Video E-Mail And The In-box

Do Your Research
Before putting video mail into your marketing or communications budget or sending out a quick video mail to your associates, you must try the current technologies and validate them for your own applications. If you have a high proportion of e-mail recipients who use browser accounts such as AOL, Yahoo! or Hotmail, or if your target audience is on the Macintosh platform, your chances of success are low to non-existent.

A search of video mail vendors on Google will yield at least a dozen options, as well as older articles that cover solutions which have long since died on the vine. Those on Windows platforms looking for high impact digital video marketing solutions will want to check out Messenger DVX and RadicalMail by Avalon, Video e-mail by Email Marketing Central, VMailTalk by TalkWay Communications, Media Emailer by Streaming21 and ViewMail Marketing System by 8point.

Destiny Software, Smith Micro and vianet are a few of the many video mail and streaming media technology providers who can help companies or integrators build their own platforms.

While none are not mainstream yet, the solutions that will enrich business to business or business to consumer messaging and bring video to your inbox are much closer than ever before. If you are on a PC and would like to experience video mail today, please send an e-mail to cperey@perey.com and I will send you a sample.