A Alternative
Feature Comparison
Sendspark vs VideoAsk
Looking for a VideoAsk alternative made with sales and customer-facing comms in mind? You’re in the right place. Sendspark is a feature-rich video recorder that produces incredible videos that convert. Read on to see why Sendspark is the video recording solution you’re looking for. But first, take a look at how the two tools stack up against each other feature-for-feature.
Video Production
Produce remarkable videos with Sendspark
Sendspark gives you powerful tools to impress prospects and customers. The first is our powerful AI video script generator. This tool gives you effective scripts that improve relationships and boost conversions. Make the perfect pitch, presentation, or response - each and every time.
Next up, we’ve got camera effects. One-click and Sendspark automatically enhance your appearance so you look your best. Background looking messy? One more click blurs or replaces it with a background of choice. Want to emphasize what you’re saying? Use spotlight mode to expand your webcam shot during screencast recordings. All tools are easy to access using shortcuts so you can hide your toolbar during important videos.
VideoAsk doesn’t have a helpful AI writing assistant. Ideation, drafting, proofreading, and more are all on you. You can always use ChatGPT or another AI tool, but this means using prompts and having to jump between apps. This takes time and bandwidth away from your team - especially if they’re not AI experts (which most people aren’t).
Something else VideoAsk lacks? The ability to enhance your appearance on video. If you want to look your best, you’ll have to work on lighting or post-edit your recording. This means using apps like Adobe Premiere Pro and Filmora, which can be a bit of a pain. If you want to spend time learning and using editing tools - fair enough. But if you just want to look good immediately, VideoAsk may not be for you.
Another important difference between Sendspark and VideoAsk is that Sendspark is made for customer-facing teams. VideoAsk isn’t. Let’s see why that matters in terms of specific features.
Conversions
Hook and book customers with Sendspark
Viewers respond to 90% of the video messages they watch. You just have to make sure they watch them. This is where Sendspark comes in handy. Unlike VideoAsk, Sendspark was designed for sales teams and customer-facing communications. Its features help 1,000+ revenue teams hook and book customers - and they’ll do the same for you.
One tool is the thumbnail editor. Use it to create attention-grabbing thumbnails viewers love. Start by choosing the specific frame(s) you want people to see. Then add subtitles and video captions to boost engagement and increase response rates. Finally, overlay your customer’s logo onto the thumbnail to really impress them and drive click rates up.
Once people click through, keep them hooked with custom landing pages. Populate the landing pages with your logo, branding, and custom text to drive engagement. Custom CTAs you can edit will then guide viewers towards the next step in one smooth motion.
VideoAsk doesn’t have a custom thumbnail editor. Instead, they have sets of thumbnails that are quite limiting. You can’t add text or image overlays to your video, and your ability to select specific frames is more limited than it is with Sendspark. All in all, the thumbnails turn out a lot less clickable unless you create custom thumbnails using a tool like Canva.
In terms of landing pages, VideoAsk has a cool feature. It lets you pull up CTAs and other elements on the side of the video. But there’s no actual way to create enticing landing pages easily. While you can add some degree of branding to your video, driving people to do what you want is harder. The absence of easy-to-make, dedicated landing pages also makes it harder to gather analytics.
Next, let’s talk about how the two tools compare in terms of speed and scalability.
Speed and Scale
Leverage speed and scale with Sendspark
VideoAsk is designed to send 1-to-1 videos. Sendspark is too. But unlike VideoAsk, Sendspark lets you send personalized videos at scale with dynamic personalization. Dynamic videos pull placeholders - recipients’ names, companies, and more - from Gmail, LinkedIn, Hubspot, Salesforce, Outreach, and other platforms. Recipients get videos and messages personalized for them.
In addition to dynamic videos, you can record personalized introductions and stitch them with existing videos. This lets you add a personal touch and make viewers feel special without recording long videos from scratch. For example, you can send a demo, sales pitch, or customer testimonial to a dozen recipients… And give each one a quick, 30-second intro to explain how it’s relevant to them. 1-to-1 feel, but you only record the core content once.
With VideoAsk, you can’t use personalized dynamic fields. This means there’s no way to send out personalized images at scale. There is also no way to pull data from integration partners… While Sendspark lets you pull personalization tokens from Gmail, HubSpot, LinkedIn, Outreach, and dozens of other apps. All of this makes Sendspark a better tool if you want to scale outreach with personalized messages.
Something else VideoAsk doesn’t have is a stitching feature. The closest thing they have to a stitching feature is a choice-based response where the next video you see is based on what you answer. This is a cool interactive tool, but a less-than-perfect sales tool. People clearly know you’re sending out messages in bulk, without personalizing them - which feels less special.
Collaboration Features
Sendspark: the team-friendly choice!
With our Team subscription, every team member gets a personal folder with videos private to them. They also get a team library visible to everyone in their workspace. You can organize videos in folders for easy access and collaboration. Folders can include examples, model recordings, and videos to be personalized with custom intros. All team videos are hosted for free on Sendspark’s domain.
Once your team starts sending videos out, you can get analytics that improve team performance. Specifically, you can see which videos convert best, helping identify winning elements and best practices. You can also see which team members are the most active at sending videos. This helps identify which team members need support and education to do better. You can feed all this data into your CRM - Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoho, and more - to guarantee you’re turning the data into actionable insights.
You also get access to the same analytics available to individual Sendspark users. This includes our heat map feature, which shows what people watch and where they close your videos. It also includes customer locations. All of this helps you understand who’s watching your videos - and how they engage with them.
VideoAsk is also made for teams. Each plan gives you the ability to add team members, which we think is wonderful. Even the free plan gives you up to 3 users. The only problem is, there are noteam analytics. You can’t see your team’s top performers or help stragglers. And without a heat map feature, there’s no way to know which videos are performing best. This puts a bit of a damper on the team subscriptions, making them nice to have but limited.