Skopes: UK Online Fashion Brand Maintains Its Edge by Providing Product Videos

Skopes, a United Kingdom-based men’s clothing company, provides a high-quality collection of men’s clothing.

It was founded in 1948 by Sydney Cope, It’s been 75 years since life for Skopes began.

The Skopes brand was well-known for its Hebden Bridge corduroy, cavalry twills, and for obtaining the best-worsted yarns from Huddersfield.

Nowadays, Skopes offers a wide selection of dashing suits for every event, designed to meet the needs of its customers.

They were looking for a feature that they wanted to implement using the Magento development services.

Challenges Faced By Skopes

Skopes recognizes the importance of product videos for its e-commerce store, especially for businesses in the clothing industry.

Because, when purchasing clothes from an e-commerce store, customers want to examine the design and fit of the garment in all its aspects.

Also adding high-quality, professional video to the product page can significantly improve how you reach and engage customers.

Therefore, to add the feature of uploading product videos directly from the local file system or using URLs of Vimeo, YouTube, CDN to their online store, they were looking for a solution.

To solve this challenge Skopes contacted Webkul via UVdesk ticket support.

In this case study, we’ll look at how Webkul helps Skopes through its Magento 2 extensions.

Video Player Solution for Skopes

Webkul’s powerful solutions helped resolve Skopes’ issues by providing a Video Player Extension for Magento 2.

The video player extension allowed Skopes to upload videos related to their product on their product page directly from the local file system to their Magento 2 store.

The Video player in the full-Screen option, in the image below,

This module allows the admin to upload multiple videos and images of a product.

This module is compatible with all product types, including simple, configurable, virtual, grouped, bundled, and downloadable products.

By using this module the admin can upload videos in mp4 and WebM format and increase the website performance.

Supports URLs from YouTube, Vimeo, and Content Delivery Network (CDN) for adding videos.

Apart from that, the admin can configure the thumbnail, enable auto-play, and also enable video looping.

Also, the admin can customize the primary colour and player options of the video player.

End Note

Webkul’s extension for the Magento 2 store helps Skopes overcome its challenges.

With the help of Webkul’s Video Player Extension for Magento 2, a UK men’s clothing manufacturer was able to overcome its challenges and achieve success.