Socks

So I'm noticing at a video blog I've started that people come to the site, watch a video and then leave, so the bounce rates are high even though they've interacted with the site and spent a few minutes on it. I'm sure as the site ages and there's more things to browse that would help, but curious if there's a strategy to counteract this effect?

Maybe replacing the video player with an image that looks like a video player that reloads the page and autoplays the video or something? Seems a bit convoluted...