Just a couple of years ago, none of the social network users could imagine that frequent posting of photos and videos on the wall would become a thing of the past. In 2021, the social network VKontakte developed a story system. So, it became possible to share your own photos and 12-second videos with friends. This tool is now actively used.
Stories help to increase the level of activity on the page and captivate even more people. In this material we will tell you what can be posted in stories to increase the loyalty of the target audience.
What opportunities does Stories provide in VK?
Stories on social networks take on the form of a new independent module, which is characterized by already established technical characteristics:
- Maximum video length is 15 seconds;
- 1 file should not weigh more than 10 MB;
- Images must be no larger than 1080x1920 px;
- Vertical (from a smartphone) video layout 720x1280;
- Video codec - 264, audio - ACC.
When you post a new Story, it will be deleted after 24 hours. This content format is available to all users and communities on VK. You can create videos both in the mobile application and in the web version of the social network. In their own Stories, users can attach stickers, overlay text, insert links, masks, graffiti, and more. You can add any materials except advertising.
Read more about this in the VKontakte rules:
Stories can be found in the News section.
The stories of your friends will be displayed at the top of the page in a horizontal row. To create your own story with a question, you need to click on the leftmost block, where a plus in a circle is displayed.
It is not necessary to shorten the material to fit into the story. You can break the video into several parts and release it in series. Moreover, VKontakte tools allow you to create the desired sequence of publications.
How to ask original and interesting questions
When adding questions for subscribers, the page owner must remember the design. For example, if you post a multiple-choice quiz, you can use animated stickers. Or, dedicate the next publication to analyzing the answers.
The situation is the same with the “Questions” sticker – use different backgrounds and videos. More often, questions are asked in order to get an answer through photos or video materials.
How to submit questions:
- emoticons. Add some emoji;
- use non-standard fonts.
But when writing a question, the font or symbol may not appear. Also, asking questions is only possible through the mobile version. On the computer, interaction with stickers is not available, as is viewing broadcasts.
What can you post in Stories?
Users post videos on almost any topic. The new video format adds spice to publications.
Most often, using Stories they post:
- Personal news,
- Favorite quotes,
- Horoscopes,
- Instructions,
- Recipes,
- Own goods,
- Announcements, etc.
The main idea of Stories is originality. They need to be done directly from your phone. This is how you show your subscribers your own life, genuine emotions and, of course, yourself. If you need to add images, it is better that they are unique. Therefore, use Photoshop or other image editors.
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Stories as a promotion tool
Stories can be used to promote various projects on VKontakte - from a thematic public page to a local business.
Let's take a closer look at how you can use disappearing photos and videos:
- Personal brand promotion. Publish small notes in Stories that confirm your expertise in your field. As an example: customer reviews. Share moments from your life to build trust with your audience.
- Storytelling. Create stories and tell stories through them: for example, 10 photos and 10 short videos of how you went hiking or developed the concept of a new product.
- Sale of goods. Make short videos about products with a call to action - for example, a discount for the New Year: hurry up to buy new skis.
- Informing subscribers. Inform customers about promotions and discounts, tell them about the release of new products.
What interesting questions can be used for Stories in VK
As we see, questions for your Stories can cover any topic. Just so they can catch the interest of your friends and subscribers.
Let's look at examples of such questions, based on which you can compose your Stories:
- Invite your friends to respond to you with a song that they think they associate with you. In turn, you can answer them with what you think is the best photo from their Story page. This could make a great Story;
- Another fun idea is to post a question image in your Story. It contains several wishes that you will fulfill for certain visitors. Who will be the fifth, sixth, etc. to look at this publication? to 15, you like them under Stories in response. You can make several such wish fulfillment items. It is desirable that the numbers be as high as possible. This will be an incentive for your friends to receive a reward, and they will come to you more often;
- You can show your friends on VK a question about what they would like you to call them throughout the week or month. In a separate Story, you can show answer options and the corresponding number. Ask them to respond in the comments with an image with a number;
- A fairly popular and at the same time effective question in VK is: “Ask your question, and I will try to answer it as honestly as possible.” It works especially well with your friends. Everyone will immediately want to ask you something. But again you need to answer with a picture form;
- Emoji are used by everyone on VKontakte. Ask your friends to fill in the form with all their favorite Emoji. And they will happily answer you on VK;
- Continuing the theme of emoticons, you can invite users to describe you with 3-4 emoticons in the comments. Everyone uses them and it requires minimal effort. Therefore, you will see how many friends will respond to your request. In addition, you will also find out how this or that person treats you. And who do you think you are to him?
- The topic of zodiac signs has always been of interest to people. Use this topic on VKontakte about who your friends are by zodiac sign. You can include a matching emoji in the image so they don't have to write the name of the zodiac. This way you can also find out their character. If, of course, you believe in astrology.
Poll on Zodiac signs
Questions for live broadcast
Quiz questions about yourself or other users can be added to the broadcast. But this format involves communication with the audience in “real time”. That is, the questions depend on what is happening at the moment.
How to ask questions during the broadcast:
- Go to the user who is broadcasting.
- Click on the icon at the top: “Questions” - click: “Ask a question”.
