Glossary
What is Async video?
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Async video, short for asynchronous video, is a recorded video message that replaces a live meeting by letting the sender record once and the recipients watch on their own schedule. It is the dominant format for distributed-team communication, with 56% of remote-first companies using async video as a primary communication channel in 2025.
Async video is a response to the meeting overload documented across the industry. The 2025 Microsoft Work Trend Index found that the average knowledge worker is interrupted every two minutes and spends 31 hours per month in unproductive meetings per Atlassian's State of Teams report. Async video compresses that: a 3-minute recording replaces a 30-minute meeting where only 3 of 10 attendees actually need to be there. Loom reported in 2024 that 10 minutes of viewed async video content saves one 30-minute meeting, and that its users recorded 88 million videos that year, replacing an estimated 202 million meetings. The format is now standard at most knowledge-work companies and is the medium used by every Pullsy recording you create at pullsy.online/record. Related terms: screencast, video message, screen recording, video transcript.