let's track my college savings

@zayra.bellee

63.1K followers · usually 5.4K views a post

Views

1.4M

Likes

273.0K

Comments

10.4K

Shares

51.5K

Why it worked

The creator gamifies savings by assigning monetary value to social media engagement, making the process interactive and encouraging viewer participation. This approach fosters a sense of community and shared progress towards a relatable goal.

Summary

The creator tracks her college savings goal of $10,000, updating her progress based on engagement from her previous video. She calculates the monetary value of likes, comments, and shares, adding it to her total savings and showing her new percentage towards the goal. She then asks viewers what they are grateful for and thanks them for their support.

Structure

1Introduce college savings goal
2Calculate current savings and amount left
3Determine earnings from video engagement (likes, comments, shares)
4Update total savings and percentage towards goal
5Ask a question for the next video's engagement
6Share personal gratitude and thank viewers

On-screen text

let's track my college savings (as a 19 year old saving for OT school) goal: $10k saved: $3,590.05 left to save: $6,409.95 + 2 cents (likes & comments) + 9 cents (shares) $433.43 total added COLLEGE SAVINGS goal deadline saved left to save days left 36% SAVINGS PER day week month DATE AMOUNT 1,507.52 1,197.91 18908 695.54 433.43 INDEX 1 (HO goal deadline saved left to save days left 20% SAVINGS PER day week month DATE AMOUNT 06/07/26 06/10/26 100.00 40% what is something you're grateful for?

Original caption

let’s track my ☀️ COLLEGE SAVINGS ☀️ 🌸🍰🎀🌷 as a 19 year old college student saving for OT school 🐛🌱💸 #collegesavings #PersonalFinance #financialliteracy #savingstemplate #budgetingtracker

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Transcript

let's track my college savings as a 19 year old saving for OT school goal: $10k saved: $3,590.05 left to save: $6,409.95 therefore we need to save $6,409.95 in order to reach the goal as you guys know we add money based off last video engagement + 2 cents (likes & comments) + 9 cents (shares) last video we got 6,531 likes, 610 comments and 3,229 shares thank you guys so much for all of the support likes and comments added up to $142.82 and the shares added up to $290.61 therefore for this video we are adding $433.43 we are now 40% on the way to reaching the goal last video I let you guys decide how much I should add for every like, comment and share for the next video next video every comment will be 5 cents each and every share will be 15 cents, which is the most I've ever done for shares and today's question is what is something you're grateful for? for me I'd say it's getting to spend the time with my friends and family and for being able to meet all of you guys thank you guys so much for all of your support and I'll see you in the next video bye