

People use YouTube to search for answers to their burning questions, to see “how-to” do something, to learn new skills or hobbies, or to simply just pass the time with entertaining content. YouTube is the #2 search engine in the world.


Read on… How captions optimize your YouTube channel One simple way to optimize your YouTube channel is to add proper captions to every video you publish. So what can you do to further optimize your content for search and ensure that it gets in front of your target audience? As a YouTuber, you spend hours coming up with ideas for new content, investing in the resources to create your content, and recording and re-recording to make sure everything is perfect…This is no easy task, and takes more time than people realize. YouTubers understand the need to create high-quality, engaging videos for their viewers. Select the appropriate subtitle track and subtitles will be displayed at the bottom of the screen.Benefits of adding captions to your YouTube channel If your video includes multiple subtitle/caption tracks for different languages, you can select a specific subtitle track by opening the Settings menu ( Gear icon) and clicking Subtitles/CC. Clicking this button will toggle captions on or off. When you preview a video file that includes a subtitle track/closed captioning, you will see a button marked CC in the preview window. Note: This feature is only available to Business-Plus users or higher.

If you have a video with a separate subtitle file (e.g.srt), you will need to embed the subtitle file into your video file using one of the methods outlined below. The data is tightly coupled with the actual video picture data (but can still be toggled on/off).īox does not support captions/subtitles as separate files.
