What are Video Abstracts and Video Bytes?

Video Bytes

Ideal for reaching lay audiences

A Video Byte is 1-minute overview of your work and how it impacts society.

Video Abstracts

Ideal for reaching scientifically literate audiences

A Video Abstract is a 2- to 3-minute animated video that briefly explains your methods, findings, and contribution to your field.

Why use video to promote your article?

Videos have proven impact on article usage metrics. We recently completed an analysis to compare key article usage metrics of articles with a Video Abstract or Video Byte against the average metric values of articles that published in the same issue.

Articles with a video averaged: