My gig video got rejected because I was told it was too long. (70 seconds)
The email said they can only be 1 minute long.
Fiverr’s own web site page
If it were me, I’d edit it down to 60-seconds and be done with it.
Besides, who watches 70-second videos anymore?
If you don’t get their attention in the first three, you’ve lost 'em.
Seriously, go with the 60-second one.
I had a video that was rejected for being too long. Same reason. I suspect it’s category-related.
Ageed with Looseink, though, trim it if you can. If you think you can’t, then why?
Category-Related ? What do you mean by that?
So not really because of the length, but for some other un-defined reason?
My apologies, that was suppose to be past-tense. “I suspected…”
It’s a hypothesis I came up with when I was smarting after my own video was rejected, so in a way it’s ‘Sour Grapes’. I figured that maybe categories that focused on video, audio, and visuals were likely allowed the longer sample video times.
It and I have since been proven wrong many times, because of videos like yours, which would be in an audio category.
Was your letter pretty much identical to mine?
All my gig videos have been over 60 seconds, and couple of them I had to extensively trim to barely squeak in under 75 seconds. I am fully aware that clients prefer gig videos that get straight to the point, but I can’t but help trying to inject some personality into mine.
Maybe you just had a gig video reviewer who was having a bad day or felt particularly knit picky.