In a small update to a YouTube support page last month, the online video giant announced that annotations would be deleted from all videos using the feature early next year. Image: Youtube / ...

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 ...

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 ...

YouTube has added a new annotations feature so that video creators can clutter up their scenes with text bubbles, notes, spotlights and other annoying distractions most viewers won't care about. If ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote about everything from new Web start-ups, to remote-controlled robots that watch your house. Prior to joining CNET, Josh ...

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 ...

Add extra information to your YouTube videos with the annotations editor. Annotations can come in the form of video captions, titles or notes; these can give your videos extra effect and make them ...

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 ...