Should you script your videos?

Scripts, teleprompters, bullet points and talking off the cuff on camera.

Axis: script every word … speak from bullet points

Answers by date: 2 records in 2 sources, newest first; the answers above are the current ones. The advice was refined (2023), never reversed, in these records.

date	who	answer	source
2023-05-14	Ali	Ali now writes almost all his videos himself and rarely uses a word-for-word script: he draws a spider diagram of the topic on an A3 pad, then films.	What Does My Mum Think of Me? 4M Subscriber Q&A 00:03:13
2022-02-25	Ali	For filming, Ali suggests a teleprompter for fully scripted, research-heavy videos and bullet points for videos from personal experience, since reading a word-for-word script is easy to hear.	How to Grow on YouTube - Live Stream with Ali Abdaal 01:05:35