Ship every feature with an announcement video by launch day
Drop a screen recording, paste the release notes, or point at the PR — ngram gives you back a feature announcement video with smart zooms on every new interaction, captions, and your brand kit, built for B2B PMMs whose marketing velocity keeps falling behind engineering's.
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“Engineering shipped fourteen features last quarter. Marketing covered three.”
- Thursday, 4:47pm
Engineering merges the feature on main. The PM drops a Loom in #product walking through the new flow. Marketing sees the message at 5:12pm. Launch is targeted for Monday. The team has 48 working hours to put an announcement together.
- Friday morning
Open Figma to mock two screenshots. Draft the email copy. Brief the freelance editor used last quarter. Hear back at 3pm: their soonest slot is in nine days, and a rush fee adds $1,200 to the invoice procurement already pushed back on.
- Monday morning
Launch goes out. Two static screenshots in the email. A 200-word changelog entry on the blog. An in-app banner saying "Now Available." PMM Slacks the founder: "Couldn't get the video in time — going text-only this round." Thumbs-up react in reply.
- Monday, 5:00pm
Email metrics in the daily report: 43 percent open, 2.1 percent click. LinkedIn post: 14 likes, mostly from the team. In-app banner dismiss rate: 91 percent in the first hour. Feature usage dashboard barely moves above the pre-launch baseline.
- +2 weeks
Freelancer's first cut arrives. The hook lands on the wrong audience. Two scenes reference the old UI from the staging environment. Two revision rounds queued. By the time the video ships, the feature has been in market for sixteen days and the launch window has long since closed.
- +30 days
Adoption review. The feature sits at 12 percent of paid accounts — half the PM's projection. The retro flags "announcement underperformed." Engineering quietly wonders if the next launch will get the same treatment. The cycle resets for the next sprint.
of in-app feature adoption typically goes to releases with a short walkthrough video versus releases announced as a text-only changelog line — but most B2B PMMs ship video for the top two or three launches a quarter and leave the rest to a bullet point.
“By the time the freelancer's cut arrived, the dashboard had shipped a redesign and the announcement video was already wrong.”
From "check the changelog" to "did you see the announcement video?"
Engineering ships on Thursday. Marketing scrambles Friday. Monday the email goes out with two static screenshots and 200 words of changelog copy. Open rate 43 percent, click rate 2 percent, feature adoption barely moves above the pre-launch baseline. The PM asks why users aren't finding the new workflow.
Engineering ships on Thursday. PMM pastes the PRD and a 90-second screen recording into ngram. Twenty minutes later: a 45-second feature announcement video with smart zooms on every new interaction, captions, and the brand kit applied. The launch email goes Monday with the video embedded. Click rates jump because the message lands in the feed instead of the archive folder.
The freelancer's cut arrives two weeks after the feature ships. Revisions land another week later. By the time the announcement video is in market, the next two features have already shipped and the launch window for this one has closed. The video plays to a smaller audience than it deserved.
PMM edits the script line that needs to change after stakeholder feedback and re-renders only that scene. Fifteen minutes from comment to next cut. The feature announcement video ships the same week engineering ships the feature — inside the launch window when reach and adoption actually compound.
One video, one cut, one channel. The 16:9 YouTube version doesn't fit the LinkedIn feed. There's no 9:16 cut for Reels. Sales asks for a 30-second version to slide into outbound emails and the answer is "next quarter." The launch becomes a single post on a single platform.
The team approves the core announcement, then prepares launch-email, blog, LinkedIn, and vertical-social versions as separate edits. Each version gets its own framing and length before MP4 export.
Announcement videos from what engineering already shipped
Bring the rough screen recording, the release notes, or the PRD — ngram turns any of them into a feature announcement video that ships the same sprint as the feature itself.
Start from a feature recording
Upload a short walkthrough of the shipped feature and name the interactions the announcement should show. Add labels over the new controls or a full-screen benefit card between product shots. Keep the PM’s narration, request a cleaned-up take, or replace it with launch voiceover. Turn on captions and choose any saved intro or outro you want to include.
Screen Recording to VideoOr start from release notes
Paste the release notes, PRD, or engineering summary and identify the shipped benefit to lead with. Pair the script with current screenshots or a recording. If the announcement needs a signed-in product flow, use Studio browser handoff with a compatible director: sign in through the live preview when asked, then click Done to let ngram resume.
Release Notes to VideoOne feature announcement video by launch day
Looks intentional. On-brand. Like a real production team made it for this specific feature — instead of a stopgap PMM Slacked about with apology emoji.
Shipping a bigger flagship launch? Run the full sequence through PMM Product Launch first — the per-feature announcement step downstream is identical.
What changes when feature announcement video ships day-one
Marketing velocity finally matches product velocity
Top benefitThirty minutes per announcement, not thirteen days. Every significant release ships with a video, not just the top three launches a quarter. Users see what changed inside the in-app changelog modal and try it the same session.
