Video infographics: an introduction.

Data and statistics are an inevitable asset for everyone. (Marketers, Journalists, Teachers etc). It is a valuable insight which poses to be a foundation of every decision you take. There is a voluminous amount of data present but no proper method to relay this valuable information to the audience.

Video infographics is the new tool that surpasses the traditional powerpoint presentations and elaborate infographics. It is a combination of “video” and “infographics”, the two powerful tools of conveying information. It breathes life into the boring presentations and make information appealing, consumable and retainable.

Animaker’s Video Infographics: First look

Animaker has come all over again with new features, an extended library, updated assets, enhanced User Interface and many more exciting effects.

The latest theme has

Maps:

This category comes handy for journalists. Tiled animation, icon animation, destination animation etc are the types of maps offered in this section. You can select two locations and animate it parallelly too.

Charts:

Line charts, pie charts, Bar graphs. Dotted graphs, Area map, Numbers, Currency, tables…. There is a huge set of charts available in the library section. The data can be manipulated and customized by a single click.

Pre animated assets:

Now your animation becomes easier. Animaker has included a vast number of pre-animated lines, shapes, icons that adds professionalism in your work, yet take it less effort.

Other Features:

Your video can seem more alive with a new set of inspirational and merry bgms. All genres of music files are available in the updated set.

That is not all. This is just a dime’s worth.

Make most of the latest theme of Animaker’s Video Infographics. The good news is that you can work collaboratively on all the themes of Animaker to make best use of all the available options. To get started, Click here.

We had a short interview with the CEO:

My name is Dima, I’m 24, and this is my friend Nick, he is 21, and we are founders of CreckJack. We are passionate about creative and beautiful things.

Watch interview in the above video.

His life changed when he was offered a job by a well paying corporate company in computer graphics soon after completing his Masters in Visual Arts.

Moloy fell in love with the subject and started thinking, what can be done with computer graphics but he also realized that he was not the one who is going to take part in the rat race of corporate employment.

He regularly browsed the internet trends and aware of the advent of video. He noticed that businesses were looking forward to creating short videos to explain their product or services. Realizing the potential of that demand he quit his job in 2008 and launched his own company PixelGenio.com.

PixelGenio is all about creating amazing animated explainer videos for business concepts. They help businesses to explain their product or services to their customers in a very fun and interesting way…something, that people would like to engage to.

At the start, their biggest hurdle was that no one knew about them. They struggled about 3 years working on low budget freelance projects. His efforts enhanced the online presence of his website and enabled it to show up on Google searches. At present they have achieved a page rank of 2.

Moloy says:

At PixelGenio.com we prefer to keep it small so that we can focus on quality rather than on volume. I do not want PixelGenio to turn into corporate company with robots all around

We provide services to businesses all around the globe. With the advent of internet technologies like skype, gmail and FTP, we are able to maintain a very smooth communication with overseas clients.

With continuous improvement in online presence, they wish promote more reputed brands and can work towards creating amazing animated videos!

Startup entrepreneurs often need to juggle many roles, ranging from administrative assistant and accountant to project manager and marketer. But thanks to technology – Nowadays, apps become more prevalent and more powerful, entrepreneurs and small business owners are relying on these savvy tools to help their businesses grow and run more smoothly.

And today things have become much smoother than before – Whether you want to create memorable presentations? Design awesome infographics? Manage team projects? Increase productivity or keep track of expenses?There is a wealth of apps available to help small businesses streamline their operation, some of which come with a free version to allow small businesses appraise their features before opting for a paid version.

Here’s our pick of eight cool and growth hacking apps for start-ups who don’t have funding:

1. Intercom.io:

This tool allows you to not only see your users’ behavior when they are using your online tools or apps, but it also helps you interact with them through popups while they are on specific pages or using specific features. This type of user interaction can help further your product development and customer service.

Price: Intercom ranges in monthly pricing packages from free to $99, depending on how many features you need.

2. Optimizely :

This service bills itself as “A/B testing you’ll actually use” and focuses on making testing as easy as possible. It allows you to track what you are actually interested in (as opposed to tracking information and data that you’re not going to use) and also allows you to set deadlines and run reports for specific timelines.

Price: Free starter plan and paid plan for enterprise

3. PR.co

Pr.co is a public relations toolkit that enables users to create online pressrooms, publish press releases, pitch them to media contacts, and manage PR content. Personal pressrooms contain all the users’ press releases, coverage, contacts, media, and company information. It enables users to attach high resolution images, videos, sounds, and documents on to their PR content. They also can import press contacts, distribute latest releases, personalize messages, and send mass emails.

Price: $ 300 per year for start-ups and 14 days free trial.

4. Animaker

Animaker is an intelligent video making DIY app, which simplifies the process of animated video making and presentation. Which makes you feel wow with the studio quality professional videos.

