Engage with Online Survey Respondents by Adding Videos

Enhance your online surveys with YouTube videos

video-engage-online-surveysIt’s no surprise that video sharing websites are all the rage. According to a recent study, 49% of people are watching videos daily for an average total of seven hours per week, per person. And, with over 4 billion views per day and 60 hours of video uploaded per minute (and growing), YouTube tops the charts in popularity for video sharing websites.

Along with multiple question types, text styles, font colors, interactive slider controls, and images that you can use with advanced survey software to enhance your brand and stylize your surveys, there is still room for more! Video sharing websites, such as YouTube, store visual content that is readily available to users. Video sharing websites have made adding video content to online surveys incredibly easy. Adding YouTube videos to your online surveys enhances the user experience and engages. Videos inject more style and personality into your online surveys. A survey question with an embedded video allows you to share information with respondents in a way that you can’t get across through traditional words or images.

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Use Slider Controls to Engage Respondents in Your Online Surveys

What are slider controlsSlider controls are graphical image-based controls for collecting data in an online survey.

Here is an example of a slider control:

survey software - smiley slider

Can slider controls add value to your online surveys?  The answer lies in a study conducted in 2007 by Nicola Stanley of Silver Dialogue Ltd and Stephen Jenkins of Snap Surveys. Together, they designed a survey study to evaluate the comparative qualities of graphical image-based control surveys in terms of the respondents’ experiences in completing the survey, including usability, engagement, and enjoyment of taking part in a graphical image-based survey.  Continue reading