Everyone loves real estate video players. They are powerful tools that help to easily present videos to users of your website. The biggest issue with them, however, is that they often don't fit in with the look and feel of your website. YouTube has ade some progress in this area but f your site isn't a match for chrome, gray, or black..you are pretty much out of luck.
The approach that we are taking at http://vidlisting.com is a bit different. We extend our video infrastructure to other websites and present choices on how to present those videos. We have a number of options that actually fit in with the existing look and feel of websites for both the presentation and playing of large real estate videos in multiple languages.
The Full Video Landing Page
Miamism.com has a full selection of property videos available on a single page within the Miamism.com domain (http://www.miamism.com/custom/video). I this case, the only videos included on the landing page are the agent's own videos and all videos play within the miamism.com domain.The Video Bar
ACOBIR, the real estate association in Panama, has taken a language specific subset of their member videos and put them in a single bar that random selects a fixed number of videos. Different agencies are represented in the same bar but all of the videos shown are in a single language. You can find this on the lower part of the ACOBIR home page (http://acobir.com) and all videos play within the ACOBIR domain.
The Single Video In Multiple Languages
The FIABCI chapter in Panama wanted to show single videos on their pages (http://fiabcipanama.com/default.asp). Thiugh their page is only in Spanish, they wanted the option for visitors to see the availability of other languages for that video as well and have all of these videos play within their own domain. Here is what we put together for them.
Managing real estate videos isnt so easy when you have a large number of them and availability in different languages. It's unlikely that anyone will want to cut and paste multiple players into a single listing page. We think that the above approached begin to show what's possible with real estate video. Just because the current paradigm is to have a chrome or black player, there is no need to be limited on how you choose to present your media. If you want to manage your video listings in a way that actually fit into the design of your web page..feel free to let us know.
Tony
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