Youtube Video Annotations

February 1st, 2009 Posted in General

YouTube recently launched a feature that allows you to embed clickable regions within a video.   Unfortunately you are prevented from linking out to external sites and can only link to other Youtube videos or search results.  So while the feature might lead to interesting pick-your-plot vidoes it isn’t going to change the world.

The ability to link-out would be a huge benefit for affiliate marketers looking to drive traffic to their campaigns.  If external links were allowed you could imagine a great deal of effort would be used to produce viral videos that ultimately are used to sell a product (the soap opera model). Until then, the only way to add links are to use services like LinkedTube which lets you add links to YouTube videos embedded on your site.

Checkout this demo:

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