Local Community And Neighborhood Video
How can you leverage video content from a local neighborhood or community in a way that makes sense? Different cameras, different formats, and different levels of technical knowledge play against you for establishing a solid base of local video content that is aligned with a local neighborhood. The 100MB or so upload limits for most providers also limit the ability of non-video professionals to prepare and upload local events such as little league games and rotary club meetings.
At Vidlisting, we’ve taken a different approach to local community videos to helping you manage the following types of videos:
Community Drivethroughs and Neighborhood Tours: These types of supplemental marketing videos are a key part of introducing your prospective real estate customers to what’s around the property itself. What’s best about these types of real estate videos is that they can be shared and yet still branded for you, your real estate brokerage, or your agency.
Local Community Event Videos: These types of videos are designed to be inclusive of your existing local neighbors. Local event videos are the way that you can involve local community and neighborhood organizations directly into the online experiences of your neighbors in a way that makes sense.
Local Business Online Video Advertising: These are locally produced or even self-produced ads and video spots for local businesses and organizations that are designed for the local neighbors or prospective buyers.
Vidlisting provides simple, easy to use functionality that lets you upload and share locally uploaded videos among the three main pillars of your local community: local organizations, local community organizations, and local neighbors.
Community Video Upload Functionality: By making these widgets available on local real estate, business, and community organization web pages, you’ll have a centralized video upload mechanism that will not only allow your neighbors, local businesses, and neighborhood organizations to upload video but also makes video localized to a given community or neighborhood as well as to share it automatically among their websites. The video wont be live anywhere else, just among the set of local websites, organizations, and businesses that you help to define.
We are also releasing a Video Ad Meshing capability that will let you add local video ads to other community videos uploaded with the community video upload functionality with a few mouseclicks. You'll have 100% control over the local business ads that you mesh…Vidlisting just provides the tools.
Automatically Updating Community Web Pages: Want to have a neighborhood specific web page but don’t have any time to manage it? Vidlisting has an option which allows your neighborhood pages to auto-update itself with videos, photos, documents, and blog posts. Uploaded content just appears in the right spot with the latest content always highlighted. It’s an ideal was to start to establish a neighborhood web presence without much work.
Video Widgets That Hold Extra Content: All Vidlisting embeddable video widgets are able to hold extra content such as PDFs, Microsoft Office documents, web links, and even other videos. Our widgets are an ideal way to highlight a property and add related community videos without having to add additional flash video players onto a page.
Access To Content Provided By Others in the Same Area: The Vidlisting Public Content Library is a geotargeted set of external marketing reports, blog posts, and other real estate oriented content targeted to a specific area by latitude and longitude. You can use the public information for free or even develop a custom library of information for your local area at little cost. In addition, we’ll soon be adding a community video function in the Vidlisting member’s area that will allow you to contribute to and draw from a common body of content local to your area at no cost.
Mobile Real Estate Videos
Vidlisting will be moving aggressively into the mobile real estate video space in 2009 with both portal-based features, enterprise functionality, and unique web developer application programming interfaces (APIs). While we will hold off on some of the major news that we have forthcoming, we’ve already taken some baby steps into mobile as noted below:
Uploading Video from Cell Phones
You can upload video captured with certain cell phones today by pointing your cell phone’s internet browser to http://vidlisting.com/wap.asp. We’ve had successful video conversions with the following cell phone(s):
Sony Ericsson k750i
If you’ve had a successful conversion on our site with a cell phone that isn’t listed, please contact us and we’ll get it added for the benefit of others.
iPhones and iPods
We’ll soon be completing an effort to convert existing videos to a format compatible with the iPhone and video iPod along with special iPhone only content.