hello everyone and welcome back to the keep productive youtube channel today's video we're
diving into loom which is a video messaging tool that has been around for a long time i think it
was launched back in 2015 uh it had 73 million funding so far and is valued at 350 million and
it's it's quite a popular tool so i have been using it as i said for about three years but
what it does is it's quite smart in the sense that if you don't have a full-blown meeting um but you
don't want to necessarily miss out on some of the visual cues when sending stuff in applications
like slack or twist and you want to be able to send maybe a screen recording or something that
is in front of you but you can't quite you know get the balance between those two then
this allows you to record your screen and what it does is it quickly uploads that and allows you to
share a link which one allows you to have a better experience in terms of not starting a full meeting
and also allows you to share that quickly versus actually having to upload it edit it
and send it back out so this is quite a smart tool it's being used for a range different things
feedback explainers and things like that and as i said they haven't really focused on teams but
they're really changing this in what's called the all new loom so i want to go through some
of the changes that they've made um some of the more recent stuff that they've launched
so the first thing is a brand new logo called the loom beam logo and this logo obviously not much
of a change to the feature set but really does make things look a lot cleaner it makes things
look a lot cleaner and they definitely made the sort of brand polished off a lot more than
it was the second major update is about the team workspaces so back in i think would they say it
was may i thought it was march uh it was uh they released something called teams beta allowing
you to have this sort of workspace for teams to collaborate um whether that's like leaving videos
for team members or uploading files um almost like just a team plan basically um but they've
really formalized this into what's called a shared workspace or teamwork spaces and that allows you
to have a range of different things a team library to centralize your depository of videos unlimited
viewers so if you want to invite uh viewers to join your workspace then you can they've changed
the pricing i'll explain that in a minute and also naturally centralized billing and user management
administration stuff the third thing as i said is the pricing the price has changed quite a lot
you've got the starter plan which is still free which is a good plan um you get 25 creators on it
um and that will probably good for getting you started 100 uh videos and recordings which is
good and also i believe it's five minute limit on those plans there are alternatives like cloud app
which are do have some limitations as well but not as many as loom loom always had a better free plan
and it seems to be since last time it checked at least that loom starter plan is still better than
the cloud app plan they've launched this thing called loom pro in business it's basically a plan
that makes it more affordable the plan includes a hundred creators unlimited videos and screen
recordings and unlimited length as well as plus some additional things like video drawing calls to
actions custom branding and engagement insights so it's quite interesting and you do get a 40
day free trial with that one but they've also released a new feature called screenshots which
seems pretty cool so apparently in the desktop versions on mac and windows they also have an ios
application by the way but you can now take a screenshot and it works more like the cloud app
used to work and i really prefer the cloud app experience for screenshots but you can
take a screenshot on your desktop device and it'll automatically create a loom url and naturally you
can forward that on to the right people in your team so the final thing is they said the education
plan is still free so you can still get access to that if you are in education and particularly for
some students that are working on projects at home or are teaching classes and they want to do like
micro lessons or micro things they're learning across a day on the share it through microsoft
teams this could be quite a good solution so folks that's the brand new loom for teams i really guess
that's what it's called but it's all new loom um it's a really good tool i actually quite enjoy
using it um here's like my own personal library if you want to learn how it works it's quite
simple all you have to do is download the chrome extension you can naturally have it uh directly on
your desktop i should probably get on my desktop if i'm sending videos i don't send too many videos
but the way that i sort of use it is if i wanted to send a short recording of myself talking over
how to use a tool like i've done in the past here like for example like bear alpha some messages to
people um then naturally it's a good way to do it quite quickly instead of me having to record
a video through this if i click record a video um this pops up here so naturally you can see that
naturally you can see here that i can choose my screen or screen only or just camera only
and i can record the current tab if i want to but i can record the full desktop which
is good even if you're using it through the chrome application i can change the um the microphone i'm
using so if you've got a headpiece microphone you can use that and i can also change the
and i can also change the uh video um that i'm using as well um and naturally hit record as you
can see they've changed it slightly so obviously they've notified you of the free uh the limit that
you've got and you can upgrade here if you want to you can have a recording countdown so it makes it
easier for the free plan to understand how the limitations are for their account folks that's
how the new loom works it is very similar to the previous loom but some modifications some changes
and it's good to see this company move in a direction um that looks much more interesting it's
it's going to be much more popular for teams to use this as a messaging tool to create
guides and repositories so that's a good upgrade for sure i think it's a nice complementary upgrade
to applications like notion because you can embed looms inside of notion and it definitely makes
your wiki much more attractive for onboarders and also those folks who are already in your
team looking to learn something much more interactive so folks hopefully enjoyed today's
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