Why adding product videos are important and how you can add videos in your Magento store?

By Lucid Softech IT Solutions | magento,  26 Apr 2019

As mentioned in title, we will be discussing why videos are important and how you can add videos of products in Magento store?
Let’s start from “Why adding product videos are important?”.

In the new era of online shopping your customers are keen to know more and more about products that can be images, descriptions, review and videos. Sometimes having high quality images, proper description, and reviews are not well enough to attract customers, and that’s where video comes into the place.
Customers want to see how product looks like, what are functions etc. So you can cover all these things in a video. If you will explain all the features in video and show customers that how it will look like then it will engage your customers for that product. You can also show that how customers can use that product and demonstrate about a product in detail.
There may be a point that creating videos for products and uploading them on website can be a time taking job but it will always worth.
Now coming to another point “How you can add videos in your Magento store? “.
In Magento you will get lots of module that you can use for adding product videos and below are the details.

a) Magento marketplace extension for video: This is a extension available in Magento marketplace which can help you while adding product videos. You can add both 3rd party videos like YouTube, Vimeo etc and custom videos as well. So with this extension you will get an area in admin where you can upload various videos and can assign them to products.

b) Fmeextensions: This is another extension for product videos. With this you can add videos with FLV, MPEG, MP4, JPEG, PNG, GIF and SWF extensions as well as 3rd party videos like YouTube, Viemo. You can attach multiple videos on a product page.

c) Knowband extension: This is also a multi store compatible extension which will allow you to add multiple videos for your products. Store admin can control the position as well on pages.

So here how you can add videos in your Magento store. Still if you think you need to more suggestions or want us to review your store then do feel free to drop us a line and let’s work together.