What is a YouTube Card

A YouTube card is like a link which shows on your video at the desired point of time.

You can see the above video where a black exclamation mark on a white circle is visible on the top right. Clicking on this mark will open the following.

Click on the link will take you to the hyperlink. Working of YouTube cards is explained at this official guide.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6140493?hl=en

You can also check the working of the card on the video below.

How to add a card

Go to any video on Video Manager option and click edit. Click on the fifth tab on top labeled as Cards.

Click on the Add Card blue colored button on the right. There are four types of cards.

• Promote a Video or playlist
• Promote another channel
• Encourage viewers to participate in a poll
• Link to an approved website

Each card is self explanatory. It is up to the up-loader to decide which cards should be used at what time. We shall start with a link to the blog post followed by a channel link towards the end.

Please note that the channel has to be associated with a website for the link to work. This option is available in settings.

On the next screen, YouTube card picks up details from your link. Call to action and Teaser can be added later.

Image too is automatically picked up from the link. Create Card button finalizes the card and places it in the video.

The position of the marker on time scale can change the position of the card. Now towards the 18th second, we shall add another card. This one shall be the next video in the same channel.

Click on add card after taking the time scale pointer at the desired location. Click on the first option of add another video or playlist. When you click on it, you get the list of all your videos.

Here is the video with the two cards in action.

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For the purpose of this article we shall use the following YouTube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBJ4jv2Yyk8vpvC1rxa4XcA

This channel contains videos by amsang, author and admin of The Time Lock and Soonev

Default settings for YouTube Channel Art

A channel art with default settings looks something like this.

To enable the links settings, click the the wheel icon next to the subscribe red button. This will open Channel Settings.

Enable the ‘Customize the layout of your channel’ option. This will unlock many features.

Some features which are unlocked are

• Customized sections for new and returning subscribers
• Adding Email for business inquiries
• Upto five links on channel art

Go to About tab and click on Links button.

Click on the Add button to add links. The first box will be the label which will show up as tool tip. The links will be inserted in the next box. After the links are inserted, click Done.

This is how the links will be visible after saved.

Clicking on the link opens the web page in a new window. The link settings can also be accessed by clicking on top right pen icon which opens the settings. This feature of YouTube is strongly recommended. It enables highlighting your social links right on a prominent location. The icons are nice and bright. Plus that one blog link which has been put allows any number of text to be inserted. This also becomes a nice call to action button.

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