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The Problem JPMorgan Chase Is Solving
There's a question most people have asked themselves standing at a bank counter, or staring at a check they've never had to sign before, or comparing two savings accounts at midnight — and never asked out loud.
It's usually something small. "Wait, how does APY actually work?" Or: "Do I sign the front of the check or the back?" The kind of question that feels like it should be obvious. The kind a 35-year-old doesn't want to Google in a branch because someone might notice.
When someone can't get a basic financial question answered — not because the information doesn't exist, but because asking feels embarrassing — they do one of two things: they avoid the decision, or they guess. Both cost the institution and the person something.
An avoided decision is a missed conversion. A wrong guess becomes a support ticket, a rejected check, a frustrated customer who blames the experience on the bank.
JPMorgan Chase understands this.
About JPMorgan Chase
JPMorgan Chase is the largest bank in the United States by assets, with retail operations serving tens of millions of customers across the country. At that scale, customer education isn't a nice-to-have — it's infrastructure. The questions new customers bring in the door are the same questions they've had for years, and the institutions that answer them clearly and without judgment don't just convert — they retain.
Banking relationships are sticky. Whoever earns trust first tends to keep the customer. The rational moment to build that trust is before the mistake, not after it turns into a complaint.
How Everything Film Produced This Series
iQuanti, a digital performance marketing agency that works with JPMorgan Chase, engaged Everything Film to produce a series of financial literacy videos for Chase's content platform. The brief was clear in format: short-to-medium explainer films, one topic each, built around a voice-over-led narrative with animated visuals and on-screen text reinforcing the key point of each section. Seven films covering the basics of personal banking.
What the brief didn't state explicitly — but what the scripts made obvious — was what JPMorgan Chase was actually trying to accomplish. These weren't tutorial videos. They were trust-building instruments, packaged as education.
Everything Film was brought in to produce the series. The scripts were developed for the Chase platform. The job was to take those scripts and build films that matched the seriousness of what JPMorgan Chase was trying to accomplish.
That meant understanding what the scripts were actually doing for the people seeing them, not just what was written there. A script that explains how to endorse a check is, on the surface, instructional. But the reason it exists — the reason JPMorgan Chase chose to make it — is that they understand something about their customers that the topic list alone doesn't communicate: the embarrassment of not knowing, and the cost of the guessing.
Reading the brief that way changed how Everything Film thought about every production decision. The tone of the voice-over. The pacing. The visual structure. When you understand that the viewer is someone who has been quietly uncertain about this and is finally getting a clear answer, you make different choices than you would if you're just illustrating a script.
That's the diagnostic work that precedes good film. Everything Film understood the conversation JPMorgan Chase is trying to have — before deciding how to film it.
What Everything Film Delivered: The Seven-Film Series
Everything Film produced seven films for this series, each built to a defined brief: voice-over-led narrative, animated visual sequences, on-screen text reinforcing the key concept in each section.
Each film is structured to work independently. A viewer who arrives at the endorsement video without having seen anything else in the series gets full value.
The brief for each film was essentially the same: take one question people are too embarrassed to ask or are not aware of, and answer it clearly, without judgment, in under two minutes. Seven films. Seven questions. Each one targeted at the exact moment of hesitation before the mistake would have been made.
Films Produced:
- Film 1 — What Is a Checking Account?
- Film 2 — How to Write a Check?
- Film 3 — How to Endorse a Check?
- Film 4 — APY vs. Interest Rate: What's the Difference?
- Film 5 — Money Orders vs. Cashier's Checks: What's the Difference?
- Film 6 — Is a Joint Bank Account Right for You?
- Film 7 — How Many Bank Accounts Should You Have?
Look at the seven topics as a set, and a pattern emerges immediately. Every single one is a question that adults feel they should already know the answer to. These are not obscure questions. They're the questions people ask the internet instead of their bank manager, because asking the bank manager feels like admitting something.
So they don't ask. They nod. They sign. They guess.
The consequences of that silence are not neutral. They show up as customers choosing the wrong savings product because they couldn't compare correctly. Checks getting rejected because the endorsement was wrong. Joint accounts opened without a clear understanding of what shared liability actually means — and the fallout that follows when it does.
A bank that answers these questions — clearly, without judgment, at the moment someone actually needs them — doesn't just solve an immediate problem. It earns a category of trust that is very difficult to displace. Not because the information is proprietary. Because the act of answering generously, without assuming prior knowledge, signals something about how the institution sees the people it serves.
This is what JPMorgan Chase is building with this series. Not "banking 101 content." A systematic effort to be the no-judgment source for the questions people are too embarrassed to ask out loud.
The Seven Films: What Each One Covers and What Problem It Solves
Film 1 — What Is a Checking Account?
