What is Hook Test?
Trying different openings, thumbnails, or posting times, then doubling down on what holds attention. The creator analog of iteration.
3 openings · 1 holds
A hook test is…
Write it in your own words in the app.
In real work
They ran a hook test on three first lines, kept the one that held 3-second views, and stopped rewriting the rest of the script.
In the illustration
Two wobble and fall; one keeps spinning and a marker drops on it.
Set up a hook test in your workspace: three openings for the same video, posted a day apart, and the retention at ten seconds for each.
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