2 minute video myth ‣ is this still relevant?
The 2 minute video myth If you’ve ever hesitated to create longer videos because “people won’t watch them,” you’re not alone. The under-two-minute rule became an industry standard years ago, driven by outdated attention-span studies and early digital platform...
A fantastic fourth consecutive award win for Compass Video
A fourth consecutive award win for Compass Video, a leading video production company, is proud to announce its latest achievement – winning the prestigious Corporate Vision Magazine Global Business Award for the fourth consecutive year. This remarkable feat is a...
Compass Video is an excellent Multi Award Winning Production Company
Compass Video, a multi award winning production company, proudly emerges as the recipient of the prestigious South West England Prestige Awards for Video Production Company of the Year. The Corporate Livewire Prestige Awards recognise small and medium-sized businesses...
Delivering Another Amazing Social Media Marketing Presentation
Compass Video will be delivering another presentation at a business networking event about social media marketing. The Business Exchange hosts monthly networking breakfasts and have invited us as thier guest speaker. Book onto the event here Proudly independent, The...
Amazing Business Video, what could I do and why?
Have you heard the expression "video is the most important thing in marketing" or similar? You must have an amazing business video. What does this actually mean and what can you actually make? In today's digital age, video has become an essential tool for businesses...
MUM Image Video – Use the new algorithm to Maximise SEO
MUM Image Video - MUM’s the word - Maximise your SEO chances with quality image and video Last year, at Google’s I/O annual developer conference, the company introduced a new AI milestone called Multitask Unified Model, or MUM. This technology can simultaneously...
Amazing live broadcast event support for TEDx
Compass video have live broadcast event, in the past and have been contacted by Shaftesbury School to help them deliver a live stream for their TEDxYouth@Shaftesbury event. Shaftesbury School is hosting the first ever live broadcast TEDx event in the town's history....
Third consecutive award win for our video work, how delightful
Compass Video have received a third consecutive award win for 2022, this time from Corporate Vision Magazine. Corporate Vision Magazine has announced the winners of the 2022 Global Business Awards and Compass Video have received the award for Best Corporate Video...
Improve your YouTube content with data create amazing video
Want amazing video content? Here is some advice on how to improve your YouTube channel with data to create more engaging and amazing video With the endless choices that consumers now have to watch amazing video content, you need to give your viewer, personally...
Our sustainable business climate commitment
SMEs across the globe are committing to halve their emissions by 2030 and achieve net-zero by 2050 and to operate in a more sustainable way. Compass Video have pledged, agreed and signed up to the SME Climate Commitment In keeping with our climate commitment and...
A new name for Google My Business – Google Business Profile
The new name for Google My Business – Google Business Profile Why has Google changed the name? To coincide with changes they are making. For example, how you find and edit your Business Profile is changing, and the Google My Business App is going. This is a move...
Top Tips for Producing your Corporate Video
Top Tips for Producing a Corporate Video If you consider the modern attention span vs the time it should take to thoroughly communicate a corporate message, one can quickly surmise that planning and producing a corporate video successfully is a challenging task. Video...
How to become a thought leader with video
The importance of thought leadership Setting the goal to become a “thought leader” is a real challenge. True thought leaders use their expertise to show a perspective of their industry through education, guidance and insights. They then go on to inspire, lead and...
Compass Video deliver a training presentation at BFN live
Compass Video will deliver a smartphone filmmaking training presentation talk at BFN networking event We often get asked to deliver training presentation talks at events and networking groups to deliver informative, industry-related training presentations. We offer to...
Top Video / Photo / Image size for posting on social media?
Posting video, image or photo content on social media can be a daunting process. There's so much talk these days about analytics and the 'reach' of each post that sometimes it can seem like an overwhelming venture. But it is important to remember the basics as well....
The Best Video & Animation Production Company in Somerset
Compass Video are incredibly grateful to have been recognised by the SME News - UK Enterprise Awards. We are proud to announce that we have been awarded the title of 'Best Video & Animation Production Company - Somerset'. SME News "is a quarterly digital...
Our top feature films made with a Smartphone list
Here at Compass, we talk a lot about the power of the modern smart phone when it comes to filming. Whether it’s helping you advertise your products, search for new staff or keeping them up-to-date with news, smart phones put the power in your hands. But it’s not only...
Here is our Top Christmas Adverts of 2021 list
December means one thing ... Top Christmas Adverts 2021! Heart-warming, festive and occasionally memorable, here are our Top 3 Christmas adverts for 2021.3) Barbour | Paddington, Please Look After This Bear This is the very first time that Paddington's original...
