How To Write The Perfect Story: Your Guide To Engaging Element Combinations

Our storytelling elements enable you to tell your readers your story in creative and interesting ways, perfectly customized to suit your content. Which Playbuzz elements you use and how to combine them when telling your story, however, can make a huge difference.

Check out our favorite element combinations that will boost your content and transform the way your readers interact with it!

Studies show that the vast majority of people aren't going to read a long block of text. They'll read the title and if something doesn't immediately catch their attention, they move on to something else...

So, to keep your readers interested and engaged, using media (images, gifs and videos) from the get-go is essential. Across the board, whether you're creating content around a sports or entrainment event, a breaking news story, or your brand, combining text with media is the best way to ensure that your readers will actually read what you have to say and share it with their peers on social media!

See how much more interesting that was with GIFs?

When communicating your story through Playbuzz Video, add a poll asking your readers what they think or feel about what they've just watched. Combining Video with Poll is a surefire way to get your readers involved in the conversation and interacting with your content. By giving them the opportunity to put in their two cents and have their voices heard you will also increase the likelihood that they'll want to share your content.

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Notice how the poll continues the conversation, engages readers and gets them thinking about the video while encouraging them to chime in with their opinion.

When using video (whether your own or from YouTube) to show or explain something to your readers, adding a Summary is a great way to sum up what they've just seen in clear, succinct, easy-to-remember points.

This is an especially strong combination when you're including a video that communicates important information or a breaking story but your readers might not be able to watch it all (such as with a long interview):

Notice how Summary enables readers keep track of the important points in the video as well as a TL;DR factsheet for those who don't have time to watch the whole interview.

When creating a fun and entertaining Personality Quiz that reveals something special or interesting about your readers, add a poll to encourage each reader to vote for their result. Personality Quizzes are all about giving your readers a result that they'll identify with and want to share. By giving them the opportunity to click on their result in a poll, you're enabling them to let the world know what they got - as well as see how many other people who took the quiz got their same result.

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Notice how giving your readers the chance to tell everyone else what they got, by choosing their result in a poll, keeps the interactive experience of the Personality Quiz going. This means your readers will be engaging with your content for longer!

Now it's your turn!

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