{"id":124,"date":"2008-10-31T15:43:50","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T19:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=124"},"modified":"2008-10-31T15:43:50","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T19:43:50","slug":"how-to-add-user-interaction-to-youtube-videos-with-annotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/31\/how-to-add-user-interaction-to-youtube-videos-with-annotations\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Add User Interaction To YouTube Videos With Annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a feature in YouTube that not a lot of people know about.\u00a0 It’s called annotations<\/strong>, and with it, your viewers can actually interact with your videos.<\/p>\n

For example, let’s say you want some text to popup in your video that says “Click Here For More Information”.\u00a0 With annotations, you can do that.\u00a0 And when the user clicks on that text, they can be taken to another video in YouTube that contains more information (they can’t be taken to another URL…only another video in YouTube).<\/p>\n

Or say for example you sell clothes and you put together a video on YouTube that shows a few of your more popular items.\u00a0 You can draw annotation boxes around each individual item and when a user clicks on one, they can be taken to another video about that specific item.<\/p>\n

I’ve put together a short tutorial that shows you had to add annotations to your YouTube videos.\u00a0 You can watch it below (please note the annotation\u00a0feature in YouTube is still in beta, so it doesn’t always work perfectly):<\/p>\n

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\nAnd here’s a great example of annotations used in video marketing on YouTube.\u00a0 It’s a video by\u00a0Samsung:<\/p>\n

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There’s a feature in YouTube that not a lot of people know about.\u00a0 It’s called annotations, and with it, your viewers can actually interact with your videos. For example, let’s say you want some text to popup in your video that says “Click Here For More Information”.\u00a0 With annotations, you can do that.\u00a0 And when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[89,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}