We are officially an award-winning production company
Compass Video have another production award win from Corporate Vision Magazine for the second year running! Corporate Vision Magazine has announced the winners of the 2021 Global Business Awards and Compass Video have received another production award win for Most...
Top tips for better audio
We love good audio at Compass Video and when talking to our clients, we stress how good audio is equally as important as good video.If you do not put the effort into your audio, your gorgeous shots and mesmerising lighting set-ups could be rendered useless. So we...
Our Top Talking Head Video list
4 years ago, we uploaded a blog about Our Top 5 Talking Head Corporate videos and now we're back, with an updated list of 3 more Talking Head Corporate videos we think are brilliant. Talking Head videos, also known as a ‘Piece-to-camera', are simply named because they...
Winning a second consecutive award for Compass Video
Compass Video has won a second consecutive SME NEWS Award. As part of the SME NEWS UK 2021 SOUTHERN ENTERPRISE AWARDS for Best Corporate Video Production and Training Agency 2021. SME News is a quarterly digital publication aimed at those who own, run or assist in the...
What is an Explainer Video or Animation?
Do you receive questions about your product even though you have a FAQ section on your website?Are people finding it difficult to understand your product?Do you want a perfect sales tool that is pitch perfect every time? You need an EXPLAINER VIDEO or ANIMATION But...
Insight Live Week 21 – Workshop networking talk event
Compass Video is delivering, Digital Leader training at Insight Live week on 1st March 2021. Why take part in Insight Live: Public Sector? Are you a leader in the UK’s digital transformation of the Public Sector? Is your organisation or service? If the answer is yes,...
Customer Referencing, customers are your number one fans!
Why the hard sell just doesn’t work anymore. You need customer referencing. You’ve started a business that you’re passionate about! You have a product or service that you want others to benefit from – so, of course, you try to sell it. It’s important to understand...
We are one of the best award winning production companies
Compass Video have received a second Award Win for 2020, this time from Corporate Vision Magazine. Corporate Vision Magazine has announced the winners of the 2020 Global Business Awards and Compass Video have received the award for Best Corporate Video Production...
Our top key points for your 2021 video strategy
Do you need help with top key video strategy points and advice for 2021? The majority of online audiences today prefer to watch a video on YouTube, Facebook, or Instagram than reading lengthy content, allowing them to get all the information they need with as little...
Compass Video is winning a SME news award
Compass Video are winning an award from SME NEWS UK 2020 ENTERPRISE AWARDS for Best Digital Content Production and Training Company. SME News is a quarterly digital publication aimed at those who own, run or assist in the running of small and medium-sized businesses...
Compass Video is delivering free training for business
Compass Video has been asked to deliver a series of free training online workshops for Mendip and Dorset council. Compass Video has developed a series of training packages to help our clients to keep pace with the new content demands that are expected of modern...
Compass Video is committed to being COVID-19 Safe
Compass Video is committed to being COVID-19 Safe As part of our continued commitment to operating as safely as possible during the COVID-19 pandemic, Keith has completed the Scree Skills, Coronavirus basic awareness on production training course. The Scree Skills...
Our COVID-19 update we are now Safe Sets™️ Certified
Compass Video's Covid 19 Update - We have been awarded Safe Sets™️ Certification from Safe Sets™️ International to ensure we can keep our team and yours safe when we are filming on your premises The Safe Sets Certification is offered by Safe Sets International and...
Upskill your staff or team with Compass Video training
Compass Video can help you ‘Upskill your Staff or Team’ and create your own content Compass Video regularly deliver Smartphone Video Training workshops. We also offer YouTube Channel Management, Open Source Software tutorials (how to edit video and images) and...
We create amazing motion infographic animation
Now is the time to create Engaging Motion Infographic Animation to keep in touch with your audience Auditory, visual and sensorial means are the three ways we process information, with visual being the most effective. The human brain can process an image quicker than...
Do you know what Google EAT and YMYL is? Find out now
Google EAT and YMYL Have you heard the term E.A.T? Do you know how this affects your SEO? These are important new changes that Google has unleashed that will affect how your business ranks online. If you’re sharing information on a subject, particularly medical,...
We have made a top tips for social media video content
Top Tips for social media video content The ever-changing content marketing landscape means that you can not afford to rely solely on photography to get the attention of your audience anymore. YouTube is the internet's second biggest search engine and Facebook has...
Top interview tips for your video project
Our top interview tips Research & preparation Good research is the key to getting a great interview. Anticipate what direction you’d like the interview to go – do research on your interviewee and be well versed on the interview’s subject matter. Though your...
