YouTube's new 'cards' will now obstruct your videos instead of annotations
For a long time now, watching a YouTube video on your smartphone meant you’d be able to avoid any pesky annotations asking you to subscribe to a channel or click through to another clip. But those days are over. YouTube has just announced it’s aiming to replace annotations with a new “cards” system that works across both desktop and mobile. Uploaders can start using cards today, overlaying text (and images) in a Google Now-like format that YouTube insists is “as beautiful as your videos.”
Content creators can insert cards for merchandise sales, fundraising efforts, other videos, YouTube playlists, web links, and so on. We’ve embedded a couple of YouTube’s examples here to give you a feel of how the cards work, and the screenshot below…
Source:: The Verge
