Videos are one of the most popular content consumed on the internet. Videos can help you tell product stories to your customers and visually show product feature and their use.
Why you should add a product video on the product landing page?
Adding a video on your product landing page can help you increase your sales by almost 80%. Recent studies show that 90% of users believe that a video about a product is helpful in decision making.
Videos are a good return on investment. Video creation is not the cheapest or easy task, it pays off big time. Although nowadays the video content creation tools have become a little cheaper and there are many different applications available in the market as different price ranges. You can even create a video using your smartphone.
Videos can also help you in increasing your website Google ranking as visitors will spend more time on your website. Thus, longer exposures build trust and signify search engines that your website has good content.
Woocommerce by default doesn’t provide a feature to add videos to the product gallery. Below are some of WooCommerce extentions that you will have to use inorder to display videos to the product gallery.
Product Video for WooCommerce is the official premium extension of WooCommerce which empowers you to add a custom video or embed video from youtube, Vimeo, Facebook, DailyMotion, and Metacafe to your product page in WooCommerce.
Features:
- Add video to any product page gallery
- Add a video as a featured product video
- Add multiple videos to the product gallery
- Option to play videos on a page, in the popup, and fullscreen mode.
- Support for custom video and embed videos from popular platforms like Youtube, Vimeo, etc.
- It allows you to upload videos in any format such as MP4, MKV, AVI, MOV, FLV, WMV, and many more.
- Customize video thumbnail.
- Configuration options for the custom self-hosted video:
- Enable/ Disable Auto Play Video
- Play in loop
- Auto Mute Video
- Show/Hide video controls
- Customize video width & height for product and shop pages
- Adjust video width in percentage and height in px
- Settings for third party gallery videos
- Enable/ Disable Auto Play Video
- Allow/Disallow Full-Screen
- Auto Mute Video
- Show/Hide Related Videos
- Auto-adjusted Thumbnails
Cost: $49.00
Plugin Demo: http://woocommerce.addifypro.com/product_videos/shop/
YITH WooCommerce Featured Audio & Video content is a WooCommerce extension by YITH Developers. This plugin will allow you to add audio and video to your product instead of the featured image.
Features:
- Add video instead of featured image of the product
- Add multiple videos to the product gallery
- Support for custom video and embed videos from popular platforms like Youtube, Vimeo, etc.
- Show / Hide video controls and customize the style of controls
- Option to set a custom aspect ratio of the video
- Prevent users from stopping video
- Enable autoplay of featured video on page load
- Add multiple audio files to the product gallery
- Show video/audio files in a modal window
- Link video and audio files to product single variations
- Show the audio and video sliders in a sidebar instead of under the product image gallery
There is a free version of this plugin, YITH WooCommerce Featured Video which provides functionality to change featured image with a YouTube or Vimeo video. Click here to download.
WooCommerce Product Featured Video adds a feature to your Woocommerce store using which you can add featured video for any store product. This plugin allows you to display a video on the shop page and product single page.
Features:
- Support for Youtube, Vimeo, DailyMotion, self-hosted mp4 videos
- You can display videos on a single product page, category page, and Shop page.
- Enable/disable video controls
- Option to show youtube related videos
- Adding thumbnail image for self-hosted videos
- Set custom height and width of the videos
- Awesome fancy box for product gallery images
- Video popups for product videos on both shop & product single page
Cost: $39.00
Plugin Demo: http://demo.motif-solution.com/feature-video/shop/
Conclusion
All three plugins are great based on their features and are well developed. Each plugin has its unique feature other than the standard feature to add videos to your product page.
- If you are looking to add audio and video both to your product page then you should go with YITH WooCommerce featured Audio & Video content plugin.
- If you are looking to add just the videos to your product page, then you should buy Product Video for WooCommerce plugin.
- And if you are looking to add video as the featured video for the products which will be displayed on the product listing then you should go with WooCommerce Product Featured Video plugin.
Also, If you are planning to enhance your WooCommerce Product Image Gallery, then please read below post which has list of top WooCommerce extensions which will help you enhance your product gallery.
Best 3 plugins to enhance your Product Image Gallery of your WooCommerce store.
If you do need help with any of above plugins, feel free to contact me. I would be happy to help.
Don’t forget to comment below if you find this post useful or you have any doubts about using any of these plugins. Your comments will encourage me to write more posts.