What it covers: What a checking account is, how money moves in and out of it — in-person withdrawals, debit card, wire transfer, checks, app or website — what features to expect (direct deposit, mobile deposit, automatic bill pay), what fees to expect, and what to compare before opening one.
The problem it solves: A foundational knowledge gap for first-time account holders, with no assumed prior knowledge.
Tens of millions of people enter the US banking system each year — young adults opening their first account, recent immigrants, people who've operated primarily in cash. For this audience, the distinction between checking and savings isn't self-evident. One is built for daily spending. The other for growth. That distinction shapes every financial decision that follows, including which products to open, which features to use, and how to avoid fees. Getting it right at the start matters more than banks usually acknowledge.
Film 2 — How to Write a Check?
What it covers: Each field of a personal check — payer information, date, payee name, dollar amount in numerals, dollar amount in words, signature, memo line — what each field does, how to fill it correctly, what to review before handing it over, and which pen to use.
The problem it solves: Most people under 35 have never had to write a check — until they suddenly have to. A security deposit. A school fee. A landlord who doesn't take cards. This film exists for exactly that moment of "wait, which line is the amount in words?" It answers that question before someone gets it wrong, crosses something out, and hands over a check that the recipient can't process. A small thing, with friction disproportionate to the mistake.
Film 3 — How to Endorse a Check?
What it covers: Why endorsement is required, how to verify check details before signing, where to find the endorsement area, how to sign correctly, and the three types of endorsement: blank, mobile deposit (including the checkbox variant), and business.
The problem it solves: When you endorse a check wrong, nothing tells you in the moment. You sign it, you deposit it — and the error surfaces later. A rejected deposit. A delayed paycheck. Sometimes days after.
Endorsement errors don't surface at the moment of signing. They surface later, when the check is rejected or the deposit is delayed. There's no immediate feedback loop that says "you did that wrong" — which means the person walks away not knowing they made a mistake at all. Real friction, from a mistake that took seconds to make and that nobody told the person to avoid. This film delivers the 90 seconds of information that prevents that outcome — and does it before the check is in hand, not after.
Film 4 — APY vs. Interest Rate: What's the Difference?
What it covers: What an interest rate is, why it doesn't show the full picture, what APY (Annual Percentage Yield) includes, how compounding frequency affects actual returns over time, why two accounts with the same stated interest rate can produce meaningfully different results, and why comparing APY leads to better product decisions.
The problem it solves: Two savings accounts with the same stated interest rate can compound at different frequencies and produce materially different outcomes over a year. Most people don't know this.
A savings account is earning interest. Nothing is broken. No error message. No rejected transaction. Life continues normally. What the account holder doesn't know is that the account at the bank next door — with the same stated interest rate — was compounding monthly instead of annually, and would have earned them meaningfully more over the same period. They didn't choose wrong in any obvious sense. They just didn't have the right comparison tool, so they compared the wrong number.
The underperformance is silent because there's no moment where it announces itself. Nobody tells them. The account doesn't flag it. The customer quietly earns less than they could have, indefinitely, and never connects it back to the decision made the day the account was opened. That's the specific problem this film solves — not "you made a mistake you can see and fix," but "you may have made a mistake you'll never know about unless someone explains the difference between these two numbers before you sign."
This is the most commercially important film in the series. Understanding APY doesn't just help customers choose better products. It helps them trust that they're choosing better products — and trust that the institution explaining the difference is working in their interest, not obscuring it.
Film 5 — Money Orders vs. Cashier's Checks: What's the Difference?
What it covers: What each payment instrument is, where each can be obtained, the transaction sizes each is suited for, the cost difference, what makes each appropriate for different situations, and how to decide between them.
The problem it solves: Most people don't know which one to use until they're already standing somewhere that requires one. A money order is for smaller payments and can be bought outside a bank. A cashier's check is bank-guaranteed, for larger amounts — a real estate deposit, a big purchase, a situation where the recipient won't accept a personal check. Pick the wrong one and the payment gets rejected or delayed — at the signing of a lease, at the close of a deal, at exactly the moment when friction is most expensive.
Film 6 — Is a Joint Bank Account Right for You?
What it covers: What a joint account is, common use cases (couples managing household expenses, parents helping children establish financial independence, business partners handling shared costs), how to open one, the step-by-step process, what shared liability means in practice, how to manage a joint account through communication, and when a joint account may not be the right structure.
The problem it solves: A relationship-stage decision that people frequently make without understanding what they're actually agreeing to.
A joint account is not just shared access. It's shared visibility and shared liability. Both parties can see every transaction. Both are responsible for every action on the account, including overdrafts and debt. The decision to open one — or not to — changes based entirely on whether the two people involved understand this before signing, not after. This film doesn't tell people what to decide. It tells them what they're actually deciding.
