You need less than you think — but the quality of a few specific things matters more than volume. Here's what an editor actually needs from you.

Speaker reels range from a few hundred dollars to five figures. Here's what drives the price, what you get at each level, and how to know what you actually need.

A speaker reel is a short video — usually two to three minutes — that shows an event organizer who you are, what you speak about, and why you belong on their stage. That's the definition. But the definition isn't the useful part. The useful part is understanding what a reel is for, because that's where most of them fall apart. A reel has one job It isn't to document that you've spoken before. It isn't to collect your best moments in one place. A speaker reel exists to answer