Compass Video can help you win Business Awards
Compass Video can help you win Business Awards ! Get an advantage over your competitors Is your organisation a leader in customer service? Are you a innovative leader? Perhaps you are a great employer or a successful entrepreneur? No matter what your business...
Do you want to know how to improve internal communications?
Would you like to know how to improve internal communications? Compass Video can help you be more engaging and deliver more results. Also, we can help you save money utilising digital media effectively in your training plans and internal communication campaigns....
We would love to support your Charity Event
Event Photography for a Charity Event Somerset Chamber are hosting its 13th Annual Charity Golf Day in to raise funds for charity We Hear You. Compass Video are proud to sponsor ‘The Longest Drive’ and support the Charity Event with photography. We are also offering a...
Google Earth Studio animation side by side Drone Footage
Since the release of Google Earth Studio there has been a lot of content made. We previously posted about the launch here. As we were out and about using a drone over Somerset for a client project, we thought that we would compare footage. See what you think? If...
Compass Video to deliver event support for TEDx Sherborne
Compass Video to deliver services to film, live stream and post-production for TEDxSherborne 2019 Compass Video will work with TEDxSherborne (with some help from budding young videographers at local schools) to capture, edit and upload our 16 amazing speakers onto the...
Tap to advance – The rise of vertical storytelling
Vertical Storytelling is here. Google has predicted that in 2019, on average, users will spend more time online than in front of the television. Much of this time will be spent viewing online videos via mobile devices in a vertical format. This means websites will...
We love Google Earth Studio for flyover drone video
Would you like some drone video for your internal communication or newsletters? Google has released Google Earth Studio for you to try and we thought we would try it out with some beautiful flyovers of some of Somerset’s best-known landmarks. If you would like to chat...
Top reasons why creating video from your event is important
YouTube is the second largest search engine on the web, which says a lot about what people are looking for. Therefore, while video marketing may be something you are thinking of doing eventually, you should consider making it part of the plan sooner rather than later....
Compass Video to teach Film and TV at Wiltshire College
Compass Video is delighted to announce that Company Director, Keith Seward, has taken up a part-time lecturing post at Wiltshire College this year. Bringing to the table his expertise and extensive experience in filmmaking and video production, Keith will teach...
New Way of Working with Video – Internal Communications
The Status Quo Imagine you are head of HR at an enterprise sized company and you want to inspire your employees. In 2019, you have many ways to do this especially if you are lucky enough that your company has embraced video...
Infographic – What is a video view on social media
"YouTube has shifted its focus away from the number of "views" that a video attracts to overall "watch time". Video-makers are now encouraged to produce longer videos that keep viewers on the platform for longer." BBC When checking your video analytics, have you ever...
We love Smartphone Video Training Feedback
We are delighted with the recent Smartphone Filming Training feedback we have been getting from our recent trainees who have been attending our courses. So much so that we even remembered to record them for posterity. So a huge thank you to www.lovesail.com...
Unleash the power of your smartphone to make videos
As you must be aware by now, most of us carry a pretty serious piece of camera equipment in your pocket. That is unless you are worried about the gamma rays and Bluetooth frying your innards. Your smartphone gives you access to a load of features unimaginable even a...
Some of our amazing manufacturing video production ideas
As we all know the manufacturing industry in the UK is pretty unique and something to be savoured by all. With a history of making high-end products in our own backyard, sometimes we can be the envy of the world. As such we as a country must ensure we promote...
We are so happy to recieve amazing feedback from the NHS
Last week the team from Compas Video was at Dorset County Hospital training the communications department, showing them how to make the most out of their smartphones to create video content. The attendees included staff from the comms team, Human Resources and Charity...
We love client feedback – Google Review warmly received
Our latest video production, to promote the sixth form at the Gryphon School in Sherborne has received some great feedback. none more so than Holly, the Marketing Manager. "We are delighted with the first video Compass has produced for the school, so much so that we...
School Promotional Video – We love working with students
Last week we completed our first School Promotional Video on behalf of the Gryphon School in Sherborne. It proved to be a really exciting project for us as a company, not just the chance to try something new but to put into practice our theory about a different way of...
How to get a video transcript from YouTube for FREE
We always advise our clients to get the most mileage out of there videos. Did you know the description and title of your video is not only a way to tell people what the video is, but it is also a way to ensure that it can be found in search results. One of the...
