What is a choose your own adventure video? It is a video with embedded links that point to other videos. Those other videos can be ones created by you or videos that are already uploaded to YouTube.
Below is a simple choose your own adventure video with links out to other YouTube videos.
And here is a more complex choose your own adventure video made by students. This video includes links both out to other videos and back to the "home" video.
Adding links to choose your own adventure videos is done right within the YouTube Editor.
1. Sign into your YouTube account and go to the Creator Studio.
2. Click on the "Edit" button of the video you want to use.
3. Click on "Annotate" at the top of the window.
4. In the Annotate drop down menu, choose "Spotlight".
5. Click on the "Link" box and add your link. Move the box in the video window to choose where you want your link and use the controls to choose how long you would like the link visible.
More in-depth tutorials and nice examples of choose your own adventure videos:
Tutorial 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kWBGUbDFYsTutorial 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWSC5fQA11I