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Good morning CMS Editors,

Today's topic is how to close caption videos in YouTube. While YouTube now has an automatic caption generator, the captions created by this tool are not always very accurate. Here are five more reasons to close caption your YouTube videos.

1. Closed Captions are readable by the Search Engines

2. They can be translated easily. When the user watches the video, they can click the red CC button and pick any language that Google translate (beta). Just think of how many non-English speaking people that watch videos but may be missing your message because they don't speak English or English is not their first language. (Test by entering a long phrase in quotation marks in YouTube search box ex. "you want to be a lion". This phrase is ONLY in the CC, not in the title or description. That should pull up videos with cc text 'you want to be a lion'. You will also notice that the search description will list the phrase at a specific second into the video.

3. Hearing impaired make up a lot of users. Why would you leave them out? Plus, we meet our accessibility policy.

4. People can filter their search in YouTube for Closed Caption videos

5. People at work may not want volume, yet want to know what you are saying.

Have fun close captioning your YouTube video!

Lydia 
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