YouTube to Remove its Annotations Feature in January 2019

it was in May 2017 that Google discontinued the YouTube annotations editor, after finding that the use of annotations has dropped by over 70 percent. Now, the Google-owned YouTube, which gets over 1.9 billion users every month, has decided to do away with annotations altogether. YouTube would stop showing the existing annotations starting January 15, 2019.

An announcement on the Google support page reads, “Update: We will stop showing existing annotations to viewers starting January 15, 2019. All existing annotations will be removed.”