A growing trend among REALTORs has been to replace their old school Virtual Tours with a You Tube video that they incorporate into their blog, site and even onto REALTOR.com. Actually, the cool part was that you could put them ANYWHERE.<\/p>\n
No problem!<\/p>\n
Well ummm…actually there is a problem with that. YouTube’s Terms of Service are for personal or non-commercial use according to a recent article in REALTOR magazine. <\/p>\n
I just wanted to pass this along as FWIW (for what it’s worth) to Bloodhound Blog readers who may be currently putting your Virtual Tours on YouTube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A growing trend among REALTORs has been to replace their old school Virtual Tours with a You Tube video that they incorporate into their blog, site and even onto REALTOR.com. Actually, the cool part was that you could put them ANYWHERE. No problem! Well ummm…actually there is a problem with that. YouTube’s Terms of Service […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1695,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1695\/verizon-and-youtube-finally-hook-up\/","url_meta":{"origin":2690,"position":0},"title":"Verizon and YouTube Finally Hook Up","author":"Lani Anglin","date":"July 24, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Verizon and YouTube, sitting in a tree... 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