YouTube Caption Audit: 2016 Presidential Candidates

Sep 08, 2015

ID YouTube Channel Party # Videos Duration
(seconds)		 # Captioned % Captioned Mean # of Views
per Video		 Duration Uncaptioned
(seconds)
1 Hillary Clinton Democrat 46 11,998 20 43.5% 143,199 8,799
2 Martin OMalley Democrat 80 32,569 0 0.0% 4,679 32,569
3 Bernie Sanders Democrat 48 50,313 14 29.2% 20,932 43,622
4 Jim Webb Democrat 3 857 0 0.0% 20,977 857
5 Jeb Bush Republican 92 13,974 70 76.1% 14,761 1,003
6 Ben Carson Republican 45 13,650 0 0.0% 25,391 13,650
7 Chris Christie Republican 59 122,529 0 0.0% 3,253 122,529
8 Ted Cruz Republican 295 142,211 2 0.7% 9,359 142,164
9 Carly Fiorina Republican 41 12,738 0 0.0% 10,048 12,738
10 Lindsey Graham Republican 169 58,787 0 0.0% 1,072 58,787
11 Mike Huckabee Republican 43 10,554 0 0.0% 8,345 10,554
12 Bobby Jindal Republican 6 449 0 0.0% 38,794 449
13 John Kasich Republican 15 2,541 0 0.0% 23,207 2,541
14 George Pataki Republican 5 684 0 0.0% 5,892 684
15 Rand Paul Republican 94 20,381 0 0.0% 18,767 20,381
16 Rick Perry Republican 191 34,002 0 0.0% 4,521 34,002
17 Marco Rubio Republican 607 171,001 0 0.0% 7,373 171,001
18 Rick Santorum Republican 181 38,123 0 0.0% 8,485 38,123
19 Donald Trump Republican 4 7,249 0 0.0% 384,139 7,249
20 Scott Walker Republican 56 25,810 0 0.0% 5,866 25,810
TOTALS 2,080 770,420 106 5.1% -- 747,512
DEMOCRAT TOTALS 177 95,737 34 19.2% -- 85,847
REPUBLICAN TOTALS 1,903 674,683 72 3.8% -- 661,665