Webinar: How To Make Money From Creative Without Doing Much June 24, 2015 by Super User There are several levels of creative in digital signage, with high-quality original work at the pointy top of the pyramid, and pure commodity – “On Sale Now” stuff – at the broad bottom. In the middle is a vast range of material that needs to get done in the SMB market, and there’s a surprising lack of …
Two More Free Holiday Videos You Can Build Yourself December 18, 2014 by Super User My partners at Shakr in Seoul have generated a handful of free DIY video templates that can be used to create holiday season greetings for customers and visitors to businesses, using Spotomate. All users need to do is get a few photos organized, drag them into the browser workspace, and fill in some text fields. …
Free Christmas Video Greetings Up On Spotomate December 11, 2014 by Super User My friends over at Freshwater Digital Media Partners in Grand Rapids, Michigan OK’d putting their lovely holiday greetings video up on Spotomate’s rendering engine, so if you want to use the free video you can add your logo or company name in text to the video in a matter of seconds, without going near video edit …
Back At World HQ/Live Bait Shop December 8, 2014 by Super User About 23 hours after I got on the shuttle at a Seoul Hyatt for the start of ICN-YVR-YYZ, I fell in the door last night at home, 14 time zones ahead of where I started. After about nine hours of pillow time I am vertical again, and reasonably coherent. Hopefully that’s it for 2014 travels, …
FREE (For Now) DIY Car Dealer Video Templates December 5, 2014 by Super User A pair of digital signage-optimized templates are now up on Spotomate – ones I had built that are wholly-focused on local car lots. There’s a pile of great auto ads on Spotomate already but nothing that focuses on the sorts of dealer promotions that local guys do week after week. I did a blue text …
Where’s Dave??? December 4, 2014 by Super User I’m in Seoul this week visiting my partners at Shakr Media, which developed and runs the underlying technology – as well as creates many of the templates – for Spotomate. It’s 9:35 Thursday morning here and 7:35 Wednesday evening back home, so I am more than a little time-confused and stretched on keeping up …
Free Video Ad For Smartphone Sellers November 21, 2014 by Super User This DIY video spot just went up on Spotomate and is free through US Thanksgiving Day, and $75 after that. This one is what I would call digital signage-optimized, in that it does not have audio, big, bold fonts, an uncluttered design and builds in the important bits like logos and room for a strong …
One Ad Spot, Four Ways November 17, 2014 by Super User One of the recurring questions I’ve had from people about Spotomate is whether specific templates were available for specific vertical markets and subjects, and I’ve replied with a hearty, “Yes, but …” Yes, there are industry specific ones, notably auto, BUT, many of the templates are sufficiently flexible by design that they can be used …
Make Your Next Product Video Ad For Free November 14, 2014 by Super User Spotomate has just added a new free video template – well, free through the 21st – for marketing products and services. The graphic designer has skewed the template to smartphones, but I think it works better marketing other products and services that don’t demand hero shots (as smartphones do). Here’s what it looks like made …
$70 Worth Of Awesome October 21, 2014 by Super User Sixteen:Nine will not turn into the official organ of Spotomate, but I do have to mention my favorite video template is now available – converted and QA’d this past weekend to English language characters. The Oriental Painting template puts this amazing ink-blot overlay over an otherwise straightforward image slideshow. Use a handful of photos to …
