Make Your YouTube videos more interactive, Engaging and Competitive

Making great videos and engaging people to keep watching your videos is an art. Those days are gone when very few creators were on the YouTube platform, Now a days millions of creators are emerging everyday, so you have to make such a YouTube video content that is engaging, interactive and up to the standards to compete with other creators.

So how to make such a great, engaging, interactive and attractive videos ?  There is not a single thing that you will do and suddenly your videos become popular. You have to follow certain ways, techniques and best practices that are adopted by other successful YouTubers or content creators. In this article I will try to tell you about those things and will point out the mistakes you probably be doing. Lets discuss them one by one.

1. Appearances, Equipment, and Other Studio Setup of YouTube Channel:

This is a kind of basic thing, and it is like beginning of a new journey. Without proper equipment you can make videos, but you can't make engaging videos because the first thing that a viewer notices is the camera result, voice output quality, your background, what you are wearing and how you talk. If you lake any of these things then its hard to make a video appealing to viewer, and the viewer might just close it if you did not impressed him right on the beginning of video. The old quote rightly justifies it that

First impression is the last impression.

Here are few tips and things that most of the successful YouTube content creators adopt to make their videos more popular and get more subscribers at the very first impression.

• Be clean and clean your environment where you are shooting the videos.
• Background of your video is very important, if you have a background that best suits your video's content than its awesome, because it creates an overall impression that you're a professional.
• If you don't afford a unique background of your studio, then Green Screen is the perfect solution for you, with Green screen you can change your background in every video, just pick the photo and put it on green screen in any video editor. Many popular YouTube Content creators do this to attract the viewers.
•  Another thing that is very important is what kind of equipment (like Camera, Microphone etc) you are using. I know most of the people do not have a big budget when they are just stating a YouTube channel, But you should choose a medium quality equipment at least. And If you can afford expansive equipment then it is an extra advantage. But Please don't fall for third quality equipment because they are gonna ruin your career on the very first stage of it, and all your hard work will be wasted.

2. Writing Scripts and Notes before filming your YouTube Videos:

This is the most important thing every successful YouTube content creator considers before filming the video. Do you know that YouTube's number 1 channel Pewdiepie also writes scripts before filming videos.

Why writing Script or at least notes before filming your video is important ?

The script is like a planning device for your video. Does not matter if you are a Tech, Entertainment, or any other niche's content creator if you want to make your video more engaging the script is the most important thing. Scripts will make you to achieve perfection and deliver what you wanted to in a more successful way.

If you thing writing a whole script is difficult then at least keeping some points is must. So that your mind will be clear about what you are going to say in your video. Also when you write script for your video before filming it then it reduces the mistakes you are gonna do during the recording, that means it saves time too. 

The thing viewers notices more is how confident you are about a topic you speaking on. You will be speaking in more confident if already wrote the script for your video, because its kind of extra preparation you make about a particular topic. 

3. Facial Expression and Body language during the recording of YouTube video:

This is another technique to get viewers attention and engage the into commenting and like your video, which means that more high rank for your video as those videos appear more frequently in suggested videos which gets more comments and likes.

So you have to be active, charming and super cool in your videos to get their attention. There are many things that can make you active, lets see few of them

1. You have to convey certain messages to your viewers through your body language, because words are not just enough to impress anyone. Those people who remain dull during the videos are never being successful on YouTube or any other platform.
2. Another thing is your facial expressions. You have to change your facial expressions according to the situation and the topic you are talking on in your videos 

In simple words just be who you are, and talk freely, it will make you to express your thoughts and will automatically show your facial expression to the viewers.

4. Music and Sound effects in Videos to engage more people:

Sound or background music is something that can make your video zero or hero. If you choose bad or un-Occasional sound effects then it can just ruin all of you hard work.

Some people do not use any kind of music in their videos this is also a very very bad practice because it makes viewers get bored and they are not gonna stay there anymore.

If you are making vines or sort of short movies then sound effects play a very important role, it can make or break your video viewership. Now a days every kind of sound effects are easily and freely available on YouTube Audio Library.

5. Animations and Transitions:

Do you know why Pewdiepie and Dude Perfect are so popular on the YouTube ?

They are popular because they use amazing animations transitions and other sort of video editing skills. So if You want to compete with other Content Creators on the YouTube then you must know video editing and finishing.

Animations can engage people more and they want to keep watching the video, that means with animations you can increase the interest of viewer in your video.

Similarly awesome intros and outros can be a factor for getting more views, watch Time and Subscribers.

Also Read: [Impact of into on Your YouTube Channel and best practices]

So these are just the few things that you can consider to make your YouTube video more engaging, interactive and can compete with other content creators out there.