Using Animoto for Video's?

I'd also like to hear from anyone, with good experience in video+CPA+$$$ conversions, in regards of animoto use.
When I saw animoto slideshow video teh first time I was so impressed. So slick and quality, I thought. Now, using it quite a lot I can say, that you cannot replace value with just slick motion slides.

Dunno, when I finalized the video I liked it. It seemed the public didn't. People don't believe that in order to take action or I miss something and therefore a good showcase of convertable video is severely needed here.

POWER OF NUMBERS. TOP piece of advice is to go in for bulk domination. But if you do slick crap content, as someone commented my animoto vids on youtube, there's no point of multiplying th crap load of 1-click remix videos. PLease comment this as well.

Some more thoughs. As we can easily research the 1st youtube page - there's much total stupidity crap, but with crazy numbers of views. No slick stuff almost, just something absolutely dumb, crazy or sexy. Pretty much of a dissapointment fro those design oriented and esthetic vulnerable marketers that want to get it packed with Hollywood trailer quality.

Animoto is definitely good tool, but there's much of a straight, dumbass approach needed to get conversions.

Please add some experience here if you got any in the field of video+CPA-> conversions.

One of my first strategies was video to CPA. Now whether it fits within Animotos TOS, it probably doesnt. I am not confirming nor denying my use of Animoto

What I will say is that video to CPA does work. I know for 100% fact that you can make decent money doing it because I have. For those of you who have heard me and my Power of Numbers theory, this is actually where it originated. I made money by literally how many videos I created, not the quality of videos.

Its not a rocket science strategy but it does take work and a lot of effort.

Well

You can do pretty much ANYTHING when you do CPA. The trick is not to get caught if you do shady stuff, but why would you want to send garbage traffic? I know it may be cheaper, but the ocnversions for the merchant will be terrible.

IMO, you always want to keep yoru merchant happy ... that way, you will be rewarded with higher payouts and never pull up a red flag with a network either.

Tip: Try to go direct with merchants instead of thru a network ... you make much more money this way

Nick

I have had much more luck using simple review type videos for CPA conversions. I pay people to do reviews for me and even some of the most pathetic reviews where the guy was obviously reading from a script (and very poorly) made me money on YouTube. Flashy animoto videos look impressive but they don't convert well, at least in my experience.

LOL guys, thanks for the replies, but still, don't forget to answer these questions that I previously posed:

Thanks guys for the replies; but still, since we aren't really selling anything with the average CPA offer (because their free leads), shouldn't that mean that we wouldn't be in violation of promoting anything for " commercial purposes"?

By the way; is the service free, or do you have to pay? Also, can you download video's from their server to your computer for free, or do you have to pay to do that too?

@ dlmartin,

I do have to admit this is an impressive video and does add value and educates the viewer. Are you able to get them ranked in Google? Great voice over btw.

in answer to the original poster, you asked is there a price tag attached to animoto and the answer is YES if you dont want their animoto logo showing on your vids (the example shown above is a perfect illustration of no logo) and the price is circa $250 p.a. or $99 for 3 months trial.

if youre ok about their logo appearing at the the end of your vid, the product is FREE.

t.o.s. violations - bit of a tough call there - you need to make your own decision on that. besides, i havent checked as i dont use the free version.

Animoto is quality video tool. For your personal enjoyment, when you render any slideshow is perfect! It's always unpredictable how actually all images will be compiled along with music.

It costs 30$ a year. When you have the full version for this money you can upload your own images, videos or use animoto's set of img and vids as well. Besides they have many soundtracks of different genres:from top pop and r'n'b to oldies.

You can add your own images, videos, music or any other mp3 files as speech whatever.

The length is unlimited, but when you upload a lot it might take a lot of time to get rendered. One time it took an hour to render somth.

Don't get upset, when Animoto tells you, that they fix some issues with their engine and you cannot use their service. It happens very rarely and afterwards all your finalized vids will remain stored in your account.

What else... before uploading to youtube I always cut the ending with animoto sign.
It seems to me if you are just starting there won't be much noise from anywhere, before you get any big, to rip your wallet off, relying on TOS or laywers. Of course, legitimacy and white hat is a must, but these little cuts in your videos won't make difference now.

P.S. As soon as your video is ready you can export it with a sign to youtube and it takes seconds. You can download it to your PC. Also there are ptions to edit it:change any part of it manually or ONECLICK method and you will get the same sequence in a slightly different way.

Hello,

http // animoto com/pricing

Check it out, 30$ is the same as you get for $250. As long as you can add your own music and cut the ending - don't see any reasons to squander funds being in startup mode or a newbie.

P.S. The only thing is difference in quality of videos, i.e. resoulution. DVD vs poorer dpi vid render. But now it doesn't count at all. Look at the crap with 1000000000000 views in youtube

P.P.S. If you are fond of video marketing you can pm me and send me your email (the thing is that I cannot pm you in return, because of posts number under 50). I'll tell you more and maybe we'll make it work somehow in the future in a great manner. Feel free.

animoto is a good and cheap deal

So If I'm understanding this correctly, I create one video (weather it be the free version or paid) and I hit render 100 (random number) times which well create 100 unique videos and then upload all of them to YouTube?? Or am I totally off on this?

Sean

Ya I think we are talking about the same thing. I meant that you could actually render it 100 times and have 100 videos to upload. You know what I mean? I don't think I did a good job explaining myself.

Animoto doesn't change the sequence of your images, videos preset. What it does is just different effect of animation. That's not very different.

To Seantrepreneur:

cannot reply from inside the WF PM area. (not enough number of posts yet)
You got AIM - so I replied to get in touch.

i think the best video marketing is using whiteboard stop motions edited on after effect.it's really works for me.