Easy Online Explainer Video Maker

Tell stories that’ll impact your audience with PlayPlay’s explainer video maker. Create custom videos in minutes like a professional – no previous experience is required.

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Create Explainer Videos in Less than 15 Minutes!

With PlayPlay’s explainer video maker anyone can create captivating presentations that stand out from their competition. Create engaging and unique videos with our wide-range of fully-customizable features. Add your brand, photos, video clips, voice-overs, dynamic effects and more in minutes. Rediscover the power of explainer videos by turning your browser into a full video production studio.

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Engage your audience with our trendy video templates.

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How to make an explainer video

How to make an explainer video

How to make an explainer video
  1. 1 Choose your explainer video template
    Log in to PlayPlay on your browser. Select “new video” to start your explainer video from scratch or use one of our pre-made fully customizable video templates.
  2. 2Build your explainer video
    Design your explainer video by uploading your media to PlayPlay or access our stock library of high-quality license free content. Choose from a range of customizable screens and drag and drop the media to start creating your videos!
  3. 3Upscale your videos
    Access new audiences by adding automatic subtitles, raise your engagement with powerful intros, sell more with a strong call to action and build relationships through recognizable branding. The creative possibilities are endless.
  4. 4Validate and share your videos
    Use the video share link for cross-team collaboration and feedback. Once ready, preview, download and share your explainer videos on your social media, website and intranet. It’s that simple!
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Boost Your Brand’s Impact

PlayPlay’s explainer video maker removes the difficulty out of video creation. In a matter of clicks you can upgrade your videos with professional editing features including: automatic subtitles, interactive transitions, dynamic elements, text and much more. Take it further by creating your intro and outro videos in one platform and stay recognizable with our brand protection feature. It’s that simple to create professional explainer videos in-house!

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Discover Your Creativity with Limitless Stock Content

Looking for inspiration or simply out of content? No problem. PlayPlay has access to millions of pre-licensed stock of high-quality videos, images and royalty-free soundtracks to power your creativity. Save time and money on complex video shoots and don’t worry about editing skills. Simply choose the perfect stock footage for your explainer video’s goals and start crafting your content. From corporate interview backgrounds to stunning slow-motion nature videos, creating captivating brand videos has never been easier.

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Efficient Cross-Team Project Collaboration

Improve efficiency with PlayPlay’s video collaboration features. Whether your project requires collaboration across departments, is a global project, or simply requires approval from management, PlayPlay makes it simple. Add collaborators, share drafts across teams, give feedback, share useful assets, save your favorite templates and stay protected with password control. Are you ready to rediscover the joy of teamwork?

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Speak directly to your audience with video. PlayPlay’s intuitive video creation platform enables marketing and communication teams to turn any message into a memorable video with ease. No previous editing experience needed.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Have questions? We’re here to help.

How can you make explainer videos?

An explainer video is exactly what it sounds like - a video intended to explain a topic or issue. Explainer videos are popular as they are a visual way of explaining certain topics and this format is often easier to digest, particularly if the tutorial is explaining a topic or skill that requires precise movements and visuals. Often it is easier to show than to tell.

Explainer videos can come in several different forms, from live-action explainer videos to animated explainer videos. The format you’ll use will depend on you and your topic, but all videos should start with a storyboard. This doesn’t have to be very detailed and in-depth but it should cover both the content and how it is shot throughout the length of the video. You should then develop a script, either for a voiceover or to be used as part of the live-action video. Once everything has been planned, the next step is to shoot the video.

What is the best explainer video maker?

Many video makers and video editing softwares are suitable for making explainer videos but some make it simpler than others. For example, PlayPlay includes a large variety of fully-customizable explainer video templates amongst a range of other pre-made templates for different types of videos. These templates act as a springboard to give you a headstart for making your explainer video.

How much is a 30 second explainer video?

There is no right answer to this question as it will depend on many factors. Your idea, plan and budget will have a huge impact here. For example, filming a simple one-person explainer video at home versus a video that requires coordinating a team of people at a purpose-built location will make a significant difference to the cost. Nevertheless, as a ballpark figure, a 30-second explainer video will typically cost around $1,500-$2,500 to produce.