With Animaker, start producing online videos for internal business communication, content marketing, presentation, Explainer video, Demo video, social media marketing, e-Learning, video advertising, video Resume, Support/FAQ via video, and more purposes.

Price: Free to $39/month

5. Canva

Canva makes great graphic design within anyone’s grasp. It has hundreds of pre-designed layouts, elements, fonts and image styles that make it possible to design everything from a great Twitter header to a flyer for your business. It offers free design elements, but also allows you to buy premium elements piecemeal, for about $1 each (at the moment). It also keeps track of all your designs in your account, so you can re-edit or re-download them as needed.

Price: free or $1

6. Buffer:

Not everyone has the time to be online all day Tweeting and Retweeting their website updates and product developments. Here comes Buffer to solve your social media engagement issues! You just put up your best articles, share images and videos, and let Buffer do all the magic- it will auto-magically keep posting for you throughout the day. , Buffer app saves you from forgetting to send updates and from making your social media accounts looking dormant.

Price: free

7. Mention:

Media monitoring made easy with Mention. Which lets you manage online presence: create alerts on your company name, brand, competitor, and be updated in real-time about the most relevant over the web and react, get statistics, collaborate with your teams around them.

Price: One-month free trial and then choose plan that fits your need.

8. Survey Monkey:

As a startup, you would like to create a simple poll? or In-depth market research? SurveyMonkey offers a cloud-based online survey and questionnaire tool that helps users gather survey-related information.

You can access the library of sample survey questions and expert-certified templates. Which also lets you customize your survey questions, distribute your questionnaire on the web, and helps to collect responses in real time. The analyze tool helps you turn survey data into insights and create professional reports.

Price: From $25 and free basic version

All these above apps are great options for start-ups who don’t have fund. They even help to become more efficient and productive, freeing your man-hour.

Trying the app of free version is always a good idea to verify whether or not it works for you before investing in the paid version.

Is there a great tool you use that’s not on the list? Share it below and spread some startup love…

Next Glass

Ruby

Couple

GymTrack

On My way

Postmates

Prong

Skylock

We know this is not the exhaustive list. We would like to hear from you. Share the most interesting app that you have ever come across.

Zoho Top apps

• Zoho CRM
• Zoho Projects
• Zoho Docs

The list goes long and is never ending covering aspects like sales, invoice, recruit, vault, meeting, mail, chat, etc

At the inception, the business of a startup company is packed with research and development processes. Half the hour is spent, looking for funding and the right timing to pitch in. In that phase of development, every startup is exposed to challenges and hurdles. No pain, No gain. A startup that just gazes at the impediments fail. A startup that shoots to move forward and jump over the barricades win. We layout 10 of the up-and-coming startups in Newyork that are yet to catapult their first shot.

1. BuzzJudge

BuzzJudge is a new social network for anonymous users. It is trying to change the way we handle online questions and answers. It enables its member to, Get and Give advice to people whom they may or may not know. A forum that assures a chance to perceive the world better.

Click BuzzJudge to know more.

2. Swig

Swig is a community for all the world’s drinkers to share and search world’s best drinks. It is a handy journal of all the drinks tried within the community. It builds a following for like-minded drinkers. It has an inbuilt database that stores details of 70,000+ beers,wines and spirits.

Click Swig to know more.

3. Kindred

Kindred is an online dating site with picture and visual heavy features replacing the old boring textual match-ups.
The site says, if a picture is worth a thousand words, let your photos say it all. Photos are posted in such a way it should be – fun, visual and social. No text-heavy bios here, just your life story beautifully portrayed through your photos.

Click KindRed.ly to know more.

4. LiveDive

Want to build a great web app? You need to understand your users and how they experience your site.
LiveDive helps businesses to talk to their users through video and also look into web app usage
An insanely easy way to talk to your users and make your web app amazing.
LiveDive lets you video call with your users while watching them use your web app live — right through the browser, with no apps or browser plug‑ins.

Click LiveDive to know more.

5. JiggList

Real experiences happen when friends get together. JiggList is a chat interface that enables an interactive chat with your friends at the best time and place. You can discuss on all possible topics at an easily scheduled time.

Click JiggList to know more.

6. WhereWithAl

WhereWithAl is a startup aimed at funding your financial goals by helping you to earn cash rewards by shopping online.
You can shop favourite brands with cash rewards, accumulate the savings and upgrade to invest in their low-cost portfolios. These savings are automatically deposited into your account.

Click WhereWithAl to know more.

7. Dmno

Dmno is a transfer service that lets you create and attach invoices to the files you send, helping you get paid faster and easier. It works with your existing dropbox or Google drive account. Invoices created with dmno are sent with your files and can be paid on the download page. Your clients can pay you through Stripe before downloading files. It sends automatted payment reminders to clients.

