Relatable Zillow scrolling at game from @zillow

The video shows a person from a first-person perspective at a baseball game, holding a hot dog while simultaneously scrolling through expensive home listings in Chicago on the Zillow app.

Creator: @zillow on Instagram

Video format

One Shot

Video outline

  1. Establish engaging environment
  2. Reveal unexpected, relatable activity
  3. Label the shared habit

Hook overview

An immersive, first-person POV shot that establishes a specific, often desirable, real-world setting and activity, creating an immediate sense of place.

Title hook

Back to your regularly scheduled Zillowing

Verbal hook

Welcome to Chicago, the winning city of America.

Visual hook

A close-up shot of a person scrolling a real estate app on their phone, juxtaposed with the background of a crowded baseball stadium and a classic Chicago-style hot dog in the foreground.

Hook strategies

  1. relatability-contrast

Payoff

The payoff is the viewer's feeling of recognition and validation ('I do that too!'), creating an instant bond with the content and reinforcing a sense of shared community around a specific habit.

Narrative framework

The Secret Habit Juxtaposition

Narrative framework logic

Placing a common, often private, digital habit into an unexpected and highly specific real-world context to create a moment of surprising relatability.

Narrative framework breakdown

  • frameworkName: The Secret Habit Juxtaposition
  • frameworkType: Standard Narrative
  • coreLogic: Placing a common, often private, digital habit into an unexpected and highly specific real-world context to create a moment of surprising relatability.
  • confidence: 95
  • pendingStatus: created

Topics: Real Estate, Lifestyle, Local

Concepts: Relatable One Shot, Pope In The Pool Multitask

Formats: One Shot

Elements: Text Overlay, In-Scene Media Playback, Mood Music

Account types: Brand

Transcript excerpt

Welcome to Chicago, the winning city of America.

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