I think designers would be more motivated to make videos if they were seen while scrolling through the marketplace. So when looking through the pages of products in the marketplace (products that have videos as the first item) will have a moving video to attract the eye. Unless I am missing something, the only way the customer sees the videos here on Zazzle is if they are on the product page. But if the videos are visible from the marketplace pages then that could really work for us designers to get noticed and would be a real motivation to create more videos. What does everyone think? I can’t understand why this isn’t the way it is set up right now. On social media as I am scrolling I see videos and they do make me stop and watch quite frequently, so why not reward those who put the time in to create them by putting them in the marketplace where they will be seen? Just thinking it might make it more worth the designer’s time to have the videos shown out there in the marketplace.
I’ll pass this on, thank you!
-Fiona
Thank you!
Sandra
They do show up in the MP and if you mouse over them, they play.
I would really love it if they were playing, silently of course, when just viewing and not having to mouse over. But glad to hear that they do play with the mouse over.
@samack This feature only works on a desktop (unfortunately). But I love it. When I see the little video indicator arrow I mouse over it and I‘ll get the gist of the product. The videos are silenced by default unless you are on the product page and enlarge the product media. As of right now I rarely ever see listings with videos but I aim to make one for most of my own listings.
I think that movement (videos) in the marketplace would be appalling.
The shopkeeper made images is utterly confusing as it is.
I think that movement (videos) in the marketplace would be appalling.
Same! I l have no problem with vids being in the MP and on the product pages as it’s a choice to activate them or not. And I’m super happy they fixed the volume issue so they by default play silently when you click the thumb. (The volume is still on by default though when you’re scrolling through the enlarged views and get to the vid but at least you can get the mute option to come up quickly by mousing over it.)
I know absolutely nothing about recording and editing videos, so I have no plans to add video production to my growing list of creator responsibilities.
In this day and age with all the intrusive ad videos and people trying to find the “X” to quickly shut it off because it disturbed their flow of what they were doing, I am glad they don’t all automatically play on the MP search results page. I actually had a few videos on some of my products until I was searching for something a few weeks ago and just by mousing over the results the video started playing on the search results page. It was a big turn off for me, so I went and removed the videos I had because I would hate to do that to a customer. Also, that’s a lot going on in a little square. I think videos may be helpful on the product page itself with the option to play them (no auto-play). I also think people are getting tired of the “Hey look at this” videos being shoved in everyone’s faces all the time. Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of beautifully done videos on Z, I just don’t like them playing in the search results.
Please don’t do that. I can’t imagine an MP with that sort of distraction. For some people with visual/headache issues, it would make it impossible to shop.
@SJoy I agree with you. That constant silent (or not) videos playing on one page would send a lot of people away. That kind of strategy of webpages is so 1999.
I recently learned that Google is favoring blog posts with video content so that’s another thing for us to add to our skillset and workload (those of us who do our own marketing). Hence I suspect why this is such a large part of Zazzle now. Increasingly reduced visibility in Google and in the marketplace due to a variety of factors means more than ever we need to be out there, bringing in the business as they say!
Please at least have it be an option in settings somewhere to have videos Not play automatically. I get vertigo, and a lot of times videos can set that off for me. Especially if they’re fast/have lots of flashing colors, or I’m trying to read something else on the page and the video is just playing away in my peripheral vision.
I use NoScript to block ads, but if a site has too many or ones that I know will make me sick and aren’t blocked by that, I just stop going to that website. I would imagine it would make any of our buyers stop coming here who also can’t do auto-play videos for health reasons (or annoyance) as well.
That would be HORRIBLE! All that movement would be more than distracting, and probably cause medical issues for a lot of people. You can play the video when you hover over the listing, so there’s no need to have everything moving all around when you are trying to shop!
I create animated GIFs of products that are 10-12 seconds each. No sound, but light file size and catches the eye. Love the idea of it, one day, would play when seen on Main Pages (if GIF animation is in 1st position on Product Page.