Video hosting services compete on features and content. YouTube‘s early dominance has made it near impossible for competitors to contend for the latter, but countless video hosting services have innovated for different needs in different ways. EyeSpot and Jumpcut have browser-based editing solutions. Viddler has timed-tags. Mogulus has a full TV studio in a browser.
But lately, YouTube’s gotten into the game of features, too, with things like high quality video, talks of live video and, today, the announcement of annotations. Here’s a look:
UPDATE: Apparently, annotations don’t show up on embeds?
Annotations allow a video’s creator to add clickable text linking to any YouTube (and ONLY Youtube) video, channel, or search results page directly atop the videos.
###It’s a relatively small step
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