Upload videos

You can upload videos to YouTube in a few piece of cake steps. Utilise the instructions below to upload your videos from a computer or from a mobile device.

Note: This feature may non be available with supervised experiences on YouTube. Larn more here.

Upload videos in YouTube Studio

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

Note: Yous can upload upward to 15 videos at a time. Exist certain to click Edit on each file to edit your video details.

​If you lot close the upload feel before you finish choosing your settings, your video volition be saved as a draft on your Content folio.

Details

Add important details to your video.Note: You tin click REUSE DETAILS to re-create select details from a previously uploaded video.

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

Info that shows below your video. For video attributions, use the following format:

[Channel Name]|[Video Title]|[Video ID]

Thumbnail The image viewers will see before clicking your video.
Playlist Add your video to i of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audition To comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Deed (COPPA), you're required to tell us whether your videos are made for kids.
Historic period restriction Age-restrict videos that may non exist appropriate for all audiences.

At the lesser of the Details page, select SHOW More than to choose your avant-garde settings.

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

You tin add video chapter titles and timestamps to your videos to make them easier to watch. You can create your own video chapters or utilise the automatically generated chapters by checking the 'Allow automatic chapters (when bachelor and eligible)' checkbox.

Whatever 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 unremarkably misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal office in your video'due south discovery.

Language and caption certification Cull the original video linguistic communication and caption certification.
Recording date 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 unlike website. Betoken if you'd like to send notifications to your subscribers for your new video.
Shorts sampling Allow others to create Shorts using the sound of your video.
Category Select the category of your video, such as educational activity or one-act.
Comments and ratings Choose whether viewers can leave comments on the video. Choose whether viewers can see how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Advertizing suitability

If yous're in the YouTube Partner Programme, you can employ the advertizing suitability folio to rate your videos against our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This activeness helps united states make monetization decisions faster and accurately. Larn more about Self-certification.

Video elements

Add cards and terminate screens to show your audience related videos, websites, and calls to activity.

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

Checks

Visibility

On the Visibility folio, choose when you want your video to publish and who you want to see your video. You tin also share your video privately.

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

  • Salve or publish: To publish your video now, cull this option and select Private, Unlisted, or Public every bit your video's privacy setting. If y'all cull to brand your video public, you can also set your video as an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video later, choose this option and select the date you want your video to exist published. Your video volition exist private until that date. You tin also set your video equally a Premiere.

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

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

Watch how to upload videos

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

How To Upload Videos with YouTube Studio

Learn more about uploading videos

How many videos yous can upload per day

At that place's a limit to how many videos a channel can upload each mean solar day. To increase your daily limit, encounter this commodity.

Upload audio files

You tin't upload audio files to YouTube. Run across a list of supported file formats that tin can be uploaded to YouTube.

To add together 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, just you tin try other video editing software.

Learn the difference between "upload" and "publish"

When y'all upload a video, the video file is imported to YouTube.

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

Upload vertical videos

When you upload and publish your video, YouTube will figure out the all-time way to display 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's upload date and publish date are unlike

  • Upload engagement: The engagement you uploaded your video. Shows adjacent 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 2 dates can be different if you lot uploaded your video as private or unlisted, and fabricated it public afterward.

Understand video quality processing

When you lot upload a video, information technology volition initially be processed in low resolution. This procedure helps y'all complete the upload process faster. When the upload menstruation 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 accept more fourth dimension to process. While this processing happens, your video may seem to be missing college resolutions for several hours. Once high-resolution processing is finished, college resolutions will exist bachelor on your video. Learn more virtually video processing after upload.

Related links

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

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