Comments on: An Update On Posting Real Estate Video

By: Sherri Anderson

Sherri Anderson — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:55:51 +0000

Vimeo and Veoh will NOT let you use their sites (even if you upgraded accounts on Vimeo) for Real Esate tours. Both sites have shut my account down for that very reason.

By: David Eichler

David Eichler — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:36:34 +0000

So, were you in fact misusing a personal account or is this some kind of strong-arm tactic? Anyway, is the new deal a good one?

By: Fred Light

Fred Light — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:59:13 +0000

Just an update to this:

Received today:

Thank you for looking at Viddler for your video hosting needs.

We have seen your usage increase over last month and due to commercial/marketing nature of content would like to seriously suggest taking a look at our business services programs. It’s a high quality service that includes HD, Analytics, iTunes and Control over Advertising.

You can find out more about the benefits of Viddler Business Services at http://b2b.viddler.com.

If you get back today via email can cut you enterprise level deal starting at $10/month minimum instead of $100/month minimum.

Unfortunately we will to close your account in 24 hours if we don’t hear back due to misuse of a personal account.

By: Andrew Mooers

Andrew Mooers — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:46:51 +0000

Unbranded real estate videos that you desensitize and remove branding, local broker audio connection can be a lot of work to upload and to see the video platform open with an ad or dump your whole collection is not fun. But with framing of other broker sites from the mls/idx happening, your video needs to be broadcast with branded and unbranded versions that you save when editing each. Watching for new sites that work well for this purpose.

By: Dylan Darling

Dylan Darling — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:00:19 +0000

Beware of what Michael wrote. Just like photography websites, some video websites will want you to give up your Copyright. Your real estate video may end up on other sites, and/or used in ways that you woudn’t like.

By: Billy

Billy — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:41:42 +0000

Larry thanks for the great links.
I wanted to post a question to everyone regarding video. Since the last post about the use of video, specifically so mobile users can view the tour on their portable devices I have been messing around with putting all of my tours on Youtube. I have been exporting (sharing) a slideshow o f still images from iMovie HD from my computer as a full quality .mov file and have really been getting a mixed bag of results as far as quality of the tour. Most of the time the better quality movies won’t even upload, I get a conversion error. Now, I am a firm believer that you get what you pay for, I’m just trying to get a better quality movie and was wondering if anyone out there has had luck with iMovie HD and Youtube?

By: John

John — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:45:40 +0000

Thank you for the video links! Very helpful.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:28:17 +0000

And from Zipvo:
“C. For clarity, you retain all of your ownership rights in your User Submissions. However, by submitting User Submissions to ZIPVO, you hereby grant ZIPVO a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the User Submissions in connection with the ZIPVO Website and ZIPVO’s (and its successors’ and affiliates’) business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the ZIPVO Website (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels. You also hereby grant each user of the ZIPVO Website a non-exclusive license to access your User Submissions through the Website, and to use, reproduce, distribute, display and perform such User Submissions as permitted through the functionality of the Website and under these Terms of Service.”

By: Eros Peterson

Eros Peterson — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:15:07 +0000

hi Larry!

The WelcomeMat.com link doesn’t work properly…

Cheers, Eros

By: Fred Light

Fred Light — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:17:42 +0000

These ‘lists’ change like the wind, of course as all of these companies scramble around trying to figure out how to take advantage of the video revolution AND make money at the same time! YouTube is the classic – they add new features almost weekly in their attempt to finally make YouTube profitable – they’re just throwing stuff at the wall and hoping something will stick….

I use MotionBox. They have an unbranded player, full HD embeds, etc. I’ve been in their ‘pilot’ PRO program for the past year, and pay a bit over $110/mo for bandwidth, etc. They are fully implementing their new PRO program now, and details are here: http://www.motionbox.com/content/pro

HOWEVER, if you’re not part of this program, you cannot use Motionbox for commercial or business purposes either. It is a personal upload site only.

The other issue is a blurring of the definition of “video”. If you’re wanting to take a still slideshow and convert it to a video FORMAT to upload to video sites, many of these companies will have no problem with that. However some, like WellcomeMat.com or RealeFlix.com (which is not on this list and is real estate specific), do NOT allow or consider still photography slideshows as video. They only allow true moving picture video and will remove slideshows.

Personally, I would stay away from any free sites for videos that matter, such as those that are visible on the MLS. Nothing in this world is free, especially bandwidth. Considering the economy, the lack of VC money, etc., any sites that offer “free” services to everyone will either 1) Go out of business, effectively removing all of your videos (it’s happened on more than one occasion over the past few years or 2) Begin charging (and you may not like the price. Brightcove offered a free service, then one day started charging. Their least expensive option was $300/mo. They were really not interested in user generated video at all).

WellcomeMat.com not only welcomes and encourages real estate video, they offer a multitude of player and distribution options as well. Plus, they offer a branded AND unbranded version for the MLS, and if you’re doing a real estate video and it’s NOT appearing on the MLS – what’s the point? Many MLS systems will not allow distribution by YouTube or similar sites because they link out to other sites, and they don’t want that.

I upload every video to 12 sites, but the one that matters to me is Motionbox as that is what appears on the MLS, it’s unbranded, it’s accepted by the MLS, and my original files are also stored on their servers and available for download at any time. Plus, I can embed in HD. The other sites are just for distribution. If they shut down, it won’t affect my business at all.