its4tom

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by its4tom 9y ago
Link to thesis on Scribd in case helpful: https://www.scribd.com/document/362484322/Stephen-Hawking-Ph...
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by its4tom 10y ago
The little guy can still succeed on Kickstarter/Indiegogo. We saw many bootstrapped campaigns do well (60% success rate), with videos made in-house or in the $1-$3k range. It's just that the amounts raised aren't as impress
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by its4tom 10y ago
Only a few datapoints, but that's a good area to explore next. My hunch is that the findings will be quite different because there's a wider range of video formats for games. In particular much longer intros to set the stage.
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by its4tom 10y ago
That's great to hear! We contaced many campaigns, and received answers from 100 of them. We are very grateful to the companies who shared their video info. This kind of transparency is much needed, in particular in video production.
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by its4tom 10y ago
Totally agree. I think that's what we are seeing from the other comments as well. Video is only part of the battle, and a more complete study would look at all the variables together. Video is interesting in that it accelerates your
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by its4tom 10y ago
I agree the video is well made. The quality is on par with what you'd expect for that budget. And it hits on all the recommendations we derived from the video benchmark data. Can you tell us more about your campaign tactics, other th
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by its4tom 10y ago
Author here! happy to answer questions, and curious to hear about your own crowdfunding video stories.
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by its4tom 10y ago
It depends how much you are trying to raise. We just did a survey of 100 campaigns, and the majority of successful small campaigns (that raised <$25k) spent under <3k on the video. Mind you this was for Hardware campaigns. It'
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by its4tom 11y ago
Videopixie (YCS11) | San Francisco | Front-end Software Engineer At Videopixie we are building the largest community of video creators and the tools to hire and collaborate with them online. We are backed by the co-founder of YouTube (Jawed
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by its4tom 13y ago
Thanks Cristian, founder here, I think today people mostly go to craigslist or get referrals from friends, to find videographers. It's not a great experience and presents some of the same problems/risks we are trying to solve for
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by its4tom 13y ago
It was available as an early alpha. And we've had users all along, which helped understand what people need. But today is our public announcement.
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by its4tom 15y ago
Yes, retailers need more than just hosting. They need help creating the videos (we offer templates, editing tools and professional services). They need the video to be inserted without breaking page layout (we make it easy to add play bu