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Send videos directly through email with previews!

Google rolled out enhancements to Gmail Wednesday, including the ability send a viewable and watchable YouTube video directly in email, without clicking through to the YouTube site.

The preview functionality makes it possible for Gmail users to see photos from Yahoo's Flickr and Google's Picasa photo management services, in addition to playing back YouTube video clips.

This could be a great marketing tool - easily send out a real estate video tour of your newest listing to potential buyers - email your video marketing report to your mailing list - there are a lot of possibilities here!

Here is a quickie on how to set up this capability within your Gmail. Of course this won't work if you're not using Gmail. Just another reason to switch your email program. Gmail is THE BEST email program - incredible spam filter, almost limitless storage, archival capabilities (I have literally 4 years of email stored on Gmail!). Better yet, you can set up your gmail to send mail from YOUR DOMAIN (myname.com) instead of from Gmail - for free!

Posted by Fred Light - Real Estate Video Tours for MA and NH on 03/21/2009 04:19 PM

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28 Comments on Send videos directly through email with previews!

MAR

This is great! Thank you for pointing this out!

Informative, thanks for your post.

Fred -- this is incredible. Google keeps coming up with more and more "goodies". What do you think is next? This is going to be great for marketing as you point out.

Who knows? Today... video... Tomorrow... WORLD DOMINATION!

Now this is a cool tool. I'm all for world domination..... LOL

MAR

Fred- when I played your video, the video lagged the audio by about 3-5 seconds. All the video had downloaded and this still was happening....ideas?

Connie: No clue... it's just YouTube. Maybe a slow connection on your end or an older computer? Can you play other YouTube videos?

Thanks Fred. Had read about that and your post was very timely! Have a seperate gmail account now and adding another cloaked one for domain today! Thanks for the nudge!

Thanks Fred that is a great feature Google added. I hope they get around to letting anyone who doesn't use Google to be able to receive them too. Your tutorial made it simple. Thanks.

That is pretty powerful. I will do something with it soon. You never know how google can surprise the world.

I've had a gmail account almost from the start and it's my favorite email. One of the features I really appreciate is the grouping of conversations. It certainly makes retrieval a lot easier when everything is in one place.

I've said it for years and I'll say it again, I unabashedly love Google. They have some of the smartest people on their team and every innovation they make proves it over and over again. Thanks for the update. I'll definitely avail myself of this.

Guess I know what I will be doing later today.. thanks

Hot-diggity! I like it!

WHAT A TOOL !!!! ..... wait a minute, that didnt sound right ???

WHAT A GREAT NEW FEATURE FOR GMAIL !!!

lol

Cheers Fred !

Sheldon

Fred,Did I understand correctly that the receiver has to have an account too?

WOW! Thanks for the video info. I have been sick of yahoo.com for some time. Nothing has changed in the last couple of years. This is just the reason I need to switch over to gmail mail.

This is fantastic info, and Google is really doing a great job!

I am also exicted about the Andriod phones that they have been working on as well.

I knew what a powerful force Google really was when I was struggling at understanding something a couple of years ago, and my daughter, who was only 5 at the time, asked me "Why don't you just Google it Daddy!"!!!! LOL

Thanks for sharing!

- Harrison

Fred, I just commented on another post about wanting to learn more about using video! This is a sign... I need to make it happen!

Bryant: I would assume both people would have to use Gmail, but I'm not actually sure. Best way to find out is to send a video to yourself (to another email account) or to a friend and see what happens. I've been meaning to do that actually...!

MAR

It would also require that the person you are sending to has Gmail AND they turn that feature on. While it is cool I wouldn't rely on too many people using it. A lot of people still access their Gmail account through Outlook and aren't even aware of the Labs features.

MAR

Man, I need to get some cool listings so that I can put more videos out! Thanks for sharing.

APR

This is very helpful information, thanks! I shot some video at a listing today that I'm looking forward to posting on YouTube so this post is very timely. I wish even more people were using Gmail!

APR

That's a great post. But, how do you do the scroll of the computer screen with your insert video talking you thru the process?

FANTASTIC... I loved this piece of advice and appreciate you passing it along!!! Thanks.

MAY

Good stuff . Thanks for posting this up. It's always good to read these blogs every now and again to pick up some good tips.

MAY

Thats pretty cool. I have set it up . I guess its gmail to gmail only right ?

Allson... Yes, unfortunately. BUT so many people use gmail, you're bound to hit a lot of 'em!

JUL

Too Kool! I'll get a gmail account and see if you're just spoofing us or what. Ha!

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