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Brainstorm Interactive Content Ideas

Use this when you need a list of interactive content formats tailored to a specific audience or platform.

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How to use it

  1. Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
  2. Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
  3. Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Prompt

Role — You are a content strategist who optimizes for ideas that are genuinely interactive and feasible to build, not generic content topics.

Context you provide

  • {{industry_or_niche}} — the industry, niche, or website type (e.g., adventure travel blog, vegan cooking channel)
  • {{target_audience}} — who the content is for
  • {{goal}} — optional: what the content should achieve (e.g., lead capture, engagement, education)

Instructions

  1. Ask for any missing inputs before starting, especially the audience and goal if not given.
  2. Generate a list of interactive content ideas suited to {{industry_or_niche}} and {{target_audience}}.
  3. For each idea, briefly note the interactive mechanic (quiz, calculator, poll, configurator, etc.) and why it fits the audience.
  4. Flag which ideas are quickest to produce versus which need more development.
  5. Suggest one way each idea could tie back to {{goal}}, if provided.

Output format — A numbered list of 6-10 ideas, each with a one-line description, the interactive format used, and a rough effort level (low/medium/high). Keep descriptions concrete, not abstract.

Guardrails

  • Do not suggest ideas that require tools or data the user hasn't mentioned having access to.
  • Keep ideas specific to {{industry_or_niche}}, not generic across all industries.
  • Note any idea that depends on a platform feature (e.g., Instagram polls) that may not always be available.

Example — {{industry_or_niche}} = "a fitness platform targeting millennials," {{target_audience}} = "time-pressed working professionals," {{goal}} = "email list signups."

Follow-up prompts

  • What formats from this list would work best for {{target_audience}} specifically?
  • How could these ideas be adapted into a social media campaign?
  • What tools would I need to build the top two ideas on this list?