Use Google Annotations

Hi all,

Thank you all for the collaboration, sharing and troubleshooting you’ve demonstrated together with your peers in the Community! After conversing with our team, I was able to confirm some best practices that would be helpful in sharing!

In addition to confirming what @cassy had previously mentioned that Google Annotations will not work through a drag-and-drop editor, this will require a custom coded HTML template. Our experts were also able to share that some success can be seen when following these two steps:

• Disable the setting ‘Enable embedded styles’ under account Settings > Email > CSS Optimization
• create and upload the template as a pure HTML template. I actually couldn’t see the option to do that via the new editor, so you have to do ‘Create Template’ and then select the old editor, and then select the upload tab that then shows up and import it there

While we have seen some success using these two steps listed above, guaranteed placement is outside of Klaviyo’s control and ultimately up to Gmail/Google. This includes configuring a banner image to show and following the syntax laid out by Google. Within our own tests we were not able to find a permanent method to configure annotations in Klaviyo to permanently secure display in a certain section of the promotions tab.

Hope this helps!

-Taylor