I was checking out the action from eBay's first Hard To Find Holiday pop up event in Detroit over the weekend and noticed the featured seller has a video in their store's about section.
@my-cottage-books-and-antiques and anyone else who has been asking about this - here's what it looks like in the wild on app and desktop.
I haven't seen it on any other stores yet and checking my own account I don't see any way to add a video either on desktop or in the app - so it appears to be another phased rollout. But at least this shows they *do* have things ironed out on the tech side and the feature is working, so hopefully the rest of us will be gaining access to it "soon" too.
Still no newsletter sign up button though. ☹️
Hi @my-cottage-books-and-antiques - this isn't a violation, thank you for the example (amazing photos by the way, the way they blow up on my monitor lets me see an incredible amount of detail!).
I was able to find some extra info on the new video in listings!
"Sellers who have access to third party APIs can upload videos on their listings. There are currently 300+ categories that videos can be uploaded to.
To add a video to a listing:
- Sellers who use the third-party tools that support videos should follow the flow implemented in those tools
- Sellers who integrate directly with eBay APIs should consult our Media API documentation "
So for eBay-hosted video in listings, it seems like it can only be done via API access or with a third-party listing tool that has already been adapted for it, so no 'native' access quite yet.
I still have info on using YouTube clips in listings too, so there's nothing currently saying that you cannot use it in your listings (in fact that's the way I'd do it since I don't use third party tools and cannot understand APIs for the life of me).
Still looking for a team or point of contact who can get us any detail on if there is a deprecation planned, but based on the above I think if you can make the 'new' process work I would slowly start redoing videos.
@my-cottage-books-and-antiques wrote:
tyler@ebay Sorry to keep bugging you, but this is the first I heard of a category limitation---"There are currently 300+ categories that videos can be uploaded to. " Any chance we could get a category list?
@my-cottage-books-and-antiques - same wavelength! But no, I've been digging but can't find a full list (or any list for that matter).
I'll let you know if I can track one down!
@my-cottage-books-and-antiques - I heard back on this!
No list, because they expanded to include all categories, so they're updating my internal resources to remove the '300+' bit.
Thanks!
@chapeau-noir wrote:
Etsy (sorry to bring them up lol) has had natively hosted video in listings for a couple of years now - they are short, about 15 seconds, and last time I looked did not have audio enabled, but were basically product/shop display videos.
ETA: A lot like the 3D sneaker photo we had here.
Don't be sorry at all @chapeau-noir - I ended up spending 50$ on Etsy this past weekend specifically because of video in the listing.
I'm a rock/crystal collector and the ability for sellers to upload video showing a piece in natural lighting so I can see the way it looks is just absolute kryptonite on my wallet.
Really want to see this get to eBay soon!
tyler@ebay @my-cottage-books-and-antiques - I have the About video option in store settings now! It looks pretty straightforward, just select the video and upload.
Interesting that it automatically takes the first frame as the thumbnail. It would be nice to be able to upload a thumbnail image separately, but for now I guess you could just use your video editing software of choice to make sure that first frame is whatever you want the thumbnail to be.
