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How we’re different:

Powtoon Vs.

Vidyard

Full AI suite

Powtoon’s AI tools make it easy to go from idea to finished video in minutes. Whether you’re starting with a script or building from scratch, you’ll spend less time figuring things out and more time creating something exceptional.

More Than Just AI Avatars

Life like AI avatars are just the beginning. With Powtoon, you can choose from a wide range of characters, animation styles, and video types - live action, whiteboard, cartoon, screen capture, and more.

Templates for Every Team and Task

Powtoon has templates built for every business need. With hundreds of professionally designed options, your team can create polished videos in minutes, not days.

Present with Lifelike AI Avatars

Deliver presentations with impact using Powtoon’s AI Avatars: your on-demand, camera-ready presenters. Skip the hassle of hiring actors or reshooting footage. Simply create, edit, and update your script in minutes, and let your avatar bring it to life.

The Key Features Explained

Powtoon
Vs. Vidyard

Full AI suite
Doc-to-Video
AI Avatars:
Instant Translation
Realistic and diverse character options
24/7 Dedicated Support:

Wide Variety of Inclusive Characters

Powtoon offers a wide selection of characters that reflect diverse backgrounds, cultures, and professions, ensuring your videos resonate with any audience. With inclusive and engaging designs, our characters help you connect authentically and create more meaningful videos.

Expert Customer Support

Powtoon offers exceptional 24/7 customer service with a dedicated team ready to assist you whenever needed. You’ll also receive personalized guidance to streamline onboarding, optimize deployment, and ensure your content achieves exactly what you need.

User-Friendly Interface

With Powtoon’s intuitive interface and drag and drop capabilities, users of all skill levels can easily create stunning videos quickly and efficiently. You can also preview your video at any stage of the creative process.

Advanced Suite
of AI Tools

Powtoon offers a comprehensive suite of AI-powered video tools, including AI avatars, text-to-speech, script writing, and video assistance. With these advanced AI features, Powtoon empowers you to create professional, engaging content quickly and effortlessly.

“Powtoon has been a game changer for us and for the people actually viewing our content. They’re expecting classroom training, video recordings, or text-based documents, but we’ve moved away from all that. Now it’s about how we can distribute information really quickly, and that’s where video comes in.”

Philip Redford
Technology Enhanced Learning Lead

“Working as a change consultant, I created a lot of videos for project communications such as onboarding, awareness and training. It is really easy to use and the video looks very professional. The variety of templates help creating video very fast and engaging and interesting for my clients.”

Celine Herren
Senior Change Management Consultant

“Powtoon is being really useful for us! It helps us improve internal communication. Dynamic videos bring us closer to employees and help us engage them. In addition, training on the platform is really easy thanks to the webinars offered by the team. Without a doubt, a great tool that we will continue using in the company!!”

Janire Fernández Esteban
People Solutions

“Our team loves using Powtoon to create dynamic videos about complex healthcare metrics and programs that are easy to digest for our external stakeholders. We have seen an increase in program engagement and have reduced the need for spending hours holding webinars.”

Katie Tulod
SeniorProvider Collaboration Manager

“Foot Locker, Inc.’s retail team now receives vibrant and fully branded micro-learning videos that capture our organization’s spirit and celebration of sneaker and youth culture around the globe.”

Jennifer Baker
Senior Manager, Retail Learning & Development

Work smarter with powerful integrations

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Frequently asked questions

What's the main difference between Powtoon and Vidyard?

While Vidyard primarily focuses on video hosting and analytics, Powtoon is built for comprehensive video creation. Powtoon's Full AI Suite enables you to create professional animated content from scratch, while Vidyard's strength lies in distributing and analyzing existing video content.

How does Powtoon's AI avatar technology compare to Vidyard's? 

Powtoon offers much more than just AI avatars. Beyond lifelike AI presenters, you can choose from a wide range of characters, animation styles, and video types including live action, whiteboard, cartoon, and screen capture. This variety gives you creative flexibility that Vidyard's more limited avatar features can't match.

Which platform is better for creating diverse video content? 

Powtoon excels with templates built for every business need and team. With hundreds of professionally designed options covering different industries and use cases, your team can create polished videos in minutes, not days. Vidyard's template library is more limited since it focuses primarily on hosting rather than creation.

Can Powtoon handle enterprise-level video needs like Vidyard? 

Yes, Powtoon provides enterprise features including instant translation capabilities, 24/7 dedicated support, and extensive templates for all content needs. The platform also offers doc-to-video functionality and scalable AI tools that make it ideal for organizations needing to create large volumes of professional video content.

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