Click Dmno to know more.

8. FreightProphet

FreightProphet is a financial analytics software for small business shipping. It reconciles shipping invoices, exposes costly problems with your shipping process and recommends action on customer shipping prices. It is a cloud-based software that empowers people to quickly manage and improve shipping margin to take accurate data driven decisions.

Click FreightProphet to know more.

9. RapidCloud

Precisely, RapidCloud is Java Web Hosting, simplified. It enables users to auto deploy application updates without impacting clients. It assists parallel deployment to push updates without taking your site online. It is possible to select among the various cloud providers like Amazon, Digital Ocean or RackSpace.

Click RapidCloud to know more.

10. PreStories

We try capturing every moment of a child’s life- in photos, videos, or memories – but too many are lost in due course of time. PreStories is a fascinating platform to store all those live and cherishable moments as an album with all the stories of their lives, in full color, recorded as they happened.

Click PreStories to know more.

These startups have gained a reputation even before placing that first step. Wishing them luck to keep up their good will in the coming years. Ink your views on the life of a startup, in the comment section, below.

You know that dogs are the current darlings of marketers. We are in an era where people are looking for an exceptional association with companies and brands and most find dogs endearing.

The dog power

Dogs are popular and just plain irresistible, because they are,

• An epitome of simplicity.
• A symbol of energy.
• Enthusiastic and motivated round the clock.
• Transmit a thought of freshness.

When the positives are so many, why not use dogs in your startup videos.

Dogs can lock attention

Our primary goal is to lock the attention of the target customer. In the first place, realize that your customer is sick and tired of watching thousands of ads in TV, mobile phones, hoardings and posters on the road. To make that fatigued consumer spring up from his couch, imagine a video showing a beautiful chocolate Labrador retriever running over a green pasture. People who have an affinity towards dogs stop a moment to take a look. And when that happens, your video has successfully scaled an incredibly challenging hurdle.

Dogs can evoke emotions

You have made your customer notice your video. You have crossed half the bridge. Now, you ought to lock your video in his memory. All you need to do is- engage his emotions. Generally, dogs evoke warm emotions. So you can simply achieve it, by recalling his childhood pet experience with a tint of amusement. You have triumphed in showering your customer in an emotional rush. Job well done. The customer can effortlessly summon back your ad from his memory, and decides to buy your product. What can be better than this?

Dogs can build Trustworthiness

Nowadays, everyone wants to spend their dollars, rightly. If you intend to be recognised by your customer for your genuineness, you need to register that feeling in his mind in first place. It is an universally acknowledged truth that dogs are the faithful, best friends of humans. Man trusts his best friend. So, the dog can help as an agent to the customer to take that crucial and final decision by recommending your product as a trustworthy product. As it is a known fact that, dogs are a source of security and are our protectors, people believe that it won’t let them down.

Big Brands Adopt Dogs in Videos

The Most Viral Advertisement of 2003- Hutch

Winner of Best Ad Award 2011- Lotto Dog

Volkswagen Woofwagen dogs advertisement 2013

A real treat to startups who are dog-lovers

Watch some of the dog videos to best know how dogs can be smartly handled to convey your marketing message.

Dog recommends HousePlans

Dog reinforces environmental messages- P.O.O.P(Protect Your Only Planet)

Dog endorses its Toy

However, this is not an exhaustive list. Share some of the best dog videos that we have missed out in the comment section below.

Key Highlights

• Health Band: Get Insights for your healthy living like 24hr Heart beat, sleep tracking, etc.
• Not just Windows Phone, it works with other smart phones Iphone & Android.
• GPS Tracking
• More Productivity : Emails, Calendar, Time & Alarm.
• Cortana works with Windows alone. It helps to take notes, traffic updates, stocks, sports, etc.
• Calls, Messaging and all Notifications.

From the video, one thing is for sure. It is not a beta, a complete version of fitness wearable. Share your comments below.

Explainer videos has become a must use tool for any startups or brands with a new product launch. Can Explainer videos be connected well with live action than animated videos? It is always a very good debate on  what style of explainer videos should I adopt? Even we have written an article on 12 different types of explainer videos. But explainer videos are mainly differentiated into 2 types: Animated Videos and Live Action Videos. Choosing which style can fit for my next project is always tough decision. Even worth reading the comparison posted in wistia blog.

Live Action explainer videos, if planned well then it is well known truth that lot of startups acquire tons and tons of customers using this. We have listed top 10 live videos which created a good impact in explainer video industry.

Musixmatch

Handiemail

Summly

Bode Animation Live Video (Promoted)

Mailboxapp

Uberconference

Xero

Zendesk

Urbansitter

Dollarshaveclub

Coin

We may have missed some excellent videos, it is good to share in the startup video form which will be reviewed and included in the next release.