For university research-communications teams
Keep up with the research your university publishes.
Papers come out faster than a small comms team can make video. Explain a Paper gives you a steady supply of short, on-brand, captioned videos, from £39 a video plus VAT, or less in packs. See how we compare.
- 15 videos a monthfrom £399/month, ex VAT.
- In your own brandYour palette, typeface and logo on every video.
- One account for the teamUp to 5 colleagues ordering and approving.
Why university comms teams use it
Built for press offices, faculty comms and research-impact officers with more good papers than time.
A video for every paper worth one
Not just the flagship study your press office pitches to national media. A monthly allowance means the steady flow of good papers from every faculty gets a video too, without adding to the press office's workload.
Your brand, your approval
Videos carry your university's look. Your team is in full control and can edit every script, and nothing is rendered until you approve it, so nothing goes out that you have not read.
Evidence for impact and dissemination
Captioned, accessible videos that are easy to publish, share and count: evidence of public engagement for REF impact case studies, and a concrete output for the dissemination plans UKRI, Horizon Europe and other funders ask for.
Less of your team's time on each video
Commissioning an animated explainer usually means a briefing call and five or six rounds of sign-off: script, storyboard, style frames, animation, final mix.1 Here your team approves a script and accepts the video. We estimate 10 to 20 minutes to read and approve a script, based on our pilot videos. If your researcher checks it too, that is their time either way.
Built, not generated
Nothing garbled for your team to catch before publication. Every word on screen is typeset and every chart is plotted from the paper's own numbers, rather than painted by an AI image or video model, so the numbers on screen are the ones in the paper. No made-up facts: each line of the script notes where in the paper it comes from.
Embargo-aware
Flag a paper under a press embargo with its embargo date, and nothing from it is published or used as a sample. We cannot yet process embargoed papers, but you can prepare the order now and we will email you when we can. Where we stand on confidential and embargoed papers.
The whole process, from paper upload to finished video, takes just a few minutes. No booking in, no briefing call, and no waiting the one to three weeks that published video abstracts quote for a first cut: the video is ready while the news is still news, for the press release or the moment an embargo lifts.
1 Sources: the published process pages of Yum Yum Videos, Gisteo and Epipheo, which list five or six client sign-off stages, read 27 September 2026. The time figure is our estimate, not a measurement. More on how we compare.
Enterprise subscription
from £399/month
from £478.80/month inc. VAT- 15 video credits each month, for any paper
- A brand pack built from your logo, colours and typeface
- Up to 5 members on one account, with one bill
- 3 revision rounds with every video
- Monthly; cancel at the end of any billing month
The monthly allowance does not roll over. The subscription is for organisations.
You sign in first, with a link sent to your email.
Paying by invoice or purchase order
If your finance team needs a purchase order, we will set up your team's account and invoice you on 30-day terms, with no card needed.
We process your team's papers as your processor, and sign a UK GDPR Article 28 data processing agreement with your organisation on request.
Tell us your institution, roughly how many videos you expect a year, and whether you need a PO or an invoice. We reply to every enquiry, usually within two working days.
Send an enquiry
Email [email protected] with:
- your name and institution
- videos per year, roughly
- whether you need a purchase order or an invoice
Thank you. We have your enquiry and will reply, usually within two working days.
Supporting your researchers
Researchers who approach your team can have a video of their own paper, bought with your credits or on their own card. What we tell researchers.
Briefing a researcher, or ordering yourself? See what to have ready before you order: the paper, the audience, the length, a widescreen video or Shorts, and your brand.