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Brand Story Video Examples: 14 B2B Brand Stories

Introduction

A brand story answers the buyer's question, not yours

Most B2B brand videos open the same way. Logo. Founding year. A montage of offices and handshakes.

Your buyer has seen that video from every vendor on the shortlist. It tells them who you are. It never tells them why that should matter to them.

Airwallex's brand film runs 90 seconds, and the voiceover never says “Airwallex.” It lists inventions, from the zip to the defibrillator. Then one line: “Make those ideas happen.” The wordmark waits until the end.

The short answer: the brand story videos that work answer one buyer question with one move. Common Enemy answers “why change?” by naming the old way. Big Belief answers “why you?” with one idea about the buyer's world. Short Promise answers “what do I get?” in a few words. Borrowed Picture answers “how does it work?” with an image the buyer already knows. The 14 B2B story videos below are sorted by the question they answer.

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14 examples

Brand Story Video examples

Story 1 · Common Enemy

If your buyer sees no reason to switch, name the old way you stand against.

A heist film needs a vault. Without one, nobody cares about the crew. Your brand story works the same way: no old way on screen, no reason for your buyer to leave it.

I call it the Common Enemy: the old way your buyer already resents, named before your product shows up. Four examples.

Amplitude brand story video

Amplitude’s brand film picks a fight with slow analytics. It opens on a dictionary definition of “slop,” then asks a sharper question: what should you build?

What works here:

  • The enemy is named out loud. Queries, dashboards, analyses: “It’s slow. It’s manual and hasn’t changed in a generation.”
  • The turn is one line of before and after: “From painful queries to a helpful co-pilot.” Then an AI chat screen shows the new way.
  • The viewer gets the last word. The film closes on “What will you build?” instead of a feature list.

The move: Write the sentence your buyer uses to complain about the old way. Put it on screen before your logo. If a buyer wouldn’t nod at it, rewrite it.

Emburse brand story video

Emburse’s 30-second film moves expense management from a dim office full of paper files to a live finance dashboard.

What works here:

  • A question does the selling: “The future is here. So why are travel and finance teams stuck in the past?”
  • The old way is a room you can see. Boxes and paper files fill the opening, then a dashboard shows “Travel Spend by Categories.”
  • The close gives the buyer the credit: “When you manage the money, you manage the future.”

The move: Show the old way as a room your buyer has worked in. If they can’t picture the room, the enemy is too abstract.

Sword Health brand story video

Sword Health introduces its AI care platform with one line against the old way: “Healthcare today treats the symptom, not the story.”

What works here:

  • The enemy is concrete. A knee injury treated in one clinic, heart issues in another, anxiety in a separate program.
  • Then the fix in one phrase: “Four conditions, one experience.” Chat screens show its AI, Phoenix, carrying one member’s history across programs.
  • Proof waits until the story is done. 800,000 members and over a billion in savings arrive in the last lines.

The move: List three places your buyer’s work is split today. Then show your product as the one place. If the list needs explaining, pick plainer examples.

Comarch sustainable network video

Comarch’s film starts with the scale of global energy use, then narrows to one telecom network. Its AI system keeps the service running on less power.

What works here:

  • The enemy is bigger than any one company: rising energy demand. That earns the product its place before it appears.
  • The AI is shown at work. It reads service parameters, hardware compatibility and energy use, then switches network parts on or off.
  • The promise sits in the YouTube title: “How to Make a Network Sustainable Without Affecting Service.” Cost and quality both survive.

The move: If your enemy is an industry trend, shrink it to one network, one team or one invoice. If it stays global, your buyer stays a spectator.

Story 2 · Big Belief

If buyers can’t tell you apart from rivals, say what you believe about their world.

Two coffee shops on one street sell the same beans. People still pick a favorite, for reasons that have nothing to do with beans.

Your software category is that street. I call it the Big Belief: one idea about your buyer’s world that your company exists to prove. Four examples.

