Upload videos

You can upload videos to YouTube in a few piece of cake steps. Employ the instructions beneath to upload your videos from a reckoner or from a mobile device.

Annotation: This characteristic may not be available with supervised experiences on YouTube. Learn more here.

Upload videos in YouTube Studio

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

Note: Y'all can upload upwards to 15 videos at a time. Be sure to click Edit on each file to edit your video details.

​If you close the upload experience before you stop choosing your settings, your video will be saved as a draft on your Content page.

Details

Add important details to your video.Annotation: You 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, use the post-obit format:

[Channel Proper name]|[Video Title]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The paradigm viewers will see before clicking your video.
Playlist Add together your video to one of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audience To comply with the Children'due south Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), you lot're required to tell us whether your videos are fabricated for kids.
Age restriction Age-restrict videos that may non exist advisable for all audiences.

At the lesser of the Details page, select SHOW MORE to choose 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 watch. You tin create your own video chapters or employ the automatically generated chapters past checking the 'Permit automatic chapters (when available and eligible)' checkbox.

Any video chapters entered will override auto generated video chapters.
Tags

Add descriptive keywords to help correct search mistakes.

Tags can be useful if the content of your video is commonly misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal part in your video'south discovery.
Language and caption certification Choose the original video language and caption certification.
Recording appointment and location Enter the date the video was recorded and the location where your video was filmed.
License and distribution Select if your video can be embedded on a different website. Indicate if you'd like to send notifications to your subscribers for your new video.
Shorts sampling Permit others to create Shorts using the audio of your video.
Category Select the category of your video, such as pedagogy or comedy.
Comments and ratings Choose whether viewers tin can exit comments on the video. Cull whether viewers can see how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Advertising suitability

If you're in the YouTube Partner Programme, you can utilise the advertisement suitability page to rate your videos against our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This action helps us make monetization decisions faster and accurately. Learn more than nigh Self-certification.

Video elements

Add cards and end screens to prove your audience related videos, websites, and calls to activity.

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

Checks

Visibility

On the Visibility page, choose when you desire your video to publish and who you want to see your video. You can likewise share your video privately.

Notation: The default video privacy setting for creators anile 13–17 is individual. If you're 18 or older, your default video privacy setting is gear up to public. Everyone tin change this setting to make their video public, individual, or unlisted.

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

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

Notation: If your account has a Community Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the penalty menses. Your video is gear up to "private" for the penalty period duration, and you accept to reschedule information technology when the freeze period ends. Learn more about Community Guidelines strike basics.

Spotter how to upload videos

Cheque out the following video from the YouTube Creators channel on how to upload videos.

How To Upload Videos with YouTube Studio

Acquire more most uploading videos

How many videos you tin upload per day

There's a limit to how many videos a channel can upload each day. To increment your daily limit, see this article.

Upload audio files

You can't upload sound files to YouTube. See a list of supported file formats that can be uploaded to YouTube.

To add your content to YouTube, try converting your audio file to a video file by adding an image. YouTube doesn't accept a tool to do this, but you lot tin can effort other video editing software.

Learn the difference between "upload" and "publish"

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

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

Upload vertical videos

When you lot upload and publish your video, YouTube will effigy out the best way to display the content. For the all-time 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.

Effigy out why your video's upload appointment and publish engagement are dissimilar

  • Upload engagement: The date 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 e'er in Pacific Standard Fourth dimension (PST).

These two dates can exist different if you uploaded your video every bit private or unlisted, and fabricated it public afterwards.

Empathize video quality processing

When yous upload a video, information technology volition initially exist processed in low resolution. This procedure helps yous complete the upload procedure faster. When the upload flow is complete, your video will be available to stream in low resolution, on a wide variety of devices.

Higher resolutions, such as 4K or 1080p, can take more time to process. While this processing happens, your video may seem to be missing higher resolutions for several hours. Once high-resolution processing is finished, higher resolutions will exist available on your video. Learn more about video processing later upload.

Related links

  • Mutual uploading errors
  • Get an overview of channel performance
  • Channel customization
  • Edit video settings
  • Creator updates

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