Quarterly App Referral
As you would expect, Playback Now production & web development teams spend a lot of time investigating and utilizing different applications for different use cases. Some are directly added to help service our association partners such as Calendly, a scheduling tool in which we have used to connect and capture over 2200 remote recordings since the COVID pandemic began and virtual conferencing became to new normal.
When reviewing different applications, sometimes some come along that we feel the need to share with our clients and association partners because it seems that it could help them in various ways. We look for basic apps or websites that can help an association in multiple ways relieve a potential pain point. This quarter’s “App of the Quarter” is Placeit. If you’re looking for a cheap & easy solution to create beautiful graphics, logos, videos, and animations, Placeit has been a helpful web application utilized by many at Playback Now for different purposes. Best of all, it’s unlimited downloads all for under $90/year.
Looking for a way to jazz up your social media posts or videos? Placeit has many templates that help you create ways to improve your social media presence.
Julia Dorch, who heads up the Playback Now customer experience team uses Placeit quite often, “When working with to our virtual customers via our live chat, instead of typing potentially confusing directions, it’s always easier to share a quick gif or video that explains exactly how they need to do something. Placeit makes it very easy to create gifs on the fly so I can create and share in minutes to help our customers in many different ways”.
Doug Martin, a senior production coordinator, uses Placeit differently “While we have editors in-house that can do advanced animations, sometimes I just need a quick intro/animation, and by quickly using one of their many templates, I can create something that looks polished and professional. I simply drag and drop the image into the web app and within seconds, I have a beautiful graphic to use within my video”.
“If associations are producing their own webinar or short videos, this would be a perfect tool to add some intro or outro animation to make the videos look that much more polished”.
Denise Hargreaves, Playback Now’s senior graphic artist, and web designer sampled the site and came away impressed as well. “I can see an association that perhaps doesn’t have a contracted graphic designer, this could really help them with their online graphics, especially social media posts as you don’t have to be a graphic artist to make stunning images and animations that will make your posts, videos and animations look professionally created”.
Perhaps Placeit can assist you and your association team with future marketing needs.