How to Sell YouTube Captioning Gigs on Fiverr (Easy Gigs to Sell on Fiverr #1)

No Technical Skills Required

Paul Enitan
3 min readSep 26, 2022
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Youtube captioning is the process of transcribing voice audio in videos to on-screen text on YouTube. In other words, it is the process of adding subtitles to YouTube videos.

Captioning YouTube videos is important because it can help creators get more video views from people that aren’t native or fluent speakers of your language alongside makes it easier for viewers to grasp and understand important points you’ve highlighted in your videos.

In this guide, we will be considering how to make money on Fiverr and other freelancing websites by selling YouTube captioning gigs. This gig requires no technical skills as you can easily complete the captioning tasks on a website.

What you need to make money selling this gig is being a native or fluent speaker of the language required for captioning and your ability to cross-check the auto-generated captions for possible errors is what you need to sell these gigs.

Let’s see how to sell YouTube captioning gigs on Fiverr in 3 steps:

Step 1: Set Up Your YouTube captioning gig on Fiverr

As you might know, this is the first step to be taken. You can draw inspiration for setting up your YouTube captioning gigs from other sellers right here on Fiverr.

Step 2: Download the YouTube Caption

To download the YouTube caption, you will the link to the video to be captioned on YouTube. After getting the link, head over to Downsub.com. This is the site that will be doing the captioning job for you automatically.

Downsub Homepage

Paste the YouTube video link in the space provided on Downsub and then hit the download button. After a few seconds, the video would be auto-captioned in its existing language and also in various languages across the world.

You can then proceed to download the SRT or TXT file in any language depending on what the buyer needs.

Step 3: Cross-check Downloaded Captions for Errors

Once you’ve downloaded the caption file, it is essential that you do a cross-check to correct possible errors because AI can sometimes not be perfect.

After you’ve made necessary cross-checks, you can then send the job to the buyer on Fiverr or any other freelance marketplace where you got the job.

I hope this helps.

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Paul Enitan
Paul Enitan

Written by Paul Enitan

A content writer | Talks (Make Money Online, AI, Tech, & Productivity tools for Business Growth). Available for freelance writing gigs >> paulganiyu99@gmail.com

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