Airwallex brand film

Airwallex’s “Build the Future” film is a list of inventions shot in black and white: the zip, jazz, the telephone, the defibrillator.

What works here:

  • The belief is one line: “They all started with a person. They all started with a spark.”
  • Each invention gets its own scene, from dancers running across a desert to a woman at a modular synth. The list does the arguing.
  • The wordmark waits until 1:22. By then, the viewer has already agreed with the idea.

The move: Write your belief as a sentence about your buyer, not your product. If it only makes sense after your logo, it’s a tagline, not a belief.

Micron brand film

Micron’s 30-second film makes memory chips matter to people who never see them. It opens on “Sometimes the most powerful forces in the world go unseen.”

What works here:

  • The belief turns hidden into important. Memory and storage become “a critical layer of intelligence driving possibilities.”
  • The outcomes come in threes: new cures, models of changing climates, and smarter, safer cities.
  • The last line draws the link: “Every breakthrough in AI is driven by data, and data lives in Micron memory and storage.”

The move: If your product sits under someone else’s, name the result it makes possible. Then draw the line back to you in one sentence.

AWS for Healthcare brand video

AWS for Healthcare & Life Sciences puts the patient in the middle of the screen. Line art connects scientific discovery, therapeutics and telemedicine around them.

What works here:

  • The belief is patient first, and the picture says it. Every element connects back to one person.
  • Capability comes second: high-performance computing and machine learning for genomics analysis and predicting health events.
  • Trust closes it. Protected health information stays secure, on technologies that transformed Amazon.com.

The move: Put your buyer’s customer at the center of the frame and arrange your capabilities around them. If your logo is in the center, move it.

Illumina brand film

Illumina’s Insight Ecosystem film opens on a question about anticipating the future of disease. Lab scenes cut to a family at home.

What works here:

  • The science arrives as single words on screen: Genomics. Epigenomics. Transcriptomics. Proteomics.
  • Family scenes sit between the lab shots, like a father playing with his child. The stakes stay human.
  • The belief is a chain the viewer can repeat: “Your question is the innovation. Your innovation is the insight. Your insight is the impact.”

The move: Turn your belief into a short chain that ends on your buyer’s result. If it takes more than three links, cut one.

Story 3 · Short Promise

If buyers can’t repeat what you stand for, put the promise in a few words and prove each one.

Nobody remembers a hotel’s brochure. They remember “free breakfast.” Your buyer passes your brand to a buying committee the same way: one short phrase, or nothing.

I call it the Short Promise: a few words your buyer can repeat, each one proven on screen. Three examples.

Blumira brand value video

Blumira’s video is titled “The Blumira Value: Easy-to-Use Detection, Response & Expertise.” Its 2D animation proves each word for IT teams buried in security alerts.

What works here:

  • Detection: pre-configured, pre-tuned detections cut the alert noise, and findings arrive prioritized.
  • Response: a 3-step rapid response, with automatic threat blocking and step-by-step playbooks.
  • Expertise: access to security experts at no extra cost, across cloud, on-premises or hybrid setups.

The move: Write your promise as three words. Give each word its own scene. If a word has no scene, drop the word.

LuLu Money brand promise video

LuLu Money’s 2D film speaks to overseas workers sending money home. Its promise is two words: “Money, Whenever.”

What works here:

  • The promise is tested on real moments first: overdue fees, a forgotten gift, a medical need.
  • Then the app walks through the whole transfer: registration, recipient, real-time exchange rates and payment options.
  • Reminders, transaction history and 24/7 live chat answer the fear of losing control. It ends on the worker’s peace of mind.

The move: Test your promise against three urgent moments in your buyer’s week. If it doesn’t hold in all three, it’s too big.

Confiz brand promise video

Confiz pitches its Customer-Driven Marketing Solution to retailers under one line: “Reimagine Customer Engagement.” Motion graphics and UI mockups carry the proof.

