Homebuyers demand video, and YouTube is where they go to find it. According to The Digital House Hunt, a joint study by Google and the National Association of Realtors, 51% of home shoppers looked for information directly on YouTube as part of their home search. And that makes sense. Video is highly accessible and highly engaging. Unlike text-only articles, it does’t just tell a story, it shows a story. Realtors can use video in many ways to boost sales, and setting …
Author: David Lee
Our mission at Shakr is “Everything to Video” and recently we found something new we could bring to video, real estate. In the past, realtors had to hire a professional video crew to make a short clip, or just settle for a click-click-click slideshow. The former is expensive and the latter isn’t all that effective, other than on a static website. Real estate video production was hard. We’ve worked with some top designers and top realtors to create a collection …
Christina Larson of Bloomberg Businessweek sums up Shakr, in a nutshell: On shakr.com, developers can upload video templates for everything from weddings and children’s birthdays to real-estate sales. A user can insert personal photos into the template and download a low-res video for free or pay about $40 for an HD version. Since the website was launched on May 1, about 40 percent have chosen to pay for the higher-quality version. To date, Shakr has received about $2.4 million in …
Well, not really. There may have been some confusion after a recent article in the Wall Street Journal’s Korea Realtime blog about Shakr. The post was headlined: “For Founder of Korean Tech Startup, A Sudden Move to Silicon Valley“. It’s partially true. We have filed papers to have an official presence in San Francisco. Some of us in the company, David and Erik, especially, will be spending much more time there, too. And that’s smart business. Deals are getting done. …
Shakr will be one of several Korean startups headed to Silicon Valley to be part of the beGLOBAL event on Sept. 13. Min-Jeong Lee was kind enough to mention Shakr in her Wall Street Journal blog post about beGLOBAL. Video-making platform Shakr, which launched its service in May, will be one of the startups coming to Silicon Valley. “Our goal is to launch our business in the U.S.,” said David Lee, the chief executive of Shakr, which provides templates for videos that …