Diwali corporate gift boxes: three avatar reminder clips for buyers

To remind corporate buyers about Diwali gift boxes, send three short avatar clips: one at three weeks out, one a week out, and a last-call clip two days before Dhanteras. Dhanteras is Friday, November 6, 2026 and the main Lakshmi Puja day is Sunday, November 8, according to the Diwali table on Wikipedia (read 2026-10-11). On Sume, one avatar, three 20-second clips at the standard tier and three flat caption jobs come to about $12.59.

Most Diwali video advice targets consumers. A gift-box seller who sells to offices has a different problem: the person who decides is an HR or procurement lead who needs a reason to act before a cutoff, and who forwards the clip to a colleague. A host who looks the same in all three clips makes the sequence read as one conversation.

What are the three reminder clips?

Pick the cutoffs from your own production calendar; the schedule below is an example counted back from Dhanteras (Friday, Nov 6), not a deadline you must copy.

Each script is about 20 seconds when spoken. Sume plans avatar videos between 4 and 60 seconds, so a 20-second script fits with room to spare, and you pass the same avatar_handle each time.

• Three weeks out (Friday, Oct 16): what is in the box, the minimum order, and the last day to send a logo or a name list.
• One week out (Friday, Oct 30): the sizes still available and the delivery window, said once, in plain words.
• Last call (Wednesday, Nov 4): the final order time, who to reply to, and one sentence of thanks.

How much does it cost on Sume?

Creating an avatar from a prompt, profile or photo is a flat $0.95 one time. An Avatar 1.0 talking video bills per second by tier: standard is $0.184 a second without a product image, plus is $0.245 and max is $0.55. Standalone video captions are a flat $0.20 per job for clips up to 60 seconds. Those are the catalog rates in the Sume docs; taxes and plan discounts are not included.

Standard is the fastest execution path and is plenty for a reminder that people watch on a phone. Move to plus only if you want the balanced default for a hero clip.

Why add captions to an avatar clip?

Office buyers open mail with the sound off. Burning captions makes the order deadline readable in a meeting. Avatar Video can burn captions inline, but a standalone caption job works on any finished MP4 and has one flat price, so you can fix a typo in a deadline without re-rendering the avatar.

If a script changes after you have generated the video, you pay for the caption job again, not for another 20 seconds of avatar footage. That is why the plan above keeps the two steps separate.

What should the scripts avoid?

Do not promise a delivery date you have not confirmed with your courier; say the day you ship. Avoid religious claims in the voice-over and keep the tone to the practical: what, how many, by when.

The same three clips can be replayed next year by changing only the dates in the script and the captions, since the avatar already exists. Submit with an Idempotency-Key so a retry cannot bill twice, and read the result through the job envelope described in the Jobs and results page.