Enhanced Video Texting FAQs

How does Enhanced Video Texting differ from a standard MMS message?

Standard MMS messages contain a multimedia attachment such as a picture, GIF, or video sent on their own or embedded with text content. Videos sent with Standard MMS persistently suffer from cross-platform distortion and can’t be longer than about 15 seconds.

Enhanced Video Texting allows you to send much longer videos to multiple phone platforms while maintaining high visual and auditory quality, which other texting platforms have not been able to achieve.

Why can't I just run my video through a free online compression tool?

Most free compression tools are catered to reducing files to sizes appropriate for social media use, which rarely accommodates file reduction to textable sizes. Users often have to run several compressions on the video, which results in quality loss.

By contrast, our tool is designed with texting in mind. By examining individual video qualities, engineered specifically to meet mobile carrier requirements, we can deliver the highest quality videos at textable sizes.

Why not use another service that claims to send videos up to 5MB in size?

Simply put, other video SMS platforms, video texting apps, and services that offer video messaging do not come close to our Enhanced Video quality or delivery rates. Our industry-leading compression technology produces real results.

Our Enhanced Video Texts can be embedded directly in full-length 600 character messages, so you can ensure the message you want to get across to your audience is received correctly.

Why send a video at all - why not just send a link?

Embedding a video is far better than sending a link to a Youtube video. People are hesitant to click on external links from texts for security reasons, and including links in texts often causes delivery issues. Including an embedded video is more convenient and efficient for both the sender and receiver!

In addition, around 64% of consumers make a purchase after watching branded videos and more than 50% of marketing professionals worldwide name video as the type of content with the best ROI.

This all sounds awesome, but how can I use EVT?

• Embed Marketing Videos and Ads

• Share Exclusive Video ContentDirect-to-Camera Asks

• Video Announcements

• Fundraising Videos

• Video Testimonials

• Thank you Videos

• Product Showing

• …and more!

Now I'm hooked! How do I submit my request?

You can request an EVT video in your portal by navigating to either your messages tab or the “Enhanced Video Manager” found at the bottom of the tools dropdown.

For a more detailed walkthrough on how to request an EVT, please review this help doc found in your portal!