Traditional (old-school) annotations not showing on mobile

Raspberry

Raspberry

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Now that interactive cards are available to everyone, are old-style annotations completely disabled on mobile? For me, they show up on desktop but not on my smartphone. Is it always like that? Have you seen any official information on that? What is your experience?

I am asking because I want to add a notification for users inviting them to switch to HD in the settings on desktop. There is no need for such a notification on mobile devices because on smaller devices I am fine with my videos displaying in auto quality. So, traditional annotations seem to be the best option for such notification. But I am worried that YouTube may completely disable such annotations in the future...Any thoughts?
 
Furry Gurus said:
Annotations have never worked on mobile. That is the reason why they invented cards, because they do appear on mobile devices.
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Oh right thanks! I thought annotations are displayed on mobile but are not clickable.

Do you think annotations will stay on desktop and I can be safe using them?
 
Raspberry said:
Do you think annotations will stay on desktop and I can be safe using them?
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Google are planning to have cards replace annotations in the near future. Now the logical thing for them to do would be to convert current annotations to cards or leave current annotations and remove the option to add new 1s to videos... but this is the same company that thought forcing Google+ on us was a good idea. I'd say continue using the Annotations, most likely they'll leave them untouched if they can't figure out how to convert them to cards.
 
Raspberry said:
But I am worried that YouTube may completely disable such annotations in the future
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This is what YouTube said in March:
"Because cards work across mobile and desktop and give you more flexibility to share what you want, our goal is to have these eventually replace annotations. But this will happen only once they can do everything annotations can do today, and more."

Hmm, now I'm rethinking my end card design... :unsure:
 
WolfWraith said:
Google are planning to have cards replace annotations in the near future. Now the logical thing for them to do would be to convert current annotations to cards or leave current annotations and remove the option to add new 1s to videos... but this is the same company that thought forcing Google+ on us was a good idea. I'd say continue using the Annotations, most likely they'll leave them untouched if they can't figure out how to convert them to cards.
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Oh my end-cards will look great when I say: "if you want to see more click here or here" and there is nothing to click.......
 
Furry Gurus said:
Oh my end-cards will look great when I say: "if you want to see more click here or here" and there is nothing to click.......
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Lmao but that's how it already is on mobile. Have you checked your analytics? Maybe it's different for other people but with me, over 50% of my views come from mobile devices.
 
SabrinaKom said:
Hmm, now I'm rethinking my end card design... :unsure:
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Furry Gurus said:
Oh my end-cards will look great when I say: "if you want to see more click here or here" and there is nothing to click.......
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I wouldn't worry about it. I mean they're stupid, but they'd be on a whole new level of stupid if they just completely removed annotations from YouTube altogether. The amount of backlash they'll receive from that will be worse than the backlash they got from Google+ 10 fold because there are people out there who have thousands of videos on 1 channel alone with annotations. The easiest approach for them is to remove the option to add new annotations but allow people to edit current 1s already on their videos if they wish. When they say they want cards to do everything annotations can do, they also mean the ability to reposition cards the same way you do with annotations, so your end cards won't be effected even if they remove the ability to add new annotations as you'd just be placing a 'card' over the video or subscribe button to allow people to click them.
 
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