What works here:

  • Understand: dashboards break down buying patterns, behaviors and channel preferences.
  • Engage: content gets personalized, and multi-channel campaigns run on automation across the customer lifecycle.
  • Measure: reporting shows the top-performing channels, with on-premise, cloud or hybrid deployment for compliance.

The move: Name the three stages your promise moves through, in your buyer’s verbs. If the stages are your module names, rename them.

Story 4 · Borrowed Picture

If your product works where nobody can see it, borrow a picture your buyer already knows.

Nobody has watched a vaccine work or a data pipeline think. But everyone knows what a shipping container does.

Your product’s hardest idea gets easier once it looks like something your buyer has seen. I call it the Borrowed Picture: one familiar image standing in for the invisible part. Three examples.

NetApp brand film

NetApp’s 30-second film is a nature-documentary parody. A herd of small rodents stampedes across a snowy slope, until one soars off in a red cape.

What works here:

  • The picture is the warning: “When technology moves this quickly, it’s easy to become lemmings, swept along by the rush.”
  • Then the question every AI buyer is asking: “So, how do you move fast while avoiding disaster?”
  • The answer is one word, preparation, and one line: intelligent data infrastructure that gets businesses AI-ready.

The move: Find the animal, object or scene that acts out your buyer’s risk. If you have to explain the picture, pick another.

Moderna mRNA brand video

Moderna’s film explains how lipid nanoparticles, or LNPs, deliver mRNA. Molecular animation turns a nanometer-scale process into something you can follow.

What works here:

  • The borrowed picture is an everyday one: LNPs are described as “shipping containers” for mRNA.
  • The hero is the body, not the company. The technology works with the immune system, the body’s “most powerful defense.”
  • The stakes widen at the end, to viral, cancer and rare diseases.

The move: Describe your hardest mechanism as an object from shipping, cooking or travel. If a buyer could explain it to a colleague after one viewing, keep it.

RS PRO brand character video

RS PRO sells wiring and connectivity products. Its CGI film hands the story to a branded robot that does the work on screen.

What works here:

  • The robot stands in for the brand. It guides the viewer through industrial tasks, so RS PRO reads as a partner, not just a supplier.
  • The work is shown end to end. An Ethernet cable is crimped, then fitted into a network rack.
  • Then a measurement tool checks it. Install and verify in one sequence, and the reliability claim makes itself.

The move: If your brand promise is “smart choice,” give it a character that acts it out. If the character only waves at the camera, give it a task.

Pick your story

Which story does your brand need?

The short answer: ask what your buyer still wonders about you. Why change, why you, what they get, or how it works? The answer picks the move. One question per film. If two are loud, make two short films instead of one long one.

If your buyer asksUseDo thisExample to copy
“Why should I change?”Common EnemyName the old way before your product appearsAmplitude
“Why you, not a rival?”Big BeliefOne idea about the buyer’s world, logo lastAirwallex
“What do I get?”Short PromiseA few repeatable words, one scene eachBlumira
“How does it work?”Borrowed PictureOne familiar image for the invisible partNetApp

Now go back to Airwallex. 90 seconds, and the voiceover never says its name. The story was about the viewer’s spark the whole time.

The move: write your brand story script, then delete your company name from it. If it still matters to your buyer, keep it. If it falls apart, you wrote a company history.

A company history tells buyers where you’ve been. A brand story tells them where they’re going with you.

