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Caption and subtitle reach

Which channels add their own captions, by channel size, and in which languages.

Viewershift data desk · Updated weekly · Data as of 7 Nov 2026 · 4 size bands

Caption and subtitle reach

7 Nov 2026
  • 10K–100K subscribers12% add captions
  • 100K–1M22% add captions
  • 1M–10M37% add captions
  • 10M+55% add captions

Most common caption languages

channels
  • English385,351
  • Spanish124,243
  • French86,802
  • Portuguese84,122
  • German75,865
  • Chinese75,269
  • Russian74,424
  • Japanese74,422
  • Hindi70,378
  • Arabic64,439
  • Korean64,224
  • Indonesian58,647
  • Italian53,350
  • Turkish37,994
  • Vietnamese35,603

What this report answers

How this was made

Channels we track with 10,000 or more subscribers that pass the sanity checks of the rankings (the ranked set). It is not all of YouTube. Only channels with 12 or more videos on record are counted. A manual caption is any subtitle track that is not YouTube's automatic one; the chat-replay track is not a language. The captured share is the share of a channel's videos for which we hold at least one caption track.

  • Languages are the primary subtag, so Brazilian and European Portuguese both count as Portuguese.
  • The captured share measures what we have collected, not every caption that exists on YouTube.

Built 10 Nov 2026 from our own measurements.

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