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April 30, 2012 By 10 Comments

How to Use Annotations with Out-of-Date YouTube Videos

While on a webinar with Online Video Expert Lou Bortone, for the Social Media Biz School, a question came up about deleting out-of-date videos.

Yes, you can delete your old videos from YouTube, but what if you don't want to?

Here's the solution I came up with… [click here if you cannot see the video below]

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About Denise Wakeman

Denise Wakeman is an Online Visibility Mentor, Founder of The Blog Squad, and co-founder of The Future of Ink. She works with service professionals and small business owners to leverage blogs for their businesses, as well as strategically use social media tools to boost online visibility to get more traffic, leads, customers and opportunities. Connect with Denise on Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.

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  1. Joan Stewart, The Publicity Hound says:
    June 14, 2012 at

    Love the video, Denise. Two questions:

    –Do you use a special program to get the text of your video to show up at the bottom of the video?

    –In the newer video, you said you created an annotation telling them they can “subscribe” to receive new video alerts. What link are using here? Is it the RSS feed for YouTube?
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    • Denise Wakeman says:
      June 14, 2012 at

      Hi Joan, thanks for stopping by! For the transcript at the bottom of the video, I used YouTube’s Caption/Transcription tool and uploaded the transcript so it automatically plays with the video. When I created an annotation with a call to action to subscribe, there is a choice of links you can use (all YouTube links). You can choose the url for another video or link to your YouTube subscribe page.

      Blog on!
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  2. Ileane says:
    May 7, 2012 at

    Hi Denise, I love using YouTube annotations, and I have quite a few outdated videos that I added annotations to. 
    Another great idea is to send the new video as a video response to the old video so that it shows up right underneath. Then you can change the description of the old video and mention that the new video is below. This way if they miss the annotation or if they look at the date they’ll see the note in the description. 

    Here’s the link to the old Facebook photo’s video with the huge red annotation and the newer video in the comment section http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIBcAteBzGc

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  3. Donna Merrill says:
    May 2, 2012 at

    Great tip and a good push for me to use this feature.  This surely answered so many questions I had in mind when it came to my Youtube.  I have to perk it up!
    Thanks again,
    Donna

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  4. RebeccaLivermore says:
    May 1, 2012 at

    Denise, this is really an excellent tip. I’m just getting into creating YouTube videos and this really got the wheels turning in my mind regarding how I can use this feature.  Thanks so much for sharing it!

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  5. Karen Fox says:
    April 30, 2012 at

    Thanks Denise!  Great idea!

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