


Most importantly, captions make your videos accessible to people who are d/Deaf and hard of hearing. Discovery Digital Networks saw a 7.3% increase in views on YouTube when they added captions to their videos.Ī research study from the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science even found that captions improve brand recall, verbal memory, and behavioral intent. Captions can help engage your audience, boost SEO, reach wider audiences, and increase views. When it comes to YouTube, captions are a powerful tool. That’s a lot of content, which, unfortunately, isn’t always captioned. Over 500 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. Adding support for searching subtitles from Amara.If you really want to up your YouTube game, you should consider adding captions.(Thanks to suggestion by Mikkel Skovgaard) Now video controls bar is not permanently displayed on Fullscreen mode.


Added support for parsing srt and zipped srt file from javascript itself.Bugfix: Unable to increase subtilte size using keyboard shortcut 'W'.Added setting to auto search and load subtitles.Fixed Bug: Search box opening in Playlist section.Adding support for Delaying subtitles from UI.'G' - Precede subtitles relative to videoĭo not forget to rate and review the app once you use it.Īlso do visit which makes it very easy to create captions for YouTube videos.ĭevelopers: Yash Agarwal ( Nitin R Gupta ( 8.2.21 Just refresh the page once after installation is complete. Note: If you already had opened a YouTube page before installing the extension you will not see extension load on that page. One example of video with searchable subs. Note there are only 5-10% videos on YouTube which have corresponding subtitle in and so you might not be able to search and find subtitles for all videos. The extension also supports searching and using subtitles directly from and right from the YouTube video page. SRT file for your movie on to the upload-box and the subtitles will start showing up. This extension lets you add subtitles to any video you are watching on YouTube.
