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Price of a video greeting from Africa: four packages

A 40–60 second video: your message spoken out loud, your music, and from the Hit package up — photos and a message on the board. We film on the day of your order, and the finished file arrives as soon as 2 hours after payment.

  • 45,000+videos filmed
  • since 2021in business
  • 100+people on the team
  • No AIreal shoots
How it works

Why it works

Surprise. A recipient sees a card and a bouquet coming. A hello from another continent, not so much: for the first few seconds, the person simply can’t tell what’s happening on the screen.

Real people. Every video is made by real people, with no AI, deepfakes, auto-generation or green screen. The photos are printed, the board message is written by hand in chalk, and the dance is filmed in full.

A video lasts longer than the party. One customer played the video on a projector in a restaurant: the guests were reacting two seconds in, and a month after the milestone birthday people were still playing it. Since 2021, we’ve filmed more than 45,000 video greetings.

A greeting for any occasion

Watch finished video greetings: the teams and format are the same; only the text, music and photos change.
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Who it’s for and for what occasion

  • A friend’s birthday

    A short greeting by name to the team’s track — fun and affordable, Start level.

  • A husband’s or father’s milestone birthday

    If you need photos in the team’s hands and a favorite song, that’s Hit or Premium.

  • A video greeting for a coworker or boss

    A restrained message, a formal address by first name and patronymic, calm music. Gentlemen in Blue in their suits fit better here than Flex Squad.

  • A marriage proposal or a wedding invitation

    Direction is what works here: a script, cutaways, a large photo — King.

  • A company anniversary and a welcome for new hires

    A logo on the board plus video editing — Premium and up.

  • Advertising for a business

    Custom videos are filmed for Reels, TikTok and Shorts; for companies, we work under a contract and provide accounting documents.

What’s in the video

The video will show what you filled in on the order form.
  • The team says your message (up to 75 characters) out loud It’s included in all packages, including Start.
  • A board message of up to 60 characters is written by hand in chalk Available from the Hit package.
  • A printed A4 photo in the team’s hands This is how photo and video come together. Also from Hit up: two are included free.
  • A dance to the track you choose In Start, the music comes from the team’s playlist; from Hit up, any music you choose.

Three steps to order

From choosing a team to your finished video
  1. You choose a team and a package, then fill in the details

    Your message, the board text, photos and a link to music on YouTube or RuTube. The track must be open for listening.

  2. You pay the way that suits you

    Visa, Mastercard or Apple Pay (available in 50+ countries, except Russia). You don’t have to pay right away — send a request, and a manager will go over the details and help you place the order.

  3. You get the finished MP4 file by email, Telegram or WhatsApp

    We film on the day of your order, and the video arrives as soon as 2 hours after payment. No registration or account needed.

Video greeting from Africa

Choose the package that’s right for you

Four packages — from an affordable hello to a VIP show. Start $24, Hit $63, Premium $95, King from $113. Just need a laugh for the group chat? You can order the Start package. If the video needs photos and a name on the board, it’s Hit. Premium covers corporate and advertising projects, and King covers a milestone birthday with a projector in the hall.

King package — VIP filming of a greeting from Africa
★ VIP

King

A VIP script with no limits
  • A large 1m×1m photo or up to 8 A4 photos
  • Personal script
  • Legend script/Song from The Serenaders
  • Any team
  • Full direction of your greeting
  • Dynamic cutaways, title cards and inserts
Package price
from $ 113

Want to try the format first? Take Start. Want photos in the frame and your own track? Most people choose Hit. Need advanced editing options for business tasks? Go with Premium.

The final price is calculated at checkout: some options are paid separately.

25 teams to choose from

Team catalog

In the team and occasion catalog you’ll find 25 options: 24 teams and the Legend VIP script, which is available only in King. Start offers seven teams, Hit seventeen, Premium twenty-four. For a tough-guy recipient — Flex Squad or Red Caps; for a reserved one — Gentlemen in Blue; for a gentle tone — The Serenaders.
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Ready-made lines for the board

Click “Copy” and paste it into the field at checkout — or write your own, up to 60 characters.
  • Chalkboard message

    “60 characters max, be brief. Ready-made lines to use as is:”

  • “Happy birthday, Andrey! You’re the best”

  • “Mom, thank you for being you”

  • “Seryoga, happy 30th

    “Hang in there”

  • “Irina Petrovna, happy Women’s Day (March 8)”

  • “Marry me, Katya”

  • “Natalya, happy company anniversary”

  • “To the best sales team

    “Privet iz Afriki”

  • “We miss you, come home soon, Pasha”

  • “We don’t accept texts with profanity — not even as a joke.”

