Upload videos

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

Notation: This feature may not be bachelor with supervised experiences on YouTube. Learn 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.

Annotation: You can upload upward to fifteen videos at a time. Exist sure to click Edit on each file to edit your video details.

​If yous close the upload experience before you finish choosing your settings, your video will be saved every bit a draft on your Content page.

Details

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

Title The championship of your video. This field is required.
Clarification

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

[Aqueduct Name]|[Video Title]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The epitome viewers will encounter before clicking your video.
Playlist Add your video to 1 of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audience To comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), y'all'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 Prove 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 brand them easier to watch. You can create your own video chapters or use the automatically generated chapters by checking the 'Let automatic chapters (when available and eligible)' checkbox.

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

Add together 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 role in your video'due south discovery.
Linguistic communication and caption certification Choose the original video language and explanation 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 tin can be embedded on a different website. Indicate if you lot'd like to send notifications to your subscribers for your new video.
Shorts sampling Let 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 can exit comments on the video. Choose whether viewers can see how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Ad suitability

If yous're in the YouTube Partner Program, y'all tin can employ the advertising suitability page to rate your videos against our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This action helps u.s. make monetization decisions faster and accurately. Larn more nearly Cocky-certification.

Video elements

Add together cards and end 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 audition.
End screen Add visual elements to the stop 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 page, choose when you want your video to publish and who you desire to encounter your video. You can too share your video privately.

Notation: The default video privacy setting for creators aged 13–17 is private. If you're 18 or older, your default video privacy setting is set to public. Everyone tin alter this setting to make their video public, private, or unlisted.

  • Save or publish: To publish your video now, choose this selection and select Private, Unlisted, or Public every bit your video's privacy setting. If you cull to make your video public, you can also set your video as an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video later on, choose this selection and select the date you want your video to be published. Your video will be individual until that date. Y'all can also prepare your video as a Premiere.

Preview your changes and brand certain they follow YouTube policies, so click SAVE.

Annotation: If your account has a Community Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the penalty menses. Your video is set to "individual" for the penalty menses duration, and you have to reschedule information technology when the freeze menstruation ends. Acquire more virtually Community Guidelines strike basics.

Watch how to upload videos

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

How To Upload Videos with YouTube Studio

Larn more about uploading videos

How many videos you can upload per day

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

Upload audio files

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

To add your content to YouTube, endeavour converting your audio file to a video file by adding an paradigm. YouTube doesn't accept a tool to exercise this, but you can try 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 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 figure out the best manner 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 volition fit the screen.

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

  • Upload date: The date y'all uploaded your video. Shows adjacent to your private or unlisted video on your Content page.
  • Publish date: The appointment your video became public. Shows below your alive video and is e'er in Pacific Standard Time (PST).

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

Understand video quality processing

When you upload a video, it volition initially exist processed in depression resolution. This procedure helps yous consummate the upload process 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 procedure. While this processing happens, your video may seem to be missing higher resolutions for several hours. One time high-resolution processing is finished, higher resolutions will be available on your video. Learn more almost video processing after upload.

Related links

  • Common uploading errors
  • Go an overview of channel performance
  • Channel customization
  • Edit video settings
  • Creator updates

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