Do you bother with captions?

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I noticed they have automatic captions and you can edit them. The automatic is very poor, do you think I should bother???
 

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Nope, very rarely does anyone use them, and if they do, it is probably just to laugh at how wrong they are.
 

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I do now. Adding captions adds more chances my videos get viewed. Example, If in the text i talk about Justin Bieber, theres a chance someone finds my video with a goole search. There are more similar advantages when adding subtittles.
 

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I've only added captions with my newest video because I'm talking fast, and they're self made captions (Photoshop & Sony Vegas), but generally I don't use captions.

Unless you're really difficult to hear I would say it's ok to skip them.
 

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I noticed they have automatic captions and you can edit them. The automatic is very poor, do you think I should bother???
Captions are important. Having captions helps your video rank higher in searches. And loading your captions up with keywords will help your videos rank higher.

I put tags in captions on vids where I don't even talk!

I type them all out myself and save as a .txt and then upload.

Next step will be to get them translated because that makes them rank higher in other countries.
 
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Captions are important. Having captions helps your video rank higher in searches. And loading your captions up with keywords will help your videos rank higher.

I put tags in captions on vids where I don't even talk!

I type them all out myself and save as a .txt and then upload.

Next step will be to get them translated because that makes them rank higher in other countries.
I would do it but I just cba :S

I am thinking of going back to do it but I might only do it when I get partnership

Now you are probably thinking why partnership.

Well th only answer I can give you is that I have agreed to do the most detailed things like thumbnails when I hit partnership. Captions I will add to the list too :D
 

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I would do it but I just cba :S

I am thinking of going back to do it but I might only do it when I get partnership

Now you are probably thinking why partnership.

Well th only answer I can give you is that I have agreed to do the most detailed things like thumbnails when I hit partnership. Captions I will add to the list too :D

Why wait? Why not stack the deck in your favor now? ;)