Team welcome videos for new joiners

Perfect welcome videos for new hires.

Short video messages from future teammates, ready before day one.

Why it helps

A few familiar faces can make day one feel different.

A new job means meeting new people, learning names and figuring out who does what. A short welcome from future colleagues can make all the difference.

Put faces to names. Let's be honest, org charts are useful but not personal. Let new starters hear directly from the people they'll be working with.
Show them where to turn. Ask each colleague to explain their role and what they can help with.
Make the welcome personal. A message from their manager, their colleagues or the founder shows that someone has thought about their arrival.

How it works

Easy for you. Even easier for your colleagues.

For the HR manager

Set up once, share in minutes.

Easy to set up and share. Create a welcome video, send a private link, then share the finished video.
Simple editing. Watch the preview, choose which clips to include and adjust their order or length.
No skills required. No editing software and no design work. People Stories brings the clips together into one video for you.
Build a library once. Keep each colleague's introduction and reuse it for every new joiner.

For colleagues

One link. Under a minute.

One link. Nothing to install and nothing to learn.
No log-in. No account and no password. Only the organiser signs in.
All done on their phone. Open the link, record a short message and send it. It takes about a minute.

Total control.

Colleagues contribute through a link without creating an account. Nothing is published until you decide it is ready.

1Collect. Send one private link and the videos come to you.
2Review. Reorder, trim and remove clips until it feels right.
3Publish. Share the finished video only when you're happy with it.

The alternatives

Why not record it on a call, or edit it yourself?

Recording it on a video call. Getting everyone into one call is the hard part, and a recording of a call is hard to watch: one tile, then another, with no names.
Collecting clips and editing them yourself. You chase people for files, get six formats and spend an evening in an editor. People Stories collects the clips, names everyone and joins them for you.
A video-editing app or template. Fine if you already have the clips, but it doesn't help you collect them, and it's one person's job, not the team's.
A welcome email or card. Better than nothing, but a name in an email is not a face on the first morning.

Pricing

Start for free.

Collect videos for free. No credit card required. Plans start at $39 a month.

See pricing

Good to know

A few common questions.

Why make a welcome video for a new joiner?: Hiring someone takes time and care. A short, personal video helps them feel special and lets them put faces and voices to the colleagues they'll soon work with.
What should colleagues say?: Their name, their role and one thing the new joiner can come to them for. For example: "Hi Maya, I'm Alex from Customer Success. I can help you understand what our customers need. Looking forward to meeting you."
How long should a welcome video be?: Three or four minutes. Clips can be up to a minute, and around thirty seconds each works well, so four to six colleagues fits nicely and is short enough to watch twice.
Do colleagues need an account or an app?: No. They record or upload a video through a private link from their phone or laptop. Only the organiser needs to sign in.
Can colleagues upload a clip they've already recorded?: Yes. The recording page takes a video from their phone or laptop as well as recording one there and then.
What if someone isn't happy with their clip?: They can record it again or remove it from the same device they sent it from, until the deadline. You can also leave any clip out of the finished video.
Will people actually do this?: We have made it unbelievably easy, and it should take less than 60 seconds. It is not a big ask, and 99% of people will be happy to do it.
What does the finished video look like?: A portrait video, made to watch on a phone, with a name card for each person as they speak and a closing card with the new starter's name. You can watch it through the private link or download it as an MP4 file.
Who can watch the finished video?: Anyone you send the private watch link to. Share it only with the people you want to see it.
When do I pay, and what happens if I cancel?: Setting up your team, collecting clips and previewing your video are free. You subscribe when you're ready to publish, share or download a finished video. See pricing for the details.

Also for

Not just for new joiners.

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Send prospects a personal video from the team they'll be working with, not just a cold email.

Account management

Welcome a new customer, or introduce a new account manager, with a short video from everyone they'll meet.

Introductions

Reuse the introductions you've already collected to welcome someone into a new team, office or project.

People Stories

Make your next new joiner feel expected.

Create a welcome video