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Anticipation is contagious! If you're excited (or nervous) about an upcoming event, odds are, you're not the only one. Why not use our simple but powerful countdown generator to create a countdown clock, displaying the days, hours, minutes and seconds until the date of the event. You can share your newly created countdown, so it becomes a focal point for everyone involved.
We've seen countdown timers used to generate buzz and anticipation around a party or vacation. Teams use them to stay on track and focussed, by ensuring team members have a sense of the time remaining until a critical milestone date. Event promoters and online marketers have reported significant boosts in conversion rates by using an online contdown timer to create urgency and drive action. Even NASA, uses a giant outdoor countdown clock to build anticipation and focus.
Countdowns are "sharing magnets"! A countdown to a date that means something to you and your network of friends or customers is something you want to share, right? Well guess what, so do your friends, and their friends.
We run a relatively small website but we see 200-500 social shares per day of countdowns that are displayed on our website. That does not including the thousands of our countdowns that have been shared around and embedded on other websites.
Recently a Seattle household made the news and went "viral" on Instagram with a simple display of the number of days remaining in Trump's current presidency term. Tom Petty fans were intruiged by a countdown that appeared on the official Tom Petty website in early 2018. The hugely popular video game, Fortnite received a huge amount of attention and press coverage after introducing mysterious, in-game counters, leaving fans fascinated as to what they were counting down to.Increase conversion rates using the magic of urgencyAs an online marketer or e-commerce company what's your worst enemy? For many it's customer procrastination. They want what you offer but they can always buy it later. Maybe they'll wait until they have more information, more money or more time. There are a million reasons to "do it later".
Dominant and successful online businesses such as Ebay, Amazon and Booking.com make extensive use of urgency as a means to drive action and increase conversions. You can barely visit a successful online store, or ticketing/booking website without being exposed to urgency or scarcity-based marketing tactics. "Less than 5 tickets left at this price", "Hurry, only 3 days until sale ends" or "Order by 5pm to receive next day shipping". These companies are ruthlessly analytical and their tactics are driven by data and experimentation. They use these tactics because they have proven to be effective. Countdown timers are a crucial tool in your urgency-marketing toolbox.Busy? It won't take a moment with our simple but powerful countdown maker!I made this quick video to show how simple it is to create a countdown and embed in it a blog or website.
Mobile web browsing has exploded - if you run a website you may find that more than half your visitors are using smartphones or tablets. Our countdown clocks use mobile friendly code and run very little code on the user's device meaning they won't slow down or otherwise interfere with the user experience. We go beyond mobile-friendly by auto-generating a double-resolution version of your countdown to take advantage of Retina, and other high-resolution displays that are common on many of today's most popular devices.
We have two layers of protection built in. Firstly, the code we issue is contained in an iframe, the browser's same-origin policy prevents the iframe content from accessing code in your page, effectivly isolating our code from your website's code. Secondly we serve all our countdowns over an encrypted connection, this prevents hackers from altering the countdown before it loads into your page.
We want your countdown clock to look great, always. Every browser and operating system displays web content a little differently though. Assuming that every browser will render our countdowns with the antialiasing-level, font leading and kerning and effect compositing we want was unthinkable. That's why all our countdowns are pre-rendered by our team of Mac OS X servers so they look just right. We then cache the rendered content at edge locations all over the world so the can be delivered to your visitor, fast.
Page load time is an important factor in visitor satisfaction as well as in search engine ranking algorithms. Be careful when using third party widgets as some of them contain blocking JavaScript code or large files which can negatively impact page load times. Because our countdowns are pre-rendered the code download is very small. We also use edge caching strategies to deliver your countdowns from the location nearest to each user. When we do need to load content from the main server we use sophisticated in-memory caching to pull the data directly from RAM which is faster than reading from a hard disc.
What are you looking forward to? See the seconds tick down to your vacation, wedding, or retirement. Share your countdown by copying the web address (URL). The countdown automatically adjusts for DST changes in the selected location.
Set the hour, minute, and second for the online countdown timer, and start it. Alternatively, you can set the date and time to count days, hours, minutes, and seconds till (or from) the event. The timer triggered alert will appear, and the pre-selected sound will be played at the set time.
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So today I was trying to troubleshoot a countdown timer video that I included on a landing page. I made sure all the settings were set up properly so that it auto-plays the video, and the video controls are hidden for the user. The whole idea is to create pressure to incentivize the audience to fill out my landing form quickly. However, I realized that if at any point the user travels away to another tab and then comes back, the countdown timer video will pause and a play button will appear (which obviously negates the illusion I'm trying to create of increasing the pressure for them to submit the form). I spent a good amount of time troubleshooting this with Nick from HubSpot today and he and I tested a few different options to no avail.
I would really love to formally request that a module be added for HubSpot users for a countdown timer. It would be great if that were an integral module option in HubSpot to add to a landing page, hopefully to prevent the countdown timer from stopping/pausing if the audience travels away from the page.
We see countdown timers used online through various shopping outlets, whether you're placing an order for a discounted item on a website or getting those highly coveted Taylor Swift tickets, that countdown timer provides just the right amount of pressure to incentivize the audience to fill out the form. In my specific instance, I have a Facebook boosted post offering a free planning guide if they click on the link to my landing page. Then once they get to the landing page it has the countdown timer video I made (in Canva and then uploaded to HubSpot as an mp4 video file). And in the video I said they would get a 2nd guide free if they submit the form within 3 minutes. I know that this method works to get people to submit the form. I just wish the video play for my countdown timer weren't so wonky.
I'm sure an integral countdown timer module in HubSpot would deliver the pressure I want to create more effectively, and all would benefit from having that option.
Great idea and would love to see this as well. We've used deadline funnel and emaildyno to create timers in the meantime - they have their limitations but we've made them work for what we need but would definitely love a solution native to HubSpot!
I want to implement something just like this, with a countdown timer autuomatically showing the next upcoming item from a list (in my case a list of operatonal deadlines). I am a total newbie with Automate and any advice would be very welcome!
At some point there was definitely a countdown timer for the 14 day review period. My memory is that once you got into only 1 day left, it would show a countdown in hours. Does anyone know if this is still the case? If so, does it show the countdown in the hosting dashboard or elsewhere?
I am not aware the hourly countdown timer still exists Christopher. You are prompted by both email and through the message page how many days left you have to leave a specific review, but I have only been in a position where I would like to have seen this information once and that was some considerable time ago.
@Christopher, in my experience, the "countdown" starts when the first e-mail is sent asking you to review the guest. For instance, if you get the "submit a review" e-mail at 1:45pm then you have until 1:45pm on the 14th day to leave a review. But I do not know of an official timer. I tested this once and this was how it worked out but I am not sure if it is still this way.
@Amy1975 This article is older. There is now a review countdown clock that can be seen in the message thread with the guest. On the last day, this will countdown to minutes (when refreshing your screen.) Leave this guest a review in the last 2 minutes.
Thank you @Emilia42 , you have assisted me greatly in locating the countdown clock.
It is not under the Review page where you see the status of all your reviews, that shows the countdown days only. It will eventually get to 0 days to review and does not show the hours or minutes. To see the clock in hours and minutes, with your help I've located it from the Inbox, clicked on the message thread of the booking in question, and then the booking details show up on the far right hand side in a column in the browser or tap and open up the booking details in the app, and there I see the countdown now in hours. Thank you, I would not have figured that out without your help.