11 tools to help you create fantastic ads videos and images
By: Saikrishna Vanneldas
Tags: User Research, Social Media Marketing, Marketing Strategies, Marketing, Tools For Design

How do you make someone view your content in the first look?

Not everyone likes to read long posts or a lot of advertising content. Businesses usually want to skim important information, and if there is a good way to flash that in the first glance itself, half your marketing job is done!

The best way to do that is through images. As it is rightly said, a picture speaks a thousand words’; images depict the most important part of your products/services strongly! Same way, videos have the power to get attention through interactive and engaging content instantly.

But, can you create something that’s on your mind exactly how it is?

The good news is YES, you can!

There are many tools in the market that help you create amazing ad videos and images as per your requirements! We have selected the top ones out of the many available tools.

Including images or videos enhances engagement through likes, shares, and comments, resulting in more clicks and reshares. This helps companies plan their marketing strategy better. If you are a budding or medium business owner, do not have specialized teams for marketing, or don’t have a big budget, these tools will help you create amazing visualizations!

1. Biteable

With clients like Airbus, Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, and many more, Biteable is your stop to create all types of stunning ads, videos, and images. You can create all sorts of animations, motion graphics, movies, ads like Facebook, YouTube, Linked In, or Instagram, cover pages, book trailers, cartoons, presentations, etc. You name it, and it’s there. You can create from scratch or use existing templates.

It takes just a few seconds to create your own video using the templates. You can use Biteable for free with limited features or take a monthly/yearly subscription to explore the full potential.

2. Animoto

With Animoto, you don’t need any prior experience in creating videos. It takes only a blink of an eye to creating that perfect video you’d use to build your brand.

Animoto is a certified partner with social media platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, etc. You can make short ad videos or create promo videos for your company using the many templates provided or customize your own videos with easy filtering and personalization. Animoto has a music library, online video templates, stock library, and video trimming options.

You can use it for free or choose out of many subscriptions available on their website.

3. Canva

Canva is free, and you can make some really eye-grabbing stuff within minutes. Canva is quite popular for making Facebook, YouTube, Instagram ads and doesn’t need you to be a designer or even an exceptionally creative person. Whatever you have in mind, you can create it using Canva.

You can use images or videos from the existing media library or upload your own and add designs, text, and many other features to it. Everything is drag and drop, which makes Canva absolutely a breeze to use. You can also use Canva for Flyers, postcards, invitations, business cards, and much more.

4. Invideo

Invideo is a versatile, easy-to-use tool that lets you control your videos completely. You can take care of the smallest of details and customize every small bit that you want to. It is intuitive, quick, and powerful. What’s more, Invideo is AI-powered, thus making sure your videos make sense. It has a huge music and media library, which you can use to create stunning videos in minutes.

The call-to-action (CTA) makes it easier for users to identify with your brand. Invideo also supports multilingual videos, automated voice-overs, and intelligent frames. You can easily create timelines, modify the text, place it anywhere using drag and drop, add filters, change colors, fonts, and so much more.

5. Bannersnack

Bannersnack is a feature-rich tool that helps you create ads of any type. You can get access to thousands of fonts, stock photos, clip-arts, custom animations, and much more. Just use your touchpad to drag and drop the designs you want in your ad. It is a perfect tool for video ads, social media ads, posters, flyers, and banner ads.

You can explore more than 8000 professional designs for various ads. The animation option uses the latest HTML version to create beautiful effects, timelines, and transitions like never before. From basic animations like blur, fade, slide, scale, etc., to advanced visuals like a cross, drop, flip, roll, and many more, Bannersnack is your go-to tool for enterprise designs and visuals.

6. Promo

With partners like Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and many more, Promo is a professional business ad maker.

With partners like Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and many more, Promo is a professional business ad maker.

You can try it for free and customize your videos, add your text, logo, or select the template of your choice from the wide range of templates. You can add images from Shutterstock or Getty. The UI is easy to use, and you don’t need any prior knowledge for using it.

Promo has separate templates for Ads and videos and provides templates based on the industry, like real estate, travel, e-commerce, etc.

7. Crello

A great tool for creating banner ads, Crello is popularly used for the leaderboard, wide skyscraper, medium rectangle, and large rectangle banner ads. It has thousands of professional templates available for free. You can choose the format and the template and start customizing your ad as you want.

Crello is also great for creating Instagram & Facebook stories, Pinterest graphics, Facebook and Twitter posts, Tumblr graphics, and more. It also has provisions for creating memes, newsletter, catchy blog headers, eBook designs, invitations, posters, flyers, etc.

Crello is a smooth option to make ads for Google Adwords, Bing display, Google Display Network, etc.

8. Offeo

You can create compelling and high engagement ads using Offeo even if you are not a designer or never create any video in your life before!

Highly suitable for Instagram feeds, Facebook feeds, and other similar social media platforms, you can create the designs within minutes using the existing templates. The tool is feature-rich and intuitive with drag and drop options and requires almost zero effort, thus saving time and design cost without compromising ads’ quality.

The animations are smooth and can be done with a single click. You can use your own pictures or videos and store them in the graphics library for reuse. Offeo is a great tool for influencers, marketers, and freelancers alike to promote their services.

9. Motionden

There are thousands of online ad templates that you can use and customize to make your personalized content. Motionden is popularly used for animated videos, slideshows, business intros, commercials, explainer videos, Facebook and Instagram videos, Logo animations, Text animation, trailers, and many more.

You can use Motionden for free, but with the watermark. To remove the watermark, you can pay $9 per video or choose to take the monthly plan, where you can get to explore the other powerful features of the tool.

10. Filmora

Filmora is an intuitive, fast, and powerful software to create ads for promoting any business. It is different from the others listed above. The above is an online tool where Filmora is a software you can download on Windows and macOS. A perfect choice if you like to work it offline.

You can add as many clips and images through the drag and drop feature, add text anywhere, and add your logo — all within minutes. A great way to showcase your brand, Filmora provides a platform where you can tell your business’s most important and unique offerings in the least time using eye-capturing videos.

You can try it for free or purchase an individual or a business plan, both of which are quite affordable. Filmora offers advanced level custom animations and motion tracking to create seamless videos that make a difference.

11. Typito

Typito is another drag-and-drop online video editor with a forever free plan (so wonderful!) An interesting unique feature Typito has is the ability to add a branded banner on your video. This will allow your audience to easily recognize your videos on social media. Typito also lets you resize your video in seven different sizes with a click.

Most video editors I found doesn’t let you remove watermarks on a per-video basis but Typito lets you remove their logo from your video for $5.

Conclusion

There are many more tools in the market, and the list is overwhelming. Try any or all of the above-listed tools to create beautiful ads, videos, and images for your digital marketing, and let us know which one you liked most!

What Tools do you use for creating Ads let me know in comments?