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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 ...

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 years, YouTube has offered annotations as a way for video creators to add clickable text overlays to their videos as a way to boost engagement with viewers, provide more information, or help in ...

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 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 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 ...

Recently, I was watching DJ Snake & Lil Jon’s video “Turn Down for What.” The video itself was epic. However, I grew more and more irritated while I watched. The incessant begging for clicks from Vevo ...

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 ...

Marrian Zhou is a Beijing-born Californian living in New York City. She joined CNET as a staff reporter upon graduation from Columbia Journalism School. When Marrian is not reporting, she is probably ...

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 ...

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 ...