With BombBomb's call-to-action banners, your recipient can click on a hyperlink that appears in the first few seconds of your video. A call to action (CTA) is a great way to direct people to your website, send them to a form to fill out, etc. It helps your recipient quickly and easily take the next step you need them to take directly from your video landing page.
Watch the video below or keep reading to learn how.
Here are the step-by-step instructions.
Step 1: Go to your Videos tab and click "New Video." (You can also start recording a new video from an email template, the Quick Send button, or the Chrome extension.)
Step 2: Record your video, and hit the red square button when you're done recording.
Important Note: The CTA will need 30 seconds to display, so be sure to record for at least 30 seconds!
Pro Tip: When recording, direct people to your link and point up, so your recipient knows where to click!
Step 3: On the edit screen, you can either toggle on CTA or click "Add a Call-to-Action Banner."
Step 4: Enter your call to action text under Banner Title and add the link you'd like to direct them to.
To direct someone to call you through the CTA, use the link tel:8888888888 (your 10-digit phone number). To direct someone to email you through the CTA, use the link mailto:youremailaddress.com.
After that, click "Save CTA." Then click the orange "Save" button in the top right.
Note: A CTA can take up to five minutes to connect to your selected URL.
Step 5: To edit your CTA or add a CTA to an existing video, head to your Video Library. Then, click "Edit" next to the video you want to add a CTA to or that contains an existing CTA you want to edit.
Step 6: To add a CTA to an existing video, click "Disabled" to the right of "Call to Action." To edit or remove an existing CTA, click "Enabled" to the right of "Call to Action." From here, you can toggle off your CTA, edit the banner, and edit the selected URL.
Step 7: Share your video as usual. Now when your recipient views your video, they will see the call to action in the first few seconds of your video in the top right corner.
Note: You can see a count of CTA clicks on videos with a CTA in your Videos tab and in Video Engagement! Yay!
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I need to know how to CHANGE the CTA after I've saved it. Can you help?
Hi April!
Thanks for reaching out and for your question!
Currently there is not a way to change the CTA from the desktop application (via BombBomb.com) once it has been added and recorded.
If you are an Android user, however, you now have the ability from within the Mobile App to go in and edit the video's CTA. This feature is only available on the Android though, and we hope the iPhone app will follow in the near future.
Please let us know if you have any other questions and we are happy to assist!
Will you remind me how to show my email or phone in the CTA please?
Hi Ken!
Great question! If you want to have your banner say something like, "Click to Email Me!" the hyperlink would read: mailto:example@example.com (but using your email address).
Similarly, if you want someone to call you, you can use: tel:xxxxxxxxxx (but using your phone number) in the hyperlink field.
I hope this helps, but if you need anything else please let me know!
Hello, is there a way to make a CTA from an iphone? My phones camera is better than my computers camera but I cannot seem to find how to create a CTA from my phone.
Thanks!
Hi Ahmed!
Thank you for reaching out and for your question! CTAs are not available for the iPhone yet, but we do hope they will be coming in the near future!
We appreciate your patience, and will be sure to pass along your request.
Thank you!
The ""Add a Call-to-Action Banner" never appears when I upload a video and go to save it. What am I doing wrong?
Hi David!
Great question! The CTAs are only available when recording live videos through our web application, or if you are using an Android phone with our mobile app.
We hope to add the ability for CTAs to be available for uploaded videos, but do not have an ETA at this time.
If you have any further questions, please feel free to write us at support@bombbomb.com.
Thank you!
I've discovered that you can add a CTA to an uploaded video from the mobile app, but I'm not going to lie, that's a little cumbersome. This is a feature the absolutely needs to be enabled on the web app. It seems silly I can do it for videos I've recorded on my crappy webcam, but not for videos I've uploaded.
Again... I can add a CTA to videos I've uploaded (not recorded through the app), AND I can add a CTA to them, but only through the mobile app. Not when I'm actually uploading them. You have to make this easier rather than me having to find work-arounds to do the same thing.
Hi Dave,
Thanks for your feedback, we appreciate hearing about your sending process and how we can make improvements.
Our team hopes to add the ability for CTAs to be available for uploaded videos on the webapp in addition to the mobile app, but do not have an ETA at this time.
If you have any further questions, please feel free to write us at support@bombbomb.com.
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