However, it’s entirely possible to produce agency-quality videos on a much smaller budget by using a tool like PlayPlay. PlayPlay is a fully-featured video editor that offers all the tools you’ll need to produce agency-quality videos by yourself, without the need for paying a professional agency.

What our customers say about PlayPlay

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Senior Marketing Manager

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〝We love how quick and easy it is to create social media videos, allowing us to keep our content fresh and exciting without taking up too much time and resources.〞

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Tania Rahman

Social Media Director

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Fast Company

〝PlayPlay helps us create high-quality videos while keeping up with the fast pace of social media.〞

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Marine Jorge

Brand and Content Communications Officer

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Covéa

〝Now I can edit videos and manage the branding with my colleagues — making our videos much more authentic. It’s a pleasure every day!〞

Hannah Jelliman

Hannah Jelliman

Senior Marketing Manager

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Whereby

〝We love how quick and easy it is to create social media videos, allowing us to keep our content fresh and exciting without taking up too much time and resources.〞

Tania Rahman

Tania Rahman

Social Media Director

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Fast Company

〝PlayPlay helps us create high-quality videos while keeping up with the fast pace of social media.〞

Marine Jorge

Marine Jorge

Brand and Content Communications Officer

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Covéa

〝Now I can edit videos and manage the branding with my colleagues — making our videos much more authentic. It’s a pleasure every day!〞

Mylène Béard

Mylène Béard

Inbound Marketing Officer

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Ziegler Group

〝It barely takes half an hour to create a video that looks great, modern, and dynamic!〞

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Tobias Gimpl

Communications Lead

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Axa Partners

〝ANYONE can use PlayPlay. It has helped us immensely in industrializing our video production.〞

Alexis Bernard

Alexis Bernard

Head of Social Media

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Crédit Agricole

〝80% of our social media content is now made with PlayPlay.〞

Mylène Béard

Mylène Béard

Inbound Marketing Officer

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Ziegler Group

〝It barely takes half an hour to create a video that looks great, modern, and dynamic!〞

Tobias Gimpl

Tobias Gimpl

Communications Lead

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Axa Partners

〝ANYONE can use PlayPlay. It has helped us immensely in industrializing our video production.〞

Alexis Bernard

Alexis Bernard

Head of Social Media

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Crédit Agricole

〝80% of our social media content is now made with PlayPlay.〞

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Courtney D. Rozell

Finance of America Reverse

PlayPlay is incredibly easy to use, has an intuitive perspective with AI technology, and offers a great solution for our training and marketing needs. We love this product!

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Nate Goold

Nate Goold

The University of Kansas Health System

With its AI features and templates, PlayPlay allows me to quickly create simple, dynamic videos without having to use complicated software. It’s helped me increase my content output, as well as reach and engagement on Reels.

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Sarah Rossman

Gundersen Health System

Since PlayPlay, we've increased video views on our social media platforms by over 165% quarter over quarter.

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Nicolas Ospina Ramirez

Schneider Electric

PlayPlay allows me to create videos in a more efficient way. The corporate templates save me a lot of time, and the AI voice-over is one of my favorites!

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Charlotte Desvignes

Bio Rad

"Before PlayPlay, I was thinking, ‘Creating videos is not my job, I can’t do it’. And when I watched the platform demo, I thought ‘that, I can do’"

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Alexis Bernard

Alexis Bernard

Crédit Agricole

〝80% of our social media content is now made with PlayPlay.〞

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Tobias Gimpl

Tobias Gimpl

Axa Partners

〝ANYONE can use PlayPlay. It has helped us immensely in industrializing our video production.〞

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Tania Rahman

Tania Rahman

Fast Company

〝PlayPlay helps us create high-quality videos while keeping up with the fast pace of social media.〞

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Courtney D. Rozell

Courtney D. Rozell

Finance of America Reverse

PlayPlay is incredibly easy to use, has an intuitive perspective with AI technology, and offers a great solution for our training and marketing needs. We love this product!

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