r/internalcomms

A few weeks ago I posted here asking how long it takes teams to create branded videos from events. I was not expecting much but the response was really eye opening. Almost everyone described the same pain. Hours of work, mismatched fonts and colors, people who are not designers being forced to do design work.
So I actually started building something to fix it. The idea is simple. You dump in your raw photos and video clips from an event and it automatically assembles a polished branded video for you. No templates to fill in. No editing. Just your real footage transformed automatically the same way your iPhone creates Memories from your camera roll.
I am genuinely curious whether people here think this is worth pursuing or whether I am solving a problem that is not actually that painful in practice.
Two honest questions:
Does this sound like something your team would actually use?
What would make you trust a tool like this enough to let it represent your brand automatically?

We track time off in a Google Sheet and I'm the only one who updates it. My team just pings me on Slack or sends an email when they want days off and I do the data entry. I want a simple tool where they can request vacation themselves, connected to Slack or email. Anyone have recommendations?

Hey everyone,
I work in the employee experience/intranet/internal comms software space and I’m doing some research into how IC professionals are genuinely incorporating AI into their day-to-day - not the theoretical stuff, but what’s actually happening in practice.

I caught up with some IC professionals earlier this year and AI was a hot topic.

A few questions I’d love your thoughts on:

•	What tasks are you using AI for right now? (Writing, summarising, analytics, something else?)  
•	Has it changed how much time you spend on certain things?  
•	What’s working well and where has it fallen flat or created new headaches?  
•	Are there things you wish AI could do for internal comms that it can’t yet?

I’ll be transparent: I’m gathering this to inform how tools in our space should be developing (and for my own knowledge). Happy to share a summary of what comes back if there’s interest.

No vendor pitches here,just genuinely curious what life looks like on the ground for IC pros in 2025/26. Would love to hear from teams of all sizes.

How long does your team actually spend creating one branded video? Trying to understand if this is just my company or universal.

I work in corporate communications and something has been bothering me for a while.

Every time we have a company event, a product launch or an internal campaign someone on my team has to spend hours creating a branded video. We are talking about uploading raw footage, trimming clips, matching our brand colors and fonts, finding background music, exporting in the right format. The whole process.

Most of us are not video editors. We never trained for this. It just became part of the job somehow.

I started asking colleagues at other companies and they all said the same thing. It takes between two and four hours for a simple two minute reel. Some said even longer.

I am genuinely trying to understand if this is a widespread problem.

A few questions for anyone willing to share:

How long does it take your team to produce one branded video from raw footage?

Who usually ends up doing it and do they have a design background?

What tools do you currently use and are you happy with them?

No agenda here. Just trying to map out if this pain is real beyond my own bubble. Would love honest answers.

Hi everyone! Really happy to have found this group. I am CCO of a small graduate research institute that punches way above its weight in visibility. Increasingly I am asked to work on internal comms, which I love, and honestly I would love to do more of it, both because to me it is so meaningful and because my institution would so clearly benefit.

What I am finding is that some people see a clear need, and some people view internal comms as a means to an end, but without any strategy underpinning it or real strategic merit to the work. In other words, getting the information out there *is* the strategy, as far as they are concerned.

Do any of you face that, and if so, are there ways that you counter it? Last week I spent a lot of time working on a plan to share some difficult news, including a memo to department heads, a plan for a meeting, etc. With everyone else on the cc line, the CFO said that he would send comments, and then he sent me (but no one else) a complete rewrite filled with flowery and complicated language that sounded like it was trying to obfuscate the issue -- although I actually don't think that was his intent. When I asked him to walk me through why he did it, he basically said, I think mine sounds better.

How do you help colleagues understand that we aren't writing for ourselves, we are writing for a specific audience that may sometimes be served by flowery language, but not always, and never just because it sounds prettier?

Thanks!

Has anyone managed to crack the dreaded in-person Town Hall format? We run 6 annually with our leadership team and engagement remains fairly low.

As far as LTs go they're pretty 'normal' / approachable and they do value creativity, so I'm looking for any ways to add a fun element to these sessions to help build connectivity/visibility and move away from solely relying on dry corporate updates to fill time. I was thinking of trying a "guess the leader by their childhood photo" segment for the next one, but if anyone has any inspired ideas they'd be willing to share then I'd love to hear from you.

Worth also mentioning the more cost effective the better, as we are a non-profit IC team of two!

our company is finally at the point where we need to stop relying on a shared Slack channel for internal IT/HR questions and actually implement something more structured.

We’re in need an internal chatbot for employees with a knowledge base that can help answer repetitive questions. Anyone here rolled something out that for your team or using a specific tool for this?

I’ve been an “everything” marketing professional for a 5 years now. I’ve just somehow ended up in in-house marketing roles in small organisations where they just need 1 or 2 people to do everything. Of course this does mean I’ve just done a decent job at everything rather than a fantastic job at one thing. Anyway due to our organisation growing a lot in the last few years, we’re building capacity and I’m transitioning into specialising in internal comms. I’m excited about this as I’m genuinely passionate about team culture and creating a sense of togetherness.
We currently have an internal newsletter but that’s about it. I want to know what else is working out there? We’re 150 people company. I have the CEOs ear so I’d like to raise some good initiatives. Though I get the sense he sees internal comms as a small admin job which is what it has traditionally been. I’d like to enter this new phase with a bang :)

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In the title really - I've accepted a job that involves consulting for C-suite level to communicate effectively internally, with a focus on frontline employees.

Are there any books that anyone can recommend that includes speeches, presentations and tone?