What is interactive video?
Video with an interactive layer
Interactive video Example
Interactive video can be used to train employees. Take a look at the example.
The difference between linear and interactive video
Linear video
- Passive experience
- The viewer plays the video in search of specific information
- Less suitable for achieving learning goals
Interactive video
- Engaging experience
- The viewer decides what they want to watch
- Interactions that contribute to reaching learning goals
Why use interactive video?
The benefits of interactive video
- Provide clearer instructions, learn more effectively, and understand better.
- Keep information up-to-date and adjust the videos without having to take them offline.
- Easily link to external web pages of downloadable links.
- Access to valuable data to keep track of results and to determine your viewers’ needs.
- Testing or evaluating is possible by adding interactive questions and by letting the viewer make choices.
- Effectively keep tabs on information about leads, prospects and customers.
How to create interactive video?
Producing an interactive video is a rather similar to producing a linear one, except for one additional step: adding the interactive elements. You can decide to outsource the video production to a creative agency. Would you like to create your own interactive video, all by yourself? You can! We’ve compiled a list of interactive video platforms, highlighting the purposes that each one is suitable
for. Would you like to know more about the process of creating an interactive video with hihaho? Then check out the video below!
Top 3 types of interactive video
Explainer videos
Make information accessible and clear by adding clickable buttons and menus.
How-to videos
Navigate through the video and access the information you need at that moment.
Product videos
Product videos give viewers an inspiring experience of your product.
And more!
There are endless ways to use interactive videos! Discover them in our video showcase.
Application examples
Instructional videos
Interactive video offers all kinds of interactive elements that makes it easier for viewers to understand and apply new information. Interactivity within a video ensures a higher engagement for your videos.
Information can be better remembered and applied because viewers get direct access to the information in their moment of need. OK Learning shows an example of this. They created an interactive video to help medical staff with prepping the machinery in the operating room.
Public information
By engaging the viewers, interactive video helps to stimulate active thinking. This will help them to retain new information, which increases the chances of actual behavioral change. Interactively visualizing the information ensures that the content of the video will be easier to understand and apply.
For example: people often find it difficult to understand and apply textual, medical information. That is why CareAnimations creates interactive, animated videos to help better understand medical leaflets, giving viewers access to the information they need.
E-commerce
With interactive video, you can give your customers an interactive experience with your products, without them having to visit a physical store. On average, interactivity in a video allows for a longer viewing time and a higher conversion than linear videos.
Spanish video producer Goviideo uses interactive video in showrooms of all kinds of well-known car brands. In doing so, they give viewers a spectacular experience when it comes to product orientation.
