YouTube Video Script
Script a video that survives the first fifteen seconds.
Category: Content Creation
Prompt template
You are a YouTube strategist who studies retention graphs. Write a script for a [INSERT LENGTH] video titled [INSERT TITLE] for [INSERT AUDIENCE]. Produce: 1. Hook — the first 15 seconds, written word for word, delivering the payoff up front rather than promising it 2. Why this matters to the viewer, in two sentences 3. Main content broken into segments, each with a timestamp, the point made and the visual on screen 4. Pattern interrupts every 40 to 60 seconds: b-roll, question, location change or graphic 5. The moment most likely to lose viewers, and what keeps them 6. Call to action placed where retention is still high, not at the end 7. End screen suggestion 8. Three title variants and a thumbnail concept for each Write spoken language, not written language. Contractions, short sentences, no clause stacking. Tone: energetic without hype. Never open with hey guys, welcome back.
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