06 / FORMATSFIVE WAYS TO BUILD IT

Five ways to show a place.

Every property has one of these in it. Which one depends on what your guests already talk about, how much of the place is worth showing, and whether the best thing about it is a view, a feeling, or a morning. We pick the format before we build a single frame.

You receive one of these, not all five. Which one is the first thing we decide and the only decision we make without you.

Every format is exteriors and surroundings — the approach, the light, the grounds, the views. We never show the inside of a bookable room. That is a choice and not a limit: the rooms are the part of your listing that already exists in photographs, and they are the part every other listing has too. Scope & Delivery explains the rest.

Five formats, added up
Total views

How many times these 22 videos have been watched. Every count links to its source.

Total likes

People who stopped scrolling to react.

Total comments

People who stopped to type something.

Combined engagementLikes plus comments, divided by views. The measure is against views rather than followers — only people who actually watched are counted, so a follower count cannot inflate it.

Of everyone who watched, this many reacted or commented. Across this page it runs from 2.62% to 15.80%.

These are other people’s properties. The formats are yours to use.

19 creators · 14 countries · 5 formats · every number linked to its source

We cannot show you these hosts’ booking records — nobody outside their own accounts holds those. What we can show you is the moment a stranger stopped admiring the video and asked where it was. Those comments are public. Every one below is linked, and you can go and read it yourself.

We read the comment sections on all 22 videos and pulled every one that asked for something — a link, a location, a name, a reservation. Twenty-three did. They are under the tiles below, graded, with our reasoning next to each one.

FORMAT 01ONE TAKE

One continuous frame, no cuts.

Structure

One continuous move. The frame holds still or drifts. Nothing is cut.

What it does

There is no cut, so there is no exit point. It loops and gets rewatched without anyone noticing they are watching it twice.

Use it when

One thing about the property is strong enough to carry eight seconds on its own.

Views
Likes
Comments
Engagement

Best performer in this format: Golden Hour Over the Valley, at 4,332,488 views.

The highest reaction rate on this page. One frame, held. Your property has a frame like this in it.

Engagement
Engagement
Engagement
Engagement

If your property has one feature that stops people, this is the format.

FORMAT 02THE REVEAL

Hide the view, then reveal it.

Structure

Open on something small, ordinary, or blocked. Then move, and disclose the real view.

What it does

Buys attention with curiosity in the first two seconds, then pays it off. The delay is the entire mechanism.

Use it when

There is a single you-have-to-see-it moment. Never lead with the payoff.

Views
Likes
Comments
Engagement

Best performer in this format: The Gasp Before the Lake, at 4,452,099 views.

The view is not the hook. The three seconds before it are.

Engagement
Engagement
Engagement
Engagement

The best reveal we have built runs four seconds. Length is not what makes it work.

FORMAT 03THE WALKTHROUGH

Walk the whole property.

Structure

Cuts moving through the property in logical order, built from your own images. The drive in, the grounds, the terrace, the view — ending somewhere that stays with them.

What it does

Answers the question a guest asks last: what do I actually get if I book this.

Use it when

Someone is already interested. It is the weakest cold opener and the strongest closer.

Views
Likes
Comments
Engagement

Best performer in this format: Concrete Vaults in the Desert, at 6,855,424 views.

More people stopped to ask a question here, per view, than in any other format. That is what a tour does — it makes people want the details.

Engagement
Engagement
Engagement
Engagement
Engagement

This is the one to send someone who is deciding, not the one to put at the top of a listing.

FORMAT 04THE MOOD

Set a mood in a few seconds.

Structure

Beautiful frames that do not connect spatially, chosen for feeling rather than floor plan, with one short line of text carrying the emotion.

What it does

Sells the feeling of the stay instead of the rooms.

Use it when

Top of a listing, background loop, first impression. This format has the widest spread of any — it produces both the best and the worst, depending entirely on which frames we keep.

Views
Likes
Comments
Engagement

Best performer in this format: Neon Over the Hot Tub, at 12,743,866 views.

The widest reach on this page, by a distance. This is the format that travels.

Engagement
Engagement
Engagement
Engagement
Engagement

The line of text matters as much as the image. It names a feeling and points at the image rather than describing the property.

FORMAT 05PEOPLE IN IT

Show real people enjoying it.

Structure

The place shown as somewhere a person would be, not as architecture. The property is the setting.

What it does

Lets a viewer picture their own trip instead of admiring someone else's architecture.

Use it when

You want people to insert themselves. This is the most consistently reliable format we build.

Views
Likes
Comments
Engagement

Best performer in this format: Sunset From the End of the Dock, at 5,000,942 views.

Nobody books a building. This is the format where a guest can see themselves in the place.

Engagement
Engagement
Engagement
Engagement

Nobody books a building. They book a version of themselves in it.

All figures pulled from Instagram on 10 August 2026. Comment sections were sampled, not read in full. Instagram does not expose shares or saves, so those are not shown.

07 / WHICH ONETAKES NINETY SECONDS

We will tell you which one your property is.

You do not have to choose. Answer eight questions about your place and we will tell you which format fits it, what it costs, and why. Ninety seconds, and your listing stops being a set of rooms.

Not sure what your guests would say? Read what they say when they arrive.

One cost, once. You own the film permanently — your listing, your website, your advertising, for as long as you own the property. Answer eight questions and we will tell you what it costs for your place, and work out what that is in nights at your own rate before you decide.

The Formats — Axolist | Axolist