HighGear
A three-minute B2B explainer on a high-intent topic, embedded on their own blog.
- 59% average watched, clear of the strong-retention benchmark
- 7 finishes out of 24 plays
Explainers, demos, onboarding and channel content for workplace and B2B software. Produced by one presenter across the whole funnel, so the fifth touch is not a stranger starting from zero.
There is a list. It has been on the list for two quarters. What is missing is a person who will stand in front of a camera and say it.
Then the quarter got busy. One video exists. The other eleven are still a Notion page, and the one that exists is now out of date.
An agency shot the brand film, a freelancer did the demo, an AI tool did the ads. Nothing compounds, because nothing repeats.
The cost is not the videos you did not make. It is that by the fifth touch your buyer still has no idea who they are dealing with.
A software purchase is never one decision. It is an ad in a feed, a page skimmed six weeks later, a demo video forwarded by a colleague, a search result while comparing alternatives, and eventually a call. Each of those is doing a small amount of trust-building work.
They compound when the same person appears across them. By the fifth touch the viewer is not evaluating a stranger, so the first fifteen seconds do not have to start from nothing. They fail to compound when every asset came from a different vendor with a different face.
Workvivo is the clearest version of that here: 40+ presenter videos across ten separate bookings between 2023 and 2026, same face throughout, with the top Short running at 3.0x the channel median.
The asset that does the most work in the middle of the funnel, where someone already wants to understand what this thing does.
The videos that get a new account actually using the product, mapped to the tickets support answers most often.
Buyer-intent video that keeps earning after launch, built as a repeatable format with a monthly cadence.
The VSL, the confirmation video, the follow-up. Same face from the first ad to the call, which is where the compounding actually happens.
Every figure below is taken from that client's own case study page.
A three-minute B2B explainer on a high-intent topic, embedded on their own blog.


Three years, ten separate bookings, one face. The clearest evidence here of what continuity does.
"Eric is a pleasure to deal with, we've worked with him on multiple projects and the quality is always exceptional."
Workvivo by Zoom


Explainers produced across nine contracts as the product changed, with files back in one to three days.
Software changes. The point is that a product change costs one section, not the whole library.
We find the touch doing the most work with the least trust attached, and start there rather than with a brand film.
You send the script. If there is not one, we write it and you approve it before anything is filmed.
Shot section by section, so a feature change later means re-recording a minute, not a day.
Edited, captioned and delivered. Three days for a standard video, or you pay nothing for it.
The next batch is the same presenter and the same look, which is the entire reason this compounds.
On every standard video. After that, revisions until it is right. On ads there is a second guarantee: beat your best ad or the re-shoot is free.
Not a fit if you want a brand film, a cinematic anthem or a showreel. This is video that has a job.
Mid-funnel. An explainer or a sales-cycle demo aimed at someone who already wants to understand the product. Those get sought out and forwarded internally. The brand film is almost never the right first spend.
Yes, and most engagements do. Teams usually have design, motion and editing covered and are missing the human on camera.
Then modular is essential. Sections can be recaptured without reshooting everything. Buildium ran eleven explainers across nine contracts as their product evolved.
Depends on the asset. Ads by cost per result, channel video against the channel's own median, mid-funnel assets by watch time and by whether sales conversations get shorter. Agreed before filming, not after.
Both exist. Ongoing work is cheaper per video because it batches, which is why the long relationships here run for years.
No. Real human on screen, always. AI is used in editing and clipping, never as the face.
The same approach, with the proof that fits: Fintech, Edtech, Security training and Martech.
Tell me where the gaps are. I will tell you which one to fill first.