YouTube to develop choose your own adventure-style shows

[midian182]

Something to look forward to: While the format had already been around for several years, Netflix’s Black Mirror: Bandersnatch brought choose-your-own-adventure shows into the spotlight. Now, YouTube is reportedly developing interactive programs of its own.

Netflix already had interactive content on the streaming service before Bandersnatch, though this was mostly cartoons aimed at children, such as Puss in Boots: Trapped in an Epic Tale. The feature-length Black Mirror show was such a success that another interactive series, called You vs. Wild, has just launched. It involves viewers deciding what presenter Bear Grylls does in different survival scenarios.

According to a Bloomberg report, YouTube wants to push into this category and has a new team that will develop interactive programming and live specials under Ben Relles, who had been overseeing unscripted content.

There already are some variations of interactive videos on YouTube, but the company now has “amazing new tools and opportunities to create and tell multilayered and interactive stories,” said YouTube’s Global Head of Original Programming, Susanne Daniels.

“Ben has an intuitive and experienced understanding of how the platform can enhance content, making him the perfect choice to develop this exciting new division,” she told Bloomberg.

It’s been reported that YouTube is moving away from creating expensive, original scripted shows as part of a “serious budget reduction,” but it isn’t completely killing off its original programming. The company is expected to announce a lineup of new shows in the coming weeks and continues to buy content from producers. We’ll have to wait and see if its interactive videos become as popular as those on Netflix.

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[Uncle Al]

I can see how initially it will be all the rage but it omit's the fact that a LOT of viewers enjoy talking about "last nights show" and this would appear to defeat that. It will be popular at first but I don't think it will survive past it's first season ......

 

[QuantumPhysics]

Isn't that basically what the "suggested" menu is for?

Every single time I log into Youtube, I'm choosing my own adventure.

Same goes for Xhamster.

And my adventures are never the same.

Yesterday I ended up watching Dave Ramsey videos.

 

[G0DofPaiN]

The "original" idea started on youtube...I played who wants to be a billionaire like 5+ years ago, each answer had an annotation(or whatever was that square transparent box called back then) with link to another video. If you guessed the right answer you would move to the next question and so on, otherwise to the fail video.