Shopping TV at the Internet

This service looks a bit strange to savvy internet users. Honeyshed is something like shopping tv brought to the internet. It is rather pure tv and nearly without interactivity and tools for sharing. To buy the featured products one needs to become a member.

Interactive Video Features at Overlay.tv

Overlay.tv has added a couple of new interactive video features since it has been covered by the very first post at this blog about interactive video. Also the website has been completely redesigned. As far as I remember the site has been dark and it has been turned into a bright one now. Furthermore videos produced by members now are in the center of the page instead of being placed at the bottom to showcase the interactivity of the video platform. Whereas promoting own products is still a key issue of the site this gives it a video sharing touch.

Some of the new interactive video features are unique as far as I know. These features are amazing and come along with the embedable proprietary video player. At first there is a chat, which is placed directly within the video screen. One may suppose this might be intrusive, but I have not felt like that. It rather improves the comfort and enables to chat without diverting the video watching experience. Technically it is a true overlay feature like it has been shown in some science fiction movies. A second tab at the video player is for information purposes showcasing the author and possible third party sources.

One of the key intentions of interactive video is to represent additional information or products within a video and to enable to shop for represented products. At Overlay.tv this feature has become enhanced by a new bar at the bottom of the player. This is a comfortable step, too, as one now may find presented products easily after watching a whole video.

Furthermore the player now is full screen enabled. Below there is a nice video with product presentations.

Video Gift Guide enables Interactive Video Shopping

There has been a lot of posts about interactive video and video shopping lately. Video Gift Guide now is launching a new service that will seriously use interactive video to feature goods. The site will launch finally on 24th November, but there a video introduction available showing the interactive parts and aims to use them and giving some general information. So there will be shopping shows that are live. At the range of shopping this is another innovation. At the shows special deals will be introduced by real people and viewers are encouraged to request product introductions and deals.

The concept reminds on crowd sourcing to facilitate affordable prices. For now I wonder how the website will look, when the service does launch finally. As the shows will be live it will rather not become a video shopping directory like the introduce video shopping sites Shopflick or Talk Market. It might be one show every day like Woot does it with one product every day.

There is a Twitter Channel to keep updated with news about Video Gift Guide.

Video Shopping Portal and Video Advertising

Shopflick is another site offering shopping by video. It is a shopping destination and a video solution for merchants. Merchants may host their videos at shopflick and open a store. To those who like to get a professionally produced video there is a service offer. Widgets are available to promote videos at other sites and at the social web, which makes it an alternative video advertising opportunity. For now there are free stores and listings available within a launch period. An introduction how to sell at Shopflick is available here.

Redux enables Video and Product Playlists

Redux is an online playlist service for videos. To find videos there is a video search engine that connects to several popular video sharing sites. Creating a playlist is easily done by searching and choosing videos by a click to add these to a playlist. The site is social networking enables and sharing of playlists may happen at the social web. And there is a unique feature. Beside general video playlists there is a rubric with product features. By this Redux might be an additional ecommerce channel for product presentations to marketers, for video advertising, video advertising and for shopping.

Internet Advertising with Chitika

Chitika is an internet advertising network offering an unique banner format especially suitable for the upcoming shopping season. This advertising format is the Chitika eMiniMalls. These eMiniMalls are commerce enabled banners showing targeted product features. Targeting may happen by keywords or behavioral targeting. Behavioral targeting is a technology targeting users in their intention.

In particular the Chitika eMiniMalls show up hot products and do have some further functions at the menu. There are tabs with hot deals and a search function to find other products. The banners are fully customizable by colors and available in a broad range of standard banner sizes to fit into a common ad inventory.

Further advertising formats offered by Chitika are relevant product features for websites, in text advertising transforming text parts into linked items and an advertising service for parked domains. Information about advertiser services is available at the Chitika homepage.

Chitika has a great service and payments are handled by paypal. It is an option at all and might be a most suitable supplement for the shopping season to any website.

Start an Internet TV Shopping Channel

Starting an internet tv shopping channel becomes easy with Talk Market. It is shopping destination and an ecommerce enabled video service to represent goods by videos. Merchants can upload own videos and sell their products. Sales may happen at the portal or by links and video sharing. The service is equipped with social networking tools like described at social shopping services to share links by email or placing videos at blogs or popular social media sites. Furthermore there is an affiliate program, so products may even become promoted by third parties.

Participation and uploading a video to Talk Market is free. If a product becomes sold, a commission is charged. Talk Market manages the communication between a customer and the merchant and informs about sales, which have to be handled by the seller.

Visit the following for further business opportunities with video and social shopping.

The Social Shopping Business

Business Thursday: Social shopping enriches the shopping experience of consumers and offers some business opportunities. The opportunities to users are another way to find products and especially product recommendations and product reviews made by others. Depending of the features of a social shopping site members can take notes about desired products to bookmark and reseach items, discuss product features with others or share experiences. At some services there are product ratings and ratings for deals.

There are a couple of business opportunitis offered by social shopping sites. Some do share advertising revenue, some pay for reviews like it happens with paid posting at blogging and others do supply commerce widgets or even whole shops.

Favorite Thingz enables everyone to put a widget on a page with personal favorites. The items may be promoted at the web and social media services. Revenue becomes generated by selling a featured item.

Rate it all, Rasba and SharedReviews.com are shopping communities that do not require an own homepage to earn money. Rate it all is about reviews and does share the advertising revenue generated by activities. Rasba and SharedReviews.com both are social networking sites to discover new products and share them. Rasba pays, if an item is sold by the profile page, SharedReviews.com again shares the advertising revenue as well as possible commissions with the community.

The most comfortable solutions to participate in social shopping are own shops. Shop It and uSuggest are supplying customizable shopping sites or stores. Both are offering widgets to spread the products across the social web.

Social shopping sites are as social as the social web is. A strategy to get involved with own products is to encourage users to write reviews or to place a product widget at an own page or blog to facilitate a viral marketing effect. A solution to sell own products and to participate in social commerce is offered by Terapad.com. It is a shop solution equipped with blogging and social media marketing tools.

Click the following to find further social shopping pages.