Hook-Driven Script for Personal Finance Video

A personal-finance creator wanted an 8-minute video explaining “index-fund snowballing” to beginners—but their retention usually tanked after the first 90 seconds.

Audience mining: scraped 25 top-ranking competitors to map questions, objections, and story beats.

Narrative architecture: front-loaded a “what-if” cold open, built a looping tension-release cadence (Problem → Promise → Proof → Payoff) every ~40 seconds, and embedded interactive “mini cliff-hangers.”

Data-driven language: swapped jargon for concrete dollar examples and echoic phrasing to prime recall.

Average view duration: 6:02 → 7:11 (+18%).

Retention at 70 % mark: 42 % → 64 %.

Subscriber conversion: +310 subs in 48 h—3× the channel’s norm.

What this shows: I don’t just “write a script”; I engineer an experience that manipulates dopamine loops and keeps the algorithm happy.

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