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Caption your videos for higher engagement

Caption your videos for higher engagement

From the course: Connecting with Your Audience Using Video

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Caption your videos for higher engagement

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- Currently more than 50% of content consumed online is video. And over 80% of that video is viewed without the sound. If you want your video to have the most reach possible captioning is no longer an option, it is mandatory. A great part of captioning is that it makes your content more inclusive, by providing captions you're opening up your content to the differently abled community, to those who are hard of hearing or have issues with processing or any other disabilities and individuals who speak English as a second language. Captioning used to be something that required a professional while that's still an option, now there are multiple pieces of software, some paid some free that will caption your videos for you. A few paid services I'm familiar with are rev.com, Splasheo, Zubtitle, and Quicc. Rev.com charges about $1 per minute of video, while others charge a monthly subscription fee, both Rev and Splasheo are manually…

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