Love that you are doing video reviews!  If you want people to refer back to a specific post, can you list a specific URL (i.e. http://www.zrecommends.com/blink) at the end of the video?  It could even include a note with something like “For more information on XYZ and the notes from our complete review, please visit...”

That may be a possibility - could even do “zrecs.com” but setting up the direct urls would get messy over time (one for each review) as they’d be different from the actual url (http://www.zrecommends.com/detail/blah-blah-blah). I’m not too clear on the SEO cost/benefit of less descriptive URLs, either.

You have put an interesting idea in my mind though. We can set up subdomains for ZRecs, and although having these for individual reviews would be weird, we could make brand subdomains for the brands we write about the most. I think we get up to 100 on GoDaddy. Or we could do these by product categories instead. “For more of our views on this and other strollers, see strollers.zrecs.com.” That might be of greater interest than a brand, since viewers presumably aren’t searching for what to buy from Britax, but what stroller to buy. :)

I love the “strollers.zrecs.com” idea, even if it’s unrelated to the video reviews-- I’m MUCH more likely to search by product category than by brand.

On that note, if you end up doing a lot of comparative stroller reviews, it would be helpful to know how tall the handles are.  Our main reason for buying a “nice” rather than a “semi-disposable” umbrella stroller was the amount of hunching over required for a taller adult to push the cheapo ones.  (We have a Maclaren Volo, incredibly similar to this Britax, but lighter with fewer bells and whistles; we like it a lot, but a taller handle height would probably push us into Britax territory.)

I don’t know how it’s done, but I know that there is the ability to add captions to YouTube videos, that at a minimum people can read (ie: For close up of these wheels, see [URL]). I have definitely seen captions that are clickable, but these may have only been ads or links to iTunes.

Google tells me that what I may be thinking of are called Annotations. But YouTube Captions also exist. I know nothing about uploading online video, so I have no idea which would be better.

Thanks for the note, KGS. We’ll put out a call for some handle measurements at multiple companies we deal with and see if we can work up a list.

Yolanda, we do use captions - there is one in the video above, in fact, where I had to correct a small misstatement. The trick with those is that they are not clickable - what you’re seeing that can be clicked are indeed advertisements. It’s a source of frustration in our use of YouTube that we can’t provide links in the video that can be clicked. So I think a simple subdomain for a product category is probably the best way to go, as long URLs would probably get little activity.

I’ll have to look into that pen trick.  My stroller (Silvercross Dazzle) has that same issue of not being able to be stored upright without being braced against something.

Thanks for the tip.

I was seriously thinking about buying one of these, and now I see they are recalling all of these strollers?  What gives?

The hinges of virtually all folding strollers can pose a previously unregulated pinch, laceration, and amputation hazard. Britax has recalled their strollers to offer the same type of repair kit that three other brands already have: a piece of fabric that snaps over the hinge area and prevents fingers from getting in the way.

Maclaren’s recall last November of one million strollers was based on 12 fingertips amputations in 15 reported incidents. Graco followed suit with a recall of 1.5 million strollers and evidence of 5 fingertip amputations. Regal Lager recalled its CYBEX strollers and reported one fingertip fracture.

Britax’s recall of the Blink is the first to be announced with no injuries or incidents reported.

In other words, you are probably in the best shape buying a stroller from one of these companies, because they have acknowledged the hazard and developed a remedy that should now be included in any new stroller you buy from them. Other companies have not stepped forward to accept responsibility for this hazard or offer a fix for their products, but they pose the same general hazard.

I have to agree on the handle length issue - we have a semi-disposable umbrella stroller (probably why it hasn’t been recalled or a fix kit available, as the thing cost less than $20) and it rarely is used because at five foot ten, I’m still the much shorter half of the parental type unit in my house. 

I’m having a hard time finding a double-stroller that has a tall enough handle and is very compact when folded (our issue is trunk-space.  We don’t have very much, our Baby Trend Expedition jogger-style stroller JUST fits with some grunting and shoving).  I’m assuming side-by-side would be easier (for not twins but less than two years apart) but I dont’ really know....and I have til about August to figure it out!