How can PR Agencies distinguish themselves from the competition? They get ‘themselves’ seen with a client-directed company video.
Busy securing coverage for clients, it’s hard to squeeze in time to actively promote your own agency. But you’re underselling yourselves. You’re experts in brand building, reputation and crisis management, communications – and you understand how the media works. It’s high time you showcased what you do for potential clients for the benefit of your own organisation. Here are 5 reasons to invest in a PR animated explainer video.
Both big and small.
Of the top 10 ranked global PR agencies in 2017, the majority harness the power of film video production and animated video production to promote their business culture and offering. That includes Edelman, Weber Shandwick, and Fleishman Hillard.For those coming to the possibilities now, there’s real opportunity to shine. Heed the advice of video production agencies, and you can profit from lessons learned and make your mark; standing out from a parade of practice runs.
According to Forbes Insights, video has evolved from a novelty into a mainstream method for executives to receive business information. Executives have transformed their habits to be more open to video as a highly reliable and trusted source for gathering and filtering business information. Executives appear as willing to take action based on viewing a video as they do reading an article.
And the stats speak for themselves:
Apologies to any wordsmiths for that last bullet point. This doesn’t negate the value of the written word; it merely highlights the value of video as a portal to engaging with written documents and essential information.
If you are running an agency you may well be all-too-familiar with the tedious sales processes involved in getting a contract signed. With a long sales cycle, and the constant pressure of knowing that similar conversations are occurring with your competitors, having a way to stand out is a necessity.
While most marketers are eager to create videos for awareness, the majority of them would see higher ROI from bottom-of-the-funnel videos. Why? Because video can help automate and speed up your sales cycle faster than any other type of content. WireBuzz actually cut their sales cycle down from 8 weeks to 3 weeks after turning sales materials into video format.
Once again, quality production values convey quality practice.
The most successful brands are expanding their use of video throughout the entire customer journey, which, in turn, is helping build better relationships, educate and convert buyers, and improve customer satisfaction.
As the Macias PR and Tribe PR videos demonstrated, company video is a great way of raising your profile within sectors and industries, by re-deploying the video at industry events and sales conferences.
PR professionals are storytellers. However, how the public consumes media and stories has changed. As our society and day- to-day existence becomes more and more visual, video has been a top trend for a few years.
In conclusion, the bedrock of PR is trust – whether you’re building or regaining it – so what could be better than giving prospects a first-hand look into your business in a company video?
And here is one of our own :)
