The NYT's @HirokoTabuchi wrote that, "Small merchants can use some of the bells and whistles available to savvy start-ups or big corporations — like the video ads that run before YouTube clips." http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/3...

The video ad industry's smartest coverage is at Video Ad News, where @vinnyflood says "Shakr have simplified the workflow for creating video ads, so pretty much anyone can create a professional looking video ad for their business — often for as little as $50." http://www.videoadnews.com/2014/...

Our friends @armandobiondi @massimocw at AdEspresso say "Meet Shakr, a super simple, affordable solution for creating amazing Video Ads and presentations." https://adespresso.com/academy/b...

I tried it and must say you did a great job on the UX. Very easy to use. I tried the Light grey design in Apps but must say it doesn't work for our productivity app since the characters of the text are very limited so some more options to skip / add text fields would have been nice. I'll still keep Shakr bookmarked for other projects since the price is really reasonable. So thumbs up!

@danny_kleckers yikes thanks for the awesome feedback! We need to make a new version of the Light Grey design in Apps for you. Pro tip: you can enter 2 blank spaces in any text field to skip it. (Well, more like a hack to compensate for a feature we haven't developed yet... #brutaltruth)

@shoemates I want to buy your shoes! Checking out http://shoemates.de now. I hope you try out our other video designs, too! Split testing with different wording and creative assets within each video design is also helpful. The folks over at @adespresso know a thing or two about split testing. :-)

@davidyhlee @shoemates @adespresso Video ads are working so well on Facebook Ads, they are amazing. Still video production is a big problem for most SMBs and you guys are making their lives so much easier! Well done, amazing product!

@massimocw I'm humbled by your kind endorsement of Shakr! Thank you very very much.

@shoemates that was super fast! I think we spent more time getting you a PH invite + access to commenting here, then the time it took you to make the video.

@hnshah very nice to meet you! That's definitely what we are working towards - many people advise us to raise our prices. Instead, I imagine a world where everyone can afford to create multiple videos for every campaign, split testing to get the best possible result. Shakr will eventually power video creative for some of the smartest ad tech companies out there, who are leveraging split testing for everything by video - because of the high upfront cost of professional video creative. To get there, we are exposing our API to select partners, and meanwhile every day the Shakr team and our community of over 1,000 independent designers is cranking hard to accumulate more video designs and better video designs.

@mailmevenkat25 Thanks for the feedback! Looking forward to see what you can create on Shakr! Say hi to us in the Intercom chat bubble!

@mailmevenkat25 Pricing gets even better when you use a FREE product hunt coupon! https://www.producthunt.com/r/0d... :-)

@marymin glad your designers will be checking us out! We have awesome new video designs coming out every week. Please take us up on the PH offer for free Shakr video upgrades!

@antoneliasson I am NOT sleeping! I can't believe you shared that.... well, since we're here. @jason my co-founder & CTO also pitched at your first Seoul event. He did a much better job and actually won -- whereas I had to lick my wounds. So I spent a couple of years chasing down Minku and asking him to join Shakr. Since he joined, we've raised a total of $6 million, in the past 12 weeks grown our user signups, videos created and videos purchased by 30% per week, and launched a white-labelled version of our site in the Japanese market with Yahoo! JAPAN, which is the largest internet company in Japan. Having a great CTO cofounder makes a huge difference! Thanks @premist. And thanks @jason for, in a way, making Shakr possible!

@davidyhlee @jason @premist oops

@jason Shakr is top 3 on PH right now, your first Seoul TWIST event brought 2 of our founders together!

@sachinkamdar o_0 we'd better get on that #EatYourOwnDogFood

@sachinkamdar speaking of eating your own dog food, we use Shakr to promote ourselves with video ads on Facebook. Here's the video ad campaign we ran with the best UAC: https://business.facebook.com/sh...

@sachinkamdar @davidyhlee Agreed, we need to add a video on our front page, but our whole site is literally filled with example videos of what you can do with Shakr! And the video here on Product Hunt is made with Shakr!

@silverdel Thank you for mentioning Shakr Subscriptions! Realtors and small marketing agencies are crushing it with video marketing, using Shakr subscriptions to get an awesome deal on awesome videos.