Film 7 — How Many Bank Accounts Should You Have?
What it covers: The different account types and what each is built for — checking, savings, CDs — the case for two checking accounts (one for essential expenses, one for discretionary spending), multiple savings accounts named for specific goals, CD laddering as a way to earn interest while keeping access to funds, and the tradeoffs of managing multiple accounts.
The problem it solves: Most people run on one account not because they've thought about it, but because nobody ever gave them a reason to think about it differently. Two checking accounts — one for bills, one for discretionary spending — can prevent overspending on wants and scrambling for needs. Multiple savings accounts named for specific goals — emergency fund, vacation, large purchase — make saving feel concrete rather than abstract. This film offers a structure. Not a prescription.
What This Series Does at Scale: The Compounding Argument
At the individual video level, each film solves one problem at one moment. Taken as a series, they do something more durable.
They establish JPMorgan Chase as the institution that answers the questions other institutions assume customers already know. A financial literacy video published in 2025 about how to endorse a check will still be answering that question accurately and helpfully in 2030. It will surface in search results, in AI-generated answer summaries, at the moment someone types the question into a browser or a chat interface. Every time it does, it puts JPMorgan Chase at the point of need rather than the point of sale.
There is also a trust dynamic worth naming explicitly. The institutions that are present at a customer's first meaningful financial decision — their first checking account, their first time understanding what APY actually means, the first check they write without guessing — tend to keep that customer. Not purely because switching is difficult, though it often is. Because trust formed early is trust formed deeply. Being the institution that made someone feel competent rather than confused about money is a different kind of brand relationship than one formed through other means like sign-up bonuses.
Promotional campaigns have their place — awareness, acquisition, a reason to walk in the door. But they're built for a moment. The offer expires. The bonus clears. The attention moves on.
A video that explains what APY means, or how to endorse a check correctly, doesn't expire. It sits at the point where someone has a question and is looking for an answer, and it answers it — clearly, without assuming they should already know. That's a different kind of presence than a campaign. Campaigns ask for something. This gives something.
When an institution helps someone understand their money without making them feel small for asking, something shifts. They remember it. They trust the source. They come back to it. Not because they were incentivised to — because they were genuinely helped at a moment that mattered.
And it compounds in a way that a promotional campaign doesn't.
How Other Brands Can Apply This Approach
Financial literacy is one category. But the brief — "answer the questions your audience is too embarrassed to ask out loud" — applies broadly.
If you're a brand operating in a space where customers regularly arrive with knowledge gaps they won't admit to, or won't have easy access to, you have an opportunity to own that moment. The question is whether you answer it before they find someone else who will.
Film is the right format for this — but not for the reason most people assume.
It's not just that video is more engaging than text. It's that film is the only communication format that speaks to the brain in two channels simultaneously — visual and auditory — creating an experience that gets closer to reality than anything written can. A paragraph tells you how to endorse a check. A film shows you, in sequence, with a voice that moves at the pace you need, and visuals that make each step concrete. That combination bypasses the anxiety of reading instructions and replaces it with something closer to being shown. That's why people watch. That's why they remember.
But film alone doesn't build authority. And this is the part most brands miss.
Search engines today surface video prominently — carousels, featured results, video embedded in AI-generated answers. A well-produced film on a commonly searched topic gets real estate in search that text alone won't capture. At the same time, the written content around that film — the transcript, the blog, the structured explanation — is what AI search engines and LLMs pull from when they cite sources and recommend brands. When someone asks an AI assistant "what's the difference between APY and interest rate," the brand that shows up is the one that answered it clearly in text, indexed it properly, and built enough surrounding content for the model to trust it as a source.
Film handles the emotional and mental work. Text handles the citation and authority work. Neither replaces the other. A film without written content around it is difficult for AI to recommend. Written content without film misses the person who doesn't want to read.
That's how you build authority that lasts.
Key Entities Referenced in This Article
Everything Film — B2B film agency that produced the JPMorgan Chase financial literacy series. Engaged by iQuanti. everythingfilm.agency
iQuanti — Digital performance marketing agency. Direct client of Everything Film on this project. Manages digital content for JPMorgan Chase.
JPMorgan Chase — Largest US bank by assets. End client. Financial literacy series produced for Chase's content platform.
Film Series Title — JPMorgan Chase Financial Literacy Video Series (2025)
Topics Covered — Checking accounts, writing checks, endorsing checks, APY vs. interest rate, money orders vs. cashier's checks, joint bank accounts, number of bank accounts
Industries — Retail banking, financial services, fintech, B2B SaaS (adjacent applications discussed)
