Motion The Agency vs Wyzowl (Two Explainer Video Processes Compared)

TL;DR

• Wyzowl has the deepest track record in explainer video, more than 4,000 videos since 2011, with unlimited revisions at every stage of a process that typically takes around six weeks.
• Motion The Agency delivers a 60 second explainer from 6 working days, with 2D and 3D range, in-house sound design on Premium and Enhanced, and a free custom sample made before you pay anything.
• Same product, very different processes. This article walks through both, from first contact to final delivery, so you can pick the one that fits how you work.
• Last updated July 2026. Every Wyzowl fact below comes from wyzowl.com, checked at that date. Where something isn't public, we say so.

You have a product that needs explaining, and you probably have a deadline too. A launch, a funding announcement, or a conference is already on the calendar. And if you’re on this stage where you have Motion The Agency and Wyzowl on your explainer video agency short list, you’re probably past the considering stage.

One thing for sure, we can comfortably say that Motion The Agency and Wyzowl will both make you an excellent custom explainer, so the real question isn't who can do it. It's what the next six weeks of your life look like with each of us, and that's what this article maps out.

First things first, we're Motion The Agency, one of the two names being compared, so read accordingly. We think the fairest way to handle that is to describe both processes exactly as each company's own website does, and to be plain about the stages where Wyzowl is simply better.

Day zero, before you spend a dime

With Wyzowl, the journey starts the way it does with most studios. You fill in a brief form, join a kickoff call with the team, and a quote comes back. The pricing is fixed with no hidden fees, though the figures themselves aren't on the pricing page, they're shared in that conversation. Nothing gets made until you commit.

With us, day zero produces work. You send the brief, and within 1 to 3 business days you receive a free custom sample, a storyboard or short animated clip built on your actual product by the team that would make the full video. No card details and no commitment up front. You decide whether to hire us with the evidence in front of you, which we'd argue is the only honest way to judge a creative studio.

That's the first real difference. One process asks for trust up front, the other tries to earn it first.

The first two weeks

Once Wyzowl starts, the project moves through a fixed sequence. A scripting stage first, then illustration and storyboarding, then animation, with your feedback and a firm sign-off gate at the end of each. Revisions are unlimited within every stage, which is Wyzowl's signature promise, and it's a genuinely reassuring way to work. Nothing moves forward until you've approved it.

Motion The Agency’s production runs differently. Script, design, animation and sound overlap wherever they safely can, with a dedicated account manager and project manager keeping the pieces aligned, and the published result is this. A 60 second explainer is delivered from 6 working days and a 90 second one from 8, with the exact timeline for every length and package published on the rate card, and our fast delivery option cuts those timelines further for 30% more. In other words, your video can be finished, mixed and delivered while a six week process is still weeks away from its halfway point. That pace is not theoretical. It's how Mirakl's first 2-minute explainer landed against a tight event deadline, the start of what became 8 projects and more than 30 videos in 7 months.

Weeks three to six

Around week six, Wyzowl's explainer arrives too. Custom illustration matched to your brand, professional voiceover, royalty free music and sound effects, editing, all included in one fixed price, with every stage signed off by you along the way. It will be a good video. The six weeks bought you certainty at every step, and for plenty of teams that trade is exactly right.

The question is what those extra weeks are worth in your calendar. If the explainer is tied to a date, they can be the difference between launching with video and launching without it. And if they're not, it's still a month of feedback loops, sign-off meetings and waiting that a faster process hands back to you. By week six on our side, clients are usually briefing the second or third video.

What happens after the first video

For a lot of SaaS teams, the first explainer turns out to be the start rather than the whole job. The product keeps shipping, campaigns keep launching, and each one needs video that matches the last. Wyzowl's answer to that is VideoFlow, its subscription option. Ours is a video production subscription from £2,920 per month, with a dedicated account manager and project manager and edited videos coming back within days of a brief. ClickUp ran more than 30 projects through it in the first six months, and buying the same scope project by project would have cost £101,872 more. If ongoing video is a sensible possibility for you, it's worth pricing both paths before you start.

What it costs, and when you find out

Both companies sell fixed prices, so neither will surprise you with an invoice. The difference is when you learn the number. Wyzowl shares its pricing after you enquire. Ours is published before you ever talk to us. The rate card starts at £2,700 per video, a typical 60 second explainer runs £3,900 to £4,500, the timeline sits next to every price, and each project carries a 14-day money-back guarantee. If you want a tailored number in two minutes without giving anyone your email, the video cost calculator exists for exactly that.

Fixed is good. Fixed and visible is better, especially when the budget needs sign-off from someone who wants numbers before a call.

The sound, the style, and the range

Wyzowl's style is custom 2D animation, illustrative and consistent, refined across thousands of videos. If a classic 2D explainer is the brief, that consistency is a strength, and its all-inclusive package covers the audio with royalty free music and sound effects as standard.

We build wider and deeper. Premium 2D and full 3D animation under one roof, so the style can stretch when your product deserves a hero shot flat illustration can't deliver. And on Premium and Enhanced, sound gets a specialist rather than a basic library. Our in-house sound designer builds the audio alongside the animation, custom effects timed to the motion and music chosen for the brand. Watch any recent piece from our explainer video service with the volume up and you'll hear the difference before you see it.

Where Wyzowl genuinely wins

An honest comparison names these plainly, so here they are. Wyzowl has made more explainer videos than almost any studio in the industry, over 4,000 for more than 2,000 companies including JotForm, Capital One and Mavenlink, and it has been refining the same process since 2011.

Unlimited revisions at every stage is a promise very few studios match, and if revision safety is what lets you sign off the budget, that promise matters. The all-inclusive package is simple to buy. And for teams that want ongoing videos inside that same system, VideoFlow, its subscription option, extends it.

If you read all that and thought "that's the certainty I want", pick Wyzowl, it has done this thousands of times. We'd rather you choose well than choose us for the wrong reasons.

Both processes compared

All claims taken from each company's own public pages, last checked July 2026.

Which one is best for you

Pick Wyzowl if predictability is the whole brief. The staged process, the sign-off gates and the unlimited revisions exist to remove risk, and 14 years of doing exactly this is the proof it works. Six weeks is the price of that certainty, and for many teams it's a fair one.

Pick Motion The Agency if the calendar is tight, the product deserves 2D and 3D range, and sound matters to you. You'll know within 3 business days whether our craft convinces you, because you'll be holding a sample of it, and the finished video follows in working days rather than weeks.

And if this explainer is really the first of many, test the partner rather than the video. Ship the first project, and when the volume becomes real our video production subscription runs from £2,920 per month with a dedicated account manager and project manager. That's the road Mirakl took, and ClickUp's 30 plus projects in six months started with a single brief too. For that comparison, our subscription head-to-head with Superside covers what to look for.

Conclusion

In conclusion, Motion The Agency and Wyzowl will both make you a custom explainer you can be proud of, and the choice comes down to the journey rather than the destination. Wyzowl offers the most proven staged process in the category, unlimited revisions as a safety net, and a track record measured in thousands of videos. Motion The Agency offers finished work before you pay, prices and timelines published side by side, premium 2D and 3D with specialist sound, and delivery measured in working days rather than weeks.

So before you brief either of us, look at your calendar and be honest about what it's telling you. If there's room for a careful six week journey and revision safety is what gets the budget approved, the veteran has earned your shortlist. If the date is close, the product needs range, or you'd simply rather see evidence than promises, the faster process that starts with finished work is the safer bet, not the riskier one. We'll happily go first either way. If you feel we could be a great fit for your project, feel free to request a free sample and book a call with us.

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