Compass Video win video tender to work with the NHS
We are very excited to announce a new partnership with The Dorset Care Record to film their latest video concerning the consent options for the Dorset Care Record. We were awarded the tender against stiff competition at the end of last week and will begin filming...
How to remove suggested videos when YouTube video finishes?
This post is now outdated and for past feature reference only When you embed a video onto your website, it can get quite annoying at the end when YouTube shows suggested videos to your viewer that take them away from your website. It has long been a headache of mine...
The golden rules of adding your corporate video to YouTube
Using video for marketing? There are now 1.5 Billion Youtube users, that is now equivalent to over a third of all internet users alone (source: Techcrunch). Topping that stat is the 300 hours of video being uploaded every minute by users. Yes, that makes Youtube...
How to add your own subtitles to your YouTube Videos
Useful YouTube Tools Did you know that YouTube has a lot of very useful tools that you can use for free? One of these is the ability to add your own subtitles to your video. If you did not know this already YouTube creates a transcript of your video for you (i'll deal...
Compass Video Join Visit Somerset as Official Video Partner
We are delighted to announce that Compass Video have just become members of what we consider to be one of the South West's greatest local championing organisations, "Visit Somerset". The Somerset Tourism Association (Visit Somerset) is a Community Interest Company,...
We have made a Top 5 Talking Head Video list
In this blog, we want to share with you a Top 5 Talking Head Videos list of 5 corporate videos that feature talking heads that we think are great Probably the oldest format of a corporate video is to have one person talking directly to the camera without any other...
You should embrace video for your corporate communications
If you are looking to making a step change in your corporate comms to video then we have some evidence that may help you persuade you or your budget holder to get a wiggle on. As part of our own education we have spent hundreds of man-hours trying to understand...
Improve your internal communications with video
Using video for your internal communications will save your company time, money and improve the performance your employees. Is there anything you would like to hear more than those words if you are an employee engagement manager,...
Free Tracking Tools for your Video Marketing
Measuring the ROI of your Content The need to ensure you aren't wasting time, effort and money with your marketing is essential and being able to measure your success or failure even more so. Before the advent of marketing automation, tracking your outbound efforts...
We love working with the NHS
Over the past year, we have been helping different trusts achieve their communications goals with the use of video. The NHS is as we all know a huge organisation, at last count, it was the 8th biggest employer in the world. That is behind the likes of the US Defence...
5 Golden Rules of Permission for Corporate Video Production
We are half way through summer now and you are starting to create your marketing plan for the September to Christmas period. Hopefully, August allows you a little fresh air and time to breathe, while your customers are on their holidays. So what better time to...
Video as a sales tool – present perfectly every time
Video as a sales tool in the sales process Let us assume your company has a team of sales people around the globe, these might be direct employees, partners or part of a distribution network. Whatever the channel they will all be required to deliver a...
Staff and customer feedback great for internal communication
Today we were booked to attend a customer feedback event for a client in the north of England. This was more of a forum than your traditional corporate event, with a round table setting. Our customer informing their clients of what's' happening to their product and...
Create an amazing customer reference video
We get approached by a lot of companies that want to use video to create customer reference stories. The majority of these have been using more traditional methods like written case studies and infographics, they now want to take it a step further. The only hold up...
How to Match your Video Content to your Buyer Personas
Video is no longer the emerging trend in digital marketing, it is now the must have piece of content for all serious marketers. If you want to improve the engagement levels of your website creating video content is one of the best ways forward. There are of course so...
How to Improve Employee Engagement Using Video
Successful employee engagement is one of the dark arts of the business world. Known by few, hidden from many, it can, however, have the biggest impact on your staff and therefore your customer. We are lucky to have met a few of the more senior members of this select...
Quick guide to a successful customer reference programme
Where is the best place to find new customers? We think it will be your current customers and if you agree then we have created this quick guide to help you get the most from your current customers. Goal Setting Before you move any further, we should select a goal/s...
A quick guide to Storytelling – The Rule of Three
The Rule of Three If there is a single guiding principle for storytelling that has been around for millennia it has to be the rule of three. Did you know this? If not then let's start at the beginning, move to the middle and finish with the end. OK, that may be too...
We Love Customer Video Feedback
We asked our latest training client The Royal Bournemouth Hospital what they thought of our Mobile Phone Video Training Day. Here's what they said. If you would like to find out more about our training days, contact us today.
Why Customer Reference Videos are Awesome
Customer Reference Videos You may be considering how and why you should be creating a series (or just one) of customer reference videos for your company. The "how" is a little more complicated than the "why" but if you need help with you ideas or just some friendly...