Common Craft

File:CommonCraftElectsAPresident.pngThe company focuses on building a library of educational videos on a variety of topics that are easy to understand for people without a technical background. The videos use stop-action animation with whiteboards and paper cut-outs to illustrate the topic. Common Craft creates videos in four categories (Technology, Social Media, Internet Safety, Money and Society) and in five languages (English, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish).

Since 2007, Common Craft has created over 70 videos that have been viewed millions of times online.{{cite web|url=http://www.seattlemag.com/0p120a1446/editors-in-brief-common-craft/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090803145051/http://www.seattlemag.com/0p120a1446/editors-in-brief-common-craft/|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-08-03|title="Editors in Brief: Common Craft", Seattle Magazine, May 7, (2009)}} One of the most popular films, "Twitter in Plain English", has been viewed over 10 million times since being published on the host's YouTube and dotSUB{{cite web|url=http://dotsub.com/view/665bd0d5-a9f4-4a07-9d9e-b31ba926ca78|title=Twitter in Plain English on dotSUB}} in March 2008. The video explaining how a president is elected in the United States has been viewed more than 600,000 times.

Common Craft also provides a video making service whereby Common Craft may be commissioned to produce a video. Common Craft has been hired by many companies to explain their products and services, including Ford for Sync{{cite web|url=http://www.cartype.com/pages/3593/sync_explained|title="SYNC Explained", Cartype, November, (2008)}} and Google for Google Reader. A video made for Dropbox was placed on Dropbox's homepage and was viewed 25 million times.{{cite book|author=Lee LeFever|title=The Art of Explanation: Making your Ideas, Products, and Services Easier to Understand|date=2012|isbn=978-1118374580|publisher=Wiley|quote=According to Albert Ni, the former analytics lead at Dropbox, the video has been viewed 25 million times|page=42}}

Common Craft has made videos on a number of topics:

• Technology
• Social Media
• Internet Safety
• Money
• Society

• Webby Award Honoree, Best Writing - 2009{{Cite web|url=https://www.webbyawards.com/winners/2009/online-film-video/performance-craft-categories/best-writing/the-common-craft-show/|title=The Common Craft Show -- The Webby Awards|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-20}}
• Webby Award Honoree, Technology Online Film and Video - 2008{{Cite web|url=https://www.webbyawards.com/winners/2008/online-film-video/general-film/technology/the-common-craft-show/?/|title=The Common Craft Show -- The Webby Awards|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-20}}
• Merlot Classics Award, Faculty Development - 2008{{Cite web|url=http://info.merlot.org/merlothelp/MERLOT_Awards_Exemplary_Classics.htm|title=MERLOT Awards Exemplary Classics|website=info.merlot.org|access-date=2020-03-20}}

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• [http://www.commoncraft.com/ Corporate website]

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