YouTube now rewards watch-time. Skip annotations help increase watch-time! Skip 2.0 Annotations Click the Purple bar and the Next/Previous buttons in this video: Skip 1.0 Annotations Click the purple Skip annotations to skip ahead in this video: Why Skip Annotations Get More Views Skip annotations increase video watch-time. If your audience is getting bored, they can skip ahead to interesting parts of your video instead of leaving to watch another video. YouTube's new algorithm rewards watch-time, not view count, so the longer your video is watched the more likely YouTube will recommend it as a related video alongside other videos! How to create Skip Annotations Use our Copy Annotations tool to create Skip annotations! See http://tgn.tv/copy-youtube-annotations To create these manually, simply add a "Note" annotation with a link to the video itself and a time to skip to. Do you like this? Tell us by replying here!
In my experience annotations have to say exactly what they do, or people will not click them. Even to the point of them saying "Click to do X". 1) Channel 4 Games - Does not say what the button does, and does not indicate that you should click. It looks like a label, not a button. 2) Skip to X - Solid, I like this. 3) Game News: X Date - Does not say what the button does, and does not indicate that you should click. It looks like a label, not a button. 4 + 5) The Arrows - Does not say what the button does, and does not indicate that you should click. In the end, I think that 3 annotations are most effective: Next Episode >, < Prev Episode, X Playlist.
I think they are too distracting. I can't try to figure out what they all do and pay attention to the video at the same time. I do like the "skip," but I wish the arrows were like <|Prev Next|> because they could be confusing (Are they rewind and fast forward buttons? Is one of them a play button? Do they make me scroll to more annotations - because with this being so full it looks like there could be more? etc.). And the "Channel 4 games" and "Game News: Date" make it too cluttered imo. It would be better if you move some of it to the bottom so you can be more descriptive - "Watching Game News: Date | Click for Channel 4 Games" - or just not put those at all.
How does the skip button tie in with the new youtube search algorithm because it sounds like it actually might do more harm then good to have it.
The new YouTube algorithm rewards longer watch times. Without the "Skip to..." annotations, the viewer may get bored and leave for another video. The "Skip to..." may show him something he wants to watch! To the other question, no, the "Skip to..." does not count as another video view, it just skips ahead in the same video!
Hey I love that new stuff, it makes the video like a table of contents. How exactly do you do it? Nice video by the way :D
I make my annotations consisting of these characters. ☼ Check Out Channel Skip Intro ◘ ◄ Prev ★ See All Character Creations Next ► Example But of course you can spice it up a bit, by using your windows character map. Just head over to your video manager then look for the tab that says Annotations. Have a little play about with it so you get the settings you like.
Hey, 'm new here (my very first post), but as the subject is of my interest (user interfaces), I may show you guys some sugestions, that IF there's no [Next] video, then the button should be the [Home] button, and the first by most be the [Previous] button, people are very used to the left go back, right go to end/next. I guess the date notations can be used for many others purposes appropriated to the instant, unless your subjects are time sensitive. And please, do not use colors, you don't want the notations to get more attention than the video, be discreet, your video is your show, your notation should be a little help to envolve your visitors. Sorry if my english is awkward, 'm from Brazil
I like the skip annotation and tried to implement it myself on one of my videos. However I didn't seem to get it right. How exactly do you do those annotations? I'd love to use them in some of my videos! btw a newbie to the forums here too! :D
Good question! The "Skip to" annotations are done by creating a "Link" to the same video you are doing annotations for and put in a time-code of where to jump to. Hope this helps!
