Listing delivery
Real estate video delivery to agents.
One link per listing, and it survives the re-cut.
An agent will not make an account to watch a two-minute film. The delivery that works is a link they can paste into the MLS field, the listing page, an email to the seller and a feature sheet, and that still points at the right cut three weeks later when the house is restaged.
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By uncompressed.io · Updated September 2026
The one constraint that decides everything
The agent will not make an account,
so the link has to do all the work.
Every other delivery problem in real estate video is downstream of this. The agent is on a phone, between showings, and they need to forward something to a seller in the next four minutes. A signup wall, a verification email or an app install ends the conversation. So the deliverable is not a file and it is not an invitation. It is a URL that opens, plays and downloads for anyone who has it.
Nothing to join
The viewer clicks and watches. No account, no email capture, no install. That is true for the agent, for the seller the agent forwards it to, and for the buyer who opens it from a listing page at midnight.
One link per listing, not per export
The link is addressed to the property, not to the version. Replacing the file behind it keeps the same URL, the same view count, every embed already pasted into a listing page, and every setting on the film.
A password when the listing is quiet
Set a code on that film and give it to the agent. Passwords are per video. There is no hub page holding a whole brokerage behind one code, and this page will not pretend otherwise.
An embed with nobody else's name on it
The player you paste into a brokerage listing page carries no host branding. The agent's page stays the agent's page.
The shop rhythm
Several listings a week, and how
the week actually runs.
A shop shooting five or six properties a week does not have a delivery ritual per client. It has one pipeline that runs the same way every time, because the only way to hold a twenty-four hour turnaround is to remove every decision from the last mile.
Shoot in the morning, cut the same day
The listing film is short, the structure is fixed and the agent already knows what they are getting. The variable is the house, not the workflow.
Export once, in something a browser plays
H.264 for the widest device range. HEVC and AV1 stream when the viewer's device decodes them. Nothing is re-encoded on upload, so there is no transcode queue between you and a working link, and the agent's client sees the bitrate you chose.
Upload and send one line
The address, the link, and the download note. Nothing else. The email an agent can forward without editing is the email that gets forwarded.
Let the agent do the pasting
Their MLS video field, their listing page, the seller update, the feature sheet. Your job is to make sure every one of those places can point at the same URL for the life of the listing.
Where the link actually ends up
Four places an agent pastes it,
and what breaks each one.
The print row is the one that decides the whole architecture. A QR code on a feature sheet cannot be re-pointed after it is printed, so the link behind it has to be the one that never changes, whatever happens to the cut. Gmail's 25 MB attachment limit and its automatic Drive substitution are published by Google; see the sources.
The listing changes, because listings do
A second cut is
not a second link.
Three weeks in, the sellers repaint, the staging company swaps the furniture, or the agent wants the twilight exterior moved to the front. You cut v2. The wrong move is to upload it as a new film and send a new URL, because by then the old one is in an MLS field, an embed, a printed feature sheet and four forwarded emails you will never see.
Replace the file behind the existing link instead. The URL, the views, the embeds and the settings all survive the swap. The QR code on the window card keeps working. The agent does not have to update anything, which matters more than it sounds: an agent who has to redo their MLS entry because you changed a URL is an agent who remembers that next time they book a shoot.
The same mechanism covers the less dramatic changes. A price drop should never require a new film, which is a good reason to keep prices out of the cut and in the description. A listing that transfers to a second agent at the same brokerage keeps the link it already has. A film that needs a vertical version for social is a different deliverable with its own link, not a replacement for the landscape one.
The mistake this page exists to prevent
The sold sign goes up
Three ways to retire a listing film,
and one thing to write into the contract.
Sellers ask. Sometimes they want the film to keep running as proof the agent earned the commission, and sometimes they want the inside of their old house off the internet the day they hand over the keys. Decide which before you shoot, not after.
Leave it up
Plans have storage, seat and caption allowances; streaming has no extra charge here. There are no bandwidth charges and no per-view charges, so a sold listing costs the storage its file occupies and nothing else, however many people open it.
Put a password on it
The film stays where it is and the link stays valid, but it opens only for whoever has the code. This is the middle setting: the agent keeps it in their portfolio, the public does not.
Archive it to cold
On Max and Studio, a master moved to cold storage is kept at half the hot rate and does nothing else: no stream, no embed, no review, until you bring it back. That is a real take-down that still keeps the file.
The contract line is short and it saves an argument later: say who decides when the film comes down, and how long you keep the master afterwards. Most shops keep the master well past the sale, because the same house lists again in five years and the drone plates, the neighbourhood shots and the interiors are worth more than the day rate to reshoot them.
What a year of listings occupies
Size the storage,
the only thing that is metered.
Take a shop delivering six listings a week: a two-minute landscape film at 50 Mbps is about 750 MB, plus a vertical cut, so call it one gigabyte per listing all in. That is roughly 26 listings and 26 GB a month, a little over 300 GB a year. Now the plans are just arithmetic.
