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Ask a number question in video.

Ask for a quantity, a size, or a budget inside the video and get back a value you can compare and route on.

Works on the video you already have. No re-encoding.

Screenshot needed — number questions configured on the timeline in the editor

What it does

Quantities that stay quantities

Team size, seat count, budget — these only help if they arrive as numbers rather than sentences.

Numeric by construction

The response is a number, so it sorts, filters, and thresholds without cleanup.

Thresholds drive routing

Send larger accounts to a rep and smaller ones to self-serve, automatically.

Comparable across viewers

Distribution and averages come out of the report rather than a spreadsheet exercise.

In practice

What to ask for

The one number that changes what should happen next.

  • Team or seat count that decides the plan being discussed
  • Budget range that routes to the right sales path
  • Class or cohort size in an education enquiry
Screenshot needed — number questions being configured in the editor

In depth

What number questions is for

Ask your viewers to respond to a question with a specific number to ensure properly formatted responses.

Whether you need to ask for the year someone was born, how many children they have or how many cookies they’d like to eat, choosing a number response question will enforce that their response is a whole / integer number. By either exporting that data from Mindstamp or connecting Mindstamp to your existing CRM, data warehouse, pricing or any other business system you can be sure of the format and integrity of the answer to drive subsequent actions.

If you need zip codes to offer specific services you can collect that in a Mindstamp Interactive video with a number response. Mindstamp can assist you on setting parameters for number response questions, including minimum digits (5 for zip codes) or positive vs. negative numbers.

You may want to ask how many times a year a prospect uses a specific product or service and based on their answer use conditional logic (by tracking their answer in a variable) to guide them to content specific to their usage patterns. Conversely you may want to capture how many licenses a customer might need for a software product or how many loads of laundry they do a week to better tailor subsequent marketing.

Simple questions like total members of a household, number of dependents, number of pets or years of education can be easy to ask during an interactive video because viewers are actively engaged in the interactive video experience. By combining this demographic data with other behavioral information captured during the video you can create and export robust personas even of anonymous viewers.

What gets measured

Every use of it is reported

Reported per viewer
Every use of this interaction is recorded against the person, not the play.
Placed to the second
Attached to the timecode it sits on, so results map to the moment that produced them.
On video you already have
Layered on the existing file — the original is never re-encoded or replaced.

Questions

What teams ask about number questions

Can I set a minimum and maximum?

Yes — bounding the input keeps obviously invalid answers out of the data.

Can the number decide the next scene?

Yes. Conditional logic compares the value and branches from there.

Try it on one video

Ask the number that changes the answer

One question, and every viewer is sorted before anyone picks up the phone.