That’s probably true, but you should be sure to have a good script and vision – not everyone is meant to be a creative. Its content is sourced from designers, animators, voice actors, and sound artists who sell through the PowToon Marketplace – the idea being that buying the individual pieces that make up a video and then building the video yourself is cheaper than outsourcing its creation to a professional design studio. And, as the name implies, there’s quite a collection of those cartoon guys (‘toons), found within its content collection. In other words, it’s video’s turn now.Ĭapitalizing on this trend, PowToon delivers a DIY solution for making those near-ubiquitous marketing videos, company demos and explainers. We’re launching real-time social networks based on video.

These days we’re all about finding the Instagram for video, or thinking about how we can insert video ads in mobile apps, for example. If web 2.0 startups were trying to simplify and jazz up the slideshow creation processes in hopes of becoming “PowerPoint killers,” PowToon wants to ride on the next bandwagon – our growing love for everything video. So that’s exactly what newly launched (still private beta) startup PowToon is offering: more videos, which are more easily made.

Even SlideShare, the service that made presentations social, launched a web meetings service Zipcast last year in order to bring a little video-enabled pizazz into things. And we haven’t even been super-enthused about the new-fangled PowerPoint alternatives in a while – not since companies like Prezi, Animoto, and (VMWare-acquired) SlideRocket were making the rounds in the startup scene, that is. We’re so over PowerPoint presentations, right? Well, that’s the common refrain, at least.

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