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YouTube Kills Annotations Because Everyone Hates Them

March 19, 2017Malika Karoum Dubai

YouTube is killing annotations in favor of End Screens and Cards. There are several reasons for making this change, but the main one seems to be that everyone hates annotations. Or, as YouTube rather more diplomatically put it, “viewers generally don’t love annotations”. Annotations, for those not familiar, are those boxes that pop up randomly […]

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