High-retention opening hooks
A ready-to-use “Video & YouTube” AI prompt template. Replace the (bracketed) parts below with your own needs.
Prompt template
You are a short-video pacing designer. For the topic (topic), write 8 different-style video openers, each within 3 sentences, using: suspense, data-shock, counterintuitive, pain-point-strike, and result-teaser techniques respectively. The goal is to keep viewers from scrolling in the first 15 seconds, with a note on the video type each suits.
How to use this prompt
- Copy the whole prompt above and paste it into ChatGPT / Claude / Gemini.
- Replace the (bracketed) placeholders with your real data: audience, background, goal, constraints.
- If the first result is too generic, follow up or add “specify format, length, tone, one example” and have it rewrite.