For a decade now, YouTube creators have been overlaying annotations in their videos for a variety of reasons. Sometimes it's to note a correction, and other times it's to link to a supplementary or ...

YouTube lets you annotate your videos with notes, labels and speech bubbles. These annotations cover the footage and can distract viewers, so use them sparingly. Spotlights intrude less than other ...

For YouTube users who enjoy pop-ups in videos, those days will soon come to an end. Google, the company who owns the video platform, announced on Tuesday that video annotations will be removed from ...

Google has announced that existing annotations on YouTube videos will be removed on 15 January 2019. The news comes as the adoption of end screens and cards has grown while annotation use has dropped ...

YouTube tests crowdsourced context notes, allowing creators and viewers to annotate videos. YouTube is testing viewer-submitted context notes on videos. Approved creators and viewers can add ...

YouTube is finally shutting down annotations for good. Back in March 2017, the Google-owned company announced that it would be retiring them, better described as boxes that suddenly pop up while a ...

Google quietly announced that it would remove YouTube annotations starting January 15, 2019. Google already discontinued the annotations editor in May 2017. If you have videos on YouTube that use ...

YouTube’s feature set is ever evolving, but one of the more popular options for a long time was that of video annotations. These were a staple for many creators especially in the early days of YouTube ...

Remember when every YouTube video was plastered with multiple obnoxious annotations overlaying parts of the screen and beseeching you to click? Well, that era is finally drawing to its inevitable ...

I’ve read some rather interesting news on Gabe Jacobs’ blog. He reports that YouTube has added an annotation feature. Users can now give background IN the video, instead of the ‘more info’ box. Comes ...

Michael Hoffman, of See3 Communications, in Chicago, is using his See What’s Out There blog to spread the word about a new feature YouTube has created for charities in its YouTube Nonprofit Program.