Company announcements that every employee actually watches
An internal announcement video maker built for HR teams. Turn a five-minute leadership recording into a captioned, branded clip every time zone watches on its own schedule — instead of an all-hands email that gets archived under 304 others.
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“We sent the reorg email Monday. By Wednesday, three different versions of the story were circulating on Slack.”
- Monday 8:02am
Leadership signs off on the reorg memo. You draft a 600-word all-hands email, attach the FAQ, and queue it for 9am. The Slack channel for #people is already speculating about a different version of the news.
- Monday 9:14am
The email goes out. Mailtrap shows 41% open rate by lunch. The other 59% are in customer calls, on PTO, or already drowning in 304 other Monday emails. APAC is asleep and will not see it until Tuesday.
- Monday 2:00pm
You start the all-hands. London has signed off. Singapore has been asleep for six hours. Of the 412 people who need this message live, 196 attend. The recording uploads at 47 minutes — nobody who missed it will watch the full thing.
- Tuesday all day
Managers in APAC are answering the same five questions in standups. A version of the reorg story that is wrong on two key details is now the most-quoted line in the engineering Slack channel.
- Wednesday afternoon
An anxious skip-level message lands in your CHRO's DMs about a change the email already addressed in paragraph four. You realize the rumor mill beat the official channel by 48 hours.
- +10 days
An exit-interview transcript comes back. A senior engineer is leaving and cites the announcement rollout as the moment they lost trust in leadership. The damage is already in the offboarding pipeline.
of internal emails are skimmed in under fifteen seconds or skipped entirely — and for HR-flagged messages the skip rate jumps another ten points. The announcement does not land just because you sent it.
“Half the company felt blindsided. The other half got the news from a hallway whisper before it ever hit their inbox.”
From "did anyone read the memo" to "I watched the CEO explain it herself"
You send the announcement as a Monday-morning email. Three offices skim the first paragraph, two miss it under PTO replies, and APAC reads it twenty-four hours late after the Slack version has already taken hold. The message arrives in six different shapes.
You record one five-minute leadership video on a Friday and queue it for 8am Monday in every time zone. Singapore catches it before standup, London over coffee, New York at desk-arrival. Every employee hears the same words, the same tone, on the same day.
You schedule an all-hands at 2pm Eastern. West Coast is in back-to-back meetings, London has gone home, Singapore is asleep. 180 of 400 employees attend live. The 47-minute recording uploads later and nobody who missed it will sit through it.
You ship a tight four-minute announcement video your CEO recorded once. Watch-throughs run above 85%. Managers stop fielding the same five clarification questions because every employee can rewatch the source whenever the question comes up.
By Wednesday the rumor mill has rewritten the official story. Two team leads are correcting misinformation in their standups. You spend the rest of the week as an unofficial help desk for an announcement that was already sent in writing.
By Wednesday the official video is the most-shared link in the company Slack. Skip-level questions reference the timestamp where the CEO addressed them. Trust in the announcement compounds because the source artifact is still there to point at.
Polished announcements from a quick leadership recording
Bring a casual exec recording or just the memo. ngram turns either one into a company announcement video your whole org can watch on its own schedule — same captions, same brand, same authority signal.
Start from a leadership recording
Have the CEO, CHRO, or team lead record the announcement once on their webcam or phone. ngram trims the false starts and dead air, smooths the audio, adds captions, applies the brand kit, and renders an intro and outro. One imperfect take becomes a message every employee receives identically.
Screen Recording to VideoOr start from the memo itself
Paste the announcement memo, talking points, or internal FAQ. ngram writes the script, plans a storyboard with key dates and supporting visuals, and produces a complete announcement with voiceover and motion graphics. Useful for recurring updates — quarterly business updates, policy rollouts, comp changes — where a screen walkthrough is not appropriate.
Docs to VideoOne company announcement video, every employee
Official, on-brand, async by default. Looks like internal comms, not a casual Loom.
If the announcement is tied to a slide deck or release notes, run them through PPT to Video or Release Notes to Video first — the polish step downstream is identical.
What changes when company announcement video takes minutes
Every time zone gets the same message at desk-arrival
Top benefitAsync announcement video closes the structural inequality of a 2pm Eastern all-hands. Singapore watches before standup, London over coffee, New York at first inbox check. Same words, same tone, same context — no second-class employees who missed the call.
Employees retain about 95% of a message delivered on video versus roughly 10% when the same content lands in an email. Comprehension is the metric, not whether the email was sent.
Control the narrative before Slack does
When the official artifact is a five-minute video, employees reference your words, not a coworker's retelling. The rumor mill loses its information advantage because the source is already in everyone's inbox at 8am local.
A reference employees revisit
Town-hall memory fades by lunch and emails get buried by Tuesday. An announcement video lives on the intranet permanently. Two months later, a manager onboarding a new hire can share the link as the canonical record of what changed.