FAQ

Brand Story Video Examples FAQ

What is a brand story video?
A brand story video is a short film that tells buyers why a company exists and why that should matter to them. It answers one buyer question: why change, why you, what they get or how it works. Sword Health does it in one line: “Healthcare today treats the symptom, not the story.”
How long should a brand story video be?
Most of the 14 examples on this page run between 1 and 2 minutes. Three run just 30 seconds: Emburse, Micron and NetApp. The longest is Sword Health at 2:07. Short versions work for one idea and a feed. Longer ones earn their time only when every scene answers the same buyer question.
What’s the difference between a brand story video and a company history video?
A company history video tells buyers where you have been: founding, milestones, growth. A brand story tells them why your company matters to their work now. History can appear in a brand story, but only when it explains the belief. Airwallex never mentions its own past at all.
Does a B2B brand story video need the founder on camera?
No. A founder on camera works when the founder’s reason for starting is the buyer’s reason for buying. If it isn’t, the story turns into a biography. For that format, see these founder story videos. A belief your buyer shares beats a biography they have to sit through.
Should a brand story video show the product?
Yes, but after the story is set up. Emburse shows its finance dashboard only after the old office of paper files. Amplitude shows its AI chat screen after naming the enemy. A product screen in the first seconds turns a brand story into a demo, and the buyer starts judging features.
Should a brand story video use a voiceover?
Usually, yes. A voiceover carries the belief while the visuals carry the picture. NetApp’s film is one warning, one question and one answer, read over nature scenes. Add captions either way, because many buyers watch on mute.
Can a brand story video be animated?
Yes. Animation often suits brand stories better than live action, because it can show what a camera can’t. LuLu Money uses 2D animation for overseas workers. Moderna uses molecular animation for mRNA. RS PRO gives its brand a CGI robot. AWS uses simple line art around a patient.
What makes a B2B brand story different from a consumer one?
A B2B buyer rarely decides alone. Your story has to survive being forwarded to a buying committee that never saw the first ad. So it needs a line people can repeat, like Blumira’s detection, response and expertise. Then it needs a reason a finance or IT lead would accept.
Do customer testimonials belong in a brand story video?
They can, if the customer’s story proves the belief. One customer naming one change beats three customers saying they love the brand. Keep it to a line or two. If the customer becomes the whole film, you’ve made one of the customer testimonial videos instead.
How should a brand story video end?
Hand the viewer a role. Amplitude ends on “What will you build?” Emburse ends on “When you manage the money, you manage the future.” Airwallex ends on “Make those ideas happen.” Then show your logo and one clear next step, like a demo request or a visit to your product page.
How do you show company values in a brand story video?
Show a value as a decision, not a word on screen. Blumira doesn’t say it values its customers. It offers security expertise at no extra cost. Pick one value your buyer would notice in their bill or their week. The format built around values alone is the core values video.
When should you update your brand story video?
Update it when your answer to “why you?” changes. Emburse’s film marks that shift in its own title: “From Expense Management to Emburse Expense Intelligence.” A new category, a new buyer or a new enemy all need a new story. A new logo alone usually doesn’t.
How do you measure a brand story video?
Pick the goal first, because brand stories rarely drive a click on their own. Track watch time and where viewers drop off. Then check whether sales calls start sounding different. If prospects repeat your belief or your promise back to you, the story is working.

Patterns from the analysis

Brand Story Video Best Practices

Seven of the films above were broken down from their full transcripts: Amplitude, Emburse, Sword Health, Airwallex, Micron, Illumina and NetApp. Five patterns showed up. Seven is a small sample, so read each count as what these seven did, not as market data.

Name Last

When should a brand story video say the company name?

Observation
Micron names itself in its third sentence. NetApp names itself in its fourth. Emburse, Sword Health and Illumina name the product only after the problem or question. Airwallex and Amplitude never say their names in the voiceover at all.
Data
7 of 7 opened on something other than the company. 2 of 7 never said the company name aloud.
The move
Open on your buyer’s world, not your name. Your logo can wait until the viewer agrees with the idea.
Open Question

Should a brand story video open with a question?

Observation
Emburse asks why finance teams are stuck in the past. NetApp asks how to move fast while avoiding disaster. Illumina opens by asking about the future of disease. Amplitude asks what you should build. Airwallex, Micron and Sword Health open on statements instead.
Data
4 of 7 asked the viewer a question before the product appeared.
The move
Write the question your buyer asks on a bad day. Then make your brand the answer, not the opening.
Screen Second

Where does the product screen go in a brand story video?