Videos under one minute commonly post a 50 percent engagement rate in social feeds, and in-app announcement videos drive measurably higher feature trial rates than text-only changelog entries on the same release.
Announcements stay current sprint to sprint
Engineering ships a UI redesign mid-release. Re-render only the scene that shows the affected screen. The announcement video stays accurate the same day the production environment updates — no stale screenshots in front of customers.
Cadence becomes a competitive moat
Regular video releases signal a product that is alive and improving. Prospects choose vendors that communicate momentum. When you announce every significant ship with video, your release cadence becomes a moat competitors can't fake.
Engineering ship → announcement video in 3 steps
Drop in the feature ship
Upload the PM's Loom, paste the release notes, or drop in the PRD. Wrong clicks, dead air, half-finished walkthroughs — ngram absorbs all of it as raw material for the announcement video.
Review the announcement storyboard
ngram auto-cuts the dead air, smart-zooms on every new UI element, adds captions when you enable them, and applies the Brand Kit you set up and select. Edit the script line that needs to land harder before render — no timeline editor required.
Distribute everywhere at once
Choose the destination and framing for this version before the edit, review its captions and motion, then download the finished MP4. Create differently framed channel versions as separate edits.
Built for feature announcement video, specifically
Who ships feature announcements in your company?
Product Marketing
Plan each audience or channel version as a separate edit, then download the finished MP4.
Product Managers
Drop the PRD or the PM's own Loom into ngram and the announcement video lands the same day the feature merges to main. PMs own the source recording; PMM owns the polish. No more launch retros flagging "announcement underperformed."
Developer Relations
API releases, SDK updates, and integration features that ship with a working video walkthrough on launch day. Developers see the new endpoint in action before they read the docs, which turns evaluation from "maybe later" to "opened a sandbox."
Sales Enablement
Hand reps a 30-second outbound cut of every feature ship so they can drop the link in prospect threads where the feature directly answers an objection. The library lives next to the battlecards, indexed by the workflow the feature unlocks.
Customer Success
CS embeds the feature announcement video in the in-app changelog modal and the renewal-quarter newsletter. Customers see what changed before they file a support ticket asking how the new flow works.
Growth & Marketing
Spin the announcement into paid-social cutdowns the same week the feature ships. Test three different hooks against the segments most likely to convert and ship the winner as the primary ad creative inside the launch window.
Founders
Record a thirty-second founder-mode announcement of the launch the same afternoon the feature ships. The video goes to investors, the company channel, and LinkedIn — replacing the agency invoice with a quick recording you can do between meetings.
Support Teams
When a feature ships that changes a flow customers ask about, support embeds the announcement video in canned ticket responses. The fix lands faster because the customer sees the new workflow inside the reply, not after a back-and-forth.
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Other ways product marketing teams use ngram to keep launches, enablement, and proof at the speed of the product itself.
You don't need a fresh recording to ship an announcement.
Bring whatever engineering already shipped you. Each converter drops you into the same smart-zoom, motion-graphics, and brand-kit pipeline the feature-walkthrough flow uses.
Every tool the announcement pipeline runs on.
The old way vs. the ngram way
| Text-Only Announcements | Agency/Freelancer Video | ngram | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to first announcement | N/A (no video) | 5-14 days | Under 30 minutes |
| Cost per announcement | PMM time only | $1,500-$5,000 per cut | Included in plan |
| Release coverage | Most ships (text only) | 2-3 launches per quarter | Every significant release |
| Feature adoption lift | Baseline | High when delivered on time | 3-5× vs text-only |
| Time to update after UI shift | Minutes (rewrite text) | Days + revision fees | Under 5 minutes |
Wire announcements into the workflow product already runs.
Each integration ships with a working template. Trigger a feature announcement video from a deploy, a Linear ticket, or an agentic chat — or build your own from the REST API.
whenA Linear ticket moves to "Shipped" and the PRD is attached
thenRender the matching feature announcement video and drop the share link in #launches with the PM tagged
whenClaude or ChatGPT calls the announcement tool with a release note and a recording
thenReturn a finished feature announcement video plus the embed snippet for the in-app changelog modal
whenYou hit "Make an announcement" on the production tab showing the new feature
thenGet a polished 60-second announcement video back in a new tab inside thirty minutes
whenA self-hosted release pipeline ships a new feature build
thenAuto-generate a feature announcement video on your own VPC ready for PMM review
whenThe final cut for the feature launch cut is ready for a company post.
thenConnect the destination with OAuth and compose the company post for the feature launch cut.
whenThe feature launch cut cleared review for the social feed.
thenPut the feature launch cut in the next social feed slot in the calendar.
whenThe feature launch cut cleared review for the video channel.
thenSchedule the feature launch cut for the next video channel slot in the calendar.
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Your next feature ships with a launch-ready video on day one
Stop letting great features ship in silence. Stop waiting two weeks for a freelancer cut that arrives stale. Match marketing velocity to product velocity and announce every significant release with video sales can use the same day.