Guarantees and payment

Our guarantees

We take responsibility for the result — we film on the day of your order, support you at every stage and resolve any issues properly.

  • A reshoot if something goes wrong.
  • We keep to the stated production times.
  • We answer before, during and after your order.

For the full terms, see “Our guarantees”.

Still from the video about our guarantees: the Privet iz Afriki team filming

Payment methods

We accept payment from any country — you choose the method at the last step of checkout.

  • Pay in US dollars Visa, Mastercard, Apple Pay · cards from 50+ countries except Russia
  • Request without payment A manager will contact you to clarify the details
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The service in detail

Custom video greeting — the process is simple: you send the text, music and photos, a team in Africa films the video for one specific person, and the finished video comes to you as a file. Video greeting prices come in four packages: from $24 to $113 and up. The difference between them isn’t the length but what goes into making the video.

What makes up the price of a video greeting

We don’t price a video by hours of filming. Three things affect the price.

First, which teams are open to you. Start has seven, Hit seventeen, Premium twenty-four, and the top package all 25 catalog options.

Second, what goes into the video. A board with a message, the number of photos, your own track, a logo or a drawing on the board are unlocked starting with a certain package.

Third, how the video is processed after filming: editing, titles, an intro, cutaways.

Then come the extras: you pick them yourself. The final price is calculated at checkout: you see it before you pay, and there are no hidden fees.

Price of each package

Start — $24. Seven teams to choose from, a landscape video, music from the team’s ready-made playlist and your message spoken out loud. There’s no board and no photo here — it’s a short video greeting with a name and a dance.

Hit — $63. Seventeen teams, a message on the board, up to two A4 photos at no extra cost, any music you choose and a choice of format: landscape 16:9 or portrait 9:16 for Stories. The usual choice for a birthday: this is where the video greeting becomes truly personal.

Premium — $95. Twenty-four teams, up to five photos, video editing, a logo or drawing on the board. This is the usual choice for corporate greetings and ad videos for social media.

King — from $113. The whole catalog is open, including the Legend VIP script. The price includes a personal script and direction, a large 1×1 m photo or up to eight A4 photos, a legend told by our crew’s leader or a song from The Serenaders, cutaways and intros. This is no longer a hello but a little show.

Paid extras

Extras are added to the package price. Nothing is added automatically.

  • Express — +$15: your video goes to the front of the queue.
  • Large photo, 1×1 m — +$50. It costs more than a regular A4 photo because printing takes up to three days; this option can’t be combined with Express.
  • Video editing — +$14. This kind of video processing adds titles, an intro and color correction, and removes the prompter from the recording.
  • Extra A4 photo — from $5 for one to $25 for five.
  • Longer video — +$40, if forty seconds isn’t enough.
  • Two camera angles — +$45: one scene is filmed from two points.

How to choose photos for the shoot

A photo appears in the video from the Hit package up: the team holds a printed A4 photo, kisses it, makes a gesture or tears it up — you choose the action. Two photos are free in Hit, up to five in Premium, and up to eight or one large 1×1 m photo in the top package. Photo and video work together, but the number of photos isn’t what counts: in forty seconds, one recognizable photo holds viewers’ attention, not a gallery. Pick a photo where the face is large and well lit — the image is printed on paper, and small details get lost.

What’s included at no extra cost

Filmed by real people, not by a neural network: every photo is printed, the message is written by hand, and there’s no green screen. The finished 40–60 second MP4 file arrives by email, Telegram or WhatsApp — you can download it right away. If you’re not happy with the quality, revisions are made within 24 hours after you receive it; if the video doesn’t match your brief, we’ll reshoot it. There’s a separate quality control team, and customer data is not shared with third parties. We publish videos only with your direct permission.

How the video is filmed

Work on your video starts right after payment: the order goes to the team on the day you place it. Our main filming base is the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Pyramid Drummers and Desert Caravan film in Egypt, at the foot of the pyramids and in the desert. The team learns your message, sets the board and the printed photos in front of the camera, puts on the track you sent — and dances.

Filming happens on the day of your order, and the finished file arrives as soon as 2 hours after payment. The Express option moves your order to the front of the queue when every hour counts. The project has been running since 2021, and the team has more than 112 people.

How this differs from a card or a custom poem

A card or a custom poem gives you text. Here the greeting is said out loud — in your words, with the recipient’s name, to their music. A personalized video greeting is hard to repeat: custom videos like these are filmed once and for one person.

This isn’t an animation or a photo slideshow where a name is dropped into a ready-made template. Nor is it a music video: a professional video with studio lighting and a film crew is a different service with a different budget. A music video needs a location, a budget estimate and a timeline; none of that is needed here.