Observation
Emburse shows its dashboard right after the paper-filled office. Sword Health shows chat screens after the split-care problem. Illumina shows lab dashboards after its opening question. Amplitude shows its AI chat after the enemy. Airwallex and NetApp show no product screen at all.
Data
4 of 7 showed a product or data screen, each one after the problem or question. 2 of 7 showed none.
The move
Let the story earn the screen. If your product shows up in the first shot, you’ve made a demo with a brand voiceover.
Viewer Ending

How should the last line of a brand story video sound?

Observation
Amplitude ends on “What will you build?” Emburse ends on “you manage the future.” Airwallex ends on “Make those ideas happen.” Micron, NetApp, Illumina and Sword Health end on the brand or the industry instead.
Data
3 of 7 handed the last line to the viewer, as a question, a “you” line or a command.
The move
End on what your buyer does next, not on what you are. A last line with “you” in it gets repeated in the sales call.
Proof Count

Should a brand story video include numbers?

Observation
Only Sword Health does, and only at the end: 800,000 members and over a billion in savings. The other six make their case with pictures, questions and one belief.
Data
1 of 7 used numbers as proof.
The move
If you have one proof number, put it after the story, not before. A number explains why to trust you. It rarely explains why to care.

How to plan

Where to use your brand story video

Put the story where buyers decide whether you are worth a closer look. That’s earlier than most teams think.

  • Homepage and about page. The first answer to “why you?” before anyone reads a feature list.
  • Sales decks and follow-ups. A short cut a champion can forward to the buying committee.
  • Paid social. The 30-second version, like Emburse, Micron or NetApp.
  • Recruiting and onboarding. New hires should be able to repeat the belief in one line.
  • Events and keynotes. The opening slot, before any product walkthrough.

Mission, awareness and reveal videos: where each one fits

Brand stories get filed under many names. The four moves above work across all of them. What changes is the job.

  • Mission videos. One Big Belief, said plainly. Most corporate mission videos fail when the mission is about the company instead of the buyer’s world.
  • Awareness videos. Short, repeatable, built for reach. A Common Enemy or a Borrowed Picture works best in brand awareness campaigns, because both land in seconds.
  • Reveal videos. A new name or logo needs a reason. Good brand reveal videos say what changed for the buyer, not just what changed on screen.
  • Purpose and values videos. A Short Promise, proven by decisions the buyer can check.

The move: name the job before the format. Reach, belief or change: pick one per film.

How do you write a brand story video script?

Write the last line first. Then the first line. Then the middle.

  • Buyer question. Why change, why you, what they get or how it works. Pick one.
  • Last line. What the buyer does or believes after watching. Amplitude’s is a question.
  • First line. The old way, the belief, the promise or the picture, before your name.
  • Middle. Three scenes at most, each one proving the first line.
  • Name test. Delete your company name. If the script still matters to the buyer, keep it.
  • Voice. Match your brand voice across the script, the captions and the end card.

Brand story video production process

Every brand story runs through the same three stages. Knowing them keeps the project from turning into a company history.

  • Pre-production. Set the buyer question, the move and the last line. Then the script, the style, the budget and the timeline.
  • Production. Shoot the scenes or design and animate them. Record the voiceover once the script is locked.
  • Post-production. Edit, add music and sound, get feedback in one round, then cut a 30-second version for social.

About the author

About Jai Ghosh

Jai Ghosh
Video Producer at Advids · LinkedIn

Jai Ghosh is a Video Producer at Advids, where he has planned and produced videos for B2B software and technology companies for 7 years. He works on product demos, explainer videos and brand videos, from the first script to the final cut, for clients from startups to enterprises.

Before Advids, Jai spent over 11 years in freelance media consulting, after starting out in digital journalism. He writes the Advids blog's breakdowns of product and demo videos, sorting real examples by the question each one answers for a buyer.

  • Focus: SaaS product demos, explainer videos and brand videos
  • Experience: 7 years at Advids, over 11 years in media consulting
  • Background: digital journalism

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