Plan storage, seat counts and block rates from the pricing page. Studio, at $250 a month or $2,500 a year, adds 2 TB hot, 2 TB cold and 5 seats; extra seats on any paid plan are $25 a month or $300 a year, with no storage attached. The one gigabyte per listing is an assumption for the arithmetic, not a published figure: a longer film, a higher bitrate or a second vertical cut moves it, so measure one of your own exports and scale the table.
Two things fall out of that table. Starter is for testing the link with one agent, not for running a shop, because it holds one film at a time. And the meter is storage alone, so the listing that gets forwarded around a brokerage three hundred times bills the same as the one that nobody opens. For a delivery business, that is the number that matters, because you cannot predict which house goes viral on a local Facebook group.
Honest comparison
What the agent already has,
and when to keep using it.
Most agents already have a drive, a transfer tool and a channel. None of those is wrong. They are built for different jobs, and the published limits are the fastest way to see which job is which.
Every competitor figure is from that vendor's own page, fetched 11 September 2026 and listed in the sources. WeTransfer's plan limits are quoted as published; no WeTransfer price appears here, because none could be read from a page that loaded. Nothing on this page characterises Dropbox or Google Drive video preview quality beyond the single sentence Google publishes.
Read that honestly. If the agent wants reach on a listing that anyone should be able to find, YouTube is free to host on and the public cut belongs there. If the brokerage already pays for Google Workspace and somebody just needs the file on their laptop, Drive holds 5 TB per file and uploads up to 750 GB a day, which no listing film will ever trouble. If a post house needs one batch of camera originals moved this afternoon, a transfer tool is the right tool, with the caveat that WeTransfer Free and Starter transfers come down after up to three days. Dropbox takes files up to 2 TB and is a good place for masters to live between machines. For a seller’s email, Gmail stops at 25 MB on a personal account and quietly swaps the attachment for a Drive link, which tells you an attachment was never the delivery.
What none of them is built for is the thing this page is about: a single address for a property that stays valid from the first MLS entry through two re-cuts, a price change and the sold sign, on a page with nobody else’s logo on it, that an agent can open without making an account. If that is the shape of your week, the rest of the cluster is worth reading: what a finished delivery contains, sharing without a client account, and replacing a video without changing the link.
Questions
Frequently asked
Does the agent need an account to watch the film?
No. The link opens in a browser and plays. If you want the film restricted, you set a password on that film and give the agent the code. Passwords are set per video, not on a folder or a shared hub, so one listing is one link and one code.
The house was restaged and I re-cut the film. Do I send a new link?
No. Replace the file behind the existing link. The URL, the view count, every embed already pasted into a listing page and the film's settings stay exactly as they were. That is the point of delivering one link per listing rather than one link per export.
What should I export for a listing film?
H.264 is the safe pick for the widest range of phones and desktops. HEVC and AV1 also stream when the viewer's device decodes them. The player streams the exact bytes you uploaded, with no re-encode anywhere, so choose the bitrate you want the agent's client to actually see.
Can the agent download the file as well as watch it?
Yes. The same page carries the download, which is what an agent needs when their brokerage's marketing team wants the file for a portal or a paid social placement. Downloads are not metered; Plans have storage, seat and caption allowances; streaming has no extra charge.
The property sold. How do I take the film down?
Three honest options. Leave it up, since an old listing costs storage and nothing else. Put a password on it so it opens only for the people you choose. Or, on Max and Studio, archive it to cold storage, where a master is kept at half the hot rate and does not stream, embed or open in review until you bring it back.
Can I put a whole brokerage's listings behind one password?
No. Passwords here are per video. There is no multi-listing hub page with a single code. If a brokerage wants one door for everything, this is not the tool for that job.
The agent just wants the film on YouTube. Should I argue?
No. If the goal is public reach on a listing that anyone should find, YouTube is free to host on and it is the right place for the public cut. Keep your delivery link for the file the agent pastes into the MLS field, sends to the seller and hands to the brokerage, and let the public cut live wherever it gets seen.
Size a week of listings
Plans have storage, seat and caption allowances; streaming has no extra charge here. Views, uploads and viewers are unlimited on every plan, including the free one, so a listing film that gets shared around a brokerage costs the same as one nobody opens.
Sources
- 1.uncompressed.io pricing: plan storage, seats and storage blocks
- 2.Google Drive Help, Files you can store in Google Drive: 5 TB per file, and the preview description (fetched 11 September 2026)
- 3.Google Workspace Knowledge, Storage and upload limits: 750 GB uploaded per user in 24 hours (fetched 11 September 2026)
- 4.Gmail Help, Send attachments with your Gmail message: the 25 MB personal-account limit and automatic Drive link (fetched 11 September 2026)
- 5.Dropbox Help, Upload limitations: 2 TB maximum file size (fetched 11 September 2026)
- 6.WeTransfer Help Center, Plan limits: Free, Starter, Ultimate, Teams and Enterprise allowances (article updated 30 May 2026, fetched 11 September 2026)
- 7.WeTransfer Help Center, How long are transfers available to download: up to 3 days on Free and Starter, 30 days for branded pages (article updated 29 May 2026, fetched 11 September 2026)
- 8.YouTube Help, Upload videos: 256 GB or 12 hours maximum, 15 minutes until the account is verified (fetched 11 September 2026)