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History PowToon was founded in January 2012  (Data version) Ilya Spitalnik (Co-Founder and CEO) Daniel Zaturansky (Co-Founder and COO) Aim  To establish a new presentation category called “powtoon” – a combination of presentation and animated cartoon   In December 2012 PowToon secured $600,000 investment from LA based Venture Capital firm Startup Minds.  In February 2013 PowToon introduced a free account option allowing users to create animated videos that can be exported to YouTube

Purposes ( Businesses To create engaging, creative presentations that capture attention Marketing professional, by increasing engagement and standing out from the crowd Small business and startups Education To inspire, engage and delight the students Keep your students excited and motivated in a classroom Teachers and students alike are able to creatively express their message to the intended audience with no previous experience in anim

Types of membership ) In Powtoon, you have 2 types of subscriptions, Premium and Pay per Export. *In the Premium subscription, you can either have a yearly or monthly subscription and of course the price won’t be the same. There are a lot of benefits for subscribers, such as HQ videos, no watermark and monetization rights. *With the Pay per Export subscription, you will pay according to the videos you use. Also, you will be able to create longer videos, and have a full control of the privacy.

PowToon’s characteristics Features PowToon’s characteristics PowToon can be used for a variety of purposes and audiences pre-created objects, imported images, provided music and user created voice-overs EngagementUsing animations in place of traditional presentations increase engagement with content. FlexibilityEven with the library of pre-created objects, the ability to import images and music, add text and create voiceovers means that Alternative way to present material Engaging, fun and different Web-based, can be downloaded.

Pedagogical uses Teachers: Can use it as a content presentation tool Teachers can use it as homework, by sending the PowToon to students’ e-mails so they can check them in their houses Teachers can perform a class based on this interactive tool, since it has a lot of edition tools, students can interact with it in the same classroom by using a wireless mouse Students : Form of assessment Students will be more engaged in teacher created presentations, as well as in creating their own as a form of assessment.