By David Appelt
Closed captioning and subtitles are not given primary consideration very often. Most of the time, this means that closed captioning gets pushed to the bottom of your list. Your video may end up with the necessary captions, but they might not be helpful, professional, or up to FCC specifications.
By Ben Kalb
Have you noticed the trend lately? Social media feeds are no longer showing just simple text or images. Now we’re seeing social media platforms shift quickly and favorably toward video. So why is this shift happening? Because the social giants know users are engaging with video more often than plain text or images…
By Ben Kalb
Quality captions don’t just get the words right, they express every sound and nuance that’s happening on screen. This belief is more than a commitment to showing integrity in our work—it’s a matter of upholding basic, necessary accuracy.
By Ben Kalb
Discount companies are using shortcuts and claim high accuracy at low costs, which sounds pretty good, right? But the FCC isn’t looking for “pretty good”—it’s mandating perfection.
By Ben Kalb
Who would’ve guessed that tax benefits and SEO go together? It’s true for closed captioning. Not only does closed captioning provide accessibility to and benefit a broader audience, but there are several benefits to your business as well—two of which are tax credits and SEO.
By Ben Kalb
Closed captioning adds value, whether an audience is hearing impaired or not. With the increase of films distributed globally, closed captioning will play an important role in reaching audiences who previously would have trouble understanding the original content.
By Ryan Hawthorne
The 50th anniversary Super Bowl game is coming up in February.
That means COMMERCIALS, of course. I confess that I actually walk to the kitchen to grab another slice of pizza when play resumes just so I don’t miss those silly commercials.
By Adam Grover
In the same way the ADA required ramps on buildings, closed captioning should be required on all online video content for the hearing impaired.
By Bianca Johnson
Like a lot of you, I begin the New Year by making a few personal improvement resolutions.
This year I started thinking about some of the most common attitudes and concerns of the potential clients that call us for closed captioning services every day. What if they took the time to set some resolutions around the services provided by companies like CaptionLabs?
By Robin Walters
There’s been some debate lately about whether search engine optimization (SEO) is dead. It’s true that millennials are splitting their searches between the traditional Google and a host of other topic-specific sites that share consumer ratings of products and services. These days, millennials want to know what their friends think about a service before buying.
