Endcards/Credits/Draft
Endcards/credits (also known as outro) is for looping or repetitive visuals during YouTube endcards or credits, usually at the end of a video.
It is not to be used for conclusions with information.
Description
This category includes these at or near a video's ending:
- Credits
- Pauses
- Static frames
- Looping animations
- Reused or unrelated clips used as background for endcards/credits
- Copyright, fair use, fiction and legal disclaimers
- Stylized end-credits sequences, like at the end of a movie[1]
Exceptions / edge cases
This category is not for any time YouTube endcards or annotations appear, only if there is an obvious cut to designated visuals for endcards/credits.
Usually, outro is near the end of a video, but a compilation of multiple episodes should have each closing credits marked as outro, seperate from 
intro.
Not included:
- Opening credits (see intro)
- Post or mid-credits scenes
- Scenes that are mainly verbal credits/shout-outs for the current video or excessively repetitive with no added context can be skipped.
- Topic conclusions and epilogues
- Bloopers (see
Tangents/Jokes) - “Goodbye” sequences (see
Hook/Greetings) - Scrolling lists of financial supporters alone do not qualify as “credits”, but fall under
Unpaid/Self Promotion. The reason is that they're not being credited for actual work on the video.
Sponsor, unpaid promotion, and 
interaction reminder should be submitted separately when possible, so users don't need outro enabled to skip types of promotion during endcards/credits.
Examples
| Description | Video link |
|---|---|
| Positive examples | |
| Self promotion during endcards should be marked endcards. |
Intel's beast canyon NUC is crazy powerful |
| Interaction reminder and self promotion are lumped together inside the end card. |
Can a program brick your PC? |
| The patrons are given credit in the credit scroll next to the writers, so should be marked as both outro and self promo. |
Space Jam 2 - Terrible but very fun |
| Self promotion and endcards are easily separated. |
Why there's a straight line through Scotland |
| The interaction reminder was separated from the endcards. |
My channel was deleted... how? |
Endcards are overlayed a  non-music segment. The interaction reminder is separated from the endcards, because it is easy to do so.
|
Katy Perry - Hot n Cold (lyrics) |
| Bloopers at the end are Tangents/Jokes. |
This laptop is all screen |
| The audio at the end is not present in the first-party VOD or relevant to the animation. | Tevy Fonda - AH Animated |
| The clip at 0:19 is completely unrelated and filler for YouTube's endcards overlay. | Wenn dein Lehrer endlich mal die Wahrheit sagt |
| Negative examples | |
| Sponsor trumps endcards. |
It's sinfully light - Roccat Syn Pro Air Wireless gaming headset |
| Segment which started at 3:02 caused an abrupt audio cut when a smoother transition was possible at 3:07. | Hissing cat warms up to his foster mom |
| Financial supporter lists alone fall under Unpaid/Self Promotion. No other credits or endcards are present.
|
Deception, Lies, and Valve |
References
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQAmyhBYWBs
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU_gH36GG58&t=722 (The masterful design of the two-liter plastic soda bottle)