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Vidyard

MARKETING
Velocity0.0

Vidyard turns an AI avatar into shared team property, with access controls to match.

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◆Current state
The April release made AI Avatars shareable — a teammate can create video using your likeness, with access grants and usage tracking attached. The months since have been quieter and more operational: automatic captions on every new video with no setup, personal folders and subfolders that carry through into Gmail, Outlook, and Salesforce, a redesigned Chrome extension, and theater mode with picture-in-picture for viewers. Campaign enrollment moved from individual invitations to team-based membership that updates as teams change.
◆Where it's heading
Vidyard is building for teams rather than individual sellers. Sharing avatars, enrolling whole teams in campaigns, and carrying folder structure into the tools where reps actually work all point at video production as a coordinated function with administration around it. The viewer-facing work follows the same logic — captions on by default and floating playback are about a message landing without the recipient doing setup, which matters when volume is the point.
◆Prediction
Shared avatars with usage tracking sets up governance as the next requirement — approval over who may generate with whose likeness, and a record of what was produced. Expect the folder and team constructs to converge into shared libraries rather than personal ones carried into partner apps.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1mo ago

    Reach viewers watching with the sound off

    Captions turn on automatically for every new video with no setup. A default-on accessibility and comprehension win that matters most for the muted, scrolled, second-language viewing this product's volume depends on.

  2. 1mo ago

    Keep your growing video library organized

    Personal videos gain folders and subfolders, and that structure carries into Gmail, Outlook, Salesforce, and other partner apps. Consistent with the pattern of meeting reps inside their existing tools rather than pulling them back to Vidyard.

  3. 1mo ago

    Spend less time clicking and more time communicating

    The Chrome extension was redesigned around a cleaner layout and shorter path from recording to sending. The extension is where the daily volume actually gets made, so friction removed here compounds.

  4. 3mo ago

    Help viewers stay engaged without disrupting their workflow

    Theater mode and picture-in-picture let viewers expand a video or keep it floating while they work in other tabs. Viewer-side comfort that fits the broader effort to keep a message watchable without demanding full attention.

  5. 4mo ago

    Scale video creation with shared AI avatars

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    This is the release that makes an avatar an organizational asset rather than a personal one, and it explains the team-shaped work around it — shared campaigns, shared structure. Everything since has been about making the resulting volume land well.

  6. 4mo ago

    Keep campaigns in sync with team-based enrollment

    Campaigns can be shared with entire teams, enrolling members automatically and updating as team membership changes. The administrative counterpart to shared avatars — both replace per-person setup with a group that maintains itself.