Property Portals Wake Up To Video

Oct 06, 2020

Incredible Growth For Property Video This Year

Video tours have been part of property marketing for years now (we started producing ours in 2011), but the lockdown & ongoing social distancing restrictions of 2020 have focussed far more attention on the importance of video for estate agents and home hunters alike. The main property portals have recognised the consumer demand, and placed greater emphasis on video content over the past few months, so let's have a look at what they've each been doing.

Rightmove

Having previously only provided access to property videos on their website, in April this year they quietly added functionality allowing users to view video & virtual tours to their mobile app. They then started advising home hunters on how to continue their property search with virtual viewings, and showed estate agents how to share video to each listing.


OnThe Market
 
Over the summer, as the market heated up, OnThe Market produced their 'Agent's Guide To Video Viewings' and used social media to promote the tool

Zoopla


Having seen how properties with video were generating more interest, allowing them to send more leads to their estate agent clients, the portals started to provide tools that highlighted video content where it was available for each property.

Zoopla Advantage, where Zoopla shares knowledge and advice with their estate agency partners, explained how their clients could add "Virtual Tour Available" prominently to each relevant listing to attract more attention, and highlighted the significant increase in virtual viewings that they'd witnessed.



Results


So has this increased focus resulted in greater awareness, with more people watching property video tours? We've seen incredible growth in our own viewing statistics, with a more than 4-fold growth in views of our videos, and almost 23 times as many people watching them, when comparing August this year to the same period last year.


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