A system and method to record a message to be transmitted to a recipient user is disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the method includes executing a graphical user interface (GUI) on a first computer system allowing a first user to generate a message through selection of a particular GUI element, wherein the message may comprise audio and video content. The method may further include recording the audio and video data in response to the user selecting the particular GUI element. The audio and video data may be subsequently encoded using a video encoding protocol to generate the message. The method may further include transmitting the message to second computer system of a recipient user, wherein the recipient user is identified by the user generating the message.