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B2B video maker

Two findings from a professional network's own creative research shape everything about B2B video. A logo in the opening two seconds lifts click through by about a sixth. Human talent in that same window lifts it by around two fifths. And only about seven percent of the B2B ads analysed featured any human emotion at all.

Create a video with OneCraftWhat the platform data says works, which levers this tool gives you, and the one it does not
A video frame with a large 30% above the line gap between sites with identical monthly bills.
The finding first, for a fictional energy analytics firm. The number lands before any setup, which is what a silent feed rewards.

Brand first, because most of the audience is not buying

At any moment the large majority of a category's buyers are out of market, so the job of most B2B video is a memory link rather than a click. That is the argument for the logo appearing immediately instead of at the end: the people who will buy in eighteen months need to associate the idea with you now. A brand colour field with a wordmark on it is an opener rather than a closer for this reason.

The lever this tool does not give you

Be honest about it. The strongest single choice in the platform's research is a subject matter expert talking to camera, with reported uplifts of about two fifths for an expert, over half for an executive, seventy percent for conference stage footage, a third for face to camera and two fifths for real people over staged. This tool has no camera and generates no presenter for a business video. If you can film one expert for thirty seconds, do that. Use this for everything around it.

The levers it does give you

Sound off legibility, which matters because around four fifths of professional feed video is watched muted and bulleted on-screen captions have been credited with substantially longer dwell. One message per video rather than three. A real number set large, which is what a stat or chart scene is built for. A contrarian claim rather than a safe one, worth about a fifth more engagement in the same research. And a call to action in the last few seconds with the brand still on screen.

Length, and the six second trap

Fifteen to thirty seconds for a feed or awareness placement. But the six second cut is the platform's weakest length, not its safest: brand films of thirty one to sixty seconds were reported to deliver around sixty percent more engagement than six second formats. The worst option is the two minute product film, too long to finish in a feed and too short to convert as a gated asset. Gate the deep dive, leave the category and thought leadership video ungated.

How it works, in three steps

  1. Step 1

    Put the brand in the first scene

    Set a wordmark in the brand kit and let the opener carry it, rather than saving it for the closing scene.

  2. Step 2

    Pick one message

    Product, culture and hiring in one sixty second cut means none of them is remembered and none of the footage can be re-cut for another channel.

  3. Step 3

    Lead with the number

    On a professional feed the finding is the hook. A stat scene sets one figure huge and counts it up, and it will only use a figure you supply.

The full walkthrough with screenshots is in the guide Make a promo video with AI voiceover.

Limits worth knowing

Questions people ask

Landscape or vertical for a professional feed?

Landscape, because vertical only renders vertically on the mobile app above certain versions and desktop viewers are a real share of that audience. Square would also work but is not offered here.

Should the video be gated?

It depends on the job. A demand generation asset can end on a gated ask. Thought leadership and category video should end ungated, because gating the large majority who are not buying suppresses exactly the reach that kind of video exists to buy.

Do captions matter if the platform is sound off?

They are the whole video on a muted feed. Captions here are generated from the narration and burned in, and short bulleted on-screen copy has been credited with materially longer dwell than a wall of text.

Can we compare ourselves to a competitor?

Carefully. Comparative claims are the most challenged kind in industry self regulation, and a fast track process can resolve a challenge in weeks with referral to a regulator for non compliance. The comparison scene role here is instructed to keep the rival generic.

Make your own video

The button opens the generator with this use case already described. Change the wording to match yours, generate, then edit anything you like.

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Related pages

More finished work of this kind is on the video examples hub.