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Top Tips to Improve Your CGC Portfolio ☝️
Building a killer Creator-Generated Content (CGC) portfolio is your ticket to impressing brands and landing gigs, including your (all-important) first one with Vidsy. The Vidsy team has worked with thousands of creators and reviews hundreds of new portfolios every month. So, we've put together a handy guide to help you craft the perfect site to showcase your portfolio.
How to use the platform to submit for Remix🗂️
In this article, you will find out how to use the Vidsy platform to submit your content for a Remix brief.
📧 Mark Vidsy as an important contact
We want to encourage you to mark Vidsy as a safe, important or trusted contact on your email provider, which should cause emails from us go into your Inbox folder.
Top Tips to Improve Your Remix Portfolio 📈
Building a killer Remix portfolio is your ticket to impressing brands and landing gigs, including your (all-important) first one with Vidsy. The Vidsy team has worked with thousands of creators and reviews hundreds of new portfolios every…
5 tools to help you organise your life as a creative 👩💻
As we are one month settled into the new year, it’s time to make sure we’re still on track with our organisation goals for 2024. So here are 5 of our favourite online organisation and planning tools to help you be efficient!
How To Position Yourself Successfully for CGC Briefs
When making creator-generated content - or CGC - here at Vidsy, we love working with amazing Vidsy creators based all around the world.
The Vidsy Creator Awards 2023 🏆
Ladies and gentlemen, creators of all kinds, it's time to roll out the metaphorical red carpet and dust off those virtual tuxedos because the Vidsy Creator Awards are back and better than ever, baby!
How to use the platform to submit for CGC 📥
In this article, you will find out some useful tips on how to best put together your submission folder.
A tidy submission folder 🗂
In this article, you will find out some useful tips on how to best put together your submission folder.
Avoid Drag and Drop Templates 🚫
Here’s everything you need to know about why we can’t accept the use of drag and drop templates, and some great ideas for what to do instead.
Instagram’s Threads - Our First Impressions 👀
Instagram/Meta Threads - 100 million members in just 5 days?! The dust has started to settle on the launch of Instagram's much-anticipated text-centric app Threads. Said to pose as Twitter's biggest rival, the shiny new app has taken the world by storm. It's obviously still early days, but here are our first impressions ('cause they count, right...)
McDonald’s Grimace Shake: The Viral Trend Breaking the Internet 🥛🍇
Social creativity at its finest 🤌 We (and the rest of the world) are OBSESSED with the trend flying around the internet celebrating the limited edition, purple-coloured milkshake McDonald's has released in honour of character Grimace's birthday.
How to Create a Focus Pull Effect in Less Than 5 Minutes ⌛
Adding a focus pull effect to a 2D image can really liven up your video ads and make still assets much more dynamic. We have a step-by-step guide on how to easily create one on After Effects, with a little help from AI.
Should You Use Preset Packs When Animating Video Ads?
Preset packs can be extremely useful tools to save time when animating and editing, but we at Vidsy have our own opinions. So, to pre or not to pre? Keep reading to find the answer…
CGC 🎬 or Remix 🪄 - what are they and which one am I?
At Vidsy, our paid brand briefs are separated into two groups: CGC (creator-generated content) and Remix. But what do each of them mean? And which one is best for you? Keep reading to find out more.
Introducing Paula - our new Community Manager
Meet Paula - our new Community Manager in the Vidsy HQ team
Ensure your audio is crystal clear 🎧
Audio has a huge impact on the quality of your content. It’s important that you get the audio levels, clarity and volume right.
Ensure your lighting is optimal 💡
Lighting has a huge impact on the quality of your content. It’s important that you get this right.
Film in the correct resolution and frame rate
There’s an optimal resolution and frame rate when creating content for social media.
Avoid Branding and Logos 🪪
When you’re filming and editing your content, please keep brands and logos out of the shot.