Link previews lose the moment
An SMS with a video link gets a thumbnail and a tap-out to the browser. Half the audience never tries it. The other half loses interest before the player loads.
Tells delivers video natively inside RCS chats. Auto-play previews, tap-to-watch full screens, integrated CTAs, all inside the messaging app every customer already uses. The closest thing to a forced-watch moment in marketing, with brand verification baked in.
No links, no apps. Press play right in the conversation.
Live demo
Tap to unmute. This is the same inline RCS video experience your customer sees on a supported device. No app jump, no browser bounce, no lost moment.
The problem
Send a link to a video and most customers never click. Embed video inside the message and they watch. RCS makes that possible: a playable, brand-verified video with CTAs you control, all inside the messaging app the customer already trusts. No app, no browser bounce, no lost moment.
An SMS with a video link gets a thumbnail and a tap-out to the browser. Half the audience never tries it. The other half loses interest before the player loads.
The customer goes to a third-party site, watches, and you cannot stitch the watch back to the campaign or the conversion. Optimization breaks.
Asking a customer to install your app to watch a video is asking them not to watch the video. The funnel has too many steps.
Unverified senders hosting a video on a random domain hit the same skepticism as a phishing text. RCS solves this with the verified brand badge on the player itself.
The path
The render pipeline, the verified RCS sender, the CTA overlay, and the attribution loop sit on one platform. The marketing team does not stitch a video tool to a messaging tool to an analytics tool.
Launches, onboarding, win-back, support, post-purchase. The first inline video usually goes in wherever a static MMS or a hosted video link is already in flight.
Upload your hero footage or describe what the video should show. Tells handles the brand intro, the voice synthesis, and the overlay rendering.
Name, product, region, offer, agent rep. Anything you want personalized per recipient becomes a token in the script and lands in the rendered video.
Watch rate, full-view rate, CTA tap, downstream conversion. Everything flows into the dashboard and into your CRM through our integrations.
Where it shows up
Pick the lifecycle moment where the customer needs to see something move, hear a tone, or feel the brand. These are the six that most often pay back the production cost inside the first campaign.
Auto-play preview catches the eye. Tap expands to the full launch reel. The hero moment lands without a customer ever leaving the inbox.
The rep records one base video. AI re-renders with each prospect's first name and company at the opening line. Every send feels like it was made for that one account.
Stepped inline video walkthroughs of the product. The customer sees what to click instead of reading where to click. Activation curve lifts in the first 48 hours.
A "we miss you" video with the offer baked into the closing frame's CTA overlay. Dormant segments re-engage at a different rate when the message looks like a person, not a coupon.
Pre-event teaser video to drive sign-ups; post-event highlight reel to drive next-event registration. Same template, two flips, full lifecycle covered.
A 60-second video walkthrough of the fix, sent inside the support thread. Ticket-deflection rate moves when the customer can watch instead of read instructions.
Why Tells
Tells runs the verified RCS sender, the render pipeline, the CTA overlay system, and the analytics loop on one platform. The customer never leaves the messaging app, and you keep every signal from preview to conversion.
Same verified sender, same approved aggregator that powers our RCS Business Messaging programs. Falls back to an SMS link when the recipient device does not support RCS.
Generate a unique render per recipient with name, product, region, and offer woven into the script and the overlays. Variant counts that would break a traditional video pipeline are routine here.
Overlay buttons trigger Book Now, Track Order, See Pricing, anything else. The customer never leaves the messaging app to take the action.
Watch, tap, conversion, all stitched back to the campaign and the recipient through our integrations. Stop guessing which video creative actually paid back.
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