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- How do you get captions on YouTube?
- What happened to closed captions on YouTube?
- Should I Caption my YouTube videos?
- Why did YouTube remove captions?
How do you get captions on YouTube?
How to turn on subtitles on YouTube for all videos
- Click your account icon to open the account menu.
- From the account menu, click Settings. Select Settings in the YouTube account menu. Michelle Greenlee/Business Insider.
- Click "Playback and performance" and check "Always show captions." Click save to save your selection.
What happened to closed captions on YouTube?
YouTube plans to discontinue its community captions feature, which allowed viewers to add subtitles to videos, because it was “rarely used and had problems with spam/abuse,” the company announced.
Should I Caption my YouTube videos?
Captions help your YouTube videos rank higher across more keywords, increase audience engagement, and make your videos accessible to people with hearing disabilities and those that know English as a second language.
Why did YouTube remove captions?
Yet, in September, YouTube scrapped the feature allowing for viewer-submitted captions, citing “low usage” and “abuse.” Creators had to start making captions themselves. When the plans were first announced in April 2020, deaf YouTuber Rikki Poynter, a prolific captions campaigner, gave me a very bleak forecast.
