YouTube Info Cards – Top 5 Ways To Use Cards In Your YouTube Videos

If you’re not currently using YouTube Info Cards in your videos you’re missing out on a large chunk of your audience. That’s because cards they work across all devices including mobile phones.

Here are the Top 5 Ways To Use YouTube Info Cards In Your Videos

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1. Associated website

• Login to your YouTube channel
• Click the profile icon
• Click “Creator studio”
• Click on “Video Manager”
• Select the video that you wish to add a YouTube card to
• Click edit
• Click on Cards
• Click “Add card”
• Now you can select an associated website. This could be a landing page, fundraising site, merchandise site, video or playlist.
• First we’ll try the associated website so click create
• Enter your associated website URL
• Add a title, call to action and teaser text
• You can also upload an image (ie my free report)
• Click “create card” and you’ll see the teaser text at the top of your video

2. Fundraising

• Click on Cards
• Click “Add card”
• Click “Create”
• Select Fundraising
• Put your fundraising project URL in the box
• In this case I’ll use GoFundMe.com and here you’ll see the title
• Add a call to action which can be “learn more”
• Add the teaser text
• You can also upload an image
• Click create card”
• Now I’ve got “please donate card” at the top of the video

3. Merchandise

• Click on Cards
• Click “Add card”
• Click “Create”
• Select Merchandise
• Click “create”
• So with merchandise you can link to a product or store or one of the supported merchandise sites so click the link that says “approved retailers and example links”
• I selected “Gumroad”
• Add your call to action
• Add the teaser text
• Click “create card”
• Now you’ll see the teaser text at the top of the video “click here to buy now”

4. Video

• Click “add card”
• Select Video
• Click create
• Select from any of the videos you’ve uploaded
• Select the video
• Click create card
• Add the teaser text (YouTube cards – the new mobile-friendly annotations)
• Now you’ll see the teaser text at the top of the video.

5. Playlist

• Click “add card”
• Click “create”
• Select playlists…or you can add a URL in the box below
• Click “create card”
• Add the teaser text (how to edit videos on YouTube) for the playlist
• Now you’ll see the teaser text at the top of the video.
• Click…”Play All” and you’ll be able to play all the videos in the playlist

You can add up to 5 cards a specific video however I would suggest only adding one or 2 and to make it more effective try spacing them out on the timeline.

That’s it!

Now you know the top 5 ways to use
YouTube Info Cards in your videos

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