Or, go to a previously published Story. The page owner will receive a notification as soon as the question is asked. By clicking on the text box, it is placed in the broadcast. If a question has been answered exhaustively, it is removed.
The list of questions includes:
- why did you decide to create a blog?
- how much does promotion cost and are free methods effective?
- Do you agree to promotional offers and how often?
These are the requests that are most often heard at conferences or broadcasts on Instagram.
Riddles for Stories on VKontakte
Along with questions or quizzes in VK Stories, you can use riddles or practical jokes. And also create polls. Which is also very effective for attracting the attention of your friends and subscribers. You can find photographs of little-known animals on the Internet and ask in Stories who they are. Or find interesting riddle pictures with possible answers on other resources that will also attract onlookers.
You can create such pictures yourself. For example, in a graphics editor, cut out miniatures of famous actors, cartoon characters, scenes from a film and number them. And publish with a request to leave answers with numbers. On the Internet you can also find a lot of interesting and difficult problems from primary school textbooks. Ask them to solve them, let them feel ashamed of their level of education.
Use interesting puzzles. This will add excitement and will certainly attract attention to your Stories on VK. Sites with puzzles can be easily googled on the Internet. Here are a couple of resources as an example: https://allriddles.ru/, https://logiclike.com/math-logic/matematicheskie-rebusy. Use interesting riddles and surprise your friends with witty questions.
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Ideas for relay races
Users really love relay races from the Stories feed and actively participate in them. This is not only interesting, but also provides an opportunity to “kill” time. They look like a bright picture with text on top indicating the task. In the story you can write:
- Send me an emoji in a private message, and I will describe 10 facts about you.
- Send me a number in a message, and I can write back how we met.
- Send me an emoticon, and I will write a line from a piece of music that you associate with me.
- Tag me in your story and I'll post your best photo.
- Send me a photo via SMS that is not on any social networks, and I will answer any of your questions.
The listed options are approximate, you can come up with any task you like. It all depends on your imagination.
Ready-made templates for creating Stories with questions
You can get backgrounds and ideas for your Stories on VKontakte on the free video constructor “Supa” at https://supa.ru/. There are many ready-made crafts from users and site developers. You can take ready-made ones or create your own. To create your own template, you need to go through a simple registration on the site. After that, select a blank from three options under the heading “Video from a blank slate”.
If you have even a little experience working with graphic editors, you can create a beautiful and attractive background for questions in Stories yourself. To do this, take your photo, a pet will do. As always happens, the background around us in the photo turns out “not very good.”
This is easy to fix:
- Create a second layer on the image and select a color to fill the background with;
- Fill your image with color;
- Select an eraser and wipe the area where you or your pet are depicted;
- Save the result.
Use the supa service to create stories
This background option may be even better than any templates that can be found on the Internet. Its main value is originality. After all, you will do this with your own hands. Together with your question, stories on the VK social network will attract users. And no one will be able to pass by without answering you. Don't hesitate, try to implement your new ideas in your stories. Perhaps you will become a new star on VKontakte, from whom other users will adopt ideas.
Where to see the results of the answers
If the Quiz was public, the answers will appear when viewing the section: "Viewers". For business accounts, you need to go to statistics. The answers will be indicated by options, clicking on which will display the pages of visitors who answered.
How to view the results:
- Go to the previously created History.
- Click below: “Viewers”.
- View the list of respondents.
If the user gives the correct answer, crackers will appear on the screen and the selected item will light up green. If it is incorrect, it will appear in red and the correct one will appear highlighted. Those who voted cannot change the chosen option, and the results and the voting itself will no longer be available after 24 hours.
If you pin the Quiz to Current, it will be available for viewing. But you can only answer or get statistics on it for the first 24 hours.
Pinpoll
Site for creating/integrating questionnaires and quizzes. Users see how results change in real time! Using different media, surveys come out very colorful and look good on gadget screens.
You can choose a video or animated GIF (your own or from your local library) as the background. There are different modes of questionnaires: classic and “either-or” (for example, which of two cats do you like better?).
How to work (video in English)
What you need to know about Stories
Stories allows you to share with your friends and subscribers what you are doing at the moment or provide information about an upcoming event or promotion. Using this service, you can take photos that disappear and write a 12-second video, decorating it with stickers or writing text. There is a special block to display Stories, which is located at the top of the news feed. There is also a button to add them.
After your friend posts some news, his account photo in the Stories feed will turn blue. You have the opportunity to post Stories in a common feed, so any user can see the stories. They can also be sent to dialogue. Today, publications can be made exclusively in official applications for VK mobile phones. Let's figure out what exactly you can post in Stories on VKontakte:
- Any photos and videos located in your phone's gallery.
- Video 12 seconds long.
- Photos, as well as video shot on the Stories camera.
The stories where you communicate with the audience get the most views: various competitions, as well as quizzes.
Facts for a guy
It’s easy for a guy to write facts on Instagram. Don’t be afraid to praise the guy once again if there is something for it. He will be pleased to read this. Girls may praise his appearance or his success in studies (at work). Friends can remember how he once helped them out and show by example that he really values friendship and knows how to make friends. You can also tell how you once had fun together, briefly talk about one of your joint adventures. A brave girl can also hint to a guy in this game that she likes him.
