How it works: Markdown

Explains how to format text in YouTube descriptions using Markdown to make it italic, bold, or strikethrough.

Transcript

The new Markdown feature allows you to highlight text in your video description. Text enclosed within a single asterisk on each side will be displayed in italics. Text between two asterisks will be bold, and text between two tildes will be strikethrough.

Martin Koytek

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Martin Koytek

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Producer of the kw.media YouTube tutorials and point of contact for YouTube consulting, courses and creator support.

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