How To Determine If An Online Video Platform Is Suitable For Real Estate Videos
There has been talk about the use of tubemogul over in Wellcomemat’s neighborhood forum. The discussion is centered on the value of being able to upload real estate videos to a multitude of video sites. These sites include the biggies like Youtube and Yahoo Video plus some lesser known sites such as StupidVideos.com and Crackle.com.
How can you know if a site is suitable for real estate video before uploading? Here are two suggestions:
1) Look at the view results: I usually do a search for “real estate” and then order the results by video views. On stupidvideos.com, I found that the most viewed real estate video was posted on 17 January 2008 (almost 3 months ago) and had a grand total of two video views. Crackle’s best had about 1700 views in a year (the average vidlisting video gets 1700 views in just over a month). Of course, some dedicated real estate video providers wont provide particularly better results than these.
2) Look at the other types of content in your search results: You may be very surprised at the “related” content that appears in your search. Crackle for instance has videos with the title, “Happy Nude Year” and “Asian in Ripped Shorts” among many such others in the search results for real estate. Stupidvideos.com had tamer but still childish titles such as “Infrared Farts”.
The lesson here is that just because you can upload a video to a site for free doesnt mean that the site is effective or that your business oriented video content won’t be placed near content that some might find offensive or childish.
Tags: real estate, uploads, views