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Short write-ups from actual client projects — what worked, what didn't, and how the edit decisions get made.

Explainer Video Styles for SaaS Founders: A Practical Cheat Sheet

Most first-time SaaS founders commissioning a video assume there’s basically one kind of “explainer video” — a narrated animation with some UI mockups, roughly…

Explainer Video Approaches for Healthcare & Fitness Brands

Healthcare and fitness sit next to each other on a lot of “best explainer video” roundups, but they’re actually two of the trickiest categories…

Animated vs. Live-Action: How I Help Clients Decide

This is the question nearly every client asks somewhere in the first conversation about a new video project, usually before they’ve even finalized a…

What Makes an Explainer Video Actually Work: An Editor’s Checklist

Clients almost always come into an explainer video project with the same underlying question, even if they phrase it differently: “how do we make…

Which Video Type Fits Each Stage of Your Funnel? A Practical Guide

One of the most common questions I get from SaaS and startup clients isn’t “should we make a video” — most teams have already…

2D Explainer Videos That Actually Drive Conversions (2026 Picks)

Every SaaS landing page seems to have one: a 60-to-90-second 2D animated explainer sitting right below the hero section, promising to turn a confused…

B2B Short-Form Video Trends Worth Copying in 2026

For years, short-form video was treated as a B2C playground — something Gymshark, Duolingo, and Ryanair could get away with, but not the kind…

Agentic AI Is Changing How SaaS Products Get Demoed. Your Explainer Video Still Wins the First 30 Seconds.

Search around right now and you’ll see the same phrase everywhere: agentic AI. Not “AI-powered” as a bolted-on feature, but AI that actually drives…