Leadership memo → polished announcement in 3 steps
Capture the leadership message
Have the CEO or CHRO record on a webcam or phone — restarts, pauses, and a clearing throat are fine. Or paste the announcement memo if a screen walkthrough is not the right format for the topic.
Review the polished edit
ngram trims dead air, smooths the audio, adds branded captions, and overlays key dates as motion graphics. Scrub the storyboard, tweak any scene that needs different emphasis, and approve before render.
Publish across every channel
Export 16:9 for the intranet, 1:1 for a Slack post, and 9:16 for a mobile push. When a detail shifts mid-rollout, re-render the scene that changed and replace the embed — usually under five minutes.
Built for company announcement video, specifically
Who ships internal announcements in your company?
HR & Internal Comms
Ship reorg memos, policy rollouts, and benefits updates as videos every region watches on its own schedule. Replace the all-hands attendance gap with an artifact you can point to weeks later when a question reopens.
Founders & CEOs
Record the quarterly all-hands message once and reach every time zone at desk-arrival. The investor narrative, the strategic pivot, the comp recalibration — each one becomes an artifact the whole company can rewatch before the next leadership message lands.
People Operations
Benefits enrollment changes, PTO policy updates, and parental-leave rollouts each get a clear five-minute video your whole org can replay. Stop fielding the same five questions on Slack the week after every quarterly comms cycle.
Product Marketing
Internal launch comms — what shipped, what the field needs to know, how to talk about it — go out as an internal video the sales floor watches before the customer-facing launch even goes live. No more day-one rep confusion.
Customer Success
When something changes for customers — a pricing update, a sunset, a migration — the CS team needs the talking points first. A short internal announcement video means every CSM hears the same explanation before the customer-facing email goes out.
Sales Enablement
When a sales-affecting change ships — new pricing, a competitive shift, a territory realignment — the rep needs a clear briefing, not a deck buried in Highspot. A short video lands the change with the tone leadership intended.
Product Managers
Roadmap shifts, scope changes, and internal release announcements that ship to engineering, design, and adjacent product teams as a polished video instead of a Notion doc nobody reads. The PM update finally reaches its audience.
Enterprise Comms Leads
Multi-region announcements that need translated captions, brand-controlled visuals, and an auditable record of who watched what. ngram fits the governance bar enterprise comms teams have to meet without adding a quarterly agency line item.
Remote-First Companies
When the whole company is async, a live all-hands is a tax on whoever lives furthest from HQ. Async announcement video turns leadership messages into something every distributed employee experiences as first-class instead of as a meeting they could not make.
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Other ways HR and internal comms teams use ngram to ship clearer internal communication without an agency cycle.
You don't need a recording to ship the announcement.
Bring whatever the announcement already lives in. Each converter drops you into the same captioned, brand-applied internal video pipeline a leadership recording would use.
Every tool the announcement workflow runs on.
The old way vs. the ngram way
| All-Hands + Email | PlayPlay / Synthesia | ngram | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to first announcement | 1-2 hours writing + scheduling | 30-60 minutes templating | Under 15 minutes |
| Employee reach | 45-60% live + skim | 95%+ async | 95%+ async |
| Learning curve for HR | None (but inconsistent) | Template-based editor | None (AI handles editing) |
| Cost per announcement | HR time + everyone's time | $89-200/mo plus tiered limits | Included in plan |
| Time to update one scene | Schedule another all-hands | Re-edit from template | Under 5 minutes |
Wire announcements into the internal channels you already run.
Each integration ships with a working template for HR and internal comms. Trigger a polished company announcement video from an HRIS change, a comms approval workflow, or an agent — and route the result to the channels your employees actually open.
whenA new leadership recording lands in /announcements/inbox on Drive
thenPolish it, render 16:9 + 1:1 + 9:16, and post the link to #all-hands plus the intranet announcement page
whenAn HR copilot agent in Claude or ChatGPT is asked to draft a quarterly announcement
thenGenerate the announcement video from the memo plus the brand kit, return the share link and the localized captions
whenAn HR lead hits 'Make an announcement video' on the open memo doc
thenGet a polished, captioned MP4 back in a new tab inside fifteen minutes with the brand intro applied
whenA comms approval scenario moves the announcement memo to 'Approved'
thenRender the announcement, post to the intranet, schedule the Slack and Teams pushes for 8am local in each region
whenA self-hosted HRIS or governance workflow signs off on an internal comms memo
thenAuto-generate the announcement video on your VPC with the brand kit and translated captions applied
whenAn external-facing version of the announcement is approved by the comms team
thenSchedule the 1:1 cut to the company page with the employer-brand caption queued for the right launch window
whenA leadership announcement is approved for a public or unlisted permanent record
thenUpload to the company channel with chapter markers per section and the closed-caption track attached
“But will it work for my situation?”
Your next company announcement is 15 minutes away
Stop hoping employees read the email. Stop excluding APAC from the all-hands. Ship an announcement every time zone watches on its own schedule — same words, same tone, same reassurance.