Video! Oooh Video! The Seller Experience Just Got Better!

[mandy]

"Vice President, Seller Experience" 

***Starting Today: Link to Video To Describe Your Listing*** 

Hi everyone...this is Jim Ambach with the Seller Experience team. Online video has become increasingly popular among internet users, and is quickly becoming a standard on many sites. It's proven to be an effective way of capturing people's attention by being entertaining, as well as informative.

Over the past couple of years, it's also become easier for people to create and host their own videos. Video can often help you tell an engaging story and share information more effectively than plain text.

For these reasons, we think the time is right to bring the video experience to eBay! I'm pleased to announce that starting today, sellers will be able to link from their listings to videos that describe their items.

Curious? Check out some examples
To kick off this new opportunity to promote your items -- and help get your creative ideas flowing -- we worked with a few film-makers (who are also eBay members) to produce videos for items they had to sell. Each listing example uses a video to tell a story about their item in a fun, interesting way.

We hope these videos help inspire you to come up with ways you can use video to market your listings. Check out our examples:

    * Buy Pete's Awesome Martin Guitar
    * Trevor's Dancing Saturn Car
    * Copy Room Stapler
    * Vintage Lego Men
    * You Will Love G4
    * Buy Abbey's Bike

How to include video in your listing
We've made adding video to your listings as simple as possible, while still retaining standards that will help keep the site safe.

   1. First, when you create your video, please follow our simple policy requirements.
   2. Next, upload your video to one of five approved video hosting sites: YouTube, Google, MySpace, Microsoft, or AOL. We've selected these sites for their combination of popularity, ease of use, and the protection they offer against harmful programs being used inside the videos.
   3. Finally, include the link to the video in your item description (videos cannot be embedded within listings), and you should be all set.

Here's to some great videos!

Sincerely,

Jim Ambach
Vice President, Seller Experience

[amy]

"Vice President, Seller Experience" 

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[BellisimaJ.]

Re: Video! Oooh Video! The Seller Experience Just Got Better!

It would be nice if they would actually give a damn about the "seller experience". :

[mandy]

update:

**Policy Change: Embedded Video Requirement, Plus More Video Services Approved*** 

Hi everyone – this is Keith Wescourt with our Seller Experience team. Last spring we began allowing sellers to include videos in their listings to help describe their items. And our sellers have responded – the number of listings that include a video is growing!

As Jim Ambach noted in his previous announcement, the world of online video is rapidly evolving – and our policy is as well.

Effective today, we're making a slight change that requires sellers creating new listings to use videos that are embedded into the description, as opposed to including links to videos that take people off-eBay to view them. Embedded video provides a safer experience, because it enables eBay security technology to check for potentially harmful code. In addition, having all listings display video in one format provides a better experience for buyers.

To learn more about how to embed a video into your listing, please visit our new eBay Help page.

More video hosting services available
We've also expanded the list of globally-approved video hosting services in our links policy page. We'll be updating this list regularly, and we appreciate your support!

more info: http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/adding_videos.html
http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/listing-links.html

[sneakymagenta]

as opposed to including links to videos that take people off-eBay to view them. Embedded video provides a safer experience, because it enables eBay security technology to check for potentially harmful code.

[amy]

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as opposed to including links to videos that take people off-eBay to view them. Embedded video provides a safer experience, because it enables eBay security technology to check for potentially harmful code.

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Is this the same eBay security technology that has allowed phishers to place javascript redirects directly on eBay listing and AboutMe pages?  :