Couchsurfing – The Greatest Gift to Travellers and Hosts.

October 21, 2011 in Malaysia

I really love couch surfing.
It has helped me find local people to feature in my videos.
It has helped strengthen my belief that we are all the same, regardless of cultural differences.
Looking back over my travels, it is wonderful to watch the videos featuring couch surfers.

Here is a link to my couch surfing profile

and here are some video featuring couch surfers I have met around the world:

Barcelona with english expat Nick:

Auckland with the Lovely Dr Maya:

Granada with David and Irene, They suggested doing a story on cave dwellers:

Rafael in Sevilla:

Nhi in Hue:

Hanoi with Lan:

Wellington with Marcel:

World Tourism Youtube Channel

October 21, 2011 in Malaysia, World Tourism

Round the World Travel Video Adventurer, Mark Shea, explains what he hopes to achieve with the World Tourism youtube channel. He wants to establish a location where viewers can view all the best tourism videos from around the world. Filmed at Perak Cave Buddhist Temple, Ipoh, Malaysia.

‘The place to view the best tourism videos the world has to offer’

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How to make Travel Videos like a Magician!

October 8, 2011 in film making, Filming Secrets, How to, Malaysia, travel filmmaking, Travel Videos

Mark Shea of overlander.tv shares four secret lessons of travel filmmaking he learnt from an Aborigine Kurdaitcha man many years ago at the crossroads of a small outback town.

You too can learn these secrets, without fear of losing your soul!

Mark is a documentary and travel filmmaker who in the line of his work has; walked the Camino de Santiago in Spain, hopped in the ring at Tent Boxing Show in Outback Australia, and escaped hordes of marauding inbreds looking for fresh genes in the wilds of Tasmania.

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Branded Travel Video Content – The best online marketing solution

November 21, 2010 in About, Advertise, Branded Video Content, marketing, online video, Travel Videos

Branded content (where the marketing is not “heavy handed” and is “almost a bi-product”) is the most effective form of online marketing according to a October 2010 report by the CMO Council.

The future of branded content by goviral in Cannes 2010



Most people are not aware that travel programs on television almost exclusively feature branded content. That is, all the tours, motels and restaurants highlighted, have actually paid for the privilege.

This can lead to an extremely dull viewing experience, where everything the presenters review has to be seen in a flattering light. This is not a realistic travel experience!

In the online arena, viewers want honesty, they want to know the people behind the business, their passions and what differentiates them from the crowded tourism marketplace.

Overlander.tv have established themselves as one of youtube’s top performing travel channels. Our videos use a documentary style format whereby we feature local business people as experts in their field, providing viewers with information as to why they should visit their regions.

An opportunity exists for progressive businesses, working in the tourism sector, to feature on overlander.tv. To either personally promote their business in a short business profile video, or to feature as a short segment in Overlander.tv’s successful ‘Meet a Local’ location guides.
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Downloadable Travel Videos at Overlander.tv

July 30, 2008 in Internet Video

The Australian leg of the ‘Meet a Local’ Series is now available online in downloadable format.

Learn about popular Australian tourist destinations by meeting a local person and discover why they like living where they do.

The series is broken up into half hour programs and is a fantastic gift for those wishing to visit Australia, or those wishing to show the folks back home exactly what Australia and Australians are all about.

The downloadable videos are in quicktime .mov format and are roughly around 300mb in size. The videos have been optimized so as they will look fantastic on your widescreen television. Despite being in a compressed format, the quality is spectacular.

I have decided to offer downloadable videos because they are the greenest way to watch media. There is no need to produce or post anything, and you can be watching a download within minutes, depending on your internet connection.

Love to hear your comments, what location most appealed to you, who was the most interesting character?

Promote your Australian Tourism Business with Video

March 26, 2008 in Advertise

Australian Travel Videos
Overlander.tv is one of youtube’s most viewed and most subscribed travel channels

An exciting opportunity now exists for Australian tourism businesses, whereby they can sponsor one of our location videos, featuring Australia’s top tourist destinations.

This entails your business being mentioned in the video itself, and a exclusive link provided to your website.

youtube overlanderThere is also the possibility of having Overlander.tv produce a ‘doco-ad’ for your business. A doco-ad is an online video ad that looks at the people behind your business, their passions, their interests, why it is they run the business they do. These ads are the perfect online video for your ‘about us’ website page.

Current locations available for sponsorship include:

Melbourne – Music/entertainment
Echuca – Paddle Steamers
South Coast NSW
Canberra
Sydney – Drag Performance/harbor cruise
Byron Bay – Art
Nimbin
Gold Coast
Noosa
Fraser Island – Tour
Airlie Beach – Sailing
Magnetic Island
Cairns – Diving
Cape Tribulation

Only one business per location, so be quick, order yours today by emailing us at info (at) overlander.tv or phoning 0414 25 1970 to speak to the Overlander directly.

Overlander.tv videos feature on numerous online video sites. Check out our youtube channel to get an idea of the positive comments viewers have made with regard to our ‘meet a local’ concept.