How to Add Chapters to YouTube Videos

August 22, 2020

1 min read

Did you know that you can add chapters to the YouTube video progress bar?

For each of your uploaded videos, you can add video chapters. Chapters break up your video into sections, each with an individual preview. These chapters can help giving viewers more info and context by allowing them to rewatch different parts of the video.

EXAMPLE: The longer video I referred to in my video: https://youtu.be/pivZiAkYdCI
FREE TEMPLATE: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15Vdz-5BWSNUmN-CeJLGfwahXy6y8h_8C0NsmrGThFh0/edit?usp=sharing

CHAPTERS:

00:00 What are YouTube chapters and what they look like
1:17 How to add chapters to your videos
2:28 What is Feisworld Media and what else we discuss on this channel

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Fei Wu is the founder and CEO of Feisworld Media, a Massachusetts-based digital media company helping brands get discovered by people and by AI. An Adobe Global Ambassador and brand partner to ElevenLabs, Synthesia, and 50+ other tech and AI companies, she hosts the Feisworld Podcast (400+ episodes, 500K+ downloads — guests have included Seth Godin, Steve Wozniak, Chris Voss, and Arianna Huffington) and co-created the documentary Feisworld: Live Your Art on Amazon Prime. Fei writes for CNET, Lifehacker, and PCMag, and her work has been featured in Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and WIRED. She has been publishing on the internet since 2014 — long before AI discoverability had a name.

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