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Additional Information for Consideration

The Common Craft video "Twitter in Plain English" has been viewed over 10 million times since being published in March of 2008. This number comes from two video hosts: 1,263,000 views on YouTube, to date [1] and 8,743,552 views on dotSUB.com (which was embedded on Twitter.com for some time.) [2]

Common Craft has created a fee-based network of explanatory video producers called the "Explainer Network" [3] [4]

Common Craft was hired to make multiple custom videos for Microsoft and Google. [5]

Article on business model: ReadWriteWeb: How Common Craft Stopped Doing Custom Video Work [6]

Leelefever (talk) 23:58, 25 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Love your videos, Lee! Added the first one, the rest is just advertising, so I left it out. --WiseWoman (talk) 21:29, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Other Information

I hereby give explicit permission for the use of the image "Electing A US President in Simple English" that currently appears on the page. However, the caption should read "Electing A US President in Plain English."22:22, 27 August 2009 (UTC) Leelefever (talk) 22:22, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Whoops! I fixed it. WeisheitSuchen (talk) 00:32, 28 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Additional Information for Consideration

This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered.

I am the founder of Common Craft and have a COI here. There are a few updates that will keep the Common Craft page accurate. The information below is not verifiable from a third party, but is easy to verify as factual.

Our video categories have changed. They are now: Technology, Social Media, Internet Safety, Money and Society https://www.commoncraft.com/video-library
Our business has changed. We now license our artwork - over 2100 "Cut-outs" that are downloadable images. https://www.commoncraft.com/cut-out-library
Our video library has grown to include over 70 videos: https://www.commoncraft.com/videolist
The list of videos on the page needs updates.

Further, I wrote a book (Published by Wiley) that contains a number of facts about Common Craft that I believe are useful for this entry: The Art of Explanation: Making your Ideas, Products, and Services Easier to Understand", Amazon.com, (2012)

Preface, page xxii: "Our videos have been viewed over 50 million times online and we have worked with companies such as LEGO, Intel, Google Dropbox and Microsoft to explain their products and services."

Chapter 4, page 41-42 "In 2009, we were connected with a startup called Dropbox, which was looking for a video that would explain their product." "In the fall of 2009, the Dropbox homepage was redesigned and featured our video as the main content." "According to Albert Ni, the former analytics lead at Dropbox, the video has been viewed 25 million times"

Finally, there are currently a couple of points made on my personal page that I believe are relevant here.

"LeFever is often credited with founding the explainer video industry.[3][4] He has received numerous awards for his work, including two Webby nominations."

Sources for Webby Honoree claim: http://www.webbyawards.com/winners/2008/online-film-video/general-film/technology/the-common-craft-show/ http://www.webbyawards.com/winners/2009/online-film-video/performance-craft-categories/best-writing/the-common-craft-show/

Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Leelefever (talk • contribs)

Thanks, I've integrated a number of these. Stickee (talk) 03:09, 30 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]