@rebeccall80 Thanks Rebecca, you're right about that, we've gone the long and hard way of making something that will actually give end users a great video, not a glorified slideshow. I know @davidhylee have some preaching about the importance of focusing on customer success. We've solved the quality issue many service have by 1. Experimenting ALOT with internal designs/developers and 2. Becoming a marketplace for motion graphic designers. We publish more and more video designs each week, so there will always be something new to come back to as an end user.

@antoneliasson I'm still up! Love that you shared the deeper story about how Shakr fuels its growth in quantity & quality of video designs by empowering independent designers. Thanks!

@antoneliasson @davidyhlee Similar to Videohive?

@jarrettholmes Videohive requires that users purchase and download an Adobe After Effects project file. Very few people know how to use After Effects, it's multiple orders of magnitude more difficult to use than Photoshop. At Shakr, customers choose a video design and make the video right inside the web browser. Check us out at www.shakr.com and hit me up in the chat bubble on our site. @antoneliasson

@anandp29 when you make a video for free there will be a watermark over it which can be removed by buying the video. You can also download it after purchasing without any branding, just a clean mp4. One thing to note is that the music is included in the final video and is pre-cleared for copyright issues, often just the music licensing can be more expensive on its own than with Shakr because of our partnerships with great music libraries!

@anandp29 your first two videos are free if you 1) use the code in the "GET IT" button at the top of our Product Hunt page, and 2) share the love about Shakr by tweeting about us or posting to FB. Looking forward to helping you make SUPER AWESOME videos!

@umitakcn thanks Umit, a big shout out to @zvuuc who's done the custom CSS and design of Shakr. Hint: We'll be open sourcing it on Product Hunt soon ;)

@j00st a local Indian restaurant used Shakr to make high quality videos then put them on a TV in front of their door. They added over 20 tables per day, with average revenue of $100 per table. That's an extra $40,000 in monthly revenue, from spending just $100 on video ad creative at Shakr.com.

@i_dino super happy you're going to make an awesome video at Shakr! Please take advantage of the free video upgrade offer by signing up through PH. :-)

@logannickleson thanks Logan, I've seen some of your blog posts around the web, good stuff. Let's connect and see if you want to publish anything on the Shakr Video Marketing Blog!

@dav_macias thank you David!

@marcosluis2186 that's awesome, thanks for the mention Marcos!

@victor_ching super glad you were able to get a great video with Shakr done on budget! I hope you're taking advantage of the free promo code offer in PH. Use the GET APP button at the top of the page. :-) Thanks again and good luck with your app!

@onemorejsmith we started Shakr at a time when there was a competitive landscape congested with companies that helped people make photo slideshow style videos. It was competition mainly on the basis of making it easier to make a crappy video. At Shakr, we focused first and foremost on building deep strength to make great video creation, SUPER AWESOME video creation possible for many. To do so, we painstakingly built a video rendering platform that is broadly compatible with Adobe After Effects, motion graphics designers' far-and-away top choice for producing video ads. We then attracted a community of over 1,000 video designers, many of whom have done top work for big brands like Nike, Samsung and BMW. These pro designers put their video designs into Shakr, choosing what to make and how much to charge. Shakr’s users are using these video designs to make SUPER AWESOME video ads that are driving phenomenal business results. Here are a few examples: Britesoles, a dazzlingly fun shoe brand, used Shakr to drive 9x more likes on Facebook as compared to image ads. The Zam, a fast-growing Korean lingerie brand says that a Facebook Video Ad with 2.9 million views made using Shakr is their top-performing source of revenue among all ads. http://fb.com/thezambehind/video... After seeing stellar growth, The Zam posted a video seeking out bricks-and-mortar resellers. http://fb.com/thezambehind/video... We’ve seen local flower shops get into digital billboard advertising at Seoul’s busiest intersection, Gangnam Station, with video made for just $50 at Shakr. Retailers are running video ads on subway stations, and a local indian restaurant drives an additional $20,000 a month in revenue simply by putting a video made at Shakr on a TV in front of their restaurant entrance. Shakr has a lot more video designs to choose from, more than all of our competitors combined. But it’s not just about quantity, which is important because more marketers can find the right design for them. It’s also about quality. Because Shakr sources its designs from professional designers that have made awesome videos for big brands, we’re putting Fortune 500 results in the hands of mid-market marketers and small businesses. So what makes us different from the competition? SUPER AWESOME video is what sets us apart. Try making a video for yourself, and see what makes Shakr super awesome. Thanks!