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Video analytics for employee onboarding

Cinema8’s video analytics help HR and learning teams understand how new employees interact with onboarding videos. Heatmaps highlight which steps are rewatched or skipped, while completion metrics show where clarity drops. These insights make it easier to refine training materials, improve explanations and support new hires as they learn tools and processes. Stronger onboarding videos help teams scale training with confidence.

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Cinema8 helps HR and learning teams understand how new employees engage with their onboarding videos. With Cinema8’svideo analytics, you can see which sections are replayed, skipped or abandoned, making it easier to identify steps that need clearer guidance. Heatmaps and interaction insights highlight where new hires struggle, enabling teams to refine training videos, adjust pacing and strengthen explanations. These improvements support smoother onboarding, reduce early confusion and help new employees learn key processes more confidently.

Analyse your onboarding videos

How to analyse onboarding videos with Cinema8

Use engagement insights, heatmaps and completion data to refine onboarding videos and help new employees learn more effectively.

Step 1

Upload your onboarding videos to Cinema8 in bulk, via API, or individually. Once published you'll start seeing the analytics as soon as people view the content.

Step 2

Review drop-offs, skipped sections and repeated rewinds. These patterns reveal which explanations feel unclear and which steps may require improved pacing.

Step 3

Refine your onboarding videos or supporting materials based on your insights. Run A/B tests when needed to compare versions and track improvements across your learning content.

Why use Cinema8’s video analytics for employee onboarding?

Cinema8 helps HR and learning teams understand exactly how new employees interact with onboarding content. Heatmaps, interaction data and replay patterns reveal where clarity drops or instructions feel overwhelming, making it easier to refine explanations and strengthen learning materials. These insights help organisations improve the quality of their onboarding videos, support faster adaptation to tools and processes and create a more confident, well-prepared workforce from day one.

How Cinema8 helps onboarding teams through video analytics

Spot unclear steps through replay behaviour

Improve onboarding flow with clearer guidance

Help new hires learn processes more confidently

Strengthen tool and platform training during onboarding

Onboarding often involves learning new software or internal tools. Cinema8’s analytics show which parts of these videos cause hesitation or confusion through heatmaps and interactive onboarding data. Updating those explanations or adding clearer visuals helps new employees learn systems more efficiently and reduces the number of early support requests.

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Someone is looking at an onboarding video's data with Cinema8's video analytics. They can see which sections of the video are most viewed as well as other data such as watch time, unique viewers, and total views.
Refine process walk-through videos using engagement data

HR and learning teams can analyse how new hires interact with step-by-step process videos. By identifying the points where viewers engage, rewind, or pause, teams can clarify instructions, simplify transitions and ensure employees understand the essential actions required for daily work. Stronger walk-throughs reduce early training bottlenecks and boost onboarding confidence.

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Improve cultural and values introductions with better pacing

Culture and values videos help new hires understand the organisation, but long intros or rushed explanations can affect engagement. Analytics reveal where viewers lose focus or skip ahead, allowing teams to adjust pacing, tighten messaging and create a more engaging onboarding experience for viewers.

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An HR team is analysing multiple onboarding videos at the same time to assess performance and see which parts of each video are viewed the most.
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Cinema8 has been instrumental in compiling all of the videos for a research project on employment for the blind or visually impaired, by offering an easy-to-use web-based platform for building Interactive Videos.

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Communications Coordinator / Mississippi State University

Cinema8 was chosen for its ease of use and ability to create interactive videos through an intuitive interface. The team received great support and reasonable pricing. leading to a renewal of their partnership. Cinema8's support helped them meet project deadlines.

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Media Consultant / Eastern Michigan University

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Cinema8’s analytics show how quickly new hires progress through key onboarding videos, such as tool introductions or process walk-throughs. By tracking completion rates and engagement with interactive video elements, HR and learning teams can see whether employees are consuming essential content on schedule. When certain videos are consistently delayed or abandoned, it may indicate blockers that affect time-to-productivity, prompting teams to simplify content, adjust scheduling or provide additional support around those topics.
By comparing engagement data across different sectors, such as sales, operations, engineering or regional teams, Cinema8 helps you see which groups struggle with which modules. For example, a process video might perform well for one team but show high drop-off for another. HR can then adapt content, add role-specific context or create alternative paths that align with local workflows, ensuring onboarding feels relevant and personalised.
Compliance and policy modules often need clear proof that employees have engaged with required information. Cinema8 shows who has completed which videos, how long they watched and which sections they revisited. This helps HR teams confirm that new hires have viewed mandatory content and identify where policies may need clearer explanation. When certain sections are repeatedly rewatched, it can signal that examples, next steps, or subtitles should be clarified to avoid misunderstandings later.
Cinema8 provides data that can be translated into simple, meaningful onboarding metrics. HR teams can summarise completion rates for critical modules, average engagement times and improvements after content updates. These insights and interaction reports can be shared with leadership to demonstrate how onboarding videos support faster ramp-up, fewer basic questions and more consistent understanding of key processes. Over time, trends across cohorts and hiring waves help show where investment in better content has made a measurable difference.
HR and learning teams can use Cinema8’s analytics to see where existing content underperforms. Modules with low completion, frequent rewinds or repeated feedback from managers often indicate a need for new or restructured content. Analytics also highlight which formats work best such as short explainers, tool demos or scenario-based videos, so future production can focus on styles that genuinely help new hires understand and retain information.