ActiveRain has always had its eye on video. It has dabbled a little bit with its RainTV segments, shot at last summer’s Real Estate Connect conference, and more recently by holding a video contest.
Now, it seems, they are making a bigger play for a piece of the real estate video pie. Through a partnership with [...]
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WellcomeMat, the popular real estate video hosting site, has undergone a fairly extensive facelift - and they are now taking the service in a totally different direction.
The new Mat is carrying on the trend to ditch the maps (Real Estate Search Tit for Tat) — if you remember, the original site was designed as a [...]
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By Joel Burslem on Monday, June 25, 2007 Filed Under: Industry NewsTags: Coldwell-Banker, Foxtons, Google-Street-View, Industry News, Inman-Innovator-Awards, Inman-News, John-L.-Scott, Point2NLS, Trulia-Voices, vFlyer, WellcomeMat, Zillow-Q&A
Inman News names the finalists for the 2007 Innovator Awards. For more on some of the nominees’ accomplishments, read:
Coldwell Banker
Coldwell Banker Opens Office in Second Life
Foxtons
Foxtons Imports Audioshows to USA
Google Street View
Next Generation Virtual Tours
John L. Scott
John L. Scott breaks the mold
The Evolution of Map Based Searches
Point2NLS
Point2Homes Thinks Inside the Box
Trulia Voices
Trulia Finds Its Voice
vFlyer
vFlyers [...]
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By Joel Burslem on Tuesday, May 8, 2007 Filed Under: MarketingTags: Adbrite, blip.tv, Brightcove, Jumpcut, Marketing, Metacafe, MSN-Soapbox, real-estate-video, Revver, Veoh, VideoEgg, Vimeo, WellcomeMat, YouTube
Real estate video is definitely a big trend this year. Producing and directing a great real estate video is a subject best covered in a another post - but if you already have a video you want to show, the big question is where to host it?
I’ve suggested a few options in the past (see [...]
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WellcomeMat, the real estate video tour platform, released a new version of their software today. Rudy from sellsius and I had a chance to preview their new release this morning.
The new WellcomeMat refocuses the site around the idea of channels, and now allows anyone to create their own real estate channel. The new channel manager [...]
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By Joel Burslem on Friday, March 9, 2007 Filed Under: Quick HitTags: Quick Hit, Real-Estate, Real-Estate-2.0, real-estate-advertising, Real-Estate-Marketing, real-estate-technology, real-estate-video, real-estate-videos, real-estate-vodcast, video-production, WellcomeMat
The Chicago Tribune did a nice summary of the use of video in selling real estate today and called me for comment. I think it came out pretty well. You can read the whole article here - Sellers shoot for YouTube hits.
Some other mentioned in the article; WellcomeMat and MLPodcast (though not by name - [...]
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By Joel Burslem on Monday, February 26, 2007 Filed Under: Quick HitTags: Quick Hit, Real-Estate, Real-Estate-2.0, Real-Estate-Marketing, real-estate-video, real-estate-videos, video-advertising, video-production, WellcomeMat
The Wellcomemat Blog just posted a behind the scenes look at Doug Heddings‘ (of True Gotham fame) video shoot. Doug’s presentation is one of my favorite examples of how to show a property online.
Watch how they put it together.
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By Joel Burslem on Wednesday, February 21, 2007 Filed Under: Industry NewsTags: Industry News, Online-Video, Real-Estate, Real-Estate-2.0, real-estate-advertising, Real-Estate-Marketing, real-estate-technology, real-estate-video, real-estate-videos, TurnHere, video-production, WellcomeMat
Turnhere, the California based video production company announced today that it has signed a deal with the California Association of Realtors (CAR) to provide video production services to CAR’s membership.
Exact details on the nature of this deal are unclear; I’m not sure whether it’s an exclusive supplier relationship, a discount on services to CAR members [...]
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I’ve written before on how how to use video to sell your house. I’ve written about using Youtube to host a virtual tour. Heck, I’ve even written about all the video hosting alternatives to Youtube.
But until now there really hasn’t been an easy to use solution for Realtors looking to use video to help sell [...]
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