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YouTube’s global popularity, with over 2 billion monthly users, can be attributed to its vast and diverse content that caters to a wide range of interests.
Its user-friendly platform is accessible across various devices, offering both entertainment and educational content for free. For content creators, the platform provides potential revenue streams, further incentivizing regular and innovative content creation. These factors collectively make YouTube a dominant and appealing presence in the digital media landscape.
The variety of content on Youtube is huge, so it’s very difficult to attract more followers on Youtube, and Youtube bloggers need to be unique in their content and format in order to get more attention as well as income. Compared to complex content creation and professional video editing, adding subtitles to Youtube videos is one of the easiest and most effective ways to increase the attention and viewership of Youtube videos.
In this post, there will be four areas：
- What are the benefits of adding subtitles to youtube videos
- How to add subtitles to Youtube videos
- Why we recommend Zeemo as a tool for adding Youtube videos
- How to add subtitles to Youtube videos using Zeemo.
What are the benefits of adding subtitles to youtube videos
Discovery Digital Networks conducted a controlled study of the effects of adding subtitles to YouTube videos. In doing so, they were able to quantify the value of captioning video content.
According to Discovery Digital Networks data survey, adding subtitles to YouTube videos can have a huge direct impact on view counts and, in turn, ad revenue ：
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According to the survey, adding subtitles to youtube videos resulted in an overall increase of 7.32% in the number of views of the video.
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According to the survey, adding subtitles to a youtube video resulted in the largest increase in views in the first 14 days, with a 13.48 per cent increase
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According to the survey, adding subtitles to youtube videos is good for your video’s ranking in searches.
How to add subtitles to Youtube videos
Since adding subtitles to youtube videos is so important, how do you add subtitles to youtube videos using the subtitle feature that comes with youtube?
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Sign in to your YouTube account and navigate to the YouTube Studio.
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Click the Content tab in the left menu.
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Locate the video you want to add subtitles to and click its title.
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On the video details page, click the Subtitles tab at the top of the page.
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If you have not added subtitles before, you will see a prompt asking you to select a language. Select the primary language of the video content.
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Click the “+ Add” button to start creating subtitles.
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You will be presented with three options for adding subtitles:
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upload file: if you have a pre-made subtitle file in the appropriate format (e.g. .srt, .vtt, or .sbv), you can upload it directly. YouTube will process the file and synchronise the subtitles with your video.
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Transcription and automatic synchronisation: the subtitles will be synchronised with the video.
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Transcribe and auto-sync: This option allows you to create subtitles by manually typing in the text as you watch the video; YouTube’s Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology attempts to synchronise the subtitles based on the audio.
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Create new or hidden subtitles: This option is similar to the previous one, but you can manually set the timing of each subtitle. It gives you more control but requires more effort.
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Once you have created or uploaded your subtitles, you can view and edit the content by clicking on the appropriate language in the Subtitles tab, or split or merge lines of subtitles.
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Once you are satisfied with your subtitles, click the Publish or Save button to save your changes.
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Once the subtitles have been processed, viewers can enable the subtitles while watching the video by clicking the CC (Closed Captioning) button on the video player.
The above is the way to add subtitles using the subtitle tool that comes with Youtube videos, but this tool still has shortcomings, such as low recognition accuracy, fewer subtitle styles, no dynamic subtitle effect, etc., and cannot perform very well at the level of attracting viewers to watch the video.
Why we recommend Zeemo as a tool for adding Youtube videos
Because adding subtitles to YouTube videos using Youtube’s own subtitle tool has more than a few drawbacks. Therefore, we recommend you to use Zeemo to add subtitles to YouTube videos, using Zeemo to add subtitles to YouTube videos has the advantages that other subtitle tools can not be compared, the specific advantages are as follows ：
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Trained with advanced AI technology and big data models
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Achieved over 98% accuracy (in all languages supported by Zeemo)
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Support for up to 20 languages
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Free subtitle translation into other languages
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Lower price compared to competitors, as low as $6.67 per month (200 minutes per month).
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Supports both mobile and PC
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More than 500 subtitle templates and styles
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Support for dynamic subtitle effects
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Supports exporting subtitle files and videos containing subtitles
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Free trial with no feature limitations (20 minutes per user)
How to Add Subtitles to Youtube Videos with Zeemo
Since there are so many advantages of using Zeemo to add subtitles to Youtube videos, how to use Zeemo to add subtitles to Youtube videos?
Zeemo has launched Zeemo app and Zeemo Web in order to satisfy different users’ habits. If you’re used to creating content on your mobile phone, you can use the Zeemo app to add subtitles to Youtube videos, and if you’re used to creating content on your computer, you can use Zeemo Web to add subtitles to Youtube videos. Below are two easy tutorials on how to subtitle videos using different tools.
A simple tutorial on adding subtitles to YouTube videos using Zeemo APP
In order to improve the efficiency of reading and using Zeemo App, the following tutorials are easy tutorials. If you want to know more details about how to use Zeemo App, please click” How to add subtitles to a video on your phone ” this article.
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Open the Zeemo app (click here for app download)
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Register and login to Zeemo account
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Click the Upload Video button
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Select the video you want to add subtitles to
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Click Add Subtitles
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Select the language of the audio subtitles and whether it needs to be translated or not
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Click Recognise to get the subtitle content
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Click ” Export ” to export the video or subtitle file
A simple tutorial on adding subtitles to YouTube videos using Zeemo Web
Due to storage space, screen size and other limitations, mobile phones are not as efficient as using Zeemo’s subtitles. Here’s an easy tutorial on adding video to a YouTube video using Zeemo Web：
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Open Zeemo website （Click here to add subtitles to YouTube videos）
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Click to register and log in to your Zeemo account
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Click ” Create Captions ” or “New Project “
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Open Zeemo website
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Click on Register and login to your Zeemo account
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Click on “Create Subtitle” or the “Create Subtitle” button under “New Project”
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Click to upload a local file, or paste a link from Youtube or Google drive into your workspace
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Select the original language of the video and, if bilingual subtitles are required, the language to be translated
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Wait for the automatic generation of subtitles to complete, and then modify the content and style of the subtitles (see how to add subtitles to a video on your computer for details)
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Click ” Export ” to export the video or subtitle file
These are all the tutorials for adding subtitles to Youtube videos, Zeemo currently supports 20 minutes of free time per user for adding subtitles to Youtube videos and other videos, so try Zeemo for free to add subtitles to your videos.
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