With interactive video, you can increase and measure your viewers’ engagement, enrich video with data, generate leads and introduce call-to-actions. Below are the ten coolest features of interactive video. 

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1. Synchronization

Display presentation slides, images, transcript or context synchronously with what the video is showing. As the video plays, the content next to the video, or across the video is dynamically updated. It can also be done the other way around: when you click on the next slide, paragraph or chapter in context, the video jumps immediately to that moment.

Interactive video synchronised with slides and transcript shown next to the presenter on a tablet

2. Graphic overlays

Display logos, titles and data in real-time at any time as an additional layer on top of the video and live stream. The video is a clean feed, so you can dynamically customize the content being shown. Think logos, a chat screen, ads, sponsor messages, real-time sports results, or which speakers are on screen.

Football stream with real-time score and match data overlays as interactive video graphics

3. Deep video, website and app integration

Adjust the colour of the player in real-time, and also adjust the site and app colours as the video plays and the context changes. Control the player from your own controls in the site, and have the video react to how the user uses the site or app.

Interactive football video player with live score and integrated website and app controls

4. Chapters

Index videos and show an interactive menu structure on your site, app or on top of the video so users can quickly navigate within chapters of the video.

Video of a government assembly with a clickable chapter menu for indexed navigation

5. Interactive environment

Create an environment where users can navigate between multiple videos such as the main movie, alternate scenes, behind-the-scenes footage, audio tracks and subtitles, similar to Blu-Rays and DVDs.

Interactive video menu with options like interviews, behind the scenes and deleted scenes

6. Playlists

Automatically play multiple videos in succession to provide, for example, a music channel that alternates between clips and ads, or offer a Netflix experience to automatically play episodes in succession.

TV showing a Next Episode countdown, illustrating automatic video playlists

7. Multilingualism

Provide users in the player with the ability to switch between audio languages and subtitles so they can hear and read your content in their own language.

Conference video player with a language menu and flags for multi-language subtitles

8. Call-to-Action

During playback of the video or your live broadcast, display the products or services being shown. You can even display a micro-webshop over the video. Your visitors are then instantly enticed to buy the product they are currently seeing. Video offers the highest conversion rate!

Product video with an interactive Buy Now call-to-action overlay on the player

9. Lead generation

With a popup layer on top of the video while watching, ask people to register, subscribe or donate for free. It’s the first step towards personal contact, then enticing people to purchase your products or services.

Presentation video with a contact form pop-up for lead generation inside the player

10. Surveys

Place questionnaires as a layer on top of your video to learn from your users, or to test whether they have understood the knowledge they have just viewed. Video is the perfect technology for knowledge transfer, and with interactive surveys, video is also the perfect training tool.

Video lecture player with a questionnaire layer for viewer surveys

You guessed it right, all of these interactive examples are easily realized with Jet-Stream Privacy Player Pro. Thanks to the built-in 2-way Javascript API, you can read and control the player in real-time, send web elements on top of it, and fully integrate it for a truly immersive experience for your viewers. 

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