External industry example · Retail · ~2,000 stores
Five Below: 100+ training videos on the budget that bought five.
Agency videos cost about $12,000 each, so $60,000 a year bought five.
Not a Probbit project. Results are reported by the cited sources and have not been independently audited by Probbit.
Reported by the source below. Not a Probbit project.
Five Below100+ training videos on the budget that bought five.
- Challenge
- Agency videos cost about $12,000 each, so $60,000 a year bought five.
- What they changed
- An eight-person team made AI video its default and let trainers create.
- Training approach
- Branded AI-presenter videos edited from the script, plus short LMS recaps.
- Impact
- 97% lower production cost
- 100+ videos in a year for about $40,000
- 90%+ learner favourability
Source: Synthesia case study
Probbit’s production perspective
How could you apply this idea?
For a retail training library, separate the recurring production format from the changing store instruction. A reusable scene structure can leave room for role, location and policy differences without asking every store to interpret the same general message.
- Which instruction is identical across stores, and which needs a local version?
- Who checks that the action shown matches the current store procedure?
- What will you measure beyond the number of videos produced?
What the result does not establish. A supplier-reported production saving does not predict your budget. Compare scripting, review, language versions and updates within the same scope.
Our planning suggestions are separate from the source-reported programme and results above.
Apply the idea to your training.
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induction that says the same thing to every joiner
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