Interactive Video Platforms, Software and Tools in a comprehensive list

Dutch company Blue Billywig offers a versatile product, which can be used for creating interactive product informational videos, shopping videos, and way more. Their interactive video platform lists two handfuls of types of interactions that could be added to a video by an interactive video creator.

Blue Billywig is a company where you can outsource complete interactive video productions. The platform has many possibilities, but is also complex to use. If you have a substantial budget and want to outsource the process from A to Z yourself, Blue Billywig is an excellent company. Would you like to be able to participate in making your videos interactive? We recommend our own platform.

Hapyak was acquired by online video platform Brightcove in 2021. For that reason, the company itself has few employees on LinkedIn. The marketing for Hapyak has been discontinued after the acquisition by Brightcove. It is no longer possible to test Hapyak separately without using Brightcove.

Cinema8 focuses on gamification, eLearning and Marketing. They allow users to create interactive video by using functionalities such as clickable areas, questions, buttons and more. Cinema8 looks like a comprehensive technology platform. They do not offer an open trial, so we have not been able to test there ourselves.

The Australia-based ClickView is an interactive video company that is geared towards online education. Knowing that television and YouTube series score well among today’s students, they have started with interactive videos in ClickView Original Series.

You can use these to support your lesson material and create your own interactive videos by using their built-in questions in the interactive video tool. They also focus on connecting with the other students with their mobile app.

Texan interactive video website DilogR provides a video hosting platform and interactivity tool especially for marketing.

With Dilogr, you can create a dialog between you and your customers and also track their level of engagement. They offer a combination of interactive video, questions, surveys, polls, and more in their tool.

Dot.vu is an interactive content platform to engage, entertain, and educate customers with interactive content. Interactive video is a part of the entire platform. The platform offers many possibilities. It was difficult for us to quickly understand how it works.

EDpuzzle is aimed at teachers. Via EDPuzzle you can add interactions and voice over to existing YouTube videos. The teacher can then send this to their students and view the results. It is not possible to link other video platforms. You can, however, upload a video or use a video from another teacher. The questions are not shown in the video as with hihaho, but next to the video.

Eko, before its name-change known as Interlude, is a New York-based tool that is specialized in interactive live-action entertainment. It offers a highly personal approach with the opportunity to discuss your ideas with help of their creative team.

Eko Interactive Video specializes in shoppable videos. Their product was created to make it possible to purchase and personalize products. This is done by linking video fragments together creating an interactive experience. We find EKO complex to use and think that part of the end result is determined by your experience and skill with video editing.

American company Engajer offers an interactive video platform on which you can build an interactive video tree by means of questions, so that your viewer can decide their own path throughout the video. It offers additional features such as an ecommerce plugin and a tracking system of your viewers. Both interactions and technical features are limited compared to our own hihaho platform.

Exaltive is a technology for helping businesses to better connect with their prospects, customers, and employees by applying the unique power of video to guide the functional needs of websites and applications in an immersive single screen experience.

Exaltive does not have an open trial. Therefore, we have not been able to test the software ourselves. The blog has not been up to date for years. The same goes for the social media channels. We don't know how active Exaltive still is in maintaining their platform.

GuidingTube is a platform that offers various video innovations. Interactive video is one of them. They offer a button interaction, a conditional choice interaction and a menu. If you buy a license from them, you buy their entire platform, interactive video is 1 option of what they offer and therefore more limited in the possibilities

H5P is part of Joubel, a Norwegian company which offers a spectrum of features to enrich learning content. Interactive video is one of many possibilities. H5P interactions include several question types to drag-and-drop text. In addition, you can make your questions adaptive for when you want people that answered incorrectly to rewatch certain information.

The software is developed open-source and and offered with freemium business model. That means you may download it for free from h5p.org and install it on your own server. You can also purchase H5P via h5p.com as a SaaS solution. In that case you don't have to install the software on your own server. The open-source business model enables organizations to make content interactive with a small budget. That's why H5P is excellent for people in education who are technically savvy.

