# Shoppable Video for Retail Brands: How to Make It | Vitra.ai > Short retail video built from the product stills and copy you already own. What length works per platform, and how one cut becomes every market you sell in. **Canonical URL**: https://www.vitra.ai/retail/shoppable-video-retail **Source**: This is the Markdown rendering of https://www.vitra.ai/retail/shoppable-video-retail, generated at build time from that page. --- 3 min read # Shoppable Video for Retail Brands: How to Make It Short retail video built from the product stills and copy you already own. What length works per platform, and how one cut becomes every market you sell in. [Samhitha J Bhatt](https://www.vitra.ai/author/samhitha) Senior Product Manager , Vitra.ai Updated Aug 17, 2026 ![Shoppable Video for Retail Brands: How to Make It](https://www.vitra.ai/static/images/blog/shoppable-video-retail.jpg) Table of contents [Retail video does not have to be filmed](#retail-video-does-not-have-to-be-filmed) [Length, by where it runs](#length-by-where-it-runs) [Assume the sound is off](#assume-the-sound-is-off) [One cut, every market](#one-cut-every-market) [FAQ](#faq) Contributors [Samhitha J Bhatt](https://www.vitra.ai/author/samhitha) Senior Product Manager Subscribe to our newsletter Subscribe > **Quick answer —** Shoppable video is short product video with a way to buy attached. Most of it can be built from existing stills and product copy rather than filmed, and almost all of it plays muted, so captions carry the argument.[Vitra.ai Universe](https://www.vitra.ai/platform) makes, adapts and translates the whole set. ## Retail video does not have to be filmed The assumption that stops most retailers is that video means a shoot. For short commerce video it usually does not. A product page already contains an ordered argument, a set of photographs and a price. That is a storyboard, and [video creation](https://www.vitra.ai/features/video-creation) turns it into a cut with script, voiceover, captions and transitions in one pass. Filming earns its place for motion, fit and demonstration. For the other eighty per cent of a catalog, it does not. ## Length, by where it runs Placement Length What it has to do Product page 15–30s Answer the objection that stops the sale Instagram and TikTok feed 7–15s Stop the scroll in the first second Stories Under 10s One idea, large type Live and long-form Minutes Demonstrate, not summarise The common mistake is one length everywhere. A thirty-second PDP cut posted to a feed loses most of its audience before the product appears. ## Assume the sound is off Feed video autoplays muted and most viewers never turn it on. So the argument has to survive silently. Use a caption track rather than burning text into the frame — burned-in words cannot be swapped for the next market, and they cannot be read by anything indexing the page. Type large. A caption sized for a laptop is unreadable at the size a phone actually shows it. ## One cut, every market Translate the script, not the video. [Video dubbing](https://www.vitra.ai/features/video-dubbing) re-voices the same cut, and captions come from the same script, so a market launch does not mean a re-edit. Aspect ratios follow: [video personalization](https://www.vitra.ai/features/video-personalization) recomposes for square, vertical and wide instead of letterboxing a single master. The claims in a script are still claims. A phrase that is fine in one market may need substantiation in another, so review the script once before it becomes a dozen rendered files rather than checking the outputs afterwards. The stills that feed these cuts come from the same place as everything else, which is [product catalog photography](https://www.vitra.ai/retail/product-catalog-photography). ## FAQ **What is shoppable video?** Short product video with a direct route to purchase attached, running on a product page or a social feed. The video's job is to answer the objection that stops the sale rather than to entertain. **Does shoppable video need to be filmed?** Often not. A product page already supplies an ordered argument, photographs and a price, which is enough to build a short cut. Filming earns its place for motion, fit and demonstration. **How long should retail social video be?** Seven to fifteen seconds in a feed, under ten in Stories, and fifteen to thirty on a product page. Posting one length everywhere is the common mistake and it loses feed audiences early. **Should retail video captions be burned in?** No. Use a caption track. Burned-in text cannot be swapped for another language without re-rendering, and it is invisible to anything that indexes the page for search. Our blog ## Lastest blog posts Tool and strategies modern teams need to help their companies grow. 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