Report finds “extra companies see video as a technique to deal with their high challenges of utilizing participating content material to attach with clients and prospects”
KITCHENER,Ontario – October 31, 2016 – Vidyard,the video platform for enterprise, has been named a frontrunner in On-line Video Platforms for Gross sales and Advertising by unbiased analysis agency Forrester Analysis, Inc. The popularity comes as a part of The Forrester Wave™: On-line Video Platforms For Gross sales And Advertising, This autumn 2016, which analyzed probably the most vital suppliers within the house.
Vidyard achieved the very best rating for present choices amongst all contributors within the report, touchdown highest potential rating for 23 of the 39 standards, together with administration, syndication and distribution options, gross sales enablement workflows, enterprise utility integrations, reporting and analytics, international help and safety. Vidyard was the one vendor to obtain the very best potential scores within the participant options; advertising and lead era instruments; and concentrating on, personalization and discovery standards.
“Vidyard has a transparent imaginative and prescient of video’s future that resonates with its clients and Forrester alike,” wrote analyst Nick Barber in The Forrester Wave™: On-line Video Platforms For Gross sales And Advertising, This autumn 2016. “It understands how necessary user-generated content material (UGC) will likely be for manufacturers and companies, and it plans to roll out additional help for UGC and evaluation of it. Its roadmap follows up in-video personalization with help for real-time rendering of dynamically customized video content material, which is able to enhance viewer engagement.”
The Forrester Wave methodology included a rigorous strategy of vendor surveys, scenario-based product demos, govt technique briefings and buyer reference calls to validate every vendor’s merchandise and {qualifications}. Forrester analyzed 9 distributors’ video platforms throughout 39 standards.
“I consider that this analysis exhibits that video has change into a core element of contemporary advertising and gross sales with companies searching for extra superior distribution, personalization, interactivity and analytics to assist them flip viewers into clients,” stated Michael Litt, Vidyard CEO and co-founder. “For my part, Forrester’s work proves there’s been a large shift within the video expertise market past publishing and promoting. Now the dialog is about methods to use video to raised join, have interaction and convert clients and help your entire shopping for journey even after the deal closes.”
Along with analyzing vendor choices, Forrester famous the rise of on-line video and its rising significance for enterprise. “The sales-and-marketing-focused OVP market is rising as a result of extra companies see video as a technique to deal with their high challenges of utilizing participating content material to attach with clients and prospects,” in keeping with the report. U.S. adults spend almost two hours a day consuming video, greater than some other on-line exercise, and on-line video has change into a must have for companies. Video conveys emotion significantly better than the written phrase, and the human mind processes it 60,000 occasions quicker than textual content, in keeping with the report.
Companies that wish to capitalize on video must harness their very own video channels and might’t merely depend on YouTube for distribution, largely as a result of it lacks the wealthy analytics and integrations that include platforms similar to Vidyard. Integrations with CRM and advertising automation platforms allow advertising and gross sales groups to simply create and share movies with clients, observe their true engagement within the content material and measure its impression on income.
“Vidyard is a superb match for corporations that need greater than only a video repository however wish to deploy and measure movies with particular integrations into CRM programs and MAPs,” Barber wrote.
About Vidyard
Vidyard (Twitter: @Vidyard) is the video intelligence platform that helps companies drive extra income by using on-line video. Going past video internet hosting and administration, Vidyard helps companies drive better engagement of their video content material, observe the viewing actions of every particular person viewer, and switch these views into motion. International leaders similar to Honeywell, McKesson, Lenovo, LinkedIn, Cision, Citibank, MongoDB and Sharp depend on Vidyard to energy their video content material methods and switch viewers into clients.
