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

Do closed captions really help your videos rank higher on YouTube? And if so, how does that even work? Find out in this episode of TubeTalk.
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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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