The Startup Videos » Travel https://thestartupvideos.com Startup stories, news and tips in video Mon, 17 Jun 2024 13:55:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 DogVacay: Send Your Dog on a Vacation While You Are Away https://thestartupvideos.com/?p=311 https://thestartupvideos.com/?p=311#comments Mon, 23 Jul 2012 08:30:53 +0000 Gayathri http://thestartupvideos.com/?p=311 [...] ]]>       DogVacay is the ultimate solution for dog lovers. Usually when you go on a vacation you have to drop your dog with a family member who may not be interested in taking care of the dog. The other option is to drop the dog in a kettle. However, if you really care about your dog, you want them to have a vacation just like you. This is possible with DogVacay. Just log on to their site, choose from a number of available dog hosts and pay only after you have visited them and dropped of your dog.

Video Review:

      Dog lovers will absolutely love this idea. In return they can also welcome the dog host into their house and earn money. It’s a win-win situation for everyone. To explain how it works, they have a startup video pitch on their homepage. Since, it a unique idea it will take some time to convince people to become accustomed to it. Here are some notable features of their video:

  • 2D animated cartoon graphics that tell a story.
  • The video is made with a story-telling theme. It uses a common situation to explain the idea of their service.
  • Decent colors and animation has been used.
  • The DogVacay logo is given ample spacing in the startup video demo.
  • Animated screencast has been used to display how the website works.

      This video is short with a time of only 90 seconds and touches an emotional chord for the dog lover. With just a little music this explainer video can become even more interesting.

URL:http://dogvacay.com/

]]> https://thestartupvideos.com/?feed=rss2&p=311 2 Google MapMaker: Help Others by Leaving Your Mark on the Map https://thestartupvideos.com/?p=226 https://thestartupvideos.com/?p=226#comments Tue, 10 Jul 2012 12:38:29 +0000 Gayathri http://thestartupvideos.com/?p=226 [...] ]]>       Google MapMaker is another product by Google that allows anyone to add their knowledge of local places to Google Maps. So it could be a walking trail, the outline of a building or marking a place. Once the new details have been added to the map they are reviewed by other users. After other users approve of the new addition, the place or trail is added to the map making it even more accurate for everyone.

      This new product by Google allows users to make the maps more accurate for everyone to use. Plus, nobody can have better local knowledge than the people who actually live there. By contributing to Google Mapmaker it becomes possible to make it easier for people to discover locations and shortcuts easily.

Video Review:

      To introduce their new idea of MapMaker, Google has used a short explainer video. Google is the king of search engines and a top company in innovating ideas for the web, so if they think that business videos are important for introducing a new idea, then it has to be true. Here are some notable features of their video:

  • 2D animation has been used to make an interactive video.
  • To make the idea even more understandable they have shown an actual map and hands drawing different location on it. This adds a little 3D animation to it. It is not only interesting to watch, but gets the idea across really well. It literally shows that you are leaving your mark on the world map.
  • Interesting colorful graphics to show how one can add different places on the map.
  • During the one minute short video it has been ensured that the viewer knows that it is a Google product by using the Google name multiple times in the voice over and ending the video with their logo.

URL:http://www.google.com/mapmaker

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