Valentine’s Day is rapidly approaching, and while you’ve still got plenty of time to stock up on chocolates and other goodies, come February 14th there’s a good chance you’ll have forgotten about the big day entirely. That is, until your dearly beloved springs an incredibly thoughtful gift on you and you’re left wondering if you can somehow regift the Tony Bennett CD sitting in your closet without getting caught.
Fortunately, Animoto has you covered. The site has put together a new Valentine’s Day card that allows you to submit a handful of photos of you and your loved one to automatically a generate a great looking video-slideshow set to the music of an appropriately sappy love song. It only takes a few minutes to put together, but to anyone who hasn’t been exposed to Animoto before it’s pretty impressive – at least, it’ll buy you enough time to run down to the store and grab something a bit more tangible.
In conjunction with the launch, Animoto has also announced that users will now be able to include stock imagery in all of their slideshows (not just the Valentine’s ones) through a partnership with iStockphoto, which could come in handy if you don’t have pictures of roses and hearts lying around.
You can check out a sample video by clicking on the photo below. And if this post helps save your relationship come the 14th, be sure to let us know in the comments.
Yaaay. And I thought I was in trouble this year. Thank you animoto.
Well, I guess it is the thought that counts …
More seriously, though. I really like animoto, and I even profiled them on one of my posts http://smartbab...-sites-for.html
But once the excitement of making/receiving one of these videos has worn off, all the future ones look and feel exactly the same … and leaves me wishing for some more.
Anjali Sen
Good point Anjali. BTW I like your blog. Are you on twitter?
good stuff
I have to admit, Animoto sure is awesome at what it does. The partnership with iStockphoto is great. Now all they have to do is partner up with the big four music labels so that we could use any song without having to own it.
Perfect partnership. Would be cool if they had a built in search feature for any image, any music track… video anyone? These guys should partner with Getty.
Getty owns iStockphoto. And I think they’ve been gobbling up pretty much every stock photo, stock music, and stock video house.
yeah, that’s great until she follows the link and sees that the website does the whole thing for you and you put in absolutely zero thought…doh!
Very cool; and if you need help planning the rest of your Valentine’s Day date night (local movies, restaurant and show ideas, reservations and tix) – check out http://datenigh...springpadit.com
I already had plans for a video montage, but this is off the roof! My gf is gonna love this, thanks Animoto!
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I am kind of wondering how much T$ is getting from Animoto.. the news is just not that special.. and a Valentines day special.. come on.. everyone has those… In the sense of full disclosure..why don’t you disclose all relationships, contacts and payments…?
I love this idea. It’s so creative. Even though I would rather eat a whole box of chocolates, it’s the thought that counts.
Jason,
In a similar but I feel a notably more highly-evolved vein, check out what authorSTREAM is doing for Valentine’s Day greetings at:
http://www.auth...greeting-cards/
This trumps Animoto’s service.
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Checked out authorSTREAM. It is so easy to create and send greeting card. Awesome service.
Are you serious? Like serious serious? I think Animoto is WAAAAYYY better.
Just another word of advice: If you (Authorstream) are going to have your PR MANAGER (Ford Kanzler) write in on Techcrunch saying how your product trumps another company’s product, at least be sneaky enough to change the name!
Honestly though – Ford Kanzler of Marketing/PRSavvy, this is just not nice PR and clearly not so Savvy. Please do your job and get press for your company the professional way, be proactive, instead of cutting down other people’s companies, okay?
Just tried – it. Worked great – super easy.