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Re: YouTube Annotations Review – The Good, The Bad, and “Tube Tips”

Muhammad Sarfraz — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:55:57 -0000

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Re: YouTube Annotations Review – The Good, The Bad, and “Tube Tips”

Daniel Floriano Blanco — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:02:19 -0000

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Re: YouTube Annotations Review – The Good, The Bad, and “Tube Tips”

Bo Gowan — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 18:04:12 -0000

With a little bit of graphics work and preparation, YouTube annotations can be very useful for enabling navigation features during a video. Instead of people abandoning your video (the way half of people do with YouTube videos) you can entice them to click on a related video.

Here's an example: http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Re: YouTube Annotations Review – The Good, The Bad, and “Tube Tips”

wagerfilm — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:32:52 -0000

informative. I never thought annotations had much use. But I now see their potential, as you describe it. Sylvester Wager, wagerfilm

Re: YouTube Annotations Review – The Good, The Bad, and “Tube Tips”

Jason — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:58:35 -0000

Hey Mark - That's great and I think that's going to work out with veeple once they have it up and rolling. For right now, I think I'm just going to use a Camtasia plugin that works with Power Point - will use graphics to refer people to the link in the video description. I'm a stickler for driving every visitor that I can:)

Thanks man - I appreciate the response.

Jason

Re: YouTube Annotations Review – The Good, The Bad, and “Tube Tips”

Mark Robertson — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:10:02 -0000

Hey there Jason. Pretty soon, veeple is going to have a plugin for the jwplayer that will allow you to do this for free. Right now, as for YouTube, the ideas you mentioned are good ones. If you want to add an overlay that gets users to your site from YouTube, you can do that with promoted videos if you are in the US or in Canada (I dont think they have opened it up elsewhere). If you look at this video, Ive made a clickable overlay.... http://www.youtube.com/watc... Does that help?

Re: YouTube Annotations Review – The Good, The Bad, and “Tube Tips”

Jason — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:05:08 -0000

I'm looking for a way to add a clickable link in a video that will take a visitor to one of my domains. So far, I've only found services that charge for this and it's a bit pricey. Is there any way to do this??? It seems to be that the only way to do this is to have annotations that link to the actual youtube channel, that then directs the visitor to my site with the clickable text links.

Possibly the best way to do this would be with having an annotation that refers the viewer to the clickable link in the description?

Any advice appreciated and will subscribe to follow-up comments via email.

Thanks,

Jason