Magic of a Play Button

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Last Updated on November 15, 2023

For quite some time now, I have been contemplating penning down a blog post that delves into a fascinating discovery that has the potential to augment the click-through rate of the videos hosted on our website by a staggering 100%. As luck would have it, in the middle of last year, we chanced upon Crazyegg, an exceptional service that we believed would help us in gauging the performance of our site. Upon conducting an analysis of the initial 500 visits, I was dismayed to discover that a meagre number of individuals were actually watching the videos, and to make matters worse, only a couple of them seemed to be taking any interest in the gallery that we had on display.

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Initially, it was an image roll-over for all the videos. There would be a video thumbnail and on mouse-over, an image with a play button would appear. Here are the two images which I used for freshdesk.

After analyzing the data, I just reversed the order to see how it was working for the next 500 visits. The result was astonishing! All our videos are now being watched and it is a 100% increase in the click-through rate.

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Just an image with a play button can make a lot of difference to a website.

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Udhaya
I creative direct, design stuff, brand products, love pets, play flute, click pictures, etc........................ Okay that's the personalities in me. I just breath.
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