I was trying to find ways to bump up my daily Youtube viewing figures, when I came across a tool that is in Beta stage at the moment. They call it “Annotations”.
It allows you to add linking text or hotspots to your videos. When I watch videos on youtube, I don’t normally pay much attention to what else is on that web page. As a video author, that’s not good news. With this little toy, I can put a link on my video, and that is more likely to be noticed.
So I went through most of my videos and added annotations that link back to my channel. It took me ages. It’s early days, but I’ve already noticed a jump in traffic. Especially in my channel views. So it seems to be working.
This is a link to my Channel on Youtube. Where most of the Annotations point to:
So here are my latest Youtube figures, followed by some news 
My subscriber count is now at 662.
My channel views have jumped up to 14,509.
My overall video views are 216,799. It’s looking like the quarter of a million figure will be passed before the end of July.
Now for a bit of news. I’m releasing an album!
It’s going out on digital release only to start with. If things go well then It will also be released on CD.
The album will consist of some of the tracks I’ve uploaded to Youtube, and a good number of songs that haven’t been heard yet. I’m feeling quite excited by it all. Just the fact that it’s being released. I’ll keep my blog up to date with the progress as the release date gets nearer. Naming tracks etc
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