, hospitals, schools, banks, and stores. These cameras generate petabytes of data daily, but the software interfaces to access video today limit their use and value. Spot AI enables simple access to insight from video. Plus, it’s plug and play.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

A Seoul-based startup called Indent wants to help these shoppers through access to video reviews and product ratings, while also helping to drive sales for e-commerce merchants by providing them with this same precious customer feedback. million and it will be used to continue developing its video platform. The startup just raised $8.1

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

VOCHI , a Belarus-based startup behind a clever computer vision-based video editing app used by online creators, has raised an additional $2.4 To do so, VOCHI leverages a proprietary computer vision-based video segmentation algorithm that applies various effects to specific moving objects in a video or to images in static photos.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Numerade sells subscriptions to short-form videos that explain how certain equations and experiments work, and then uses an algorithm to make those explainers better suited to a learner’s comprehension style. Student learning from Numerade videos. Image Credits: Numerade. As of now, Numerade’s algorithm appears preliminary.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The company announced in October 2022 that it has launched ‘AI Studio Perso,’ a video production service that uses AI Virtual Humans. AI Studio Perso is a specialized service that can create high-quality videos featuring AI virtual humans using text input and video editing. AI Studio Perso_off line. ” .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

We’ve all embraced video calls, whether it is with our work colleague or our physician, but for developers, it remains a challenge to build both real-time audio and video features into products. The most interesting trend we’re seeing is that new use cases for video and audio are showing up every week,” Hultman Kramer said.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The company announced in October 2022 that it has launched ‘AI Studio Perso,’ a video production service that uses AI Virtual Humans. AI Studio Perso is a specialized service that can create high-quality videos featuring AI virtual humans using text input and video editing. AI Studio Perso_off line.

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StartupNation

APRIL 21, 2021

When you’re planning a rewards-based crowdfunding campaign, you need to consider adding high-quality video to your campaign. As Indiegogo indicates, crowdfunding campaigns with pitch videos tend to get four times the backing of those without a video. Your video needs a story arc: a structured, well-documented journey.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 22, 2023

A new age of maritime exploration, the rise of the developer as a buyer in financial services, and more applications for computer vision and video intelligence. We asked over 40 partners across a16z to preview one big idea they believe will drive innovation in 2024.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

If so, video marketing is the answer. Video marketing has many benefits over traditional forms of advertising. Video content can be highly engaging, especially when it includes images or videos along with audio. Video marketing provides high return on investment (ROI) for businesses. 2) Choose your topics wisely.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Picsart today offers a range of digital creation and editing tools aimed at both consumers and professionals alike that make photo and video editing more fun and approachable. technology and help the company better support the recent growth of video creation on its service. The company believes DeepCraft’s A.I.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

If you’re working for an advertising agency or you’re in charge of a brand, editing and exporting a video ad that works across all social and web platforms can be a lengthy and time consuming task. French startup Aive speeds up the process quite drastically as it can automatically generate all formats and all durations from one source video.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Talkshoplive is a startup that’s worked with stars like Paul McCartney and Garth Brooks, as well as small businesses, to host shopping-focused live videos. For one thing, the startup does not require consumers to download any additional apps in order to watch its videos.

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Red Rocket

DECEMBER 15, 2022

I thought this video turned out great, and I wanted to share it with all of you, to see if it can be helpful to you in setting your own product development strategies. The embedded video player didn't give me the option to change the size of this video. I hope you like it!! I look forward to our next interview together.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

As younger consumers are shifting to social apps that focus on video and more personal forms of social networking, a new social app called Studio , launching today, is introducing a group camcorder experience that allows groups of friends to share videos with one another in private albums. million in seed funding led by GV’s M.G.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Video is a complex technology to manage — there are large files and a lot of computing,” Subramanian said. Microsoft acquires video creation and editing software maker Clipchamp. How Bongo, the ‘Netflix of Bangladesh,’ won the local video streaming market with just $10M.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Pinterest is further investing in creator tools and video with today’s news it’s acquired the video creation and editing app, Vochi, for an undisclosed sum. With Vochi, Pinterest says it will have the ability to bring even more quality video to its users.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

There has been stiff backlash against NFTs in video games since they first started popping up. In general, both gamers as well as industry professionals have disapproved blockchain implementations in video games, mostly over concerns over the environmental impact that the technology has.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Instead of relying exclusively on a mix of written memos and Zoom calls, Claap lets you share and receive quick videos with other teammates so that everyone can understand more quickly what you’re talking about and provide feedback. It looks a bit like Loom , another quick video recording tool. Six years ago, I joined 360Learning.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

What that six-year-old outfit, Speach , sells is essentially knowledge-sharing between colleagues via videos produced by the employees themselves, often to augment written instructions. Weet already features instant recording, screen sharing, virtual backgrounds, video filters, emoji reactions, commenting options and auto transcription.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

Firework provides shoppable video and livestreaming commerce capabilities for retailers, consumer brands and publishers that want to tap into their own customer data to build engaging video experiences across their own digital properties and social channels. Last October, Albertsons was the first U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Daily , the makers of a developer platform for real-time audio and video, has been booming in recent months — in part, due to the pandemic’s impact on remote work, virtual events, telehealth and more. “We believed back then and have believed for a while that video would be everywhere. Teamflow lands $3.9

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