OK, any internet marketer worth his salt knows how to embed a YouTube video on a webpage.
Just look at most websites and you will see a YouTube video embedded.
But how can we get smarter than our competitors and create that Wow moment for our visitors and video viewers.
Well I think you will find this tip a really creative way to use YouTube, and best of all it is free.
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The way this works is using Annotations in YouTube to link videos together. And by doing this it enables us to get very creative with how we use YouTube videos. Check out the video below where you can choose your own story. Just by the clever use of annotations and using still images to give the illusion that the video has stopped playing and so hide the options that YouTube automatically loads at the end of each video. Quite a neat hack. Check it out.
But a word of warning. Annotations do not work on mobiles. So to accommodate mobiles I would have an alternative page appear with an alternative message which does not use this hack or annotations
To see more information on this hack and other ways to get more creative with YouTube annotations visit http://blog.viewbix.com/creative-ways-use-youtube-annotations/
