Descriptions, tags, and notes allow you to add context to a video and tell others (both human and non-human) what your video is all about.
- Use a description to let viewers know about your video and pique their interest
- Along with tags, descriptions allow search engines like Google (robots) to understand what your video is about and improve your ranking in search results
- Internal notes are for you and your team only. Use notes to jot down helpful info about your video like version numbers, campaign IDs, instructions for sharing—anything you need to either communicate with other Vidyard users, or keep tabs on.
Edit a video's description, tags and notes
- Select a video from your library to open the edit page
- Select the dropdown arrow next to Description, Tags and Internal Notes
- Enter a description, or add notes or tags as needed
About video descriptions
A description helps viewers decide whether they want to watch your video. It also makes your video more discoverable on the web, allowing search engines like Google to understand what your video is about and improve its ranking in search results.
Viewers can see your video description in the following places:
| Where your video description appears | Notes |
| Internet search results |
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| In a Video Hub |
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| On your video sharing page |
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| On YouTube |
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The description field has a character limit of 5000. Angled brackets (either < or >) are not supported.
About tags
Tags let you add keywords to your videos and playlists, making it easy to search and find videos in your library.
Tags also improve the discoverability of your embedded videos. When search engines crawl your webpage, video tags are indexed along with the video name, description and caption transcripts.
Additional benefits of tags:
- Build a category of videos in your Hub based on tags
- When you share a video to YouTube from Vidyard, tags are synced across both platforms
To add tags to a video or playlist:
- Select a video or playlist from your library
- Select the dropdown arrow next to Description, Tags and Internal Notes
- Select + Add Tag to enter a keyword
- Press either Return or Tab on your keyboard to add the tag
- You can also copy and paste a comma-separated list if you would like to add multiple tags in bulk
Tag character limits
- # of characters per tag: max 100
- total combined # of tag characters per video: max 500
About internal notes
Notes are great way to provide additional information about a video to other team members. Only users that belong to a Team with the Edit videos permission can see internal notes.
You might use internal notes to:
- List the version number of the video, or your marketing campaign IDs
- Note who last edited the video, what was changed, and on what date
- Include instructions for others on where and how to share the video (what channels, messaging and hashtags, etc)
- Add reminders to update the video (e.g. "change logo at 1:32")
The Internal Notes field has a character limit of 5000. Angled brackets (either < or >) are not supported.
