Glossary
What is Video message?
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A video message is a short recorded video sent to one or more specific recipients, typically 30 seconds to 3 minutes long, with the sender's face and/or screen and the sender's voice. It is the video equivalent of a Slack message: asynchronous, personal, and intended for a specific audience rather than a public link.
The video message became a default work format between 2020 and 2024, driven by remote and hybrid work. By 2025, 75% of employees engaged in some form of remote work for at least part of the year (Pumble compilation of Bureau of Labor Statistics data, 2025), and 70% of employees said their companies actively supported async communication (Workplace Communication Statistics 2026). The video message sits between a meeting and a written message: too long for a Slack message, too short for a meeting. Most modern recorders — Loom, Pullsy, Vidyard, Zoom's async recording — are built around this exact use case. Pullsy's share links are unlisted by default (no public directory, no search index) which is the right privacy posture for a video message. Related terms: async video, screencast, screen recording, loom video.