Want to upload contacts to Sendspark, generate personalized videos, and auto-send them via Outlook? This tutorial shows you how! π
Requirements for connecting Sendspark and Outlook:
Admin access to Outlook (to connect the Sendspark App)
Automated Workflows feature in Sendspark (currently in Beta)
Assuming you have both, let's dive in!
How to Create & Send AI Personalized Videos in Outlook
Please watch this video if you'd like to see the entire set up beginning to end!
Step 1: Create Your Dynamic Video Campaign
Start by creating your Dynamic Video Campaign in Sendspark. If you are not sure how to do that, please refer to this help article on how to create dynamic videos.
Step 2: Create Your Automated Workflow
Go to the Automated Workflow Section of Sendspark.
Select "New Automation"
Add a Trigger:
For the Trigger, select "Sendspark" and "New Video Generated"
For the Dynamic Video Campaign ID, select the Dynamic Video Campaign from the previous step.
Save!
Now, add an Action
For the action, select "Microsoft Outlook," and "Create Draft Email"
Fill out the fields for your email. For any placeholders (first name, email, etc) you can use the data from your Sendspark step, like this:
If you want to embed your video snippet in your email, then you can use an HTML email and this code snippet.
Just make sure to replace the [VIDEO LINK] and [THUMBNAIL LINK] below with your real video link & thumbnail link from the dropdown.
<a href="[VIDEO LINK]"><img src="[THUMBNAIL URL]" alt="Animated thumbnail for video" style="display:block;width:360px;margin:12px 0px" ></a>
If you don't want to use HTML, then you can use a plain text email and just include the link to your video, like this:
Save that step.
Now for the final step!
Click to add a new action
Select "Microsoft Outlook" again, and this time, "Send Email"
Add the message ID from your previous step:
And save!
That is it.
You can now hit "Start" to start your automation.
And now, when you add contacts to your dynamic video campaign, they will automatically be sent the video email from Outlook after their videos get created.
Happy connecting!