Hotel video guides are a vertical that has started to grow from nothing in the last nine months. We covered Trivop in June 2007, a site billed as the first video guide for hotels. Then came TVTrip, another videoguide for hotels that scored $4.8 million in funding in July. Both sites rely on professionally recorded video.
New comer Tripr.TV is embracing the move towards compensating user contributions with a videoguide for hotels that pays 33% of their commissions for every booking made via a user contributed video. To quote Tripr.TV on how much that might be:
A normal booking averages around 400 Euros. The average commission Tripr.TV receives is between 7 and 10 percent. The filmmaker will receive 33.3 percent. As a calculation example this would mount up to 400 x 7% = €28,- x 33,3% = €9,32 per booking placed through your video. Payment follows 30 days after the end of the month.
It’s not huge money, but it’s certainly better than nothing and if you’re holidaying in the hotel anyway, you can put your video camera to use. There is a few requirements though to qualify: videos must have “Good camera work,” good lighting, video with sound, so original noises are audible, “Don’t just film people or details, rather show a complete and representative view,” and the video clips should be a minimum of 30 and a maximum of 90 seconds long.
It will be interesting to see whether there is enough people out there willing to make and submit videos of hotels they visit, but any program that offers compensation for user contributions is a positive step forward in a broader marketplace which still mostly doesn’t compensate users for their time and contributions.
Did no one at Tripr check the meaning of their name in Germany? “Tripper” (spelled differently, but pronounced the same) means “gonorrhea”. Something you definitely don’t want to get when on a trip abroad. My prediction is: This site will get little attention here…
To be honest, I wasn’t aware about this website type until now - I checked all of them and it’s very useful, much more realistic than photography.
Revenue sharing is going to help this site take off, just like Revver.
Awesome research work! Tripper is the german word for clap (gonorrhea). And to connect a genital disease to a holiday-related platform makes me wanna clap even more. Your choice couldn’t be worse, guys.
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LOL. The name is hilarious. It sounds like Tripper, the german word for the sexually transmitted disease Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Sorry, i know it’s childish …
Yes, the play on the words are funny. But in all seriousness where is much of the millions of funding accounted for some of the hotel video sites? Because according to a source, Epictrip.com built their entire platform for under $200K.
http://www.epictrip.com/hotel-.....tual-tours
Very clever, but it’s not going to get a good representative view of the hotel if you’re only paid for bookings. These are like promotional videos, but without the onus on the hotel for the videos to be accurate. Could there be huge legal issues here?
The idea is great, but thre is one fun thing:
trippr sounds like “gonorrhoea” in russian
Another German here who also immediately thought of the clap when reading the name.
The dot.com boom is over….give way for the dot.tv BOOM.
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Along the lines of what Pingu said above: Isn’t there going to be a bias toward positive reviews if you only get paid when someone books a room at that hotel? Perhaps if you got paid after someone viewed your video and then booked any hotel on the site that would help a little (revenue shared among the makers of all videos viewed?). As things stand, the most likely scenario for a negative review is if someone is so upset with a hotel that they want to make sure they get in the way of future business. That may happen, but I suspect will be a less common occurence (and obviously not inspired by the payment structure then).
isn’t
http://www.youtube.com better?
Tripper - Take a look before u book … u made my day! very nice.
That’s pretty nice concept.
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Good concept - and nice affiliate program,
- this program goes above and beyond because its mutually beneficial
What does the “R” stand for in Trip R ?
good
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The site reminds me of zoomandgo.com, but with a different approach to revenue sharing.
They have 50 vids now, so it will be interesting to see how many they have compiled in a couple weeks.
I’m on the fences on this one, as it really comes down to how well their PR campaign is.
Another fine example for bad naming ist wixi.com which has in german simular meaning as “to wank”
that name sucks everywhere, not only in some countries (:
one thing is sure: everyone will remember, that “the site with the sexual disease”
which sexual disease, they perhaps wont remember, there are at least 50 different ones ((:
you mentioned in the post, that “It’s not huge money” but I think, it IS a nice money, since you only have to make the video once, and you can earn the 9 Euro many times
if it will multiplicate, it can be a huge money
Yep - the same sexual disease thing here in Poland
but I think that overall concept is good.
Don`t worry. nobody in a german-speaking country will read it as tripper! we read it als trip r .. its not easy to say.. but its okay for us :-).
i think the idea is good. and what i like most is that you can earn some monay - although its not too much.. but its more than what you get elsewhere.
greetings from a german-speaking country.
This website is strangely a copy of Trivop.com. The map is displayed exactly the same and I believe Trivop is much older than this new entrant.
I believe this will be debated fairly soon.
Interesting concept. User participation at travel websites is going up. Evoking specific emotions using multimedia functions is an important way to compete on functions or design instead of using the price element. You will read more about it in a just released report: Designing Emotions in Online Travel - http://www.sotopia.com/book