New YT feature...add a card ?!?

As long as the "cards" don't classify as an annotation, even if someone has annotations off they should still display, so pointing to it may be pointless. s**t nevermind I just literally tried it now, turned off annotations and the (i) disappeared too, that's kind of annoying. It's so unobtrusive why remove it at all xD[DOUBLEPOST=1426670986,1426670545][/DOUBLEPOST]
PinProject said:
Now that makes more sense![DOUBLEPOST=1426596232,1426596105][/DOUBLEPOST]
That is great news! I wonder how long that will take..
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My guess is maybe 6-12months assuming YouTube don't focus on too many (unnecessary) projects/updates. If they do then 1-3yrs but I'd imagine (and hope) with the good reception Cards has had so far, YouTube would be logical enough to focus on getting it updated as fast as possible. It would take some time to apply the same algorithm from annotations to the cards, with a lot of trial and error and then beta testing before though. Cards were originally restricted to certain business type channels, so the feature had been around for a while just not available to everyone, unless I'm mistaking it with another feature that looked similar :S because I only recalled yesterday after checking my vid with a card on it, that the little (i) looked very familiar to me and I had seen similar things on mostly corporate channels prior.[DOUBLEPOST=1426671134][/DOUBLEPOST]Oh s**t... if they switch annotations over to cards then what happens to everyone who's used annotations in their outros? I hope they at leave have the sense to leave them alone and there because I don't want to have to go through 300-500 videos across 2 different channels and redo it all.
 
I heard about this last weekend. But I never tried it out.

Maybe I might play around with the card feature if I got spare time to kill. (chances are... I don't.)
 
Yeah got them a few days ago! :D the difference with annotation is you have access to "branding" because its a direct link and it shows the thumbnails etc.
 
I think that its a cool concept, but I don't think that I will be using them too much on my channel because of the content that I create
 
I prefer the cards due to their mobile use too. Most of the time I use YouTube on my phone so that would be the best way to suggest things to people like me. I also like how the fade in and out instead of hanging around so I have to exit out of them, or being large and obtrusive.
 
This is a new feature for everyone. I was in the Beta for cards, and the great thing about them is that they work on mobile. This is great if you have your own website because you can redirect your traffic through cards to your site to promote your other social platforms.
 
If you do decide to use Cards instead of Annotations and want to apply the same set of cards to some or all of your videos, we have a bulk processing tool that can do it with just a few clicks. Otherwise it could take hours and hours and hours. Here is a demo:
 
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