Upload videos

You can upload videos to YouTube in a few easy steps. Apply the instructions beneath to upload your videos from a estimator or from a mobile device.

Note: This feature may non be bachelor with supervised experiences on YouTube. Acquire more than here.

Upload videos in YouTube Studio

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. In the top-right corner, click CREATE and thenUpload videos .
  3. Select the file you'd like to upload.

Note: You lot tin can upload up to fifteen videos at a fourth dimension. Exist sure to click Edit on each file to edit your video details.

​If you close the upload experience earlier you finish choosing your settings, your video volition exist saved as a draft on your Content page.

Details

Add together important details to your video.Note: You lot tin can click REUSE DETAILS to copy select details from a previously uploaded video.

Championship The title of your video. This field is required.
Description

Info that shows below your video. For video attributions, utilise the post-obit format:

[Channel Name]|[Video Title]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The prototype viewers will come across before clicking your video.
Playlist Add your video to one of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audition To comply with the Children'due south Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), you're required to tell us whether your videos are made for kids.
Age restriction Age-restrict videos that may not be advisable for all audiences.

At the bottom of the Details page, select Testify MORE to cull your advanced settings.

Paid promotion Let viewers and YouTube know that your video has a paid promotion.
Automatic chapters

You can add video chapter titles and timestamps to your videos to make them easier to spotter. Yous can create your own video capacity or use the automatically generated capacity by checking the 'Permit automated chapters (when available and eligible)' checkbox.

Whatever video capacity entered will override auto generated video chapters.
Tags

Add descriptive keywords to help correct search mistakes.

Tags tin be useful if the content of your video is commonly misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal role in your video's discovery.
Linguistic communication and caption certification Choose the original video linguistic communication and caption certification.
Recording engagement and location Enter the date the video was recorded and the location where your video was filmed.
License and distribution Select if your video tin be embedded on a different website. Point if you'd like to transport notifications to your subscribers for your new video.
Shorts sampling Let others to create Shorts using the sound of your video.
Category Select the category of your video, such every bit education or comedy.
Comments and ratings Cull whether viewers can leave comments on the video. Choose whether viewers can come across how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Ad suitability

If you're in the YouTube Partner Program, you tin use the advert suitability page to rate your videos against our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This action helps united states of america make monetization decisions faster and accurately. Learn more about Self-certification.

Video elements

Add cards and cease screens to show your audition related videos, websites, and calls to action.

Subtitles and captions Add subtitles and captions to your video to reach a broader audience.
Finish screen Add together visual elements to the end of your video. Your video must be 25 seconds or longer to add an end screen.
Cards Add interactive content to your video.

Checks

Visibility

On the Visibility folio, choose when y'all want your video to publish and who you want to meet your video. You lot can also share your video privately.

Note: The default video privacy setting for creators anile 13–17 is private. If yous're 18 or older, your default video privacy setting is set to public. Everyone tin can change this setting to brand their video public, individual, or unlisted.

  • Save or publish: To publish your video now, cull this option and select Private, Unlisted, or Public as your video's privacy setting. If you choose to make your video public, yous can also set your video as an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video later on, choose this option and select the date you lot want your video to be published. Your video will be private until that date. You can too set your video as a Premiere.

Preview your changes and make sure they follow YouTube policies, and then click SAVE.

Note: If your account has a Community Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the penalisation flow. Your video is set to "private" for the penalty period elapsing, and y'all have to reschedule it when the freeze menses ends. Acquire more about Community Guidelines strike basics.

Spotter how to upload videos

Check out the following video from the YouTube Creators aqueduct on how to upload videos.

How To Upload Videos with YouTube Studio

Learn more most uploading videos

How many videos you tin can upload per day

There's a limit to how many videos a channel can upload each twenty-four hour period. To increase your daily limit, encounter this article.

Upload audio files

Y'all tin can't upload audio files to YouTube. See a list of supported file formats that can exist uploaded to YouTube.

To add together your content to YouTube, endeavour converting your sound file to a video file past adding an image. YouTube doesn't accept a tool to do this, just you can endeavour other video editing software.

Learn the difference between "upload" and "publish"

When you upload a video, the video file is imported to YouTube.

When you lot publish a video, the video is made available for anyone to watch.

Upload vertical videos

When y'all upload and publish your video, YouTube volition effigy out the best style to brandish the content. For the best experience, don't add black bars to the sides of your vertical video. Whether the video is vertical, square, or horizontal, the video will fit the screen.

Figure out why your video'southward upload date and publish date are different

  • Upload date: The engagement you lot uploaded your video. Shows next to your private or unlisted video on your Content page.
  • Publish date: The date your video became public. Shows beneath your live video and is ever in Pacific Standard Time (PST).

These two dates can be dissimilar if y'all uploaded your video every bit private or unlisted, and made it public later.

Understand video quality processing

When you upload a video, information technology will initially be candy in low resolution. This process helps you consummate the upload procedure faster. When the upload menstruation is consummate, your video will be bachelor to stream in low resolution, on a wide variety of devices.

Higher resolutions, such every bit 4K or 1080p, tin take more time to procedure. While this processing happens, your video may seem to be missing higher resolutions for several hours. One time loftier-resolution processing is finished, college resolutions will exist available on your video. Larn more virtually video processing after upload.

Related links

  • Common uploading errors
  • Become an overview of aqueduct performance
  • Channel customization
  • Edit video settings
  • Creator updates

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