The Startup Filmmaker’s Journey to Creating an Online Course. 

Follow business-owner Michael as he takes you with him on his journey to create his own course.  All the detail and tangible results, with real-time case study content.

Training Employees Online In 2023 & Best Software Available

Training Employees Online In 2023 & Best Software Available

The world of employee training is constantly evolving, and 2023 is no exception. With the rapid growth of technology and the increasing need for digital upskilling, companies must adapt to stay competitive. Here we'll explore the importance of training employees online, the latest software...

Researching Lighting for iPhone videos?  We Got You.

Researching Lighting for iPhone videos? We Got You.

Whatever reasons you may have for choosing to shoot your course videos on an iPhone, you won’t get the quality you’re looking for with your footage if you don’t take time to consider how to light it. Your iPhone camera is a powerful piece of tech that’s immediately available to you. iPhone video...

How An Online Course Outline Is Planned & Executed

How An Online Course Outline Is Planned & Executed

Outlining Saves Time and Money, and Helps You Achieve More, Faster If you’re here, we figure you’re thinking of finally putting that online course together. Or you’ve already decided to do it and want to know where to start. Welcome! We’ll answer that question for you. But, first, it can be...

How The Cone of Learning Leads To Video Course Success

How The Cone of Learning Leads To Video Course Success

Create More Effective Courses by Prioritizing Retention We’ll be honest. We’ve been helping course creators to deliver engaging video course content for a while now, and we just discovered the Cone of Learning. Even though it’s been around for decades 🙃. Other names given to this same concept...

How to Record Yourself Presenting a PowerPoint

How to Record Yourself Presenting a PowerPoint

Separate Your Video Course from The Pack with a Quality Video Presentation It’s a common practice now to see course creators and other online presenters delivering PowerPoint presentations via pre-recorded video. But what’s the exact process for doing this, efficiently and at the levels of quality...

Product Updates

Can You Password Protect YouTube Videos? [And 11 Other Video Security FAQs]

Can You Password Protect YouTube Videos? [And 11 Other Video Security FAQs]

If you use video for your business, most of the time you'll want to make your videos more visible. After all, the more people who watch your videos, the more opportunities to connect with potential customers and expand awareness of your brand. However, there will be times when you want to prevent...

Release Notes: October 2020

Release Notes: October 2020

Fall is centered around big changes with Spotlightr.  That means completing our entire rebrand and continuing to make progress with our infrastructure changes. And with that we've introduced a new plan to the platform, the Polaris plan.  The Startup and Enterprise plans are no longer available to...

Release Notes: June 2018

Release Notes: June 2018

 Two main focuses in June were around releasing much anticipated Performance Optimizations and improving mobile handling of Spotlightr's functionality and appearance. We've made significant strides in both and are excited to share more details with you below....

Release Notes: May 2018

Release Notes: May 2018

As most of you know by now, in May we released Overlays 2.0. which will add significant value to your video marketing efforts. We have also focused on performance optimizations which will be released very soon and are looking towards mobile optimization as the next...

Release Notes: April 2018

Release Notes: April 2018

April efforts focused on two enhancements:  performance optimization and a rework of overlays & annotation CTAs.  These are major improvements which we've completed and are in the final phases of testing. Read below for more details regarding this updates and...