videowise vs. novel

UNMATCHED GROWTH & PERFORMANCE WITH VIDEOWISE

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TRUECLASSIC

“Videowise is the best video platform we’ve ever seen.”

Ben Yahalom
President, TrueClassic

Over 2,000 leading brands sell more with videowise

Key differences between Videowise & Novel

full video infrastructure, faster load times,
superior in every way possible

The key difference between Videowise and Novel is that Novel is a limited shoppable video app, while Videowise is a complete visual commerce platform trusted by giant brands like TrueClassic, Dr. Squatch, Beyonce's Cecred, BarstoolSports, Casper Matreses, and 2,000 more brands.

Compared to Novel, Videowise offers significantly more value on all fronts, making it the top video commerce app for Shopify brands.

Videowise powers the entire site video infrastructure with AI-optimized videos that load up to 8X faster than regular MP4s. It’s seamless to embed shoppable media with visual widget templates that can embed different videos & images on different pages, at a massive scale.

Go beyond just shoppable videos, take advantage of a full visual commerce platform. Videowise features fast-loading AI-optimized videos, shoppable image galleries, video channels, and social feeds to boost product discovery, enrich the shopping experience, and drive sales and revenue.

You can find more information about Novel on www.benovel.com

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Best-in-class UX

Videowise offers the best-in-class video player, fully customizable with all ADA-compliant controls.

Full site video infrastructure

Videowise covers your entire site video infrastructure with near-instant loading video, optimized with AI.

Advanced media management

Videowise offers advanced controls like tags, multiple filters, and sorting capabilities to easily manage large numbers of videos and images.

Video in product gallery, at scale

Embed fast-loading, autoplay, ADA-compliant video in the product gallery, on thousands of product pages.

At scale media embedding

Videowise allows you to use one widget template and embed it at scale on unlimited pages, while using different videos/images on different pages.

Product video in collection pages

Display autoplay videos or on-hover videos in product thumbnails on collections pages.

Video channels Netflix-style

Create a video gallery page part of your site to offer visitors the ultimate video learning & shopping experience.

Find UGC on TikTok & Instagram

Empower your marketing team to find content that mentions your brand on social, save it forever, and request creator usage rights.

Request creator usage rights

Find UGC on TikTok and Instagram and contact creators to request usage rights and seamlessly import the content into your Videowise account to use it immediately.

Collect UGC

Collect more UGC from your customer with a drag & drop area directly embedded on your site.

AI-optimized videos & images

Videowise uses AI to optimize videos & images to load near-instant by reducing their file size up to 97%, all while keeping 99% of their original quality. No other Shopify app can achieve this performance.

Shoppable images with hotspots

Enhance the shopping experience and improve product discovery with super-fast loading shoppable hotspot images.

Dynamic CDN video format delivery

Videowise delivers the best file format (MP4, H624, H265, AV1) and resolution that fits the shopper's device/browser.

Adaptive bitrate streaming

Videowise offers adaptive bitrate streaming for long-form videos over 60 seconds, creating a faster loading experience for users with bad internet connections.

Automated Instagram feed

Seamlessly display your Instagram posts and reels, made shoppable on your site.

Automated TikTok feed

Seamlessly display your TikTok videos, made shoppable on your site.

In-video forms

Capture shopper information (emails, phone no, etc.) in video pop-ups and sync it with Klaviyo.

Over 20 visual widget themes

Videowise offers a wide variety of video and image widgets that can be made shoppable or interactive to cover all your needs.

Connect multiple stores, share assets

Connect unlimited stores and save tons of time by sharing between them your Library media assets, your widget templates, and customization settings.

Live video shopping (very soon)

Start live shows to sell more, with multistream on social platforms.

Novel

Limited UX

Novel's video player offers a small video preview on desktop, no play pause controls, no captions, no share button, not even a way to scroll through the video progress bar.

Limited to 3 video widgets

Novel offers 3 simple shoppable video widgets: carousel, stories and video pop-up.

Limited media management

Novel offers a basic video library, with limited functionality and hard to manage when you have a lot of content.

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