Formats, length, social media

The video is 40–60 seconds long. That’s enough for a name, a greeting and a couple of personal lines. And people watch it to the end. From the Hit package up, you can choose the orientation: 16:9 for a screen at the venue, and 9:16 for Stories and short videos on social media. You send the finished video to the recipient yourself — as a message or a file, so distance doesn’t matter.

Payment, discounts, documents

Here’s how payment works: Visa, Mastercard or Apple Pay (available in 50+ countries, except Russia). There’s also a “pay later” option — a request without prepayment. For companies, we work under a contract and provide accounting documents. The second order gets a 10% discount, the third and later ones 15%.

Advertising and corporate projects

Businesses come here for the same surprise effect, and the videos are made by the same rules. An ad video from Africa gets watched to the end where a regular ad layout gets scrolled past, and the result goes to Reels and Shorts with no extra adaptation. A logo or drawing on the board is available from Premium, and video editing with titles and an intro is added as an option. For companies, we work under a contract and provide accounting documents. Using the finished video in an advertising campaign must be agreed with us separately — this is a condition of our work, not a formality.

Limits worth knowing in advance

We don’t accept texts or songs with profanity. You must be 18 or older to place an order. The team says the message in English, or in Russian on request; we don’t promise other languages. The music link must be open for listening: RuTube or a similar service works.

Questions and answers

  • How much does a video greeting cost?

    From $24 for Start to $113 and up for King. In between are Hit at $63 and Premium at $95. On top, you can add extras: Express $15, video editing $14, a large 1×1 m photo $50, extra photos from $5 to $25, a longer video $40, two camera angles $45. The final price is calculated at checkout: you see the cost before you pay, and there are no hidden fees. The difference between packages isn’t the video length but what goes into the shoot and how many teams you can choose from: the length is the same everywhere, 40–60 seconds.

  • How fast will the finished video arrive?

    We film on the day of your order, and the file arrives as soon as 2 hours after payment. The Express option for $15 puts your order at the front of the queue. The only exception is the large 1×1 m photo: printing takes up to three days, so this option can’t be combined with Express. The project has been running since 2021, and filming on the day of the order is our standard practice, not an exception.

  • What language does the team speak the message in?

    In English, or in Russian on request. We don’t promise other languages. The spoken message is up to 75 characters, the board message up to 60; both fields fit a name and one short phrase. Keep the main idea and avoid ambiguity — the dance and the music will say the rest.

  • What if I don’t like the video?

    If you’re not happy with the quality, revisions are made within 24 hours after you receive the file. If the video doesn’t match your brief, we’ll reshoot it. Our quality control team keeps an eye on this. Write to us right after watching — that way we can get the video back into production faster.

  • Can I get a refund?

    Yes, if we didn’t complete the work through our own fault or if we agreed on it with you. In that case, we refund the full cost of the order — under the public offer (Kazakhstan), we review a refund request within 10 business days. The procedure is described there too; the offer is linked in the site footer. The contract is with a registered legal entity, so a refund is a procedure, not a goodwill gesture.

  • Will you accept any text?

    Almost any, except texts and songs with profanity — we don’t take those orders, not even as a joke. You must be 18 or older to place an order. Everything else is up to you: the team will say a name, a nickname, a pet name — whatever you write in the form. One more condition concerns music: the track link must be open for listening; YouTube or RuTube works.

  • How can I pay, and what about documents for a company?

    Visa, Mastercard or Apple Pay (available in 50+ countries, except Russia). You can send a request without prepayment: a manager will contact you and help with the details. For companies, we work under a contract and provide accounting documents. The second order gets a 10% discount, the third and later ones 15%.

  • What if the recipient lives abroad?

    Nothing extra. We send the finished MP4 to your email, Telegram or WhatsApp, and you forward it to the recipient in any country. No shipping, no customs: a digital video gift opens right on a phone. That’s why people often choose this format when the person is thousands of kilometers away but they want to congratulate them personally. We don’t share customer data with third parties, and we publish videos only with your direct permission.

  • How long is the video, and in what format does it arrive?

    40–60 seconds, as an MP4 file. From the Hit package up, you choose the orientation: 16:9 if the video will be watched on a big screen, or 9:16 for Stories. Photos for the shoot are A4; how many depends on the package: two in Hit, up to five in Premium, up to eight or one large 1×1 m photo in King.

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A team from Africa with a greeting poster

Order a video greeting: price and timing

Place your order — we’ll film on the day of your order, support you at every step and reshoot if something goes wrong. Still thinking? Send a request without payment, and a manager will help you choose a team and the text for the board. Start with the first step on our home page.
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