Closed Captions: Do They Really Help Your Videos Rank on YouTube?

Of course, YouTube has some auto-captioning capabilities, but that feature can be very inaccurate, and can possibly hurt your video content much more than it helps. In this week’s episode of TubeTalk, I chat with Ryan P. Sweeney, Head of Partnerships at Rev about how adding your own captions and subtitles can help you as a creator. Click on the podcast links above to listen and learn:

• What are captions and subtitles and why they matter
• What’s the difference between human and machine-automated captions
• Do captions really help your video’s performance

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