2022
Introduction:
Each day we're seeing more and more Local Guides contributing videos on Maps, sharing their experiences at the places they enjoy so that others can get a much better appreciation of these places and make better informed decisions about visiting them. This post is about such videos and more specifically, it's about showcasing the "best" videos taken by Connect Local Guides.
Like photos, videos have a view count and in the absence of a better metric, in this post we use the number of views that a video has as a measure of that video's "quality" and we refer to the video having the most views as being our star video.
As you will see, this post includes a set of leaderboards that showcase the star videos of Local Guides from all over the world and whether you are a level 10 or a level 2 Local Guide, if you have contributed video on Maps, you can join in to showcase your star, and it's simple to do. Just hit this link and register or if you need any help with this, then add a comment in this post and someone will jump in to assist you.
So what can you learn from the Star Videos Leaderboards?
By sharing our video contributions and achievements we can learn a lot about how to improve the quality of our videos so that we can achieve even better outcomes in terms of the impact that they have on our communities. We have been doing this successfully with photos over many years and so we can do the same with videos so join in and let's see if together we can learn what type of videos work "best" on Maps.
From a group of selected star videos for April, I chose @TerryPG's star video taken some time ago with his Samsung 8 at Lone Star Texas Grill, a Tex-Mex restaurant. It looks like Terry hasn't updated his star video since end-January and possibly this is because it's views haven't increased. Now what's interesting here is.....(sorry I'm being interrupted....I'll be back to finish what I would like to say soonest LOL)