We can conclude that H5P has a wider range of offerings to make content interactive. H5P is great for handmade e-learning content in a broad sense. When it comes to interactive video, the possibilities with hihaho are much greater. The hihaho platform has more features and is much more advanced. Integration options of hihaho are more advanced as it is fully API based. It is also possible to automate interactive video production with hihaho. Therefore we suggest that hihaho is better suited for i.e. public education and corporate learning.

Hihaho is a Netherlands-based interactive video company and interactive video maker that makes your videos click! Our interactive video platform allows you to create interactive videos for any purpose, in any domain, compliant with all online video platforms. With interaction types such as clickable buttons, menus, and questions, the possibilities for your videos are endless! You can make an interactive video in no time!

Whether your goal is to educate, entertain or market a product or service with your video, hihaho will help you create a visual experience that seamlessly connects to your audience. On top of that, you are able to track all kinds of relevant data about your viewers and their behavior with interactions. You can find examples on our interactive video website. Do you want to learn how to make an interactive video? Hihaho offers an extensive knowledge base on how to make interactive videos. Hihaho also offers an interactive video app.

IVORY studio offers a lot of options and is somewhat similar in interface to video editing software such as Premiere pro. In their timeline you add both the interactions and the video images. This gives you the flexibility to combine different video fragments within the video. The 20 interactions IVORY studio offers are customizable in every possible way. That makes it quite overwhelming at times.

Klynt is an interactive video software application for new media storytellers. Klynt makes it easy to create rich interactive narratives mixing video, photo, audio, text and web resources to produce powerful interactive storytelling. You can organize your videos and story with a mind map of sorts, by dragging and dropping uploaded or linked videos into that map. In addition, you can add audio, hyperlinks, videos, and more to a video. Klynt is used by journalists, filmmakers, photographers, webdesigners, teachers working for news portals, NGOs, web agencies, film production companies and universities.

Kumullus is a French edtech start-up. The platform enables users to create and deploy interactive videos for training employees and networks on all LMS/LXP and Web platforms on the market. Kumullus' website is in French. De backend is available in English as well. Kumullus is a nice platform with comprehensive features.

Luma1 is an interactive video platform for producing, managing and delivering modern content for learning, selling and marketing. The Luma1 platform brings video interactivity and data together with video to drive results for business. Luma1 and hihaho are platforms that both have many technical features and are free to try out. One distinction between the two platforms is that hihaho has advanced layering technology and, in our opinion, is easier to use. In addition, hihaho allows you to pay per video. To publish an interactive video at Luma1 you need to purchase a yearly subscription.

Mindstamp is an all-round tool to add interactions to a video. It especially has many fun question types that are suitable for sales and marketing. You can have someone set a date in the video for example or have your own video recorded as an answer to a question. Mindstamp has fewer publishing options than hihaho and does not work based on a timeline like hihaho, but has a list of interactions to the right of your video and markers in the playerbar to show where the interactions are.

Platform with real-time insights into student understanding through interactive lessons, interactive videos, gamified learning, formative assessment, and activities.

Nearpod is focused on creating online lessons for elementary and secondary schools based on (interactive) slides. Slides can also be videos. You can upload your own videos or existing videos from YouTube or BBC Worldwide. You can also use Nearpod's template lessons and upload your own mp4 s.

Playfilm is a Spanish-language interactive video platform. The focus of the platform is marketing and lead creation. Playfilm facilitates the creation of interactive video ads for use on social media.

PlayPosit offers an online learning environment with an interactive video tool in which teachers can make videos interactive with time-embedded activities. You can add images, equations, audio, and more. Playposit has an extended free version. The paid version has extra features such as templates.With a paid subscription it is possible, for example, to work on projects with multiple people and to connect the Playposit videos to an LMS. Playposit is great for educational purposes.

Quadia makes and develops (interactive) videos, but also provides a platform to maintain the videos. This way you can manage, publish, distribute and analyze videos yourself. They are also specialized in online and hybrid events. Quadiad doesn't look like a platform where you can just get started yourself, but more like a custom solution per client. Interactivity is not their core business

Interactive video company Rapt Media, that is a part of Kaltura, offers a cloud-based platform to create interactive videos for which you can just drag and drop the content into the video. With this interactive video software, you can also track which paths your viewers take within your video.

