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Voyager

YouTube Interactive Video

Interactive YouTube videos made easy!

Add links to Youtube videos, linking to your website, products or contact forms

Add buttons that switch to other videos, pages and social media content within the same frame

Create guided user journeys with content on YouTube, using Stornaway, the world’s most popular interactive video platform.

👩🏻‍💻 3 simple steps - How to make YouTube interactive videos

  1. Choose where the YouTube video will play in your project
    Create a Stornaway project or open the project you want to include a YouTube video on.  Then choose/create the Island that your YouTube video will sit on
  2. Select “Voyager”
    Open the Island settings panel and scroll down to “upload media”.  Check “Voyager”.
  3. Insert link
    In this box, copy & paste the link for your YouTube video 

Watch the video below for a quick screen recording of these simple steps:

Why use YouTube & Stornaway Interactive Video?

Whilst YouTube has over 2.5 billion global viewers, the interactivity is limited. You can upload videos – lots of people do 500 Hours of Video Uploaded to YouTube Every Minute! – but you can’t control the journey your audience goes on with those videos. 

Where they start, where they go next, the story that they make with that content is often left up to chance – and algorithms! 

That’s where Stornaway Voyager comes in. 

🦄 What is Stornaway Voyager?

With Stornaway Voyager, you can take content from around the web and place it inside your Stornaway project.

Voyager completes our vision for Stornaway as a new type of application – an Interactive Experience Designer that lets you turn your static passive content into guided interactive conversations and journeys. With a human touch.

So now  – each section or slide or Story Island (as we call them in Stornaway) can contain videos and content from anywhere: Youtube videos, Loom, Microsoft Office and Google documents, Adobe, other websites, Live stream video, Spotify playlists and Tiktok clips. Whatever you want.

Play some examples

YouTube Learning journeys

Turn your YouTube chapters into an interactive experience that shows you what you’ve watched

Audiobook Fansite

Combining YouTube stories, Fan websites and Google Forms to make a compelling interactive experience to keep kids watching

Interactive Artist Tour

Listen with Spotify, watch with YouTube and play with another Stornaway project. All embedded into one journey.

Not sure where to get started?

🧙‍♂️ Ru's Top Tech Tips

YouTube’s ‘URL parameters” customise how the YouTube player behaves when it loads.

You can combine multiple parameters by separating them with an & symbol.

Adding some simple parameters to your YouTube URL will make your viewers’ journey even smoother. From start time, turning the sound on/off, to autoplay and more.

For full details about YouTube URL parameters and how you can use them, head over to Ru’s Full Guide.