Product updates 🚀
May 29 2020Tags
Finally, you can put some order to your inboxes.
Coming next (share all tagged content to a shareable URL)
May 29 2020Metrics
Track how your audience is interacting with your videoasks.
May 29 2020Faster page load times for widget embeds
Now serving an optimized video file in the widget for better page load speeds. Google will love your site a little more ;)
May 29 2020Faster uploads for video steps and replies
We've made some singinficant improvements to our upload speeds across both our web and iphone apps.
May 20 2020Dutch & Turkish support
We now support these languages for transcription as well as interface texts in your videoasks.
May 23 2020Add your Hubspot Meetings Calendar
Are you a Hubspot customer? You can now integrate Hubspot's appointment scheduling app inside your videoasks.
May 23 2020Add your Hubspot Meetings Calendar
Are you a Hubspot customer? You can now integrate Hubspot's appointment scheduling app inside your videoasks.
May 20 2020Live Recording (Beta)
We're introducing Live Recording for respondents. No more waiting around for videos to finish uploading!
This feature uses webRTC technology (just like a Zoom call) and adapts video quality based on device specifications and network conditions to ensure reliable and speedy delivery.
Live recording also opens up support for the Safari desktop browser and allows in-browser recording across all devices.
May 14 2020Pre-recorded video upload
Respondents can now upload pre-recorded videos when answering videoasks (as an alternative recording method). This feature is also available for VideoAsk creators, when replying in-app.
May 10 2020Duplication
Happy to annouce that you can now duplicate your videoasks painlessly.
April 29 2020Screen Sharing
Create videoask steps by recording your screen. Receive screencasts from respondents and reply in turn via you guessed it....screen sharing.
April 23 2020Move your contact form to anywhere in your funnel
Lead-gen folks...you've been asking for this, we've listened.
April 16 2020New video/audio player
We've updated our media player, allowing for control of the playback position as well as speed of playback. This feature is available both on videoasks and inside the app when viewing responses and replies.
April 15 2020Privacy settings
You can now set the privacy status of your responses & replies when sharing them outside of the app.
April 2 2020Camera and Microphone selectors
You can now choose your camera and mic directly inside the app. Perfect if you have a secondary camera or mic and don't want to fiddle around with your browser settings.
March 30 2020Web-app interface refresh
We launched a fresher web-app design. Everything works the same, just a fresh new coat of paint and more focus on video content.
March 17 2020Add your own brand/s to your videoasks!
Your can now add your own brand logo/s into your videoasks and set a link for users to go to when they click it.
March 5 2020Collect phone numbers.
You can now add a phone number field to the contact form as well as get granular control over which fields you want to show (Name, E-mail or Phone).
Feb 26 2020Custom languages: Customize any interface text that appears in your videoasks.
You can now say what the hell you want in any text that appears inside a videoask. Heck you could even have a videoask in clingon!
Feb 20 2020Variables in the redirect URL
You can now pass information like answers or contact details from your VideoAsk into the redirect URL.
Try it out here: https://www.videoask.com/fxkxmd1r8
Feb 18 2020Send VideoAsk responses to over 1500+ apps with Zapier
Make VideoAsk an essential part of your workflow using our Zapier integration. (Note: Transcriptions are not yet supported via Zapier)
Feb 17 2020Webhooks
Easily push data to any service using webhooks (for developers).
Feb 11 2020Get Giphy with it!
Add giphs from Giphy as backgrounds for your steps. Enjoy!
Feb 6 2020Add overlay text to replies
You can now add overlay text on replies just like you can on your video steps. Handy if you want to share some extra info or a link inside a reply.
Jan 31 2020New iOS app design refresh
We've just launched a new updated iOS design! Includes Light and Dark modes + improved navigation.
Dec 20 2019Multiple Choice now supports more options
Previously we were limiting multiple choice options to 3. You can now have up to 10 options in a multiple choice step.
Dec 10 2019Redirect to URL
Available on the GROW plan, this feature allows you to redirect to an external URL from any step in your videoask.
Dec 5 2019New 'Window' style widget available
Make a bigger impact on your landing page with a new widget style (widgetType:VideoThumbnailWindow). Now available when embedding VideoAsk on your website using our widget code.
Nov 21 2019VideoAsk is officially launched! + Announcing premium features...
We are incredibly thankful to all the early adopters who supported VideoAsk during our 1st year and tirelessly gave us feedback so we could deliver the best possible experience.
We have plenty more cooking in the oven and we can't wait to execute on our roadmap in the coming weeks/months. We have also launched our subscription model alongside 3 new features — Conditional Logic, Hide Branding & Video Length Control.
Oct 11 2019Replacing Videos + Text overlay editing
A pain point for many users, beforehand you were not able to replace videos or edit the text overlay. Happy to say this is now solved. Enjoy!
Oct 7 2019Dropbox integration
Easily download any video interaction directly to your Dropbox.
Sept 18 2019New & improved web-app interface
We are thrilled to present a new streamlined VideoAsk workflow based around interactions. The new Ui includes a feed of all your interactions across all your videoasks so you never miss a beat. (The iOS app also now includes a new 'Interactions' tab in the dashboard.)
Sept 6 2019Support for Emojis & special characters (incl Russian & Arabic)
Videoasks now support Emojis as well as special characters!
August 22 2019Conversations (a.k.a 'Threaded Replies')
Follow up with your respondents via Video to start an asynchronous conversation.
July 31 2019Calendar integration
Allow anyone to book a time on your calendar from within your VideoAsk using Calendly (requires a Calendly account).
Available on the web-app only (coming soon to iOS).
July 29 2019Introducing 'MIX': Video text overlays
Add 100's of amazing video backgrounds from the PEXELS library and overlay them with your own custom text.
Check out this quiz example: https://www.videoask.com/fqcndsfvs
July 25 2019Hidden feature: Fit-Video
If you want to make sure we don't crop any of the videos you upload (e.g a landscape video), just add ?fitvideo to the end of your VideoAsk URL. Just like this: https://www.videoask.com/f8wa1p1cv?fitvideo
July 12 2019Email notifications
Receive an e-mail notification each time a user responds to one of your videoasks. (Available on web app today, coming soon to iOS).
July 3rd 2019Support for Italian
🇮🇹 'Abbiamo abilitato il supporto per Videoasks in italiano, incluso il supporto per la trascrizione in italiano.'
June 27 2019Export all responses (.csv)
If you need a bulk download of all the responses of a particular Videoask, you can now easily export everthing to .csv so you can load it into your favorite spreadsheet app. Enjoy!
June 26 2019Color settings
You can now tweak in-app the primary and secondary colors that appear in your videoasks.
June 26 2019Multi languages now supported in-app
You can now update the default language of your videoasks directly in-app. Available languages...English, Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Portuguese.
June 26 2019Authenticate using Typeform credentials
If you already use Typeform, we've made it dead easy for you to log in to your VideoAsk account using your Typeform credentials. Enjoy!
June 16 2019Multi-Language support in Videoasks
If you want to change the language of your Videoask, just add the language extension to the URL as such:
https://www.videoask.com/es/f5s7mzuhe
Available languages:
- Spanish: use /es/
- Portuguese: use /pt/
- German: use /de/
- Dutch: use /nl/
June 14 2019Notes - A little help for the shy ones...
You can now overlay notes during your video capture in order to help you craft that perfect Videoask.
June 13 2019Launched v2.0
Released the web version of VideoAsk alongside a bunch of new features incl. Multi-Step Videoasks, Video Polls, Video Library uploads, a new improved embed widget and more....