Since its acquisition by Kaltura in 2018, Rapt Media's website has remained unchanged. It seems that Rapt Media's interactive video technology is fully integrated into Kaltura and no longer developed independently. If you want to work with Rapt Media, you have to work with Kaltura. Therefore, not much value should be attached to the number of employees on LinkedIn.

Smartzer focuses on the creation of shoppable interactive video for those who want to sell with or even within their videos. Smartzer offers a drag and drop interface to add clickable hotspots to your videos. The tool offers a wishlist and recommended items. Besides, the tool is available in multiple currencies and languages.

Unfortunately we couldn't test a lot of functions, because they are locked during the trial. You can only make images interactive in the trial. You can upload videos with the paid version. As far as we can see, the interactions are neatly designed and easy to add. There are also small handy design options in Spott. For example, you can give a button on-hover a different status. In addition, you can build templates and copy layers from one video to another.

Stornaway is a tool to make interactive branched video yourself. Just like Rapt, this works on the basis of fragments and choices that you link together in a flowchart. Stornaway offers everything to make your branched scenarios as good and creative as possible. You can also work out your script in the software and they also have a tool to convert your branched video into interactive YouTube content.

ThingLink allows you to make multiple types of content interactive. One of them is video. ThinkLink offers 5 interactions that can all be opened as a popup via a pin in the video/image. The options that you have per interaction are somewhat limited. As far as we have been able to find, you cannot link follow-up actions to interactions, such as opening hyperlinks or jumping within the video.

Interactive video platform Verse allows you to work with storytelling, Q&As, and more by having interactions such as hotspots, slideshows, questions, and more. In addition, you can add pathfinder and chapters for easy navigation and a choose-your-own-path type of video.

Viddler specializes in interactive video for healthcare. With role play, in-player interactivity, and gamification, their tool wants to help to show improvement over time and across teams. There is little information about the Viddler platform to be found on the website. They do not provide any information about what interactions they offer or the ability to test the software.

The Videopath interactive video platform offers interactive video with the addition of other media. You can incorporate text and images, but also content or social streams from social media, and call-to-action buttons to lead your viewers to where you want them to go. In addition, it allows for much customization. Videopath does not have an open trial. Therefore, we have not been able to test the software ourselves.

With Vidversity’s interactive video tool, you can turn your lectures into interactive learning courses. You can add questions, resources, and also notes to the video. Record videos in the app or upload them yourself.

Vidversity offers several tools. On the one hand, an authoring tool that allows you to create video learning. These are actually video slides interspersed with questions, etc. The interaction is not really in the video but more as separate slides. They also offer a tool called Benchmark that allows instructors to have students create video within an LMS. For example, to demonstrate mastery of a particular skill. Here students can add their own text interactions. Just like hihaho, you can also outsource the production to Vidversity.

Viewbix is an interactive video platform on which you can create interactive ads using customization options in their editor and calls-to-action apps, such as Follow Us buttons, email capture, coupons, etc. There is no open trial, so we were unable to test the software ourselves. Both interactions and technical features are limited compared to hihaho.

Wirewax (part of Vimeo since 2021) is an interactive video platform that is driven by artificial intelligence technology that recognizes people and objects, which you can then tag and make a (clickable) hotspot for your viewers. You can also add more if needed, both moving and static. These hotspots can display further information, add an item to the viewer’s wishlist, and more via their interactive video player. To be honest, Wirewax is a wonderful platform for creating interactive video.

However, the pricing of Wirewax is very high compared to hihaho. For many purposes, you can create similar interactive videos with Hihaho while our prices are much lower.

We weren't able to get a trial account, but their sample videos give us the impression that Vudoo's focus is on shoppable videos. You can open beautiful popups within a video and then highlight a product and add a link to a website. We couldn't find the options to create menus or ask questions in the example videos. Vudoo has not provided pricing details yet.

With the interactive video platform Wootag, you can let your viewers shop within your interactive video. You can have your viewers fill out a form for their contact information, vital feedback or reviews, and even user polls. In addition, they can buy the products directly from the video.

Wootag is difficult for us to review. They have a website, but we couldn't find much information from it. And we didn't understand the free trial account, so it didn't work to create our own interactive video.