Real Estate Trend Update: ZIPVO – A new real estate video sharing service
April 5, 2008 by Stefan SwanepoelZIPVO is a newly launched real estate video sharing website that allows agents to enhance, market and broadcast their listings free and easily through the use of video, PhotVideo, blogs and agent profiles. After launching in September the company has now upgraded to their public beta 2.0 version. Their is also a whole social networking and blogging system in place. Visit www.zipvo.com for more information.














Great concept, but definitely still Beta!
For starters, landing on a homepage targeted at millions of viewers that has the word "Commercial", on a main navigation tab, mispelled as "Commerical" creates a very unprofessional and amateurish impression.
And, IMO it seems there should be at least slightly more control over content. I viewed three videos at random. The first had something of a tour, the second had only 3 still shots, while the third had zero images (that's right, NONE)! I'm unlikely to turn to this as a primary "source" for home video listings unless I can consistently expect quality videos to view, rather than the same still shots and frustrating "no image/video available" message I'm confronted with on countless other sites.
I'm not knocking the site or their concept, and wish them well, but just feel there's already an abundance of websites now offering listings. In order to capture consumer loyalty it would seem necessary to stand above the hodge-podge of (often poorly presented) listings available, by maintaining a certain standard or offering a unique concept (such as this promises to be).
Do you think to better validate the site's premise, that it should possibly be a requirement for adding a listing that it actually has some sort of video presentation uploaded and viewable, at the time it goes live?
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