Annotations not showing up?????

[David Stoll]

Hey everyone, I just watched recent video, and it seems none of my annotations are there. One annotation was a note, and the other fee were spotlights and links. They were all there before I switched from Private to Public and hit publish. Anyone ever hear of this? Help, please! -Thanks!

 

[joeybtv]

I've had the same problem. When I schedule my videos to upload on a certain date, and after I put my annotations in, when it does become public they are gone.

 

[JeriKane]

Moved to YouTube Chat, Gossip and Help.

 

[LuiC]

Hey everyone, I just watched recent video, and it seems none of my annotations are there. One annotation was a note, and the other fee were spotlights and links. They were all there before I switched from Private to Public and hit publish. Anyone ever hear of this? Help, please! -Thanks!

Hmmm... Never has happened to me.
Just in case, they don't work, how important are they?

They help, but not a massive amount, so how badly do you need it?
If the video was interactive, you can fix that by adding links at the video description

 

[David Stoll]

Hey everyone, I just watched recent video, and it seems none of my annotations are there. One annotation was a note, and the other fee were spotlights and links. They were all there before I switched from Private to Public and hit publish. Anyone ever hear of this? Help, please! -Thanks!

Okay, I figure this one out. It's simple and stupid on my part. Even if you hit Publish from the Info page when you change from Private to Public, unless you also hit Publish on the Annotations page, the Annotations won't show.

 

[unknown_user908435903]

Mine are working fine.

 

[ForMyLove]

Ya i was confused when i did mine but you must make sure the annotations are saved then hit publish. You can do this to private videos which i was scared would make them public via "publishing" but that was not the case, all it does is make the annotations show up.

 

[David Stoll]

Ya i was confused when i did mine but you must make sure the annotations are saved then hit publish. You can do this to private videos which i was scared would make them public via "publishing" but that was not the case, all it does is make the annotations show up.

Yes. Exactly my fear AND my realization. It's all so 1998.

 

[Crown]

Glad you got it sorted and thanks for reporting back. I'll have to look out for that in the future.

A pet peeve of mine when adding annotations is that say you want to add a vid at timeline 7:43 - So you pause the vid at 7:43 and then click on "add annotation" - Well make sure that the "start time" field is actually on 7:43 because 90% of the time, it is about 20 seconds off and you have to manually edit it

If you miss it, and save and publish it, you end up with annotations which make no sense at all to what's on the screen

 

[David Stoll]

A pet peeve of mine when adding annotations is that say you want to add a vid at timeline 7:43 - So you pause the vid at 7:43 and then click on "add annotation" - Well make sure that the "start time" field is actually on 7:43 because 90% of the time, it is about 20 seconds off and you have to manually edit it

So, I think I might know why that happens to you. If this is wrong, at least it's one more thing to look out for. Let's say you have an annotation running from 4:49 to 4:59 but you actually want two more seconds--to 5:01. Also, let's say your video ends at 5:15. The problem is, you can't manually change the 4:59 to 5:01 in one click (and good luck dragging perfectly). Whichever number you change first, you are creating a YouTube Paradox: 4:49 to 5:49 (doesn't exist) or 4:49 to 4:01 (can't exist). So YouTube will change the initial annotation to make sense of the world.

I'm not one of these people who complains about every annoying YouTube thing because overall all the platform is great and easy to use. But this one--man, it infuriates me.