Freshen Up!
You might have noticed we've changed the home page a little (and by a little we really mean quite a lot).
Change is good and it's important to recognise when things aren't quite working right and improve them.
So what's new?
Well we have moved some of the content to the bottom of the page. These panels allow us to communicate with you, more clearly and easily without being distracting. On the original home page they didn't quite fit where they were and were a bit unstructured. This is a bit neater and better positioned and allows you to take them in when you want to and dive into the rest of the site when you don't.
We've also moved the main media player to the top right. We're very proud of our video player and how it is developed with eBay sellers in mind. So we have given it prime position. We also know the help and how to videos are probably less relevant to some of our regular users. Watch this spot. We're working on a super vzaar algorithm that changes the content for new and regular users differently. Hopefully this will make vzaar a bit more interesting for your repeat visits.
We're also doing some internal research and work on how vzaar is helping different people. We're going to highlight this more, as well as start letting you know how you can user video better and how different videos can help you in different ways. Look out for our top 5 tips video coming this week.
We've also changed the video thumbnails are shown. We felt the metadata (that's the information associated with each video like views and item titles) looked a bit messy the way it was presented before. So now you're just see 4 (hopefully interesting) thumbnails and when you mouse over them, we'll show you the metadata. Just click to view the main video.
Finally we've also put a new algorithm in for the thumbnails. We thought it would be interesting to see what people are watching right now. So whenever anyone plays a video, either on vzaar or on eBay we'll show you what's just been viewed. This is real live data of what buyers are actually looking at and watching. Of course the most popular videos will show up more often, but all videos get a shot. Keep an eye on here to see what kind of videos buyers are enjoying.
The most recent videos is as it was originally, just some of the videos uploaded recently. Although we have mixed it up a bit and are picking them randomly from the last 10. Also watch this spot. We're going to start putting some of our favourite videos in here too, when we've finished some of the new code.
Of course whilst change is good, we know we wont get it to everyone's like (I worked on the eBay UK home page change so I know how hard it is to meet everyone's needs). As always drop a comment or contact us with any thoughts you might have on the changes.