Use annotations in your YouTube videos

 What are Annotations?

Annotations are basically notes you can lay on top of your videos add anywhere to the timeline of your videos to provide additional information.

I would recommend using these as a call to action to your audience, asking them to do certain things at different parts of the video. For instance, I will often add an Annotation during the video to ask for
a ‘Thumbs Up’ of my video. I’ve noticed that the audience often respond positively and when I do ask my Likes actually increase. To find them, simply click on the Edit button for your video and you’ll find the Annotations tab above your video. You can add as many Annotation as you like and then simply select where on the timeline you want to appear and for how long. Simply drag the bar to where you’d
like it to appear.

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Although you can use Annotation as labels to provide information in your videos, I tend to find them more useful as ‘calls to action’. Your video software is more than capable of making its own ‘in-video’ labels so it just seems a waste to use them just for this purpose alone. If you’re short of comments and would like to get some more, just change your Annotation to read: “Please comment below if you Like this video!”. This can be very useful if you ever receive a bad comment, which can sometime snowball
into further bad comments. Once you add these annotations, it tends to get the community on your side and they end up defending your video. Annotations can really be that powerful.

Research has found that having the Annotations ‘pop up’ during the video gets the best results, rather than simply having the Annotation permanently stuck there for the whole length of the video.