YouTube is killing its Annotations Editor on May 2

Google today announced that the Annotations Editor tool for putting text annotations in YouTube videos will be going away on May 2. No longer will people be able to add new annotations or edit existing annotations with the tool as of that date. However, video creators can use other tools to add content to videos after they’ve been uploaded.
YouTube introduced Annotations Editor all the way back in 2008 — “before the world went mobile,” Google product manager Muli Salem wr